Rome Draw Challenge

Moxie

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I say let's do it again. Firstly, if you're inclined to play the WTA one, you can do it here, but they don't allow us to play as a group. Hopefully, they'll change that in the future.

As for our internal game, a reminder of the rules:

Regular Picks:

Pick 8 quarterfinalists (5 points each)
Pick 4 semifinalists from your 8 quarterfinalist picks (10 points each)
Pick 2 finalists from your 4 semifinalist picks (20 points each)
Pick 1 winner from your 2 finalist picks (40 points).

Your picks above should be COMPLETELY consistent. Also, you get points for each
correct pick (and not the maximum a player reaches). So, if you pick Nadal as
winner in MC and he wins Nadal alone will fetch you 5+10+20+40 = 75 points.

Dark Horse: You cannot name the defending champion or any one of the top 4 seeds
(not rankings) of the tournament as the dark horse. Your dark horse can
be one of your regular picks as well. But, one of your regular picks can be
a dark horse only if they meet the definition. You get points only if your
dark horse wins the whole event. In that case, you get 40 points. Otherwise
you get 0 points, even if your DH ends up being a finalist.

Wild Card: You cannot name the defending champion or previous year's finalist
or any one of the top 16 seeds (not rankings) of the tournament as
the wild card. You get 5 points if your WC reaches QF and not higher,
you get 10 points if your WC reaches SF and not higher, you get 20 points
if your WC is a finalist and not higherand you get 40 points if your WC
wins the event. Note that unlike the regular picks, the points that a WC
fetches you is based on the maximum level reached by him. Your WC
can be one of the regular picks. One of your regular picks can be a WC
as long as he meets the definition above. Finally, your WC can be the
same as DH as long as he meets both definitions.

The maximum amount of points that can be won by anyone is 240 (40 for QF picks,
40 for SF picks, 40 for finalist picks and 40 for the winner pick, 40 for DH pick and
40 for WC pick).
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I hope you'll play. It's fun!
 

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PS: You have until the end of the first round to make picks for our game. The WTA deadline is fast approaching, so do it now!
 

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OK!
I go first again!
:)

Quarters:
Serena vs. Petra
Simona vs. Masha
JJ vs. Aga
Na vs. Sara

Semis:
Serena vs. Masha
Aga vs. Na

Final:
Serena vs. Na

Winner: Serena

Dark Horse: Stosur
Wild Card: Sara Errani



Now, this is not the same as WTA challenge thingy, I changed my mind!
 

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Quarters:
Serena vs. Petra
Simo vs. Maria
Flavia vs. Aga
Li vs. Sara

Semis:
Serena vs. Simo
Flavia vs. Li

Final:
Serena vs. Li

Winner: Serena

Dark Horse: Stosur
Wild Card: Schiavone
 

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QFs Serena v Kvitova, Sharapova v Halep, Jankovic v Radwanska, Li v Kerber

SFs Serena v Sharapova, Li v Jankovic

Final Serena v Li

Winner Serena

DH Stosur like in Madrid.....this time I didnt take meds:)

WC Sveta

I am not confident regarding Serena getting to the final....I was tossing up with a Sharapova v Li final with Sharapova winning.
 

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Ok, I guess I'll play since all the regulars are participating;) do I win a

Quarters: Williams vs. Cibby
Halep vs. Sharapova
Sveta vs. Francesca
Kerber vs. Li

Semis: Williams vs. Sharapova
Sveta vs. Li
Final: Williams vs. Li
Winner: Li

WC: Venus W
DH: Sveta
 

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On behalf of Kiu,KsKate and myself....thank you Petra for decimating our draws
 

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I'm still waiting for that 'fun' Moxie promised....I pretty much suck at these.:nono
 

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golds girl said:
I'm still waiting for that 'fun' Moxie promised....I pretty much suck at these.:nono

I think the 'fun' is sucking at these:)

My draw has sucked:)
 

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fashionista said:
Kiu said:
golds girl said:
I'm still waiting for that 'fun' Moxie promised....I pretty much suck at these.:nono

I am still waiting for Moxie's picks!

I am afraid Moxie is too late.....;)

Oh, jeepers! I can't believe I forgot…after all that. I even did the WTA challenge. I can get so busy trying to rah-rah everyone into 3 or even 4 challenges is both WTA and ATP, that I lose track of where I made my picks.

I'll share my picks from the WTA challenge, just for the sake of conversation. They're pretty wacky.

QFs: Li, Errani, Radwanska, Pennetta, Ivanovic, Halep, Kvitova, Stephens

SFs: Kvitova - Halep; Radwanska - Li

Fs: Radwanska v. Halep

W: Halep

DH: Stephens
WC: Errani

I know I'm not in the challenge this time, but I thought it would be fun if I disclosed. :cool:
 

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fashionista said:
golds girl said:
I'm still waiting for that 'fun' Moxie promised....I pretty much suck at these.:nono

I think the 'fun' is sucking at these:)

My draw has sucked:)

I believe the fun is in teasing OTHER people when they suck. :laydownlaughing

No, seriously: I like the shared investment in the whole draw, as opposed to debating just a few players winning or losing the whole thing, or just talking about random matches. For me, the challenges give a chance to think my way through the draw before the tournament starts, (however hare-brained my choices,) and makes me have a horse in the race of certain matches that I wouldn't otherwise care about. I'm suddenly rooting for the one who will improve my draw.

Anyway…that's why I've always like to promote the challenges. :)
 

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Kiu said:
OK!
I go first again!
:)

Quarters:
Serena vs. Petra
Simona vs. Masha
JJ vs. Aga
Na vs. Sara
I was looking at my quarterfinal picks, I have 5 out of 8 correct

;)

Figured, I rub it in a little.
:plot
 

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Well I Suck at Rome full stop.Usually in the clay season this is where I shine

Thanks to people like Petra,Kerber and now Li Na my draw is fully decimated now.

Hopefully I will improve at Roland Garos.
 

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Well this is my first ever draw challenge....so I'm ramping up for the French...like Serena. Watch out!:snigger
 

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Look at my wild card. Does she even count? I see she is within the 16 seeds.
I said before, the wild card and dark horse are the most difficult for me to pick!
 

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Kiu said:
Look at my wild card. Does she even count? I see she is within the 16 seeds.
I said before, the wild card and dark horse are the most difficult for me to pick!

Okay smarty so you picked Sara Errani as your WC and she made the final


Next draw I am banning you for making WC and DH selections

I Hate To Lose.....not fair.


:cry