Admin's 2 picks - 80 minutes left!

Just over 80 minutes left to submit your entry to our HWCI EURO Pool.  In the meantime, feel free to laugh at my picks as I'll see another $20 go down the drain!  At least I'm not at a State of Emergency, though did anyone feel the earthquake last night in SoCal?

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I've been busy all this month but will try to check your entries later today (in case you accidentally listed France as 1A and 2A, for example).  Thanks and good luck!

Foster's Football Brew #1 (6/7) - Round 1

Foster’s Football Brew

Round 1

June 7, 2016

It’s summertime, and that means a flurry of international soccer once again!  In this first issue of Foster’s Football Brew, I will give some predictions and previews of the EURO 2016.  But first, I explore a curiosity:  Are games in the World Cup the most exciting in international soccer?  My inclination is to argue no, but do I have evidence to back such a claim?

The majority of the first round games in the Copa America Centenario featured cross-conference matchups between CONCACAF and CONMEBOL teams.  There were only three high-level, hotly contested matches, in my opinion: Mexico vs. Uruguay, Brasil vs. Ecuador, and Argentina vs. Chile.  Two of those three are matches within the same conference.   Now take the USA vs. Costa Rica game and subsequent Colombia vs. Paraguay game: both are

Online Web Entry now available!

Well, please let me know if you see any errors. You can now enter online!  Again, the EURO expanded to 24 teams (from 16) and works like the Women's World Cup last year -- the top 2 teams in each of the six groups plus the top 4 3rd place finishers.  So just be careful choosing the teams in the Round of 16 bracket (don't worry, I'll be checking if you accidentally list France twice, for example).  Also, it doesn't matter how you pick the round robin matches when you fill out your Round of 16 bracket (so if you're a homer, and pick Albania to win all three matches, you don't have to have them in your Round of 16 bracket so you don't lose more points!).

Remember, the deadline is this Friday at Noon (PDT)!  I plan to be at the Rose Bowl for Copa America on Thursday (tentative Tuesday) and the Galaxy match on June 22 if you want to pay me directly.  Otherwise, use the options on the confirmation page (e.g., PayPal, mail, Google Wallet).  As always, $10 per entry and up to 3 entries per person.

If you want to change your picks or if you made a mistake, submit another entry (select from the drop-down box "Update and Existing Entry" instead of "New Entry") or let me know and I can make the simple change for you.