27 of 48 entries in for this week, get your tips in before the first game tonight. You need to be one of the top 16 scorers for the weekend to go straight to the main TSF Cup draw - everyone below 16 will go into a qualifying round next week.
4 games in and only YeetYah, Fiamacho and FarNthHayden have picked 4/4. YeetYah has the best score with 32 ahead of Phooey who has 30 with 3 maximums. Missing tippers are @mikedogz @Paj @billsy & @Canes4life
Counties-Waikato 28 - 25 Northland
BOP 25 - 22 Wairarapa Bush
South Island 25 - 23 Harbour-Auckland
Wellington 20 - 17 Hawke's Bay
Strangely the 3 who picked 4/4 all ended up with 4/7 and nobody at all picked Wellington to win in Auckland. Plenty went for Ta$man as top scorer and Southland as lowest scorer and there was a good boost for those who picked both.
Dice top scored with 53 and is now 2nd overall, 4 behind Gunner who scored 50. Stargazer is in 3rd another 7 points back.
Wairarapa Bush go top in the teams comp although no team has 2 wins so it is very close with 4 teams a point behind. Counties start with 2 defeats to be rock bottom.
The Cup starts next week - if you don't see your name in the Cup draw it means you made it through to the first round proper which starts in Week 4.
This is your Friday reminder to get your tips in - around 20 still to tip.
@KiwiPie said in Tipping 2020:
This is your Friday reminder to get your tips in - around 20 still to tip.
Shit - I'd forgotten until just now.
I assume you'll take the rest of the tips, and just throw away the Wgtn/BOP game? (I did do the tipping before checking the score, but would assume/hope that you'd have zero trust in my word for that).
Fucking lost the SR tipping comp by forgetting to tip the final week. Getting my slide into tip-dementia early for this oone.
@Kruse said in Tipping 2020:
@KiwiPie said in Tipping 2020:
This is your Friday reminder to get your tips in - around 20 still to tip.
Shit - I'd forgotten until just now.
I assume you'll take the rest of the tips, and just throw away the Wgtn/BOP game? (I did do the tipping before checking the score, but would assume/hope that you'd have zero trust in my word for that).
Fucking lost the SR tipping comp by forgetting to tip the final week. Getting my slide into tip-dementia early for this oone.
If you picked the Bay to win (which any sane individual would have done pre-game) then I will count your tip!
4 games in and only Paj and Richie have picked 4/4, Paj with the best score of 34 so far. Richie on 30 as is Phooey who yet again has picked 3/3 with maximum points but has not realised that Canterbury are a losing team this season.
Counties-Waikato 19 - 19 Wairarapa Bush
BOP 22 - 20 Harbour-Auckland
South Island 20 - 21 Wellington
Hawke's Bay 26 - 23 Northland
Hawke's Bay and Northland are the top scoring teams and unluckily for Northland, playing against each other.
Current overall top 5
Dice 121
Stargazer 114
Gunner 113
Justin77 105
Winger 105
Cup preliminary round
Justin77 22 v 20 Billsy
Mikey07 26 v 34 Paj
Cactus Jack 26 v 0 Canes4life
Trooa 7 v 14 Mikedogz
Virgil 21 v 19 Unite
Hydro11 17 v 20 Waynes World
TR 18 v 25 Donsteppa
Hooroo 12 v 14 Hurrycanes
YeetYaah 15 v 16 Smudge
Tim 17 v 27 Crucial
Buck 16 v 24 Stockcar86
Victor 26 v 21 Fiamacho
Caprice 17 v 14 Dogmeat
Sportboy 24 v 19 FarNthHayden
KP 18 v 18 Plastered Peni
Bay Imports 16 v 14 Corkscrew
Final scores are up for the weekend.
Richie and Kiwiwomble shared the top score of 49, Richie getting 7/7 picks (the only one on a tricky weekend) but not getting a category pick when the majority of tippers picked Auckland as top scorers. Dice is the new leader, Stagazer up to 2nd, Kiwiwomble in 3rd and Caprice shares 4th with Gunner. Richie shoots into the top 10 in 8th place. Big falls for Virgil, Kruse and DK.
Wairarapa Bush and South Island are the top 2 in the teams comp but it is very close with only Counties-Waikato winless and needing probably 4 wins from 4 to make the semis.
All of those winning in the TSF Cup go into the first round proper next week to join the 16 who pre-qualified last week.
3 hours to get your tips in for this weekend
This could be a moving week with 3 of the 4 games so far being tough to call, Northland were not picked by the majority and the Canterbury-Wellington game was split almost 50-50. This has led to some very good scores - and some very bad ones. Sportboy, Mikedogz and Dogmeat lead the way with 37/40 and 3 games to go today. At the other end Laurence and Waynes World are in single figures and Trooa is on zero having missed the first game.
All matches have a 4 points or more lead to one team. We have all picked Ta$man, nearly all have picked Waikato while the Shield match is another 50-50 call.
Counties-Waikato 23 - 27 Harbour-Auckland
BOP 24 - 20 Wellington
South Island 23 - 27 Northland
Hawke's Bay 25 - 19 Wairarapa Bush
Sportboy 37
Mikedogz 37
Dogmeat 37
Virgil 34
FarNthHayden 32
Cactus Jack 30
Stargazer 30
Hydro11 30
Waynes World 9
Laurence 9
Trooa 0
Stargazer 164
Dice 158
Caprice 155
Sportboy 150
Kiwiwomble 150
Richie 148
Justin77 147
Gunner 147
Cactus Jack 144
Virgil 143
Justin77 27 v 22 Dice
Mikey07 16 v 19 Gunner
Cactus Jack 30 v 24 Langakali
Broughie 26 v 37 Mikedogz
Virgil 34 v 9 Laurence
Triple T 24 v 9 Waynes World
Kruse 24 v 15 Donsteppa
Hooroo 17 v 27 Higgins
Winger 17 v 27 Smudge
Propsicle 19 v 14 Crucial
Stargazer 30 v 29 Stockcar86
Victor 15 v 21 Kiwiwomble
Caprice 27 v 16 Phooey
DK 12 v 32 FarNthHayden
Richie 29 v 14 Plastered Peni
Bay Imports 24 v 19 Joan and Mary
Results are live at https://www.thesilverfern.com/tipping/
Sportboy was the top scorer, the only one to tip 6/7 and 49 points was the reward, moving him up to 5th place. Stargazer takes the lead by 3 points from Dice with Justin77 in 3rd and Caprice in 4th.
Wairarapa Bush dropped from 1st to 6th losing without a bonus point and the battle for the top 4 in intense with only 2 points covering 1st to 6th. Northland are top, level on top with Hawke's Bay but ahead by a single extra point Missing tippers are @Canes4life and @billsy - your teams need you.
@KiwiPie said in Tipping 2020:
Wairarapa Bush dropped from 1st to 6th losing without a bonus point and the battle for the top 4 in intense with only 2 points covering 1st to 6th. Northland are top, level on top with Hawke's Bay but ahead by a single extra point Missing tippers are @Canes4life and @billsy - your teams need you.
@Kiwiwomble said in Tipping 2020:
....i dont think i picked a single winner
Don't be harsh on yourself - you did get Auckland and Northland.
And shout out to Waynes World who salvaged respectability as the only one to get Hawke's 17+
@KiwiPie said in Tipping 2020:
@Kiwiwomble said in Tipping 2020:
....i dont think i picked a single winner
Don't be harsh on yourself - you did get Auckland and Northland.
And shout out to Waynes World who salvaged respectability as the only one to get Hawke's 17+
I think @mikedogz deserves a shout-out for predicting a draw for Cant-Well, in the SuperBru tipping. But only getting 0.5 "Margin Points" for being within 5, because, you know... Golden Point, and all that.
First game is tonight for Mitre 10 Cup - get your tips in people.
Scoring is live - check it out at https://www.thesilverfern.com/tipping/
The highest scoring round so far with some easy maximums to be picked. Only one upset but Kiwiwomble was the only one who picked 7/7 to be second highest for the weekend behind Hydro11 who managed 5 exact picks to score 55. Level with Kiwiwomble on 52 were Tim and Kruse with Hooroo the only other tipper to reach 50.
It's close at the top but no change to the top 2 as Stargazer leads Dice by 3. Sportboy up to 3rd, 4 behind Dice and then 7 behind Sportboy there is a logjam of players with 13 players within 10 points and all of them are one big week away from moving to the top.
Wins for Northland and BOP mean they are looking good for the semis but 7 of 8 teams will probably make it by winning their last 2 games.
And finally the TSF Cup quarter-finals are coming up - well done to Bay Imports, Richie, Langakali, Caprice, Victor, Triple T, Kruse, Higgins.
Well you all failed my cunning test - the leaderboard hadn't been updated since last week and only Mr @dogmeat checked his score and thought he had scored more (he had). It is updated now.
About half the players are still to tip this week and you have less than 6 hours to do it. https://www.thesilverfern.com/tipping
Results are all in https://www.thesilverfern.com/tipping/
@Hooroo and @Crucial have joined the ranks of the absentee tippers which is bad news for Counties-Waikato who were already propping up the table.
Top score this week for Tim who had the highest score of the season (57) so far and rose 11 places to 3rd overall. Stargazer had 54 to retain the lead by 6 from Dice who scored 51. Nobody scored 7/7 but Fiamacho managed 6/7 despite missing the first game, one of only 4 to pick the Waikato victory. Phooey nailed the season's lowest score, missing the first game and picking 0/6 of the remainder for a miserable 4 points.
Northland had another draw to remain unbeaten but lose their overall lead to Harbour-Auckland who pipped Wairarapa Bush 47-45 in the game of the weekend. Hawke's Bay are up to 3rd with BOP holding the other play-off spot. South Island can still make the top 4 but Wellington and the Bush will need other results to go their way.
In the TSF Cup, Higgins will play Caprice in one semi-final and Kruse will play Langakali in the other.
Get your tips in everyone, just a few hours before the first game.
Scores are live now at https://www.thesilverfern.com/tipping/
Hydro11 and Corkscrew top scored with 47, Corkscrew along with Caprice and Broughie managed 6/7 and Hydro11 is now up to 3rd place. Dice took over at the top as Stargazer had a poor 30 meaning the whole leaderboard is closing up, the top 10 covered by just 22 points with 3 weeks to go.
Harbour-Auckland beat Northland to secure top spot in the round robin and they will play South Island in the semi-final after they beat Hawke's Bay to push them out of the semis. BOP will play Northland in the other semi.
Higgins and Langakali will contest the TSF Cup final over the next 2 weekends.
Yo peoples! Tipping time. It's been a tricky season for accurate tipping but it has made for a thrilling climax over the next 3 weeks.
In the semi-finals to be the champion of 2020, Harbour-Auckland will play South Island and BOP face Northland. Higgins will play Langakaki in the 1st leg of the cup final.
The individual top 10 looks like this
The results are in. South Island crushed Harbour-Auckland to reach the final with consistency through the whole team and a lowest score of 34. H-A had 4 tippers below 30 in a disastrous choke for the minor premier winners. Smudge and Kiwiwomble the best scorers and South Island will play Northland in the final after they drew 31-31 with BOP but won as the actual score was 31.4 to 31. Justin77 and TR scored well for Northland and Sportboy and Bay Imports for BOP but just 16 from the usual star Cactus Jack did for BOP.
In the race for the individual title, Caprice shot into the lead with the weekend's top score of 46 (also scored by Stockcar86 who was the only tipper with 6/7). She now leads by 6 from former leader Dice with Broughie up to 3rd with Hydro11 a point further back. 1st to 21st is only a spread of 34 points and with the unpredictable results taking place, it is possible to make up that sort of margin over the final 2 weeks.
Higgins took a commanding 42-30 lead after the first leg of the TSF Cup Final.
@Kiwiwomble said in Tipping 2020:
@KiwiPie really wish i didn't miss a week
Yep, hard to win if you give a week away in a 10 week competition.
A late reminder this week - 2 and a half hours to tip
Everything is updated at https://www.thesilverfern.com/tipping/
Northland and South Island drew 29-29 in the first leg of their final so all to play for next weekend. TR and Richie passed 30 for Northland, Corkscrew, Broughie and Phooey for South Island but they had to include Kruse's 22.
Individually, Dice and Sportboy tied with 44 points, they picked 5/7 in a tricky week (as did Virgil) and both picking BOP which only 4 did in total. Similarly only 2 went for Southland and just one for Canterbury (surprisingly that was Phooey!)
Dice has shot into the lead now 13 points clear of Broughie with Sportboy a point back and Winger, Caprice and Higgins within 20 of the lead. With so much riding on the games next weekend, it looks like being another tough one so a large lead can be whittled back.
Finally Higgins won the TSF Cup comfortably by 15 points with Langakali runner-up.