2005 GP2 Two Worlds Prediction Competition - Announcement and Rulebook

[Mekola]

The F3000 is gone, GP2 replaced it, but something hasn't changed...

WELCOME TO THE 2005 GP2 TWO WORLDS PREDICTION COMPETITION!

This year, we'll back challenging all concursants about their accuracies on their GP2 predictions. In the second year of TWPC, some changes were made, adding more spice to this Competition.

At first, the "Two Worlds" sense become more evident this year, because we included three more forums into the Competition: In addition to English Ten-Tenths.com and Argentinean Corsadigital.com forums, we say welcome to the newcomers Thef1.com (Spain), Velocidad-TotalF1.com (Latin-American) and Los-Tuercas.com.ar (Argentinean) forums; in fact, we have now five discussion boards in the frame.

At second, and more important, we're proud to announce there will be a prize for the overall winner of this Competition. Nothing more, nothing less, than a year subscription to FORIX, the top F1 statistics website. We give great thanks to Joao Paulo Lopes da Cunha, FORIX creator and principal, for his interest on this tournament.

At last, this Competition has the double purpose to give fun to forum users and spread the interest about GP2 Series. GP2 promises to show us a top championship with a lot of entertainment, but it will be too one of the toughest seasons in history, with fierce battles on and off the track. Then, for their bravery, I dedicate this Competition to all people involved in the GP2 Series: drivers, team owners, race engineers, mechanics, organizers and promoters.

Well, the green light has turned on, the Competition has started! Very soon will be posted below the rulebook and more details.

[DanFlag]

All right Mekola!!!!

Whooohooooo

[Mekola]

Here it is, the

RULEBOOK OF THE 2005 GP2 TWO WORLDS PREDICTION COMPETITION


Overview

This GP2 competition is opened to all users of five forums: Corsadigital.com, Los-Tuercas.com.ar, Ten-Tenths.com, Thef1.com and Velocidad-TotalF1.com, challenging all them about their accuracies in GP2 predictions.

Round to round, which can aboard a GP2 weekend or a special GP2 event, the concursant could enter their predictions in a period of time before that weekend or event happens. A small lapse of time after each round, the results will be processed and published, both in a round report and a Excel tablesheet.

Each round will have a winner, and the sum of all rounds will give us a champion. There will be mentions for each best forum scorer, but there will be only one champion, who will be awarded by the great prize, a year subscription to FORIX.

Is important to remark that each forum user represent not only themselves, but the forum they used to put the predictions. Then there is too a forum championship, where each forum scores in each round the sum of the results of all their users, and the championship norms are the same as in users championship, except there will be no material prize for the winning forum, just glory.


How to enter

Before GP2 season, there will the special two rounds, described later in this rulebook; they'll have defined opening and closing dates, and in the period of time between them, all users of the forums involved in this Competition can post their predictions.

During GP2 season, each round will be opened on Friday, one week before the GP2 weekend. During this time, all users of the forums involved in this Competition can post their weekend predictions, until the day of the qualifying of the first race.

In both cases, the deadline will be set on 4:00 AM GMT (hour of London, UK) of the day when the round closes. You could check opening and closing dates in the calendar posted below this rulebook.

You must all make sure to post your predictions in such a manner that we can understand who you are picking for which position, or car numbers in the case of first round. If we have any doubt whatsoever, your prediction could be partially or totally annulled. Above all though, this is a fun competition, so we will do our best to contact you if we are in doubt over who you have selected, and you will then be given the opportunity to clarify your predictions, ever before the deadline of the round where that happens.

After posting your entry, you also have three opportunities to revise your choices. Please make it clear in any additional post (in Ten-Tenths) or edited post (in the other forums) on the thread that you are revising your choices.

If you are unable to post your picks in the predictions thread for technical problems, you can send it to me via e-mail to this direction: nkorzan@yahoo.com.ar. If you are going to be absent, and thus not be able to post your predictions during the period when a round thread will be open, you can post your predictions in advance, either in the previous predictions thread (EG: post predictions for Barcelona at Imola round), or send it to me via PM or email.

We finish this item with a note about GP2 weekend predictions: when a concursant predicts a driver who left his seat, in the predictions usually we will consider the car he had raced, no matter who drives that car. There is one exception: when the driver who left his car goes to another team to drive with their car.


Predictions, Point Scoring and Results

In this Competition, normally you have to predict all the items of each GP2 race weekend that reward points: the Friday Pole, the top 8 results of the first race, the top 6 results of the second race, and the fastest lap scorers of both races.

In the race results, you got one point per driver correctly predicted, or two in each case this driver finishes in the position you predicted. In the pole and fastest lap scorers predictions, you got one point for each item correctly predicted (one for poleman, one for Race 1 FL scorer, one for Race 2 FL scorer).

In addition, before the 12 rounds about each GP2 weekend, there will be [b]two special rounds before the GP2 season[b]: the first, about the numbers assigned to the top 8 teams in the special qualifying test during the official GP2 launch at Paul Ricard, and the second, about the top 8 drivers in the final standings of the 2005 GP2 Drivers Championship. Point scoring of these rounds will be alike race result predictions (2 points for each correct prediction in correct position, 1 point for each correct prediction in other position than predicted).

When the races/events involved in each round are finished, the results will be processed in an Excel sheet specially prepared to calculate them, and released in a result report; all in a period up to 72 hours after the definition of each round. You can access to the Excel sheet at this web address: http://perso.wanadoo.es/nkorzan/gp2twpc/2005GP2TWPC.xls, but usually you'll have this link with each round result reports.


Championships and Prizes

Now you know that there will be round winners, and the sum of all rounds will give us a champion. But it could be more than one user with most quantity of points. Then, in case of tie, the break will be defined by the most points scored in a round, if the tie persists the tie-breaker will be the second best point scoring, if it still persists it will be the third best point scoring... until the champion arises.

The champion will be awarded by the great prize of this Competition, a year subscription to FORIX, the top F1 statistics website. This prize will be given to the Competition champion in a period of 30 days after the finish of this Competition, next September 25th.


Forum Matters

Each forum user represent not only themselves, but the forum they used to put the predictions. If you're present in more than one forum involved in this Competition (like me, Mekola) you must decide which forum you'll represent. In my case, I'll be marked as a Corsadigital forum user.

For identify reasons, forum users could be marked in two forms: his name followed by an abreviature put in parenthesis -User (##)-, in forum reports, or written in a certain colour, in Excel sheets. There are the identify codes:
Corsadigital: User (CO) or magenta
Los Tuercas: User (LT) or dark green
Ten-Tenths: User (TT) or blue
Thef1: User (TF) or red
Velocidad-TotalF1: User (VT) or dark blue

Aside the users championship, there is too a forum championship, where each forum scores in each round the sum of the results of all their users; then if each forum has more users involved in the Competition, more chances has to win it. The norms of the forum championship are alike users championship, except that will be no material prize for the winning forum, just glory.


Conclusion and Acknowledgements

This is a fun competition, that gave forum users the opportunity to improve their knowledge about GP2 Series, and know the possible F1 stars of the future. If you have any problems to understand Competition rules, you can send your inquiries via e-mail to: nkorzan@yahoo.com.ar.

This Competition is not related to GP2 Series organizators, even in this championship or the prizes, then they haven't any responsability about the development or delivery of the champion prize.

At the end, we thank you the people that, with their interest, contributed to the existence of this Competition:
- Dany Flageole (formulagp2.com principal and Ten-Tenths.com forum moderator);
- David Plaza (Thef1.com Actuality forum coordinator);
- Joao Paulo Lopes da Cunha (FORIX creator and principal);
- Joselo (Corsadigital.com forum coordinator)
- Pablo Venuti (Los-Tuercas.com.ar forum moderator);
- Sammyed (Velocidad-TotalF1.com forum moderator)
- Titrisol (Velocidad-TotalF1.com forum moderator);
And all users who will enter in this Competition.


Happy motoring... and GOOD SHOW!!!

[Mekola]

In the following, you have the dates of all rounds of the 2005 GP2 TWPC:

Round 1 - Car Numbers Qualifying Session at Paul Ricard
Opening: March 21st
Closing: April 4th
Results: April 6th to 9th

Round 2 - Drivers Championship
Opening: April 4th
Closing: April 22th
Results: September 25th to 28th

Round 3 - GP2 Imola weekend
Opening: April 15th
Closing: April 22th
Results: April 24th to 27th

Round 4 - GP2 Barcelona weekend
Opening: April 29th
Closing: May 6th
Results: May 8th to 11th

Round 5 - GP2 Montecarlo weekend
Opening: May 13th
Closing: May 20th
Results: May 21st to 24th

Round 6 - GP2 Nürburgring weekend
Opening: May 20th
Closing: May 27th
Results: May 29th to June 1st

Round 7 - GP2 Magny-Cours weekend
Opening: June 24th
Closing: July 1st
Results: July 3rd to 6th

Round 8 - GP2 Silverstone weekend
Opening: July 1st
Closing: July 8th
Results: July 10th to 13th

Round 9 - GP2 Hockenheim weekend
Opening: July 15th
Closing: July 22nd
Results: July 24th to 27th

Round 10 - GP2 Hungaroring weekend
Opening: July 22nd
Closing: July 29th
Results: July 31st to August 3rd

Round 11 - GP2 Istanbul weekend
Opening: August 12th
Closing: August 19th
Results: August 21st to 24th

Round 12 - GP2 Monza weekend
Opening: August 26th
Closing: September 2nd
Results: September 4th to 7th

Round 13 - GP2 Spa-Francorchamps weekend
Opening: September 2nd
Closing: September 9th
Results: September 11th to 14th

Round 14 - GP2 Sakhir weekend
Opening: September 16th
Closing: September 23th
Results: September 25th to 28th

[Kidzer]

Very comprehensive and informative - good job

[DanFlag]

This competition is so well setup, I could not resist Mekola, here you go:
http://www.formulagp2.com/2005/2005_...N_COMPETITION/

I hope it's ok with you!

[flexible-flyer]

thanks for the info. can i suggest this gets stickied or something? so i dont forget!?

[Mekola]

flexible-flyer,

I let to moderators the decision to put this Rulebook thread as Post-It or Announcement.

Therefore I put links to this thread at the introduction of each round, when I say "A detailed overview of the rules can be found HERE."

[Mekola]

Excel tablesheet with the complete stats of the GP2 Two Worlds Prediction Competiton has changed URL; now is at this direction:
http://perso.wanadoo.es/nkorzan/2005GP2TWPC.xls

[Mekola]

According to changes of Sporting Regulations of GP2 Series made at the beggining of May 2005, a driver must be classified in the final race results in order to qualify for fastest lap of that race. The cut-off point for race classification is 90% of the total race distance.
GP2 Two Worlds Predictions Competiton followed this way at this time and, since the Round 4 (GP2 Barcelona weekend) has considered fastest lap scorer these who did a fastest lap record between the ones who classified in the final race results AND weren't disqualified on the race in question.
This announcement is in order to clear this thing.

[Mekola]

The last round of the GP2 Two Worlds Prediction Competition (Sakhir, Bahrein) has changed its date: because these GP2 races will be next October 1st and 2nd, the opening of the 14th and last round of the Competition will be on September 23rd, the closing on September 30th -at 4 AM GMT as ever-, and the results will be shown from October 2nd to 5th.
Thus the end of the 2005 GP2 Two Worlds Prediction Competition will move from September 25th to October 2nd.

[Mekola]

The last round of the GP2 Two Worlds Prediction Competition (Sakhir, Bahrein) has changed its date: because these GP2 races will be next September 28th and 29th, the opening of the 14th and last round of the Competition will be on September 21st, the closing on September 28th -at 4 AM GMT as ever-, and the results will be shown from September 29th to October 2nd.
Thus the end of the 2005 GP2 Two Worlds Prediction Competition will move from October 2nd to September 29th.

[Mekola]

The last round of the GP2 Two Worlds Prediction Competition (Sakhir, Bahrein) has changed its date definitively: because these GP2 races will be next September 29th and 30th, the opening of the 14th and last round of the Competition will be on September 19th, in order to give more days to concursants for this last round. The closing will be on September 29th -at 4 AM GMT as ever-, and the results will be shown from September 30th to October 3rd.
Thus the end of the 2005 GP2 Two Worlds Prediction Competition will move up from September 29th to September 30th.