Leaderboard latest: A battle royal in the World Cup Qatar 2022 Predictor Competition

QATAR. The Moodie Davitt Report readers’ competition dedicated to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, brought to you in association with Qatar Duty Free, is heating up beautifully.

Aussie food & beverage sector specialist, Ground Control owner Kevin Zajax has extended his leadership to two points. But he is still being chased hard by Marcel DeBellis from Beler Holdings in Canada.

But look at that chasing pack. Just ten points cover the first 59 entrants.

Top woman to date is Caroline South, Founder of UK travel retail beauty agency Caroline South Associates, just five points behind Kevin. Next comes The Moodie Davitt Report’s own Sinead Moodie one point behind.

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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.

The new FIFA store at Hamad International Airport, opened ten days before the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 kicked off

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.

You can sign up here. Just create an account and you can immediately begin saving your score predictions. 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.

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.

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