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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Saturday, August 02, 2008 - 6:02 pm
sane 
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Nickovtyme
Member
07-29-2004
| Sunday, August 03, 2008 - 8:21 pm
Is there anywhere we can get a list of what countries are competing in which events? I'd hate to pick a country that I think will be competing and it turns out they're not entered in that event...is that even possible?
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Sunday, August 03, 2008 - 8:28 pm
I used http://www.nbcolympics.com/ . You can go to the individual sports and find out the countries participating and other information.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Sunday, August 03, 2008 - 8:58 pm
See, this is where I get confused on that site. If you look HERE, Alexander Artemev and Jana Bieger are both listed as athletes. But both of them are alternates, and not likely to compete. So how do we know for sure?
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Sunday, August 03, 2008 - 9:10 pm
that's a very good question ...
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Nino
Member
09-20-2004
| Monday, August 04, 2008 - 1:56 pm
Okay, Who, I have my picks ready to post for Group A! Now, when I post those picks, do I also make picks for each separate day? I'll probably wind up picking a player/country that isn't even competing in that particular sport, but I'll attempt to keep my picks to the countries I assume will compete! LOL! I'm off to post my picks now! Thanks again, Who! And, by all means, put me on that reminder list! I have a feeling I'll need it! I've got preseason football, Olympics and Big Brother all going at the same time!! What a cool summer--not temperature wise, however! It's hotter than blue blazes here in south-central Texas!! Hopefully, that will begin to change by tomorrow!!
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, August 04, 2008 - 7:24 pm
Hey Lance! You need to modify some of your picks you made today. You're supposed to pick individual athletes for the individual sports. At least, that's how I envisioned it originally. Hope I don't mess everyone up with that! Nino. Yes, each separate day is a whole new group of events. So you make picks for as many Days you wish to play.
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Lancecrossfire
Animoderator
07-13-2000
| Monday, August 04, 2008 - 9:13 pm
Who, any idea where individuals are posted? I used the two links given (olympic site and NBC) and unless I'm not figuring out the right links within those, I haven't come across any people's names except for table tennis.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, August 04, 2008 - 10:49 pm
Well, that's a bit of a problem I'm coming across too Lance. At the NBC site, you can view who the athletes are, but run into the chance of picking an alternate. I did click on the bio of a few swimmers, and at least their individual events are listed. I've Googled various forms of searches to find out a list of competitors, and who the favorites are. The best I can come up with are a few sits that list betting odds. I think I Googled "Olympics" and "odds" or something like that. Some of those list individual ahtletes for some of the sports. Since I've been busy trying to get things moving on this game, and on the Football Pool game (on three sites), I haven't been able to sit down and do a serious search. In gymnastics anyway, I don't think they have to name/finalize the team until so many days before their event (in the case of having to replace someone with an alternate). So maybe the problem we're running into is that some haven't been finalized yet?
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Lancecrossfire
Animoderator
07-13-2000
| Monday, August 04, 2008 - 10:51 pm
ok, thanks much Who. I'll make adjustments. 
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Lancecrossfire
Animoderator
07-13-2000
| Monday, August 04, 2008 - 10:56 pm
Ok, I've deleted any of the individual picks at this point until I can look at things when I'm actually awake. Is it ok to pick a country for doubles events, or are doubles teams established and they have to be named?
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, August 04, 2008 - 11:08 pm
That would probably depend on if there are more than one doubles team from one country in the event. If there is only one doubles team per country, then just the country is probably ok. If there are more than one, then you'd have to pick the right team combo. I just did a quick check, and in Beach Volleyball it looks like several combos from each country. Synch Diving I couldn't tell. Unfortunately, it looks like its gonna be a variation of looking at the Official Beijing site, the NBC site, the Canada site, various Googling for betting odds, and perhaps Googling the various governing body for each sport to come up with something. Yeesh, what kind of monster have I created!
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Lancecrossfire
Animoderator
07-13-2000
| Tuesday, August 05, 2008 - 7:54 am
Who, I've removed my doubles picks for now till I can better search for specific names. I'll try to get that in before the 7th for the picks that are due that day.
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Redpen
Member
07-24-2003
| Thursday, August 07, 2008 - 9:31 pm
Sorry, I've tried but this is too much for me to research at this time. I barely get it together for the NFL game. All I'm really knowledgeable about is women's basketball. With all the other sports I'm starting from scratch. I think I better give up on this game. So I'll see you guys over at the NFL game. Watch out for Maybe Next Year!
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Saturday, August 09, 2008 - 2:41 pm
Well, I'm certainly learning a lesson with this game. The way I set it up I've made it far too hard for players to make picks, and probably even hard for me to tally the points. I'm learning for ideas on the Vancouver Games at least. Too late to change now. Although we do only have 3 people even playing/making picks. My idea for the Vancouver Games would be to pick 2-5 events as before. But have 15 points to assign up to any 3 athletes you choose (you could give all 15 points to just one athlete if you wanted). Then the score would be something like: 3 X Assigned points if your athlete gets Gold, 2 X assigned points if your athlete gets Silver, 1 X assigned points if your athlete gets Bronze. I'm willing to consider changing the format for the remaining days whose due dates aren't past. But that is totally up to Lance and KL, since you've already put picks in. And, I'm wondering if that would draw in more people to play if that might be easier to make picks. If we want to just keep going the way we are, that's ok. Like I said, lesson learned, and hopefully I can set up something better for Vancouver. My apologies for making it so hard this time around.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Saturday, August 09, 2008 - 4:08 pm
I've got to say Who that I appreciate your considerable efforts setting these games up. I just was completely intimidated by the format. I wasn't sure how to play and I guess I was too lackadaisical to try to figure it out.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Sunday, August 24, 2008 - 2:02 pm
I haven't abandoned this. I'm still trying to gather up all the stats of picks, actual results, etc. Its taking me much longer than I anticipated. I've obviously made this game way to hard for all involved. Stay tuned however, for some ideas I plan to spring on you all in the near future........
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Lancecrossfire
Animoderator
07-13-2000
| Sunday, August 24, 2008 - 4:26 pm
No problem Who. It's tough to gather some of the information rill right at the end anyway. I appreciate you taking the time to create a game at all!!  
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Sunday, August 24, 2008 - 5:21 pm
I'm amazed at the effort that you put into this Who. I think it is great and if you are up to doing one for Vancouver, I'll do my best to participate. 
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Monday, August 25, 2008 - 2:14 pm
congrats to whoever won 
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Tuesday, September 02, 2008 - 6:00 am
I'm still here! I'm almost done! Gathering up all the actual results of all the events we picked has been excruciating to say the least. Oddly enough, this info isn't as readily available as one would think. Anyway, I have all the data finally gathered up, and now just have to match it up with our picks and do the calculations. I only seem to be able to work on it 10-20 minutes at a time before I get called away from the computer again. Stay tuned. If we're lucky, I'll have it finished before the next Olympics. 
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Allietex
Member
08-16-2002
| Tuesday, September 02, 2008 - 1:45 pm
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26506320/ Michael Phelps will use his 1 million dollar bonus to start a charitable foundation. Good for him!
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Friday, September 19, 2008 - 6:24 pm
<hangs head in shame> I really and truly haven't abandonded this. I've just been crazed with other distractions. I promise I will not give up on this. Even if this gets archived away into the ozone, I did save all the pages to my hard drive, I do have all the picks and data recorded down. So it won't get lost forever. I'm sooo sooo sooooooo sorry.
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