The Thinking Person's Pool - 2005 Edition
You've Come to the Right Place
Welcome back, brother and sisters. The Administration apologizes for the long absence of the TPP. The combination of the arrival of little Administration Jr. and a new grown-up job was just too much, and the Administration was obligated to take the cure at a sanitarium in Switzerland for a few years (they had an excellent daycare facility run by retired Zwinglian missionaries). Administering the TPP was impossible during this dark but healing time.
The pool returns for 2005 with the same instructions and rules:
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Fill out a bracket -- any bracket at all (from a newspaper, magazine, website, whatever). Fill in a winner for every game. (The icky play-in game, which has already been played, is not part of this pool.)
2. Write your name clearly on the bracket.
3. Write the answers to the MANDATORY survey questions on the bracket: (A) Name the three teams in the field of 64 that you will be rooting for regardless of your betting interests, in other words, “I love X, Y, and Z”; and (B) name the three teams in the field of 64 that you will root against, regardless of your betting interests -- in other words, “I hate X, Y, and Z.”
4. Multiple entries from the same household are allowed -- even encouraged. But only one entry per person. And, as always, no collusion, eh?
5. Copy your bracket and keep one for yourself.
6. Enclose $10. Adam Brumberg, who was the last winner of the competition for most creative submission (he enclosed his picks in a plastic portable diaper wipes container, which had a custom “Tuchas Tissues” label with a picture of young Administration Jr.) will not have to pay an entry fee. That will be the prize for this year’s most creative entry as well.
7. Mail the bracket and the fee to the Administration at the following address (below). Yes, we may have been able to come up with an electronic entry system without unsavory site registration, but we like to think of the nuisance of mailing brackets as a way to sort out the dedicated core participants from the camp followers.
Hillel Hoffmann
130 W. Gravers Lane
Philadelphia, PA 19118
8. Commit to memory the address of this web page -- or simply bookmark it -- and check back for periodic updates on standings, victory scenarios and recipes. The address: http://tpp05.blogspot.com
Looking for an RSS feed? It's: http://tpp05.blogspot.com/atom.xml.
RULES
Same as always. You get 1 point for each correct first-round pick, 2 points for each correct second-round pick, 4 points for each correct pick in the third round, and so on (there are 32 available points in each round -- including 32 points for picking the national champion correctly). No additional bonus points for upset picks, although bold and conservative brackets will be appropriately acknowledged during the post-tournament awards ceremony. Most total points wins first prize, which will be two-thirds of the pot. Second most points wins second prize, which will be one-third of the pot. No tiebreakers (this is skill, baby, not luck). In the event of a tie, prizes will be split.
The pool returns for 2005 with the same instructions and rules:
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Fill out a bracket -- any bracket at all (from a newspaper, magazine, website, whatever). Fill in a winner for every game. (The icky play-in game, which has already been played, is not part of this pool.)
2. Write your name clearly on the bracket.
3. Write the answers to the MANDATORY survey questions on the bracket: (A) Name the three teams in the field of 64 that you will be rooting for regardless of your betting interests, in other words, “I love X, Y, and Z”; and (B) name the three teams in the field of 64 that you will root against, regardless of your betting interests -- in other words, “I hate X, Y, and Z.”
4. Multiple entries from the same household are allowed -- even encouraged. But only one entry per person. And, as always, no collusion, eh?
5. Copy your bracket and keep one for yourself.
6. Enclose $10. Adam Brumberg, who was the last winner of the competition for most creative submission (he enclosed his picks in a plastic portable diaper wipes container, which had a custom “Tuchas Tissues” label with a picture of young Administration Jr.) will not have to pay an entry fee. That will be the prize for this year’s most creative entry as well.
7. Mail the bracket and the fee to the Administration at the following address (below). Yes, we may have been able to come up with an electronic entry system without unsavory site registration, but we like to think of the nuisance of mailing brackets as a way to sort out the dedicated core participants from the camp followers.
Hillel Hoffmann
130 W. Gravers Lane
Philadelphia, PA 19118
8. Commit to memory the address of this web page -- or simply bookmark it -- and check back for periodic updates on standings, victory scenarios and recipes. The address: http://tpp05.blogspot.com
Looking for an RSS feed? It's: http://tpp05.blogspot.com/atom.xml.
RULES
Same as always. You get 1 point for each correct first-round pick, 2 points for each correct second-round pick, 4 points for each correct pick in the third round, and so on (there are 32 available points in each round -- including 32 points for picking the national champion correctly). No additional bonus points for upset picks, although bold and conservative brackets will be appropriately acknowledged during the post-tournament awards ceremony. Most total points wins first prize, which will be two-thirds of the pot. Second most points wins second prize, which will be one-third of the pot. No tiebreakers (this is skill, baby, not luck). In the event of a tie, prizes will be split.
posted by mike at 1:42 PM
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