So we are a day out from the Euros and what better way to start than a Euro24 match prediction Competition. So Hive account@arcange informed me that unfortunately Hivebuzz will not be running a competition this year as they are having a few whaley issues. so I decided to muster up our own competition at the last minute. This will be an open competition and entrants can enter at any time. But the early bird does indeed catch the worm. The Euro's starts tomorrow so get your match predictions into me for the first round. Judging from some feedback here I think it might be better to do the matches in groups so you can do your predictions for a number of matches in the first run of games rather than keeping an eye out for my post every day. That way you will be in and not worry about seeing my latest post. It saves me alot of work as well. Those of you that have already entered. I have your first selection for Germany vs Scotland. All of you chose Germany. Those of you that have not entered yet. The fixture list for the first round of games is below. The home team are the favourites as per bookies odds. Please comment below your selections for each fixture whether it is going to be a win or a draw

*For example German vs Scotland: Germany to win
Spain vs Croatia : Draw *

You can copy and paste the below run of fixtures in the comments and just comment beside them what your predictions are :

Friday 8pm: Germany vs Scotland
Saturday 2pm: Switzerland vs Hungary
Saturday 5pm: Spain vs Croatia
Saturday 8pm: Italy vs Albania
Sunday 2pm : Netherlands vs Poland
Sunday 5pm : Denmark vs Slovenia
Sunday 8pm : England vs Serbia
Mon 2pm : Ukraine vs Romania
Mon 5pm : Belgium v Slovenia
Mon 8pm : France vs Austria
Tues 5pm: Turkey vs Georgia
Tues 8pm : Portugal vs Czech Rep

Scoring For the Group Stages

The scoring for the group stages is as follows. The away team who are the underdogs in every match are awarded 3 points for a win as opposed to the home team (favourites to win) who get 1 point. A draw gets you 2 points.

Scoring In The Knockout Stages

In recent competitions after the group stages it was a foregone conclusion on who won the whole competition as the group stages took up the most games and predictions. So I have altered this so that the knockout stages could be a game changer for those that do well in the group stages may not necessarily have a good knockout stage. Please see below the scoring for the Knockout Stages

Prizes to be Won :

After cricket and football fanatic Hive account@talesfrmthecrypt pledged 100 Hive to the cause we now have a prize pool of over 300 Hive to giveaway.

What You Have To Do

Just give your your predictions in the comments for the matches above and you are in. It's that easy

Do you accept late entrants?

Yes we do. The competition will be open the whole way through and even in the knockout stages.

Will there be a ranking?

Yes we will publish regular ranking posts.

So this is all there is to it. All that is left for you to do now is bloody enter!!