UPDATE AS AT END OF 3 DECEMBER MATCHES
QATAR. Alan Mathew from UAE-based travel retail distributor V Group is clinging to a one-point lead in The Moodie Davitt Report readers’ competition dedicated to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, brought to you in association with Qatar Duty Free.
Ground Control owner Kevin Zajax, our long-time front-runner, is back on the heels of the leader just one point behind. Did proud Aussie Kevin correctly predict his national side’s demise against mighty Argentina yesterday? It looks that way.
Marcel DeBellis from Beler Holdings in Canada, Charles Roullet from Campari, Joost Korver from Knock Out and Behna Dehghani are grouped just one point back. Look out too for Lindt & Sprüngli Head of Global Division Duty Free Peter Zehnder, who, like his national side Switzerland, shapes as a dangerous contender.
Caroline South of Caroline South Associates, like Peter a much-admired industry executive, is now our leading woman with 40 points. Sinead Moodie of The Moodie Davitt Report and Clarisse Daniels of Whyte & Mackay are just two points back.
All participants should now submit their predictions for the balance of the Round of 16 knockout stage.
Remaining games in the Round of 16 are:
France vs. Poland
England vs. Senegal
Japan vs. Croatia
Brazil vs. South Korea
Morocco vs. Spain
Portugal vs. Switzerland
Important note: Penalty Shootouts
Now that the tournament has reached the knockout stage, extra time and penalties come into play.
When a penalty shootout occurs, the penalties scored will count for the result, but not for the final score. Therefore, if a prediction was made that Team A will win the match, then 1 point will be awarded if Team A wins on penalties. However, if a draw was predicted and the match is drawn after extra time, the player will receive either 1 point for predicting a draw but the wrong score, or 3 points for predicting a draw and the right score, irrespective of whichever team proceeds to win on penalties.
Here is how the top 175 players ranked after the completion of the pool stages.
As reported, Qatar Duty Free is providing great prizes as excitement builds both for the competition and the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 itself, which has already thrown up plenty of thrills and upset results.
Also as reported, Qatar Duty Free (QDF) has been named as Official Retail Store for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. The agreement includes a licence to exclusively sell all related merchandise in the fan zones and at all eight stadiums.
QDF also just opened a FIFA store at Hamad International Airport’s magnificent new expansion, inaugurated on 10 November.
Additionally The Moodie Davitt Report is providing charity-based prizes for first, second and third individual contestants with cash donations of US$500, US$300 and US$200 paid to a charity of their choice.
The competition, open to anyone involved in the aviation and travel retail sectors (mandatory), is based on match predictions for the 32 teams in a group stage and knockout format. The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 concludes on 18 December with the World Cup Final at the Lusail Iconic Stadium.
The rules are simple. Qualified readers simply need to make a score prediction in each of the matches, and are awarded points based on the accuracy of their predictions. You receive 3 points for an exact score prediction and 1 point if you predict the right result (win or draw) without getting the score correct.
Predicting is simple – scroll down to select a score for each match throughout the group, knockout and final phases. Predictions will automatically save the moment you make them, while you will be able to enter or modify your scores up to ten- minutes before each match kick-off.
Form guide (with a health warning)
To help with your predictions, listed below are the FIFA official rankings for all 32 teams alongside the groups each team is playing in.
For details on how points are calculated, please visit the rules page once you have signed up.
