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Teams pay entry fees for invitationals instead of the individual. There are still entry fees. Invite more teams collect more fees.

You can put your deposit down today. $50k for the performance version with the fans or $250k for the thrust version with the fans and thrusters in the rear. The rocket version with the 6 thrusters that did the kick flip and curved wall jump is invite only. They haven’t announced the final price of any version yet. https://www.tesla.com/roadster/reserve#payment Nine years ago the former second gen roadster was announced with a price of $200k and could be reserved with a $50k deposit. One thousand founders series were also offered for $250k, but those had to paid in full to reserve. That is $250M in interest free money for 9 years if no one has asked for a refund. Being Musk doesn’t expect the new version to go into production until 2028 that will be ~11 years from the announcement at the Tesla semi event in Nov 2017 until the first car is delivered.

Actual cars can be impractical and inaccessible to everyday consumers - most super cars are and many manufacturers make concept cars to show what’s possible or gain publicity that never go into production. If the roadster was just an impractical inaccessible super car or a demo concept car I wouldn’t call it a scam. But I don’t think it exists as it’s been described and I doubt it ever will yet the Tesla website is taking deposits for models with both the fan system and thrusters. How many of them do you get delivered in the next 5 years? What’s crazy is that 1000 people paid the full purchase price of $250,000 back in 2017 to reserve founders series roadsters. Nine years later it would appear Tesla isn’t ever going to make that car. Do they get one of the redesigned roadsters? Which version? Is Tesla going to ask for more money? If I had to guess the models with the fan system snd thrusters never get sold to the public. No earlier than three years from now Tesla delivers a car that has slightly better acceleration and top speed than what was quoted in 2017 but with half the range. The original range was supposed to be 620mi. Tesla had also promised ~80-100 second gen founders series roadsters to the top referrers in their old referral program. If someone referred 55 customers that bought a model S or X they would receive a free roadster. Referring 105 customers would get you two roadsters. Will they actually make good on that promise?

I think this demonstration, though cool, is likely a scam. I doubt Tesla delivers a single car with the cold gas thrusters in the next 9 years. I doubt that either the version with thrusters or the fan system is ever allowed on public road. The fan system would suck up rocks and debris from the road and expel it out the back. There are additional questions about whether the cars used in the demo were fully functional versions of the car. It wouldn't be too surprising if they made a lightweight one off concept car that could flip with thrusters as in the demo. Where it starts to get unbelievable is if a these were actual EVs with 300 miles of range each capable of doing all three stunts with an onboard compressor capable of refilling the thrusters. They may have used strip down versions of the car in the demo. They definitely used 3 different cars -one for each feat (0-60mi/hr, kickflip, and curved ramp). That may have been because of refilling time for the thrusters and each needing a refill after doing the demo. There were photos of external high pressure gas tanks at the demo there were presumably used to fill the thrusters on the car, but it probably takes some time even with those. It's like none of the demo cars have an onboard compressor capable of refilling the thursters.

You can find historical freestyle results here https://uww.org/athletes-results?tab=historical-results. It only has international events. This website has profiles with freestyle wrestling results for some American wrestlers. It isn't comprehensive, but includes domestic results you can't find at the other one. https://wrestlingrecords.com/

The original Intermat was run by the NWCA and it was great. That was the go to place for wrestling box scores as I think all the weight management was run through them and schools had to report the results there along with weights form weigh-ins. At some point Rev Wrestling bought Intermat. Results reporting persisted here and on the regular NWCA website too for a time. It must have stopped whenever weight management and results reporting switched to trackwrestling from the NWCA tracker. It's surprising the wrestler profiles on Flo are so bad in comparison to wrestlestat when Flo owns Track which is where all the results are aggregated. From watching FRL it seems like the hosts used wrestlestat to look up wrestlers results more than either of their own websites (Flo and Track). You would think that would create some motivation to improve it.

This is a nonsense strawman. No one has said that nor do they think it. Not everything gets to be a standalone subscription or an additional line item on a bill. Providing historical results and player profiles with that info is part of the cost of doing business for a top sports league in 2026 and it's been that way for a while. Regardless of what Wrestlestat does the NCAA should be providing this for free. It shouldn't be a viable business strategy to charge a subscription to access it because it should be available on the league site (NCAA) and for that reason almost any site that covers the sport will also have it. The NCAA already makes these kind of historical stats available on stats.ncaa.org for baseball, basketball, field hockey, ice hockey, lacrosse, soccer, softball, tennis, and volleyball, for all divisions. I am sure time and effort is required to keep wrestlestat running, but it might not be a viable stand alone business. Such player profiles should be readily available on any site that covers the sport. When you go to Intermat rankings the wrestlers names should be links that go to a profile for the player with results. Same thing on Flo and other wrestling sites. If the stats become available then they all must provide it because they want to keep users on the site. How many sites covering MLB lack player profiles with stats? Imagine if you went to ESPN and after reading a preview article an upcoming NFL game you wonder how many rushing yards the running back had when these two teams played last year? Then to answer that question your had to leave ESPN's site and pay a $40 subscription. It's absurd. This is the way. Any professionally run sports organization will provide historical results, stats, and player profiles on its website. Over ten years ago I played in an adult wiffleball league that had maybe 20 teams with under ~6 players team. The league had a website with player profiles, box scores, and stats for the entire history of the league. I don't understand the reference. Wrestlestat predates this board.

They are listed on dozens of sites because the organizations that run the league are the ones compiling and disseminating them. You want season states, box scores, and game logs for an MLB game first and foremost you can find it on mlb.com. There is no need to involve a third party. The historical results and compiling individual match results was the unique part. Rankings have been done before, even formula based ones. Fantasy was unique too though I never used that. The wrestling space isn’t as large or competitive as baseball. There is a chance it was unique because they did it so well that no one was inspired to compete. This change should inspire some and present an opportunity to grab essentially all of their traffic. On the other hand, if they were the only players for years because the data is hard to come by that’s on the NCAA and needs fixing. The NCAA compiles and disseminates stats for all kinds of sports even non-revenue sports. You want to see a game log of a woman’s volleyball player stats from 5 years ago? That’s available on stats.ncaa.org. Wrestling results however are not on there. If the NCAA made the same level of stats available for wrestling on their site that would cover >95% of my Wrestlestat use cases. In 2026 for a sport to rely on a third party site that charges a troll tax to access basic historic stats is an affront to fans.

This update doesn't just pay wall the deep dive data. It pay walls the match results which is nonsense. Its nothing that isn't in a box score. It isn't their data that they are pay walling. It's just the results and they can't protect that. It's all public data from box scores. Anyone could copy it and there is nothing they could do about it because they don't own it. Putting it behind a pay wall doesn't change that. Back when ESPN had a paywall for written content the stuff behind it was articles and analysis. They never paywalled box scores or stats compiled from them. It is unthinkable to pay for such things in 2026.

They have ads and sell a stathead membership for $9/month which removes the ads and gives access to more stats and search/power user tools. https://www.sports-reference.com/stathead/ It's disappointing that wrestlestat doesn't make the match results free. Charge for advance stats, rankings, and ad removal.

Didn't LeBron move to NYC and plans to commute to Philly by helicopter for his new job? Did no one tell him the rich are supposed to be leaving NYC? Why would be go out of his way to move there? Does he have a strategy to avoid NYC taxes?

Supposedly him and his staff only looked at NBA and NCAA men’s games on that date in their research. Did not consider woman’s basketball.

The ranking was not my own. I found it using Google. It used the Global Peace Index (GPI) produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace. To the extent that I said Israel wasn't Muslim that was comparing the religious demographics (which is ~80% Judaism) with Caveira's assertion. To refresh your memory that was "Rank the 5-10 most dangerous countries in the world and why are they overwhelmingly predominantly Muslim" I don't read that to include any determination as to the which religion is most to blame for a country's rank. If I had to guess what Caveira was thinking when he asked the question he was expecting Muslim counties to make up most of the top 10 and then whoever answered the question would conclude Muslims/Islam is the cause the violence. The top result on google didn't work with Caviera's attempt at the Socratic method. Only half of the top 10 countries are predominantly Muslim. If you want to blame certain conflicts between different groups on Muslims and then rank based upon the group you blame for the violence that is not only a different question it doesn't work with the Socratic method. The conclusion you are hoping to prove with the question would be baked into the assumptions you made to categorize the countries and answer the question. That's not how it works. What are you talking about? The DRC is 1% Muslim. The rebels fighting the government is M23 a group of fighters backed by Rwanda which is also not a Muslim nation (2.2% Muslim). Name the "many groups" of Muslim fighters you claim make DCR dangerous? I also don't know what you are talking about in South Sudan. The vote was 98.8% in favor of leaving. Do you not think it was a free and fair vote? The fighting is between Dinka and Nuer groups neither are Muslim. Going back to the original topic of this thread look into what happens to journalists in South Sudan. Muslims didn't do that. Only 5 of the top 10 are predominantly Muslim. Even if you want to count Israel that is 6 out of 10 which is a slight majority and not an overwhelming majority like in the question Caveira asked nor is it well over half.

Because it was irrelevant to what he was responding. Going back to the Caveira's assertion that the top 10 most dangerous countries in the world being "overwhelmingly predominantly Muslim" only 5 of the top 10 on the list I found were predominantly Muslim. If you want to change the premise from what Caveira said to include Israel then Muslim countries represent 5.5-6 of the top 10, which might be a slight majority, but not an overwhelming majority.

Lol, I don't think I ever made a conclusion on the cause of violence in Israel much less said it on here. How is it that you so often end up with erroneous conclusions? How did you conclude that South Sudan has Muslim enemies who strike against them indiscriminately? That's more than a lack of critical thinking. It's straight ignorance and assuming Muslims are the problem... pretty much the exact opposite of critical thinking.

You didn’t say Sudan, you responded to my comment discussing South Sudan asking questions about Israel for some unknown reason. Whilst I said Sudan in the response you quoted it was always preceded by South. South Sudan is a separate country from Sudan since the 2011 referendum. When I said South Sudan I was referring to the country of South Sudan and not the southern portion of the country Sudan. Both the countries of South Sudan and Sudan are dangerous places. The population of Sudan is almost entirely Muslim so an if an American were to fall victim to a crime there it is highly probable a Muslim would have committed the act. On the other hand a majority of the population of South Sudan practices Christianity. Muslims only represent about 6% of the population in South Sudan. Violence in South Sudan is largely carried out by non-Muslims and along ethnic lines. Returning to your ambiguous question about the most dangerous counties, half of the top 10 in the list I found had a Muslim majority. There were 5 countries with a Muslim majority, 3 with Christianity as the majority, 1 with Judaism, and Russia. No religion is followed by a majority of Russians, but Christianity is the most popular with just under 50%. It would make sense for the top ten most dangerous places to be either Christian or Muslim as these are the two largest world religions. Other religions are small or isolated to a handful of countries.

I don’t understand the questions. What do they have to do with Muslim enemies attacking South Sudan indiscriminately?

What a display of critical thinking! Please enlighten everyone and tell us of the Muslim enemies striking indiscriminately against South Sudan.

One ranking I found near the top of Google results. 1. Russia 2. Sudan 3. Democrat Republicans of the Congo 4. Ukraine 5. Israel 6. South Sudan 7. Afghanistan 8. Yemen 9. Syria 10. Mali I guess 5-10 are predominantly Muslim - 4 of those 6 (Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, and Mali) are Muslim. However the countries at the top of that range (#5 Israel and 6 South Sudan) are not and only one (Sudan) in the top 4 is Muslim, so the association with Islam is not so clear.

Stieber closed his Stieber Elite Wrestling Academy (SEWA) when he became an assistant coach. I suspect Stieber wouldn't have abandoned the wrestling academy for only $35k/year. It think this all happened after Dlagnev left Columbus. Dlagnev I am sure also was being paid by the Ohio RTC.

I think $35K is better than the average Grad teaching/research assistant stipend. Those positions usually include free tuition which is a significant value. I think a lot of time these 3rd assistant positions have high turnover and you get a guy that wants to go to grad school or is still at the school finishing up but doens't have any eligibility remaining or someone still training to pursue international wrestling. It's a short term thing. They used to only allow two assistants and a volunteer assistant position for each team. I think now it's just 3 assistants.

Jaggers is one of the most highly compensated assistants outside of football and basketball. The only assistants that were paid more than him outside of those sports are 1 assistant men's hockey coach and an assistant baseball coach.

I don't like our chances. Looks like the next drop isn't going to be a lottery just a free-for-all with ticket limits lifted. "Up next, fans will have more opportunities to purchase Olympics tickets in 2027 on a first-come, first-served basis, LA28 said. The ticket maximum limits across the first two drops will be lifted, meaning no limit on the number of tickets fans can buy. All fans are eligible, regardless of whether they bought tickets during the first two ticket drops. Registration for a draw will not be required, but fans will need to create an LA28 ID to purchase, if they haven't already done so." https://www.nbclosangeles.com/olympics/2028-los-angeles/la-olympics-tickets/3932069/

PSAC Schools https://opengovpay.com/employer/pa/pennsylvania-state-system-of-higher-education?jobTitle=wrestling

This is assuming full time work. 40 hr/week 52 weeks per year. Is this $35k assistant coach position expected to work that much? If this isn't an school with a RTC offseason freestyle program they likely work far less than 8 hours/day. The exception would be in season when there are competitions. The light time requirements of a traditional assistant coach position is why for so many years they were used by athletes trying to make a world team to make ends meet whilst training. Only in the RTC era has the time commitment expanded significantly. So, if this isn't an RTC program they aren't averaging close to 40 hours/week for the year and if it is then they are likely to be getting paid by the RTC to coach there and for camps in the summer.