A new record

Finally, Super-Angie scored some points today. So far, this participant had managed to maintain a score of zero for the first four days of competition, breaking a new record at the Bolão da Copa. Congratulations! Not even Cabeça de Macaco had been able to do that (Incidentally, for those of you who asked about this, read this old newsletter to learn how Cabeça de Macaco makes his random predictions). [Her alter ego Angie is doing much better at place 4]

Is this a picture of Super-Angie? Why didn't she use her superpowers against Mexico?

Today's wins of Sweden, Belgium and England left us with the following configuration at the top: Papa Patrick and Micaela continue in the first two positions and Paulinho is now 3rd. Cabeça de Macaco, who didn't profit from the last-minute goal of England, drops to position 142. The full standings are here.

Fourth day of the competition

Today we broke a record: 126 participants correctly predicted the win by both France and Argentina. And out of those 126 people, in both cases, 32 correctly predicted the score (3-0 against Honduras, in the case of France, and 2-1 against Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the case of Argentina). These results by Bolão participants top our previous record, in the opening game. In that game 121 participants had correctly predicted the win by Brazil. Unfortunately, Cabeça de Macaco was wrong in all three cases.

Good news for Serginho Matos. He is now at the top of our official standings.