WRC 2014 Pickems

[Mintexmemory]

Discussion etc. here

[BleAivano]

Discussion etc. here

Good idea. :) ;)

[jparker]

OK, first topic.
Where the pickems results from Monte Carlo and Sweden are?

[jparker]

OK, first topic.
Where the pickems results from Monte Carlo and Sweden are?

Never mind, found it
https://googledrive.com/host/0B-w-sR5YAekRc3pyZTlRTm9aSjA/WRCpickems.html

[makinen_fan]

OK, first topic.
Where the pickems results from Monte Carlo and Sweden are?

Never mind, found it
https://googledrive.com/host/0B-w-sR5YAekRc3pyZTlRTm9aSjA/WRCpickems.html

it was updated and now hosted here:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/148 ... pickem.htm (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14818594/WRC_Pickem/WRC_pickem.htm)

Mintex, can you add this link in your original post so that everyone knows which is the correct?

[Franky]

Maybe make this thread sticky?

[Mintexmemory]

2 hours left to pick before Monty Capito's Flying Circus hits the road!

[Mark]

Sorry I've had so many issues with the system but I'm elated you're all keeping it running :D

[makinen_fan]

Thanks to the input from KiwiWRCfan, Mexico Pickems are already processed and updated. Have a look here:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/148 ... pickem.htm (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14818594/WRC_Pickem/WRC_pickem.htm)

WRC1 won this one, you were spot on with the podium places!, and is now join lead with pettersolberg29.

[pettersolberg29]

Well done guys getting it done so quickly! Especially when it's good news for me ;)

[KiwiWRCfan]

As one of only 2 peopel to pick Mads to win my pickems was looking good at lunchtime service on Friday :D . However soon after that I was thinking about Portugal selections. ;(

[Mintexmemory]

OK IMPORTANT NEWS

The original board Pickem page is now back and available for use... BUT the retrospective upload of the first 3 rounds would be a real 'female dog'. So WRC Pickem 2014 will continue in its current form (with continued thanks to makinen_fan and KiwiWRCfan) and the original Pickem page will be used for the 2014 WRC2 championship.

[BleAivano]

OK IMPORTANT NEWS

The original board Pickem page is now back and available for use... BUT the retrospective upload of the first 3 rounds would be a real 'female dog'. So WRC Pickem 2014 will continue in its current form (with continued thanks to makinen_fan and KiwiWRCfan) and the original Pickem page will be used for the 2014 WRC2 championship.

So is there a Pickems page for Portugal then?

[Mintexmemory]

Yes

[Markadmin]

The pickems are also open for the European Rally Championship :)

[litifeta]

currently running 104th. Working hard to make the top 100 by end of season

[Mintexmemory]

A photo of the 2014 winner prize is at:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/74mex/13443835323/

It's a 25cm x 20 cm lab print of Ogier taken just after his Friday accident in Deutschland 2013. Signed at WRGB by Seb and Julien

Photos of photos don't do the subject justice, the original is at:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/74mex/10319109736/in/set-72157636409018553

Interesting that while at VW Julien has dropped the symbol (chevrons while at Citroen) and car number from his autograph, I'd like to see VW1 appear this year :) as I have the 12 and 2 in my collection from 2009 / 11 respectively.
In case anyone is interested I'm starting my annual ebay sale of signed WRC pics - first items on line this evening.

A reminder that we are continuing with the 2014 competition in the same format as for the first 3 rounds but you can also predict WRC2 by clicking on the panel at the top of the right hand column

[Mintexmemory]

Still 16.5 hrs to go before the deadline, I expect the usual suspects that wait for the micky mouse result will post this evening. Can't see anything but a VW 1-2 again - unless they haven't tested their outboard motors sufficiently ;)

[pantealex]

Mintexmemory: I´m still happy that I didn´t pick Marty McCormack in WRC2 and you were 99% sure that he is fast in Portugal.

[Mintexmemory]

Mintexmemory: I´m still happy that I didn´t pick Marty McCormack in WRC2 and you were 99% sure that he is fast in Portugal.

I guess MMcC suffered from the recce issues as it was his first event outside the British Isles. He was chasing Aksa and Al Ketbi for 10th and was 15 secs up out of the 35ish he needed at the last split he recorded on SS14. Still managed some top 10 stage times but he can do much better -watch this space ;)

[Mihai]

Can't wait to see the standings after Rally Portugal :)

[makinen_fan]

Sorry guys for the delay to process but it was a busy work for me. Find the latest results here:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14818594/WRC_Pickem/WRC_pickem.htm

Congrats to papar007 for winning this one and to tolis taking the overall lead.

Just a small point guys, please refrain from using punctuation symbols in drivers' names, it makes it harder to process the results. Use the name exactly as given by Mintexmemory and use only numbers and space (no dots, parenthesis etc.) e.g.
1 Driver1 2 Driver2 3 Driver3 ..... 8 Driver8

[litifeta]

jumped to number 98. Now to protect my position.

[makinen_fan]

Argentina Pickems results are now sorted!
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14818594/WRC_Pickem/WRC_pickem.htm

This one was won by Mihai and joined 2nd myself and jiipee64.

Overall tolis dropped to 4th and seb_sh takes the lead with 130 and joined 2nd harriswrc and tobbe3

[litifeta]

jumped to 78. By Wales I will be top 10, or not

[Allyc85]

Surprised to see myself 31st given my random style of choosing my Pickems!

What are the rest of you playing at? ;)

[Mintexmemory]

Surprised to see myself 31st given my random style of choosing my Pickems!

What are the rest of you playing at? ;)

When I go Ogier Latvala wins and vice versa. When I think Mikko is now a busted flush he comes third so when I think he'll do well he catches fire. Whichever Citroen I chose to finish highest is the one that hits trouble. THIS IS NOT FUNNY!!!

[Mintexmemory]

Interesting - all the initial entries for Poland have JML to win (me included). However, I'm not so sure first on the road will be as much of a handicap here as in Argentina and Sardinia, for the sake of continuing interest in the Championship we can hope so.

[Mintexmemory]

No one other than pettersolberg_29 is affected but Bouffier replaces Kangur in the list of available picks
Feel free to edit if you think the Monte podium driver can take a R5 into the top 8 in Poland !

[makinen_fan]

Results for Poland are now online:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14818594/WRC_Pickem/WRC_pickem.htm

To avoid similar issues as in Poland with cut off time, may I suggest to set the cut off time just before SS1 for the rest of the rallies

[Rallyper]

Let´s start NORF Pickems already now! Can´t wait to pick!

[Mintexmemory]

Just about 2.75 hours left to get your pickems in for NORF. No major surprises other than it looks like a Finland v Norway match (though I reckon the French will have a say)

[makinen_fan]

Pickem results have been processed:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14818594/WRC_Pickem/WRC_pickem.htm

First place: Eli
Second/Third (joined): Jaja and myself

[sollitt]

Strange that I have been awarded no points for Finland despite picking the winner & 6 of the top 8 finishers?

[makinen_fan]

Strange that I have been awarded no points for Finland despite picking the winner & 6 of the top 8 finishers?

fixed it. my mistake, spelled your u/n wrong and the code did not pick it up.
thanks for spotting it

[sollitt]

Cheers MF. You're a champion.

[Mintexmemory]

Thanks for a brilliant job Yiannis.

[pettersolberg29]

Up to the top of the table - great stuff!

[KiwiWRCfan]

Will there be pickems for Germany ?

[makinen_fan]

There will be guys, maybe Mintexmemory is on holidays... I will create a thread soon

[Mintexmemory]

Will there be pickems for Germany ?

Yes, do you know I think there will be!

[makinen_fan]

Yes, do you know I think there will be!

Here he is!! I was just about starting a new thread ;)

[Mintexmemory]

Ok entries coming in floods for this round, if you haven't entered before and think it isn't worth it for less than half a season why not approach it as testing for a full campaign next year.
Ignore analysis of testing etc, look at the past 3 years results (Germany, France, Spain) and how the Monte went this year for driver tarmac capability. Then check how the drivers have done in the lower levels. Finally what power does each car have. Almost impossible to make a case for Hirvonen and Evans to make top 8 except for major mechanical failures / crashes elsewhere (they do seem to have become the tortoises to everyone else's hares). Kubica, if he stays out of the scenery, will do better than the M-Sport guys. If Hyundai are going to do well on any rally this year it has to be this one, unusually I'd say the team leader will struggle to beat the other members (as a repeat of last year with DS ). Meeke loves tarmac, Ostberg is indifferent. So looking at VW Ogier just has the edge on JML (who hasn't ever won a tarmac WRC round) BUT Finland has shown the JML psyche appears to be in the right frame now which will put a big pressure on Seb O (he appears to be the driver who is currently best able to handle it, even if he doesn't hide the fact he doesn't like it). MIkkelsen will do well to get top 6. Just my opinion but I doubt we will see a Hirvonen, Ostberg, Kubica podium ;)

[KiwiWRCfan]

The Germany pickems results are sure going to be very interesting.

[makinen_fan]

Just processed the pickems guys:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14818594/WRC_Pickem/WRC_pickem.htm

Really low scores with the unusual results this time.

[pettersolberg29]

Haha only got 6 points this round!! Going to have to pick it up in Oz with top marks!

[Mintexmemory]

OK shakedown results in - Kris showing he's currently in a purple patch. Europeans, you've only got today to get your pick concluded, mid-evening GMT cut off time.
Interesting that there are a number of different picks for winner but the basic selection criterium is if you have picked Hirvonen, Mikkelsen or Ostberg to win then Meeke, Latvala and Ogier must not be higher than 5th as they will all be on Super Rally for one of the above to win ;)
Hoping personally that this is the rally that finally blows the Championship wide open for the last 3 rounds. I shan't be following in detail as I'm undertaking my annual Goodwood Revival pilgrimage, just a catch up over breakfast each day.

[pettersolberg29]

Don't think I want to know, but any update to the Pickems yet? :)

[makinen_fan]

Sorry guys but I didn't have a chance to process them, I will do it the soonest possible.

[makinen_fan]

A bit late with Australia pickems but are processed now, almost time for Rallye France pickems...
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14818594/WRC_Pickem/WRC_pickem.htm

Championship order remains the same with harriswrc leading, Henkie K 2nd and myself 3rd

[pettersolberg29]

Very exciting!

[makinen_fan]

I added a cumulative points chart, have a look

[pettersolberg29]

Cool! My nightmare in Germany is even more evident in that graph!

[makinen_fan]

Updated pickems scores are online now:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14818594/WRC_Pickem/WRC_pickem.htm

After this one I take the lead in points ahead of harriswrc and Henkie.

[makinen_fan]

The results after Catalunya are online (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14818594/WRC_Pickem/WRC_pickem.htm).
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14818594/WRC_Pickem/WRC_pickem.htm)
Overall the top 5 look like this
harriswrc 317
makinen_fan 308
Henkie H 307
pettersolberg 306
arko5 305

harris is almost certainly the winner with the 9 points lead, while for the rest of places it is pretty much open.

Don't forget to submit your WRGB pickem!

[HarriK]

omg...have i won the Poland round? ... and now splitted second place. :eek:

[makinen_fan]

Now that I have returned back home from a brilliant Wales rally, I have processed the pickem

Congrats to harriswrc, he is our champion.
In joined 2nd place we have three people, myself, olemann and Henkie H.

Full results here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14818594/WRC_Pickem/WRC_pickem.htm

[Henkie H.]

Congrats to harriswrc.

[COD]

Thank you for the work on the pickems makinen_fan.

And congratulations to those who did well. i had a fairly good start, but it went fast downhill from there :)

[Mintexmemory]

Tonight I'll be posting a flickr thread for Harris to chose his framable sized, signed photo. After he's had his pick I'll be putting the others plus some smaller items on e-bay to defray the cost of the recovery charge I had to pay when I had a double puncture on my way to Dyfnant last Saturday morning - I managed to see the WRC run of Dyfnant 1 and that was the end of my WRGB. Didn't get recovered until 5 pm by which time the tyre shop was shut, so I had to sleep overnight outside Kwikfit in Oswestry. They didn't open until 10am so Alwen and Brenig couldn't be reached in time. It's a good job I'm well-adjusted and fatalistic or I might have been REALLY pissed-off ;)

[Rallyper]

Thanks for all your work this year. Hope to be competing next year as well. Good job!

[Mintexmemory]

Apologies, life got in the way of forum work last night - try again tonight

[Mintexmemory]

Ok Harris will have the choice of one of the signed photos that can be viewed at https://www.flickr.com/photos/74mex/sets/72157648978199460/

I'll announce his choice when he's nominated it

Thanks for all the participants' enthusiasm and my especial thanks to makinen_fan for his marvellous work in computing the results.

[dodge33cymru]

Thanks for this, joined for the last round this year and will endeavour to run a full year next year.

[Mintexmemory]

Harris chose the Neuville Hyundai photo from the 2014 Monte shakedown. Now Christmas (and my personal problems) are out of the way I shall finally get the photo in the post to Greece on Monday 5th January.
All the other photos (and some additional items) will be on e-bay this evening.

[Rallyper]

Time for new topic - WRC Pickem 2015??

Hope so and really appreciate your work with Pickems.

[Mintexmemory]

Time for new topic - WRC Pickem 2015??

Hope so and really appreciate your work with Pickems.

Setting it up tomorrow Per so people can start their Monte picks :)

[makinen_fan]

Are we doing it the same way as last year P? I m happy to help!!

[Mintexmemory]

Hi Yiannis - Yes please, Happy New Year by the way.

[harriswrc]

Harris chose the Neuville Hyundai photo from the 2014 Monte shakedown. Now Christmas (and my personal problems) are out of the way I shall finally get the photo in the post to Greece on Monday 5th January.
All the other photos (and some additional items) will be on e-bay this evening.

Thanks for the photo! It's really nice!