Event 1

To start off year 4 of the SeegerOlympics joel selected a throwback to the first ever SeegerOlympic event. Predicting the winner of the U.S. / Czech Republic World Cup match, the final score and the first U.S. goal scorer. Sadly, every one of us chose the U.S. to win (though joel did predict a tie until the last moment, when he changed his prediction). At first, the points seemed to have gone to Brooke, who predicted a 1-0 win for the U.S. Eventually though, it was realized that there was a 4-way tie for the winner, being a total of 4-goals off for the winner. Although the decision is still a bit under discussion, the discrepancy is due to the fact that there was no terribly clear difference on the first tiebreaker. In one sense, brooke's 1-0 prediction gives the U.S. a 1 goal spread, whereas the game ended up 3-0 against the U.S., so in the end brooke's score would have been only 4 goals off (-1 + 3). On the other hand, though, the U.S. scored 1 goal & Czech Republic 3, so brooke was 1 off for the U.S. & 3 off for Czech Republic. Several competitors chose a final score of 2-1, which were 2 off for the U.S. & 2 off for the Czech Republic, both amounting to a total of 4 goals off in their prediction. Anyway, pending the dispute, no points were awarded in the first event of the Year 4 SeegerOlympics.

How boring.