Rugby World Cup
FINAL



Round 8
.
iRB World Cup
England
Sat 31 Oct
.
13 of 16 players lodged tips and 15 of 16 lodged advance picks
24-13
16-3
34-17

advance
picks x3
7
9
10
14
5
27
3
FT : South Africa v Argentina
HT : New Zealand v Australia
FT : New Zealand v Australia[
Finalist: New Zealand
Finalist: Australia
Winner: New Zealand (3 pts x9)
Losing finalist: Australia
gtho4 ElfTwinkle George95 srini701 Dizart Howie72 illiniman14
gtho4 paper_aero George95 dg_dave
gtho4 ElfTwinkle George95
illiniman14
gtho4 ElfTwinkle ozzz2002 Dizart PaulE

gtho4 ElfTwinkle ozzz2002 `
75
the bronze medal game was played on Friday 31st October .. dg_dave, paper_aero and wwe84 missed this game
Davjack KrivoyRog and ozzz2002 did not lodge picks, illiniman14 didn't lodge advance picks

Tipping Comp Standings

  position                 points      
----- ----- -------
TW LW hi-lo LW TW bp WIN FIN
----- ----- ------- hf ws -------
1 1 1-8 Dizart 48 8 56 4 2 NZ AUS
2 2 1-12 srini701 47 7 54 3 3 NZ ENG
3 4 1-6 PaulE 46 7 53 3 2 NZ AUS
4 4 1-11 Davjack p 46 4 51 3 2 NZ RSA
5 2 1-6 gtho4 47 3 50 3 2 AUS ENG
5 10 3-10 N-Bomb 44 6 50 2 1 NZ ENG
5 7 3-11 paper_aero 45 5 50 2 1 NZ ENG
5 4 2-12 ozzzz2002 p 46 3 50 2 1 2 AUS NZ
5 10 3-10 Howie72 44 7 51 2 1 1 NZ ENG
5 7 5-15 ElfTwinkle 45 5 50 1 2 2 AUS NZ
11 7 2-12 illiniman14 a 45 3 49 2 1 2 NZ AUS
11 12 1-12 wwe84 43 6 49 2 1 2 NZ ENG
14 13 1-14 dg_dave 40 2 42 1 2 1 ENG NZ
13 14 3-14 George95 38 5 43 1 2 NZ ENG
15 15 12-15 Sypher 37 3 40 1 ENG NZ
16 16 12-16 KrivoyRog p 34 1 36 1 IRE NZ
late starters 00
75 31 12 23
(def) wooden spoon 30 2 32
best picks 52 8 60
perfect picks 56 8 64
bonus points 23 - 23

b = bonus point for perfect picks.
s = bonus pt for picking result solo, or one of two.
o = no one picked draw; bonus for picking upset win.
a = no adv picks, default of 1/5 (by dg_dave).
p = no picks, default 1/3 (by dg_dave, George95, gtho4 & paper_aero).
WIN = advance pick for winner.
FIN = advance pick for losing finalist.
def = default is wooden spoon score.

Weekly Leader
 
plus 5 others
1. +2 Davjack gtho4 PaulE wwe84 Dizart srini701
2. +1 Davjack
3. +1 Davjack gtho4 PaulE
4. +1 wwe84
5. +1 gtho4 Dizart
6. +1 srini701
7. +1 Dizart
8. +2 Dizart


            week         Hall of Fame                            Wooden Spoon
paper_aero
% bp |wk| PaulE srini701 gtho4 Howie72 dg_dave illiniman14 ozzz2002
98/128 71.1 2 | 1| 6/8 Dizart wwe84 N-Bomb Davjack George95 6/8 ElfTwinkle KrivoyRog Sypher
109/128 85.1 3 | 2| 8/8 ozzz2002 illiniman14 Davjack 5/8 George95
105/120 87.5 3 | 3| 8/8 PaulE srini701 gtho4 5/8 ElfTwinkle
99/128 77.3 2 | 4| 8/8 Dizart wwe84 4/8 dg_dave
103/112 91.6 9 | 5| 8/8 PaulE srini701 gtho4 Howie72 ozzz2002 5/8 wwe84
| | Dizart illiniman14 N-Bomb ElfTwinkle
69/120 57.5 2 | 6| 7/8 paper_aero 3/8 George95
76/116 65.5 2 | 7| 7/8 Davjack 3/8 Howie72
75/114 65.8 - | 8| 8/8 Dizart 2/8 dg_dave
| |
23 | | 31 12

It's all over. The All Blacks became the first nation to retain their iRB World Cup title, aka the Webb Ellis Trophy, and the first to win this three times.

Once again we had just one weekly winner. Our leader Dizart finished with a perfect 8/8 to retain the lead and win the gold medal.

srini701 and PaulE finished with 7/8 to collect the silver and bronze medals .. srini701 missed one of the finalists (he picked England with his advance pick) and PaulE missed the third-place play-off, aka the bronze medal game. Scroll back two posts for a complete list of the advance picks.

ElfTwinkle finished on a new personal high, and dg_dave finished on a new low.

2003 Dazzy_D silverginger Bertho
2007 jonnowales srini701 jill-geo
2011 LeoDaVinci paper_aero Howie72
2015 Dizart srini701 PaulE


srini701 became the first person to appear on the podium a second time .. and LeoDaVinci was the defending titleholder.

Congratulations to the three medallists .. and commiserations to the rest of us! The next iRB World Cup is four years away: Japan 2019. It will be the first to be held in Asia.