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Yes! We have a winner of our Football Madness contest. Even though a couple of weeks ago he was ruling out himself of winning it #1034943, he has completed an incredible comeback.
There were 3 stackers involved in this final day. @grayruby had a three points lead over @User21000000 and 5 over @Undisciplined. After providing picks, @User21000000 was not able to reach @grayruby as both picked Spain and, even though @User21000000 could have guessed the correct final score, it wouldn't have been enough to beat @grayruby.
So, the only one who could beat him was @undisciplined. He made a bold pick, guessing a draw at the end of the 120 minutes and a final score of 1-1. This was what it happened in the end.
Both of them, @grayruby and @Undisciplined were tied with 110 points and we had to check tiebreakers. This was total attempts made by Spain at the end of the match, which you can check here. @Undisciplined guessed 25, which was nearer than @grayruby's (16).
On aggregate, @Undisciplined obtained 111 points, @grayruby finishes second with 110 and @User21000000 is third with 107.

Final pot

After 9 weeks, all posts have received 29664 sats. Then, once we consider the 30% fee, the remaining prize is 20765 sats .
Congrats @undisciplined for such a great comeback! Please let me know to which LN address you would like me to send you the sats.
Many thanks to all of you that have been participating in the contest for the last 9 weeks. It's been a lot of fun for me and I hope you enjoyed too.
253 sats \ 10 replies \ @grayruby 21h
Congrats. It was such an epic comeback and Spain failed me so I am completely ignoring the fact that the game did not in fact end in a draw.
By selecting draw you essentially give yourself both teams if it goes to penalty kicks. Seems like a loophole that should be corrected for next year but it was a lot of fun.
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Clearly you just don't understand European Soccer
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53 sats \ 5 replies \ @grayruby 20h
You are probably right. I think I might have seen the FIFA president handing the cup to the coach of the country of Draw.
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103 sats \ 4 replies \ @grayruby 20h
To be fair, penalty kicks are such a dumb way to end a tournament it might as well have ended in a draw.
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I think it must be something like the match ended in a draw but the round was decided on kicks.
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72 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 20h
I think allowing the 1-1 score makes sense because the match after extra time did end 1-1 but England won not draw, whoever that is. So it seems odd to get 3 points for picking the winner that wasn’t the match outcome.
Anyways however carresan wants to score his contest is cool with me. It was an epic comeback.
women's soccer
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By selecting draw you essentially give yourself both teams if it goes to penalty kicks. Seems like a loophole that should be corrected for next year but it was a lot of fun.
Noted. I will review it for contests commencing in September. We still need to consider the draw as it is an outcome, but I will change the rules when it comes down to a final or eliminatory so that it does not confuse the contest.
I must admit that I did not expect that the pool were going to be decided at the very last minute of the last match after 2 months. This has added a lot of fun!
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Yes agree draw needs be a viable option to choose for when draws are a potential outcome and I do think it makes sense in this case for someone to be able to select a draw score as the scoring for penalties is tallied separately but I am not sure it makes sense to be able to select draw and receive points for the game winner when the game can’t end in a draw.
On one hand it is kind of fun because it gives the third place player a Hail Mary to go for but it should be stated going into the final because maybe user21M would have liked to have chosen draw but he probably didn’t think it was possible.
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Congrats @Undisciplined, the king of comebacks!
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Definitely he is!
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Thanks. Until now, I think I was only the king of almost comebacks.
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Congratulations!!!
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Thanks @Carresan. This was a great contest. It's so much fun when they come down to the wire and we have to start scheming and strategizing.
Please send the winnings here: drundisciplined@getalby.com
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I have tried to send it twice but it does not go through. I will try again later on today at a more reasonable time for you.
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Thanks, I’m away from node at the moment so I can’t troubleshoot.
I’ll try an invoice
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Carresan OP 6h
That it did work! Just sent!
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Received. Thanks
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I definitely read this as drunk disciplined
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Glad to hear it.
I lost undisciplined@getalby, unfortunately.
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You lost it? As in you had it but lost control? Or someone else already had it?
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Had it and lost control. I always found the extension settings confusing and messed something up.
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I still do, honestly
Congrats @Undisciplined. @grayruby in the dust ... me on shit. ahahah
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Thanks
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