My wife has been having a bear of a time at work dealing with a group project, so I sent her this meme...
Well, when "we" do these pools over here at TourneyPools, the division of labor is pretty clear - I run the email, form setup, leaderboard management, background scoring, payment collection, & payouts, while my brother writes the blog post intros. Totally 50/50, right? Well, here's what I sent him on Friday...
And here's what I got this morning...
Thanks again bro. See ya at the cemetery; don't be late.
Now, 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
- Checks: 974 Breckenridge Lane, Box #133, Louisville, KY 40207
- Credit Cards: DON'T TEMPT ME FRODO!
- Tournament Bracket Links:
This is my umpteenth year of this nonsense. Anything new?
The number of games tipping before my old deadline is starting to get untenable, so the deadline has been moved to 11:30 AM Wednesday. This coincides with the first tip of a scored game in the A-10.
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:
- A-10
- ACC
- Big 12
- Big East
- Big Ten
- Mountain West
- Pac-12
- SEC
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 & $$$ must be submitted by Wednesday, March 13th, 2024 at 11:30 AM EDT
$$$ can be sent in one of three ways
- You hand it to a moderator in cash or check form
- Send it via paypal/venmo/zelle to the account listed above - seriously, it's 2024 and by now, you should have an account on one of these services
- Mail a check to the address listed above - don't go looking for me weirdos, you're just gonna find a UPS store
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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