Time to discover the official result of our contest
This World Cup has been absolutely amazing and we hope you enjoyed this contest as we did.
It's time for all of you to discover with us the official results. So let's start with a few numbers about the contest.
1. Participants and badges
There were 531 registered users. This is absolutely amazing as the contest was announced only a few hours before the beginning of the championship.
Out of them, 506 successfully guessed at least 1 match result.
These 506 users made 25902 bets, of which 25713 were valid bets.
Out of these valid bets, 12968 badges were assigned for successfully guessing a match result.
Among them, the 3 winners of this contest collected 123 badges on their own.
This means that the other 503 players received 12845 badges.
2. Prize pool
The amount collected by @steemitboardpool was
- 6518 HIVE from the sponsors
- 534 HIVE from registrations
Therefore, the final prize pool before distribution is 7052 HIVE and can be checked here.
NOTE: We will use "floor 3rd decimal rounding" for any reward computation since we can not distribute more than we have.
Breaking the ties
As you have seen, this World Cup has been full of twists and turns. On several occasions, the classification was turned upside down, especially during the group stage, due to the unexpected results of some matches.
This had the effect of creating a crowd at the top of the leaderboard with several participants having the same number of badges. Remember the rules we had in place to handle this kind of situation:
In the event of a tie between the top players, the winner will be the one who first collected all his badges. This means that badges obtained during the group stage will weigh more than those in the final.
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If there is still a tie after applying the previous rule, the guess time (upvote) of the players will decide, the winner being the first to have made their guess (upvote).
The purpose of this last rule is to give an advantage to the one who takes the most risk by betting before the others since he cannot be inspired by the bet of his competitors.
However, many participants found themselves in such a tied situation, even outside the top 3. Until now, our ranking took into account the speed of bettors only for their last bet.
After long discussions within the HiveBuzz team, it appeared to us that this way of proceeding was unfair because an opportunist could thus win the jackpot by simply being the fastest only on his bet in the final.
We have therefore re-analyzed all the bets by adding the time (in seconds) between the opening of bets and everyone's bet so as to reward those who have been the fastest throughout the competition.
We told you, this world cup will have been full of twists and turns until the very last minute! Hang on, because this upsets the provisional results that we announced in our previous post.
The winners
The first three places in the ranking are occupied by participants who have the same number of badges. Therefore, we had to decide between them by means of their betting speed.
Gold medal - Rank 1
The World Champion of the HiveBuzz World Cup Contest, with 41 badges, is
@onlyhive
In addition to being regularly in pole position, he was on average twice as fast as his opponents to make his bets, which makes him the undisputed winner of this contest.
Congratulations @onlyhive, you get 20% of the prize pool: 1410.400 HIVE!
Silver medal - Rank 2
The second winner of the contest, with 41 badges, is
@andyblack
He was also a regular at the top of the rankings throughout the contest and therefore took a well-deserved second place.
Congratulations @andyblack, you get 10% of the prize pool: 705.200 HIVE!
Bronze medal - Rank 3
The third place goes, with 41 badges, goes to
@soluce07
Last but not least in the top 3, he appeared there a little later than the others but managed to keep his distance from his pursuers thanks to judicious bets.
Congratulations @soluce07, you get 5% of the prize pool: 352.600 HIVE!
Contest final top 25 ranking
| Rank | Name | Badges | Bet Speed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  @onlyhive | 41 | 206544 |
| 2 |  @andyblack | 41 | 412977 |
| 3 |  @soluce07 | 41 | 455070 |
| 4 |  @viniciotricolor | 40 | 228510 |
| 5 |  @jats-0 | 40 | 674361 |
| 6 |  @mk992039 | 40 | 1785780 |
| 7 |  @lazybug | 39 | 1322184 |
| 8 |  @stewie.wieno | 39 | 1405941 |
| 9 |  @sodom-lv | 39 | 1827159 |
| 10 |  @arc7icwolf | 38 | 172176 |
| 11 |  @vasilev89 | 38 | 174321 |
| 12 |  @mcoinz79 | 38 | 289374 |
| 13 |  @speedtuning | 38 | 698652 |
| 14 |  @bonobogologolo | 38 | 738015 |
| 15 |  @javierariascbb | 38 | 793554 |
| 16 |  @goliathus | 38 | 810651 |
| 17 |  @flquin | 38 | 915900 |
| 18 |  @cajiro | 38 | 918819 |
| 19 |  @bigbanginfinity | 38 | 1076787 |
| 20 |  @thedoc07 | 38 | 1408173 |
| 21 |  @azj26 | 38 | 1438377 |
| 22 |  @incublus | 37 | 278733 |
| 23 |  @lammbock | 37 | 281259 |
| 24 |  @bombus | 37 | 312687 |
| 25 |  @tobywalter | 37 | 707640 |
If you are not listed above, you can check the Ranking Page to find out how you performed at the end of the contest. The ranking page has been updated with the calculation formula based on betting speed which is now displayed on it.
Prize pool distribution among other players
As mentioned above, there were 12845 badges collected by all players but the 3 winners.
The remaining prize pool is 7052 - 1410.4 - 705.2 - 352.6 = 4582 HIVE
Therefore, each collected badge has a value of 4582 / 12845 = 0.356 HIVE
Here is the complete detail of the rewards for each player based on the number of badges they own:
| badges | Players | Reward | badges | Players | Reward |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 3 | 14.240 | 20 | 11 | 7.120 |
| 39 | 3 | 13.884 | 19 | 6 | 6.764 |
| 38 | 12 | 13.528 | 18 | 7 | 6.408 |
| 37 | 13 | 13.172 | 17 | 10 | 6.052 |
| 36 | 20 | 12.816 | 16 | 6 | 5.696 |
| 35 | 23 | 12.460 | 15 | 6 | 5.340 |
| 34 | 37 | 12.104 | 14 | 7 | 4.984 |
| 33 | 21 | 11.748 | 13 | 6 | 4.628 |
| 32 | 27 | 11.392 | 12 | 4 | 4.272 |
| 31 | 37 | 11.036 | 11 | 4 | 3.916 |
| 30 | 40 | 10.680 | 10 | 2 | 3.560 |
| 29 | 20 | 10.324 | 9 | 4 | 3.204 |
| 28 | 26 | 9.968 | 8 | 8 | 2.848 |
| 27 | 21 | 9.612 | 7 | 1 | 2.492 |
| 26 | 19 | 9.256 | 6 | 7 | 2.136 |
| 25 | 12 | 8.900 | 5 | 7 | 1.780 |
| 24 | 12 | 8.544 | 4 | 8 | 1.424 |
| 23 | 11 | 8.188 | 3 | 6 | 1.068 |
| 22 | 13 | 7.832 | 2 | 7 | 0.712 |
| 21 | 6 | 7.476 | 1 | 10 | 0.356 |
Rewards will be distributed in 24 hours, which should allow those who would like to challenge these results (errare humanum est) to come forward.
Thanks again to our sponsors
In order not to bloat this post, we will publish in a separate post the prizes obtained by the participants from our sponsors. For some of them, we are still waiting for their personal feedback about our contest to share with you.
 @arcange |  @leofinance |  @threespeak |  @wrestorgonline |
 @ausbitbank |  @brianoflondon |  @disregardfiat |  @roelandp |  @cryptoshots.nft |
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Thank you to all participants!
Congratulations to all the players, and to the winners. Thank you all for your participation in this contest!
It has been a fun (and exhausting) month-long experience and we are boosted by the many positive feedbacks we have received to initiate similar ones without having to wait for the next World Cup.