It's the most wonderful time of the year...
No, not Christmas. Fuck Christmas. It's Football Season. Right now, every team still has a chance at winning the national title. That drunk $25 bet I placed at 40:1 odds for Oregon State to win the BCS title game? Still a live ticket! My team still has chance! Your team still has a chance! That guy's team still has a chance! That other guy's team still has chance. You, the guy in the back! Your team still...oh wait, you're a Penn State fan. Never mind.
And every NFL team technically still has a chance at winning the Super Bowl. Yes, even the Browns.
And as with every football season, we've got three games. All very simple. And it let me "Rejoin" my groups from last year, so hopefully that's going to make it easier for people to find the groups.
College Pick Em, where you pick the winners of 10 games per week (which games are determined by ESPN), and rank them by confidence. The higher the confidence, the more points you get.
HomePage: http://games.espn.go.com/college-foo...m/2013/en/game
GroupName: Orderofthebluegartr
Password: JohnnyHancock
Pigskin Pick Em is even easier. Pick the winners of all 16 games every week. The week with the lowest score will be dropped at the end of the year, so if you forget to make picks, you can still win.
HomePage: http://games.espn.go.com/nfl-pigskin...m/2013/en/game
Group Name: Orderofthebluegartr
Password: SeadderalSeahawk
Eliminator is a little trickier, and a lot more strategic.
HomePage: http://games.espn.go.com/nfl-elimina...e/2013/en/game
Group Name: Orderofthebluegartr
Password: rg3knee
To enter, you'll need to register on ESPN.com, but you can disable spam e-mails if you're worried about it. All of them do have a grand prize of some sort if you finish first amongst all the thousands upon thousands of entries in the game, so you might want to use real contact information just in case.
If you can, please try to incorporate your BG handle somehow into your team name, or at least brag at the end that you won with your super creative team name so we can bestow you with all the accolades and everlasting respect you deserve by becoming the Grand Wizard of BG. Please note: if you don't use your name, please note that it's not my job to track through 50 pages of a thread to figure out who won the thing. I'll look at your entry's name, maybe the last page or two of the thread to figure out who was bragging about winning, but if I get your name wrong on the list below, PM me and I'll fix it. Bitching publicly only makes you look like a tool because you can't follow simple instructions.
ONE ENTRY PER PERSON PER POOL
There will only be one winner because There Can Be Only One, and in the event of a tie, I will use ESPN's tiebreakers for the grand prize to establish a group winner.
If you have any questions or trouble logging in, or just generally like to bitch, do so below.
Prizes? We don't need no steenken prizes! Although each game has a grand prize for all entries on ESPN.com, none of these games have a BG specific prize other then e-peen, bragging rights, and your name on the esteemed list of self-important jackasses below (I can say that because I'm on the list more than anyone else). If you do win, however, I'll totally buy you a beer at the next Oregon State home football game you come to. If you're old enough. If not, I'll buy two beers and drink both yours and mine.
2006 Bowl Pick Em: Makaveli
2006 BG Fantasy Football: Thuggy
2007 March Madness: Byrd
2007 College Football Pick Em: Ryany
2007 Bowl Pick Em: Akiyama
2008 NFL Gridiron Playoff Challenge: Tyr
2008 March Madness: Snoogans
2008 College Pick Em: Byrd
2008 Eliminator: Byrd
2008 Pigskin Pick Em: Weltall
2008 Bowl Pick Em: Laguna
2009 Gridiron Playoff Challenge: Sekaran
2009 Super (Bowl) Pick Em: Stiker
2009 March Madness: MrW
2009 College Pick Em: Ryany
2009 Eliminator: Stiker
2009 Pigskin Pick Em: Weltall
2009 Bowl Pick Em: Alderon527
2010 Gridiron Playoff Challenge: Driver
2010 March Madness: Biddinger
2010 World Cup Bracket Predictor: Decy
2010 World Cup Pick Em: Plow
2010 College Pick Em: Bregor
2010 Eliminator: Akiyama
2010 Pigskin Pick Em: Byrd
2010 Bowl Pick Em: Byrd
2011 Gridiron Playoff Challenge: Bigrougabagel
2011 March Madness: Titanss
2011 College Pick Em: Byrd
2011 Eliminator: Intrinsic
2011 Pigskin Pick Em: Naafeih
2011 Bowl Mania: Vade
2012 Gridiron Playoff Challenge: Valisk
2012 March Madness: WOMP, ElvFenrir
2012 College Pick Em: Julian
2012 Eliminator: Soa
2012 Pigskin Pick Em: Melena
2012 Primetime Playoff: Cail
2012 Bowl Mania: Izembo
2013 Gridiron Playoff Challenge: Spaghetti
2013 Men's Tournament Challenge: Aaron Borland (user name: ???)