Predict 2020

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by thumbgoals » Wed Sep 27, 2017 9:07 am

Winner of the 2020 US President Election: Michelle Obama

UK Prime Minister in 2020: Dan Jarvis

UK Monarch 2020: No change

UK News: Political chicanery sees Brexit reversed

World News: Kim Jong Un toppled with China involvement

Celebrity Death: Joanna Lumley

Sports News: England are Rugby World Cup holders.

Forum News: ?

Tech Developments: Link is outed as trans-gender

Wildcard: Wills and Kate to announce separation.

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PostRe: Predict 2020
by Glowy69 » Wed Sep 27, 2017 9:16 am

2020 we'll be living in a fallout style wasteland.

Fabian Delph is a banana split.

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PostRe: Predict 2020
by Peter Crisp » Wed Sep 27, 2017 2:45 pm

Moggy wrote:
Skippy wrote:
Moggy wrote:UK Monarch 2020

George VII


What do you think is going to happen to Liz, Chaz and Wills?


I’m hedging my bet there. I think Charles will change his name when/if he’s king. And if something does happen to all 3, then little George keeps me in the game.


The best case scenario is they all get a coronation and then step down within a few months that way we all get loads of extra bank holidays.

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by Gemini73 » Wed Sep 27, 2017 3:22 pm

Winner of the 2020 US President Election - Morgan Freeman

UK Prime Minister in 2020 - Boris Johnson

UK Monarch 2020 - Elizabeth

UK News - Labour dissolves into two separate parties. Neither of which are electable.

World News - Irrespective of how Brexit pans out other EU members move to have their own referendum. EU collapses.

Celebrity Death - Tom Cruise dies during a stunt going horribly wrong in a new Mission Impossible movie.

Sports News - Scotland win the Euros

Forum News (GRcade only) - Nintendo launch their next system after Switch fizzles out. It bombs and Nintendo go 3d party. GRcade spends a week celebrating Nintendo's achievements up to this point.

Tech Developments - PS5 launched

Wildcard - Apple file for bankruptcy

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PostRe: Predict 2020
by Skippy » Wed Sep 27, 2017 3:46 pm

Peter Crisp wrote:
Moggy wrote:
Skippy wrote:
Moggy wrote:UK Monarch 2020

George VII


What do you think is going to happen to Liz, Chaz and Wills?


I’m hedging my bet there. I think Charles will change his name when/if he’s king. And if something does happen to all 3, then little George keeps me in the game.


The best case scenario is they all get a coronation and then step down within a few months that way we all get loads of extra bank holidays.


If they die we still get the bank holidays Pete

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PostRe: Predict 2020
by Peter Crisp » Wed Sep 27, 2017 11:42 pm

Skippy wrote:
Peter Crisp wrote:
Moggy wrote:
Skippy wrote:
Moggy wrote:UK Monarch 2020

George VII


What do you think is going to happen to Liz, Chaz and Wills?


I’m hedging my bet there. I think Charles will change his name when/if he’s king. And if something does happen to all 3, then little George keeps me in the game.


The best case scenario is they all get a coronation and then step down within a few months that way we all get loads of extra bank holidays.


If they die we still get the bank holidays Pete


Ok but I'm not trying to kill them, just get some extra holiday.

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PostRe: Predict 2020
by Rax » Fri Oct 06, 2017 4:19 pm

Winner of the 2020 US President Election
Whoever the Democrats nominate.

UK Prime Minister in 2020
May

UK Monarch 2020
Charles

UK News
Death of Queen, Charles not abdicating, UK wants back into the EU

World News
US Election, North Korean missile tests.

Celebrity Death
The Queen

Sports News
Sky & BT losing rights to online streaming services. Premiership Rugby and TOP 14 clubs in serious financial difficulty.

Forum News (GRcade only)
Jawa serving another ban for abusing other users,. DMLs new show is about celebrities playing board games, hosted by Richard Ayoade and Dara O'Briain, its a runaway success.

Tech Developments
First fully automated cars go on sale to private users, unions representing drivers lobby hard for them to not be allowed on public roads. PS5 and Xbox One 2 disappoint gamers when they are unveiled. Nintendo unveil another Switch SKU, this one has a smaller screen but larger joy cons, people wonder who the market is for it, calling it another mis step from Nintendo, it sells 1 million units in its first 3 months on sale. Metroid Prime 4 is delayed until "Late 2021". GTA VI is oft rumoured but has yet to appear. Skyrim is released on iOS, the android port follows 11 months later. Minecraft is released on Samsung TVs.

Wildcard
Facebook no longer the number one social network.

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PostRe: Predict 2020
by HailToTheKingBaby! » Sat Oct 07, 2017 10:25 pm

Moggy wrote:

The categories are:

Winner of the 2020 US President Election
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

UK Prime Minister in 2020
Jeremy Corbin

UK Monarch 2020
Charles

UK News
Rejoin Europe with a way worse deal than we have now

World News
Donald Trump starts war with North Korea before stepping down.

Celebrity Death
The Queen

Sports News
Someone score a goal during a football match and people cheer

Forum News (GRcade only)
KKlein found out to be a hermaphrodite

Tech Developments
PS5 and Xbox Two release. Both are essentially the same barring menus and controllers. Sega comes back with Dreamcast 2 and wins the next generation.

Wildcard
Oasis reform and do a UK tour and new album. Tours great, album is disappointing.

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PostRe: Predict 2020
by Memento Mori » Sat Oct 07, 2017 10:40 pm

Winner of the 2020 US President Election
Trump :(

UK Prime Minister in 2020
Johnson

UK Monarch 2020
Charles

UK News
Brexit is a disaster. Real out of the box thinking there I know.

World News
Trump has started at least one war. Can't decide if it's Iran or North Korea.

Celebrity Death
Jack Nicholson and Elizabeth II. Not in the same incident.

Sports News
The Qatar World Cup got moved somewhere else.

Forum News (GRcade only)
I've finally been made a moderator.

Tech Developments
Apple releases the new iPhone. It's the same as the previous model but $500 more expensive.

Wildcard
Avatar 2 delayed until 2021. World shrugs.

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PostRe: Predict 2020
by Meep » Sun Oct 08, 2017 2:11 am

Winner of the 2020 US President Election
Mike Pence... well, at least according to one side of the civil war that erupts afterwards.

UK Prime Minister in 2020
Theresa May, although she will be quickly be replaced when the full scale of the Brexit crisis/recession becomes apparent. Labour, probably still with Corbyn, campaign for an emergency mandate for permanent single market membership. They are swept to victory and along side the resurgent Liberal Democrats whilst the Conservative party is almost utterly annihilated in retribution for inflicting economic misery on the UK via the EU referendum. Corbyn then later proves hopelessly ineffectual at handling the crisis and is replaced with someone else from within the Labour party.

UK Monarch 2020
King Charles. Elizabeth is already over the odds on life expectancy. There will be a lot of calls in the media for him to let William succeed but he will ultimately ignore because since when has Charles Winsor ever given a gooseberry fool about what anyone else thinks? A long line of controversies and dramatically undermined support for the monarchy quickly ensues.

UK News
See second answer. Brexit is either an outright disaster or is less so but helps spark a recession due to the already very high levels of consumer debt. Possible shortages and panic buying as failure to properly prepare ports and airports for the extra work required to process imports results in empty shelves in some parts of the country.

World News
Mainly Trump and the US election. I won't bother getting more specific than that because when you're dealing with gooseberry fool as insane as the Trump presidency there are no bearings to take.

Celebrity Death
The Queen, obviously. Also Trump. Please, please, also Trump.

Sports News
The England football team continues to be gooseberry fool and every one continues to act surprised.

Forum News (GRcade only)
GRcade is revealed to be an genius and insidious ploy to monitor the activities of its members as part of an international illuminati conspiracy. The members end up waging a covert and dangerous struggle to unearth the truth before it's too late.

Tech Developments
First mass market wearable neural interface device is released but seems fairly unreliable compared to mouse and keyboard. It takes a decade before the technology eventually supplants old interface devices and the dominant control method.

Wildcard
First genetically modified baby conceived.

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PostRe: Predict 2020
by Alvin Flummux » Sun Oct 08, 2017 4:37 am

Meep wrote:UK Monarch 2020
King Charles. Elizabeth is already over the odds on life expectancy. There will be a lot of calls in the media for him to let William succeed but he will ultimately ignore because since when has Charles Winsor ever given a gooseberry fool about what anyone else thinks? A long line of controversies and dramatically undermined support for the monarchy quickly ensues.


Since he saw that he'd be the first King Charles since the only other King Charles' were executed by parliament, and sent into exile, and there was the civil war, and he decided he might adopt one of his other names (i.e. Arthur) upon his ascension to the throne?

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PostRe: Predict 2020
by FatDaz » Sun Oct 08, 2017 6:43 pm

Technology - Mercedes S class introduces the first full augmented reality car windscreen that shows realtime data on road layout, other traffic including its speed and keeper details and on screen sat nav displays. Police utilise technology to integrate tax, insurance and MOT database checks and facial recognition software. A generational leap from current automatic number plate recognition systems.

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PostRe: Predict 2020
by Moggy » Fri Jan 01, 2021 9:14 am

Aaaaand bump!

How did you all do? Did anybody manage to predict anything correctly? :lol:

You get no points for obvious stuff like "new phone released", but I've given half points for things like Kamala Harris being VP.

My scores are:

Curls - 2 (are most radios digital now?)

Alvin - 2.5 (tempted to give an extra bonus point for the taking a knee prediction!)

Peter - 2

Return of the Star - 2 (Spurs not winning a title doesn't count!)

Karl - 0

Ironhide - 0

Errkal - 2 (great Jawa prediction!)

Jiggles - 0

Cora - 2.5

Dan - 0 (unless there are 8 more sovereign states?)

Nickscfc - 1 (didn't predict his own ban :lol: )

Moggy - 1 (damn Xbox/PS5 releasing early :x )

Thumbgoals - 1

Glowy - 0

Gemini - 3 (good PS5 prediction, appalling Switch prediction!)

Rax - 1.5 (great Switch prediction!!)

HailToTheKingBaby - 1

TV Dinner - 1

Meep - 0


And so the winner is....

....

GEMINI!!

I'd give him a trophy but he's either banned or stormed off in a huff.

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PostRe: Predict 2020
by Return_of_the_STAR » Fri Jan 01, 2021 11:11 am

Moggy wrote:Aaaaand bump!

How did you all do? Did anybody manage to predict anything correctly? :lol:

You get no points for obvious stuff like "new phone released", but I've given half points for things like Kamala Harris being VP.

My scores are:

Curls - 2 (are most radios digital now?)

Alvin - 2.5 (tempted to give an extra bonus point for the taking a knee prediction!)

Peter - 2

Return of the Star - 2 (Spurs not winning a title doesn't count!)

Karl - 0

Ironhide - 0

Errkal - 2 (great Jawa prediction!)

Jiggles - 0

Cora - 2.5

Dan - 0 (unless there are 8 more sovereign states?)

Nickscfc - 1 (didn't predict his own ban :lol: )

Moggy - 1 (damn Xbox/PS5 releasing early :x )

Thumbgoals - 1

Glowy - 0

Gemini - 3 (good PS5 prediction, appalling Switch prediction!)

Rax - 1.5 (great Switch prediction!!)

HailToTheKingBaby - 1

TV Dinner - 1

Meep - 0


And so the winner is....

....

GEMINI!!

I'd give him a trophy but he's either banned or stormed off in a huff.


I mean surely Glowy gets bonus points for this

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PostRe: Predict 2020
by Oblomov Boblomov » Fri Jan 01, 2021 11:16 am

I think Alvin deserves the crown for this.

Nice idea!

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PostRe: Predict 2020
by Alvin Flummux » Fri Jan 01, 2021 11:37 am

I don't understand it but accept your crown.

So many wildly inaccurate predictions. :slol: We should do it again.

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PostRe: Predict 2020
by Moggy » Fri Jan 01, 2021 12:08 pm

I Shot A Kid wrote:I think Alvin deserves the crown for this.

Nice idea!


I'm thinking Alvin can have the bonus point and be declared the winner as he is still an active member. :lol:

I might do this again if people are interested. The end of 2024 seems a long way away, but will allow us to keep the US election question and add in a UK election question.

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PostRe: Predict 2020
by Return_of_the_STAR » Fri Jan 01, 2021 12:47 pm

Moggy wrote:
I Shot A Kid wrote:I think Alvin deserves the crown for this.

Nice idea!


I'm thinking Alvin can have the bonus point and be declared the winner as he is still an active member. :lol:

I might do this again if people are interested. The end of 2024 seems a long way away, but will allow us to keep the US election question and add in a UK election question.


I’m in.

I’m also amazed you remembered you did this thread three years ago. No way I would have :lol:

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PostRe: Predict 2020
by Moggy » Fri Jan 01, 2021 2:18 pm

Return_of_the_STAR wrote:
Moggy wrote:
I Shot A Kid wrote:I think Alvin deserves the crown for this.

Nice idea!


I'm thinking Alvin can have the bonus point and be declared the winner as he is still an active member. :lol:

I might do this again if people are interested. The end of 2024 seems a long way away, but will allow us to keep the US election question and add in a UK election question.


I’m in.

I’m also amazed you remembered you did this thread three years ago. No way I would have :lol:


I had a reminder set on my phone. :lol:

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PostRe: Predict 2020
by Oblomov Boblomov » Fri Jan 01, 2021 2:20 pm

Definitely up for a 2024 version, although it makes my head feel a bit funny thinking about reading it back on 1 Jan 2025 :shock:.

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