In a rally that saw most of the stars retire, scores were very low. With everyone getting 10 from Loeb, the average was still only 18.6, the lowest of the season by quite a margin. Makarias came out the winner with Moanaman and IMHO each scoring their third consecutive podium finish. For the championship this means we head into the final round with IMHO the leader. Makarias is 5 behind, while Schuting still has a chance at 12 behind.
Please be advised the rally starts Thursday evening Australian time! That's Thursday morning European time.
Awarding points for each guess gives the following expected result:
1. Loeb 80 (20.51%)
2. Gronholm 54 (13.85%)
3. Solberg 52 (13.33%)
4. Gardemeister 39 (10%)
5. Sarrazin 25 (6.41%)
6. Duval 24 (6.15%)
7. Galli 15 (3.85%)
8. Rovanpera 9 (2.31%)
9. Kresta 7 (1.79%)
10. Sola 4 (1.03%)
11. Pons 2 (0.51%)
12. Bernardi 1 (0.26%)
Results:
1. Makarias (10/6/0/0/6/6/0/0) 28
2. Moanaman (10/0/0/4/8/0/0/0) 22
B. LazyBot (10/4/0/0/6/0/0/0) 20
3. IMHO (10/10/0/0/0/0/0/0) 20
4. Jimmino (10/3/0/0/5/0/0/0) 18
=. Ric Bol (10/3/0/0/5/0/0/0) 18
6. dnbn (10/6/0/0/0/0/0/0) 16
7. Marcel Schot (10/0/0/4/0/0/0/0) 14
B. AverageBot (10/4/0/0/0/0/0/0) 14
8. Schuting Star (10/3/0/0/0/0/0/0) 13
Points scored per driver:
1. Loeb 100
2. Duval 39
3. Kresta 30
4. Pons 8
5. Bernardi 6
6. Warmbold 0
=. Kopecky 0
=. Hirvonen 0
Overall standings after 14/15 rounds:
B. AverageBot 639
1. IMHO 619
2. Makarias 614
3. Schuting Star 607
4. dnbn 582
5. Ric Bol 578
=. Marcel Schot 578
7. StickShift 567 *
8. Moanaman 565
B. LazyBot 541
9. Jimmino 489 *
10. KWSN - DSM 447 *
11. mikko-ville 437 *
12. LB 421 *
13. race addicted 377 *
14. TT6 265 *
15. arcsine 226 *
16. Apex 165 *
17. TheKanisteri 144 *
18. D82 119 *
19. babbel 95 *
20. Ickx 25 *
21. FordFan 23 *
* = did not compete in all rounds
The bots
We have 2 bots playing with us. LazyBot guesses the current championship standings, taking into account only those drivers who are entered into the rally. AverageBot guesses the average guess of all participants, as shown above.
Rules
The rules are fairly simple. All you have to do is predict the top 8 for the upcoming rally in the simple format of
your username/dvr1/dvr2/dvr3/dvr4/dvr5/dvr6/dvr7/dvr8
Scoring is done on a 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis.
10 points scored if your driver finishes in the position predicted, 8 points if your selection finishes 1 place away (i.e. 1st or 3rd when you said second), all the way down to 1 point if your selection finishes 7 places away. No points will be awarded if your selection finishes outside the points positions or if he retires from the rally.
A 20 point bonus will be awarded if you get them all correct, so you can in theory score 100 in each round.
Results will be posted at the end of each rally as soon as possible (can be an hour, can be 2 days, depending on whether I'm near a computer).
Entries must be in before the start of the first stage of the rally.
Australia
Post your entries below. The rally starts on Thursday, November 10, 2005 at 18:13 local time (GMT+9).
Entry list
