GPB v1 bet: happy ending

[HornetMaX]

Well, not as happy as v1 being out but ...

For the one that don't remember/were not on the forum at the time, beginning of Aug 2015 I proposed a crazy bet on GPB v1 release date: I said that I was ready to take bets 5 to 1 about GPB v1 not being released before. More explicitly, I was ready to put 10E on the table and lose them if GPB v1 was released before 1 Jan 2016, but win 50E if not. The bet was essentially a joke, as the odds were just insane; I was pretty sure nobody would take. But then, that's without factoring in the effects of alcohol on UK residents: matty0l215 took the bet. So I sent him 10E at the time.

As miracles happen, but only rarely, matty0l215 lost the bet.

The happy ending is *not* that I won the 50E of course: stealing candies from (not so sober) baby is not funny

The happy ending is that matty and I agreed to donate the money of the bet to a charity (http://worldcancerresearch.org/). Matty actually went the extra mile, donating 50GPB (which is substantially more than 50E).

<Sarcastic mode ON>
If we had done this on a larger scale for all the past GPB betas, cancer would probably be history by now
<Sarcastic mode OFF>

[Napalm Nick]

LOL   

well done Boys, a great result for everyone 

"You gotta love dem crazy bikers"

PS: time to make a new bet then?       

[RiccoChicco]

Very nice guys! 

Here's my bet : if PiBoSo release his "Irish Road Racing Simulator" in 2016, I'll donate 15€ to Riders For Health, which represents two weeks of gas for a medic in Africa 

[Hawk]

Nice to hear that! My faith in humanity has been restored........ Well done Max and Matty! 

Roll on GPB V1.0 for Christmas 2016(Let us pray!).... No I'm not intoxicated, and I'm not going to place any bets on that date either! LOL! 

Hawk.

[PeterV]

Good destination for your'e won bet Max, which you already won ofc when you started it 

[Klax75]

Good job

[HornetMaX]

Here's my bet : if PiBoSo release his "Irish Road Racing Simulator" in 2016, I'll donate 15€ to Riders For Health, which represents two weeks of gas for a medic in Africa 

I like it !! Blends well with GPB. We should think about organizing something along these lines:

• 1 milestone (*), 1 target date: donation promises centralized somehow.

Should we do this for GPB v1 (which is supposed to happen before the road racing project) ?

Of course the promises should be in the form "If target date is met, I'll donate X, else I'll donate Y", with X > Y ... a little extra incentive for our beloved dev team

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(*) Pun intended

[HornetMaX]

Good destination for your'e won bet Max, which you already won ofc when you started it 

Indeed. By today's standards, the money was safer than if it was in a bank

[matty0l215]

Happy to add excitement to the forum 

I might even be willing to go again