Predict World Cup results, win prizes!
Date published: 15 June 2010
Chronicle Cup Prediction League
How good are YOU at predicting the result of each game?
If you think you’re god enough enter the Chronicle’s World Cup Prediction League.
The winner gets a bumper prize package including:
:: A two-night stay with dinner, bed and breakfast and full leisure-facilities use for two people at the Park Hall Hotel in Chorley
(courtesy of Lavender Hotels);
:: A replica 1966 World Cup shirt signed by England’s hat-trick hero Sir Geoff Hurst;
(courtesy of Kitbag’s World Cup store on Market Street, Manchester).
:: And a Piazza outdoor decorative fire
(from Garden Style Direct).
The competition will be split into four separate weeks — June 11-20 inclusive; June 21-27; June 28-July 4 and July 5-11.
Whoever is top of the league at the end of each week will go into the big draw, with the overall winner drawn out of a hat.
The winners of each week will receive a great prize courtesy of Norfolkline — a ferry crossing to Ireland for a car and up to four people.
It’s FREE, you DON’T have to register and there are NO age restrictions
If you miss a score prediction, it doesn’t matter; everything comes down to how many points you can collect in the week.
fixtures
SCORE predictions for tomorrow’s World Cup
Fixtures must arrive no later than NOON tomorrow.
Forecasts for Thursday’s games must be submitted by NOON on Thursday.
See below for email address and text line number.
TOMORROW
Group ‘H’: Honduras v Chile; Spain v Switzerland.
Group ‘A’: South Africa v Uruguay.
THURSDAY
GROUP ‘A’: France v Mexico.
Group ‘B’: Argentina v South Korea; Greece v Nigeria.
Leading positions
ROYTON’S Paul Watt continues to set a hot pace in the Oldham Evening Chronicle World Cup Prediction League.
He added seven points to his tally in yesterday’s three fixtures, and leads from Philip Mayall.
There is quite a battle going on in behind, with Paul Dixon, John Ockerby, Elizabeth Moore, Anthony Park and Andy Leonard separated by just a point.
TEAM and POINTS
Major lafs, 28
Bolkalion, 21
PDwas5in66, 19
ockers, 19
J.J.s teams, 18
MAGICANT, 18
Leocity, 18
CHURCHY, 16
Gingerboy, 16
Lees&HeyA, 15
GeorgieBoy, 14
hurst66 ,13
RoyalBlue, 12
JAXTEAM, 12
Ball fc ,12
RULES
1, Only one entry per person allowed.
2, Each entrant must supply a team name (10 characters or fewer).
3, One set of score predictions per entry.
4, Scoring: two points for correct result; five for correct score.
5, Score predictions from the group stages right through to the final must arrive by email by NOON on the day of the matches. Late forecasts will be void.
Updated standings will be published every day in the Oldham Evening Chronicle.
Each entrant must supply his/her full name and daytime telephone number.
PROVIDE your prediction entry by emailing worldcup@oldham-chronicle.co.uk or text 60066 and start your text ‘OEC’ before leaving scores and name details as above.
Employees of Hirst, Kidd and Rennie Ltd and their relatives are not eligible to enter.
The Oldham Evening Chronicle is not responsible for the prize or any part of it.
In the event of a dispute, the organisers will have the final say.
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