Time to discover who are the 3 winners of the contest

This World Cup has been absolutely amazing and we hope you enjoyed this contest as we did.

Let's start first with a few numbers about the contest

1. Players and badges

There were 1340 registered users. This is absolutely amazing as the contest was announced only a few hours before the beginning of the championship.

Out of them, 1096 successfully guessed at least 1 match result.
These 1096 users were assigned 18986 badges for successfully guessing a match result.

Among them, the 3 winners of this contest collected 127 badges on their own.
This means that the other 1093 players received 18859 badges.

2. Prize pool

The amount collected by @steemitboardpool was

1750 SBD from the sponsors
13.672 SBD from registrations
2.142 STEEM from registrations, converted to 2.525 SBD

Therfore, the final prize pool before distribution is 1766.197 SBD and can be checked here.
_{NOTE: We will use "floor 3rd decimal rounding" for any reward computation since we can not distribute more than we have.}

The winners

Gold medal - Rank 1

The world champion of the SteemitBoard World Cup Contest, with 44 badges, is

@bidbots

Congratulations @bidbots, you get 20% of the prize pool: 353.239 SBD!

Silver medal - Rank 2

The second winner of the contest, with 42 badges, is

@tychoxi

Congratulations @tychoxi, you get 10% of the prize pool: 176.619 SBD!

Bronze medal - Rank 2

The third place goes, with 41 badges, goes to

@chehkuna

Congratulations @chehkuna, you get 5% of the prize pool: 88.309 SBD!

The attribution of the third place was a bit more difficult, as there were 3 players with 41 badges: @chehkuna, @luisrojas06 and @kinakomochi.
We had to go back to the results of the group phase to find out that @chehkuna was the leader of the 3 contestants with 1 more badge.
Moreover, he was the fastest to make his bet in the match for final, which makes him the undisputed winner of this 3rd place.

Contest final top 25 ranking

Rank	Name	Badges
1	@bidbots	44
2	@tychoxi	42
3	@chehkuna	41
4	@luisrojas06	41
5	@kinakomochi	41
6	@kylestam	40
7	@flemingfarm	40
8	@yulismal	40
9	@fw206	40
10	@minimining	39
11	@ascheriit	39
12	@georgebush1	39
13	@vicspics	39
14	@correia	39
15	@stimp1024	39
16	@vicentelardo	38
17	@minders	38
18	@misbahjuli	38
19	@alucare	38
20	@homesteadlt	38
21	@full-measure	38
22	@cranium	38
23	@blockcryptochain	38
24	@truebar	38
25	@maltoz	38

You can now find the full ranking here.

prize pool distribution among other players

As mentioned above, there were 18859 badges collected by all players but the 3 winners.
The remaining of the prize pool is 1766.197 - 353.239 - 88.309 - 176.619 = 1148.030 SBD

Therefore, each collected badge has a value of 1148.030 / 18859 = 0.060 SBD

Here is the complete detail of the rewards for players based on the number of badges they own:

badges	Players	Reward (SBD)
41	2	2.460
40	4	2.400
39	6	2.340
38	15	2.280
37	26	2.220
36	19	2.160
35	26	2.100
34	25	2.040
33	24	1.980
32	31	1.920
31	28	1.860
30	35	1.800
29	35	1.740
28	36	1.680
27	23	1.620
26	26	1.560
25	25	1.500
24	30	1.440
23	17	1.380
22	22	1.320
21	23	1.260
20	29	1.200
19	25	1.140
18	26	1.080
17	16	1.020
16	22	0.960
15	10	0.900
14	12	0.840
13	27	0.780
12	17	0.720
11	19	0.660
10	16	0.60
9	19	0.540
8	19	0.480
7	24	0.420
6	23	0.360
5	23	0.300
4	35	0.240
3	51	0.180
2	54	0.120
1	148	0.060

Rewards will be distributed in 24 hours, which should allow those who would like to challenge these results (errare humanum est) to come forward.

An additional reward for everyone!

Finally, each participant who registered in the SteemitBoard World Cup Contest will also receive this commemorative badge, which will be displayed on your personal page.