QATAR. Alan Mathew from UAE-based travel retail distributor V Group has maintained his 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. But he faces white-hot competition with just ten points covering the first 30 places.
At the conclusion of the group stage, Alan’s score of 47 points is just one ahead of Marcel DeBellis from Beler Holdings in Canada, who has jostled for the lead right from the start. Charles Roullet from Campari continues to sit well-placed in third on 44, just two more points back.
Below our top three we have Ground Control owner Kevin Zajax, Joost Korver from Knock Out and Behna Dehghani all on 42 points.
Buoyed no doubt by Switzerland’s fine win over Serbia and qualification for the Round of 16, Lindt & Sprüngli Head of Global Division Duty Free Peter Zehnder has moved up our leaderboard to be within Xherdan Shaqiri striking distance from the top.
The Moodie Davitt Report Senior Editor Mark Lane leads our company’s charge, bolstered by Sinead Moodie as leading woman on 38 points, just one ahead of Clarisse Daniels from Whyte and Mackay with another point back to Caroline South of Caroline South & Associates.
With the competition now entering the knockout stage, anything can happen and any player could make a surge up the table. All participants should now submit their predictions ahead of the knockout stage, which begins with Netherlands V USA today (Saturday 3 December).
The Round of 16 represents a potential haul of 24 points if you could predict each result and precise scoreline.
The full Round of 16 draw can be seen below:
Netherlands vs. USA
Argentina vs. Australia
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.
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.
