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 each game. If there is a tie at the end of the year, we'll use the grand prize tiebreakers to sort it out.
College Pick Em
Front Page: http://games.espn.go.com/cpickem/en/frontpage
Group Name: BlueGartr
Password: uscisdone
The game is a pick em confidence game. Every week, you pick 10 pre-determined games and rank your confidence factor from 10 to 1. If you get your "10" ranked game right, you get 10 points, "9" gives you 9 points, and so forth, up to a max of 55 points per week if you get them all right. I would recommend setting yourself up for a weekly reminder because it seems like everyone forgets at some point during the season. The first week is up and ready to go.
Pigskin (NFL) Pick Em
Front Page: http://games.espn.go.com/pigskin/en/frontpage
Group Name: BlueGartr
Password: schizofavre
This is a straight pick em across all NFL games in each week of the season. I did set it up so that it will drop your worst week, so you can miss a week and still have a good chance at it.
Eliminator Challenge
http://games.espn.go.com/eliminator/en/frontpage
Group Name: Bluegartr
Password: ochosucko
This is my favorite game, and the easiest to play. You pick winning team a week. If that team wins, you get a point. You can't pick the same team more than once. The team with the most points at the end of the year wins. Note that it's NOT a suicide pool. If you pick the Cardinals in Week One, and they lose, you're not out. You just need the most points at the end of the year.
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
Note: traditional league fantasy football and baseball winners are not included in this list.