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BettingTalk NCAA Bracket Contest 2015

AdminAdmin Administrator
edited April 2015 in Sports Betting
BettingTalk Bracket Contest - 2015

Rules/Eligibility:

1.
You must be an active BettingTalk member (not suspended or banned)

2. You must have made 5 or more posts on the forum in the past year (from 03/17/14 through 03/16/15).

3. You must have an active e-mail address on file. All prizes must be claimed using the exact e-mail address on file. If you need to update your current e-mail address, please contact info@bettingtalk.com BEFORE the tournament starts on Thursday.

4. Please register at TournamentPools.com (see details below) with the SAME username that you use on BettingTalk. If that username is unavailable, simply add "BT" before or after it. Example "BTrightangle" or "rightangleBT".

*Additional rules or changes may be made as needed.

Prizes:

1st Place: $500
2nd Place: $300
3rd Place: $200

Scoring:

The bracket will be scored using a combination of points for each round plus points for the seed of the team picked. (Points for every win = Round Value + teem seed)

Round Values as follows:
of 64 - 10
of 32 - 12
Sweet 16 - 14
Elite 8 - 16
Final 4 - 18
Finals - 20

For example, if you correctly picked a #12 seeded team to win in the 1st round, you would get 22 points (10 pts for round one win + 12 (seed)).

Instructions for joining:
You need to be a member and logged in at TournamentPools.com. If you aren't a member already, you'll need to register first.

Click on the link below and you will be guided through the process for joining this pool, including registering if you need to.

http://www.tournamentpools.com/pools.cfm?poolid=14771&p=2&pwd=ras
Pool ID#: 14771
Pool Entry Code: ras


Please e-mail info@bettingtalk.com with any problems or questions.

Good luck!

Comments

  • BetThemDogsBetThemDogs Senior Member
    edited March 2015
    What is the tie-breaker? Total points in champ game?
  • babaorileybabaoriley Senior Member
    edited March 2015
    Was wondering the same ^^^.
  • Old-TimerOld-Timer Senior Member
    edited March 2015
    It says tie breaker and that would be total points in the champ game. I don't know what else to say.
  • babaorileybabaoriley Senior Member
    edited March 2015
    OT, there are many pools that use total points in the Final Four (so 3 games). Bookmaker's bracket contest is just one of those but they've sprung up more often these days.
  • Old-TimerOld-Timer Senior Member
    edited March 2015
    babaoriley wrote: »
    OT, there are many pools that use total points in the Final Four (so 3 games). Bookmaker's bracket contest is just one of those but they've sprung up more often these days.

    Never seen it myself but every year here it's the same thing and every contest I've seen it's the champ game unless otherwise it would be stated. But hey I could be wrong been wrong before.

    info@bettingtalk.com
  • babaorileybabaoriley Senior Member
    edited March 2015
    Just to clarify, I think it's highly likely that you're correct and that it is the Champ Game total. That's what I'm rolling with unless I hear differently. I just wanted confirmation as I've been in those other contests where a few people assume champ game total and have 140 or whatever in the tiebreaker spot and everyone else is in the 400-420 range with 3 games counting toward the total.
  • Old-TimerOld-Timer Senior Member
    edited March 2015
    If i came off sarcastic it was unintentional. I just never heard of any other way. Learn something new every day.
  • TommyLTommyL Super Moderator
    edited March 2015
    I'm listed in the pool as "Skins_Fan77". This is the same website that one of my survivor pools uses, and every year I have to switch my userid back and forth, but it looks like I screwed it up this year since I didn't switch it back until after I started entering my picks (and it won't let me change it now). Just wanted to give a heads up so that you guys know who it is that is atop the leaderboard.
  • acetotenacetoten Senior Member
    edited March 2015
    thanks for running/sponsoring the contest ED, always fun, although I'm generally out of it after first round !!!
  • jets96jets96 Senior Member
    edited March 2015
    how do you unlock standings ?
  • Old-TimerOld-Timer Senior Member
    edited March 2015
    jets96 wrote: »
    how do you unlock standings ?

    Click on standings and a box will appear with choices
  • AdminAdmin Administrator
    edited April 2015
    Thanks to everyone who participated and congratulations to our winners:

    1. THUNDERSTORM82 (BigPerm)
    2. rustycole (olemiss10)
    3. firstclass111(firstclass)

    Winners will be notified via email on how to claim their prizes.
  • BigPermBigPerm Senior Member
    edited April 2015
    Thank you as always!
  • firstclassfirstclass Senior Member
    edited April 2015
    Thanks for the contest!!
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