Southern hemisphere v Northern hemisphere, final result: 77
Rules for bonus points:
Within 20 - you get South Africa’s total -23
Within 15 - you get South Africa’s + Australia’s total -58
Within 10 - you get all but New Zealand’s total -101
Within 5 - you get all Southern hemisphere totals -163
MinkyJoe is the only one to pick up a bonus, which doesn’t count in the cup, scraping within 20 to score -23.

Semi Final - Result.
Congratulations to jake1981 and myself for making the final.
Hard luck James1953 and Cuishla

The final will comprise of the Semi Final and Final and bonuses. Third place play-off is not included.

Round - Final score:

Good round for Cissy Fairfax 70 points ahead of dtcdtcdtc who is finding a bit of form.

Overall standing:
Cissy Fairfax starts to see the finishing line, will they hold their nerve?
davethecue ploughing on towards 2000 points.

Semi Final and bonus question(s) to be put up later in the week.

So that late penalty for Aussies was good news for me personally too!

A few kicks missed maybe?

Hmmm, not sure I understand. If there hadn't been a late penalty, you would've been 1 off, instead you were 2 off.

If you think I've missed some successful kicks then please elaborate.

You are right!

Sorry I meant in the games - thought there would be more points given the high scores.

Please note: multiplication factors for the semi-final are 3 and 8.

Round Bonus: Which team will score the earliest try and which team will score the latest try?
Answers can be any of the following:

Team A/Team B (Team A scores the earliest try, Team B scores the latest try)
Team A/Team A (Team A scores the earliest try, Team A also scores the latest try)
Team A (If you think that there will be just 1 try scored in the semi finals)
No try (If you think that no tries will be scored in the semi finals)

-50 for the nearest, (which will be a challenge to work out!) or -100 if you are exactly right.


Additional Bonus: Backs v Forwards - How many more points will the Backs score compared to the Forwards? If you think the Forwards will score more points than the Backs your answer will be negative. This bonus will not count in the cup.

Scoring:
Within 40: You get the lowest total taken off your score (Semi Final 1 forwards, say)
Within 20: You get the lowest total and next lowest total taken off (SF 1 Forwards + SF 2 Forwards, say)
Within 10: You get all but the highest total taken off (SF 1 forwards + SF 2 Forwards + SF 1 Backs, say)
Within 5: You get all points scored in the two semi finals taken off your score.

Saturday 24th October 2015
South Africa v New Zealand

Sunday 25th October 2015
Argentina v Australia

Please predict by 4:00pm Saturday 24th October please.

DM Bonus:
At the end of the round, the round winner will get an additional bonus: this will be 5 X (The number of times Diego Maradona is shown on TV during the Argentina v Australia match). If they show the same replay multiple times it will only count once.

Saturday 24th October 2015

New Zealand by 6

Sunday 25th October 2015

Australia by 7

Bonus One: New Zealand (Early)/Australia (latest)

Bonus Two: Positive 45

DM Bonus: 6

Good luck to Jake in the Cup final 😄

New Zealand by 14
Australia by 10

Bonus try time
Early Australia
Late Australia

Extra bonus. Backs by 25

DM 10😄

Please note: DM bonus is automatically given to the round winner - you don't get anything for correctly predicting...but don't let that stop you if you want to have a go.

Saturday 24th October 2015
South Africa v New Zealand +5

Sunday 25th October 2015
Argentina v Australia-15

Backs v Forwards +32

Early: Australia
Late: New Zealand

DM: 7

South Africa v New Zealand -10
Argentina v Australia -12

Early: New Zealand
Late: Australia

Backs v Forwards +18

Saturday 24th October 2015
South Africa v New Zealand -18

Sunday 25th Octob
Argentina v Australia-19

Backs v Forwards +30

Early: New Zealand
Late: New Zealand

DM: 14

Saturday 24th October 2015
South Africa v New Zealand -12

Sunday 25th October 2015
Argentina v Australia +6

Backs v Forwards +35

Early: Argentina
Late: New Zealand

DM: 10

New Zealand by 16
Australia by 3

Bonus try time
Early South Africa
Late New Zealand

Extra bonus. Backs by 15

DM 7

Saturday 24th October 2015
South Africa v New Zealand -15

Sunday 25th October 2015
Argentina v Australia -7

Backs v Forwards +40

Early: Argentina
Late: New Zealand

DM: 5

Saturday 24th October 2015
South Africa v New Zealand -5

Sunday 25th October 2015
Argentina v Australia -11

Backs v Forwards +20

Early: Australia
Late: Argentina

DM: 0

New Zealand by 2
Australia by 8

Bonus try time
Early Australia
Late New Zealand

Extra bonus. Backs by 10

DM 4

New Zealand vs South Africa +9
Australia vs Argentina +7

Bonus: Early Try Australia
Late New Zealand

Backs vs Forwards +32

DM 9

Saturday 24th October 2015
South Africa v New Zealand -18

Sunday 25th October 2015
Argentina v Australia -17

Backs v Forwards +46

Early: Australia
Late: Australia

DM: 3

Assuming with the Maradona question, that if he is shown ten seconds before the kick off, that it would not count as one?

Saturday 24th October 2015
South Africa v New Zealand -8

Sunday 25th October 2015
Argentina v Australia -6

Backs v Forwards +55

Early: Australia
Late: Australia

DM: 4

Correct - it would not count. Only appearances made between the start of the game and the final whistle.

Saturday 24th October 2015
South Africa v New Zealand -12

Sunday 25th October 2015
Argentina v Australia +4

Backs v Forwards +22

Early: Argentina
Late: New Zealand

DM: 6