Close finish!The first ‘season’ of the NUFCBlog competition finished yesterday and it was pretty close!
First of all, Happy New Year everyone. I hope it’s a good one for you all (and for the Toon of course).
Now, as to the competition, I note that three people were inconsiderate enough to finish in first place, which is a poor show.
Clint can’t claim a prize as he’s a writer here – sorry Clint but congratulations on a good finish. So that leaves El Toro and GeordieMagpie as joint winners, with GrandPooBah in third.
The draw means we have to implement the competition’s version of a Duckworth-Lewis rule, which involves much differentiation and integration. I worked on the calculations for 8 hours last night, using up much time on IBM’s ‘Big Blue’ supercomupter, and found that after much mega-mathematics it resolves down to merely totalling up the first and second prizes and dividing them by two.
Thus El Toro and GeordieMagpie will get £75 each (£100 + £50 / 2) and GrandPooBah will get £25.
Well done guys.The new competition will start in a few week’s time.
Want the glamorous life? Win big with NUFC Blog!Ladies and Gentlemen, as the end of the year draws nigh, so does the end of our current score prediction competition. It is currently reaching it’s thrilling climax with the top prizes still undecided even in the last game!
Anyway, this article is just to let you know if you don’t already, or need reminding, that a whole new series will be running from the new year until the end of the season.
With two games per season, that’s double the chance to win!
The huge, life changing cash prizes on offer will still be the same, ie £100 for the winner, £50 for the runner up and finally, £25 for third place.
The first games for the new competition will be taking place on Saturday 14th January 2012, but the the predictions will have to be in shortly before these games start, so don’t be late! One final thing is that all competitors will have to be registered members of the site so don’t forget to sign yourself up first too if you aren’t already a member. (more…)
Santa: Why does he always dress like a Mackem?First of all, We would like to wish a very happy Christmas and great new year to all of our readers!
Also. to heep you informed we also have a couple of Christmas announcements to make:
New prediction competition in January
Hugh’s current score prediction competition will conclude at the end of the year, with the last games being played on on Fri 30th and Sat 31st December. After that, there will then be a week or two to prepare for the new one, with yet another chance to win £100 first prize, with second and third prizes of £50 and £25 respectively. Don’t be late!
If you didn’t enter our first one, but you were thinking of entering the second, why not have a go at the last few games of the current competition? There are still two or three rounds of matches left (three if you’re very quick). You certainly won’t win, but it will get you “match fit” for the second one at least!
For more details, check out Hugh’s previous post on it, or even the competition pages themselves. Either Hugh or myself will post one or two more reminders closer to the time.
News regarding the NUFC Blog prediction competition in relation to the Christmas/New Year fixture schedules.
GeordieMagpie and El Toro hold the number one and two league positions in our prediction competition, but with 4 sets of predictions still to go there’s still a lot of points up for grabs. There’s still scope for an exciting finale.
I do, however, need to clarify some things because they faff around with the fixtures lists a lot over Christmas and New Year, which means there’ll be some odd times by when you need to make sure you’ve done your predictions.
This weekend – Week 16 of the prediction competition – is a normal weekend and predictions need to be made by midday on Saturday (17th) as usual.
Week 17 covers the games on Tues 20th, Weds 21st and Thus 22nd of December and predictions for those games need to be completed by 19:00 on Tuesday 20th.
Week 18 covers the games on Mon 26th and Tues 27th December and predictions for those games need to be completed by midday on Monday 26th December.
I was shocked to learn that Steve Thompson, aka Bowburn Mag, has passed away and I’d like to offer condolences on behalf of NUFCBlog.org and myself to his family and friends.
He was a great guy and I thoroughly enjoyed the banter we used to have. He will be missed.
It goes without saying that he was a passionate Toon supporter and he posted 234 articles here back in the early days of the ‘blog. He was an excellent writer, generally making his articles both informative and amusing, and he had a knack for great – and sometimes esoteric – headlines (“Haris, Haris who the Vuckic Haris” is one that springs to mind!).
Unfortunately, I never got to meet Steve properly, although we got to know one another well enough electronically that I feel like I’ve lost a friend.
A post such as this is hardly a worthy tribute but I felt the event should at least be marked in some small way.
