UPDATE AS AT END OF 5 DECEMBER MATCHES
QATAR. Only ten points cover the 36 front-runners in The Moodie Davitt Report’s thrilling readers’ competition dedicated to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, brought to you in association with Qatar Duty Free, following the Croatia v Japan (1-1, won by Croatia on penalties*) and Brazil v South Korean (4-1) matches yesterday.
Alan Mathew from UAE-based travel retail distributor V Group has extended his lead to two points over Ground Control owner Kevin Zajax, our long-time front-runner, who remained grounded this round with zero points. Charles Roullet from Campari has moved up a place to third on 48 having picked both results (though not scores) correctly yesterday.
Five contenders are packed on 47 points, including John Chapman, CEO of Airport Retail Enterprises in Brisbane; Graeme Stewart from Luggage-Point (who scored three points yesterday); Marcel DeBellis from Beler Holdings in Canada; Joost Korver from Knock Out and Behna Dehghani.
Lindt & Sprüngli Head of Global Division Duty Free Peter Zehnder is just one point back, alongside Mark Lane of The Moodie Davitt Report; ASUTIL Secretary General José Luis Donagaray and two veteran Moodie Davitt Report competition entrants (and winners) Hannes Koch of Travel Retail Cooperation and Tim Jobber of JES Travel Retail (who has rocketed up our leaderboard from 59th just four days ago to ninth equal).
Caroline South of Caroline South Associates, picked up a point to remain our leading woman with 45 points, just one ahead of Clarisse Daniels of Whyte & Mackay.
All participants should now submit their predictions for the balance of the Round of 16 knockout stage.
Remaining games in the Round of 16 are:
Morocco vs. Spain
Portugal vs. Switzerland
*Important note: Penalty Shootouts
Now that the tournament has reached the knockout stage, extra time and penalties come into play.
Predictions are counted for the full match whether that’s 90 minutes or 120 minutes for a match that goes to extra time. When a penalty shootout occurs, the result of the shootout will count toward the correct result (so a prediction of Team A to win the match will award a point if they win via a penalty shootout). However, if a draw was predicted then the player will receive either 1 point for predicting a draw but the wrong score, or 3 points for predicting a draw and the right score, irrespective of whichever team proceeds to win on penalties.
Here is how the top 175 players ranked after the completion of the pool stages.
As reported, Qatar Duty Free is providing great prizes as excitement builds both for the competition and the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 itself, which has already thrown up plenty of thrills and upset results.
Also as reported, Qatar Duty Free (QDF) has been named as Official Retail Store for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. The agreement includes a licence to exclusively sell all related merchandise in the fan zones and at all eight stadiums.
QDF also just opened a FIFA store at Hamad International Airport’s magnificent new expansion, inaugurated on 10 November.
Additionally The Moodie Davitt Report is providing charity-based prizes for first, second and third individual contestants with cash donations of US$500, US$300 and US$200 paid to a charity of their choice.
The competition, open to anyone involved in the aviation and travel retail sectors (mandatory), is based on match predictions for the 32 teams in a group stage and knockout format. The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 concludes on 18 December with the World Cup Final at the Lusail Iconic Stadium.
The rules are simple. Qualified readers simply need to make a score prediction in each of the matches, and are awarded points based on the accuracy of their predictions. You receive 3 points for an exact score prediction and 1 point if you predict the right result (win or draw) without getting the score correct.
Predicting is simple – scroll down to select a score for each match throughout the group, knockout and final phases. Predictions will automatically save the moment you make them, while you will be able to enter or modify your scores up to ten- minutes before each match kick-off.
This table completes the current 45 front-runners. Click on any part of the image to expand.Form guide (with a health warning)
To help with your predictions, listed below are the FIFA official rankings for all 32 teams alongside the groups each team is playing in.
For details on how points are calculated, please visit the rules page once you have signed up.
