2010 Football Pick Ems -- College, NFL, Eliminator
We're less than three weeks from the start of the college football season, and it's time to start the games.
Standard rules for all three games:
Incorporate your BG login into your team name somehow.
One entry per person per game.
No group prize except your name on the list below. If you finish in the top few people out of all 500,000 or whatever that participate, there's some nice swag ($1,000 Best Buy GC's and the like). You have to register with ESPN.com to sign up, but it's free and you can turn off e-mail spam easily enough.
There will be only one winner for BG. If there is a tie at the end of the contest, we'll use the grand prize tiebreakers to sort it out.
College Pick Em
Front Page: http://games.espn.go.com/bowlmania/en/frontpage
Group Name: Order of the Blue Gartr
Password: wareagle
The game is a pick em confidence game. For each of the 35 bowl games, you pick the winner. Then you rank all the games in confidence. If you get your 35 confidence game right, you get 35 points, 34 gets you 34 and so on down to the point where you've got no idea if Ohio or Troy is better, so you give that a 1 confidence rank. Those are the ones you want to miss. One of the advantages to the game is that you only have to visit it once, rather than weekly and forget to make your picks for a week.
Let me know if you have any questions about the game or problems registering with ESPN, either by posting here or PM.
Hope to see you all there.
And why don't we have a BG sports icon like we have so many others?
Previous winners of BG's ESPN games:
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 NFL 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
2009 Gridiron Playoff Challenge: Driver
2010 March Madness: Biddinger
2010 World Cup Bracket Predictor: Decy
2010 World Cup Pick Em: Plow
2010 College Picke Em: Bregor
Note: traditional league fantasy football and baseball winners are not included in this list.