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If the Women's World Cup does expand to 10 teams, then I think of these three, Option C will be the most likely.
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B) Four Pools of Three with the four Pool winners qualifying for the Semi-Finals (with a crossover pool game to guarantee three matches for each team)
C) A format similar to the 2026 World Cup but with two combined Pools e.g. A+B and C+D with two from each qualifying.
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An increase to 12 teams for the 2030 Men's World Cup (whilst welcome) played over five weeks suggests the format will be one of the following:
A) Three Pools of Four with the top two in the seeded pool, and the winners of the other two Pools advancing to the Semi-Finals.
🏆IRL announce Magic Round format for Rugby League World Cup 2030 across Pacific-USA
- RLWC30 Men’s and Women’s tournaments to be staged in Pacific-USA
- France favourites to host RLWC30 Wheelchair tournament at same time
- ARLC/IRL to run RLWC30 under a Magic Round format
RLWC26 played over five weeks in five cities (3 pool rounds & finals)
- Number of nations increased to 12 (Men) and 10 (Women)
- Great Grandparent rule introduced in eligibility update
- Tonga & Samoa considered for promotion to Tier 1
📰Full details: bit.ly/4zL95kM
#NZElection2026
And saying all that....
Current projections point to a House of Representatives with 131 seats (and an 11 seat overhang)
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One point, worth noting is that a 126 seat House has a much larger overhang than would normally be expected (the 2023-2026 House has a quite large overhang of three seats)
Thus below is a proportional prediction based on strictly a 120 seat House.
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Quite simply, at the start of the count, it appears the election is too close to call and it'll be interesting to see if I get anywhere near with my predictions*
*Bearing in mind I'm a Brit (though do have a Kiwi sister-in-law)
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One point, worth noting is that a 126 seat House has a much larger overhang than would normally be expected (the 2023-2026 House has a quite large overhang of three seats)
Thus below is a proportional prediction based on strictly a 120 seat House.
For example:
National took 38.8% of the party vote in 2023 and took 48 seats. Its seat quotient was thus 48 seats divided by 38.8 = 1.26.
This is multiplied by the predicted 27.56% I've calculated it to receive this time to give it seats tally of 35.
#NZElection
On this basis, this is my calculated prediction of how the House of Representatives will look based on those results.
This was calculated by taking the 2023 seat quotient and multiplying it by the share of the vote from the previous post/thread.
.... sample size. Thus an opinion poll with a larger sample, carries a greater weighting. So, the poll with a sample of 1,352 carries 1.35 times as much weight as a poll with a sample of 1,000.
Prediction for the 2026 #nzelection
This forecast is a prediction, calculated by taking the most recent poll taken by Polling Organisations who have conducted polls since the House of Representatives was dissolved at the start of October. The calculations are weighted by...
Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup Semi-Finals:
England v Australia
France v Ireland
(Ireland are in the Semi-Finals for the first time)
5th-8th Play-offs:
Wales v New Zealand
Scotland v USA
How we stand after round 3 of the IRL Wheelchair World Cup 🏆
Who's going to rise and fall during the final's series?! #RLWC26
If the Snooker Gods can do THAT to Sam Craigie, then just imagine what they could do to someone who dared them to do their worst in April 2025. 😃
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Given that the Democrats took the White House in 2020, this actually surprised me a tad.
Here are the nine potential gains the Democrats might pick up.
