chasmmi Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 SUMMERTIME IS HERE, HUZZAH!WELCOME TO THE SUPER FUN ALL CONSUMING BEHEMOTH SUMMER GAME 2018! Looking for a fun and frantic way to quench your predictioning thirst until next summer rolls around again? If yes, the summer game is where things be at. The game will run from Friday April 20th until Monday September 3rd. So that means that all grosses and predictions will only count until Monday September 3rdAs 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: EDIT (JJ-8) : links to the SOTM's are in the 3rd post of this thread 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 that gets released during the course of the summer game (If you think that some film listed on BOM for a 22 screen limited release is going to explode to $750M domestic, then go ahead and predict it). Therefore your top 15 predictions should look something like the following: 1) The Emoji Movie 2: Wrath of the Eggplant: 485M2) Robin Hood: Scourge of the Forest 46lM3) The Merry Wives of Nolan 411M4) The Rock does Die Hard 325M5) The Rock does Rambo 232M6) The Rock does Predator 177M7) The Tooth Fairy 2: Teething Problems 155M😎 Rob Schneider is a Carrot! 118M9) Sparticus 2: The Quickening 115M10) Oz: There’s NoPlace Like Gnomes 112M11) Dino-shark! 109M12) Half-life 3: The Movie 104M13) Player One wasn’t Ready, He Gets Another Turn! 95M15) Untitled Paramount Event Film 92M POINT SYSTEM: For every film you call correctly in the top 15, in any order, you will get 25,000 points. For every film you call in the exact spot, you will get 50,000 points (total). So you must think this out thoroughly. You will also lose 15,000 points for every film in the top 15 that you call incorrectly. So, for example, if you say Avengers will be in the top 15, and it misses the top 15, you will lose 15,000 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 40,000 point bonus.If you are able to call the top three positions right, in order, regardless of the gross, you will get a 120,000 point bonus.If you are able to call the top four positions right, in order, regardless of the gross, you will get a 250,000 point bonus.If you are able to call the top five positions right, in order, regardless of gross, you will get a 400,000 point bonus. This is not as easy as you might think it is. The more in depth scoring is in the spoilers: Reveal hidden contents OTHER ADD ONS:Call ANY 5 SPOTS in the correct place (eg: 3rd, 6th, 8th, and 14th) and receive a 125,000 point bonus. Call ANY 8 SPOTS in the correct place and receive a 300,000 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 150,000 point bonus. BONUS STRUCTURE. 9 of the 15 films correct, regardless of order and get a 50,000 point bonus Call 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 175,000 point bonus.Call 12 films correct, regardless of the order and you will receive a 250,000 point bonus.Call 13 correct, regardless of order, and you get a 350,000 point bonus. Call 14 correct, regardless of order, and you get a 500,000 point bonus. If you call all 15 correct, regardless of order, you will get a 750,000 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 5000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 50 million to get no bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 50.01-80 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 25,000. 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 25,000 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 50 million, they will score a bonus 30,000 points If anyone can predict at least 6 of the top 15 to within 50 million, they will score a bonus 60,000 points If anyone can predict at least 8 of the top 15 to within 50 million, they will score a bonus 120,000 points If anyone can predict at least 10 of the top 15 to within 50 million, they will score a bonus 200,000 points If anyone can predict at least 12 of the top 15 to within 50 million, they will score a bonus 300,000 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 50 million allotted to you. If however you call a film incorrectly in the top 15 but you are within the 50 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 platform style release schedule of award targeted films 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 2 in order and receive 20,000 bonus points Call top 3 in order and receive 50,000 bonus points Call top 4 in order and receive 100,000 bonus points Call 5 of the top 7 correctly (any order) receive 50,000 bonus points Call 6 of the top 7 (any order) receive 100,000 bonus points Call top 7 (any order) receive 175,000 bonus points For every incorrect film lose 10,000 points The more in depth scoring is in the spoilers: Reveal hidden contents 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 Miss the gross by more than 50M and lose 25,000 points If a predicted film fails to make the top 7, you cannot score positive gross points, but you will lose double the negative points. The closest predictor for each film will also receive a bonus 10,000 points. Predict 5 of the top 7 to within 30M and score a 75,000 point bonus Predict 6 of the top 7 to within 30M and score a 125,000 point bonus Predict 7 of the top 7 to within 30M and score a 200,000 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) 😄 TOP 12 WORLDWIDE TOTAL GROSS Predict the top 12 grossing films of the Summer, worldwide. POINT SYSTEM: For each correctly predicted film, regardless of order you receive 25,000 points For each film in the exact spot you receive 15,000 bonus points (so 40,000 total) Call top 3 in order and receive 60,000 bonus points Call top 4 in order and receive 120,000 bonus points Call top 5 in order and receive 200,000 bonus points Call 8 of the top 12 correctly (any order) receive 125,000 bonus points Call 9 of the top 12 correctly (any order) receive 175,000 bonus points Call 10 of the top 12 correctly (any order) receive 250,000 bonus points Call 11 of the top 12 (any order) receive 350,000 bonus points Call top 12 (any order) receive 500,000 bonus points For every incorrect film lose 10,000 points The more in depth scoring is in the spoilers: Reveal hidden contents 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 40,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 50 million to get 30,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 100 million to get 20,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 150 million to get 10,000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 200 million to get 5000 bonus points Call a film’s gross to within 250 million to get no bonus points Miss the gross by 250-300M 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.) *If the film finishes in the top 15, the maximum points that can be lost are 25,000. If the film is not in the top 15, there is no upper limit for points lost. Call 8 of the top 12 to within $100M and score 50,000 bonus points Call 9 of the top 12 to within $100M and score 100,000 bonus points Call 10 of the top 12 to within $100M and score 150,000 bonus points Call 11 of the top 12 to within $100M and score 250,000 bonus points Call 12 of the top 12 to within $100M and score 400,000 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) 😧 CHINA TOP 5! China has a sub-forum now, so let’s give it a preseason section in the summer game! Predict the top 5 Hollywood (anything with a Domestic Wide release) 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 50,000 bonus points Call 4 of the top 5 correctly and receive 100,000 bonus points Call 5 of the top 5 correctly and receive 150,000 bonus points For every incorrect film lose 10,000 points The more in depth scoring is in the spoilers: Reveal hidden contents 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 Call a film wrong by more than 60 million lose 20,000 points and no more because we all know that Chinese box office is insane right now. The closest predictor for each of the top 5 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, because really quirky grosses can happen in China, players are unable to receive a negative score for this section. For a particular film... absolutely. But if your final total score for this section would have been Minus 24k, it will be rounded up to a score of zero. NOTE: Every top x films list will also have space for a reserve, this reserve will only be used if a film in the main list becomes ineligible for some reason. E: MULTIPLIERS MULTIPLY THE FUN! Predict which 5 Domestic wide releases have the largest multipliers. The multiplier will be determined by the films total gross divided by their opening Fri-Sun (Incl Thurs previews) gross. A film will only be eligible for this list if: l It opens before August 18th l Is in more than 1,500 theaters in its first weekend l Makes more than $40M. POINT SYSTEM: Call a film correctly in the top 5: 10,000 points Call a film correctly in the top 5 and in the correct place: 25,000 points (including the above 10) Chosen film does not make $40m – Minus 10,000 points Chosen film does not make top 5 – Minus 10,000 points Chosen film does not make $40m AND does not make top 5 – Minus 25,000 points (total) Call 3 of the top 5 – 25,000 points Call 4 of the top 5 – 50,000 points Call 5 of the top 5 – 100,000 points Call 3 of the top 5 in the correct positions – 40,000 points Call 3 of the top 5 in the correct positions – 80,000 points Call 3 of the top 5 in the correct positions – 150,000 points GROSS ACCURACY: There are no gross/multiplier predictions required only placements. 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: 17 dollars POINT SYSTEM: For each prediction if you are: Within 25% of the final total. score 10,000 points Within 20% of the final total. score 15,000 points Within 15% of the final total. score 20,000 points Within 10% of the final total. score 25,000 points Within 8% of the final total. score 30,000 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 30,000 If all four predictions are within 8% score a bonus 80,000 If all four predictions are within 5% score a bonus 120,000 If all four predictions are within 2% score a bonus 200,000 G: RANDOM FREE QUESTIONS This summer we have three generous risk-free questions to start you off: RFQ1: Predict which film will finish closest to each of the following milestones domestically by the end of the game: A: 100M B: 200M 😄 300M 😧 400M E: 500M RFQ2: Predict which film will finish closest to each of the following milestones Worldwide by the end of the game: A: $1.5B B: $1B 😄 800M 😧 600M E: 400M RFQ3: Predict the highest grossing film released in each month by the end of the game: A: April (What could this possibly be now…) B: May 😄 June 😧 July E: August SCORING Predict the first placed film – 25,000 points Predict the second placed film – 10,000 points Predict all 5 first placed films – 75,000 bonus Predict all 5 first or second placed films – 25,000 bonus This is everything. There will be no big list of preseason questions this summer. Instead, there will be four SOTM (Spur of the Moment) questions. These will appear sporadically over the next month in the Summer Game sub-forum. ***ONE FINAL NOTE*** The official Deadline for this game is April 20th. HOWEVER, if you so wish you may take an extra week on these preseasons and post before April 27소. Any prediction or edits made between April 20th and 27th will render that player ineligible to answer the weekly questions for the weekend of April 20th. LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!! Here is the place to post your predictions using the template below: 4 1 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmmi Posted March 15, 2018 Author Share Posted March 15, 2018 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) Backup 16*) *Only used if a film above exits the game B: Top 7 Domestic OW: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) Backup 8*) *Only used if a film above exits the game C: Worldwide top 12: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) 10) 11) 12) Backup 13*) *Only used if a film above exits the game D: China 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) backup 6*) *Only used if a film above exits the game E: Multipliers 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) backup 6*) *Only used if a film above exits the game F: Cumulatives Top 15 Domestic) Top 7 OW) Top 12 Worldwide) Top 5 China) G: RANDOM FREE QUESTIONS RFQ1: 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 RFQ2: Predict which film will finish closest to each of the following milestones Worldwide by the end of the game: A: $1.5B B: $1B C: 800M D: 600M E: 400M RFQ3: Predict the top grossing film of each month: A: April B: May C: June D: July E: August DO NOT ALTER THE TEMPLATE! JUST ADD IN YOUR ANSWERS AS REQUIRED. FOLLOWING THIS ONE SIMPLE INSTRUCTION WILL LAND YOU 20,000 BONUS POINTS 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmmi Posted March 15, 2018 Author Share Posted March 15, 2018 Currently Live Threads excluding the main preseason one: and for non-moderators (shit this includes tele now right?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WrathOfHan Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewy Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 As always the goal is to beat @Tele Stop changing your name can't even @ you anymore lmao 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeeSoh Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Gittes Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 Win this thing again? Don't mind if I do! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Gittes Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 Gonna give some folks a headstart though because I gotta protest all that April 20/week 0 nonsense. Summer's long enough as it is, and that week is not summer. I've never understood why we do this and I'm not about to. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 59 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said: Gonna give some folks a headstart though because I gotta protest all that April 20/week 0 nonsense. Summer's long enough as it is, and that week is not summer. I've never understood why we do this and I'm not about to. #Marvel #EthicsInSummerGames 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Empire Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 My goal is to win beat Tele. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grey ghost Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 Can only 9 people play so I'm guaranteed to make the top ten this time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aabattery Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 I'm 2 for 2 in beating Tele in these things. Let's keep the streak alive. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narniadis Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 And finally after nearly doing it the last couple of years, I bow out... too much going on this summer to give it what I need to. Have fun with this yall. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ-8 Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ-8 Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 and FYI : The game will run from Friday April 20th until Monday September 3rd. So that means that all grosses and predictions will only count until Monday September 3rd The game is UP TO and INCLUDING Monday 3rd September @chasmmi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Gittes Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 2 minutes ago, JJ-8 said: and FYI : The game will run from Friday April 20th until Monday September 3rd. So that means that all grosses and predictions will only count until Monday September 3rd The game is UP TO and INCLUDING Monday 3rd September @chasmmi I still say Slender Man takes #1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grey ghost Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 Game starts on 4-20. Nice! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kayumanggi Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 This is going to be a difficult summer, imo. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grey ghost Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 18 minutes ago, kayumanggi said: This is going to be a difficult summer, imo. Just rank them based on trailer views. Trust me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avatree Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 don't think this has been a relevant issue before, or maybe I'm just being stupid, but do the movies have to have been released after 20 April? By which I mean if we think for example that RAMPAGE's gross from 20 April onwards will be in the top 15, can we include it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...