Place your bets - 2025 Summer Marble Blast Tournament

Hi, everyone. Bringing back an old tradition for the tournament, giving hPerks his deserved shoutout for starting this.

This is the betting game! For every match throughout the tournament, you can bet (with fake money, of course) on the winner and final score, and your aim is to finish with the highest net gain out of everyone (total money won minus total money bet). Here is how the game works: For each match, you can place a bet on:

• The winner
• The final score

Payouts:

• All bets for a match go into a single shared pool. Each pool starts at $500.
• That pool is split only among players who guessed the winner correctly.
• Payouts are proportional to how much each correct bettor wagered.
• If you also guess the score correctly, you earn a 20% bonus payout. There is no penalty for a wrong score prediction.

Rules:

• Minimum bet: $100.
• Maximum bet: $500.
• Bet on as many or as few matches as you like.
• You can't bet on a match that has already happened. We're following the honor code here that no one edits a bet after a match,
• You can't bet on your own match.
• There is no budget; everyone has unlimited money.
• The winner is whoever finishes with the highest net gain (winnings minus bets).

Examples:
Example 1 – No Score Predictions
The match is Mazik vs. Kalle

Bets:
Bettor 1: $100 on Mazik ✅
Bettor 2: $200 on Mazik ✅
Bettor 3: $500 on Kalle ❌
Total pot: $900

Bettors 1 and 2 proportionally share the pool for guessing the winner correctly, receiving $300 and $600 respectively. Bettor 3 receives $0. If Kalle had won, Bettor 3 would've received the entire $900.

Example 2 – With Score Predictions
The match is Mazik vs. Kalle, and Mazik wins 3-2.

Bets:
Bettor 1: $300 on Mazik, 3–2 score ✅✅
Bettor 2: $200 on Mazik, 3-1 score ✅❌
Bettor 3: $500 on Kalle, 3-2 score ❌✅
Total pot: $1,000

Bettors 1 and 2 share the pool for guessing the winner correctly ($600 and $400 respectively). However, Better 1 receives an extra 20% to their winnings for also guessing the score correctly, which is taken from the rest of the available earnings (while still keeping the proportions correct).
Bettor 1 receives $643.
Bettor 2 receives $357.
Bettor 3 receives $0 for not guessing the winner correctly. If Kalle had won, Bettor 3 would received the entire $1,000, regardless of guessing the correct score or not.

Onwards!
There is a designated channel for placing your bets on the discord server, in a channel called #tourney-bets. If you would like to participate, all you have to do is post in the channel, where you will simply state the player you predict to win, the final score, and how much money you're betting. You are welcome to place your bets as a reply to this thread too.

You do not need to be participating in the tournament to place bets!

After every round of the tournament, I will post the result of every match and everyone's net gain for that week. The final standings will be posted after the winner of the tournament is decided.

Good luck, and may your predictions be bold and lucky! 💸

At the end of the first week...

Jacob: $2,123.95 (+$2,123.95)
Mazik: $2,114.02 (+$2,114.02)
MBOUltimate: $1,663.32 (+$1,663.32)
Jean: $1,485.67 (+$1,485.67)
ShadowVisions: $1,479.00 (+$1,479.00)
Powerjohn25: $1,453.73 (+$1,453.73)
LaSharkus: $1,413.64 (+$1,413.64)
ohSauce: $1,274.42 (+$1,274.42)
Nockess: $1,236.54 (+$1,236.54)
Elementlover: $1,228.96 (+$1,228.96)
serjG: $893.46 (+$893.46)
Wilchz: $801.24 (+$801.24​​​​​​​)
Connie: $71.43 (+$71.43​​​​​​​)
Eguy: $45.51 (+$45.51​​​​​​​)
Platoxide: -$16.67 (-$16.67​​​​​​​​​​​​​​)
pasta_real: -$268.23 (-$268.23)
A-Game: -$6,000.00 (-$6,000.00)

Jacob stands as the only person who bet on the winner for every match, and deservingly ends the week at the top. Mazik did not bet on MBOUltimate, but predicted every winner correctly as well. Eguy, Connie, and Platoxide who only bet on a combined four people, and Powerjohn25 illegally bet on himself. A-Game went for gold in betting on the "away" player in 12 of the 22 matches, but wasn't able to cash in.

Is betting closed now if we haven't started already?

Also, in your example, shouldn't the total pot say $800 rather than $900? Although even then, I would be confused, because didn't you say each betting pool starts at $500, so the total pots for the examples should be $1,300 and $1,500 respectively? Maybe I've got this all wrong. I probably won't bet anyway, but I couldn't help noticing that (and also feeling like it looks weird to just have a list of betting results with no context because no one posted their bets here, but that can't be helped).

Originally the starting $500 I had taken out (before I realized it would in fact be useful), but I wrote/calculated the examples after I re-added the starting pool. In actual practice, it's all accounted for. (I'll rewrite the initial post... eventually.)

You can start bets whenever you want. People have (unsurprisingly) resorted to the designated Discord channel.

At the end of the second week...

LaSharkus: $5,501.77 (+$4,088.13)
Jacob: $3,191.38 (+$1,067.43)
MBOUltimate: $2,452.47 (+$789.15)
Mazik: $2,350.37 (+$236.35)
serjG: $2,027.84 (+$1,134.39)
Jean: $1,714.69 (+$229.02)
ShadowVisions: $1,546.32 (+$67.31)
ohSauce: $1,274.42 (+$0.00)
Elementlover: $1,228.96 (+$0.00)
Powerjohn25: $555.09 (-$898.64)
Nockess: $288.46 (-$948.07)
Wilchz: $75.44 (-$725.80)
Platoxide: -$16.67 (+$0.00)
Eguy: -$288.33 (-$333.84)
Keigo: -$500.00 (-$500.00)
Connie: -$1,168.55 (-$1,239.98)
pasta_real: -$1,424.57 (-$1,156.35)
A-Game: -$6,809.09 (-$809.09)

No one went perfect for either winners or scores this week, but the match results with the most overwhelming effects for the standings come from Jean's upset over Xedron (who was favored 12:1) and Keigo's 3-2 win over serjG (who was favored 11:2). A-Game was the single vote for Jean, who claimed the entire $6,100, but that on top of a correct prediction for Keigo (for $3,090.91, just under half the pot) was still $809.09 short of breaking even. LaSharkus was the other recipient of the winnings, earning a larger $3,097.09 for a correct score bet as well.
Less noticeably, but still an upset without question, was Ignas' win over bobirika12, who was favored 9:5. Jacob, Jean, LaSharkus, MBOUltimate, and serjG, with only Jean not taking at least $1,000.

At the end of the third week:

LaSharkus: $9,085.88 (+$3,615.59)
MBOUltimate: $5,687.90 (+$3,005.28)
Jacob: $5,247,91 (+$1,817.81)
serjG: $2,830.29 (+$516.88)
Mazik: $2,811.51 (+$314.16)
Jean: $2,752.71 (+$837.40)
ShadowVisions: $2,676.09 (+$1,056.49)
Eguy: $1,950.82 (+$2,267.41)
Powerjohn25: $1,556.70 (-$833.50)
Wilchz: $1,470.91 (-$725.80)
Nockess: $1,309.35 (-$948.07)
ohSauce: $1,274.42 (+$0.00)
Elementlover: $1,228.96 (+$0.00)
Connie: $384.91 (-$1,548.50)
Platoxide: -$16.67 (+$0.00)
Keigo: -$500.00 (-$0.00)
Ziggleflig: -$500.00 (-$500.00)
Jaxx: -$537.09 (-$537.09)
pasta_real: -$745.55 (-$13.96)
A-Game: -$12,969.03 (-$6,659.94)

LaSharkus continues to comfortably pull away, earning the most this week on top of having already been in the lead; his only incorrect winner prediction was pasta_real, who lost a five-game match to Elementlover, and his largest earnings came from A-Game's win over Jaxx with 4:9 odds. Eguy also benefited kindly from thearst3rd's win over subtract (4:8 odds) and ShadowVisions' win over Connie (7:7) odds.