Are you UU’s top football expert? Walk the talk and join our DUB football pool for the World Cup!
Monday 14 June will be one of those special days for the football-mad Dutch. At 1.30 a.m. Dutch time, the national football (soccer) squad will launch a fresh campaign to bring home the much-coveted Football World Cup. The whole country will then grind to a halt to watch the Dutch football stars putting their best foot forward in South Africa. Will they finally pull it off or fare little better than, say, Honduras? DUB is inviting all university staff and students to demonstrate their expertise in football matters and take part in our in-house football pool for the FIFA World Cup in South Africa – called the DUB WK-POOL!
The period between 11 June and 11 July will see a total of 64 matches being played in South Africa. The idea is that you, your friends or colleagues will form a team and predict which five countries (one for each continent) will perform best in South Africa and which ones will do most poorly. So assume the role of armchair expert and follow the daily action on www.dub.uu.nl. Here you will able to see how much more foresight you have brought to bear than your fellow administrators, employees or students.
Although taking part is more important than winning, and the honour of being crowned as the university’s top-ranking football pundit is nothing to be sniffed at, the editorial staff of DUB has also made available, an attractive prize for the best team of football experts, namely tickets for a competition match involving the local football club FC Utrecht.
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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 to redactie@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.
Please read the full rules and regulation on www.dub.uu.nl/english.