@UP8@mastodon.social2026-01-23 20:44:07
🤑 Do World Cup teams really need a 50% prize money hike after tickets furore? | Paul MacInnes
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/dec/18/fifa-world-cup-2026-ticket-prices-prize-money
@UP8@mastodon.social2026-01-23 20:44:07
@adamhotep@infosec.exchange2026-01-24 02:45:13
The Bongcloud Attack (standard king's pawn advancement, then move the king up) is possibly the worst opening in #chess. In this tournament coverage video, it is used by one grandmaster against another. This was dubbed the "Bongcloud Countergambit: Hotbox Variation"
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@compfu@mograph.social2025-11-25 08:01:23
RE: https://fnordon.de/@Gemueseturnir/115608472552263429
Don't let anybody tell you that your vote doesn't matter. Brussel sprouts have beaten spinach by 4 votes in German Mastodon's vegetable tournament! 🥬
Edit: round of 16. not the finals just yet.
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@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.place2025-11-22 08:58:19
Woke up at 6:30am on a Saturday to get my son to his soccer tournament that starts at 9am for which they meet at 8:15am at -4ºC and when we arrive at the place the tournament is canceled due to frozen ground on the field.
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2025-11-22 03:45:27
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-01-16 21:16:22
They canceled the Minneapolis LEGO Robotics tournament over general safety concerns. Not that the tournament was even targeted; it’s just so ICEy here.
The kids had made custom T-shirts for their teams and everything.
I know this is just one little thing, a footnote to what’s happening, but…fuck all the Nazis.
@thek3nger@mastodon.social2025-11-20 08:58:16
There is enough data to start publishing reports of my statistical analysis of the Italian Volleyball Serie A1 championship.
https://davideaversa.it/experiment/volley/seriea1w2025.html
@UP8@mastodon.social2026-01-22 15:29:18
🫥 Mexico’s missing people crisis casts a shadow over World Cup venue
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-20/mexicos-missing-people-crisis-casts-a-shadow-over-world-cup-venue.html
@arXiv_csGT_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-12-08 08:03:50
Strategyproof Tournament Rules for Teams with a Constant Degree of Selfishness
David Pennock, Daniel Schoepflin, Kangning Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05235 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05235 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.05235
arXiv:2512.05235v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We revisit the well-studied problem of designing fair and manipulation-resistant tournament rules. In this problem, we seek a mechanism that (probabilistically) identifies the winner of a tournament after observing round-robin play among $n$ teams in a league. Such a mechanism should satisfy the natural properties of monotonicity and Condorcet consistency. Moreover, from the league's perspective, the winner-determination tournament rule should be strategyproof, meaning that no team can do better by losing a game on purpose.
Past work considered settings in which each team is fully selfish, caring only about its own probability of winning, and settings in which each team is fully selfless, caring only about the total winning probability of itself and the team to which it deliberately loses. More recently, researchers considered a mixture of these two settings with a parameter $\lambda$. Intermediate selfishness $\lambda$ means that a team will not lose on purpose unless its pair gains at least $\lambda s$ winning probability, where $s$ is the individual team's sacrifice from its own winning probability. All of the dozens of previously known tournament rules require $\lambda = \Omega(n)$ to be strategyproof, and it has been an open problem to find such a rule with the smallest $\lambda$.
In this work, we make significant progress by designing a tournament rule that is strategyproof with $\lambda = 11$. Along the way, we propose a new notion of multiplicative pairwise non-manipulability that ensures that two teams cannot manipulate the outcome of a game to increase the sum of their winning probabilities by more than a multiplicative factor $\delta$ and provide a rule which is multiplicatively pairwise non-manipulable for $\delta = 3.5$.
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@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-12-03 13:54:33
UNC volleyball's Jackie Taylor honors late father, NFL legend Sean Taylor https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/47160408/2025-ncaa-volleyball-tournament-north-carolina-jackie-taylor-…
@benb@osintua.eu2026-01-11 17:56:24
Thousands 'without light and warm water' — At tournament, Ukrainian tennis player speaks out on Russian energy grid strikes: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/11/thousands-without-light-and-warm.html
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2026-01-12 07:23:00
WM 2026: FIFA setzt offiziell auf TikTok. Highlights, Creator-Zugänge, begrenzte Livestreams – aber keine echten TV-Rechte. MediaPost: Das ist Fan-Bindung per Algorithmus. Die WM wird kürzer, vertikaler, fragmentierter.
#Sportmedien #TikTok
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-01-07 09:50:24
this could open up a lot more senior promotion opportunities in the civil service, if the lances are pointy enough
https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/115848728109955857
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-05 20:33:04
Donald Trump was awarded the new
"FIFA peace prize"
on Friday at the 2026 World Cup draw
— giving the spectacle to set matchups for the quadrennial soccer tournament
even more of a Trumpian flair.
https://www.
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-01-14 16:04:00
Jayden Daniels to join Tom Brady in Fanatics flag football event in Saudi Arabia https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6969918/2026/01/14/jayden-daniels-flag-football-tom-brady-fanatics-saudi-arabia/
@compfu@mograph.social2025-11-16 08:27:19
RE: https://fnordon.de/@Gemueseturnir/115557537930711642
There's a German vegetable tournament bracket on Mastodon and I can't believe spinach is winning against chili peppers.
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-01-14 16:01:56
Jayden Daniels to join Tom Brady in Fanatics flag football event in Saudi Arabia https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6969918/2026/01/14/jayden-daniels-flag-football-tom-brady-fanatics-saudi-arabia/
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-01-02 12:30:49
@csessh@social.linux.pizza2025-12-27 02:05:58
I did a cool thing at the Vietnam HAT 2025 tournament #ultimatefrisbee
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-10-30 22:28:59
🤦🏽♀️ Overconfidence persists even where regular feedback should discourage it, chess study finds
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-overconfidence-persists-regular-feedback-discourage.html
