NCAA Brackets
sightunseen
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I know this may seem a little early, but an idea occurred to me that would combine cigars and college basketball.
Instead of chipping cash into a pool, how about we chip in cigars? Participants can initially send the cigars to a single individual to hold in trust until the winner is determined. To keep track of the brackets, we can probably use yahoo sports.
Thoughts? Suggestions?
Update:
Alright, guys, I just created our Yahoo group for the bracket. I will be PM'ing participants the sign in info. You'll need to set up a Yahoo account to play, so please take a moment if you don't already have an account. When you join, the Group ID # is 4798
To be part of this games, please be on the Good Trader List. This is the final list of participants:
Sightunseen
Lilwing88
ejenne87
Goldy
kingjk729
Vulchor
Matt Marvel
bandyt09
Quick Rules
"Buy-in" of five sticks. Sticks should be handmade premiums only. I know it's tempting to throw in some Swishers or White Owls.
Winner will be determined by the scoring on Yahoo Sports.
Now the good part, what the winners will get:
There will be 1st and 2nd prizes only. Based on the current list of 9 participants, 1st place winner will have 5 5-packs sent to him and 2nd place will have 2 5-packs. Senders will be determined by the whoever is after the winner on the above list. For example, if I won (highly unlikely), then the next 5 people after me will send me their 5-packs. 2nd place winners are exempt from sending. So for example, if I was 1st place and Lilwing comes in second, then the 5 people after lilwing will be sending me 5-packs and lilwing will receive a 5-pack from Vulchor and Matt Marvel. I think I got this right. Vulchor, if I am wrong, please let us know. Note: Depending on the final number of participants, the number of 5-packs for 1st and 2nd place may change.
Selection begins on 03/14
Brackets lock on 03/18. Please finalize your brackets before 03/18.
When registering your bracket, please use your Ccom handle as your name.
I think I've covered everything. Please let me know if you have questions or other suggestions.
Instead of chipping cash into a pool, how about we chip in cigars? Participants can initially send the cigars to a single individual to hold in trust until the winner is determined. To keep track of the brackets, we can probably use yahoo sports.
Thoughts? Suggestions?
Update:
Alright, guys, I just created our Yahoo group for the bracket. I will be PM'ing participants the sign in info. You'll need to set up a Yahoo account to play, so please take a moment if you don't already have an account. When you join, the Group ID # is 4798
To be part of this games, please be on the Good Trader List. This is the final list of participants:
Sightunseen
Lilwing88
ejenne87
Goldy
kingjk729
Vulchor
Matt Marvel
bandyt09
Quick Rules
"Buy-in" of five sticks. Sticks should be handmade premiums only. I know it's tempting to throw in some Swishers or White Owls.
Winner will be determined by the scoring on Yahoo Sports.
Now the good part, what the winners will get:
There will be 1st and 2nd prizes only. Based on the current list of 9 participants, 1st place winner will have 5 5-packs sent to him and 2nd place will have 2 5-packs. Senders will be determined by the whoever is after the winner on the above list. For example, if I won (highly unlikely), then the next 5 people after me will send me their 5-packs. 2nd place winners are exempt from sending. So for example, if I was 1st place and Lilwing comes in second, then the 5 people after lilwing will be sending me 5-packs and lilwing will receive a 5-pack from Vulchor and Matt Marvel. I think I got this right. Vulchor, if I am wrong, please let us know. Note: Depending on the final number of participants, the number of 5-packs for 1st and 2nd place may change.
Selection begins on 03/14
Brackets lock on 03/18. Please finalize your brackets before 03/18.
When registering your bracket, please use your Ccom handle as your name.
I think I've covered everything. Please let me know if you have questions or other suggestions.
Comments
GO CUSE!!!!
Basically, everyone fills out a bracket, top to bottom. First round is 1 point, second is 2, third is 4, fourth is 7, fifth is 11, and championship is 16. Tie breaker is total points scored in championship game----but that has never been needed. You keep winning as long as your teams win. If you pick a loser going to the elite 8 for example, you would not get points for that teams games----but you could still get points beyond that if you picked another team to beat them in that round.
Basically points for games you win, going up 1 point extra per round. No pentalites for losing, and the points for each round reward those who last longer----but arent so huge you get knocked out if you lose one team early. Anyway, done it this way for about 5 years----all but one has come down to the championship for at least 2 participants. Let me know what you think.
So this is where we currently stand: Yahoo Sports will open up their NCAA brackets next week. When that happens, I will set up an account and PM all the participants the name and password.
A question remains on how the prizes will be doled out. I think there were some suggestions on 75%-20%-5% for 1st 2nd and 3rd place. I am fine with that, but we need to figure out how to get those prizes out once the contest ends. The easiest way to me is to have everyone pool their "buy-in" with a single person and once the contest is over, that person can divy it out. I can see some complications arising if everyone just sends the the winner their cigars directly (which player will send how many? etc).
I'll edit my first post in this thread once I have the Yahoo account set up.
Who sends to who is based on who has resonded here they want to play, and whoever else joins later. Meaning so far the order is Sight, Wing, EJenne, Goldy, Sandman, KingJK, Vulchor. If it started today winner would get sticks from the first 3 on the list (not including self if won obviously), 2nd would get from the remaining 2 players.
IE----If Wing won and Goldy was 2nd...Wing would receive from Sight, EJenne, and Sandman. Goldy would get from King JK and Vulchor...............We could do a third place, but i would rather make it a nice 1st and 2nd instead of splitting up so much...just makes it nicer for the top 2 in a longer game. Again, all any one person would be losing is 4 sticks (or more if your feeling frisky).