England Rugby - Six Nations 2021

[Chris_K]

How time flies. It feels like only a couple of months ago when England Rugby won the Autumn Nations Cup 

Now though, it's time for the team to face a new challenge. Check out the fixture date and times for the upcoming Six Nation matches. 

• Saturday 6 February (16:45–18:15) – England v Scotland @ Twickenham
• Saturday 13 February (14:15–15:45) – England v Italy @ Twickenham
• Saturday 27 February (16:45–18:15) – Wales v England @ Principality
• Saturday 13 March (16:45–18:15) – England v France @ Twickenham
• Saturday 20 March (16:45–18:15) – Ireland v England @ Aviva Stadium

Our cheers might be shaking sofas instead of stadiums, but it's time to pull on your England Rugby shirt with even more pride. Tomorrow we finally kick off 2021 with the Guinness Six Nations. And on the O2 Community we thought we'd have a bit of fun with this one.

Challenge time!
Each Friday before the match, we'll get you to give us your best predictions and we'll have a scoring system. So at the end of the Six Nations we'll then tally up the leaderboard and we'll see who the #1 England Rugby fan is on the O2 Community. Ohh and we might even have a little something-something for the winner ;-).

The Challenge
BEFORE kick off each week, predict what the final score will be for the England Rugby team. Here's the scoring:

• Exact guess = 20 points
• Within 5 = 15 points (eg, you guess 30, but the team finish with min 25 / max 35)
• Within 10 = 10 points (eg, you guess 30, but the team finish with min 20 / max 40)
• Within 20 = 5 points (eg, you guess 30, but the team finish with min 10 / max 50)
• Bonus: Predict the final score of the opposing team = Additional 15 points

Leaderboard

Member	Score
Cleoriff	50
MI5	40
Mi-Amigo	35
jonsie	25
gmarkj	20

Congratulations to @Cleoriff who won our Six Nations O2 Community challenge! 

Together we #WearTheRose 🌹

[MI5]

@Chris_K 

I'm the same as @Cleoriff as in not bothered which way you go.

Just seems to make sense to apply the same scoring system across all matches?

[gmarkj]

I'm happy with the new system being backwards compatible...

[Mi-Amigo]

@Chris_K 

I`m OK with scores being backdated with new scoring system - so reads

@Cleoriff 20

@MI5  20

@gmarkj 10

@Mi-Amigo 10

@jonsie 5

Only way I`m gonna get any points as I know nothing about rugby 

[Mi-Amigo]

Sat 13 March 2021

My prediction -

England 16  France 30

[MI5]

I'll go with:
England 26 - 35 France

[Cleoriff]

I'll go with England 33 and France 20

[Mi-Amigo]

@Cleoriff 

You`ve got England to win again? Last time, you were the only one who predicted - correctly - England would win. If the same happens today - England win - I reckon England will adopt you as a lucky mascot  

[Cleoriff]

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@Mi-Amigo wrote:

@Cleoriff 

You`ve got England to win again? Last time, you were the only one who predicted - correctly - England would win. If the same happens today - England win - I reckon England will adopt you as a lucky mascot  

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Just being patriotic @Mi-Amigo. I know as much about Rugby as I know about cricket...i.e. sod all PS... last time England didn't win.

Anyway despite them NOT winning last time, my predicted score put me at the top of the leaderboard, using some algorithm I fail to understand.

[jonsie]

England 26 - 31 France

[Chris_K]

Kick off is 4:45pm today so still time to get your predictions in everybody!

Sorry I’ve not updated the leaderboard on the original post but I shall do this Monday when back on my work laptop