Tipping 2021

@kiwipie ha I didnt come last in that round after missing the 1st game!

Thanks as always KP

Cheers KP. Long time between silverware for me. Got a lucky run in the last month.
Well played @J77 that was tough

@kiwipie said in Tipping 2021:

Thanks to everyone who played, we'll be back for the NPC whenever that starts.

And thanks for running to your usual very high standard.

He was me thinking a solid result would get me near the top ten. My strategy I repeated got me mid table so can't complain.

@kiwipie thanks mate.

Every Ferner from 29-46, hang your heads, I actually beat you!

Anyone keen for a 5 week trans Ta$man tipping blast?

@act-crusader lol. It was a hard competition to assess. #23

@kiwipie I am always game but watching YouTube highlights to get a feel for what is happening does not help.

@kiwipie I'm in if you have numbers

@kiwipie said in Tipping 2021:

Anyone keen for a 5 week trans Ta$man tipping blast?

Yep I’m keen ( happy @taniwharugby )

Yeah, I'd give it a go.
Superbru comp is also open for anybody interested

Worth a crack Nigel.

Thanks all and to those that posted on Facebook - it will happen!

• Usual tipping for the 5 games - maximum of 10 points each.

• *** NEW NEW NEW ***
  Select one of the 5 games and you get double points for that game.
  *** NEW NEW NEW ***

• Pick the top scoring and lowest scoring team for both NZ and AU (5 points each for the 4 categories)

Still the traditional maximum of 80 points.

Keen

We're live - get your tips in for this weekend's games. Thanks as ever to @Duluth for making the adjustments.

I’m in

16 players so far, this is a reminder for the usual suspects to get their tips in.

@kiwipie

Could you take my 2nd tips. If not stick with the first

@winger said in Tipping 2021:

@kiwipie

Could you take my 2nd tips. If not stick with the first

Took the first as the first game was being played for the 2nd set.

Leaders so far after 2 games - all above 17 have "played their joker" for double points on one game, nobody picked the Highlanders 17+. Best without a joker are the 4 players on 17 listed below.

Victor 25
Hooroo 21
Laurence 21
Broughie 20
Tim 19
Higgins 19
Sportboy 17
Winger 17
Kruse 17
Waynes World 17

@kiwipie If I were to change some tips, based on the excellent form of the Ozzie ‘s, do I just complete the form for the remaining games?

@broughie said in Tipping 2021:

@kiwipie If I were to change some tips, based on the excellent form of the Ozzie ‘s, do I just complete the form for the remaining games?

Too late now but no. You're stuck with those tips like everyone else.

@kiwipie But can you change tips before a game starts?

@broughie said in Tipping 2021:

@kiwipie But can you change tips before a game starts?

I'm not keen. It means extra work for me!

@kiwipie understand. NP.

By the way, the results have been up all day.

Not hard to pick the winners of the games, most people picked 5/5, but the margins were tricky and the category winners even trickier. Best score was Victor with 54 ahead of Winger and Canes4life on 53. Not much of a gap between the best scores and the worst.

The Cup is already active - with just 5 rounds, the top 16 scores went through which means there are 4 players going for just one spot - the first of Mikedogz, Unite, Donsteppa, Rico to score more than the other next weekend takes spot 16.

@kiwipie sportboy in 35th with 247 points is an impressive first round effort

@donsteppa said in Tipping 2021:

@kiwipie sportboy in 35th with 247 points is an impressive first round effort

Nothing to see here

Has Winger ever been knocked out in the first round of the Cup before?

Time to get your tips in everyone. https://www.thesilverfern.com/tipping-submit

It's only a 5 week comp and we'll almost be half-way by the end of the weekend.

@kiwipie I just put my tips in hope I’m not too late I got it in at 7:04

@mikey07 said in Tipping 2021:

@kiwipie I just put my tips in hope I’m not too late I got it in at 7:04

Game starts at 7:05 so that is just in time.

I'm not taking any revised tips after games have started by the way - gets too complicated with all the category picks.

Results are in and tipping form is up for next weekend.

It was an easy week to pick if you went "Kiwi teams by a lot" with the only difficult choices in the category picks. Best of the weekend was Laurence with 62 who moves up to 4th. The top 3 had identical performances to get 60 points - Victor, Winger and Plastered Peni in order. 14 are still 10 from 10 for tips - who can make it 25 from 25 by the end. Quarter finals of the Cup will be

Victor v Hooroo
Laurence v Langakali
Winger v Plastered Peni
Antipodean or Kruse v Tim

@kiwipie my last minute switch to the saders to win helped a little after thinking the Highlanders were at home!!

@kiwipie Thanks probably get a 20 point weekend with the rushing and all

A last minute tipping reminder for those yet to submit, or leaving it to the last minute

@Corkscrew's set of tips has the Crusaders as top NZ scorer but the Waratah's as winning the game 17+?

@donsteppa Obviously covering both bases. Maybe he thinks the Crusaders will take about 10 players off the field and continue on with the remaining 5 once they get about 75 - 00 in front half way through the first half? Should they be that cocky then it just might see the Waratahs come back to get the necessary points for the 17+ win. That is a big ask given the seemingly limited amounts of talent in the Waratahs team and just sixty minutes to accomplish the task.

We are all updated at https://www.thesilverfern.com/tipping/

Getting 5 from 5 tips on a weekend when an Australian team finally won a game were Laurence, Canes4life, Kruse, Antipodean & Unite. Kruse top scored with a season's best 69 with Unite getting 65.

Victor still holds the overall lead, 5 ahead of Plastered Peni with Laurence another point back. Still a lot of people in contention near the top.

In the Cup semi-finals Hooroo will play Kruse and Laurence will play Plastered Peni.

Bugger

@kiwipie said in Tipping 2021:

Kruse top scored with a season's best 69

Heh-heh... 69.