Against all logic and reason after refunding a boatload of entries last year while a once-in-a-century pandemic continues to ravage the country and result in over 1500 games cancelled in the regular season, we're gonna do this! We're going to have fun dammit!
Anyway, let's all be jolly and see how the hell this goes this year, amiright?!
Ok, let's get all the usual links out of the way for the regulars...
- Buy-in: $20/entry
- Entry Form – Embedded at the bottom. You're welcome. Do not email, text, call, direct message, or facebook message me picks. I will ignore them.
- Website: tourneypools.blogspot.com – the leaderboard and all updates will be posted here. If you have a question where ANYTHING is, go here before asking, b/c odds are it’s here.
- Email: tourneypools@gmail.com – I’m constantly monitoring this and can get back to you fairly quickly.
- Paypal ID: paypal.me/PhilipCrone
- Venmo ID: @Philip-Crone
- Zelle: steelcard30@gmail.com
- Tournament Bracket Links:
This is my umpteenth year of this nonsense. Anything new?
Only rule I'm going to include new for this year is around COVID cancelations.
If a single game is canceled - I don't find it fair to miss out on points just b/c your opponent couldn't isolate for a while for the most important part of the season. Therefore, whichever teams move on will have that game count as a win for them.
If any of the eight tournaments cancel prior to their finals - I'll cancel the whole pool and refund everyone if there proves to be a material impact on payouts. By this, I mean if the MWC cancels after a couple rounds, but it was more or less a dead choice for everyone involved in payouts, I'll keep the pool going. This one could be a bit tough to figure, but you'll have to trust me. I'm a math major after all.
Ok, and with that, the standard rigamaroll...
The Rules
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:
- AAC (Where Houston isn't the 1 seed so FREE SQUARE!)
- ACC (Don't do it, Louisville fans...)
- Big 12 (which has 10 teams; counting is hard)
- Big East (Hey UCONN is back & nobody noticed!)
- Big Ten (Bloodbath)
- Mountain West (Our A-10 sub who was really good that one time like seven years ago)
- Pac-12 (Minus Arizo-noooooooo)
- SEC (Don't do it, Kentucky fans...)
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.
Scoring will be as follows:
- Championship win – 4 points
- Semifinal win – 3 points
- Quarterfinal win – 2 points
- “Quarterquarterfinal”? win – 1 point
This scoring means that only four games maximum will be counted. Teams playing in a fifth game will not have those wins counted.
Entry Fees & Payouts
- Buy-in price is $20
- 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 happened last year. Win your pride back dammit!
- 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.
- 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
- All entries & $$$ must be submitted by Wednesday, March 11th, 2019 at 6 PM EDT – There are a handful of games before that, so if you want those games counted, get your entry in! You may use these teams after they tip and before the deadline, but their points in these games will NOT count toward your total! Also, the Tuesday ACC games don't get any points. The first Wednesday game tips off at Noon EDT, so if you want to be 100% sure, just get entries in by then. All entries are time stamped when submitted, so don't whine that it was on time.
$$$ can be sent in one of three ways
- You hand it to a moderator in cash or check form
- Mail a check/cash to 1601 Beechwood Ave., New Albany, IN 47150
- Send it via paypal/venmo/zelle to the account listed above - seriously, it's 2021 and you haven't left your house in 365 days; by now, you should have an account on one of these services
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.
Congrats on making it to the end! Your prize? An entry form!
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