Achilles gets it right again

Today's games started out with a surprise loss by Colombia against Japan. Surprising indeed as only 4 Bolão participants predicted that Japan would win. Then Senegal won against Poland, as expected by 27 participants, and Russia against Egypt, as predicted by 44 participants, and by Achilles, the deaf cat... Actually, who knows what he predicted:

Achilles was tasked with predicting the winner in the Russia-Egypt encounter later tonight. The cat, as soon as he was presented with the two bowls, rushed to eat from the Russian bowl. But in a mood to puzzle the spectators, Achilles also ate from the bowl with the Egyptian flag. While the organizers are confident that he predicted a Russia win, is the cat hinting at a draw? Maybe he was predicting that Russia would score first but Egypt would equalize later? Or maybe he was just hungry and latched on to whatever food he got, without caring about which bowl he ate from first.

In any case, it was a bad day for Cabeça de Macaco, who didn't score a single point today. In fact, his predicted final is Colombia-Germany, which didn't look like a bad choice ex-ante but has lost some of its appeal given the last results.

It is a sad day for macacos

Congratulations to Papa Patrick and Micaela who continue to lead the standings. Chepa has now joined them in the 3rd place. Cabeça de Macaco is down to position 144. The complete standings are here.