Read This if You Wanna Play, Beatch!

[The Prick]

Listen up, 'cause i ain't got time to waste with you buncha wankers going thru this all day long. It's all in stone now, ladies, we took into account all the whining and crying and adjusted the rules for the last time. The prizes are already bought and paid for, and i'm weasling away a little cabbage to pay any of you squares who get right with Jesus and beat me down.....here's the important part: If you think you got a prayer of getting in my pocket (delusional homo), then take your hot-shot ass to www.BeatthePrick.com and follow the instructions. if them 3 little steps are too tough fer any of you braniacs, they even set up an e-mail account for ya to beg fer help. This deal goes LIVE on Sep 6, when you can all line up fer yer weekly dose of da Prick. If i catch any of you cheap bastages takin' shots, or tryin' to cheat, i'll send the goons from CRIS over to adjust yer attitude, then post yer info all over the 'net as the sorriest butt-pirate on earth

Short version for all you retards:

1. SIGNUP - Go to www.BeatThePrick.com and follow the instructions. If you don't do this first, you can't play.

2. PLAY - Come back to the "Beat The Prick - Football Contest" forum on the morning of Wednesday, September 6 to make your picks.

3. HELP - If you can't figure it out Forrest Gump, you can try emailing me for some help - theprick@beattheprick.com

[Dark Horse]

Lmao

[imgv94]

Very easy to sign up.. So I take it there will be no mid entry
contest participants?

[SBR_John]

Very easy to sign up.. So I take it there will be no mid entry
contest participants?

Mid entry as in after the season starts? Not for the season long prizes. Players are allowed to miss or pass on 2 weeks so you could start a couple of weeks late and still win season long prizes.

Players can join anytime and take a shot at The Prick for the weekly prizes.

[The Prick]

what kinda DUMBASS would wait to enter this deal????? free cheese every week, or a shot at some anyhow. we're tryin' to thin the ghost herd out, so if ya don't fund a CRIS account right after yer lucky ass beats da Prick, ya can't win shit

[rolemand]

I enjoyed reading the bio - very informative. Apparently there is only 1 photo of this guy that must be circling the globe. Shows up in his avatar and on the beattheprick.com site.

[sergfro]

well I got an error after entering in my betcris account...so hopefully i'm in the system....can you double check?

EDIT: You're good to go, Sergfro. It's possible that, because you entered so quickly after the signup process was announced, that your entry hit simulataneously with some database maintenance we were doing (cleaning out several test accounts). No worries ... good luck!

[RickySteve]

Can I use my TCBets account? It's the exact same as CRIS.

[Sean]

well I got an error after entering in my betcris account...so hopefully i'm in the system....can you double check?

PM me your CRIS account and I'll verify. Had you entered the account number twice? Otherwise, please include in your PM to me a description of the error you received and what transpired to cause that error.

Thanks,
Sean - SBR

EDIT: You're good to go, Sergfro. It's possible that, because you entered so quickly after the signup process was announced, that your entry hit simulataneously with some database maintenance we were doing (cleaning out several test accounts). No worries ... good luck!

[MAB]

Sign up was easy. Can't wait for the season to start.

[stump]

sign up complete

[BigDaddy]

i signed up but dont know if it went thru

1st step ok
2nd step ok
3rd step clicked on it it directed me here so if thats what its supposed to do it went thru but if not itddint say anything like sign up complete or anything?

thanks

EDIT: If you make it to Step 3 of the registration process at www.BeatThePrick.com then the registration was successful. The contest will take place here in the Beat The Prick Contest Forum.

[Sean]

i signed up but dont know if it went thru

1st step ok
2nd step ok
3rd step clicked on it it directed me here so if thats what its supposed to do it went thru but if not itddint say anything like sign up complete or anything?

thanks

If you ended up back here after completing the signup process, then all was successful. The Prick will make his picks for Week One sometime between the evening of Tuesday, Sep 5 and the morning of Wednesday, Sep 6.

Once his picks are in, all contestants will be able to make their picks. So, check back here on Wedneday morning and look for the Week One - Beat The Prick Contest thread ... that's when the fun begins!

Good Luck!

[Sean]

Can I use my TCBets account? It's the exact same as CRIS.

RickySteve, I'll get you an answer on that first thing tomorrow.

EDIT: All contestants must establish a BetCRIS account, regardless of their account status at any other books in the CRIS family.

[Illusion]

Prick, maybe you can post a signup list to make sure everybodies registeration went through.

[Sean]

Prick, maybe you can post a signup list to make sure everybodies registeration went through.

We're handling that through www.BeatThePrick.com ... If you make it to Step 3 of the registration process, then the registration was successful. We will also be verifying CRIS account numbers through that site in order to eliminate fraudulent and/or duplicate entries.

[darkghost]

Signing up was easy enough but let me get this straight. Each week there will be one first place winner and 49 potential other winners (granted the Prick doesn't go 4-0). So what's the tie-breaker going to be for first place?

EDIT: "All ties for weekly prize(s) shall be broken in favor of the contestant with the highest number of posts at SBR Forum ... contestant’s post count for a specific week shall be determined and recorded at the time the contestant makes their selections in that week."

See Official Rules Thread

Obviously, a weekly winning score of 5 beats a weekly winning score of 4 ... that's a given. See Official Rules Thread item #5 regarding SCORING.

[goldengoat]

i am ready to rumble

[SBR_John]

Signing up was easy enough but let me get this straight. Each week there will be one first place winner and 49 potential other winners (granted the Prick doesn't go 4-0). So what's the tie-breaker going to be for first place?

I think the tie breaker is number of total posts.

[pags11]

prick, when's the last time you got laid?...by a girl I mean...

[goldengoat]

if the tie breaker is total posts i might have to start post whorin'

lol

[Ortho]

RickySteve, I'll get you an answer on that first thing tomorrow.

I have the smae issue with my diamond account.


EDIT: All contestants must establish a BetCRIS account, regardless of their account status at any other books in the CRIS family.

[The Prick]

fer all you retards who wear baseball helmets so yer water head don't pop, here's the scoop: this contest is "Beat the Prick" sponsored by BETCRIS. To qualify for ANY prizes you must open or must have an existing CRIS account. you MUST slap $100 into aforementioned CRIS account. CRIS is my favorite shop, plus they gave the ol' Prick a much sweeter deal.

[Ortho]

No prob for me having a dsi account and cris account. cris even gave me the signup bonus.

[scottric]

Damn, signing up at the web site was real easy...almost as easy as beating the Prick! Cool looking site, to boot.

BTW, Prick, I loved you as Morrie in GoodFellas...

[dcheng]

is the prick the schwab on espn?

[HAPPY BOY]

god damn its good to see all the old SBR posters back scottric welcome back dude! by the way prick put down the twinkies bro ya look like your ready to pop

[sjelveh]

fade the prick system

I can’t wait for the beat the prick contest that am going to do another system like the ml preseason underdog system, am calling this the fade the prick system, am going to put a couple hundred in my bet cris account and fade the prick all year long this by far is probably the most profitable system ever created.

[SBR_John]

Yea you should of heard The Prick convincing CRIS that he had been retired and had been drinking a little too much and that's why he had a slow start last year. He told them he would go 4-0 & 3-1 half of the time. Man I had to go into a smokers type cough to disguise my laughing! Should be a fun year.

[onlooker]

He told them he would go 4-0 & 3-1 half of the time.

I just about fell off my chair when I read that.

Man, did he really pull a fast one on BetCRIS then. Maybe 0-4 and 1-3 most the time, thats more realistic.

[Dark Horse]

Not a very good tie breaker rule. You don't want to invite people to post bs. Plus you don't want to give the tiebreaker to the same people all the time.

Instead, why not take the separate digits in the total posts, and add them up to any two digit number. For instance, onlooker's 7467 would become 7+4+6+7 = 24. SBRJohn's would be 2+6+1+4 = 13. To illustrate the difference, at 7471 (18) the advantage can swing to 2638 (19).

You could continue until you have 1 digit (as in 7+4+6+7 = 24 = 2+4 = 6), but that would level the playing field too much in favor of newbies.

Then draw a number out of a hat, and the post count that comes closest wins the tie breaker.

[SBR_John]

OK, we will look at it.

We did want to reward the long time active posters. Remember the first tie breaker is weekly record so you will absolutely have to go 4-0 to win the weekly grand prize of $500. The math says each poster will have 1.7 4-0 weeks over 17 weeks of the contest.

If and when you do go 4-0, you will have an excellent chance of winning the $500 with 1,375 posts, which is more than 95% of all posters currently.

But we will look at it fromn all angles again.

[Sean]

You don't want to invite people to post bs.

God forbid anyone might post BS on a sports forum. Seriously though, I agree with you that QUALITY is more important than QUANTITY ... I expect that the regular folks like yourself will do a good job of calling out the BS and keeping the forum up to par.

Plus you don't want to give the tiebreaker to the same people all the time.

We've definitely given a lot of consideration to the tiebreaker issue. Given that we've instituted 4 picks this year along with the "Best Pick" selection -- making a perfect week equal 5 total points -- it's going to be tough for the same person to be at the top each week.

Consider this:

A) The poster must first Beat The Prick in order to qualify for a weekly prize; and,
B) that poster must then most likely be required to have a perfect score of "5", then,
C) only after the first two requirements are met does the "total post count" tiebreaker come into play.

Granted, newer posters may have a tougher time reaching that $500 bonus prize than long-time regulars; but it's certainly not impossible. In fact, I'm inclined to bet that we'll have more than one top weekly winner over the course of the season that comes from the newbie ranks.

Good luck to you this season, bro ... look forward to seeing your name in the winner's circle!

[Casperwaits]

I'm all in. Do these Super Bowl tickets come with a cheerleader....lol?

[Sean]

I'm all in. Do these Super Bowl tickets come with a cheerleader....lol?

Yes they do!

The Prick has been experimenting with a few different outfits but last I heard, he's settling for the micro-mini and the faux fur tube top. The SOB is dead sexy in heels too ... I think you'll dig him. And, if I'm not mistaken, he's also available for outcalls. So, even if you miss out on the Super Bowl trip, The Prick can still be your special little cheerleader. Be sure to ask for the happy ending ... BBD reports that it's not too shabby.