HP fans bet on World Cup 2010

FIFA Women's World Cup -- Bets on individual matches

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:23:14 GMT

In less than 48 hours, the first match of the Women's World Cup will start, and I just posted the bets on the first two individual matches on hp_footballbets.

To participate in this part of the game, you don't have to bet a ficlet/drabble. Just fill out the polls. One point for each correct guess. We'll close each poll when the particular match starts and accumulate the points after the final. The winner(s) will receive a lovely banner for her profile page.

Please join us at hp_footballbets!

(And don't forget the the betting pool on the Women's World Champion! You have two more days to bet a drabble!)

Have fun!

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FIFA Women's World Cup

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:14:44 GMT

Another year, another great football event. This year, we celebrate the FIFA Women's World Cup. Since we had so much fun with the boys last year, tetleythesecond and I thought that surely the girls will be even more fun.

We created hp_footballbets and invite you to another round of our drabble betting game. Please come over and join the fun:

FIFA WOMEN'S WORLD CUP

banner by the_winterwitch

[Rules & Guidelines] * [Bets]

To help promote hp_footballbets, please copy the code and post it to your journal:

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Ficlet: "Stubborn Creatures" (Grubbly-Plank/McGonagall, for kelly_chambliss)

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:11:24 GMT

Recipient: kelly_chambliss
Title: Stubborn Creatures
Author: miss_morland
Pairing/Character(s): Minerva McGonagall/Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank
Prompt: Option A: Choose any story of [Kelly's] and write a sequel/prequel/missing scene/different ending
Word Count: 787
Rating: G/PG
Warning(s): Unbetaed (feel free to point out any errors)
Summary: Sometimes all you have to do is wait.
Author's Notes: This is a sequel to Kelly's story "Still Waters", although it's considerably shorter. I may have made it too easy for myself with the resolution here, but hey -- it's just fanfic! (Of course, I still hope you'll like it, K.)

( She was here now, and there was no getting out of it. )

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Debt paid: Expect Full Success

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:57:51 GMT

Recipient: tetleythesecond
Title: Expect Full Success
Author: Vane
Character: Septima Vector
Prompt: The character and his or her dog.
Word Count: ~1,165
Rating: PG
Warning(s): (Highlight to read) Implied animal suffering.
Summary: Septima had always used Arithmancy to control most aspects of her dog's life. Now she uses the charts to try to save him.
Author's Notes: Story written for tetleythesecond, to pay a debt of honour at hp_worldcup_bets. Many thanks, flowers and hugs to my lovely betas curia_regis and thamy! All remaining mistakes are mine.

( Expect Full Success )

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Paying my debt: Hoyotoho!

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:49:39 GMT

Recipient: tetleythesecond
Title: Hoyotoho!
Author: pale_moonlite
Characters: Amelia Bones, Minerva McGonagall, Rolanda Hooch
Prompt: Opera
Word Count: 1,189
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: There wasn't time enough to get this beta'd (and it was supposed to be less than 500 words anyway). So if you spot any glaring mistakes, please give me a holler.
Summary: Amelia and Minerva visit the Bayreuth wizarding festival theatre to see a production of Wagner's Die Walküre.
Author's Notes: Dear Tetley, I let you know that it was completely the fault of your fascinating prompt that I nearly missed the deadline. Imagining wizarding productions of The Ring was simply too much fun, and not just a little bit distracting. Congratulations on winning the pool, and I hope you enjoy your prize!

( Hoyotoho! )

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Another debt paid

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:21:49 GMT

Recipient: kelly_chambliss
Title: The Line of Duty

Author: queen_of_snapes
Pairing/Character(s): McGonagall/Snape
Prompt: Fancy meeting you here
Word Count: 501
Rating: G
Warning(s): None, really.
Summary: Two people bumping into each other at night.

Author's Notes: This scene has been in my mind for quite a while, but I found it extremely difficult to write down. Hope you like it, Kelly! Congrats to you and Tetley!

( The Line of Duty )

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Drabble for kelly_chambliss: Dark Owl (Minerva/Amelia)

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:21:02 GMT

Recipient: kelly_chambliss
Title: Dark Owl
Author: bendleshnitz1 / bendleshnitz1
Pairing/Character(s): Minerva McGonagall/Amelia Bones
Prompt: A letter
Word Count: 322
Rating: G
Warning(s): Character death. Canon. Suggested femmeslash.
Summary: Minerva founds out about Amelia's death (could be considered a missing moment from HBP).
Author's Notes: I've only written McGonagall once before and it was almost a year ago. Hope it's not as bad as I think it is. And I had a blast participating in the community! It made the World Cup more exciting than it already is ;) Also, many thanks to my awesome beta, tania_sings

( Dark Owl )

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Queueing up for the dept-paying

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:02:46 GMT

Recipient: tetleythesecond , though it would have worked well enough for kelly_chambliss , too - I'm lucky to have a pairing both like!
Title: The Bet
Author: Alcina vom Steinsberg /winterwitch / the_winterwitch
Pairing and prompt: Minerva, Severus and sports
Warnings: references to a weird culture, and probably dangerous things flying about
Word count: ~1200 *ahem* - I always was bad at maths
Summary: Snape has lost a bet to Minerva, with totally unexpected (and for the reader, I hope delicious) consequences.
Note: My heartfelt thanks go to therealsnape for fast and effective beta-reading, making short work of my abysmal punctuation and weeding out all my weird ways of writing English. Any remaining mistakes are my own.

I hope you like it, tetley!

( The Bet )

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Drabble for kelly_chambliss : Tenth Anniversary (Minerva and Rosmerta)

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:07:28 GMT

Recipient: kelly_chambliss
Title: Tenth Anniversary
Author: shocolate
Pairing/Character(s): Minerva and Rosmerta
Prompt: Tenth Anniversary
Word Count: 295
Rating: PG-13
Warning(s):
Summary: Um... ten years have passed since the Battle of Hogwarts... two women reminisce...
Author's Notes: Written for kelly_chambliss, who I have never even heard of - so I hope this is OK - for the hp_worldcup_bets, where I ended up I-know-not-how, straying into a shippy area I am completely unused to - but they won the contest and predicted the World Cup champions, so I have to write a ficlet for them, as a prize.

( Tenth Anniversary )

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Paying my Debt of Honour

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:49:40 GMT

Title: The White Team versus Orange.
Author : therealsnape
Pairing and prompt : Rita / Poppy, Role reversal
Recipient : tetleythesecond, for outstanding knowledge of every aspect of football. With a tip of the wand to kellychambliss, for remarkable Legilimency in the NY subway.

No warnings : Just three good reasons not to click on the LJ- cut.

It isn’t beta’ed. I’ve the best betas in the world, but in this case they’re also the recipients.

It’s too long. 500 words of starched, white uniforms with, perhaps, a bit of Quill-tickling thrown in was what Tetley hoped for. 3k of waffling and a second-hand neck rub is what she gets. Ah, well. It’s an imperfect world we live in. If it weren’t, Holland would have beaten Germany in the finals.

And it’s OOC verging on the crack, but I’m not to blame. Tetley started it, Miss, she wanted to play at Role Reversal. And then it all just … happened. Liek whoah.

ETA: the bets on the identity of Rita's lover are open. He's canon. A banner for the first to guess correctly.
ETA 2: the bets are closed. Spoilers in the comments. And the winner was ... minervas_eule!

( The White Team versus Orange )

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Drabble for Kelly_Chambliss: "Sore Loser" (Severus/Minerva)

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:12:23 GMT

Recipient: kelly_chambliss
Title: Sore Loser
Author: tjs_whatnot
Characters: Minerva McGonagall and Severus Snape
Word Count: 230
Rating: PG-13ish
Summary/Prompt: Snape/McGonagall A bet being paid/or debt owed
Author's Note: First time writing this pairing. I hope that won't be painfully obvious--or that it is unbeta'd, and also that I know nothing of football--which I'm sure actually is painfully obvious, hence this bet needing to be paid to start with.

Sore Loser

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How to pay your debts of honor ...

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:28:56 GMT

... in three easy steps.

Dear aka, bendleshnitz1, miss_morland, queen_of_snapes, shocolate, therealsnape, tjs_whatnot, vane_nt, winterwitch and pale_moonlite, it's time to pay our debts of honor.

We're ten ~~losers~~ lucky people who will have the pleasure to write a drabble for one of two even luckier people, namely kelly_chambliss or tetleythesecond, who won the betting pool.

Let the fun begin!

Step 1: Claim two prompts (+ pairing/character), one from Kelly's list and one from Tetley's. I will assign you one prompt. That way I want to make sure that they both get their equal share.

Step 2: Write a drabble of about 100 - 500 words.

Step 3: Post it to hp_worldcup_bets not later than August 11, using the header template below. I set the community's posting access to anybody, so you don't have to become a member to do so.

( Kelly's prompts )

( Tetley's prompts )

( Header template )

Happy writing and reading!

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More Congratulations!

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:21:48 GMT

I have the great pleasure to announce the winner in the category bets on individual matches:

Congratulations, vane_nt! Turned out you're the most football-savvy person here.

Also congratulations to the runner-up, tetleythesecond! That was a very close competition at the top!

( Here are your prizes )

And here are the complete stats:

User Name	GRAND TOTAL
vane_nt	38
tetleythesecond	35
bendleshnitz1	33
winterwitch	30
shocolate	29
tjs_whatnot	28
pale_moonlite	28
kellychambliss	20
queen_of_snapes	15
miss_morland	11
therealsnape	11
dreamy_dragon73	5
harrybangronmod	1

I want to thank everyone for participating and making this World Cup even more fun! Special thanks go to tetleythesecond for providing us with the stats and for saving me from the scary numbers! More special thanks to winterwitch for the beautiful banners!

Those of you who have lost a bet, stay tuned for drabble prompts!

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Congratulations, Spain!

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:37:36 GMT

What an exciting match!

The football world has a new champion, and I'm proud to announce that we have two winners in the betting pool:

Congratulations

kelly_chambliss

&

tetleythesecond!

The others, stay tuned for more info on how to pay your debts of honor. I'm looking forward to all the lovely drabbles! (And to writing one myself.) Have fun!

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Final (Sunday, July 11)

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:19:48 GMT

View Poll: Final -- Netherlands : Spain

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Match for third place (Saturday, July 10)

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:36:04 GMT

View Poll: Match for third place -- Uruguay : Germany

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Knockout Stage, Semi-finals (Wednesday, July 7)

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 06:21:28 GMT

View Poll: Semi-finals -- Germany : Spain

Result: 0 : 1

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Knockout Stage, Semi-finals (Tuesday, July 6)

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 06:22:30 GMT

View Poll: Semi-finals -- Uruguay : Netherlands

Result: 2 : 3

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Knockout Stage, Quarter-finals (Saturday, July 3)

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:52:12 GMT

View Poll: Quarter-finals -- Argentina : Germany

Result: 0 : 4

View Poll: Quarter-finals -- Paraguay : Spain

Result: 0 : 1

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Betting Stats After Round of 16

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:32:21 GMT

Eight matches before the end, have another update of The Statistics. vane_nt is still in front, now with 33 correct guesses. Yours truly follows with 30, and bendleshnitz1 with 29 (though the distance between us is bound to change soon because I trust we'll be betting on different teams next Saturday /g/.) Tied for fourth place are now shocolate and winterwitch with 25, then follows tjs_whatnot with 24 and pale_moonlite with 23.

I wish all of you a good regeneration phase before the quarterfinals! :)

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Knockout Stage, Quarter-finals (Friday, July 2)

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:27:48 GMT

View Poll: Quarter-finals -- Netherlands : Brazil

Result: 2 : 1

View Poll: Quarter-finals -- Uruguay : Ghana

Result: 1 : 1 (a.e.t. 4 : 2 PSO)

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Knockout Stage, Round of 16 (Tuesday, June 29)

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 10:00:59 GMT

View Poll: Round of 16 -- Paraguay : Japan

Result: 0 : 0 (a.e.t. 5 : 3 PSO)

View Poll: Round of 16 -- Spain : Portugal

Result: 1 : 0

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Betting Stats After Group Stage

Sat, 26 Jun 2010 10:32:29 GMT

Hello, Participants!

It's Tetley, your numerically challenged statistician, with another attempt at a weekly update. Nothing has changed in the leadership, but there has been a little bit of shuffling among the followers.

As it is, vane_nt is still the uncontested Master Guesser with 26 correct predictions, followed by bendleshnitz1 and tetleythesecond with 23 and tjs_whatnot and shocolate with 20. pale_moonlite and winterwitch follow with 18 correct guesses each, and kelly_chambliss is steadily catching up with 14.

In terms of correct guesses this week, the crown goes to tjs_whatnot, who totally deserves this honorary mention, what with being the first participant who will definitely have to drabble. (But fear not, many of us will be joining you shortly.)

Right. I'll now close my eyes and hit "post" -- and hope I didn't cheat dear bendleshnitz1 YET another time.

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Knockout Stage, Round of 16 (Monday, June 28)

Sat, 26 Jun 2010 07:31:19 GMT

View Poll: Round of 16 -- Netherlands : Slovakia

Result: 2 : 1

View Poll: Round of 16 -- Brazil : Chile

Result: 3 : 0

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Knockout Stage, Round of 16 (Sunday, June 27)

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 06:44:01 GMT

View Poll: Round of 16 -- Germany : England

Result: 4 : 1

View Poll: Round of 16 -- Argentina : Mexico

Result: 3 : 1

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