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We are bringing back the conference tournament pool this year! First, here are the seedings for quick reference...
Next, for anyone who needs a refresher, the rules. Good luck everyone!
Conference Tournament Pick’em
You know, EVERYONE loves the NCAA Tournament. The pageantry, the “anyone can beat anyone”
aspect, the 15 million times The Neon Trees needed to tell us that it did
indeed start with a whisper, etc etc etc.
(I know that’s a 2012 joke. I
left it in consciously b/c I still need to know what “it” started with.) All that means the REAL best week in
basketball, Conference Tournament Week or “Championship Week,” gets lost in the
shuffle. Seriously, there’s no better
week to go to Las Vegas if you ask me, but I digress.
Here at Tourney Pools, we have set a precedent of creating
better ways to “flex your college basketball acumen” than that lame old bracket
pool in the tournament itself. So it’s
time to expand to the next logical place – Championship Week! Aren’t you excited?! No?! I
don’t care, you will be.
Look, I did this last
year – Just tell me what changed so I can get on with my day.
Fine, you pushy jerk.
There are only three real changes:
1)
Mountain West is out, American Athletic
Conference is in
2)
Entry fee went up from $10 to $15. Inflation I guess.
3)
New paypal account: steelcard30@gmail.com
The Rules
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Participants each pick one team from each of the
8 conference tournaments specified below.
Who you can pick will be based on seed in the tournament. Participants can pick only one 1 seed, 1 2
seed, 1 3 seed, 1… you get the idea.
Here’s the conference tourneys we will be choosing from:
o
A-10 (which has 13 teams)
o
AAC
o
ACC
o
Big Ten (which has 12 teams)
o
Big 12 (which has 10 teams – huh???)
o
Big East
o
Pac-12 (The only conference that knows how to
count)
o
SEC (had to throw a mid-major in right?)
·
You may replace a better seeded team w/ a worse
seeded team in your 8 team entry if you so choose. For example, if you do not like any 3 seeds
in any conference tournament, you can replace your “3 seed” slot with any other
team seeded 4 or higher. Likewise, this
also means that teams higher than an 8 seed are eligible to be used in any
slots. You wanna pick the Fightin’ Frank
Martins of South Carolina in the SEC? Go
nuts. (Can someone introduce Frank
Martin to a tailor? He is constantly
wearing giant suit jackets that look like he stole them from his dad’s closet
or something. Anyway…)
·
Scoring will be as follows:
o
Championship win – 4 points
o
Semifinal win – 3 points
o
Quarterfinal win – 2 points
o
“Quarterquarterfinal”? win – 1 point
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This scoring means that only four games maximum
will be counted. This affects the 12 vs.
13 A-10 game, the Wednesday ACC games, & the Wednesday SEC games.
Entry Fees &
Payouts
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Buy-in price is $15
·
Multiple entries are allowed
·
Pool will be paid out 100%. The only way the moderators make money is if
we are smart enough to beat you fools down.
Which we aren’t. Seriously, we’ve
never won money in any of our pools. I
have no idea why we do this.
·
The number of places to be paid out and the
allocation of the prize pool in those paid out places will be determined by the
moderators once numbers are final and published before the end of the first day
of the contest.
·
If you refer one or more
friends/co-workers/hobos on the corner to the game, you will be entered in a
side “referral” pot which is winner take all.
The total in this pot will be equal to 25% of all the “referred” entry
fees.
o
Hey guys, if I buy two or more entries for
myself, it’ll be like I “referred myself”!
Does that get me in the referral pool too? Ugh, I guess you crazy bastard. But there’s a catch. If you have multiple entries, you must designate
one entry as your “referral pool entry” for its scoring. Sorry, you don’t get to overwhelm the
referral pool and buy yourself a better shot at it too.
·
In the event of a tie, participants will split
any winnings evenly. I know I’m famous
for my obtrusive tiebreaker rules – I’m taking the lazy way out until someone
complains and I fix it next year.
Deadlines
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All entries & $$$ must be submitted by Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 at
12 PM EDT
·
All entries should be emailed to tourneypools@gmail.com
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$$$ can be sent in one of two ways
o
You hand it to a moderator in cash or check form
o
Send it via paypal to my account at steelcard30@gmail.com – this is by far
the easiest method for all involved. If
you don’t have a paypal account, sign up for one. I set up an experiment where I asked a
dimwitted chimpanzee to sign up for a paypal account, and it took the chimp 2
minutes and 28 seconds. I bet you can
easily finish under 3 minutes. Or are
you dumber than a dimwitted chimpanzee?
I don’t know, I guess it’s possible.
o
No IOU’s will be accepted. This isn’t a charity. Maybe when UNICEF gets into the tournament
pool business, you can go there and give them your IOU. Until then, we’re the guys to talk to.
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