@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.
@Higgins said in Tipping 2020:
@kiwipie Has the league and cup double ever been done? I can feel a big one coming up from me after this last week's miserly 27 points!
Propsicle in NPC 2013 and Joan and Mary in NPC 2016 did the double. Nobody has ever retained the cup in NPC until you did it in 2019 and 2020.
It's that time again for the final time in 2020.
Here's the top 10
and the finals for the team events after the 1st leg
I'd be happy with a 32-31 for BOP over Harbour on Sunday afternoon.
@taniwharugby said in Tipping 2020:
just put my tips in...just checked score, nil all...sweet
Sorry too late .... rules are rules etc
Update after game 1 - the current top 10 and the match aggregate scores. Dice's lead just 6 over Sportboy and 9 ahead of Winger.
1 Dice 2 374
2 Sportboy 10 368
3 Winger 10 365
4 Higgins 10 362
5 Broughie 2 361
5 Hydro11 10 361
7 Stargazer 10 359
8 Triple T 10 357
9 Caprice 2 356
10 Tim 2 352
10 Stockcar86 10 352
Final South Island 33 - 34 Northland
3rd BOP 40 - 37 Harbour-Auckland
Plate Hawke's Bay 39 - 37 Wairarapa Bush
7th Wellington 38 - 23 Counties-Waikato
1 Dice 22 394
2 Sportboy 29 387
3 Winger 30 385
4 Higgins 30 382
5 Hydro11 30 381
6 Stargazer 30 379
7 Broughie 19 378
8 Justin77 32 371
9 Tim 19 369
9 Triple T 22 369
Final South Island 50 - 52 Northland
3rd BOP 56 - 53 Harbour-Auckland
Plate Hawke's Bay 55 - 53 Wairarapa Bush
7th Wellington 56 - 33 Counties-Waikato
It's all over and Dice managed to hang on to win by a single point from Higgins and Winger, by 2 from Hydro11 and by 5 from Broughie. I can't remember a closer leaderboard at the end of a season. https://www.thesilverfern.com/tipping/
All the scores over 60 came in the final week of the season as many went big on Sunday nailing 30/30 and many also getting Manawatu as low scorers. Despite being in prime position to challenge at the end of Saturday, Sportboy somehow finished 9th!
Justin77 managed a full 7/7 but others were better on margins - both Higgins and Hydro11 getting 6 out of 6 for the games they picked correctly.
Northland win the title beating South Island by 5 points - a lot of it due to Northland's win over Waikato which they backed more than South Island did. But mainly it was due to Justin77's stellar score.
I'll do more of a wrap a bit later on.
