Another totally bizarre competition with cash prizes.
These tend to be very unpopular so if you enter you have a good chance of winning.
The competition is: which country/state/province has (had) the best players on PokerStars.
I've got the complete stats (from SharkScope) for 325 players from 128 countries/states/provinces.
It's a single-knockout Championship (like March Madness) .
Your job: tell me 1) which team will win the Championship Game 2) which team will lose the Championship Game 3) who will be the MVP of the Championship Game
More info to come (this is just to wet your appetite).
Here are the 128 teams and their first round opponents.

1 Costa Rica VS Ontario
2 Czechia VS USA
3 Mongolia VS Minnesota
4 England VS Morocco
5 Croatia VS Singapore
6 Washington VS Tunisia
7 Italy VS Norway
8 Hong Kong VS Lithuania
9 Indonesia VS Colombia
10 Kentucky VS Belgium
11 Denmark VS Azerbaijan
12 Manitoba VS Luxembourg
13 Germany VS Slovakia
14 Switzerland VS Romania
15 Idaho VS Isle Of Man
16 Oklahoma VS Serbia
17 Albania VS Kyrgyzstan
18 Sweden VS France
19 California VS Brazil
20 Moldova VS Uzbekistan
21 Oregon VS Kazakhstan
22 North Carolina VS Newfoundland
23 New Jersey VS Russia
24 Portugal VS New Brunswick
25 Bulgaria VS Florida
26 Nevada VS Ecuador
27 Wisconsin VS Ireland
28 Australia VS Nigeria
29 British Columbia VS Saskatchewan
30 Guyana VS Netherlands
31 Georgia(S) VS Pennsylvania
32 Saudi Arabia VS Peru
33 Texas VS India
34 Venezuela VS Massachusetts
35 Finland VS Malaysia
36 Ohio VS Scotland
37 Maryland VS Arizona
38 New Mexico VS Ukraine
39 Vietnam VS Thailand
40 Michigan VS Greece
41 Montana VS Uganda
42 Lebanon VS Turkmenistan
43 South Korea VS Georgia(C)
44 Trinidad & Tobago VS New Caledonia
45 Mozambique VS Paraguay
46 Virginia VS Cyprus
47 Maine VS Nebraska
48 Montenegro VS Mexico
49 Belarus VS Indiana
50 Missouri VS Bangladesh
51 Slovenia VS Illinois
52 Hungary VS Turkey
53 Iran VS Argentina
54 Tennessee VS Poland
55 Estonia VS North Macedonia
56 Bermuda VS Quebec
57 Philippines VS Alberta
58 Macedonia VS New York
59 Japan VS New Zealand
60 UK VS Austria
61 South Africa VS Israel
62 Guadeloupe VS Armenia
63 Latvia VS Spain
64 Uruguay VS China

Here's how the individual games work:
We look through the tournament IDs to find matches (2 or more players in this game played in this tournament).
If one player won money and the other did not that person gets a "win", The other a loss.
The same for one person winning more $.
If they won the same amount then the player who finished in the higher position gets the win.

Add up all the wins and loses for each player from their entire PokerStars career.

Add up the wins and loses for the two teams.

The team with the + wins, wins the game.

I played game #1 as an example.
The results were:
"$$paniko9$$" (Costa Rica) -16 (101-117)
Septi Popescu (Ontario) +24
Alex Difelice (Ontario) -6
Sorel Mizzi (Ontario) -27
Aaron McCready (Ontario) +25

Ontario wins it by 16

Complete team rosters to come (or you can see them on "Poker Blogs And Goals" if you can't wait).

Here are the rosters for the 128 teams.
Only 4 players are allowed to play in each round
For teams with more than 4 players, the worst performing player is dropped and the next player on the list is added.
For example (in our example), Sorel Mizzi will be benched and "yawnkiss" will take his place on Ontario's round 2 game.

PLAYER	NAME	COUNTRY	TOURNIES	EVENTS	PROFITABLE	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE
Kenshiro*969		Albania	36290	47	18	3	1	2
sandman201	Thomas Taylor	Alberta	16691	467	148	21	17	15
DTrain27	Dorlan Schick	Alberta	35434	156	53	1	6	9
patasss	Ivan Balzano	Argentina	158035	543	251	63	37	23
Maestro Shao	Robertino Greco	Argentina	50133	443	157	35	16	19
nachobarbero	Nacho Barbero	Argentina	5517	241	63	21	18	10
danpoquer		Argentina	24897	183	88	2	5	4
ely_cash41	Ryan Hughes	Arizona	6733	287	107	22	4	16
vratario		Armenia	25842	290	114	20	9	11
I am Arty 1		Armenia	34142	106	52	4	2	2
Pop_is_Dead1		Armenia	2131	111	32	1	1	2
TurnRiva	Tim Marsters	Australia	9133	362	102	23	11	13
Andy McLEOD	James Obst	Australia	7377	326	106	19	13	11
ugritaly	Salvatore Fazzino	Australia	32099	286	95	11	7	6
Filthy999		Australia	2227	85	34	7	9	6
Endogenous1	Aidan Van Wyck	Australia	1883	78	26	1	0	2
thopra		Austria	57404	579	226	36	26	25
WushuTM	Thomas Muhlocker	Austria	68	9	4	0	0	0
Factor232		Azerbaijan	25996	43	17	3	2	2
Agharazi	Agharazi Babayev	Azerbaijan	10797	65	31	0	0	1
mithela007		Bangladesh	3843	73	15	0	1	0
maxvtb		Belarus	323361	59	32	8	2	2
qwanter		Belarus	5911	141	34	2	14	2
Easterdamnz	Michiel Van Elsacker	Belgium	47951	240	92	9	11	9
chrisdm	Christophe DE Meulder	Belgium	31872	177	60	4	7	1
ryoli77	Ryan Swan	Bermuda	1550	59	14	0	1	2
Muka82	Murilo Fugueredo	Brazil	71281	876	377	76	87	41
KtheKing	Humberto Kim	Brazil	37973	439	197	56	39	21
fred_volpe	Fredrico Volpe	Brazil	92602	694	278	47	35	39
gabrielper		Brazil	85470	483	257	46	29	31
Ponga80	Joao Aquino	Brazil	7499	414	140	35	27	6
neto gol	Jose Neto	Brazil	46272	403	157	17	23	20
kojakkim		Brazil	17909	256	65	15	6	13
WizardOffAz	Lucio Lima	Brazil	39594	111	45	7	1	5
MachadinhaRS	Gustavo Rocha	Brazil	42630	126	56	1	2	1
Machadada RS	Bernardo Rocha	Brazil	35952	135	46	0	1	0
pvigar	Pedro Garagnani	Brazil	22793	107	45	0	0	3
UhhMee	Ami Barer	British Columbia	152943	928	330	120	74	51
ISmellToast	Adam Crawford	British Columbia	82746	358	133	21	10	14
donut604	Jonas Mackoff	British Columbia	24535	292	101	10	4	8
rdcrsn	Russell Carson	British Columbia	56560	302	113	9	12	11
grandprix		British Columbia	38742	328	108	8	6	3
frosty012	Tyler Frost	British Columbia	4771	98	42	1	1	2
SpeedUp2		Bulgaria	3114	143	50	8	3	4
cocojamb0	Ognyan Dimov	Bulgaria	35185	190	59	7	2	5
FutureofMe	Alex Kulov	Bulgaria	5593	46	18	0	1	1
MattyDaCobra		California	31043	567	267	93	67	32
drkamikaze1	Kami Chisholm	California	66765	567	226	56	37	29
dfunks	David Funkhouser	California	30913	450	185	37	30	20
nsinger	Nathan Singer	California	26415	213	84	8	10	5
gamble24/7	Jason Stern	California	1796	130	48	6	7	3
javahound	Dan Tarnopol	California	8440	123	56	6	3	1
deoxyribo	Daniel Strelitz	California	9099	194	59	4	6	1
The-Toilet 0	Faraz Jaka	California	7415	100	40	4	0	4
Rounder63	Nicholas Carrillo	California	91073	208	69	3	4	3
zzwwzzwwzz	Wei Zhao	China	189900	518	223	48	34	30
dididada1986		China	12677	125	35	4	4	6
xiaoxiang777		China	47019	49	21	1	2	1
DazzleO	Daniel Ospina	Colombia	16730	528	196	43	26	25
SHiiPTHATiSH	Farid Jattin	Colombia	33368	335	107	7	10	11
$$paniko9$$	Jonathan Soto	Costa Rica	18775	218	89	6	8	5
BanicIvan	Ivan Banic	Croatia	54486	160	65	6	3	2
kleogeo00		Cyprus	5419	154	35	1	2	1
AABenjaminAA	Martin Hruby	Czechia	44424	318	106	8	19	8
Gogac sniper	Roman Hrabec	Czechia	3068	69	22	0	2	1
EasyPots		Denmark	20496	411	176	19	17	13
Mr Swatch	Frederik Hostrup	Denmark	16510	430	122	17	20	15
TheJokerEC		Ecuador	13324	146	46	3	1	3
eddycadub		Ecuador	27312	208	79	2	7	4
Adamyid	Adam Owen	England	47339	757	306	146	73	43
1_conor_b_1	Conor Beresford	England	144611	208	100	22	18	9
810ofclubs	Toby Lewis	England	14260	277	72	11	6	3
robc1978	Rob Cowen	England	10218	258	75	9	3	6
Zimmy86	Zimnan Ziyard	England	44384	260	99	7	7	7
GJReggie	Georgina James	England	6098	196	44	7	2	6
Epiphany77	Charlie Carrel	England	8767	234	79	6	6	6
Moorman1	Chris Moorman	England	33803	222	55	5	10	7
stevie444	Stephen Chidwick	England	18938	125	40	4	9	10
mcc3991	Craig McCorkell	England	9082	142	51	3	1	0
Vicky Coren	Vicky Coren	England	1464	71	11	0	2	2
privador		Estonia	67643	240	76	8	5	7
Kaitz20	Kaidar Viikman	Estonia	8715	227	73	6	7	2
calvin7v	jussi Nevanlinna	Finland	44217	463	202	65	31	25
SiiliSuhonen		Finland	63861	397	127	28	10	7
h3pp4p01k4		Finland	4988	334	133	24	18	13
FatmanScoops		Finland	11294	345	151	13	25	10
€urop€an	Samuel Vousden	Finland	24134	131	53	5	2	1
qwerty123		Finland	2422	183	46	4	1	3
THAY3R	Thayer Rasmussen	Florida	22039	254	85	11	5	10
ImDaNuts	Chris Oliver	Florida	119550	309	98	10	6	6
RenRad 01	Mark Darner	Florida	108232	297	94	9	15	6
MagicDeal	Benjamin Pollak	France	5204	167	59	11	2	4
tilou4fun	Sebastien DeCamps	France	6666	174	70	4	5	2
Twicyyy	Florian Guimond	France	1999	23	7	0	1	1
jickgh_ty		Georgia(C)	27305	362	141	22	18	23
eka1976		Georgia(C)	18887	318	122	17	9	12
WatchOutSir		Georgia(S)	327	79	22	1	4	1
Freya		Germany	28878	425	206	42	33	29
dolmren		Germany	20815	461	181	31	21	27
Zyod		Germany	7336	348	77	23	9	8
Cashcid Linc	Mathias Maasberg	Germany	43980	304	98	13	3	5
CrownUpGuy	Fedor Holz	Germany	9991	174	56	13	3	3
philbort	Philipp Gruissem	Germany	6690	147	55	7	9	8
SonnyRamone		Germany	21910	198	65	6	2	4
26071985	Christoph Vogelsang	Germany	2283	88	38	2	1	0
Ron Jovi 7	Marvin Rettenmaier	Germany	3236	86	27	1	2	1
KingtylerQLB		Germany	3328	105	32	1	1	4
guns_n_fight		Greece	55185	690	326	88	46	75
mexican222	Alexandros Kolonias	Greece	3268	77	21	8	0	4
veruswelt	Nikos Veruswelt	Greece	21883	209	89	6	5	5
FkingFish1		Greece	7409	125	53	5	3	0
vikingdusud		Guadeloupe	14935	112	53	2	6	2
VictorRamdin	Victor Ramdin	Guyana	6760	291	85	11	11	8
ColaLee		Hong Kong	8976	57	12	1	1	0
omaha4rollz	Lazlo Bujtas	Hungary	107037	238	72	21	10	8
ImaLucSac	Dylan linde	Idaho	17081	235	66	9	3	6
odiggitydog	Bryan Oshea	Illinois	15275	121	44	3	2	2
arjun13		India	11385	103	45	1	1	3
VeeRarJun		India	2383	44	13	0	0	0
micon	Bryan Micon	Indiana	6490	336	114	24	15	13
DarkManoir		Indonesia	998	72	23	2	3	1
p_soosmar		Iran	9102	101	30	1	1	3
Treddan	Tadhg Reddan	Ireland	8542	357	128	17	26	17
scart888	Eoghan Ryan	Ireland	13327	258	70	14	9	8
JMCT-MONEY		Isle Of Man	6036	167	59	8	5	4
mwngky		Isle Of Man	2362	156	52	5	8	4
lordlucan		Isle Of Man	8468	219	50	0	3	2
vampirecharm		Israel	9008	259	134	33	29	14
CLUBwithNa1l	Valerio Parodo	Italy	36124	147	60	1	5	2
shinbunshi	Kosei Ichinose	Japan	84924	392	150	43	17	7
nkeyno	Naoya Kihara	Japan	45869	488	184	39	22	18
jp_legacy		Japan	30587	369	125	26	12	13
PWBratan		Kazakhstan	19883	151	60	8	4	4
Durrimar		Kazakhstan	6554	167	54	4	5	2
Dirkdaddy		Kentucky	1607	23	11	0	1	0
Kirimar		Kyrgyzstan	2679	27	15	2	1	0
zavor	Vitalijs Zavorotnijs	Latvia	15448	188	58	5	2	2
belv1992		Latvia	119707	40	28	5	0	2
hotmark777		Lebanon	10780	315	83	18	15	12
Dainiux		Lithuania	30755	621	250	51	39	32
Impetigo_666		Lithuania	34765	610	286	40	34	30
Kar0lka		Lithuania	49418	231	100	14	12	10
FeverGoesHigher		Luxembourg	6617	142	38	11	6	3
sazdo27		Macedonia	7144	47	21	0	1	0
kurt23x	Kurt Fitzgerald	Maine	80920	188	83	5	5	9
cleifur		Malaysia	3758	83	23	0	3	0
FerencL	Dave Spencer	Manitoba	5327	361	166	30	18	22
shakentoucan	Jesse Johnston	Manitoba	62098	280	87	9	6	4
halo599		Manitoba	48466	205	84	8	8	6
djk123	Daniel Kelly	Maryland	8900	245	75	17	7	7
w00ki3z.	Daniel Cates	Maryland	4106	72	13	4	3	1
charder30	Christian Harder	Maryland	4050	176	71	3	5	9
caecilius	Nick Petrangelo	Massachusetts	14739	220	70	2	3	2
magoFreston		Mexico	5701	206	72	21	15	6
dickkemp		Mexico	48160	216	92	11	14	5
grampabumkin		Michigan	46341	434	217	37	27	36
WhooooKidd	David Baker	Michigan	10067	295	106	26	20	19
AceQuad	Eric Brix	Minnesota	17602	636	276	63	33	32
oncommand	Brandon Meyers	Minnesota	10884	124	29	2	4	0
mig.com	James Mackey	Missouri	4233	88	34	1	3	4
NecroJack		Moldova	48628	310	108	33	23	10
VitAAliKK		Moldova	16428	186	66	22	9	7
Maverick 085		Moldova	26103	71	33	1	6	2
AMANA0311		Mongolia	8477	155	49	2	1	0
MathEngine		Mongolia	24991	70	32	0	2	1
gwproperties		Montana	13789	67	22	1	1	1
leonidus1988		Montenegro	86276	217	98	11	6	4
Maud Pie		Montenegro	2750	90	36	2	0	1
Avodistak		Morocco	8079	125	57	7	5	7
kejkuu		Mozambique	1608	32	9	2	0	1
langolierz		Nebraska	1507	83	34	5	1	2
Vingtcent	Vincent Van Der Fluit	Netherlands	37379	457	167	45	36	17
SM4RTASS		Netherlands	37178	398	136	25	17	15
Marcel Luske	Marcel Luske	Netherlands	2381	178	42	8	3	6
SvZff	Steven Van Zadelhoff	Netherlands	58721	245	85	6	10	5
Venividi1993	Dirk Gerritse	Netherlands	7054	61	18	5	5	1
montecarlo13	Govert Metaal	Netherlands	4623	124	31	1	3	2
TheDrunkLife	James Whittet	Nevada	119585	340	127	16	11	16
SJMags		New Brunswick	1952	71	25	1	5	0
jokernoumea		New Caledonia	24442	388	147	20	18	14
PokerSavage1	Charles Kassin	New Jersey	72439	322	126	27	20	19
highland	Timothy Finne	New Jersey	13915	446	158	24	18	22
Danny98765	Dan Smith	New Jersey	4796	173	57	13	3	6
kingsofcards	Tom Marchese	New Jersey	4194	190	78	3	10	7
Daut44	Ryan Daut	New Jersey	1420	70	22	0	5	1
floes	Joseph Serock	New Mexico	12519	273	96	21	9	10
shaniac	Shane Schleger	New York	23967	332	87	24	16	10
BrynKenney	Bryn Kenney	New York	41941	345	127	18	28	24
theczar19	Bryan Piccioli	New York	24437	227	84	6	8	2
Roothlus	Adam Levy	New York	12114	200	63	6	5	1
OBVAMENTS	Nicholas Kamen	New York	15185	175	58	6	4	5
stikit	David Plastik	New York	1514	173	49	2	7	4
shrewd crude	Michael Fleming	New Zealand	19250	439	144	35	12	17
DevolvedPlay		New Zealand	1806	86	27	2	2	0
Pesci Grandi		Newfoundland	5418	118	46	3	6	3
Tydenus		Nigeria	3579	32	6	0	0	0
PearlJammer	Jon Turner	North Carolina	37988	413	125	25	11	14
Big Huni	Chris Hunichen	North Carolina	27470	259	86	19	8	11
FU_15	Nick Maimone	North Carolina	54440	288	86	17	9	10
RandALLin	Randal Flowers	North Carolina	15361	211	64	8	4	6
psykurac		North Macedonia	11254	105	32	5	3	1
Chillolini	Andre Messmer	Norway	7722	522	201	50	41	26
DallasCorben		Norway	8910	499	162	42	22	19
CandyJohnson	Rudy Johnsen	Norway	36794	431	145	25	15	17
zenmaster666		Norway	37295	512	194	24	15	19
Odd_Oddsen	Ola Amundsgard	Norway	3068	201	67	12	6	8
Annette_15	Annette Obrestad	Norway	2299	97	35	2	4	2
madsamot	Mads Amot	Norway	3402	130	46	2	3	2
dav713		Ohio	6441	104	36	4	5	3
JP OSU	Jason Potter	Oklahoma	1481	110	35	7	2	3
7PRS	Septi Popescu	Ontario	16188	942	378	157	79	51
dynoalot	Alex Difelice	Ontario	60203	593	218	30	39	22
zangbezan24	Sorel Mizzi	Ontario	13117	313	77	29	19	10
JeanGrae	Aaron McCready	Ontario	116474	498	164	26	22	27
yawnkiss		Ontario	61310	320	116	20	14	7
lapozie	Matt Lapossie	Ontario	11711	295	92	12	11	9
Str8$$$Homey	Sam Greenwood	Ontario	10014	112	43	10	5	5
joshuah333	Joshua Herman	Ontario	9801	235	88	8	6	10
woodbine ave	Dan Scott	Ontario	2763	223	79	6	4	5
stevejpa	Steve Paul-Ambrose	Ontario	6214	113	42	3	4	3
Apotheosis92	Christopher Kruk	Ontario	1963	84	20	2	1	2
Octavian_C	Jordan Rich	Oregon	199335	312	135	32	12	8
ryu1so4anko		Oregon	18450	305	151	20	16	15
7CardRyon	Ryon Nicholson	Oregon	1051	145	56	8	14	6
kikesilvero	Pedro Silvero	Paraguay	28222	59	32	2	1	2
WiLDmAn75	Daniel Buzgon	Pennsylvania	5157	136	52	6	2	5
thechips55	Eric Wasserson	Pennsylvania	2831	125	45	6	2	5
dude904	Joseph McKeehen	Pennsylvania	6797	128	58	3	5	1
SHIPP ITT	Mark Herm	Pennsylvania	7190	142	46	3	4	5
darrenelias	Darren Elias	Pennsylvania	2834	118	36	2	6	2
alexiz91		Peru	15305	55	25	0	2	3
salisero		Philippines	141106	355	170	23	33	17
pokerqmaster		Poland	46870	741	307	87	54	55
cibor74		Poland	8650	69	27	2	4	3
RuiNF	Rui Ferreira	Portugal	57397	554	221	35	35	17
TonyGPT	Sergio Veloso	Portugal	49505	298	123	23	17	11
luis_faria	Luis Faria	Portugal	43645	226	90	17	7	7
Zagalo87	Pedro Zagalo	Portugal	39003	166	62	4	4	4
s-moi-m		Quebec	7339	270	117	30	10	14
cswidler	Carter Swidler	Quebec	28595	299	100	11	6	6
AchillesPQ		Quebec	14397	274	49	7	6	3
Pass_72	Pascal Lefrancois	Quebec	7025	140	61	3	2	4
IQ_Styl3		Romania	12069	214	84	10	6	2
a.S.e High	Tudor Purice	Romania	17982	190	65	8	5	4
kravm65	Robert Burlacu	Romania	23703	79	32	3	0	2
Premove	Andrei Skvortsov	Russia	102467	709	284	87	45	31
aDrENalin710	Denis Strebkov	Russia	13462	579	247	70	41	43
BOLTAnticvet		Russia	40310	607	260	60	42	42
Turok11-S		Russia	79277	530	268	56	28	24
Dart Serg		Russia	54482	579	226	52	57	28
Slavik_Krs	Viatcheslav Ortynski	Russia	13881	387	132	35	37	14
xBAPBAPx		Russia	45207	333	131	35	17	15
FAL1st		Russia	21835	293	137	28	17	11
Blazhko.V		Russia	21428	264	107	24	19	11
Zeus6669		Russia	62877	337	142	20	16	12
Kroko-dill	Andrey Zaichenko	Russia	6304	337	111	18	7	8
13win13		Russia	74839	403	191	15	7	16
gipsy74	Sergey Rybachenko	Russia	8202	348	117	14	13	22
-Rebus1980-	Gennadii Asafev	Russia	28923	403	148	12	16	14
NL_Profit	Anatoly Filatov	Russia	27651	217	81	11	5	4
2pacnrw16	Dietrich Fast	Russia	14840	175	56	10	7	2
Eu. Great		Russia	16657	122	58	6	9	5
Trueteller	Timofey Kuznetsov	Russia	7239	82	30	5	6	3
AuReki_AA		Russia	8664	194	63	5	3	2
VicBiggs		Saskatchewan	68441	114	57	1	2	4
Lefebvre1101	Daniel Lefebvre	Saskatchewan	8039	37	14	0	2	1
abs133		Saudi Arabia	778	121	34	10	3	1
davidv1213	David Vamplew	Scotland	17918	132	35	0	1	0
Jazzer32		Serbia	16315	306	110	11	10	6
BigLunchstar		Singapore	9386	115	51	3	1	4
Hadajktosom		Slovakia	23263	139	58	12	5	7
Ewamp		Slovakia	17392	137	28	6	1	2
pikeso	Peter Behun	Slovakia	22131	133	55	2	1	3
mrzu		Slovenia	23748	216	84	22	13	5
Zgaga	Damir Alidzanovic	Slovenia	8968	233	77	8	2	4
tinpot		South Africa	1295	85	27	1	1	1
inwooke		South Korea	16081	280	110	6	8	5
zcedrick	Sergio Aido	Spain	19900	189	67	7	4	9
Amadi_017	Andrian Mateos	Spain	9155	66	24	1	0	4
railerita	Soraya Estrada Gonzalez	Spain	5515	33	11	0	1	0
TUTI88	Hector Alvarez	Spain	2661	72	20	0	0	0
Lampid		Sweden	23334	352	154	29	13	14
C. Darwin2	Simon Mattsson	Sweden	35311	204	68	16	5	6
Perrymejsen	Jerry Odeen	Sweden	35232	282	98	9	11	7
baradavid		Sweden	55456	121	50	4	3	8
lindus	Linda Kinhult	Sweden	11781	293	66	1	3	4
HigLife90		Switzerland	134180	430	164	45	29	22
dpo18		Switzerland	15403	445	154	21	19	9
waltiph		Switzerland	48199	210	94	20	13	8
stahlbeton32	Tobias Wegmueller	Switzerland	34889	376	138	15	26	15
LLinusLLove	Linus Loeliger	Switzerland	4793	130	46	0	2	5
plplaya	Woody Deck	Tennessee	3674	359	114	15	20	6
dhilton12	David Hilton	Tennessee	118905	217	90	11	7	11
apestyles	Jon Van Fleet	Texas	22652	191	70	8	8	8
Callisto 5	Melanie Weisner	Texas	21757	160	54	3	8	4
gloria1986		Thailand	9241	249	111	24	18	14
joeisi		Trinidad & Tobago	29052	493	153	28	22	13
BoubaRex		Tunisia	12250	202	60	10	8	5
ozenc	Ozenc Demir	Turkey	59107	929	403	107	68	60
ildar0365		Turkmenistan	26635	231	74	3	8	7
solskjaer		UK	40162	665	255	72	51	20
$IERRA_TANGO		UK	22663	418	133	30	23	19
Raj Attack		UK	21463	367	164	15	22	21
dean_nolan1		UK	2928	79	19	2	0	1
AJSuited16		USA	51434	747	309	78	67	45
maxv2	Max Ludwig	USA	73595	167	78	14	9	2
FireGoblin	Michael Overstreet	USA	4498	111	49	10	8	5
SheaPoker		USA	2641	91	38	5	1	2
MrDennyCrane		USA	9589	93	31	2	4	1
P-Halt		USA	12258	183	50	2	1	0
hannyug		Uganda	58248	178	52	6	2	7
geroi truda		Ukraine	19851	321	111	11	15	7
Anjeyyy	Andrey Novak	Ukraine	54090	233	88	10	5	3
RomeOpro	Roman Romanovskyi	Ukraine	29385	132	43	2	2	2
zugzwang16	Rafael Porzecanski	Uruguay	58100	277	113	23	15	16
bananero17		Uruguay	83341	321	109	7	13	13
zorba567		Uruguay	9359	185	72	7	4	6
NightStarUz		Uzbekistan	17955	133	57	6	7	6
cabamuzic		Venezuela	13127	346	98	13	6	2
ghisbug	Minh Nguyen Quang	Vietnam	19818	120	50	5	4	3
Deeplone	Pham Bao	Vietnam	4354	174	44	4	1	2
kleath	Bjorn Kleathersson	Virginia	59413	282	96	13	3	7
BigRiskky	Scott Clements	Washington	13564	194	65	2	3	1
Titantom32	Tom Braband	Wisconsin	3759	117	33	3	5	0
surgeon2	Brian Kandler	Wisconsin	4540	80	33	3	3	0

So far, the reaction to my new pool has been underwhelming.
Looks like an easy $200 for someone.

The $200 will be transferred via PokerStars if you have an account.
Otherwise, we'll try and get you a US$200 gift certificate from Amazon.

To get the $200 your entry must be 100% correct and contain the answers to these 3 questions.
1) Which team will win the Championship Game?
2) Which team will lose the Championship Game?
3) Who will be the MVP of the Championship Game?

In addition you can add any number of players that you are sure will get at least 1 game MVP.

Winner is the entry that is 100% correct and has the longest list of MVP player names.

HINT: since you might be the only one to enter, don't bother with any additional MVP players!

Enter by PM or if you don't mind others knowing what your picks are, put it inline here.

Just to get things rolling I'll put in a pick for charity: The Canada-Ukraine Foundation who send aid to Ukraine.
I don't know any more about this than you do except the two games I ran while testing: Portugal beat Florida and Portugal beat Turkmenistan.

So here goes:
Winner of the Championship Game will be: Turkey
Loser of the Championship Game will be: Lithuania
MVP of the championship game will be: ozenc

additional MVP players:
ozenc (if I'm correct with my above picks, this has to be correct)
JeanGrae (obviously)
James Mackey (Missouri)
vampirecharm (Israel)
kikesilvero (Paraguay)
gloria1986 (Thailand)

Lets give everyone the weekend to get in their picks. Plus I'm busy on Monday.
So, midnight on Monday/Tuesday (EST) it is.
Good luck everyone (or anyone!).

Even the rules have rules

Actually this is pretty simple as fenrelc games go

Am i right that there is no "variance" in this game, that the same team will win and same guy mvp of you ran this same bracket every time?

Right.
I can run Ontario vs Costa Rica a million times and Ontario will win 117-101 every single time.

There is no trying to predict the future in this pool.
Everything has already happened.
If you wanted to, you could crunch the numbers yourself to see who the winner will be - however that's way too much work for $200. Better to just make an educated guess.

One more thing: in case of a tie, the tiebreaker will be the team with the better gold/silver/bronze medal count (average per player)

Already two entries and it's only Friday.
What would one of my pools be with a charity entry for Doctors Without Borders:

I'll just swap the Philippines for Turkey and salisero for ozenc

Winner of the Championship Game will be: Philippines
Loser of the Championship Game will be: Lithuania
MVP of the championship game will be: salisero

additional MVP players:
salisero (if I'm correct with my above picks, this has to be correct)
JeanGrae (obviously)
ozenc (Turkey)
James Mackey (Missouri)
vampirecharm (Israel)
kikesilvero (Paraguay)
gloria1986 (Thailand)

One more thing: Georgia(S) is the state of Georgia. Georgia(C) is the country of Georgia.

That question was on my mind.

Let's try and give away more money!

Any player who asked to be added via 2+2 will now be eligible for a $200 bonus.
What they must do: be an MVP in any game.

Only two players asked to be added and both made their team's starting roster:
"Cashcid Linc" team Germany (plays Slovakia in game #13)
"baradavid" team Sweden (plays France in game #18)

and of course they can also put in an entry too (possible $400 )

So far, only pwnsall and the 2 charity entries are in

Once again, my attempt to give away money is running into stiff non-competition!

Oh well,
Go pwnsall!
Go Doctors Without Borders!
Go Canada Ukraine Foundation!

big day in international sport coming up..............

Czechia plays USA on Tuesday!

Still on one 2+2er with any entry so let's give another charity a chance: Wikipedia

Winner of the Championship Game will be: Lithuania
Loser of the Championship Game will be: Turkey
MVP of the championship game will be: Impetigo_666

additional MVP players:
impetigo_666 (obviously)
salisero (Philippines)
JeanGrae (obviously)
ozenc (Turkey)
James Mackey (Missouri)
vampirecharm (Israel)
kikesilvero (Paraguay)
gloria1986 (Thailand)

Final day to get your entries in. Pool closes tonight at midnight EST.

Since I only have 1 entry (plus 3 charity entries) I'm making this not a $200 pool but a $200 GUARANTEE pool.

$200 goes to the entry with the most correct answers of the 3 mandatory questions.
1) team that will win the Championship Game
2) team that will lose the Championship Game
3) MVP of the Championship Game

If still tied:
most correct answers for the list of additional MVP players of any game

So, $200 guaranteed. Someone will win the $200.

Entries close tonight.

We have word that Martin Hrabec has already arrived for the match between his Team Czechia and Team USA.
Game is scheduled to commence right at midnight (as soon as entries close).

Only 4 hours to go and still just one entry from a 2+2er!

2+2ers abhorrence of free money is commendable but doesn't make for a very exciting pool.

So, as a final stop gap to make sure I get rid of $200, if there is no entry with even 1 correct answer, I will go on Bandcamp and purchase $200 worth of music from the country/state/province that wins the Championship.

I know that when this thing starts (in just 4 hours) people are gonna be kickin' themselves for not entering so do it now.

just 2 hours to get your entry in

30 minutes

Game Over: Czechia defeats USA 321-303 for +18
Martin Hruby was the MVP going 292-270 for +22

In round 2, Czechia will play Ontario

Game #3 completed

Mongolia defeated Minnesota 27-18
MathEngine was the MVP with a +9

England just squeaks past Morocco 93-91.


Adam Owen was MVP with a +5.
Rob Cowan is benched for the next match and Zimnan Ziyard is added.
Next game will be against Mongolia.

Croatia and Singapore have just played to a 1-1 tie.

They've played each other 9 times. 7 times they were both OOTM. Ivan Banic won 1. "BigLunchstar" won 1.
Tie break is the number of gold/silver/bronze. Ivan Banic has 6 gold. "BigLunchstar" has just 3.

The win goes to Croatia and Ivan Banic.

Tunisia and Washington have just played to a 0-0 tie.

Tunisia and Washington have never played against each other.
"Boubarex" has 10 gold. Scott Clements has just 2.
Tunisia wins the tie breaker.
They will play Croatia in the next round.