QATAR. Marcel DeBellis of Beler Holdings in Canada has won The Moodie Davitt Report’s thrilling readers’ competition dedicated to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, after our equivalent of the penalty shoot-out that saw Argentina crowned world champions ahead of France.
Marcel tied with Australia’s Kevin Zajax, owner of food & beverage specialist Ground Control, after both opted for a 2-1 scoreline in favour of Argentina. That left them locked on 59, two points ahead of our long-time leader Alan Mathew from UAE-based travel retail distributor V Group, who plumped for a French victory.
Under the tie-breaker rules (see below) Marcel won out having predicted the most exact scores (13) ahead of Kevin’s 11.
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. Marcel, Kevin and Alan please let us know your chosen causes.
ASUTIL Secretary General José Luis Donagaray continued his impressive late run to finish fourth, having been in 97th place after the pool games. José Luis was one point ahead of several contenders including our own Declan Moodie; Frédérick Besson, CEO of the acclaimed Perfumist Perfume Advisor (currently the subject of a crowdfunding campaign); Gerald Gruber of daa International; and Stephen Wincott of GSK.
Caroline South of Caroline South Associates picked up another point to top our women’s competition on 53 two ahead of Clarisse Daniels of Whyte & Mackay and The Moodie Davitt Report’s Sinead Moodie. Caroline wins US$200 for a charity of her choice.
Tie-breaker
There were just three points to play for from the final but also a tie-breaker mechanism (our form of a penalty shoot-out) in place as follows:
If two or more players are tied on points, the differentiators will be as per the following (in order):
- Number of Correct Scores
- Number of Correct Results
- Competition Winning Team Prediction (made before the tournament began)
Leaderboard final
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.
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.
