So that’s it. A wonderfully entertaining 2018 NatWest 6 Nations ends with Ireland claiming the Grand Slam, Championship & Triple Crown, Italy taking the Wooden Spoon and the ‘King of the Picks’ Johan retaining his Prediction’s Challenge crown.
The big South African, PSA Academies’ Head of Rugby Programme grabbed the lead from Round 1 and never relinquished it, beating an expanded field of tipsters that included two new competitors for 2018 in Graham Ross & Cory Brown.
With Neil Marchant again coming bottom of the table, it is clear that the fortunes of English rugby fans is as low as it can go!
Thanks for your interest and involvement this time around. We will hopefully be back for more crystal ball gazing around the summer southern hemisphere tours.
PSA Academies 2018 6 Nations Predictions Challenge – Final Standings
- 1st place & Champion – Johan – 75 points (out of a maximum 150 points, 15 matches with max 10 points for correct team and winning margin prediction)
- Tied 2nd place – Johne & Graham – 60 points
- Tied 4th place – Philippe & Cory – 55 points
- Last & 6th place – Neil – 30 points
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The 2018 6 Nations Predictions Challenge rules are simple. Each competitor needs to give us a simple match summary plus a winner prediction and winning margin (if a draw was predicted, they need to predict the total match points). It is 5 points for a correct result prediction and 5 points for a correct winning margin/total draw match points total.
The ‘expert’ with the most points at the end of the tournament is crowned the 6 Nations Predictions Challenge ‘King of the Picks’, whilst the person finishing last needs to make a public donation (amount TBC) to our 2018 Charity partner Unicef Ireland at our upcoming Unicef Ireland Charity Rugby Clinics in Ireland in April.
Saturday 17 March – Italy 27 v 29 Scotland, 1215hrs kick off
- Johan Taylor (South African) – Prediction RESULT- Scotland by 31 points (5 points)
- Johne Murphy (Irish @MurphyJohne) –
Prediction RESULT – Scotland by 29 points (5 points) - Philippe Saint-André (French @PSaintAndre) –
Prediction RESULT – Scotland by 15 points (5 points) - Neil Marchant (English @NeilMarchant2) –
Prediction RESULT – Italy by 5 points (0 points) - Cory Brown (New Zealander @corybrown90) Prediction RESULT – Scotland by 25 points (5 points)
- Graham Ross (Irish @GrahamRoss76) – Prediction RESULT – Scotland by 35 points (5 points)
Saturday 17 March – England 15 v 24 Ireland, 1445hrs kick off
- Johan – Prediction RESULT – Ireland by 3 points (5 points)
- Johne – Prediction RESULT – Ireland by 4 points (5 points)
- Philippe – Prediction RESULT – England by 6 points (0 points)
- Neil – Prediction RESULT – England by 10 points (0 points)
- Cory – Prediction RESULT – England by 4 points (0 points)
- Graham – Prediction – Ireland by 6 points (5 points)
Saturday 17 March – Wales 14 v 13 France, 1630hrs kick off
- Johan – Prediction RESULT – Wales by 7 points (5 points)
- Johne – Prediction RESULT – Wales by 9 points (5 points)
- Philippe – Prediction RESULT – Wales by 11 points (5 points)
- Neil – Prediction RESULT – France by 10 points (o points)
- Cory – Prediction RESULT – Wales by 12 points (5 points)
- Graham Ross – Prediction RESULT – Wales by 4 points (5 points)
Thanks to everyone who has followed our travails over the last few months and best of luck to all involved in the 2018 6 Nations Predictions Challenge for this final weekend of games.
