2020 Vision

[Marc Meakin]

Remember Old Moore's Almanac.
It used to predict events for the coming year as farmer as I can remember
So I will make 10 random predictions and see how they pan out.
1. Liverpool will win the league
Ok scrub that this is my ten.
1) Donald Trump will win the presidency for a second term.
2) Tottenham will win the Champions League.
3) Prince Andrew will be Subpoenaed to New York by the FBI.
4) Prince Phillip Will die in the summer.
5) England Will win The Euros
6) Tenet will be the film of the year in terms of box office
7) David Attenborough will pass away after a short illness , Greta Thunberg will do the Eulogy
8) Jess Phillips will be the new Labour Leader.
9) Brexit will have a positive effect on the economy.
10) Great Britain will beat their record medal haul in the Olympics.
Now over to you.
It would be nice if everyone (anyone?) interested would get their ten predictions in before January is out
Only caveat is no more than two deaths predicted....unless you are predicting WW3.

[Elliott Mellor]

Interesting idea, I'll have a go, providing a bit of justification if I can.
1) Roger Federer to announce his retirement after the Olympics. Think he's sticking around for one last shot at singles gold before calling it a day.
2) Rafa Nadal to beat Dominic Thiem 3-2 in the French Open final. It's been Nadal vs Thiem the past 2 years and going to go for it being a repeat match, except I think Thiem will push him closer than ever this year. Thiem is evidently strong on clay and is considerably younger, but I think Nadal will once again be victor after a long match.
3) Johanna Konta to reach a grand slam final. Hoping this will be her year, having bottled her major Wimbledon chance last year.
4) Prince Philip to reach his 99th birthday in increasingly frail health, I do think he will also survive the year though (maybe a new idea for a game - people who are near to death's door who will survive the year?). I believe he's going to barely reach 100, simply through stubbornness.
5) Kane Tanaka to reach the 3rd spot on the oldest verified people ever list. To do this she'd need to survive until the 19th September, attaining the age of 117y, 260d to tie for 3rd place. She's fairly robust physically (or as robust as you could realistically expect a 117 year old to be - still able to walk short distances with a walker and she looked alright in her 117th birthday video), as well as being very alert (apparently still beating staff at the board game Othello). Admittedly at 117 anything can happen and surviving nearly 9 months is a huge ask, but I think she'll make it.
6) Apterous to reach 3 million games. Here's hoping! We're currently at about 2.48 million.
7) Rupert Murdoch to die. Don't really know why, just got a feeling. Might be more hope than genuine belief though.
8) The Euromillions jackpot to hit the "cap" again (190m euros). Then some lucky sod to have their finances sorted for life.
9) Leeds to win the Championship. Seems one of the more safe bets of this list.
10) Some sort of new development to happen in relation to the Andrew Gosden disappearance. Andrew is the face of the "Find Every Child" campaign and is a really rather mysterious case.

[James Robinson]

9) Leeds to win the Championship. Seems one of the more safe bets of this list.

Leeds United and safe bet, don't be so sure...

[Elliott Mellor]

9) Leeds to win the Championship. Seems one of the more safe bets of this list.

Leeds United and safe bet, don't be so sure...

Considering they're currently top and most of my others are probably rather unlikely, I'd say the statement is correct

[Jojo Apollo]

My two pence worth :

1) Tyson Fury to beat Deontay Wilder in the rematch and beat Anthony Joshua later in the year
2) Keir Starmer to become Labour leader
3) Noah Lyles to win the Olympic 100m and 200m double
4) The Countdown high score record to be beaten
5) Judd Trump to become another victim of the Crucible hoodoo
6) Donald Trump to be re-elected
7) Nadal to face Federer in a slam with both having 20 slams each to their name and will be called "The battle of 20-20"
8) Germany to win Euro 2020
9) Actor Kirk Douglas to celebrate his 104th birthday
10) A new Dr Who spin-off series will be announced

[Gavin Chipper]

5) Kane Tanaka to reach the 3rd spot on the oldest verified people ever list. To do this she'd need to survive until the 19th September, attaining the age of 117y, 260d to tie for 3rd place. She's fairly robust physically (or as robust as you could realistically expect a 117 year old to be - still able to walk short distances with a walker and she looked alright in her 117th birthday video), as well as being very alert (apparently still beating staff at the board game Othello). Admittedly at 117 anything can happen and surviving nearly 9 months is a huge ask, but I think she'll make it.

1. Kane Tanaka to reach 2nd spot after Jeanne Calment (well her daughter) is finally outed as a fraud.

I've just had a look here and she's only 10th currently - most people who reach 117 die that year!

[L'oisleatch McGraw]

4) The Countdown high score record to be beaten
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7) Nadal to face Federer in a slam with both having 20 slams each to their name and will be called "The battle of 20-20"

Agree about #4.
And LOVE #7... it has to happen!

[Marc Meakin]

4) The Countdown high score record to be beaten
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7) Nadal to face Federer in a slam with both having 20 slams each to their name and will be called "The battle of 20-20"

Agree about #4.
And LOVE #7... it has to happen!

I'm loving the albeit , belated interest in this thread.
Still waiting to here from our resident Nostradamus , Mark Deeks

[Elliott Mellor]

5) Kane Tanaka to reach the 3rd spot on the oldest verified people ever list. To do this she'd need to survive until the 19th September, attaining the age of 117y, 260d to tie for 3rd place. She's fairly robust physically (or as robust as you could realistically expect a 117 year old to be - still able to walk short distances with a walker and she looked alright in her 117th birthday video), as well as being very alert (apparently still beating staff at the board game Othello). Admittedly at 117 anything can happen and surviving nearly 9 months is a huge ask, but I think she'll make it.

1. Kane Tanaka to reach 2nd spot after Jeanne Calment (well her daughter) is finally outed as a fraud.

I've just had a look here and she's only 10th currently - most people who reach 117 die that year!

Gevin to stop believing conspiracy theories that have zero credible evidence.

[Jojo Apollo]

8) Jess Phillips will be the new Labour Leader.

Unlucky Marc :https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51195059 and it's not even February

[Marc Meakin]

Yeah I saw that already.
Hope I can get lucky with the others though

[Jojo Apollo]

My two pence worth :

1) Tyson Fury to beat Deontay Wilder in the rematch and beat Anthony Joshua later in the year
2) Keir Starmer to become Labour leader
3) Noah Lyles to win the Olympic 100m and 200m double
4) The Countdown high score record to be beaten
5) Judd Trump to become another victim of the Crucible hoodoo
6) Donald Trump to be re-elected
7) Nadal to face Federer in a slam with both having 20 slams each to their name and will be called "The battle of 20-20"
8) Germany to win Euro 2020
9) Actor Kirk Douglas to celebrate his 104th birthday
10) A new Dr Who spin-off series will be announced

Sadly he never made it to 104, RIP Kirk Douglas https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51394855

[Marc Meakin]

That was probably the most unlikely of all your predictions

[Mark James]

Suprised no one went for global pandemic.

Really scuppered alot of people's guesses. Even Liverpool winning the league was looking dodgy for a bit.

[Elliott Mellor]

Interesting idea, I'll have a go, providing a bit of justification if I can.
1) Roger Federer to announce his retirement after the Olympics. Think he's sticking around for one last shot at singles gold before calling it a day.
2) Rafa Nadal to beat Dominic Thiem 3-2 in the French Open final. It's been Nadal vs Thiem the past 2 years and going to go for it being a repeat match, except I think Thiem will push him closer than ever this year. Thiem is evidently strong on clay and is considerably younger, but I think Nadal will once again be victor after a long match.
3) Johanna Konta to reach a grand slam final. Hoping this will be her year, having bottled her major Wimbledon chance last year.
4) Prince Philip to reach his 99th birthday in increasingly frail health, I do think he will also survive the year though (maybe a new idea for a game - people who are near to death's door who will survive the year?). I believe he's going to barely reach 100, simply through stubbornness.
5) Kane Tanaka to reach the 3rd spot on the oldest verified people ever list. To do this she'd need to survive until the 19th September, attaining the age of 117y, 260d to tie for 3rd place. She's fairly robust physically (or as robust as you could realistically expect a 117 year old to be - still able to walk short distances with a walker and she looked alright in her 117th birthday video), as well as being very alert (apparently still beating staff at the board game Othello). Admittedly at 117 anything can happen and surviving nearly 9 months is a huge ask, but I think she'll make it.
6) Apterous to reach 3 million games. Here's hoping! We're currently at about 2.48 million.
7) Rupert Murdoch to die. Don't really know why, just got a feeling. Might be more hope than genuine belief though.
8) The Euromillions jackpot to hit the "cap" again (190m euros). Then some lucky sod to have their finances sorted for life.
9) Leeds to win the Championship. Seems one of the more safe bets of this list.
10) Some sort of new development to happen in relation to the Andrew Gosden disappearance. Andrew is the face of the "Find Every Child" campaign and is a really rather mysterious case.

Nobody's been active on this thread but I'm happy to be able to have had three successes (well, 2.5...if you're insisting that Philip needs to survive the year for my prediction for him to count), in light of Kane Tanaka tying and subsequently surpassing Nabi Tajima in longevity terms. What I like most about this is that she actually had a celebration for it, which included a specially made t-shirt. She's very aware of her status and such lucidity at an advanced age ought to be lauded.

[Gavin Chipper]

I looked up Kane Tanaka quite recently actually to see how she's getting along. She's passed all the other 117ers but there's a big gap now to Sarah Knauss at 119.

[Marc Meakin]

Well at least I think I've got the Tenet one right

[Ian Volante]

Well at least I think I've got the Tenet one right

Only $200M to go...

[Marc Meakin]

Well at least I think I've got the Tenet one right

Only $200M to go...

I'm still hopeful as it hasn't come out in India yet.
I'm shocked so many people watched Bad Boys For Life