2008 GP2 Two Worlds Prediction Comp - FINAL RESULTS!!!

[Mekola]

GP2 Series finished its fourth season at Monza with the superb win of Di Grassi on Feature race, and the first victory of Valsecchi at the Sprint one. And Giorgio Pantano is the champion, finally! With this, we begin the final report of 2008 Two Worlds Prediction Competiton, starting with the result of Monza round PLUS the ones of the Drivers Championship Round:

Results of the Weekend - GP2 Round # 10 Monza (13-14/09/2008)

Poleman = Giorgio Pantano

Race 1 (13/09/2008)
Winner = Lucas Di Grassi
2nd place = Pastor Maldonado
3rd place = Sebastien Buemi
4th place = Romain Grosjean
5th place = Bruno Senna
6th place = Roldán Rodr�*guez
7th place = Jerôme D'Ambrosio
8th place = Davide Valsecchi
Fastest lap = Pastor Maldonado

Race 2 (14/09/2008)
Winner = Davide Valsecchi
2nd place = Roldán Rodr�*guez
3rd place = Romain Grosjean
4th place = Pastor Maldonado
5th place = Giorgio Pantano
6th place = Jerôme D'Ambrosio
Fastest lap = Giorgio Pantano

Results of the GP2 Two Worlds Prediction Competition - Round # 10 Monza (14/09/2008)

1 - 12 points = Crackissimo (CB)
2 - 11 points = melendi (TH), pericu (TT), Publi (LI)
5 - 10 points = ChrisAllen (GL), Greimito (LI), kerrmanningjarv (TT), Mekola (VT), sancho-kun (CB), Speedworx (GL)
11 - 9 points = Daisy (TT), Jorge Molinari (LA), Kai (TT), nano de turdera (LT), peladoins (LT), revngo (LI), sauber11 (TT), Senna4ever (CB), SpiritCrusher (GL), Teretonga (TT)
21 - 8 points = Adri_tifosi (TT), Bleu (TT), chunterer (TT), Cuervitti (LI), GoGo (LT), GroupOfOne (TT), JB-F1 (GL), maximiliano puig (LT), osc@r (LT), Ruth (LA), SALEEN S7R (TT), Sidney Watkins (CB), WSR Fan (TT)
34 - 7 points = Ignacio.R (LT), Roberto.R (LT), sebastiangh (LT)
37 - 6 points = Bubu (TH), gon-mar (LT), Monkey Head (TT), Robbe (TT), TOLEMAN HART (LA)
42 - 5 points = Stevo_AlonsoF1 (GL)

2008 GP2 Drivers Championship Final Standings (14/09/2008)

Champion = Giorgio Pantano
2nd place = Bruno Senna
3rd place = Lucas Di Grassi
4th place = Roman Grosjean
5th place = Pastor Maldonado
6th place = Sebastien Buemi
7th place = Vitaly Petrov
8th place = Álvaro Parente

Results of the GP2 Two Worlds Prediction Competition - Drivers Championship Round (14/09/2008)

1 - 8 points = Crackissimo (CB), SALEEN S7R (TT)
3 - 7 points = GroupOfOne (TT), OJB (TT), pericu (TT), Sev (TT)
7 - 6 points = Alex K (TT), ChrisAllen (GL), chunterer (TT), Cuervitti (LI), JB-F1 (GL), nano de turdera (LT), Stevo_AlonsoF1 (GL), TOLEMAN HART (LA)
15 - 5 points = Adri_tifosi (TT), Bleu (TT), damien.tyler (TT), Greimito (LI), Kai (TT), kerrmanningjarv (TT), Lam Pak (TT), osc@r (LT), sauber11 (TT), Sedicivalvole (LT), Sidney Watkins (GB), Speedworx (GL), SpiritCrusher (GL), Trueno naranja (LT)
29 - 4 points = Alfonso de Orleans (TT), Bubu (TH), Cucho (LT), Daisy (TT), Ignacio.R (LT), Mekola (VT), melendi (TH), Roberto.R (LT), sebastiangh (LT), vinod (TT), WSR Fan (TT)
40 - 3 points = Bessone Motorsport (LT), CarGo (LT)

Bravo Crackissimo (CB)!!! He won both the last round and Championship position rounds, that last once ex aequo with SALEEN S7R!!! Congratulations! Mention to Trueno naranja (LT) who predicted Pantano as GP2 Champion... and is to mention that all 42 contesters put their Monza predictions on time and with no errors.

With all round results cleared, we present...

The FINAL STANDINGS of the 2008 GP2 Two Worlds Prediction Competition (14/09/2008) !!!

1 - 93 points = SpiritCrusher (GL)
2 - 91 points = SALEEN S7R (TT)
3 - 89 points = Mekola (VT)
4 - 87 points = GroupOfOne (TT)
5 - 85 points = Bleu (TT), sauber11 (TT)
7 - 84 points = Adri_tifosi (TT), ChrisAllen (GL), Sidney Watkins (CB)
10 - 83 points = kerrmanningjarv (TT), nano de turdera (LT)
12 - 82 points = chunterer (TT), WSR Fan (TT)
14 - 81 points = Cuervitti (LI), pericu (TT)
16 - 80 points = Daisy (TT)
17 - 79 points = melendi (TH), Speedworx (GL), Stevo_AlonsoF1 (GL)
20 - 77 points = sebastiangh (LT)
21 - 76 points = Ignacio.R (LT), Roberto.R (LT)
23 - 74 points = Robbe (TT), TOLEMAN HART (LA)
25 - 72 points = Greimito (LI)
26 - 71 points = JB-F1 (GL), maximiliano puig (LT), Sev (TT)
29 - 70 points = Jorge Molinari (LA), Kai (TT)
31 - 69 points = Crackissimo (CB), osc@r (LT)
33 - 68 points = Monkey Head (TT)
34 - 63 points = Bessone Motorsport (LT), OJB (TT), Sedicivalvole (LT)
37 - 60 points = Bubu (TH)
38 - 59 points = peladoins (LT)
39 - 58 points = Race to Win (TT)
40 - 57 points = Lam Pak (TT), Ruth (LA)
42 - 56 points = Alex K (TT)
43 - 51 points = Zonked (LI)
44 - 49 points = Senna4ever (CB)
45 - 47 points = sancho-kun (CB)
46 - 41 points = Carballedo (CB)
47 - 39 points = Publi (LI)
48 - 29 points = revngo (LI)
49 - 27 points = GoGo (LT)
50 - 26 points = gon-mar (LT)
51 - 21 points = damien.tyler (TT)
52 - 18 points = Quique (VT)
53 - 15 points = vinod (TT)
54 - 14 points = Taprobane (TT)
55 - 12 points = CarGo (LT), Cucho (LT)
57 - 9 points = Teretonga (TT)
58 - 7 points = Titrisol (VT)
59 - 5 points = Trueno naranja (LT)
60 - 4 points = Alfonso de Orleans (TT)

Final Forum Standings after the definition of the Competition (30/09/2007)

b]1º - Los-Tuercas.com.ar Forum - 529 puntos
2º - Ten-Tenths.com Forum - 448 puntos
3º - GlobalF1.net Forum - 406 puntos
4º - ClubF1.es Forum - 290 puntos
5º - F1Live.com Forum - 282 puntos
6º - F1Latam.com Forum - 185 puntos
7º - Thef1.com Actuality Forum - 139 puntos
8º - Velocidad-TotalF1.com Forum - 114 puntos

[i]Since half season proved to be on top, and can't stop until he reach the title. Ladies and gentlemen, we welcome SpiritCrusher as the new Champion of 2008 GP2 Two Worlds Prediction Competition! With this he earned the prize, the Fangio Photo Album!!! Congratulations and enjoy!
Merry congrats to Ten-Tenths, who earned a new Forums Championship with great support to the series.

Users can revise the accuracy of their predictions with more detail at this direction:
http://perso.wanadoo.es/gp2twpc/2008GP2TWPC.zip

Defined the final standings, it's turn to show the general stats of the season, a report about the progress of the forums, and the WINNING ATTITUDE ACHIEVEMENTS of our concursants of the Competition of this year.

Note: For identify reasons, users are identified with following codes, that denote the forum they use to participate:
(CB) ClubF1.es Forum
(GL) GlobalF1.net Forum
(LA) F1Latam.com Forum
(LI) F1-Live.com Forum
(LT) Los-Tuercas.com.ar Forum
(TH) Thef1.com Actuality Forum
(TT) Ten-Tenths.com Forum
(VT) Velocidad-TotalF1.com Forum

[Mekola]

Ramblings about forum progressions in the 2008 GP2 Two Worlds Prediction Competition:

Ten-Tenths: Ten-Tenthers finally did it againg in the Forum Championship! The core forum of F3000/GP2 TWPC could this time due to the knowledge, most centered interest and, despite the handicap of only scoring five best forumers on a round, pitching thanks to its massive number of concursants. SALEEN S7R was the best of the group, but is to note that also GroupOfOne, Bleu, sauber11, Adri_tifosi and kerrmanningjarv entered in the Top Ten, is to note that almost first ten were Ten-Tenthers...

Los Tuercas: On first year with no Argentinian presence at all, this forum didn't have the strenght of previous seasons... Even with this they manage to have a base of around 9-10 concursants and ensure the vicechampionship. nano de turdera was the highest scorer of them, followed by sebastiangh, and is to note that they won two rounds with three different users. Great thanks for Los Tuercas for all the attention to the Competition done all over the year.

GlobalF1: On a solid pack of around five forumers, their abilities made them to pursue again the 3rd in the championship. The handicap system of "the forum score with their five best" put them nearer to dominant Ten-Tenths and Los Tuercas forums, but wasn't enough to reach them. Nonetheless, they still were very effective in the predictions, and have the Champion, SpiritCrusher, with them! It's a pleasure that GlobalF1 could still show this rhythm on their picks.

ClubF1: The rookie forum did an excellent debut on the Competition, with good acceptation. Their regular bunch of around four members did a constant battle against F1-Live for fourth place during all season, and they finally got it! Sidney Watkins was their best representant, and Crackissimo did great winning last two rounds.

F1-Live: This year, the forum of this popular website put more interest into the Competition, partially thanks to a sister F1 contest made there. Were in concursants for both Spanish and English forums, who had some consistency and could battle ClubF1 for the fourth place of the Forums Champ. Cuervitti, a refugée from another place was the best scorer, and is to note that Zonked did the highest score in a round, at Hockenheim.

F1Latam: Perhaps due to no presence of Latin American (aside Brazilians) drivers aside Pastor Maldonado, this forum had some flaws in relation to previous seasons. Nonetheless, the two (later three, with the inclusion of Ruth) were very loyal through the season an helped a lot to mantain a secure 6th. TOLEMAN HART used consistency to be their best scorer, and Ruth herself won a round at Spa.

Thef1.com Actuality forum: Another year with tiny presence, strange in a forum from a country having three teams and many Spanish drivers on the series. (Concursants) Once more, Thef1 showed technical problems on a few rounds, but were still capable to go ahead. [b]melendi was the best of the tiny pack of two users who entered during all year.

ClubF1: The rookie forum did an excellent debut on the Competition, with good acceptation. Their regular bunch of around four members did a constant battle against F1-Live for fourth place during all season, and they finally got it! Sidney Watkins was their best representant, and Crackissimo did great winning last two rounds.

F1-Live: This year, the forum of this popular website put more interest into the Competition, partially thanks to a sister F1 contest made there. Were in concursants for both Spanish and English forums, who had some consistency and could battle ClubF1 for the fourth place of the Forums Champ, even when they miss it by that much. Cuervitti, a refugée from another place was the best scorer, and is to note that Zonked did the highest score in a round, at Hockenheim.

F1Latam: Perhaps due to no presence of Latin American (aside Brazilians) drivers aside Pastor Maldonado, this forum had some flaws in relation to previous seasons. Nonetheless, the two (later three, with the inclusion of Ruth) were very loyal through the season an helped a lot to mantain a secure 6th. TOLEMAN HART used consistency to be their best scorer, and Ruth herself won a round at Spa.

Thef1.com Actuality forum: Another year with tiny presence, strange in a forum from a country having three teams and many Spanish drivers on the series. melendi was the best of the tiny pack of two users who entered during all year, or almost.

Velocidad-TotalF1: Well, this forum has the saddest note of all, because their principal, Sammyed, had important situations to cope and, to make things worse, their servers tend to put the forum down, permanently since last May. Then I decide myself to represent them alone, as an hommage to the interest they showed in GP2, and to remember that community. Not a surprise that I went the best scorer of that forum, and great thanks to Quique and Titrisol who could enter at first two rounds.

In an aftermath, the season was emotional in many aspect, with the accustomed lottery in some results, and the Competition had success to survive on Spanish Latin-American forums despite the almost no presence of locals there, mostly when TV only was ensured at the second half of the year for their viewers. Hope CVC will take note about it, in order to ensure to pack GP2 along F1 in order to help them in the promotion everywhere, as they do with MotoGP, 250cc and 125cc World Motorcycle champs. Ten-Tenths, Los Tuercas and GlobalF1 are still the "three greats" and are ensured to continue, along ClubF1 and F1-Live; the rest will be put in consideration. Alas, now is one slot free avaliable for new forums to join - If you are in a forum where is interest on GP2 Series and want our Prediction Competition running there, give notice to us!

On a last note, the handicap imposed on Forums Championship (on each round, a forum would scored only with five best scorers of their users) helped a while to put forums with lest concursants nearer to the greatest ones, but due to numeric superiority, the dominants had more chances to had high scores and then could win in any way. It's possible to enforce to strenght the handicap to best four to help smaller forums, but it's important to note that quantity is still important.

We'll consider to do GP2 Asia Prediction Competition again, probably at Ten-Tenths and GlobalF1, but have to ensure if the rest of the forums could be interested or not to be in, because it will run in the winter time (summer for these of Southern Hemisphere), when F1 world is normally in the inter-season.

[Mekola]

2008 GP2 TWPC GENERAL STATS:

Competition Champions:

Competition Champion: SpiritCrusher with 93 points
Forums Champion: Ten-Tenths with 529 points

Best concursant of GlobalF1: SpiritCrusher with 93 points
Best concursant of Ten-Tenths: SALEEN S7R with 91 points
Best concursant of Velocidad-TotalF1: Mekola with 89 points
Best concursant of ClubF1: Sidney Watkins with 84 points
Best concursant of Los Tuercas: nano de turdera with 83 points
Best concursant of F1-Live: Cuervitti with 81 points
Best concursant of Thef1: melendi with 79 points
Best concursant of F1Latam: TOLEMAN HART with 74 points

Round Entries:

Drivers Champ Round: 41 (TT18, LT10, GL05, TH02, LI02, CB02, VT01, LA01)
R01 Barcelona: 40 (TT16, LT09, GL05, VT03, TH02, LI02, CB02, LA01)
R02 Istanbul Park: 46 (TT18, LT09, GL05, LI04, CB04, VT02, LA02, TH02)
R03 Montecarlo: 46 (TT19, LT08, GL05, LI05, CB04, LA02, TH02, VT01)
R04 Magny-Cours: 45 (TT19, LT09, GL05, CB04, LI03, LA02, TH02, VT01)
R05 Silverstone: 46 (TT17, LT09, GL05, CB05, LI04, LA03, TH02, VT01)
R06 Hockenheim: 48 (TT18, LT09, GL05, CB05, LI05, LA03, TH02, VT01)
R07 Hungaroring: 46 (TT18, LT10, LI05, GL04, LA03, CB03, TH02, VT01)
R08 Valencia: 42 (TT18, LT10, GL04, LI04, LA03, CB02, VT01, TH00)
R09 Spa-Francorchamps: 43 (TT16, LT09, GL05, CB05, LA03, LI03, TH01, VT01)
R10 Monza: 42 (TT14, LT09, GL05, CB04, LI04, LA03, TH02, VT01)

Round Winners:

R01 Barcelona: Bleu (TT) and sauber11 (TT) with 12 points
R02 Istanbul Park: Robbe (TT) with 13 points
R03 Montecarlo: damien.tyler (TT), Lam Pak (TT), Race to Win (TT), Robbe (TT) and Taprobane (TT) with 7 points
R04 Magny-Cours: Monkey Head (TT) with 10 points
R05 Silverstone: maximiliano puig (LT) and nano de turdera (LT) with 13 points
R06 Hockenheim: Zonked (LI) with 15 points
R07 Hungaroring: Monkey Head (TT) with 13 points
R08 Valencia: Bessone Motorsport (LT) with 13 points
R09 Spa-Francorchamps: Ruth (LA) with 11 points
R10 Monza: Crackissimo (CB) with 12 points
Drivers Champ Round: Crackissimo (CB) and SALEEN S7R (TT) with 8 points

Competition Leaders after each round:

R01 Barcelona: Bleu (TT) and sauber11 (TT) with 12 points, Ten-Tenths.com Forum with 55 points
R02 Istanbul Park: Bleu (TT) and SpiritCrusher (GL) with 21 points, Ten-Tenths.com Forum with 106 points
R03 Montecarlo: SpiritCrusher (GL) with 26 points, Ten-Tenths.com Forum with 141 points
R04 Magny-Cours: Bleu (TT) and sauber11 (TT) with 33 points, Ten-Tenths.com Forum with 184 points
R05 Silverstone: Bleu (TT) con 43 puntos, Ten-Tenths.com Forum with 237 points
R06 Hockenheim: SpiritCrusher (GL) with 54 points, Ten-Tenths.com Forum with 299 points
R07 Hungaroring: SpiritCrusher (GL) with 64 points, Ten-Tenths.com Forum with 356 points
R08 Valencia: SpiritCrusher (GL) with 71 points, Ten-Tenths.com Forum with 400 points
R09 Spa-Francorchamps: SpiritCrusher (GL) with 79 points, Ten-Tenths.com Forum with 445 points
Final Standings: SpiritCrusher (GL) with 93 points, Ten-Tenths.com Forum with 529 points

Hall of Fame:

2004 F3000 TWPC Champion: Daisy (TT) with 89 points
2005 GP2 TWPC Champion: DanFlag (TT) with 121 points
2006 GP2 TWPC Champion: knowlesy (TT) with 116 points
2007 GP2 TWPC Champion: Mekola (VT) with 95 points
2008 GP2 Asia TWPC Champion: pericu (TT) with 56 points
2008 GP2 TWPC Champion: SpiritCrusher (GL) with 93 points

and now... see the
2008 GP2 TWPC WINNING ATTITUDE ACHIEVEMENTS:

Orange Prize for Friendship: chunterer (TT), Ruth (LA), Greimito (LI) and Zonked (LI)
Best Forum Presentation: ClubF1
Best Forum Spirit: Ten-Tenths
Best Forum Communications: F1-Live
Rookie of the Season: SpiritCrusher (GL)
Most Friendly/Welcoming Forum: ClubF1
Best Engineered Forum: GlobalF1
Best Forum Strategists: Ten-Tenths
Best Forum Support: F1-Live
Most Improved Driver of the Season: Cuervitti (LI)
Overtaking Manoeuvre of the Season: SpiritCrusher (GL) to Bleu (TH) at Hockenheim round
Best Prediction Style: Zonked (LI), 15 points scored at Hockenheim round
Best Forum Marketing: ClubF1
Special Mentions to: All GP2 people, professionals and fans, who followed this Competition.

And a Special Acknowledgement to all 60 concursants who entered at this Competition through this season. We might see again with the 2009 GP2 Two Worlds Prediction Competition. Be seeing all you!

Happy Motoring, and GOOD SHOW!

Note: For identify reasons, is used the following code, that denotes which forum is used by each concursant to participate here:
(CB) ClubF1.es Forum
(GL) GlobalF1.net Forum
(LA) F1Latam.com Forum
(LI) F1-Live.com Forum
(LT) Los-Tuercas.com.ar Forum
(TH) Thef1.com Actuality Forum
(TT) Ten-Tenths.com Forum
(VT) Velocidad-TotalF1.com Forum

[Mekola]

IMPORTANT CORRECTION
Due to twiddle fingers I put a mistake, there is the correct Final Forum Standings after the definition of the Competition (30/09/2007)

b]1º - Ten-Tenths.com Forum Forum - 529 puntos
2º - Los-Tuercas.com.ar - 448 puntos
3º - GlobalF1.net Forum - 406 puntos
4º - ClubF1.es Forum - 290 puntos
5º - F1Live.com Forum - 282 puntos
6º - F1Latam.com Forum - 185 puntos
7º - Thef1.com Actuality Forum - 139 puntos
8º - Velocidad-TotalF1.com Forum - 114 puntos

Well done to Ten-Tenths for the Forum Champ!!!

[Mekola]

IMPORTANT CORRECTION
Due to twiddle fingers I put a mistake, there are the correct
Final Forum Standings after the definition of the Competition (14/09/2008)

b]1º - Ten-Tenths.com Forum Forum - 529 puntos
2º - Los-Tuercas.com.ar - 448 puntos
3º - GlobalF1.net Forum - 406 puntos
4º - ClubF1.es Forum - 290 puntos
5º - F1Live.com Forum - 282 puntos
6º - F1Latam.com Forum - 185 puntos
7º - Thef1.com Actuality Forum - 139 puntos
8º - Velocidad-TotalF1.com Forum - 114 puntos

Well done to Ten-Tenths for the Forum Champ!!!

[SALEEN S7R]

Thanks once again to Mekola for running a great championship and for processing results so quickly. Congratulations too to Spiritcrusher for winning this years championship, and well done to all of us at ten-tenths for once again taking the forums Championship!

[Robbe]

Thanks for running this competion, Mekola!

...and thanks for sending me a lot of reminders to put the predictions!

[Bleu]

Not a bad result for me though I was leading for a long time in early season, so a bit disappointing then.

Interesting feature could be if you could follow championship predictions round by round.

As an example, championship standings after Monaco looked like this:
1. Senna
2. Pantano
3. Grosjean
4. Parente
5. Buemi
6. Zuber
7. Petrov
8. Maldonado

Well, seven names who were there in the final standings as well, but only Petrov was in same position. I mean that championship predictions could be looked that those who picked Senna to win are getting points for it etc.

[kerrmanningjarv]

Thanks for setting all this up and maintaining it so well glad I scored highly in the end, which was nice. Roll on GP2 Asia .

[chunterer]

Mekola, you really do perform an excellent job on this, please may that continue!

Whilst this is open to many forums around the world, I can safely say on behalf of 10 Tenths that we really enjoy it.

However few points of my own:

1/ This year was incredibly difficult to predict because of the incidents, inconsistent form of drivers, drivers perhaps not getting on with the new cars. and unreliability issues (all resolved next year if Bradrive's earlier info is correct)
2/ I didn't manage to win a single round (PAH!!!!) and i seem to be going 'backwards' year on year. Oops.
3/ To assist Mekola in the Asia and full series next year we will see if he needs help starting the predictions threads etc.. if he is very busy to take some of the pessure of of him!!

If you need help just ask Ok Mekola?

[OJB]

I completely blame Filippi for my 34th in the standings - I kept predicting him and he never delivered :P

Never mind, third in predicting the overall standings is pretty good. Great work Mekola, as ever - long may it continue

[WSR Fan]

First of all a big thanks to Mekola, chunterer and everyone else involved in running the competition. Great job guys

I must say I'm quite pleased with my season. No spectacular results, just good old consistency - something which I lacked last year. After two learning years, I'm going all out for the title next season!