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    EaglesPhan36
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    March 4th-6th: Davis Cup Contest

    Only thing going for the ATP fellas. WTA has two tournaments, but did not want to have to keep up with two contests.

    Doesn't start until next Friday, but I have some fun ideas for this I think because of the way Davis Cup is formatted.

    Will have a format and rules up this weekend for anyone interested. Check out the match-ups ahead of time:

    http://www.daviscup.com/en/home.aspx

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    Austria is hosting in a hanger?...The acoustics are going to be murder..

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    Indoor clay to-boot. You don't see that often.

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    cool

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    It doesn't bother explaining why Austria chose that route on the website. Anyone know the story?

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    I read a story about it in an Austrian newspaper. Translation was a bit rough, but it seems like the Austrians wanted to do something unusual/unique and apparently other countries are studying how this works out because other countries are interested in trying something similar. I'm guessing they figured against last year's runners up - they needed some sort of edge if possible. Don't know if this is it or not, but will be interesting to watch.
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    CONTEST RULES

    1. ENTRY FEE IS 10 betpoints. IF YOU ARE A NON-PRO, YOU CAN STILL ENTER. YOU MUST PAY YOUR FEE BY DONATING TWO POINTS EACH DAY FOR FIVE DAYS FROM MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28TH THROUGH THE START OF THE CONTEST ON FRIDAY, MARCH 4TH.


    FAILURE TO PAY YOUR FEE IN HIS MANNER BY THE CONTEST STARTING DATE WILL RESULT IN YOUR ENTRY BEING VOIDED AND ALL POINTS GIVEN WILL STILL GO TO THE PRIZE POT FOR THIS CONTEST.

    2. ENTRIES ARE TO BE SUBMITTED BY PM ONLY TO EAGLESPHAN36 BY THURSDAY, MARCH 3RD AT MIDNIGHT ET.

    3. ANY ENTRIES SUBMITTED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL BE VOIDED & ENTRY FEES WILL BE RETURNED.

    CONTEST FORMAT

    1. Pick THREE home teams that will lose this round in the Davis Cup.
    [Home teams are Serbia, Sweden, Czech Republic, Argentina, Chile, Belgium, Croatia & Austria]

    2. Pick ONE country to be your designated team for the weekend. Your team will earn you points for all the "ties" a.k.a. matches that they win. They can also lose you points for losses.

    3. Pick the winners of each team match-up. In addition to picking the winner, also put the number of wins they will get to earn bonus points. This will be either 3,4 or 5.

    4. Pick the winner: Sweden or Russia

    5. Number of home teams to advance: OVER-UNDER 4

    SCORING

    1. Each correctly picked home team that loses earns you 25 points. Each incorrect pick loses you 10 points.

    2. Each match/tie that you country wins will net you 25 points. Each loss loses you 10 points. If you team wins all five of their ties, you earn a 50 point bonus.

    3. For each correctly picked winner, you earn 25 points. Each incorrect pick loses you 10 points. For each correct prediction on the number of wins a country gets, you get a 25 point bonus.


    4. Correctly picking the winner nets you 25 points. An incorrect pick loses you 10 points.

    5.
    Correctly picking the winner nets you 25 points. An incorrect pick loses you 10 points. A push = zero points.

    TIE BREAKERS

    *The first tie breaker is based on home country selected [#2]. Whichever entrant has more points earned from their country would win the tie breaker.

    *The 2nd tie breaker is #3. Whichever entrant picks the higher correct number of winners, wins the tie break.

    So here is what your entry should look like:

    1. Serbia, Sweden, Czech Republic
    2. Serbia
    3.
    Serbia(5), Sweden(3), Czech Republic(3), Argentina(5), Chile(5), Belgium(3), Croatia(4), Austria(5)
    4. Russia
    5. Under

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    Prize payout will depend on # of entries + I have asked SBR if they will put up some additional points. Will post the prize payout structure following the entry deadline.

    ENTRY DEADLINE AGAIN = THURSDAY, MARCH 3rd at MIDNIGHT ET

    If you have questions, fire away.

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    Don't forget, any Non-Pros who are interested in joining this contest - you'll need to start donating your entry fee of 2 pts per day to add up to 10 total beginning today or tomorrow to make sure you are paid up by the time the contest starts.

    You can start donating the fee before you submit an entry on or before Thursday.

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    Let the drip-feeding of the entry fee commence!

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    EAGLES - I would like to play in this contest as well, unfortunately I can only pay 2 pts at a time so I don't know if I'll be able to give you ten by Thurs - Midnight. I paid you 10 for the last contest and I will for this one too

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    It'll be fine as long as you pay two a day until your 10 is paid up, no problems.

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    ^^
    Bump


    Just a couple more days to get your entries together. Cannot wait for Davis Cup. Taking a mini-SBR staycation during the week this week by not wagering until Friday. Needed a break.

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    Good stuff EP. Just made another transfer, just four away now.!

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    lets see if i can remember to join this time.

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    Still haven't heard back from SBR on adding to the prize pot either.

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    Got a better handle on the Davis Cup schedule now, so the deadline to enter has shifted.

    ENTRIES DUE FRIDAY, MARCH 4th BY 7:00AM ET

    Remember NON-PROS, need to continue donating their two point entry fee to enter.

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    ^^
    Bump again

    Just another reminder. Small field of just four or five people right now, so let's get this up to at least ten participants.

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    I will probably donate my 10 points here once again. I'll look over the contest and see what's up.

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    This one takes a lot more clicking on matchup links and thinking compared to your usual fare EP. Almost wimped out myself.

    Might be worth posting a list of the team members for each country to help make it easier, if you know where to find one. (I couldn't find anything on a single page)

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    Entry in. BOL everyone.
    Points Awarded:

    EaglesPhan36 gave brandoc 50 SBR Point(s) for this post.


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    Quote Originally Posted by EaglesPhan36 View Post
    ENTRIES DUE FRIDAY, MARCH 4th BY 7:00AM ET
    Hopefully we'll get a few more in. Come on .... Davis Cup. Country vs. Country. Shiny betpoints on the line.

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    SBR is giving thousands of points on frigging royal flushes and they can't donate 200 points for weekly tennis contests

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    Haven't gotten back from Lou, but I was told to email instead of PM-ing ... trying.

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    ENTRIES

    EaglesPhan36

    1.
    Belgium, Chile, Austria
    2. Serbia
    3.
    Serbia (5), Sweden (3), Czech (3), Argentina (4), USA (3), Spain (5), Croatia (3), France (3)
    4. Sweden
    5. Over

    optional

    1. Sweden, Chile, Austria
    2. France
    3. Serbia 4, Russia 3, Czech Rep 3, Argentina 3, USA 4, Belgium 5, Germany 4, France 5
    4. Russia
    5. Over

    noober

    1. Belgium, Chile, Austria
    2. Spain
    3. Serbia (4), Sweden (3), Czech Republic (5), Argentina (4), USA (5), Spain (5), Croatia (3), France (3)
    4. Sweden
    5. Over

    raiderhater9572

    1. Chile, Austria, Belgium
    2. Spain
    3. Serbia (4) Sweden (3) Czech Republic (3) Argentina (4) USA (5) Spain (5) Croatia (3) France (3)
    4. Sweden
    5. Over


    brandoc

    1. Chile, Belgium, Austria
    2. Spain
    3. Serbia (4), Sweden (3), Czech Rep (4), Argentina (4), USA (4), Spain (5), Croatia (3), France (3)
    4. Sweden
    5. Over


    Have to update brandoc's entry, was waiting on corrected information. With the small field of entries we had - the prize payout will be winner takes all.

    1st: 50 pts

    raiderhater, remember to keep donating your last four points for the fee.
    Last edited by EaglesPhan36; 03-04-11 at 03:59 PM.

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    FINAL STANDINGS

    1st: brandoc - 435

    raiderhater9572 - 410
    noober - 410
    EaglesPhan36 - 385
    optional - 255

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    Winner paid.

    Going to do something different this week for a contest. Going to do some Daily Contests. Not every day, but versus one for the whole week. Going to do one a day on selected days. Check out the forum for those!

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    too bad such a good contest had so few participants

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    Next time I'll try a different format, seemed like not a lot of people favored the format of this one - mostly I think because it required looking over a lot of match-ups. No worries.

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    Awesome - I love winning stuff

    Thanks for organising EP, appreciate you put a lot of work into putting this together and collating all the entries.


    Looking forward to the next one (Indian Wells?) already

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    Congrats Brandoc.

    Thanks again for the efforts EP.

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