Help Recording Games?

My DVR is acting weird and I'm not sure if it's going to work properly during the Games (and there's no time to get it fixed). Plus we're having lots of storms here and there's a distinct possibility of a power outage messing things up.

Would someone be willing to record the Olympics WAG competition and make DVD copies just in case something goes wrong with my copy? I'll pay the cost of shipping. I have an eye condition that limits how much I can spend on the computer, so depending on the streaming coverage isn't an option for me.

Thanks in advance.

Help Recording Games?

2016 Olympic Prediction Contest - 7th Heaven!

IT'S HERE IT'S HERE! OLYMPICS YEAH YEAH YEAH!

Coming Soon: Events Result Spreadsheet

We're back again! Just like last year, I'll be using Google Forms to gather data!

Click HERE to submit your predictions!
Click HERE to view the Response webpage
Click HERE to view the Response spreadsheet

New info for this year:
- I will NOT be accepting ANY forum submissions for predictions as long as the form is working well. If you post your predictions in this thread but do not submit them via the webform, your responses will NOT be entered and recorded.
- PLEASE save a hard copy of your predictions elsewhere in case the spreadsheet goes paflooey. I suggest copying them into this thread, but remember that I will NOT be using them as your official predictions unless something goes wrong (and I will notify everyone if that is the case).
- You CAN edit your predictions after you make them; just make sure to save the "Edit Response" link when you first submit so you can access it later. Your unique link will work up until I close down the ability to edit.

Rules for the actual point tallying are the same as before, which I will quote below:

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The rules are really simple. You post your predictions for the medal podium of each event, plus one alternate per podium.

Points
5 points --- each correct medal prediction
2.5 points --- each correct top 3 prediction, but incorrect medal prediction
.5 point --- if your alternate wins a medal.

For example, in '10 this was my AA prediction:

AA:
1 Musty
2 Bross
3 Aly
Alt: Jiang Yuyuan

The actual result was 1st: Musty, 2nd: Jiang, 3rd Bross. I received 5 points for correctly predicting Musty's medal position, 2.5 points for putting Bross on the podium but in the wrong position, and .5 points for having my alternate Jiang medal, for a total of 8 points. I didn't receive any points for Aly, since she didn't make the podium.

In the case of a tie for a medal, you still only receive points for each correct PLACEMENT. If Kyla and Simone tie in AA and you had them 1-2, you would receive 7.5 points for correctly predicting the gold medalist but incorrectly predicting the silver medalist (which would correctly be no one). If you like to tempt fate, feel free to put ties as your prediction BUT you may not have more than 3 people per podium plus one alternate (i.e. no eight way tie for gold! :p ;) )

Predictions are locked the day after prelims are completed, (before MAG TF starts) with NO EDITING ALLOWED. This gives everyone the best idea of who will be competing for the medals, but does not account for last minute substitutions due to federation swapping or injury. You are not required to predict your podium out of the official start list but may substitute anyone as you see fit; heck, put anyone on there! Do as you please. :)

The contest will run for WAG and MAG, and then one combined for those who submit in both categories. You are free to predict all the events or just a few; whatever you like. :) No deducting points for wrong answers, so why not? ;)

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Predictions will CLOSE at 12:00pm CST August 8th. You are welcome to make any changes to your predictions up until that point, but not after. Absolutely no editing or substitutions after the closing time will be allowed, so make sure you double and triple check! :)

Looking forward to another fun year!

History:
Originator: Kennedy
2010 Worlds - Winner: Moi! :D
2011 Worlds - WAG Winner: utesrockthehouse / MAG Winner: nlm2183 / Overall: JennFyre
2012 Olympics - WAG Winner: euphrosyna / MAG Winner: schood85 / Overall: schood85
2013 Worlds - WAG Winner: piday / MAG Winner: kochetkovafan / Overall: kochetkovafan
2014 Worlds - WAG Winner: London2012 / MAG Winner: FlippinTitan10 / Overall: kanaevafan
2015 Worlds - WAG Winner: Agags / MAG Winner: Szczecin / Overall: Szczecin

2016 Olympic Prediction Contest - 7th Heaven!

Dream Olympic Podiums

Before we get bits of training info and start hypothesizing who could win which medals, post your dream Olympic podiums based on personal preference, not prediction.

Team
G: USA
S: China
B: Russia

All Around
G: Biles
S: Hernandez
B: Mustafina

Vault
G: Biles
S: Chusovitina
B: Steingruber

Uneven Bars
G: Fan
S: Spiridonova
B: Kocian

Balance Beam
G: Biles
S: Ponor
B: Hernandez, Wevers

Floor Exercise
G: Biles
S: Raisman
B: Shang

Dream Olympic Podiums

Would You Rather... ?

Kalinina's thread reminded me of the "Would You Rather...?" game where you present two difficult scenarios and the next poster has to choose one as well as provide another set of scenarios for the following poster. I thought it might be fun to play and I didn't want to hijack the other thread. There are no limitations on the timeline of events (past/present/future) - be as creative as you wish!

Would you rather Russian WAG get banned from competing or Simone doesn't take home a single gold?

Would You Rather... ?

You Can Only Have One

In the service of pre-Rio posting boredom, this is a little game called “What Do You Want More?” Pretend that 1 of each result can happen, but only 1. If one happens, the other one won’t. Which do you want more? If you don’t like either result, you’ll have to choose the result you dislike the least (you know, like a presidential election). And feel free to add an additional hard choice if you think of an interesting one.

1. The USA wins team gold OR Simone Biles wins AA gold.

2. The GBR men win a team medal OR the GBR women win a team medal.

3. Oleg Vernaiev wins an AA medal OR Manrique Larduet wins an AA medal.

4. Ponor wins an event medal OR Chusovitina wins an event medal.

5. Simone excepted, the U.S. AAer you like most gets to do AA in prelims, messes up, and doesn’t qualify OR the U.S. AAer you like most doesn’t get a
chance to do AA and you forever wonder if she would have qualified.

6. Biles wins vault gold OR Biles wins floor gold.

7. All competitions and results run smoothly and generally as expected OR something crazy unexpected happens in some way that makes these Games
remembered for it for years, with people referencing “What happened in Rio” for decades after.

8. Ellie Black wins a medal OR Ellie Downie wins a medal.

9. Your favorite gymnast gets underscored and cheated out of a deserved medal OR your favorite gymnast gets overscored and wins an undeserved medal.

10. Every single medal placement turns out exactly as you hoped for, but a gymnast from Belgium gets injured OR all the scoring sucks and none of the
medal podiums make you happy but everyone goes home healthy. (hee hee)

11. Nabieva OR Nabieva. 

You Can Only Have One

Shawn Johnson

this is interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEmtRuJwb7A

Shawn Johnson

I don't know rhythmic gymnastics

This section of the forum is basically dead, but I'm desperate.

I've had a very recent pique in curiosity about Russian RG. I never actually watched it before due to lack of interest, but I'm familiar with names like Kabaeva, Tchachina, Bessonova, Kanaeva, and most recently Mamun. Oh and of course the overlord, Irina Viner ;)

I've googled as much info as I can on the sport, but either my search skills are inept or there's just not much RG info and communities on the US's side of the web. Does anyone know of any active, English-speaking RG blogs, forums/communities? I'm interested in learning about the sport, it's history, skills, scoring, competition formats, and if rope is still an apparatus (I remember it was around, then there was a thing about FIG scrapping it?). I've been on youtube to watch full competitions, I've found a few, but many RG uploads are in 3-5 minute pieces and I don't know the order of events. Do groups/team come first like AG? Also groups perform different apparatuses, which adds to my confusion. What about the apparatus order? Then there's the AA and individual events, that I assume follow group/team?

The Olympics is in just a couple of weeks, so hopefully someone will visit the RG section soon and reply lol.

I don't know rhythmic gymnastics