Grading last entry’s predictions, as promised. Went 0-for-2 in the best possible way.
Spurs drew in Turin. Not Juve-by-2, but a 2-2 shootout where Tottenham came back from 2-0 down, capped by a tactical trick: a backup midfielder dropping deep to feed Kane on a decoy run the manager installed for exactly this moment. Champions League-shaking audacity from the understudy. The away end in Turin was jubilant, gloriously. Backup systems, properly drilled, can outperform the primary (the MTTR sermon in cleats).
And Falcon Heavy flew. Not “one booster sticks,” but both side boosters landed back at the Cape, simultaneously, in synchronized tail-first ballet that looked like CGI and wasn’t, while a cherry-red Roadster with a spacesuited mannequin drifted into a billion-year solar orbit playing Bowie. (The center core missed the drone ship, so my prediction salvages partial credit on a technicality I’m not proud of.) I watched the double landing live at 2am IST with the group chat and the involuntary scream happened again, eclipse-grade, apologies to my neighbors. The 2015 kid is doing fine, thanks for asking.
PyeongChang backdrop: Chloe Kim, 17, demolished the halfpipe field between tweets about churros; the shirtless Tongan flag-bearer returned (cross-country skiing now, because legends iterate); and the Olympics remain the best fortnightly programming this series gets.
TIL: calibration hurts on purpose. Both misses were under-estimates of prepared audacity. Noted pattern across the file: I systematically underrate teams that rehearse their trick plays. Adjusting priors accordingly, in sports and in engineering orgs.