Doing a quick sweepstake for World cup in work just £1 a team. Midget mouthy alphamale wanna be in the Office is kicking off that it should be £2 a go all the best teams are taken, when he chose Russia he wanted to swap it 🙁 total fin de cloche

I just got France in ours

£3 a go in ours leads to a juicy £60 prize for the winner plus lesser prizes for 2nd and 3rd. (pretty confident France won’t get anywhere close)

I work at home, alone.

I settled on £1.50 per team and stand to make a killing.

Tell him you’re playing the FIFA role and will bar him from the tournament under Fair Play if he doesn’t stop bloody moaning.

my wife ‘got’ Equador in her office sweepstake.

Go Equador! 🙂

(are they any good?)

If Pigface is playing the FIFA role he should ask for a bribe then call him racist when he refuses.

I work at home, alone.

Me too….. maybe we should set up an unemployables a homeworkers sweepstake. I could hold all the money, PP Gift will be fine 🙂

We’ve got A and B pots here, top teams in A, lesser-ranked teams in B, prizes for best from both pots so no-one’s likely to be stuck with completely no chance. I have Germany and the Ivory Coast and am content with my lot. 🙂

I also got Ecuador 🙁

tell him he should be grateful he didn’t get England 😉

Uruguay 8)

I got USA 😕

my wife came home last night and informed me she got BRAZIL in her sweepstake and was confused why everybody seemed pissed at this lol

My office is manned by such a miserable shower of c**** there is no sweepstake. In fact there is no talking not related to work. No personlisation of workspace or computers. Just misery and lots of it…

On the plus side it is sunny outside, I am looking at the sun shinning on the South Downs and I only have 2 weeks left here, one of which I am on holiday for.

wwaswas, can I drop in £1.50 for 32 teams later?

(pretty confident France won’t get anywhere close)

I’ll take that bet. 2014’s dark horses.

You heard it here first.

My office is manned by such a miserable shower of c**** there is no sweepstake.

Same here 🙁

Bloke came to my desk: “It’s early on, loads of good teams left!”

And there were still loads of good teams left after I picked Japan.

Go Japan.

We’re just this minute knocking one together, £1 a go, limit 5 goes.

No-one came to my desk, but saw them loading a bowl of kinder surprise thingys.
In the unlikely event that they do cos there’s 3 teams left, I shall politely decline the invitation.

I lucked out in my office sweepstake one year (might have been Euro’ ) –
the winner got some cash – I GOT THE PERSONALISED WOODEN SPOON 🙂

You lot are keen, the World Cup is still a year away.

One chap here has won the wooden spoon for the last three sweepstakes we’ve run. 🙂

I got England.

BELIEVE people, BELIEVE.

I got Iran??!!??

Uruguy and Croatia here. Pretty sure I’ll win with those.

Our competition involves predicting the score of every match and winner is decided based upon total points scored. Entries acceptable only via provided official Excel spreadhseet. A sweepstake was ruled out as there are too many interested players vs number of teams. Too hard for me.

(pretty confident France won’t get anywhere close)
I’ll take that bet. 2014’s dark horses.

You heard it here first.

you’ll be eating them later?

To the victor go the snails spoils.

We have a special prize for the person who submits the best photo of them portraying the country they have chosen.
The girl who got Brazil wasn’t happy with my suggestion.

pretty confident France won’t get anywhere close)
I’ll take that bet. 2014’s dark horses.

You heard it here first.

you’ll be eating them later?

If I win I’ll buy you some burgers 😉

She could simply gather all her stuff up, put it in a cardboard box and shuffle off whilst you smash up her desk and put a half finished stadium in its place…that would do it

If I win I’ll buy you some burgers

*bookmarked*

I paid £2 for a piece of paper that says “Switzerland” on it.

I suspect I’ve been done.

I paid £2 for a piece of paper that says “Switzerland” on it.

Good pick for the neutral.

Should have said. I could have written that on a scrap of paper, and posted it via Deutsche Post + Royal Mail for half that price.

I was banned from doing ours after the Greece 2004 debacle.

We didn’t have enough entrants to cover all teams and rather than allow second entries, i decided that we’d exclude a couple of no-hopers from the draw, and if the impossible happened and they went on to win we’d donate the money to a local charity instead.

The Children’s Trust ended up with an unexpected donation, we got in the local paper, and i was henceforth banned from running it again.

I still do the Grand National one, and to appease the no-hopers we have prizes for 1st, 2nd and also for the last horse to complete the course with jockey still on board, that way even the shite horses can still win you something.

Those who’ve drawn the USA have a greater chance of victory than they may at first have thought;

TimP – I would let you but I want to maximise my chances of winning so I’m restricting entry to those who live at my house, are male and over 47.

[edit] *hopes the USA are actually in it or he’s going to look a bit daft*

Our office sweepstake used to be run by a guy with a screed of PHP behind a website, you got points for wins, goals, the lot, it was a sophisticated operation!

[edit] *hopes the USA are actually in it or he’s going to look a bit daft*

You still look daft.

Spoilsport

Will have to set up one Chez P then

(PS there is no way you are a day over 37 😉 )