Tipster competition - Round 3

[Lone Shark]

Hey folks, I must apologise for being a little caught on the hop here - our usual source of fixtures didn't materialise this week, so I'm assuming that the fixtures posted on offaly.gaa.ie are actually correct and going ahead - and so the tipping competition does too.

For the record, here's the lie of the land so far.

14 Fullback, Ballymanabroad
13 Doon Massive
11 flatcap, minor
9 harperj, the rat, sparklin
8 HairyHole, Seán Boyle Ó Rathallaigh, Hyper
7 Bogman, True Red, mykneehurts
6 putupthatscore, Pool Shark
5 Treasurer, Percy Sledgehammer, themanfromFerbane
4 Lone Shark
3 Bord na Mona Man
2 Laois GAA
1 Turfbag, smjovaly

Regarding play, it's very simple - I'll explain again because we have a lot of new registrations. Every senior football and hurling championship match in Offaly is part of the contest. The fixtures are posted, and you get 2pts for picking the winner, or 5 points for correctly tipping a draw. in the instances where one team is clear favourite, I will mark the match as Favourite vs underdog - an (F) beside the team denoting favouritism and (U) denoting underdog. For these games, you get 1 point for correctly tipping the favourite or 3 points for correctly tipping the underdog. My judgement mightn't always be spot on, but I'll do my best anyway.

Anyone is welcome to join in, because there may or may not be prizes but sure tis all for the hell of it anyway. I'm going to also put in two survey questions at the bottom of the fixtures this week, so if everyone could answer them as well that would be great. Thanks.

All games are hurling:

Fri, 7.30 - Birr (F) vs Drumcullen (U)
Sat, 7.30 - Kinnitty vs Seir Kieran
Sat 7.30 - Belmont vs Shamrocks
Sun 2.00 - Lusmagh (F) vs Killavilla (U)
Sun 3.30 - Coolderry (F) vs Shinrone (U)
Sun 6.00 - Ballyskenagh vs Kilcormac/Killoughey

Survey questions

Do you want an email update when extra fixtures are posted in this?
Should we have double scores for the knockout games due to their increased importance and to keep it alive?

[Lone Shark]

Fri, 7.30 - Birr (F) vs Drumcullen (U) Birr
Sat, 7.30 - Kinnitty vs Seir Kieran Kinnitty
Sat 7.30 - Belmont vs Shamrocks Belmont
Sun 2.00 - Lusmagh (F) vs Killavilla (U) Lusmagh
Sun 3.30 - Coolderry (F) vs Shinrone (U) Shinrone
Sun 6.00 - Ballyskenagh vs Kilcormac/Killoughey Kilcormac/Killoughey

Due to my being involved I'm skipping the survey questions, but if ye could answer them that would be great. [/b]

[Flatcap]

about time we had some hurling to sort ye bies out.

Fri, 7.30 - Birr (F) vs Drumcullen (U) - birr
Sat, 7.30 - Kinnitty vs Seir Kieran - clareen
Sat 7.30 - Belmont vs Shamrocks - belmont
Sun 2.00 - Lusmagh (F) vs Killavilla (U) - draw
Sun 3.30 - Coolderry (F) vs Shinrone (U) - coolderry
Sun 6.00 - Ballyskenagh vs Kilcormac/Killoughey - kilcormac

an email would be handy all right.
no opinion on the other.

[Turfbag]

Fri, 7.30 - Birr (F) vs Drumcullen (U) birr
Sat, 7.30 - Kinnitty vs Seir Kieran Seir Kieran
Sat 7.30 - Belmont vs Shamrocks belmont
Sun 2.00 - Lusmagh (F) vs Killavilla (U) lusmagh
Sun 3.30 - Coolderry (F) vs Shinrone (U) Coolderry
Sun 6.00 - Ballyskenagh vs Kilcormac/Killoughey Kilcormac/Killoughey

[Fullback]

Fri, 7.30 - Birr (F) vs Drumcullen (U) Birr
Sat, 7.30 - Kinnitty vs Seir Kieran Kinnitty
Sat 7.30 - Belmont vs Shamrocks Belmont
Sun 2.00 - Lusmagh (F) vs Killavilla (U) Lusmagh
Sun 3.30 - Coolderry (F) vs Shinrone (U) Coolderry
Sun 6.00 - Ballyskenagh vs Kilcormac/Killoughey Ballyskenach

[the rat]

Birr
Kinnity
Shamrocks
Lusmagh
Coolderry
Kilcormac/Killoughey

[True Red]

Not from the hurling end of the county but here goes;

Birr
Kinnitty vs Seir Kieran Draw
Shamrocks
Lusmagh
Coolderry
Ballyskenagh

[The Biff]

(I meant to enter these Tipsters comps but missed the start. better late than never). These are all pure guesses though.

Birr (F) vs Drumcullen (U) - Birr
Kinnitty vs Seir Kieran - Seir Kieran
Belmont vs Shamrocks - Draw
Lusmagh (F) vs Killavilla (U) - Lusmagh
Coolderry (F) vs Shinrone (U) - Coolderry
Ballyskenagh vs Kilcormac/Killoughey - K/K

Survey questions

Do you want an email update when extra fixtures are posted in this? No need, easy to check here.

Should we have double scores for the knockout games due to their increased importance and to keep it alive? Good idea to help shake the compo up at the closing stages.

[harperj]

Fri, 7.30 - Birr (F) vs Drumcullen (U) - birr
Sat, 7.30 - Kinnitty vs Seir Kieran - Seir Kieran
Sat 7.30 - Belmont vs Shamrocks - Shamrocks
Sun 2.00 - Lusmagh (F) vs Killavilla (U) - Lusmagh
Sun 3.30 - Coolderry (F) vs Shinrone (U) - coolderry
Sun 6.00 - Ballyskenagh vs Kilcormac/Killoughey - kilcormac/Killoughey

[Treasurer]

Fri, 7.30 - Birr (F) vs Drumcullen (U) Birr
Sat, 7.30 - Kinnitty vs Seir Kieran Clareen
Sat 7.30 - Belmont vs Shamrocks Belmont
Sun 2.00 - Lusmagh (F) vs Killavilla (U) Lusmagh
Sun 3.30 - Coolderry (F) vs Shinrone (U) Coolderry
Sun 6.00 - Ballyskenagh vs Kilcormac/Killoughey Ballyskenagh

[ballymanabroad]

Ah feck, the small ball game. Wheres me hat and lottery tickets?

Birr
Seir Kieran
Shamrocks
Draw
Coolderry
K/K (the boys in Kiloughey would have your head if you called it just Kilcormac)

1-Yeah, send an email cos I dont get to check up each day.

2-Absolutely.

[turk]

what's all this lads!

[Percy Sledgehammer]

Fri, 7.30 - Birr (F) vs Drumcullen (U) Birr
Sat, 7.30 - Kinnitty vs Seir Kieran Kinnitty
Sat 7.30 - Belmont vs Shamrocks Belmont
Sun 2.00 - Lusmagh (F) vs Killavilla (U) Lusmagh
Sun 3.30 - Coolderry (F) vs Shinrone (U) Coolderry
Sun 6.00 - Ballyskenagh vs Kilcormac/Killoughey Draw

An email would be good, and certainly I'd agree with doubling the points later.

[Lone Shark]

what's all this lads!

Tis a tipping competition we started with the senior county championship - if you go back on the threads you'll see we've run it every week there's been senior championship matches. All for the glamour you understand.

The scoring system is above, and the idea is that we keep a running total of everyone. Football and hurling are both included, to stop lazy people entering in just one or the other.

It started here if you want to have a look at the origination.

And as you can see from some of our abysmal performances, a solid mid table finish is still obtainable even from this late start.

[Bord na Mona man]

Fri, 7.30 - Birr (F) vs Drumcullen (U) Birr
Sat, 7.30 - Kinnitty vs Seir Kieran Kinnitty
Sat 7.30 - Belmont vs Shamrocks Belmont
Sun 2.00 - Lusmagh (F) vs Killavilla (U) Killavilla
Sun 3.30 - Coolderry (F) vs Shinrone (U) Coolderry
Sun 6.00 - Ballyskenagh vs Kilcormac/Killoughey Ballyskenagh