The combination of Ferrari current "Wacky Races" mode, unstable weather, funny/puny regulations and unexpected perfomances by some teams is making this game more difficult than drive a Mercedes in Le Mans without flipping it.
Making a quick resume of the guesses set, almost all the votes went to MS (33 out of 43, 77%), KR (24, 56%), RB (22, 51%), DC (21, 49%) and JPM (20, 47%). And very far away were some votes for RS, MW, JVE(Jos), JT and JW(!).
Some interesting facts from there: MS goes on being the main fav , but his popularity is decreasing, Kimi is already the second best bet in F1, Rubinho is recognised as a decent bet , nevertheless Williams not great competitivity, Montoya goes being a major player . Interestingly, Ralph only get 4 paltry guesses, there is so much difference between those two? Also interesting is Renault just got one guess (and for Trulli). I suppose after this race the french cars are going to get more support .
Ferrari was considered the best team to bet for: 57 guesses, seconded by Mac (45) and then Williams (24), and the rest at an abysmal distance.
Well, it's embarrasing but... MAX won this round (because he guesses automaticly after the previous race has ended), but other 6 players got the same amount of 3 points: LB, kismet, TT6, RicBol, Apex, sek and... Schummy
There were so many "disasters" that it is not worthy to point out them ... except it is remarkable to see Estwald and SeanValen there with 0 points
Results for this round is:
name Total =================== MAX 3 LB 3 kismet 3 TT6 3 RicBol 3 Apex 3 sek 3 Schummy 3 JForce 2 DeathMasteR 2 fisichella_2001 2 wioyet 2 Sammyed 1 Jimmino 1 shays 1 dinamyte7 1 gerrynassar 1 Bjorn 1 nichotj 1 garth_b 1 NastyMcBastard 1 Pioneer 1 Tumppi@BXL 1 SchutingStar 1 Estwald 0 Zawed 0 lukywill 0 KWSNDSM 0 Viss1 0 CaptnMark 0 joachimvanwing 0 QdFV 0 jun 0 dbltop 0 rich42 0 asterix 0 Ghostrider 0 Makarias 0 SeanValen 0 TheRedBaron 0 philhitchings 0 OnlyMassa 0 BERNIE 0 ===================
With two rounds completed kismet and TT6 are the leaders. Congratulations! LB and RicBo l are not far from them
Remember that ties are resolved according to the previous round's ranking. Having just two rounds there are unresolved ties and I simply has sorted them by names, but names is not an official "criterion".
Total ranking is:
Name M B T ==================== kismet 4 3 7 TT6 4 3 7 LB 3 3 6 RicBol 3 3 6 DeathMasteR 3 2 5 fisichella 3 2 5 Schummy 2 3 5 sek 2 3 5 garth_b 3 1 4 Pioneer 3 1 4 MAX 1 3 4 Apex * 3 3 AD 3 * 3 Ghostrider 3 0 3 jangkrik 3 * 3 jun 3 0 3 rich42 3 0 3 titrisol 3 * 3 Viss1 3 0 3 Bjorn 2 1 3 dynamite7 2 1 3 Jimino 2 1 3 NastyMcBastard 2 1 3 SchutingStar 2 1 3 Shays 2 1 3 JForce 1 2 3 Estwald 2 0 2 Makarias 2 0 2 QdfV 2 0 2 SeanValen 2 0 2 Zawed 2 0 2 gerrynassar 1 1 2 Sammyed 1 1 2 wioyet 0 2 2 Tumppi@BXL * 1 1 axterix 1 0 1 BERNIE 1 0 1 CaptnMark 1 0 1 dbltop 1 0 1 KWSNDSM 1 0 1 PAULF1 1 * 1 thegreatone 1 * 1 WillieF1 1 * 1 nichotj 0 1 1 joachimvanwing * 0 0 OnlyMassa * 0 0 philhitchings * 0 0 TheRedBaron * 0 0 boost 0 * 0 HiTest 0 * 0 lukywill 0 0 0 =====================
Definitively I will not use any system to give points for missed rounds (it will not get any points!), but in case of absolute tie, I will prefer a "miss" over a "zero point"
We will meet in Imola (well, virtually). Just by now this game is being mostly surprising ... I am even beginning to think the unthinkable ... I cannot even articulate it now... more next time ;)