Theoretical Physics World Cup 2014 Competition

The rules:

The basic idea is to buy "shares" in teams. Every time a team wins a match, it gets a certain number of points. These points are divided among the shareholders according to the number of shares they own.
You have 10 shares, which you use to pick teams. You can choose how you spread them between the teams, but you can take at most only 4 shares in any one team. The number of shares per team is not fixed; the better teams will earn more points, but those points are likely to be spread among more shares. You must decide on your shares before the kick-off of the first match, and it is not possible to change them after that.
The number of points a team gets by winning a match depends on the stage of the tournament
- 1 for the group stage matches (and 0.5 for a draw)
- 1 for getting into to the playoff stage
- 2 for the first round of playoffs
- 4 for the quarter finals
- 8 for the semi finals
- 4 for the third place
- 12 for the final
```
    the number of points you get= 
         (the number of points the team got) 
       * (the number of shares you own in the team)
       / (the total number of shares in the team)
```
The winner is the player who has the most points after the tournament. In case of a draw, the player who owns a bigger share in the winning team wins (or if those are equal then the runner-up and so on.)
No money will be involved: The winner's prize will be eternal glory. In addition, the losers may feel a moral obligation to buy the winner a beer or some alternative non-alcoholic drink should an opportunity to this arise.

How to Participate:

Send your entry by e-mail to a.rajantie@imperial.ac.uk before the kickoff of the first match of the tournament (17:00 Brazilian time on Thursday 12 June). Use this format in your message:

Name
Institution              
Nationality
C01
C02
C03
C04
C05
C06
C07
C08
C09
C10

Here Cxx are the three-letter country codes of the teams you want to buy shares in. You may repeat the same country code at most four times, and there have to be in total 10 of them. Please make sure that you follow these rules, because otherwise you may be excluded from the competition. The list of the codes of the participating countries can be found below. Because all players may not know each other, I'm also asking you to give your institution and nationality, which will be listed on the web site. If you don't want them to be listed, just leave those lines empty.

An example of an entry email:
`Paul Dirac Cambridge English ARG ARG ARG ARG BRA BRA CIV ESP ESP MEX`

Country Codes:

Code Name Ranking BRA Brazil 4 CRO Croatia 20 MEX Mexico 19 CMR Cameroon 50 ESP Spain 1 NED Netherlands 15 CHI Chile 13 AUS Australia 59 COL Colombia 5 GRE Greece 10 CIV Ivory-Coast 21 JPN Japan 47 URU Uruguay 6 CRC Costa-Rica 34 ENG England 11 ITA Italy 9 SUI Switzerland 8 ECU Ecuador 28 FRA France 16 HON Honduras 30 ARG Argentina 7 BIH Bosnia-and-Herz 25 IRN Iran 37 NGA Nigeria 44 GER Germany 2 POR Portugal 3 GHA Ghana 38 USA United-States 14 BEL Belgium 12 ALG Algeria 25 RUS Russia 18 KOR Korea 55

Theoretical Physics World Cup 2014 Competition

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