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Poll #3332 World Cup betting pool for HP fans

This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 12

Who will be the two finalists?

And who will be world champion?

Algeria
0 (0.0%)

Argentina
0 (0.0%)

Australia
0 (0.0%)

Brazil
2 (16.7%)

Cameroon
0 (0.0%)

Chile
0 (0.0%)

Cote d'Ivoire
0 (0.0%)

Denmark
0 (0.0%)

England
2 (16.7%)

France
0 (0.0%)

Germany
4 (33.3%)

Ghana
0 (0.0%)

Greece
0 (0.0%)

Honduras
0 (0.0%)

Italy
1 (8.3%)

Japan
0 (0.0%)

Korea DPR
0 (0.0%)

Korea Republic
0 (0.0%)

Mexico
0 (0.0%)

Netherlands
0 (0.0%)

New Zealand
0 (0.0%)

Nigeria
0 (0.0%)

Paraguay
0 (0.0%)

Portugal
0 (0.0%)

Serbia
0 (0.0%)

Slovakia
0 (0.0%)

Slovenia
0 (0.0%)

South Africa
0 (0.0%)

Spain
2 (16.7%)

Switzerland
0 (0.0%)

Uruguay
1 (8.3%)

USA
0 (0.0%)

pale_moonlite

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!

pale_moonlite

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:

miss_morland

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. )

vane_nt

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 )

pale_moonlite

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! )

queen_of_snapes

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 )

bendleshnitz1

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 )

ysilme

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 /

ysilme /

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 )

shocolate

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 )

Current Mood: nostalgic

therealsnape

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 )

tjs_whatnot

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

pale_moonlite

... in three easy steps.

Dear

aka,

bendleshnitz1,

miss_morland,

queen_of_snapes,

shocolate,

therealsnape,

tjs_whatnot,

vane_nt,

ysilme 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!

pale_moonlite

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
ysilme	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

ysilme for the beautiful banners!

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

pale_moonlite

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!

pale_moonlite

Poll #3760 Final -- Netherlands : Spain

This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 8

View Respondents

Who will be World Champion?

View Answers

Netherlands
5 (62.5%)

Spain
3 (37.5%)

pale_moonlite

Poll #3755 Match for third place -- Uruguay : Germany

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Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 7

View Respondents

Guess the winner!

View Answers

Uruguay
0 (0.0%)

Germany
7 (100.0%)

pale_moonlite

Poll #3718 Semi-finals -- Germany : Spain

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Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 9

View Respondents

Guess the winner!

View Answers

Germany
8 (88.9%)

Spain
1 (11.1%)

Result: 0 : 1

pale_moonlite

Poll #3709 Semi-finals -- Uruguay : Netherlands

This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 9

View Respondents

Guess the winner!

View Answers

Uruguay
0 (0.0%)

Netherlands
9 (100.0%)

Result: 2 : 3

pale_moonlite

Poll #3682 Quarter-finals -- Argentina : Germany

This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 11

View Respondents

Guess the winner!

View Answers

Argentina
2 (18.2%)

Germany
9 (81.8%)

Result: 0 : 4

Poll #3683 Quarter-finals -- Paraguay : Spain

This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 11

View Respondents

Guess the winner!

View Answers

Paraguay
1 (9.1%)

Spain
10 (90.9%)

Result: 0 : 1

tetleythesecond

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

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

FIFA Women's World Cup

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

Debt paid: Expect Full Success

Paying my debt: Hoyotoho!

Another debt paid

Drabble for kelly_chambliss: Dark Owl (Minerva/Amelia)

Queueing up for the dept-paying

Drabble for kelly_chambliss : Tenth Anniversary (Minerva and Rosmerta)

Paying my Debt of Honour

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

How to pay your debts of honor ...

More Congratulations!

Congratulations, Spain!

Final (Sunday, July 11)

Match for third place (Saturday, July 10)

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

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

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

Betting Stats After Round of 16

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