First off, an early happy 2015! My new year's resolution is the same as last year: to continue to be a conduit to allow others to have irresponsible uses of money that don't involve in-app purchases!
Anyway, let's start the new year off right - with a suicide pool! Like our world famous (ish) NCAA tourney pool, we're going to be having an NFL Playoff Suicide Pool. The rules are so simple, I don't even have a word document for this one!
Hey man! I did this last year. Just tell me what changed so I can get on with my day.
Fine but you're missing out on comedy gold below. First change is the entry fee is $20. The only other major change is HOW to submit your selections. In the old days, I got picks via email, text, facebook message, calls, through other people, etc. You name a commuication method, I got picks that way. This year, I set up a Google Form that'll make things really simple. All you do is pick your team and fill in your name and email address, and we're good to go. (I will not sell or display your email address. I don't even know where to sell email addresses.) I've used these forms on a smartphone before and they work fine, so no need to find a computer.
As each form is created, I'll post it at tourneypools.blogspot.com and email all participants just for good measure (so supply an email address you actually check!). For now, here are the forms for this weekend...
Ok, on to the rules proper....
The Basics
- Each day, you pick one team. If you're team wins, congrats! You live to fight another day. If not, it's GAME OVER MAN!
- As with any suicide pool, you cannot pick the same team twice.
- Due to how few possible combinations of selections there are, there is no tiebreaker in this game.
- The pool will be "winner take all," but I'm figuring there will be a few people there at the end, so everyone who makes it to the last day and picks the winner (whatever that is) will split the pot.
- Just in case anyone is unaware, there are a possible total of SIX games to be picked - wild card saturday, wild card sunday, divisional playoff saturday, divisional playoff sunday, championship sunday, and finally super bowl sunday. Plan accordingly!
Entry
- Cost will be $20
- You may buy only a maximum of TWO entries
- easiest way to pay is, as usual, via PayPal. Please note the PayPal address is steelcard30@gmail.com. As usual, when paying, choose that you are just "sending money to someone you know" in order to avoid PayPal funds. I will not chip in additional money b/c you decided to send 8% to PayPal.
- For those of you who still live in 1997 and are scared of computers and think everything that happened in that Sandra Bullock movie The Net is real, I guess you can find me and hand the money over. If you choose this route, you need to do so before the kickoff of the first game, which is SATURDAY, JANUARY 3RD, 2015.
Referral Pool
- Once again, if you refer a friend, your entry gets added to a referral bonus pool. The total referral pool will be 20% of all "referred" entries.
- If you buy a second entry, you have then technically "referred yourself." In this case, designate which entry is your bonus-eligible entry when sending picks. If you do not designate, I'm going to assume it's the first team in your email/text/smoke signal.
- And why not, if you refer five people (yourself included), your entry is free. It's only fair, right?
- The winner of the referral pool will be determined the exact same way as the winner of the main pool.
That's it. As usual, feel free to forward this along to friends who may want to play. If you have any questions, just let me know. I'll use the same website (tourneypools.blogspot.com) for all updates. Good luck all!
