1. 01-13-11 10:30 PM #1
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    Australian Open Contest - Mens Singles

    NOTE: I AM STILL TRYING TO UPDATE THE QUALIFIERS BUT THE AUSSIE OPEN WEBSITE HASN'T UPDATED THE DRAWS YET. THE FIRST ROUND MATCHES HAVE BEEN UPDATED IN HERE BUT THAT'S ALL IVE GOT SO FAR. IF ANYONE FINDS INFO ABOUT MATCHES THAT ARE STILL SHOWING AS AWAITING A QUALIE PLEASE LET ME KNOW.

    Each person is to PM me their winners all the way through until the Final and once the first match commences, I'll post everyone's picks so all of us can follow along. You will receive 10 points for each correct winner of a match. NOT betpoints - POINTS TOWARD YOUR CONTEST SCORE. There will be a 100 point bonus to your score if you correctly pick the two players in the Final and a 50 point bonus if you correctly predict the winner of the Final. If you have chosen the winner of the Final and they are seeded outside of the top 10, you will receive an additional 200 point bonus.

    The entry fee is 15 points     which must be paid before the commencement of the first match of Round 1. The first match takes place on Monday the 17th at 11am Melbourne time, which is 7pm Sunday in NYC, or 12am Monday in London. I'm waiting for an answer from SBR as to how much they'll be contributing to the prize pool but I'm sure it'll be a decent amount.

    Once I've received all the entries and the contest is closed, I'll post the prizes along with everyone's picks.

    The women's contest is here: http://www.sportsbookreview.com/forum/tennis-han...s-singles.html
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  2. 01-13-11 10:32 PM #2
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    shari....would it be too much to ask for all your posts to be made via an audio recording... you dont have to get on cam.... just post blank videos, verbalizing your posts.

    thanks
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  3. 01-13-11 10:35 PM #3
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  4. 01-13-11 10:38 PM #4
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    I guess thats a no.
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  5. 01-13-11 10:41 PM #5
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    which thread do we enter on?
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  6. 01-13-11 10:42 PM #6
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    is that video she posted still up somewhere? I want to listen to it again
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  7. 01-13-11 10:45 PM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by ProfaneReality View Post
    is that video she posted still up somewhere? I want to listen to it again

    shouldn't be hard to find, it's been getting posted in constantly, although I can't be arsed to read the last few pages.

    http://www.sportsbookreview.com/forum/players-ta...hari-live.html


    I'll be entering the contest.
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  8. 01-13-11 10:48 PM #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by EmpireMaker View Post
    which thread do we enter on?
    In here. This will be the thread for the contest.
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  9. 01-13-11 10:53 PM #9
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    shari whyd you make it private...cmon
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  10. 01-13-11 10:54 PM #10
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    Quote Originally Posted by shari91 View Post
    In here. This will be the thread for the contest.
    call me
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  11. 01-13-11 11:00 PM #11
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    I would like to join the open contests Shari.
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  12. 01-13-11 11:03 PM #12
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    will the rules and entries be posted here too ?
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  13. 01-13-11 11:06 PM #13
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    shari dont make me look bad....unlock the vid please
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  14. 01-13-11 11:10 PM #14
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    points sent
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  15. 01-13-11 11:32 PM #15
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    we have to pick a winner for every match? thats a lot of matches, thx shari for doing this
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  16. 01-13-11 11:51 PM #16
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    sounds good
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  17. 01-14-11 12:07 AM #17
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    yay this again good job last time Shari! ill b doing it.
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  18. 01-14-11 12:42 AM #18
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    I was really confused for a second, I thought you were giving away 10 betpoints for each winner picked. If only... anyways i'll be entering, just gotta wait for my bet on Troicki to clear in the book before i can send the entry fee
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  19. 01-14-11 01:15 AM #19
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    when is the first match, i guess deadline is soon? Anyway i can pay you 5 for 3 days in a row
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    Points sent
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  21. 01-14-11 05:21 AM #21
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    threw some points in contest for you guys

    Well I HAD to

    WALKER said give some points to her
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  22. 01-14-11 05:38 AM #22
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    Quote Originally Posted by lemart5 View Post
    I would like to join the open contests Shari.
    When you're ready to join, just transfer the entry fee to the first post in this thread. If you'd like to join the women's contest then you can go here and transfer the entry fee there as well.

    http://www.sportsbookreview.com/forum/tennis-han...s-singles.html

    Quote Originally Posted by EmpireMaker View Post
    will the rules and entries be posted here too ?
    Yeah, I'll post everything in this thread.
    Quote Originally Posted by ProfaneReality View Post
    shari dont make me look bad....unlock the vid please
    I did for about 20 minutes after I saw your posts. I hope you got to see them.
    Quote Originally Posted by RollPlayer View Post
    I was really confused for a second, I thought you were giving away 10 betpoints for each winner picked. If only... anyways i'll be entering, just gotta wait for my bet on Troicki to clear in the book before i can send the entry fee
    I edited the post to make it more clear. Thank you for pointing that out as that was a question in our last contest as well.

    Quote Originally Posted by ttwarrior1 View Post
    when is the first match, i guess deadline is soon? Anyway i can pay you 5 for 3 days in a row
    The first match takes place on Monday the 17th at 11am Melbourne time, which is 7pm Sunday in NYC, or 12am Monday in London. Transferring me the points in chunks is fine.
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  23. 01-14-11 06:10 AM #23
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    Shari looking forward to the automated bracket software.

    When will it be ready?

    French?

    Thanks
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  24. 01-14-11 06:14 AM #24
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    Quote Originally Posted by jjgold View Post
    Shari looking forward to the automated bracket software.

    When will it be ready?

    French?

    Thanks
    As soon as you tell John to withhold some of your cut and reinvest it in the tennis forum.
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  25. 01-14-11 06:50 AM #25
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    points sent
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  26. 01-14-11 07:40 AM #26
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    Is this winner take all?
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  27. 01-14-11 07:45 AM #27
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    Quote Originally Posted by shari91 View Post
    As soon as you tell John to withhold some of your cut and reinvest it in the tennis forum.
    I concur and would love to see some of that money invested in the soccer forum too.
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  28. 01-14-11 07:53 AM #28
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    Shari, you know you don't have to do this with whats going on down there. Thank you anyway though!
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  29. 01-14-11 08:10 AM #29
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    Quote Originally Posted by beefcake View Post
    Shari, you know you don't have to do this with whats going on down there. Thank you anyway though!
    You're a sweetheart Beefy but there's not much else I can really do at this point other than cross my fingers that Melbourne doesn't get any more rain. One of our roads apparently disintegrated today and we've had some flooding, but nothing like Queensland, New South Wales or north of Melbourne. So we're actually ok at the moment. As long as we don't get any more rain for the next few days to allow our catchments to calm down a bit then we should have escaped the worst of it.

    I'm going to start typing up the draw now and post it even though all of the qualies haven't been determined. At least that way everyone has the option of getting started instead of doing it all in one shot which will be time-consuming considering we're starting from Round 1 this time.
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  30. 01-14-11 08:47 AM #30
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    AUSTRALIAN OPEN ATP DRAW - ROUND ONE

    I will add the names of the qualifiers as they become available

    Group One

    Rafael Nadal vs Marcos Daniel
    Ryan Sweeting vs Daniel Gimeno-Traver

    Bernard Tomic vs Jeremy Chardy
    Alejandro Falla vs Feliciano Lopez

    John Isner vs Florent Serra
    Radek Stepanek vs Denis Gremelmayr
    Rui Machado vs Santiago Giraldo
    Donald Young vs Marin Cilic

    Mikhail Youzhny vs Marsel Ilhan
    Blaz Kavcic vs Kevin Anderson

    Milos Raonic vs Bjorn Phau
    Juan Ignacio Chela vs Michael Llodra

    David Nalbandian vs Lleyton Hewitt
    Richard Berankis vs Marinko Matosevic

    Michael Russell vs Matthew Ebden
    Jarkko Nieminen vs David Ferrer

    Group Two

    Robin Soderling vs Potito Starace
    Gilles Muller vs Simon Stadler

    Denis Istomin vs Jan Hernych
    Richard Mello vs Thomaz Bellucci

    Ernest Gulbis vs Benjamin Becker
    Alexandr Dolgopolov vs Mikhail Kukushkin

    Andreas Seppi vs Arnaud Clement
    Phillip Petzschner vs Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

    Jurgen Melzer vs Vincent Millot
    Carsten Ball vs Pere Riba

    Dudi Sela vs Juan Martin Del Potro
    Grega Zemlja vs Marcos Baghdatis

    Guillermo Garcia-Lopez vs Michael Berrer
    Eduardo Schwank vs Leonardo Mayer

    Illya Marchenko vs Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo
    Karol Beck vs Andy Murray

    Group Three

    Tomas Berdych vs Marco Crugnola
    Philipp Kohlschreiber vs Tobias Kamke

    Ryan Harrison vs Adrian Mannarino
    Frank Dancevic vs Richard Gasquet

    Nikolay Davydenko vs Florian Mayer
    Fabio Fognini vs Kei Nishikori

    Mischa Zverev vs Janko Tipsarevic
    Rainer Schuettler vs Fernando Verdasco

    Nicolas Almagro vs Stephane Robert
    Igor Andreev vs Filippo Volandri

    Flavio Cipolla vs Benoit Paire
    Peter Luczak vs Ivan Ljubicic

    Viktor Troicki vs Dmitry Tursunov
    Brian Dabul vs Nicolas Mahut

     Ivo Karlovic vs Ivan Dodig
    Marcel Granollers vs Novak Djokovic

    Group Four

    Andy Roddick vs Jan Hajek
    Michal Przysiezny vs Igor Kunitsyn

    Carlos Berlocq vs Robin Haase
    Julien Benneteau vs Juan Monaco

    Stanislas Wawrinka vs Teymuraz Gabashvili
    Grigor Dimitrov vs Andrey Golubev

    Frederico Gil vs Pablo Cuevas
    Thiemo de Bakker vs Gael Monfils

    Mardy Fish vs Victor Hanescu
    Tommy Robredo vs Somdev Devvarman

    Sergiy Stakhovsky vs Daniel Brands
    Lukasz Kubot vs Sam Querrey

    Albert Montanes vs Dustin Brown
    Pablo Andujar vs Xavier Malisse

    Yen-Hsun Lu vs Gilles Simon
    Lukas Lacko vs Roger Federer
    Last edited by shari91; 01-16-11 at 06:24 AM.
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  31. 01-14-11 08:58 AM #31
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    great contest. thanks a lot!
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  32. 01-14-11 09:40 AM #32
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    Should be a fun tourney.
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  33. 01-14-11 10:11 AM #33
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    TO SUBMIT YOUR PICKS:

    You take each first round winner and slot them through until the end. Just to make it clear: You're starting off by telling me what Round 2 would look like if you were going to be watching a round 2 match. So the first names you'll give me are the winners from the Nadal vs Daniel match and the QUALIFIER vs Gimeno-Traver match as the winners will be playing each other in Round 2. Then you go on to the next subgroup and carry those winners through.

    I've provided an example and if you need a visual of what your entry should look like, here you go: http://www.australianopen.com/en_AU/...s/ms/r1s1.html

    Even better, if you want to make it easier on yourself and you have access to a printer, use this, work it out manually and then just PM me using the format I've given you: http://www.australianopen.com/en_AU/.../ms/msdraw.pdf

    The first round you're trying to set up is Round 2 because you're picking the winners of round 1. Please PM in the format I listed below as it'll make it so much easier for me to figure stuff out, especially since we're starting from the first round this time and I'm running the women's contest too.

    Example entry (copy and paste this to PM to me)

    ROUND TWO

    Group 1
    Nadal vs QUALIFIER
    Tomic vs Falla

    Isner vs QUALIFIER
    Giraldo vs Cilic

    Youzhny vs Anderson
    Phau vs Llodra

    Hewitt vs Berankis
    Ebden vs Ferrer

    Group 2
    Soderling vs QUALIFIER
    Istomin vs Mello

    Gulbis vs Dolgopolov
    Seppi vs Tsonga

    Melzer vs Ball
    Del Potro vs Baghdatis

    Berrer vs Mayer
    Marchenko vs Murray

    Group 3
    Berdych vs Kamke
    Harrison vs Gasquet

    Davydenko vs Nishikori
    Tipsarevic vs Verdasco

    Almagro vs Andreev
    Paire vs Ljubicic

    Troicki vs QUALIFIER
    Dodig vs Djokovic

    Group 4
    Roddick vs Kunitsyn
    Haase vs Monaco

    Wawrinka vs QUALIFIER
    Gil vs Monfils

    Fish vs Robredo
    Brands vs Kubot

    Brown vs Malisse
    Lu vs Federer


    ROUND 3

    Group 1
    Nadal vs Falla
    QUALIFIER vs Cilic

    Youzhny vs Llodra
    Hewitt vs Ferrer

    Group 2
    Soderling vs Mello
    Gulbis vs Tsonga

    Ball vs Del Potro
    Mayer vs Murray

    Group 3
    Kamke vs Harrison
    Davydenko vs Verdasco

    Almagro vs Paire
    Troicki vs Djokovic

    Group 4
    Roddick vs Haase
    QUALIFIER vs Gil

    Fish vs Brands
    Brown vs Federer

    ROUND 4

    Nadal vs Cilic
    Progress to QF: Nadal

    Youzhny vs Hewitt
    Progress to QF: Youzhny

    Soderling vs Tsonga
    Progress to QF: Soderling

    Del Potro vs Murray
    Progress to QF: Murray

    Harrison vs Verdasco
    Progress to QF: Verdasco

    Paire vs Djokovic
    Progress to QF: Djokovic

    Roddick vs QUALIFIER
    Progress to QF: Roddick

    Fish vs Brown
    Progress to QF: Brown

    QF #1 Winner
    Nadal

    QF#2 Winner
    Murray

    QF#3 Winner
    Djokovic

    QF#4 Winner
    Roddick

    Semi Final #1 Winner: Nadal
    Semi Final #2 Winner: Djokovic

    Final Winner: Nadal
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    read it ten times, don't understand, too afraid i would miss a pick
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  35. 01-14-11 06:34 PM #35
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    Quote Originally Posted by ttwarrior1 View Post
    read it ten times, don't understand, too afraid i would miss a pick
    If you print off the PDF that I posted that should make it a lot easier for you. And I always let people know if they've messed up somehow so they can correct it. It looks more difficult than it really is. I promise.
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