We Have a Winner

2021, like the year before it, was anything but predictable. But nearly 1,200 of you decided to take on that challenge by casting your predictions out onto the internet and into our little competition. And out of those 1,200, one individual rose above all to be crowned the 2021 Prediction Game Champion. We’re thrilled to finally reveal our winner. 

Congratulations, Chris Hua! 

Chris pulled a bit of a Max Verstappen here. He was far behind the leaders for almost the entire competition, but managed to cross the finish line as a winner right at the very end. In fact, several of Chris’s predictions early missed the mark, including:

• April being the month that the US would reach 100 million COVID vaccines (it was March)
• That Liverpool would win the Premier League (me too, buddy. Me too.)
• That Manchester City would win the Champions League (it ended up being fellow English team Chelsea FC)
• That the Saints would win the Super Bowl (Bucs won instead)

So how on earth did he amass his game-winning 61 points?

• He correctly predicted the outcome of the special Senate election in Georgia
• He correctly predicted Catherine O’Hara’s Golden Globe victory
• He correctly predicted the volume of Bitcoin ransomware attacks by the dollar amount (a little suspicious Chris, I’m not gonna lie)
• He correctly predicted Joe Biden’s low approval rating at the end of the year