Guess the Pole 2019: Abu Dhabi [+the Final RESULTS]

[XcraigX]

It's the last round of 2019! The F1 Championships are all set, but we need to decide who the most accurate and consistent guessers are on this forum.

Last year's Accuracy Champ, John has been in rare form and with his win in Brazil, has a shot at taking the Points Championship from last year's winner, returning Point Champion, and season long leader MonteCristo. But it's a long shot. Let's sum up the standings below:

In the Accuracy Championship, xcraigx maintains a healthy lead over MonteCristo.
Accuracy Player
24.725 xcraigx
31.631 MonteCristo
33.664 Megallos
46.943 John

It's going to take a huge screw up on my part to lose this one (but it's been done before - see Brazil 2009).

In the Points Championship, John made some ground up to our DearLeader™ MonteCristo, but needs another win with Monte scoring 6th or worse. It's gonna be tight!

Pts Player
90 MonteCristo
82 John

8 points separate these two. It's going to come down to who can get the time right. Don't forget the bonus for exact time guesses is still at play. 20 points go to whomever gets it exactly. Who are you rooting for? Should we start taking odds on these guys?

It's all or nothing this round, so get your guess in early!

Oh yeah, there's a race this weekend also...
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Round 21 - 2019 Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Yas Marina Circuit - 29 November - 1 December

Track Length: 5.554 Km (3.451 Miles)
Race Laps: 55 (305.361 Km)

2018 Pole time: Lewis Hamilton(Mercedes) 1:34.794

The deadline for entries is before the start of Friday First Free Practice (Friday 09:00 GMT/BST)

The Link you need the most:
ENTER YOUR GUESS HERE: http://www.disturbthe.com/GTP/guess.php
(It's now way too late to register for the first time. But let me know if you want to join next year)


Other Links of Interest:
You can go to the following link to access the view users GTP guesses page(the "hedging your bets" link):
http://www.disturbthe.com/GTP/allguesses.php
Official F1 Site (still celebrating that neither Ferrari nor Mercedes ended up on the podium)
Abu Dhabi Weather Forecast (let me guess, IT"S HOT DAMN IT!)
Yas Marina Circuit official site (most likely more interesting than the track)

[John]

I would like to point out that I lead the championship from Australia up to France

[XcraigX]

I would like to point out that I lead the championship from Australia up to France

C'mon John, that too long ago for any of us to remember!

Next, you're going to tell us that Valtteri Bottas led the WDC championship earlier this year.

[XcraigX]

Who's playing in the final round? Last chance to make a decent showing!

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Pts	Player
90	MonteCristo
82	John
65	xcraigx
54	Picci
52	Megallos
42	Ian-S
39	TomDA
32	KaiStar
31	Kals
21	ErwinGreven
10	Mawerick
2	RealTeeceezy

@MonteCristo @John @Picci @megallos @Ian-S @Tom @Kai-Star @kals @erwin greven @Mawerick @RealTeeceezy

[John]

I encourage everyone to play as that’d increase my chances of pulling off an upset.

[MonteCristo]

Damn Japanese typhoon. Could've led accuracy .

[XcraigX]

This week's guesses:

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Guess	Player
1:33.794	ErwinGreven
1:33.998	John
1:33.999	TomDA
1:34.000	Picci
1:34.000	Ian-S
1:34.001	MonteCristo
1:34.450	xcraigx
1:34.888	Megallos

Best of luck to you all!

[Tom]

Congrats Megallos! Looks like everyone else was quite optimistic...

Also, it looks like @MonteCristo is the champion, with @XcraigX taking accuracy.

[XcraigX]

This week's winner is Megallos with a time 0.109 seconds away from Lewis Hamilton's pole time of 1:34.779! Great job getting in the right area Megallos!

The full results from this round:

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Pts	Error	Guess	      Player
10	00.109	1:34.888	Megallos
6	00.329	1:34.450	xcraigx
4	00.778	1:34.001	MonteCristo
3	00.779	1:34.000	Picci
2	00.779	1:34.000	Ian-S
1	00.780	1:33.999	TomDA
0	00.781	1:33.998	John
0	00.985	1:33.794	ErwinGreven

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The 2019 GTP Accuracy Champion is XcraigX! I bet on a typhoon washout for Japan and it worked!! While I had very few wins this year, several podiums helped here also.

The full results for Accuracy:

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Accuracy    Player
25.054	   xcraigx
32.409	   MonteCristo
33.773	   Megallos
47.724	   John

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The 2019 GTP Points Champion is MonteCristo! This is the second year in a row he has captured the title! MonteCristo had a very Keke Rosberg - like year. Only 3 wins, but was on the podium almost every round (and held the points lead for more than 1/2 the season). Great job getting it in there Monte!

The full results on Points:

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Pts	Player
94	MonteCristo
82	John
71	xcraigx
62	Megallos
57	Picci
44	Ian-S
40	TomDA
32	KaiStar
31	Kals
21	ErwinGreven
10	Mawerick
2	RealTeeceezy

Thanks to everyone for playing! It's been a great year!

Let's work on recruitment of some more players for next year! The more people that have skin in the game, the better it is!

We also need some more people to weigh in on Rule 11 for GTP. The vote is still split 6 v 6. How else do you recommend we break the tie? If not, I'm just going to decide.

[erwin greven]

even without being that serious* in guessing still 21 points. *sometimes i'd just copy an earlier guess of a different circuit

[John]

I think I may have miscalculated the amount of points needed to beat Monte and put an undue amount of players between him and myself for this round

Regardless, great job again, Monte! Brilliant job!

And the same goes to Craig, you're doing a terrific job running this show. And yes, we need more players for next year. the other option would perhaps be a 5-3-1 points system or similar to ensure that not everyone gets points for playing. But that's a moot point if we have 8-9 entries for each round.

Another thing I'd like to see implemented is the removal of the possibility to see everyone's guesses until after the deadline. To spice it up a little.

[XcraigX]

I think I may have miscalculated the amount of points needed to beat Monte and put an undue amount of players between him and myself for this round

Regardless, great job again, Monte! Brilliant job!

And the same goes to Craig, you're doing a terrific job running this show. And yes, we need more players for next year. the other option would perhaps be a 5-3-1 points system or similar to ensure that not everyone gets points for playing. But that's a moot point if we have 8-9 entries for each round.

Another thing I'd like to see implemented is the removal of the possibility to see everyone's guesses until after the deadline. To spice it up a little.

There was a year when we first introduced the new database where you could not see the guesses until after the deadline. (Previous to this is was all manual via open time statements in the forum.) I agree it was a harder game without knowing where you stood and there was a greater distance between the places in the championships. However, the masses cried out and I put the feature in that we have today.
I am for the removal, but not sure how everyone else feels.

[erwin greven]

remove it,.

[John]

Remove it!

[MonteCristo]

Yeeeeeeeeesssssssss! I just want to thank my first love in life:



WE DID IT BABY DOLL!

And yes, remove it. It being the see other people's guesses, not Protos.