chasmmi Posted March 15, 2016 Posted March 15, 2016 SUMMERTIME IS HERE, HUZZAH!WELCOME TO THE SUPER FUN BOX OFFICE CIVIL WAR SUMMER GAME 2016! This is a summer tradition on this site (and sites from memories’ past), started by everyone’s favourite mod (after Tele, WB, Impact, Spaghetti, Cjohn, oh and then there’s Ed of course and …) Baumer! Hence the name . The game will run from Friday April 29th until Monday September 5th. So that means that all grosses and predictions will only count until Monday September 5th. As for structure, the main focus is on preseason general gross predictions and a sprinkling of bonus questions. Then during the game itself, there will be weekly sets of questions as well as the good old SOTM (Spur of the Moment – You will learn to love these ) questions too. So let’s get to the predictioning: A: DOMESTIC TOP 15 Predict the 15 films you believe will gross the highest over the course of the Summer Game along with a predicted gross. You may choose any film for this list so long as it receives a wide (according to BOM) US cinematic release between the dates of April 29th and August 19th. I will provide a list of all the eligible films in a latter post for your convenience. Therefore your top 15 predictions should look something like the following: 1) Avatar: 485M 2) Ernest Saves Christmas 46lM 3) The Tom and Jerry Movie 411M 4) Ironclaws! Fists of fury. 325M 5) Honey we ate the kids 232M 6) The Really Amazing Spiderman, We Promise it Really is This Time 4: 177M 7) Halloween Part Ninety Three 155M 8) BSG: The Movie 118M 9) Sparticus 2: The Quickening 115M 10) Hans: A prince’s Tale 112M 11) Snow White and the 7 Gigolos 109M 12) Aliens vs Ja Ja Binks 104M 13) We Bought a Nuclear Powerplant 101M 14) Tetris The Movie 95M 15) On the Cusp of Yesterday 92M POINT SYSTEM: For every film you call correctly in the top 15, in any order, you will get 15,000 points. For every film you call in the exact spot, you will get 25,000 points (total). So you must think this out thoroughly. You will also lose 10,000 points for every film in the top 15 that you call incorrectly. So, for example, if you say Hunger Games will be in the top 15, and it misses the top 15, you will lose 10,000 points (PLUS whatever you miss the gross by). If you are able to call the top two positions right, in order, regardless of the gross, you will get a 75,000 point bonus.If you are able to call the top three positions right, in order, regardless of the gross, you will get a 100,000 point bonus.If you can call the top four positions right, in order, regardless of gross, you will get a 150,000 point bonus.If you are able to call the top five positions right, in order, regardless of gross, you will get a 250,000 point bonus. This is not as easy as you might think it is.If you are a genius and can call the top 10 right, in order, regardless of gross, you will get a 750,000 point bonus.If you can call 12 right in order, you get a million bonus points.If you can call 15 right in order, you will get 2 million points, a specially commissioned MS Paint portrait of any movie scene you choose, hand-created by me, and I will post a Youtube video of me acting out any scene of your choice from any film released during the Summer Game. OTHER ADD ONS:Call ANY 4 SPOTS in the correct place (eg: 3rd, 6th, 8th, and 14th) and receive a 100,000 point bonus. Call ANY 6 SPOTS in the correct place and receive a 200,000 point bonus. Call ANY 8 SPOTS in the correct place and receive a 300,000 point bonus. Call ANY 10 SPOTS in the correct place and receive a 500,000 point bonus. If less than 20 players successfully predict a film to finish in the top 15, those players will score a 20,000 point bonus. If less than 10 players successfully predict a film to finish in the top 15, those players will score a 50,000 point bonus. If less than 5 players successfully predict a film to finish in the top 15, those players will score a 75,000 point bonus. If 1 solitary player successfully predicts a film to finish in the top 15, that players will score a 125,000 point bonus. BONUS STRUCTURE. Call 6 or 7 of the 15 films correct, regardless of order and get a 50,000 point bonusCall 8-10 of the 15 films correctly, regardless of the order, and receive a 100,000 point bonus.Call 11 of the top 15 correct, regardless of order, receive a 150,000 point bonus.Call 12 films correct, regardless of the order and you will receive a 300,000 point bonus.Call 13 correct, regardless of order, and you get a 500,000 point bonus. Call 14 correct, regardless of order, and you get a 700,000 point bonus. If you call all 15 correct, regardless of order, you will get a 1 million point bonusThis does not eliminate the bonus points originally mentioned, it will just add to them. GROSS ACCURACY: Call a film’s gross to within 2 million to get 30,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 5 million to get 25,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 10 million to get 20,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 20 million to get 15,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 30 million to get 10,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 40 million to get 0 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 40.01-60 million lose 10,000 points and lose 1,000 points for every subsequent 10M you are away. *If the film finishes in the top 15, the maximum points that can be lost are 20,000. If the film is not in the top 15, there is no upper limit for points lost. The closest predictor for each of the top 15 films will receive an additional 20,000 points to their total (no matter how wrong that prediction may be) If anyone can predict at least 4 of the top 15 to within 40 million, they will score a bonus 25,000 points If anyone can predict at least 6 of the top 15 to within 40 million, they will score a bonus 50,000 points If anyone can predict at least 8 of the top 15 to within 40 million, they will score a bonus 100,000 points If anyone can predict at least 10 of the top 15 to within 40 million, they will score a bonus 150,000 points If anyone can predict at least 12 of the top 15 to within 40 million, they will score a bonus 250,000 points And one more caveat to this is the double whammy rule. If you call a film to hit the top 15 and it misses, you will lose points for missing the top 15 AND you will lose DOUBLE points if the gross misses by more than the 40 million allotted to you. If however you call a film incorrectly in the top 15 but you are within the 40 million, YOU WILL NOT GET CREDIT FOR THOSE POINTS If you don't enter a gross for a particular film in the top 15 and you've put that film in your top 14, the gross will be assumed to be the same as the film in the position you predicted below it and will be scored accordingly. If you don't enter a gross for the 15th film, the gross used will be that of the 14th placed film you predicted. If you DO NOT enter any grosses, you are assumed to ABSTAIN from entering the gross for the top 15 and you will lose a score equal to worst score for grosses - 10k. If the lowest score is +ve then you will lose 10k for grosses. (you will still receive all points associated with the positions of course) B: DOMESTIC TOP 7 WEEKENDS (READ CAREFULLY) NOTE: THIS IS NO LONGER EXCLUSIVELY OPENING WEEKENDS. Due to the rare freak occurrence of wide release big films doing mini limited release roll outs before the proper release date, this section will no longer be exclusively opening weekends but rather any weekend in general. This means that if a repeat of the American Sniper situation from Winter 2014 occurs again, the 100 million ‘3rd weekend’ or whenever it was would be that film’s qualifying weekend. A film’s weekend will always be deemed its 3 day Friday to Sunday gross (including Thursday previews). So if a film opens on a Wednesday, only the BOM reported Friday-Sunday 3 day will count as the weekend total. POINT SYSTEM: For each correctly predicted film, regardless of order you receive 15,000 points For each film in the exact spot you receive 10,000 bonus points (so 25,000 total) Call top 3 in order and receive 50,000 bonus points Call 5 of the top 7 correctly (any order) receive 75,000 bonus points Call 6 of the top 7 (any order) receive 100,000 bonus points Call top 7 (any order) receive 150,000 bonus points For every incorrect film lose 7,000 points GROSS ACCURACY: Call a film’s gross to within 1 million to get 30,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 2.5 million to get 25,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 5 million to get 20,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 10 million to get 15,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 15 million to get 10,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 20 million to get 5,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 30 million to get no bonus points Miss the gross by more than 30M and lose 10,000 points (You will lose these points even if the film doesn’t make the top 7 OW.) The closest predictor for each film will also receive a bonus 10,000 points. Predict 3 of the top 7 to within 30M and score a 30,000 point bonus Predict 4 of the top 7 to within 30M and score a 60,000 point bonus Predict 5 of the top 7 to within 30M and score a 100,000 point bonus NEW RULE!!! - If you don't enter a gross for a particular film in the top 7 and you've put that film in your top 6, the gross will be assumed to be the same as the film in the position you predicted below it and will be scored accordingly. If you don't enter a gross for the 7th film, the gross used will be that of the 6th placed film you predicted. If you DO NOT enter any grosses, you are assumed to ABSTAIN from entering the gross for the Top 7 Weekends and you will lose a score equal to worst score for grosses - 5k. If the lowest score is +ve then you will lose 5k for grosses. (you will still receive all points associated with the positions of course) C: TOP 10 WORLDWIDE TOTAL GROSS Predict the top 10 grossing films of the Summer, worldwide. POINT SYSTEM: For each correctly predicted film, regardless of order you receive 20,000 points For each film in the exact spot you receive 10,000 bonus points (so 30,000 total) Call top 3 in order and receive 100,000 bonus points Call top 5 in order and receive 200,000 bonus points Call 6 of the top 10 correctly (any order) receive 75,000 bonus points Call 7 of the top 10 correctly (any order) receive 125,000 bonus points Call 8 of the top 10 correctly (any order) receive 200,000 bonus points Call 9 of the top 10 (any order) receive 300,000 bonus points Call top 10 (any order) receive 500,000 bonus points For every incorrect film lose 10,000 points GROSS ACCURACY: Call a film’s gross to within 10 million to get 50,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 25 million to get 35,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 50 million to get 25,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 75 million to get 10,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 100 million to get 5,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 150 million to get no bonus points Miss the gross by 150-200M and lose 10,000 points. Then also lose an additional 1,000 points for every subsequent 25M you miss the final total by. (You will lose double these points if the film doesn’t make the top 10 WW.) Call 4 of the top 10 to within $150M and score 50,000 bonus points Call 5 of the top 10 to within $150M and score 100,000 bonus points Call 6 of the top 10 to within $150M and score 150,000 bonus points Call 8 of the top 10 to within $150M and score 250,000 bonus points NEW RULE!! - If you don't enter a gross for a particular film in the Top 10 Domestic and you've put that film in your top 9, the gross will be assumed to be the same as the film in the position you predicted below it and will be scored accordingly. If you don't enter a gross for the 10th film, the gross used will be that of the 9th placed film you predicted. If you DO NOT enter any grosses, you are assumed to ABSTAIN from entering the gross for the Top 10 Worldwide and you will lose a score equal to worst score for grosses - 10k. If the lowest score is +ve then you will lose 10k for grosses. (you will still receive all points associated with the positions of course) D: TOP 5 WORLDWIDE WEEKENDS (READ CAREFULLY) NOTE: THIS IS NOT EXCLUSIVELY OPENING WEEKENDS. The nature of international release schedule means that it is very possible for a film’s 4th weekend to be its largest worldwide when it opens in the USA, UK and China all on the same day after 3 weekends dominating the Lithuanian market. Because of this, the task here is to predict the 5 best single weekends a film has worldwide (Domestic and OS combined). This figure will be calculated as the figure BOM reports as each films international weekend total. A film cannot appear on the list twice, only its best weekend will count. POINT SYSTEM: For each correctly predicted film, regardless of order you receive 15,000 points For each film in the exact spot you receive 10,000 bonus points (so 25,000 total) Call 3 of the top 5 correctly (any order) and receive 50,000 bonus points Call 4 of the top 5 correctly (any order) receive 75,000 bonus points Call 5 of the top 5 (any order) receive 100,000 bonus points Call top 5 in the exact correct order and receive 100,000 bonus points on top of any other bonuses earned For every incorrect film lose 7,000 points GROSS ACCURACY: Call a film’s gross to within 10 million to get 25,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 20 million to get 20,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 30 million to get 15,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 50 million to get 10,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 70 million to get no bonus points Miss the gross by more than 70M and lose 10,000 points (You will lose these points even if the film doesn’t make the top 7 OW.) The closest predictor for each film will also receive a bonus 10,000 points. Predict 3 of the top 5 to within 70M and score a 20,000 point bonus Predict 4 of the top 5 to within 70M and score a 40,000 point bonus Predict 5 of the top 5 to within 70M and score a 75,000 point bonus NEW RULE!!! -If you don't enter a gross for a particular film in the Top 5 WW Weekends and you've put that film in your top 4, the gross will be assumed to be the same as the film in the position you predicted below it and will be scored accordingly. If you don't enter a gross for the 5th film, the gross used will be that of the 4th placed film you predicted. If you DO NOT enter any grosses, you are assumed to ABSTAIN from entering the gross for the Top 5 Worldwide Weekends and you will lose a score equal to worst score for grosses - 5k. If the lowest score is +ve then you will lose 5k for grosses. (you will still receive all points associated with the positions of course) E: CHINA TOP 5! China has a subforum now, so let’s give it a preseason section in the summer game! Predict the top 5 Hollywood (anything on the wide release list provided in a latter post) films in China. POINT SYSTEM: For each correctly predicted film, regardless of order you receive 15,000 points For each film in the exact spot you receive 10,000 bonus points (so 25,000 total) Call 3 of the top 5 correctly and receive 30,000 bonus points Call 4 of the top 5 correctly and receive 60,000 bonus points Call 5 of the top 5 correctly and receive 100,000 bonus points For every incorrect film lose 10,000 points GROSS ACCURACY: Call a film’s gross to within 5 million to get 25,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 10 million to get 20,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 20 million to get 15,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 30 million to get 10,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 40 million to get 0 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 40.01-60 million lose 10,000 points and lose 1,000 points for every subsequent 10M you are away. The closest predictor for each of the top 15 films will receive an additional 20,000 points to their total (no matter how wrong that prediction may be) NEW RULE!!! - If you don't enter a gross for a particular film in the Top 5 and you've put that film in your top 4, the gross will be assumed to be the same as the film in the position you predicted below it and will be scored accordingly. If you don't enter a gross for the 5th film, the gross used will be that of the 4th placed film you predicted. If you DO NOT enter any grosses, you are assumed to ABSTAIN from entering the gross for the Top 5 China and you will lose a score equal to worst score for grosses - 5k. If the lowest score is +ve then you will lose 5k for grosses. (you will still receive all points associated with the positions of course) (Due to the fickle nature of the Chinese release Calendar and censorship board, in this question players will be allowed to predict 2 back up films (6th and 7th) that will act as the replacement predictions if any of the films on their list do not get a release within the game’s timespan). Lastly, for the same reason, you can choose to Abstain from this question all together for a cool 10,000 points. F: TOTAL GROSSES Predict a total gross for each of: Top 15 Domestic, Top 7 W/E, Top 10 WW and Top 5 China (This does not have to have any mathematical connection to your predictions in parts A-D). This will look something like: Top 15: 3 Billion dollars Top 7 W/E 475M Top 10 WW: 8 Trillion Dollars Top 5 China: $47 POINT SYSTEM: For each prediction if you are: Within 20% of the final total. score 10,000 points Within 15% of the final total. score 15,000 points Within 10% of the final total. score 20,000 points Within 8% of the final total. score 25,000 points Within 5% of the final total. score 35,000 points Within 2% of the final total. score 50,000 points If all four predictions are within 10% score a bonus 25,000 If all four predictions are within 8% score a bonus 40,000 If all four predictions are within 5% score a bonus 70,000 If all four predictions are within 2% score a bonus 100,000 G: AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 (WELL 5) BOX OFFICES Predict the number one grossing (Domestic wide released) film of the summer in the following territories over the duration of the game. South Korea South Africa Brazil Mexico Australia Italy POINT SYSTEM: If your predicted film for a territory is that country’s number 1 grossing film of the summer, you receive 15,000 points If your predicted film for a territory is that country’s number 2 grossing film of the summer, you receive 10,000 points If your predicted film for a territory is that country’s number 3 grossing film of the summer, you receive 5,000 points If your predicted film for a territory is that country’s number 4 grossing film of the summer, you receive 0 points If your predicted film for a territory is that country’s number 5 or lower grossing film of the summer, you lose 10,000 points Correctly predict the number 1 grossing film of 3 territories and receive 25,000 bonus points Correctly predict the number 1 grossing film of 4 territories and receive 50,000 bonus points Correctly predict the number 1 grossing film of 5 territories and receive 75,000 bonus points Correctly predict the number 1 grossing film of 6 territories and receive 125,000 bonus points GROSS ACCURACY: There are no gross predictions required only placements. LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!HERE ARE YOUR PRE SEASON BONUS QUESTIONS THAT MUST BE ANSWERED BEFORE 11:59pm ON THURSDAY APRIL 28th. NOTE: In the event that a film gets pulled from release completely, if this schedule change occurs before April 22nd, a new film will be added to replace it. Players will then still have 7 days to change their answer as they please (anybody who predicts the removed film and doesn’t change in this time will automatically have their prediction assigned to abstain). If the film exits the schedules after April 22nd, then for yes/no answers, the question will be considered void, for questions with multiple answers such as 1 and 2, the option will be removed from the game and the question will continue. (Any player who had chosen the deleted option in this scenario will score points equivalent to abstaining in this instance) A generous risk-free question to start you off: Predict which film will finish closest to each of the following milestones domestically by the end of the game: A: 100M B: 200M C: 300M D: 400M E: 500M Each correctly predicted film scores you 15,000 points, get all four correct and receive 25,000 bonus points for 100k total. (This is the only preseason question where there is no penalty for being wrong so enjoy it). 1) Tell me which of these will be the highest grossing film of the summer domestically:1) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 2) Independence Day Resurgence 3) Angry Birds Movie4) Ghostbusters Answer correctly: 12,000 points Answer incorrectly: -5,000 points State that you abstain: 2,000 points Correctly predict the films gross to within 20M and receive a 13,000 point bonus, Predict to within 10M and receive 23,000 points bonus. 2) Tell me which of these will be the lowest grossing film of the summer domestically:1) Free State of Jones 2) Purge: Election Year 3) Popstar: Never Stop Not Stopping 4) Nine Lives Answer correctly: 12,000 points Answer incorrectly: -5,000 points State that you abstain: 2,000 points Correctly predict the films gross to within 10M and receive a 13,000 point bonus, Predict to within 5M and receive 23,000 points bonus 3) Will at least 3 films make more than 300M domestically by the end of the game? Answer correctly: 15,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 10,000 points State that you abstain: 3,000 points 4) Will animated films combine to make more than 800M domestically by the end of the game? Answer correctly: 15,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 10,000 points State that you abstain: 3,000 points 5) Will at least 3 films make more than 100M OW domestic? Answer correctly: 20,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 15,000 points State that you abstain: 4,000 points 6) Will any film have either a second domestic 3 day weekend or a second worldwide weekend that would have qualified for its respective top X table if multiple entries had been allowed? Answer correctly: 20,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 15,000 points State that you abstain: 4,000 points 7) Will at least 3 of the top 5 domestic films of the summer NOT be comic book films? Answer correctly: 20,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 15,000 points State that you abstain: 4,000 points 8) Will the top 3 films of the summer’s combined gross be higher than the combined gross of Batman vs Superman, Jungle Book and Zootopia? Answer correctly: 20,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 15,000 points State that you abstain: 4,000 points 9) Will any film have a domestic Opening Weekend above $50M but not open to number one at the box office? Answer correctly: 25,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 20,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points 10) Will at least 2 sequel/prequel/reboots drop more than 33.33% Domestically from the previous installment in its franchise (Civil War is vs Winter Soldier, Apocalypse is against DOFP and Bourne is vs Ultimatum for this question)? Answer correctly: 25,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 20,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points 11) Will at least 2 DOMESTIC titles make over $150M in China? Answer correctly: 25,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 20,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points 12) Will at least 3 animated films open to number one at the domestic box office? Answer correctly: 25,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 20,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points 13) Will any film with a budget above $120M (according to BOM or another credible source) gross less than $60M domestically? Answer correctly: 25,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 20,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points 14) Will any domestic film get more than 8 million admissions in South Korea? Answer correctly: 25,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 20,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points 15) Will any film make more than $45M in Germany? Answer correctly: 30,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 25,000 points State that you abstain: 6,000 points 16) Will at least 3 comedy films (as listed by BOM) make over $100M domestic? Answer correctly: 30,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 25,000 points State that you abstain: 6,000 points 17) Will any film open to 1st place domestically in its opening weekend and then drop more than 64% in its second week? Answer correctly: 30,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 25,000 points State that you abstain: 6,000 points 18) Will any film in the worldwide top 10 NOT be in the domestic top 15 films at the end of the game? Answer correctly: 30,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 25,000 points State that you abstain: 6,000 points 19) Which combination of films will gross the most amount of money domestically during the game? 1) Finding Dory, Civil War, Popstar: Never stop Never Stopping, Mike and Dave need Wedding Dates 2) Apocalypse, Star Trek 3, Sausage Party, Alice Through the Looking Glass 3) Warcraft, Neighbours 2, Tarzan, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 4) Jason Bourne, Central Intelligence, Secret Life of Pets, Conjuring 2 Answer correctly: 30,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 25,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points 20) Which combination of films will gross the smallest amount of money during the game? 1) Pete’s Dragon, Keanu, The Shallow, Nine Lives, 2) Legend of Tarzan, Ratchett and Clank, Me Before You, Arms and the Dudes 3) Ice Age, Money Monster, Lights Out, The Space Between Us, 4) Ben Hur, Now You See Me 2, The Shallows, Mechanic: Resurrection, Answer correctly: 30,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 25,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points YES WE ARE PUTTING BONUSES HERE TOO!!!: If you get at least 10 preseason questions correct, you will score 25,000 bonus points If you get at least 12 preseason questions correct, you will score 50,000 bonus points If you get at least 15 preseason questions correct, you will score 100,000 bonus points If you get at least 18 preseason questions correct, you will score 150,000 bonus points If you get all 20 preseason questions correct, you will score 250,000 bonus points Jajang’s (JJ-8) little set of Questions. Answer if you Dare!Chasmmi has unleashed the beast within me and let add my little questionnaire to pre-season. As before it will come in the form of 20 30 questions in total. This time however, I am breaking it into Parts A & B. Part A will consist of 10 questions while Part B will consist of 20 questions. Scoring (Overall) General Scoring & Bonus points are listed after each set of questions. You can choose to ABSTAIN from both sections for 10k (ie. Both Part A & Part B). Bonus Scores (Overall) There is bonus scoring under each Part, but this is an overall bonus score between both Parts and is in addition to all points gained from each Part. If you get at least 9 out of 10 in Part A and at least 18 out of 20 in Part B, you will receive a bonus of 20k (if get them all right see, then see the point below). If you are GOD and get all 30 questions correct, you will receive a crazy bonus of 100k. Part A: A Fish called Dory A total of 7 animated films are being released over the course of the game. One of those films is anticipated by many and as such will have it as their number 1 film for summer. Here are 10 questions to wet your appetite…. To be clear on the inclusions, the following films are included in this question: Ratchet & Clank; The Angry Birds Movie; Finding Dory; The Secret life of Pets; Ice Age: Collision Course; Sausage Party; Kubo and the 2 Strings. Questions 1) Will Finding Dory produce the biggest “animated” opening weekend of 2016 ? (Current Record – 2016 = Zootopia 75.1m) (Yes this question includes all animated films that have opened in 2016 up until the end of the game) (ie. Finding Dory must open bigger than Zootopia AND all other animated films opening during the summer game) 2) Will Finding Dory produce the biggest “animated” opening weekend ever ? (Current Record = Shrek the Third : 121.6m) 3) Will Finding Dory make more than 300m domestically ? 4) Will Finding Dory make more than 400m domestically ? 5) Will Finding Dory top the Summer Game domestically ? (ie. #1 film for the game) 6) Will Finding Dory make more than 1B worldwide ? 7) Will Finding Dory become the #1 Animated Film Worldwide (Current #1 = Frozen 1.277B) 8) How many weekends will an Animated Film be on top of the weekend chart ? (You have a Cushion of 1 Weekend – so if you are off by 1 you still get this correct) 9) Will any of the listed Animated Films have a weekend drop of “< 30%” in their 2nd weekends ? 10) How many Animated Films will be in the top 15 for the summer game ? (you have a Cushion of 1 Film) Scoring For each correct answer you will receive +5k. For each incorrect answer you will receive -5k. (No Answer / abstain 1 question will be assumed to be incorrect. YOU MUST ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS IN THIS SECTION IF YOU GO FOR IT) You can choose to ABSTAIN Part A (This section) for 5k. Bonus Scores If you get 7 or 8 out of 10 correct, you receive a Bonus of 2k. If you get 9 out of 10 correct, you receive a Bonus of 5k. If you get 10 out of 10 correct, you receive a Bonus of 10k. Part B: It’s a Comic Book WorldIn recognition of the recent domination of Comic Book Movies (Especially Marvel and DC), and an expectation that a comic book film will top the domestic summer. Here are 20 questions to clear the air…. To be clear on the inclusions, the following films are included in this question: Captain America: Civil War; X-Men: Apocalypse; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows; Suicide Squad Questions 1) A comic book film is expected to make the highest opening weekend during the summer game (Many of you will have it as your number 1 Weekend). Name that Film OR if you don’t think a Comic Film will be the number 1 weekend this summer, then put NONE. 2) Will Captain America: Civil War make more than Iron Man 2 (128.1m) on Opening Weekend? 3) Will Captain America: Civil War make more than Iron Man 3 (174.1m) (and inherently more than BVS) on Opening Weekend? 4) Will Captain America: Civil War make more than Captain America: The Winter Soldier (259.8m)? 5) Will Captain America: Civil War become the biggest MCU film which doesn’t have “The Avengers” in its title (ie. More than Iron Man 3 (409m)) 6) Will X-Men: Apocalypse make more than X-Men: Days of Future Past (90.8m) on Opening weekend? 7) Will X-Men: Apocalypse make more than Deadpool (132.4m) on Opening weekend (this would make it the largest of the X-Men series)? 8) Will X-Men: Apocalypse make more than X-Men: The Last Stand (234.4m)? 9) Will X-Men: Apocalypse become the biggest of the X-Men series/franchise (Deadpool – Final number isn’t done yet)? 10) Will Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows make more than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) (65.6m) on Opening weekend? 11) Will Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows make more than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) (191.2m)? 12) Will Suicide Squad make more than Captain America: The First Avenger (65.1m)? 13) Will Suicide Squad (Total) make more than Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Opening Weekend (170m – estimate)? 14) Will All Comic Book films (Total) make more than 1 Billion domestically (Total of all 4 films together)? 15) Will any Comic Book film drop more than 62% in it’s second weekend? (this will always reference 3 day totals only) 16) In how many of the following markets will a Comic Book film be the number 1 film during the Game? (You have a cushion of 1 country) Australia; Brazil; China; France; Germany; Mexico; Russia; South Korea; United Kingdom 17) Will Captain America: Civil War make more than 1 Billion Worldwide? 18) Will Captain America: Civil War (Worldwide Total) OR X-Men: Apocalypse (Worldwide Total) make than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (Worldwide Total) AND Suicide Squad (Worldwide Total) Worldwide? 19) Will at least 2 Comic Book films receive a Cinema Score of at least “A”? 20) How Many Comic Book films will be in the ALL 3 of the main game charts? (there is no Cushion for this one!) Scoring For each correct answer you will receive +5k. For each incorrect answer you will receive -5k. (No Answer / abstain 1 question will be assumed to be incorrect. YOU MUST ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS IN THIS SECTION IF YOU GO FOR IT) You can choose to ABSTAIN Part B (This section) for 10k. Bonus Scores If you get 14, 15 or 16 out 20 right in Part 2, you receive a Bonus of 2k. If you get 17 or 18 out 20 right in Part 2, you receive a Bonus of 3k. If you get 19 out 20 right in Part 2, you receive a Bonus of 5k. If you get 20 out 20 right in Part 2, you receive a Bonus of 20k. PLEASE POST ALL YOUR PREDICTIONS IN THIS THREAD LINKED BELOW GOOD LUCK EVERYONE AND HAVE FUN. THE FIRST WEEK’S QUESTIONS AND THE FIRST SOTM WILL BE POSTED SOON 7 Quote
chasmmi Posted March 15, 2016 Author Posted March 15, 2016 TOP 15 ETC PREDICTION TEMPLATE Below is a helpful template to use for making predictions. All Players who use this template for their predictions will receive 10,000 bonus points for making my life easier when I have to score everything at the end of the game. A: Domestic top 15: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) 10) 11) 12) 13) 14) 15) B: Top 7 Domestic OW: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) C: Worldwide top 10: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) 10) D: Worldwide Weekends: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) E: China Box Office: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) F: Total Grosses: Top 15 Dom) Top 7 W/E) Top 10 WW) Top 5 China) G: Around The World in 80 Box Offices: South Korea #1) South Africa #1) Brazil #1) Mexico #1) Australia #1 ) Italy #1 ) Pre-season Questions: A generous risk-free question to start you off: Predict which film will finish closest to each of the following milestones domestically by the end of the game: A: 100M B: 200M C: 300M D: 400M E: 500M Each correctly predicted film scores you 15,000 points, get all four correct and receive 25,000 bonus points for 100k total. (This is the only preseason question where there is no penalty for being wrong so enjoy it). 1) Tell me which of these will be the highest grossing film of the summer domestically:1) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 2) Independence Day Resurgence 3) Angry Birds Movie4) Ghostbusters Answer correctly: 12,000 points Answer incorrectly: -5,000 points State that you abstain: 2,000 points Correctly predict the films gross to within 20M and receive a 13,000 point bonus, Predict to within 10M and receive 23,000 points bonus. 2) Tell me which of these will be the lowest grossing film of the summer domestically:1) Free State of Jones 2) Purge: Election Year 3) Popstar: Never Stop Not Stopping 4) Nine Lives Answer correctly: 12,000 points Answer incorrectly: -5,000 points State that you abstain: 2,000 points Correctly predict the films gross to within 10M and receive a 13,000 point bonus, Predict to within 5M and receive 23,000 points bonus 3) Will at least 3 films make more than 300M domestically by the end of the game? Answer correctly: 15,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 10,000 points State that you abstain: 3,000 points 4) Will animated films combine to make more than 800M domestically by the end of the game? Answer correctly: 15,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 10,000 points State that you abstain: 3,000 points 5) Will at least 3 films make more than 100M OW domestic? Answer correctly: 20,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 15,000 points State that you abstain: 4,000 points 6) Will any film have either a second domestic 3 day weekend or a second worldwide weekend that would have qualified for its respective top X table if multiple entries had been allowed? Answer correctly: 20,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 15,000 points State that you abstain: 4,000 points 7) Will at least 3 of the top 5 domestic films of the summer NOT be comic book films? Answer correctly: 20,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 15,000 points State that you abstain: 4,000 points 8) Will the top 3 films of the summer’s combined gross be higher than the combined gross of Batman vs Superman, Jungle Book and Zootopia? Answer correctly: 20,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 15,000 points State that you abstain: 4,000 points 9) Will any film have a domestic Opening Weekend above $50M but not open to number one at the box office? Answer correctly: 25,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 20,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points 10) Will at least 2 sequel/prequel/reboots drop more than 33.33% Domestically from the previous installment in its franchise (Civil War is vs Winter Soldier, Apocalypse is against DOFP and Bourne is vs Ultimatum for this question)? Answer correctly: 25,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 20,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points 11) Will at least 2 DOMESTIC titles make over $150M in China? Answer correctly: 25,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 20,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points 12) Will at least 3 animated films open to number one at the domestic box office? Answer correctly: 25,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 20,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points 13) Will any film with a budget above $120M (according to BOM or another credible source) gross less than $60M domestically? Answer correctly: 25,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 20,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points 14) Will any domestic film get more than 8 million admissions in South Korea? Answer correctly: 25,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 20,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points 15) Will any film make more than $45M in Germany? Answer correctly: 30,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 25,000 points State that you abstain: 6,000 points 16) Will at least 3 comedy films (as listed by BOM) make over $100M domestic? Answer correctly: 30,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 25,000 points State that you abstain: 6,000 points 17) Will any film open to 1st place domestically in its opening weekend and then drop more than 64% in its second week? Answer correctly: 30,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 25,000 points State that you abstain: 6,000 points 18) Will any film in the worldwide top 10 NOT be in the domestic top 15 films at the end of the game? Answer correctly: 30,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 25,000 points State that you abstain: 6,000 points 19) Which combination of films will gross the most amount of money domestically during the game? 1) Finding Dory, Civil War, Popstar: Never stop Never Stopping, Mike and Dave need Wedding Dates 2) Apocalypse, Star Trek 3, Sausage Party, Alice Through the Looking Glass 3) Warcraft, Neighbours 2, Tarzan, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 4) Jason Bourne, Central Intelligence, Secret Life of Pets, Conjuring 2 Answer correctly: 30,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 25,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points 20) Which combination of films will gross the smallest amount of money during the game? 1) Pete’s Dragon, Keanu, The Shallow, Nine Lives, 2) Legend of Tarzan, Ratchett and Clank, Me Before You, Arms and the Dudes 3) Ice Age, Money Monster, Lights Out, The Space Between Us, 4) Ben Hur, Now You See Me 2, The Shallows, Mechanic: Resurrection, Answer correctly: 30,000 points Answer incorrectly: lose 25,000 points State that you abstain: 5,000 points Jajang’s (JJ-8) little set of Questions. Answer if you Dare!Part A: A Fish called Dory 1) Will Finding Dory produce the biggest “animated” opening weekend of 2016 ? (Current Record – 2016 = Zootopia 75.1m) 2) Will Finding Dory produce the biggest “animated” opening weekend ever ? (Current Record = Shrek the Third : 121.6m) 3) Will Finding Dory make more than 300m domestically ? 4) Will Finding Dory make more than 400m domestically ? 5) Will Finding Dory top the Summer Game domestically ? (ie. #1 film for the game) 6) Will Finding Dory make more than 1B worldwide ? 7) Will Finding Dory become the #1 Animated Film Worldwide (Current #1 = Frozen 1.277B) 8) How many weekends will an Animated Film be on top of the weekend chart ? (You have a Cushion of 1 Weekend – so if you are off by 1 you still get this correct) 9) Will any of the listed Animated Films have a weekend drop of “< 30%” in their 2nd weekends ? 10) How many Animated Films will be in the top 15 for the summer game ? (you have a Cushion of 1 Film) Part B: It’s a Comic Book World 1) A comic book film is expected to make the highest opening weekend during the summer game (Many of you will have it as your number 1 Weekend). Name that Film OR if you don’t think a Comic Film will be the number 1 weekend this summer, then put NONE. 2) Will Captain America: Civil War make more than Iron Man 2 (128.1m) on Opening Weekend? 3) Will Captain America: Civil War make more than Iron Man 3 (174.1m) (and inherently more than BVS) on Opening Weekend? 4) Will Captain America: Civil War make more than Captain America: The Winter Soldier (259.8m)? 5) Will Captain America: Civil War become the biggest MCU film which doesn’t have “The Avengers” in its title (ie. More than Iron Man 3 (409m)) 6) Will X-Men: Apocalypse make more than X-Men: Days of Future Past (90.8m) on Opening weekend? 7) Will X-Men: Apocalypse make more than Deadpool (132.4m) on Opening weekend (this would make it the largest of the X-Men series)? 8) Will X-Men: Apocalypse make more than X-Men: The Last Stand (234.4m)? 9) Will X-Men: Apocalypse become the biggest of the X-Men series/franchise (Deadpool – Final number isn’t done yet)? 10) Will Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows make more than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) (65.6m) on Opening weekend? 11) Will Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows make more than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) (191.2m)? 12) Will Suicide Squad make more than Captain America: The First Avenger (65.1m)? 13) Will Suicide Squad (Total) make more than Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Opening Weekend (170m – estimate)? 14) Will All Comic Book films (Total) make more than 1 Billion domestically (Total of all 4 films together)? 15) Will any Comic Book film drop more than 62% in it’s second weekend? (this will always reference 3 day totals only) 16) In how many of the following markets will a Comic Book film be the number 1 film (Total Gross) during the Game? (You have a cushion of 1 country) (Australia; Brazil; China; France; Germany; Mexico; Russia; South Korea; United Kingdom) 17) Will Captain America: Civil War make more than 1 Billion Worldwide? 18) Will Captain America: Civil War (Worldwide Total) OR X-Men: Apocalypse (Worldwide Total) make than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (Worldwide Total) AND Suicide Squad (Worldwide Total) Worldwide? 19) Will at least 2 Comic Book films receive a Cinema Score of at least “A”? 20) How Many Comic Book films will be in the ALL 3 of the main game charts? (there is no Cushion for this one!) REMEMBER!!! USE THIS TEMPLATE (WITHOUT DELETING ANYTHING) AND RECEIVE 20,000 BONUS POINTS ABSOLUTELY FREE!!! 2 Quote
chasmmi Posted March 15, 2016 Author Posted March 15, 2016 Films Eligible for the Summer Game (This list is subject to change as films gets added/subtracted up until the start of the game) Keanu Mother’s Day Ratchet and Clank Civil War The Darkness Kidnap Money Monster Angry Bird Neighbours 2 The Nice Guys Alice Through the Looking Glass X-Men: Apocalypse Me Before You Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 The Conjuring 2 Now You See Me 2 Warcraft Central Intelligence Finding Dory Free State of Jones Independence Day: Resurgence The Shallows The BFG Legend of Tarzan Purge: Election Year Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates Secret Life of Pets Ghostbusters Ice Age: Collision Course Lights Out Star Trek Beyond Jason Bourne The Space Between Us The Founder Nine Lives Suicide Squad Ben-Hur Pete’s Dragon Sausage Party Spectral Arms and the Dudes Kubo and the Two Strings Untitled Lucas and Moore Comedy 2 Quote
chasmmi Posted March 15, 2016 Author Posted March 15, 2016 Summer Game FAQ/Nitpick I will endeavor to use this post to answer any queries or specifics about the game or a particular question. Any pertinent point that is of significant importance to the game will be answered and pasted into the first post here so that there will always be a record for my stance on any particular question or issue. I have started this off myself with answers to most of the questions I expect people to have about the game/scoring. Q. The film I predicted in my top 15/7/10/5 got moved out of the release window of the game. What happens to that prediction? If the schedule changes before the start of the game, then you are free to change this prediction to a new film. If it happens after the game begins, or you do not notice in time, then it is just hard luck (except China where you have the back-ups). Points wise you would only score the negative 10,000 for having an incorrect placement and would not lose extra for your gross being 40M more than $0. Q. I forgot to predict a dollar total for film / section X, what will happen to me score wise? If you don't enter a gross for a particular film in the top 15 and you've put that film in your top 14, the gross will be assumed to be the same as the film in the position you predicted below it and will be scored accordingly. If you don't enter a gross for the 15th film, the gross used will be that of the 14th placed film you predicted. If you DO NOT enter any grosses, you are assumed to ABSTAIN from entering the gross for the top 15 and you will lose a score equal to worst score for grosses - 10k. If the lowest score is +ve then you will lose 10k for grosses. (you will still receive all points associated with the positions of course) Q. I forgot to post a prediction for weekly questions on at least one occasion, what happens to me? You will score zero points for that week. Near the end of the game there will be a set of makeup questions that anyone missing at least one week of questions can answer in order to claw some points back. Q. Can a foreign film end up in the Worldwide top 10 totals list? No it cannot, (Unless it gets listed as a wide domestic release before April 22nd AND gets added to the list of eligible films in the post above this. Q. What is considered the previous film in Franchise x with regards to the preseason question: Will at least 2 sequel/prequel/reboots drop more than 33.33% Domestically from the previous installment in its franchise? For the purposes of this questions the battles are as follows: Civil War vs Winter Soldier Neighbours 2 vs Neighbours Alice Through the Looking Glass vs Alice in Wonderland X-Men Apocalypse vs Days of Future Past Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 vs TMNT The Conjuring 2 vs The Conjuring Now You see Me 2 vs Now You See Me Finding Dory vs Finding Nemo Independence Day Resurgence vs Independence Day Purge Election Year vs Purge Anarchy Ghostbusters vs Ghostbusters 2 Ice Age Collision Course vs Ice Age… I want to say Continental Drift… Star Trek Beyond vs Star Trek Wrat… wait Into Darkness Jason Bourne vs Bourne Ultimatum Q. Can you please make the SOTM Questions more complicated and with bigger risks than the Winter Game ones please, they were far too tame for my liking? I will see what I can do J 2 Quote
DAJK Posted March 15, 2016 Posted March 15, 2016 Wait what is this counting chas? Anyways I'm in! 1 Quote
Dementeleus Posted March 15, 2016 Posted March 15, 2016 Minor typo: "Predict the top 10 grossing films of the Winter, worldwide." But aside from that, y'all going down this year, bitches! 6 Quote
chasmmi Posted March 15, 2016 Author Posted March 15, 2016 That is everything for now. I just need to go and clean up a couple of posts (I am looking at you post 1!!!). For new players, this is not as daunting as it may seem, there is a lot of scoring rules but the general predictioning bit is straight forward Anyone spotting any anomalies / points of contention, raise them here and I will fix / add an answer to the FAQ. Other than that, all predictions should go in a thread that I will give a link to once it is created. I hope we have fun this summer and I am crazy tired so will likely sleep/work for the next 24 hours upon which time I will be able to handle the deluge of queries and uproars 2 Quote
WrathOfHan Posted March 15, 2016 Posted March 15, 2016 BTW, La La Land got pushed to December 5 Quote
chasmmi Posted March 15, 2016 Author Posted March 15, 2016 Ok I have no idea why it is randomly blockfilling some sections and such and I can't seem to undo it. I will have another go at making it prettier tomorrow unless a more capable mod beats me to it The numbers were to ensure that I got the opening posts to myself to add all the info too before you mad people all ruined it with enthusiasm and bravado Now I gotta go create a prediction post in the summer game subforum for you all to go reserve spots in ... Quote
WrathOfHan Posted March 15, 2016 Posted March 15, 2016 Just tried posting my predictions but it said "Field is required" and deleted everything Quote
JJ-8 Posted March 15, 2016 Posted March 15, 2016 1 hour ago, chasmmi said: Ok I have no idea why it is randomly blockfilling some sections and such and I can't seem to undo it. I will have another go at making it prettier tomorrow unless a more capable mod beats me to it The numbers were to ensure that I got the opening posts to myself to add all the info too before you mad people all ruined it with enthusiasm and bravado Now I gotta go create a prediction post in the summer game subforum for you all to go reserve spots in ... i started helping... but it takes time... (done the first section.. hope it looks a little improved. 1 Quote
baumer Posted March 15, 2016 Posted March 15, 2016 Im so conflicted seeing this. First time in 8 years i have nothing to do with this. But i couldn't turn down the 4 billion chas gave me, plus stock options. Ill be playing Chas. I know you do not need my help in scoring because you do an amazing job with this on your own and with a few others helping out but I will be here as a consultant if you have any questions or need anything. I'm looking forward to being just a player this year. Summer is just around the corner. Can't wait. 8 Quote
BadAtGender Posted March 15, 2016 Posted March 15, 2016 @Telemachos You ready for round three? (Somewhat disappointed the gross points are by threshold, but whatevs. Still in.) 3 Quote
JJ-8 Posted March 16, 2016 Posted March 16, 2016 Wonder if anyone pick which parts I had input into...... 5 Quote
JJ-8 Posted March 16, 2016 Posted March 16, 2016 19 hours ago, chasmmi said: Ok I have no idea why it is randomly blockfilling some sections and such and I can't seem to undo it. I will have another go at making it prettier tomorrow unless a more capable mod beats me to it The numbers were to ensure that I got the opening posts to myself to add all the info too before you mad people all ruined it with enthusiasm and bravado Now I gotta go create a prediction post in the summer game subforum for you all to go reserve spots in ... no idea what you did the post.. but it's fixed now... (both of the top 2 posts and some small tidy ups. anyway, just double check to sure it's all AOK 1 Quote
narniadis Posted March 16, 2016 Posted March 16, 2016 So conflicted on whether or not to play this year.... my summer is soooooo busy..... Quote