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]

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@jonsie wrote:

ENGLAND 41 ITALY 12

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Before the start of the match @jonsie 

[jonsie]

Oh ****!

I promise you I had no idea of the score or that the match had even been played

Ah well, that sucks

[MI5]

So close too

[Cleoriff]

What was the score??

[Cleoriff]

Oh 41-18. Well I'm out of the running...

[gmarkj]

Sorry, have been rather busy trying to tick jobs off the list so didn't get round to this.
Well done @MI5 for being the closest.

[Chris_K]

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@MI5 wrote:

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@jonsie wrote:

ENGLAND 41 ITALY 12

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Before the start of the match @jonsie 

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I was flicking through the replies, saw @jonsie's reply and thought "Daaaamn, that's almost spot on!"...

And then I saw the time of the reply and my face went from to

Seriously unlucky timing Jonsie. Maybe for the next game get that same crystal ball out?

If my calculations are correct we're still at 0 so maybe for the next game we tweak the scoring system a bit and go from there. Thoughts on what would be fair, but still keep it fun and easy for everyone?

[MI5]

Maybe just go for the nearest by 10 points?

[Cleoriff]

Not a clue about Rugby person here...but nearest by 10 sounds a big gap? Why not nearest by 5? Or is that too tight?

[Mi-Amigo]

I know nothing about rugby so any adjustment won`t be of much help to me.

I`m gonna treat this the same as the National Lottery and from now on gonna give the same answer each week in the hope of hitting the jackpot