Finally locking in my predictions (I already did it, technically, but that was before the surge of new players, and I think a couple change my predictions. I also have fun doing this :P). Also, I changed a couple x)

A: huddyj, Buns, Bjarke
B: Arkanton, smiley, TWOLKER
C: Алексей, Don, iNsAnE
D: cookie, Prab, Bonsai
E: Baer, skull, PhucilliJerry
F: Ink, Legi, Skilled
G1: Oh Noes, Hades, INSIDE
G2: AI, Turkish, Noobster

Yeah, few changes, but I think this is more accurate (For some reason I forgot Baer last time in my E predictions. He's damn good, better than skull perhaps, but idk)

Ox, do you want to join the league? I don't think your predictions actually count for the competition unless you are actually participating in the league. Master Bjarke can add you to an expansion group if you want. I like your predictions, though, especially me coming out on top for the 3rd season in a row. :)

(Group) (1st) (2nd) (3rd)
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A: huddyj , Master Bjarke , Buns157

B: Arkanton , TWOLKER , Smileyleg

C: Master Turtle , Don , Алексей

D: cookie , Bonsai80 , zanbato

E: ALE , Taji , szwenk

F: Ink Splatoon , Mr. Legi , large shrimp

G1: Oh Noes , Hades , INSIDE

G2: AI , Turkish , Ameter

I have now written down all predictions in an excel sheet to keep score (mroe work than I had expected it to be :P). We have 20 contestants and with tournaments starting later today it is the last chance if anyone want to make changes - Im especially saying this to the 4 people who have not put a prediction on all groups. If you want to make changes, send me a MESSAGE (I am not going though edited post in this thread again to see if you changed something)

Also on that note let me put up a list of favorites in the different groups based on how they are predicted:

Group A:
Seems to be a battle between me and huddyj for the title with Buns as third contestant. Huddyj, the defending champion, seems to be the favorite with 11/19 predictions putting him first. I follow with 7/19 and Buns have 1/19 (since Buns predicts that he will take all 3 top 3 spots). As dark horses for top 3 are mslasm and Rocky1 who each are predicted as 3rd by two people.
1st huddyj
2nd Master Bjarke
3rd Buns157

Group B:
Arkanton is the clear favorite with 13/19 predicting him as first. TWOLKER have 5/19 and smiley have one (not his own prediction). USA biches and Dacian Novac are commenly mentioned in top 3 as well.
1st: Arkanton
2nd: Twolker
3rd: smileyleg/USA biches

Group C:
Алексей (7), Master Turtle (6), Don(4), Ryzys (1), and Insane (1) are all predicted as winners of this group, which seems quite close based on predictions. Furthermore is Legacy, Slydog and BlacKnight all predicted in top 3 making 8/10 people in the group predictions for top 3. Top battle is between Turtle and Алексей. Although Алексей have the most 1st Turtle is predicted to finishes higher than him by 11/19 people.
1st Master Turtle
2nd Алексей
3rd Don

Group D:
cookie (13), Bonsai80 (4), Prabster Realm (1), Matt451 (1), and Corvus5 (1) are predicted as first place finishers (note that this is the only group that all 20 participants have predicted). Furthermore Des, Wenyun, Fleecemaster, Zanbato har all fairly frequent fliers in the top 3 predictions, leaving this group quite open in the battle for top 3, although cookie is a clear favorite for the 1st place. 9/10 players in this group is thereby predicted in the top 3 making for an interesting group!
1st: Cookie
2nd: Bonsai80
3rd: Des/Fleecemaster/wenyun

Group E:
ALE is the favorite with 13/19 first places (note that he have the highest rate of any player in any group - dont let the pool of wisdom down ALE!). Taji, Szwenk (which a lot of players have spelled Szwenj for some reason) and Baer are each predicted as first places finishes by two people. Further top 3 candidates are Danerduo, Skull, PhucillJerry, japan77 and ipg also putting this group at 9/10 players represented in the picks despite the large lead to ALE.
1st: ALE
2nd: Taji
3rd: Szwenk

Group F:
Ink Splatoon (8), Mr. Legi (4), Large Shrimp (2), lh70 (2), Masterpierround (1), and Lord of Shadows (1) is in the mix for first in this group. Gardo91, Skilled and Oilspotter are all meantioned for top 3 more than once as well. As Lord of Shadows and Gardo have still not joined they seem a bit doubtful though :P.
1st Ink Splatoon
2nd. Mr. Legi
3rd: Large Shrimp

Group G1:
The first of the expansion groups with all new players. Although some of this new players seem a bit familiar to me - and possible also to everyone else. At least we have only 3 players mentioned for the top 3, if we exclude j willy 47 putting himself in his 3rd place prediction. Otherwise everyone predicts at top 3 with a combination of Oh Noes, Inside and Hades. Oh Noes is predicted as first 10 times, while Inside and Hades gets 4 and 3 1sts respectively. Hades is generally ranked higher than Inside though as no less than 8 predictors (out of 17) have the exact same top three with:
1st Oh Noes
2nd: Hades
3rd: Inside

Group G2:
This expansion group seems almost as onesided as G1 in the predictions. AI and Turkish split almost all the predicted 1st and 2nd places, except Ameter and dr. Love pushing AI down to 3rd on 1 occasion each. Despite Turkish not being predicted worse than 2nd by anyone it is still AI who pulls of the honor of being group favorite with 11/17 predictions to finish in first (Turkish thus have 6 of course). For a possible close fight for 3rd are Ameter (1 2nd 7 3rd) and dr. Love (1 2nd 4 3rd) possibly challenged by Noobster and Oxygen with 3 and 1 3rds respectively.
1st AI
2nd Turkish
3rd Ameter

what time will this league start?

Master Bjarke loved that prediction
i find it fascinating and accurate but lets see how it goes
my moneys on that prediction

The league starts today. I will start the tournaments that I am hosting now and huddyj will start when he gets online I guess (he have not been online so far today). Good luck everyone :)

Sorry, I was out all of Sunday (Monday morning here). Just started all the groups. Bad luck to those who picked USA Biches. He messaged me to say he won't be competing, and I did edit the group post on page 1 a few days ago to let people know.

All the best everyone!

I feel sad for 2 reasons, no one mentioned me among the top 3 and also because I was the only one relegated from group E lol... but anyway, I'm excited for this new season :D

So the close groups are D&E?, in which all but 1 person per league is considered a viable candidate for the top 3?

Welp, I'm gonna have to try.

Group D is going in strong and competitive although its early to predict changes

Player Wins Losses In-progress
Bonsai80 1 0 5
boorzuur 0 0 5
cookie 2 1 3
Corvus5 2 1 5
Des {TJC} 0 0 5
Fleecemaster 0 4 3
Matt431 1 0 5
Prabster Realm 1 2 5
Wenyun 0 0 5
zanbato 1 0 5

We are seeing major activity of FleeceMaster,Sadly we find early losses for his profile better yet we hope he gets a good rate of wins.
Following him we find Prabster Realm not doing so good with 2 losses,we may find bad news on this competitor further deep in the tournament.
Bonsai80 , Zanbato , Matt431 are tied with 1 win and 0 losses and sad to say folks Cookie has beaten by Bonsai80.... The stacks are rising, look out for the edited posts on this thread.
Wenyun as usual will start playing his games late like he did the past tournament of small earth.
Des and boorzuur are on the unpredictable list . Folks they may enlighten you.. Watch OUT!!!
Cookie gets some solid victories but the damage has been done...The tournament is gonna get tough soon.
Corvus5 enlightens the tournament with great gameplay and some good vitories over prab and fleece

The tournament is HOT HOT folks
Stay TUned
Things are gonna get rough

Edited 2/2/2016 15:07:55

Hi everyone. I hope you are all enjoying the level of challenge you are facing in your groups. Personally, Group A is once again very stiff competition, with each player definitely deserving their spot! Anyway, thought I'd give a quick summary of each group's progress so far.

Group A

Buns157 (3-0)
mslasm & huddyj (2-1)
Gibs & Kevin Turner (1-1)
rocky1 (0-2)
Pantelas (0-3)
BenSeu, Master Bjarke & slejer (0-0)

Group B

Dacian Novac (6-1)
smileyleg (2-0)
Panagiotis, Lampiao & KingNorbs (2-2)
kirdol (2-4)
indibob & TWOLKER (1-2)
Arkanton (1-4)

Group C

iNsAnE (3-0)
Don (3-1)
ARand0mPlayer & slydog384 (1-2)
Legacy (0-3) all boot losses
No other players have finished a game at this stage

Group D

Bonsai (5-0)
cookie (4-1)
Matt431 (3-1)
zanbato (3-2)
Corvus5 (2-2)
Des (1-0)
Prabster Realm (1-5)
boorzuur (0-3)
Fleecemaster (0-5)
Wenyun (0-0)

Group E

skull11244 (3-1)
Baer (2-1)
ALE (2-2)
ipg & PhucilliJerry (1-0)
Taji & szwenk (1-1)
DanetDuo & Winged Hussars (1-2)
japan77 (0-3)


Group F

large shrimp (5-1)
Ink Splatoon (3-0)
Coronel Gavilan & Oilspotter (2-1)
Skilled (1-2)
lh70 (1-3)
Masterpierround (0-1)
Mr. Legi (0-5) all boot losses

Group G1

Hades (7-1)
Oh Noes (6-0)
INSIDE (4-1)
ViralGoat (4-3)
graemes (4-4)
j willy 47 (2-5)
New Luna Republic (1-2)
Zombiegriz (1-6)
mario1995 (0-7)

Group G2

DR. Love & Noobster11 (2-0)
Turkish (1-0)
AI (1-1)
AyushTheGreat (1-3)
Ameter, Leo, & Oxygen (0-1)
Super Smoove (0-0)

G2 is going to be the most intersting group by far

Wow! Hades and Oh Noes are very quick!

Group A

Favourites for top 3 (see Bjarke's summary)

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1. huddyj 2. Master Bjarke 3. Buns157 (all still possible)

Player (Win-Loss)

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Buns157 (3-0)
mslasm (2-1)
Gibs (2-1)
huddyj (2-1)
rocky1 (1-2)
Kevin Turner (1-3)
Pantelas (1-4)
BenSeu (0-0)
Master Bjarke (0-0)
slejer (0-0)

Group A has been slow so far. Buns has early wins over mslasm, Pantelas, and rocky1, but will need to keep winning to be any chance of a top 3 spot. This group is going to be tough as usual, and I don't expect any player to get through without losing at least one game. I reckon that even with 2 losses a player could still challenge for top spot.

Edited 2/5/2016 06:34:11

Group B

Favourites for top 3

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1. Arkanton 2. TWOLKER 3. smileyleg (not going to happen!)

Player (Win-Loss) (Position)

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Dacian Novac (7-1) (1st)
smileyleg (5-1)
Lampião (3-3)
Panagiotis (2-2)
Arkanton (2-4)
KingNorbs (2-4)
kirdol (2-4)
TWOLKER (1-2)
indibob (1-4)

Dacian Novac has blitzed Group B, only losing one match to indibob! smileyleg is looking good for second, with only one loss to Dacian Novac. After that it is really close, with probably the biggest surprise being Arkanton's 4 losses. This group must be tough!

Edited 2/5/2016 06:44:46

I screw up this tournament since I played too much from phone and made terrible mistakes :/

One mistake in small earth is death against good players, that's for sure. Oh well, try to avoid relegation, then you can have another attempt next season to get to Group A.

G1 was very interesting, we got a 3 way tie where Oh noes > Hades > Inside > Oh noes.

Does this mean we will have a tie-break tournament?

Edited 2/5/2016 17:35:42

I know it may be a while but please add me for next season. Thanks!