When 20 year old Kayleigh Simmonds and friend Pierre Towers, a computer engineer of Bognor Regis, entered an online World Cup Competition in June, little did they realise how well they would do! Aimed at AVG Resellers, the completion required entrants to predict the winners of each of the stages of the World Cup.
At the end of the group stage, Kayleigh and Pierre were listed in the top 11 predicters in the competition having predicted over 70% of results correctly; at the end of the Quarter final stage, they had predicted all the results correctly and were in joint first place. The semi finals did not go entirely their way, however; they chose Germany to win over Spain. But, fortunately for them, this did not alter the results and Team Towers were still in joint 1st place going into Sunday’s final. Pierre and Kayleigh had chosen Spain to win the final and were on the edge of their seats until Spain finally scored in the second part of extra time. The woops of joy could be heard all round the close in Felpham where Pierre lives.
AVG released the results on Monday morning and Team Towers found that they were the winners of the competition, despite the team in joint 1st place with having picked Spain as well. It all hinged on a “tie breaker” that AVG asked all entrants at the start of the competition. The tie breaker was “who will win the World Cup?” Team Towers had chosen Spain. This won them the competition. Team Towers are now eagerly awaiting the arrival of their prize of a bottle of champagne and the World Cup team shirt of their choice.
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Notes for editors
Team Towers consists of friends Pierre Towers, proprietor of Bognor PC Doctor, and Kayleigh Simmonds, a Crew member at McDonalds restaurant Chichester Gate.
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