French Open Suicide Pool - WTA

Day 5 - Kvitova

aaronh Kerber Lisicki Makarova Shvedova (pending)
zmb Meusberger Lisicki Bertens Suarez Navarro
edy Meusberger Lisicki Safarova Stosur
mesmerised Muguruza Lisicki Pavlyuchenkova Sharapova
mamut Suarez Navarro Petkovic Flipkens Bouchard
Slowplay Meusberger Ka Pliskova Pfizenmaier Shvedova (pending)
Sir_Bond Muguruza Bouchard Watson Stosur

out
carambas Muguruza Lisicki Safarova V Williams
bb66 Suarez Navarro Kuznetsova Safarova Pennetta
Hinton Shvedova Kuznetsova Bertens V Williams
n88uk Kerber Lisicki Pavlyuchenkova Pennetta
I-MAN Muguruza Erakovic Safarova Cornet
tweedy Muguruza Ka Pliskova Pavlyuchenkova Pennetta
discipline Muguruza Petkovic Pavlyuchenkova V Williams

P3tra

Day 5 - Flipkens (if I survive Shvedova)

Shaffashoffa

day 5: Lucie Safarova.

Petkovic

I-MAN 27 May 14 21:31 Joined: 10 Oct 08 | Topic/replies: 74 | Blogger: I-MAN's blog
Day 4:
CORNET A. (vs. TOWNSEND T.)


Funny, how I consider myself better at predicting WTA results than ATP results, and still, I always get further in the French Open Suicide Pool - ATP than WTA. :{

Errani

Well that's half the comp gone already

and so I didn't and I'm out. Thanks for running it and good luck for the rest of the competition.

day 6: Mona Barthel.

Bouchard day 6

zmb / Meusberger / Lisicki / Bertens / Suarez Navarro / Safarova
edy / Meusberger / Lisicki / Safarova / Stosur / Petkovic
mesmerised / Muguruza / Lisicki / Pavlyuchenkova / Sharapova / Kvitova
mamut / Suarez Navarro / Petkovic / Flipkens / Bouchard / Safarova
Sir_Bond / Muguruza / Bouchard / Watson / Stosur / Errani

OUT
aaronh / Kerber / Lisicki / Makarova / Shvedova (LOST)
Slowplay / Meusberger / Ka Pliskova / Pfizenmaier / Shvedova (LOST)

Kerber

CSN

Kerber

zmb / Meusberger / Lisicki / Bertens / Suarez Navarro / Safarova/Kerber
edy / Meusberger / Lisicki / Safarova / Stosur / Petkovic/ Suarez Navarro
mesmerised / Muguruza / Lisicki / Pavlyuchenkova / Sharapova / Kvitova/ Bouchard
Sir_Bond / Muguruza / Bouchard / Watson / Stosur / Errani/Kerber

Out
mamut / Suarez Navarro / Petkovic / Flipkens / Bouchard / Safarova/Barthel

Jankovic day 7

Errani

Petkovic

Errani

day 8: tomljanovic

zmb / Meusberger / Lisicki / Bertens / Suarez Navarro / Safarova/Kerber / Errani
edy / Meusberger / Lisicki / Safarova / Stosur / Petkovic/ Suarez Navarro / Errani
mesmerised / Muguruza / Lisicki / Pavlyuchenkova / Sharapova / Kvitova/ Bouchard / Jankovic
Sir_Bond / Muguruza / Bouchard / Watson / Stosur / Errani/Kerber /Petkovic

all in

Mugaroo

Muguruza-Blanco

MUGURUZA

Sorry my fault i have already picekd Muguruza

My selection today is

Sharapova

zmb / Meusberger / Lisicki / Bertens / Suarez Navarro / Safarova/Kerber / Errani / Muguruza
edy / Meusberger / Lisicki / Safarova / Stosur / Petkovic/ Suarez Navarro / Errani / Muguruza
Sir_Bond / Muguruza / Bouchard / Watson / Stosur / Errani/Kerber /Petkovic / Sharapova

out

mesmerised / Muguruza / Lisicki / Pavlyuchenkova / Sharapova / Kvitova/ Bouchard / Jankovic / Tomjlanovic

Petkodance

Halep

tough, tough day

toss a coin for Errani or Jankovic....

Jankovic

you have already used Errani anyway

and then there were two

is that you announcing your withdrawal

No I just think Errani will win

That was still a good effort, edy.

Down to the final two

Battle of the Arch Enemies

SMBPussinboots

Vs

SIR_Bond the GREAT

edy called heads or tails, turned out it was heads on both sides, and he still made the wrong choice

Edy

Steady on Edy

zmb / Meusberger / Lisicki / Bertens / Suarez Navarro / Safarova/Kerber / Errani / Muguruza / Petkovic
Sir_Bond / Muguruza / Bouchard / Watson / Stosur / Errani/Kerber /Petkovic / Sharapova/ Halep

Out
edy / Meusberger / Lisicki / Safarova / Stosur / Petkovic/ Suarez Navarro / Errani / Muguruza / Jankovic

am very proud of meself. Didn't want to use Sharapova or Halep this early because that wudda been so totally super cowardly and especially Sharapova is needed for later.

Anyway, top three is sooooooooooooooooooo fucking awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it's still impossible for me to complete this I think, despite having four players left to pick from

not sure what to do

Completing is impossible from what I can see, so forget about that. This is just about surviving the longest now.

Pick someone you have left and trust and hope Bouchard beats CSN (the only player Bond can pick today)

If CSN and the player you chose both win, it will all come down to the Kunetsova-Halep match. That will decide the victor (or at worst result in a tie if you choose Kuznetsova). Neither of you have Errani or Petkovic left.

Suicide comp isn't aboot completing it, it's about winning.

Jun 3, 2014 -- 2:12AM, edy wrote:

Completing is impossible from what I can see, so forget about that. This is just about surviving the longest now.Pick someone you have left and trust and hope Bouchard beats CSN (the only player Bond can pick today)If CSN and the player you chose both win, it will all come down to the Kunetsova-Halep match. That will decide the victor (or at worst result in a tie if you choose Kuznetsova). Neither of you have Errani or Petkovic left.

thanks, I figured all this out myself though

caramba, personally I do think these suicide comps are about trying to get to the end, that's what I play for anyway ... and if you get to the end then you automatically win (perhaps jointly)

If you want to do that you'll have to stricly pick from sections each day, which makes it much, much harder to even get to the 2nd week I'd

imagine

and as we all know, even with chaotic, unplanned picking it's tough enough to even get past day two.

Sharapova

So then guys if i am such a mug who makes massive losses on here

How come in the last three competitions I've been in the top two the final of this one and still in the men's one

Clearly i know nothing about tennis

I can only select one player today, i have no choice

Suarez Navarro C

Nobody says you're a mug who makes massive losses. I for one think you have very decent knowledge and just hope or assume you also turn that into quite a decent profit.

As hard as it is to admit for me, but you're good when it comes to tennis, and the others have known for a long time as well, even if they also have a hard time to admit it.

So no need to rub it in for them all the time. Let's be frank here: with them being here and spending so much time on this forum, they're most likely off bad enough as it is and in reality quite poor souls.

Wanna hear how poor? Many moons ago I had a teacher tell me to stand in front of a mirror and tell myself suportative and ego-boosting things like 'You are awesome! There's no need to be so insecure. The others do not solely exist to critisize you and make fun of you.'.... I didn't do it at that time because it sounded horribly silly as a kid (and indeed quite embarrassing as he hadn't told me one on one), but nowadays I throw in such sessions (not in front of a mirror though) from time to time. From what I hear on commentary and read on MTF, e.g even the great Nadal has had a similar approach (while in front of the mirror) before matches basically his entire career.

Anyway, fast forward a few years and here I am now without the urgent need to constantly measure my dick and get regular approval (though I have to admit it is of course very nice if it comes my way. I just don't feel like I constantly need to prove myself to feel good about myself as a person) from a crowd of likely above average fat (on one extreme, the other part is likely way too skinny), quite some ways below average intelligence (of course there are exceptions) and miles below average income.

You might think it's a joke, but it's actually a true story. I don't remember what the teacher told me to say specifically back then, but I tried to capture the general idea of it.

edy - you're awesome! and it is a true story 'cos someone told my sister to do it. I only found out because she took it to an extreme and wrote on postits stuff like 'I'm gorgeous', 'anyone would be lucky to date me' etc etc!
It only backfired when I took a few friends round for vino and she's forgotten to take them down EVIL mates found postits and added a few of their own
T'was a cruel thing - and it took me ages to persuade her it was a joke

Oh dear, that really did backfire then

she must of been in pieces when she saw what people wrote about her

Sir Bond (I'm bowing), s'ok now. She got married about 12 months later and now has the 'poop machine'!!

There's a good chance you'll both win today by both losing.

haha poop machine

both a set down

shazza will find a way

wrong thread ffs lol

I got forced into a selection i would never of picked

Guess that's how the game goes near the end though

wow just wow

game on

lucky lucky mofo

game over

Forced into a pick i didn't want to make

never mind got a good run

omg, I would still be in had I only picked another one on day 4

i would still be in had i not been forced into a pick bb66

you forced yourself.

that's the nature of the game though. I would run out of picks in the final though, as my string of picks would have been
Suarez Navarro, Kuznetsova, Safarova, Stosur, Makarova, Kerber, Errani, Muguruza, Petkovic, Bouchard; forced into Halep tomorrow and Shazza for SF

Aftertiming it's a great game

Jun 3, 2014 -- 3:53PM, SIR_Bond wrote:

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I also lost on day 4 but I don't think I would have lasted long anyway since I picked Muguruza and Safarova early who both made it further than I had expected so I would likely have run out of good options at some point.

if you try to see it from an objective POV all picks from Makarova onwards were quite obvious saving Halep and Shazza as long as possible

I picked Safarova in rd 1 as the choice between her and Makarova thinking the latter would be the more save pick in rd 2. Same reasoning for Kerber in rd 3, as it was obvious she wouldn't be a save pick in rd 4 compared to Muguruza.

Alot of people trying to justify their loss with not one person congratulating the winner, well done smb

Well done SMB you lucky toad

fluke win. Wouldn't even have been able to get to saturday.

Jun 3, 2014 -- 4:17PM, mesmerised wrote:

Alot of people trying to justify their loss with not one person congratulating the winner, well done smb

thank you

Jun 3, 2014 -- 5:30PM, edy wrote:

fluke win. Wouldn't even have been able to get to saturday.

if there were more people left in or perhaps just a different person to Bond left in, I would have gone with Genie today to at least (hopefully) get to the final (and then be left with nothing to pick)

but with Bond being forced into CSN, I just went with Masha to 'make sure' as much as possible ... didn't want to lose to him

Jun 3, 2014 -- 4:01PM, wisewords wrote:

you forced yourself.

highly amusing that he can't see this

what's going on here?

well done zmb


Meusberger / Lisicki / Bertens / Suarez Navarro / Safarova/Kerber / Errani / Muguruza / Petkovic / Sharapova

as I already posted once there should be a repechage for those with 1 wrong pick continuing and coming into play again in case of nobody makes it to the final

It's called the Suicide Pool for a reason. You make a bad pick and you are out.

then you'd have about 20 people all making 2-4 correct picks to finish the tournament.

congratulations smb360 and many thanks aaronh for the competition.

Write up the Aaron?

Write up then Aaron

Well done zmb. Thanks arrong.

pure luck smb but wd still

Pure luck SMB

shrewd picks SMBucks. good comp aaronh