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CL Bracket Challenge Standings and Semifinal Predictions

I want to start out this post with a STERN reprimand to all who dared to go against a Bayern win in the second leg of the quarterfinals. Your potential punishment will be decided in the poll below. I hope you learned your lesson! This is Bayern we are talking about!!! Who cares about one point when you can have your teams back!

First I will post the updated standings. Considering that we all correctly predicted the four advancing teams, there wasn't any huge changes. Everyone got between 24-26 points. Let me just say that having the drawings set up this way is not helping with the challenge of predicting everything in advance.

Standings:

Participant Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals Total
1 Gilly 24 84.75
2 Twinkle 25 83.25
3 Grudnik 25 82.75
3 sportsfan1 26 82.25
5 Vrdo4ever 26 80.25
6 Nishant33 25 79.75
7 KateL 26 79.5
8 Cousin_Drew 26 79
9 adebayo 24 78.75
10 HenryBayernMalta 25 75.25
11 Ibonier 26 74.5
12 BabyBrey 25 70.25
13 Markopolo 24 61
14 ChrisP31 25 48
15 Der Bomber 0 38
16 Smartguy 0 29.25
17 Rohit Bhatta 0 23.75
17 Khaveen 0 23.75
19 Suleiman Kano 0 23
20 tuxybuzz 0 22.5
21 Jolly Angus 0 21
22 BayernMan 0 20
23 Pete194a 0 18.25
24 wschaeferiii 0 2.25
25 tman10485 0 2
25 Lavlinjer 0 2
27 Kinkam 0 1.75
28 Peopleschamp 0 1.5

Semifinal Predictions

Bayern is to face Barcelona in what is billed as a clash of the titans. This is the chance for us to take the title of "Best Club in the World" from them. And the way we have been playing this season, we would deserve that title. This has been a record breaking season for Bayern and let's all just hope that we don't drop the ball at this point.

Real Madrid faces Borussia Dortmund in what could be their opportunity to avenge their poor group stage showings against our fellow German club.

As some notes about this round, each correctly predicted match is worth 1 point and each correctly predicted advancing team is worth 7 points. Having just one prediction thread seemed to work really well last time so we will do that again. Again, you will have until the start of the first match to change your predictions for the first leg and the advancing teams. You have until the start of the return leg to change your predictions for the return leg.

Matches:

Leg 1:

Bayern Munich vs Barcelona (April 23rd)

Borussia Dortmund vs Real Madrid (April 24th)

Leg 2:

Real Madrid vs Borussian Dortmund (April 30th)

Barcelona vs Bayern Munich (May 1st)

Posting Format:

When posting your prediction, please clearly indicate OVERALL, 1ST LEG, and 2ND LEG so that there is no confusion. In addition, please use the following forms to indicate your predicted winner. I will be using Bayern vs Barcelona as the example. If you have any questions, please ask in the comments section. You can use my prediction comment as a guide.

Bayern vs Barcelona (winner in bold)

OR

BAYERN vs Barcelona (winner in caps)

OR

Bayern vs Barcelona DRAW (in case of a draw)

Final Notes:

If you have any questions about your score, please leave a comment and I would be happy to answer. If you want to see a break down of your score, I can provide you with that as well. Thanks for participating. I have had a fun time and I hope that you all have had a fun time as well!

Overall Prediction:

  1. KateL
  2. messi fan
  3. Twinkle
  4. Markopolo
  5. Cousin_Drew
  6. ChrisP31
  7. BabyBrey
  8. Nishant33
  9. Gilly
  10. vrdo4ever
  11. HenryBayernMalta
  12. grudnik
  13. sportsfan1
  14. Ibonier

First Leg Prediction:

  1. KateL
  2. messi fan
  3. Twinkle
  4. Markopolo
  5. Cousin_Drew
  6. ChrisP31
  7. BabyBrey
  8. Nishant33
  9. Gilly
  10. vrdo4ever
  11. HenryBayernMalta
  12. grudnik
  13. sportsfan1
  14. Ibonier

Second Leg Prediction:

  1. KateL
  2. messi fan
  3. Twinkle
  4. Markopolo
  5. Cousin_Drew
  6. ChrisP31
  7. BabyBrey
  8. Nishant33
  9. Gilly
  10. vrdo4ever
  11. HenryBayernMalta
  12. sportsfan1
  13. Ibonier
  14. grudnik (4/25/13)

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