Nice of you to miss us guys! Unfortunately, I don't see much of a chance for a big return any time soon. Not talking in the name of others, of course, but I have a feeling they are on a similar opinion.

Quote from: SPW on August 12, 2013, 02:42 PM

Quote from: Ray on August 12, 2013, 12:54 PM
It costs at least 30 minutes for me, I put a lot of thought into it.

But, then again, like last year, I was too busy to remember it in time and I messed up and forgot. Good game.

Too busy? But you even made a topic for it this week so I cant believe you forgot it. 

Once we get something to do in the company and we have a deadline, we have to do it, which means we are in the office and we are thinking only about the project and doing it, it completely slips your mind during work. And yes, we were working through all Sunday until Monday morning, so yea... Sucks.

It costs at least 30 minutes for me, I put a lot of thought into it.

But, then again, like last year, I was too busy to remember it in time and I messed up and forgot. Good game.

Quote from: Dulek on August 11, 2013, 08:34 AMAnd to clarify - we've got 3 leaders atm.

We have got the same amount of points, but HHC and me predicted more scores than you, so that puts us in front.

Am I the only one who's so amped about the prediction game, so much, that I start a topic about it?

Man, the standings are so tense, 67 points for the top 3 and even SPW on the 5th place is with 63, man... now I'm really nervous about it, because if I can't win the championship, at least I should get this one right.

Maybe we could use this thread to like share our predicting strategy with each other? Maybe. I'll start, you guys copy me!

I personally (when I'm not doing it in the last 10 seconds) go through each player's TEL and TUS Classic statistics, looking for recent games, looking for breaks, trying to figure out how active they are in the leagues. I compare the statistics of the two players based on experience, recent games and believed knowledge (where I think they are on an imaginary ladder) and games against each other. I usually take playing style into account - for example, I consider myself a sort of a darksider, I like defensive gameplay, I like hiding and waiting out, but there are very aggressive players also, or intermediate players, like chuvash, who take this scheme in a totally different way.

Then I compare their current standings on EAC and TEL (if any) and current streaks, who they played against with what results and judge the outcome after that.

Considering that I'm leading the prediction game with HHC, I think this is a good strategy.

How do you predict? Just by guts or do you have any routine by which you make your predictions? Did I just give away the winning formula? I doubt, anyway, really good race we are having this year!

Hmm, alright, it just seemed weird to me.

Why don't you just use Illustrator and Photoshop? They are like waaay better software.

Quote from: SPW on August 09, 2013, 02:37 PM
ladies first, its easy. 

How about free wins? How do those count? Should they count? Right now, it looks like they do, which doesn't seem very sensible to me, since if someone predicted 3-1 they get less points then someone predicting 3-0 and either way, it doesn't make any sense, because it was a free win. What do you think?

Hey, by the way, what happens in the prediction game in case of a draw? Like me and daiNa are the leaders at the moment with the exact same score, with same amount of predicted score and predicted winner. What happens in this case at the end of the championship? What decides the winner?

CTRL + Shift + Alt + S gets you any closer?

But not the winner, besides, 7 replays can be 3-0 with 4 draws.

Me and Crash are scheduled for 9th August, Friday, 20GMT.

Please, please, people, PLEASE!!! Play your games, I cannot wait for the prediction results god damnit!

It's not that I don't agree with what you are saying now - on a much different and more suiting tone, I might add - it's just been my experience that nothing I ever came up with was actually executed or executed in a way that would have helped anything I intended to fix.

And let's stop joking - you do love disagreeing with me.

The reasons I stopped playing was more complicated. I felt that I was involved too much and spent too much time on something that wasn't worthwhile on a long term. I was getting way too passionate about rather unimportant stuff - these forums, the community, games for instance - and I got angry and stuff and I felt that was unhealthy. Also, as an addition, I felt that I was let down by this community, like the way the leagues were run and I did not like that. So I stayed away and found better activities that now consume my days, so yea, the reason I found these activities and stopped playing was indeed because of TUS.

I don't say I could do a better job, I'd most likely suck and suck hard and probably give up and just wouldn't care, so yes, I appreciate the amount of work TUS staff put into this, but that doesn't change the fact that I disagree with many things and since most of my advice is just ignored or is forgotten, I can't really do anything but complain like this and maybe grab somebody's attention with it.

How about you give me some constructive criticism on how to post so it's not that annoying? Instead of your typical under-educated "shut the f@#! up" post.

I'm not going to be involved in any work related to this community and this website as I spend my time on stuff that is more important to me, such as playing the drums or building my career. I don't have the time, energy, and quite frankly, the patience to put up with people like you, who would do nothing, but say blue if I say red and vice versa. If I posted that the new stuff was cool, you'd have been outraged anyway just to disagree with me, so I think your opinion's weight hovers to zero, not to mention that you cannot do anything but swear and insult and I'm not really interested in that, sorry to break your bubble.

@Peja: I think that around 20% of the people involved in the leagues actually read that short sentence. I think that a vital information that affects the rules of the league should be a little more clear and at a place where there is no chance of it not being read, not to mention that it should be translated, as there are a good amount of players not speaking English very well who use this site and play the leagues on a regular basis.