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 🌹

[Cleoriff]

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@Mi-Amigo wrote:

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 

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That might be a bit dicey @Mi-Amigo! Considering how badly England did in the first match and then blasted the next team out of the park? (Whatever the hell that means....)

[jonsie]

Imight try to get up a bit earlier and get on the forum earlier!

Then again

[gmarkj]

Have an option for nearest 10 maybe - so 3 points if the scores are within 10?
Rugby can be a high scoring game, and can be very different for each team so predicting the score can be tricky.
More when one of the teams is playing well (or not!)

[Chris_K]

Okay everybody, there's still 3 games left and there's everything to play for, so we're going to tweak the scoring a bit for this week to try and guarantee some points on the leaderboard. With how the games have gone so far there's no telling if we're going to see high scoring games or low ones, so let's fix that!

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

Let's get some points on the leaderboard this weekend everyone. Forget if you're a fan of rugby or not as well - treat this like the lottery, have some fun, and see where you end up at the end of the Six Nations tournament! 😉

[Mi-Amigo]

Thanks @Chris_K 

I think the revised points system is much fairer but not sure it`ll make much difference to my guesses 

Anyway for the next game:

Saturday 27 February (16:45–18:15) – Wales v England @ Principality

my guess: Wales 15 England 10

[gmarkj]

I think it will be a slightly higher scoring game, but England will still lose.
Wales 22 - England 14

[Cleoriff]

Wales 15   England 26

[jonsie]

28-9 to the Welsh boys

[MI5]

Wales 26 - 17 England

[Cleoriff]

Just shows how much I know about Rugby. I'm the only one who has England down to win