I played this game a few times in the past but wasn't a fan at the time (this was before I came here) now I entered for this week, played it really safe, so we'll see how they pan out.

I made the deadline, but because of the server conversion on KJ, I didn't post my predictions until the new server is up. Also, I got back from work. I will return to my overnight prediction posting from now on.

Just a suggestion, why dont you make early predicts and then refine it as late as possible. That way there is less chance of you missing it.

Well, over 100 weeks and this has never happened before, so.

But, might have to do something even though early predictions change so much as the week goes along.

I don't necessarily base it on weekend to weekend drop %. Sometimes I base
it on multipliers. I took what Role Models made it's second weekend, divided
that by it's Thursday gross. I took that result and multiplied it by ILYM's
Thursday gross to get ILYM's 2nd weekend. I probably should have used
Forgetting Sarah Marshall instead though. That would have been 11.4M.

he closed it at least two hours early, this is similar to when he closed at 10pm Alaska time (2am eastern) back on thanksgiving 06. the only good news for me is I have always posted my predicts before 10pm since then, to bad i had no time for tweaking, Ive got a ghastly derby coming up.

Well FSM is a better example as far as time period, but RM is more along the same genre. Either way, I think basing on weekend drops is the most logical way, but we'll see who's method pays off here.

I missed the game twice already this year. From 7th to 99th, now watch me top 200th.

I missed a game in 2006 and still made 18th, now my hopes of even making the Top 20 went to shit.

As far as I can remember, the deadline was 3 pm Moscow time - it is like that for at least 4-5 years, so why the hell should I send an early prediction? How the f%ck should I know when the damn bastards change the deadline? For many internationals the time zone difference is a very big thing + the later you send it, the more information you have to base your forecast on, and this extra time really helps many of us. For instance, I couldn't send my predictions earlier, because I've been in a hospital since 6 am, including time on the road, and I thought I have just enough time before the deadline, and when I got back home at 2:30 pm, I thought I could count on BOM. It seems that you can't count on anything these days.

Who exactly is responsible for this thing? I'm gonna make him an offer he wouldn't refuse. The sad thing is that most of us probably never gonna make it to the Top-10 this year, unless BOM cancels this week's game. This is f%cking unfair.

Hmmm. What I'm hearing is they had just been generous forever by not closing the game at exactly midnight pacific, and suddenly out of nowhere they decided to strictly enforce that time without notice. I would agree it's a little shitty that they didn't put a disclaimer before starting that policy.

Well, since the deadline is stated there, he technically didn't have to put a disclaimer. It's shitty and screws up the whole derby, yeah. But I always had the feeling that the actual deadline was all over the place, sometimes he kept it open til 10 am ET. So I always feared something like that would happen and got them in early.
BTW: Didn't the US already activate Dayline Savings Time? That might have screwed up the deadline for us internationals as well

Don't blame him. Just get it in before the deadline posted. It's not that fucking hard.

Oh shit, yes, it's because of the time change. F%ck! We change time later than the US (tonight actually). That's why we were all screwed up. Not because they moved the deadline.

Fuck, the 1 fucking weekend of the year that I give conservative guesses, and play the derby, is the one fucking weekend where everything that exists destroys expectations. Went with 52m for MVA despite signs cause I didn't wanna be high, went with 14.5 for Hautning cause I saw no reason for a breakout, went with a 55% drop for knowing cause of the bad WOM among teenagers. Fuck.

No, it was more than an hour, at least two. In Ukraine deadline was always on 2 p.m., in Russia on 3 p.m. so we put the same deadline in our local box office games. I went to BoM on 12.20 (13.20 Moscow time) but the damn thing was already closed. I knew about time change so I thought I still have enough time...

Yes, the actual deadline, which was always the same for the past several years, was 2AM Pacific Time.

It wasn't because of daylights savings time because this would have happened to the international players (the ones who mostly missed) and the players who submit their entry near that deadline already, and it hasn't.

But, since half the top 10 of the year missed because of this, and the ones who did make it will be adding about 800 points on average I'd say Omni and I shouldn't drop below 50th, and if we do, it won't be too much lower. But it'll be a challenge to climb back up to the top 10.

I finished 94th in 2007 when I missed 7 games, while Omni finished 100th after missing 8 games, while out average after 43/44 games were good enough to place Omni 2nd and mine was good enough for 5th, and Juni (almost famous) missed 1 game in 2007 and almost made the top 10, so it's doable.

Me and Levy finished out the week at 99 and 100.

Yearly/Monthly not updated yet.

No month win for me. RWood held on to his streak.

BOM has been a little annoying lately with the non-calculating of mo/yr.

Yeah, I missed one last year and was 15th

BOM still takes the predictions, which means they didn't change the actual deadline. So what was the issue last week then?

That was quick.

90th for the week, just ahead of Omni/Corpse, but almost 10% behind the winner. Not a good week for KJ. almost famous fared best at #41

The top 3 all got 100's on Sunshine. That was the decider in this game. I got all 90%+ on holdovers but openers rank was 135.

What a shitty fucking week. After getting 36th last weekend, I underestimated F&F to the tune of 23m and am consequently 156. Also all the holdovers looked good from fridays projections and than went the wrong way in estimates and even worse for actuals. shitty fucking week.

Something in the low 100's. Stupid Sunshine Cleaning!

I know, I had it at 2.8m, where'd you put it?