[EaglesPhan36]

I'm loving the amount of participation in the tennis forum here the last couple of weeks peeps. Thus, let's get our contest on next week. Three clay court tournaments on tap next week. Will outline rules & format this weekend. Prize payout will be dependent on the number of entries.

Belgrade
Munich
Estoril

Pros & Non-Pros welcome for this. Entry fee will be ten betpoints. Non-Pros will need to donate their 1st two points prior to Monday's first matches and continue to pay their entry fee for the following four days to pay up their ten point fee. Any NON-PRO who does not pay their full fee by paying the 2 point "pre-fee" and the subsequent 8 points to equal ten for their entry fee, WILL NOT be eligible for any prizes and your points will be kept toward the overall payout.

[beefcake]

Cant wait!

[ha1ogen]

looking forward to it

[yisman]

Count me in, I think.

[EaglesPhan36]

RULES

*Entry fee is 10 betpoints.

Pros must pay the full fee before making their initial picks.

Non-pros must pay two points before making their initial pick & must continue to pay two points per day until their ten point fee is complete. Failure to pay your fee in this manner will result with your disqualification from this contest & your points will be kept toward the overall payout.

*all picks must be made in this thread only by the posted de3.adlines. Failure to do so will result in your picks being dq'ed.

*all lines will be posted daily by eaglesphan36 only & will posted via 5dimes when the lines become available. A daily deadline will be posted along with these lines.

FORMAT

1. Each day of the contest, you must pick 3 underdogs to win. You must make only three selections per day, no more, no less.

2. Each correct pick nets you 25 points. Each incorrect pick loses you ten points.

3. Bonus points are awarded for each correct pick. The bonus points come by multiplying the 25 points for a correct pick by the price of the underdog winner. Example: You pick a +200 dog and they win. You awarded an additional 50 points. 25 * 2 = 50.

4. If an entrant picks all three underdogs correctly on a given day, they are awarded an additional 150 point bonus.

5. The tie breaker for any necessary ties will be the total prices of all correctly picked underdogs by an entrant. Example: Winners picked by an entrant are +150, +125, +110, +300 & +150. Their total would be +8.35 as if each correct pick were a one unit wager on that underdog. Whichever entrant has the higher total wins the tie breaker. Secondary tie breaker would be the entrant who picks the highest priced dog correctly during the competition.

6. All matches must complete ONE SET for action to take place on that wager.

[EaglesPhan36]

If you have any questions, please post here.

[yisman]

EP, I'm going to be signing off soon and won't be on again until tomorrow night. Is it still possible to participate?

[yisman]

I guess I'll pass this time. Hard with the timing. Next time.

[EaglesPhan36]

MONDAY, APRIL 25th

MUNICH
Bachinger +390 [Youzhny]
Kendrick +325 [Zeballos]
Syakhovsky +140 [Istomin]
Benneteau +105 [Baghdatis]

SERBIA
Kamke +275 [Kavcic]
Nishikori +160 [Tipsarevic]

ESTORIL
Mannarino +195 [Chardy]
de Bakker +100 [Anderson]
Machado +160 [Hansecu]

PICKS FOR THE DAY MUST BE MADE BY 7:00AM ET on MONDAY, APRIL 25th. Will add more lines if available.

[EaglesPhan36]

Lines updated for Monday. FYI ... you can enter this contest even after Monday's matches begin. You just will not be allowed to pick until Tuesday. If we don't have a few entrants by Tuesday, then I will refund any points given to that point.

[EaglesPhan36]

Mannarino
Machado
Benneteau

[reformed]

nishikori
machado
de bakker

[erkanua]

Machado
Nishikori
Benneteau changed with De Bakker

De Bakker became the favorite side right now..how about that? can we pick him as an underdog?

[beefcake]

Kamke

Nishikori

Stakhovsky

[Tsonga]

looks like i missed the deadline for today.

[shari91]

Yeah Tsonga, I did too. Sorry about that EP. Crazy day and night here today.

[EaglesPhan36]

Machado Nishikori Benneteau De Bakker became the favorite side right now..how about that? can we pick him as an underdog?

The contest lines that can be used are only the ones that I post. So if someone like de Bakker was the dog, but is now the favorite due to the movement - it does not matter, he's still a dog for the purposes of this contest. It's too difficult to take into account the line movement on these matches and would be way too tedious to continually update the lines. So whatever you see posted by me is what you need to go by for this contest.

[erkanua]

The contest lines that can be used are only the ones that I post. So if someone like de Bakker was the dog, but is now the favorite due to the movement - it does not matter, he's still a dog for the purposes of this contest. It's too difficult to take into account the line movement on these matches and would be way too tedious to continually update the lines. So whatever you see posted by me is what you need to go by for this contest.

So can I change one of my picks with De Bakker right now? Any of these matches have not started yet.

[EaglesPhan36]

I'll allow it this one time since there was a question about the format. State which one you want to replace it with and do so before the matches start.

[erkanua]

oppss..I actually want to change it with Benneteau who has just started to his match with Baghdatis. It is 1-1 right now, can I still change it? If not I am going to replace Benneteau again

[EaglesPhan36]

Yeah, changed. de Bakker for Benneteau.

[erkanua]

how about if Benneteau will win and De Bakker lose will be really funny

[reformed]

what do we do if none of the dogs win?

[erkanua]

what do we do if none of the dogs win?

do we count that Stakhovsky as a dog winner? 1st set is not completed

[EaglesPhan36]

Nope. Need to put that in the format above, but as with previous contests - all matches must complete one set to stand as action.

Dogs not barking on Day 1, so anyone who missed the start of the contest is pretty much on even ground with everyone if you start on Tuesday!

[erkanua]

Nishikori has not played yet though

[EaglesPhan36]

Alright. How's this. Since we all went 0-fer today. We start fresh on Tuesday and get some additional participants. Everyone starts at zero points still.

So let's get some more people signed up!

[EaglesPhan36]

TUESDAY, APRIL 26th

BELGRADE
Mello +265 [Isner]
Kukushkin +15- [Devvarman]
F.Lopez +130 [Monaco]
Marchenko +475 [Gulbis]
Lajovic +180 [Volandri]
F.Gonzalez +100 [Klizan]


MUNICH
Petzschner +140 [Dodig]
Hajek +185 [Starace]
Schuettler +155 [Gabashvili]
Bolelli +625 [Cilic]
Nieminen +125 [Haase]
Golubev +145 [Stepanek]
D.Brown +950 [Wawrinka]
Darcis +265 [Mayer]
Brands +125 [Reister]
Kuznetsov +355 [Davydenko]


ESTORIL
Falla +348 [Andujar]
Riba +285 [Cuevas]
Andreev +105 [Raonic]
Gimeno-Traver +140 [Berlocq]
Cipolla +310 [Gil]
Sousa +2200 [Del Potro]

*Will add more lines as they become available. There should be I think five more for Estoril & two more for Munich. Will post a deadline to get your Tuesday picks in when the schedules are a little more clear. Likely will be 6am ET.

Remember again, the only lines that matter for this contest are the ones that I post here. Does not matter once the lines start moving. If the player is a dog when I list the lines, they are a dog for this contest.

[reformed]

EP i like that idea, dogs SUCKED today.

[beefcake]

Tuesday dogs..

Andreev
Kukushkin
Falla..

[Andreas]

I like the lines they aren't that high!!!!

[EaglesPhan36]

Lines added.

[EaglesPhan36]

Deadline is 6am ET. Honestly, if we don't have any more entries than what we have, I think I will refund everyone their entry fee and just say fukk it. Not worth the time with a small crowd.

[EaglesPhan36]

Lajovic
Petzschner
Golubev

[yisman]

I'm in!