Brazil tipped as hot favourites by participants in DUB football pool

Tension is mounting across the world with just a few more days to go before the Football World Cup in South Africa kick offs. So there is precious little time left to predict how the tournament will unfold and take part in our in-house football pool for the FIFA World Cup – called the DUB WK-POOL! The preliminary consensus among UU’s football experts is that Brazil is the team to beat, while South Africa and South Korea are being seen as dangerous outsiders. Expectations about the Netherlands are more modest. Another widely shared opinion among the football-pool participants is that Honduras, Slovenia and Ghana are in for a very rough time. All told, 64 football matches will be played in South Africa between 11 June and 11 July. But unlike many other football-pool organizers, DUB will not be saddling you with the daunting task of predicting the results of all games. Nope. The DUB WK-POOL wants this whole football fest to be fun and is taking a more relaxed approach. You and your friends or colleagues will be able to form a team and predict which five countries (one for each continent) will be the top performers and which five ones (again, one for each continent) will come to grief. Then it is time for you to sit back, put up your feet and enjoy the proceedings on TV and on www.dub.uu.nl, which will make your sublime powers of prediction visible to your fellow students and employees. You now not only have the chance to reach dizzying heights in football punditry with the all university-wide acclaim that this will bring, but can also win a few attractive prizes made available by the DUB editorial staff. The football-pool winners will receive tickets for a competition match involving the local football club FC Utrecht. Moreover, the runners-up will get a signed copy of Voetbalgek (Football-Mad) by UU philosopher Jan Vorstenbosch. And the football-pool team coming in last will be able to pick up two copies of the book Africa United , courtesy of Royal Tropical Institute’s publishing unit. EH / XBRULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE DUB WK-POOL1) Participation in the DUB WK-POOL (DUB FOOTBALL WORLD CUP POOL) is only open to groups of UU employees and/or UU students. Examples are teams, societies of same-year graduates, groups living in the same student accommodation, debating societies, departments, societies, faculty boards, secretariats, committees, councils, mixed-double teams and any other group of two or more people who have a formal or informal connection with each other. Each team will appoint a captain charged with keeping in touch with the DUB editorial staff.2) How points will be awarded: A match won by one of your favourite teams will earn you three points, while a draw will be good for one point. On top of that, you will get a point for every goal scored by one of your favourite teams. Goals scored in extra time (the extra 30 minutes, made up of two 15-minute periods, added to settle a match having ended in a draw) will count as well. But goals scored as part of a penalty shootout (the penalties shot after extra time) will be invalid.A match won by one of your designated teams of losers will cost you three points, while a draw will set you back one point. Additionally, you will lose a point for every goal scored by one of your teams of losers. A goal scored in extra time will cost you a point, too. However, goals scored as part of the penalty shootout will be invalid.3) The winners will be the team having gained most points after the final on 11 July. If two or more teams share the top spot (so they have won the same number of points), the winning team will then be decided by drawing a lot.4) Until 10 June, you can email your list of five favourite teams and five teams of losers toredactie@dub.uu.nl. Please include in your message, the name of the team, a brief description of the team, the name of the captain, plus his or her email address and phone number.

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on 07/06/2010

Tension is mounting across the world with just a few more days to go before the Football World Cup in South Africa kick offs. So there is precious little time left to predict how the tournament will unfold and take part in our in-house football pool for the FIFA World Cup – called the DUB WK-POOL! The preliminary consensus among UU’s football experts is that Brazil is the team to beat, while South Africa and South Korea are being seen as dangerous outsiders. Expectations about the Netherlands are more modest. Another widely shared opinion among the football-pool participants is that Honduras, Slovenia and Ghana are in for a very rough time.

All told, 64 football matches will be played in South Africa between 11 June and 11 July. But unlike many other football-pool organizers, DUB will not be saddling you with the daunting task of predicting the results of all games. Nope. The DUB WK-POOL wants this whole football fest to be fun and is taking a more relaxed approach.

You and your friends or colleagues will be able to form a team and predict which five countries (one for each continent) will be the top performers and which five ones (again, one for each continent) will come to grief. Then it is time for you to sit back, put up your feet and enjoy the proceedings on TV and on www.dub.uu.nl, which will make your sublime powers of prediction visible to your fellow students and employees.

You now not only have the chance to reach dizzying heights in football punditry with the all university-wide acclaim that this will bring, but can also win a few attractive prizes made available by the DUB editorial staff. The football-pool winners will receive tickets for a competition match involving the local football club FC Utrecht. Moreover, the runners-up will get a signed copy of Voetbalgek (Football-Mad) by UU philosopher Jan Vorstenbosch. And the football-pool team coming in last will be able to pick up two copies of the book Africa United , courtesy of Royal Tropical Institute’s publishing unit.

EH / XB

RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE DUB WK-POOL

1) Participation in the DUB WK-POOL (DUB FOOTBALL WORLD CUP POOL) is only open to groups of UU employees and/or UU students. Examples are teams, societies of same-year graduates, groups living in the same student accommodation, debating societies, departments, societies, faculty boards, secretariats, committees, councils, mixed-double teams and any other group of two or more people who have a formal or informal connection with each other. Each team will appoint a captain charged with keeping in touch with the DUB editorial staff.

2) How points will be awarded: A match won by one of your favourite teams will earn you three points, while a draw will be good for one point. On top of that, you will get a point for every goal scored by one of your favourite teams. Goals scored in extra time (the extra 30 minutes, made up of two 15-minute periods, added to settle a match having ended in a draw) will count as well. But goals scored as part of a penalty shootout (the penalties shot after extra time) will be invalid.

A match won by one of your designated teams of losers will cost you three points, while a draw will set you back one point. Additionally, you will lose a point for every goal scored by one of your teams of losers. A goal scored in extra time will cost you a point, too. However, goals scored as part of the penalty shootout will be invalid.

3) The winners will be the team having gained most points after the final on 11 July. If two or more teams share the top spot (so they have won the same number of points), the winning team will then be decided by drawing a lot.

4) Until 10 June, you can email your list of five favourite teams and five teams of losers toredactie@dub.uu.nl. Please include in your message, the name of the team, a brief description of the team, the name of the captain, plus his or her email address and phone number.

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