Hey Sarlona...are you ready for some football???

[Olympia]

Hiyas!

I get all geeked up this time of year, as it gets closer to week 1 of the NFL season. I thought I'd throw this server-wide proposal out there, to see if there's any interest.

I propose that we have a simple NFL survival pool with very useful prizes...large devil scales. The pool would work like this:

1) Everyone interested would have to pick the winner of one NFL game every week. This is straight winner only, no point spreads.

2) You can only pick a team once throughout the season. (i.e., if you pick the Packers over the Bears in week one and you survive, you can't pick the Packers to win in any other games for the rest of the season).

3) Single elimination -- if your team loses, you're done.

4) Picks must be made by midnight EST the day of the *first game for that week.* Failure to submit a pick is elimination, no exceptions. Be very careful here, as there are many Thursday games!!! Picks can be edited any number of times up to the same deadline.

(I suggest making a pick right after Monday Night Football so that you have something submitted, and you can edit it according to the rules above.)

5) Contingency picks are allowed. If you will be out of town or away from a computer, you can pick a few weeks at a time, so long as you don't pick the same week twice.

6) When the season is about to start, picks must be made in a thread (which I will start every week) in the "off-topic" subforum. No PM's to me, /tells or anything like that...if it's not in the thread, it doesn't count. As an aside, please don't post anything else in those thread besides your picks...I don't want to read through 3 pages of woofing and trash-talking to find someone's picks.

7) Woofing and trash-talking, not as excepted above, is accepted and encouraged.

Cost and Payouts:

1) Entry fee is one (1) large devil scale. Nothing else is accepted.

2) The winner (last one standing) will get 66% of the scales, and the runner-up receives 33%. Rounding done as appropriate. In the very unlikely event that there are two (or more) people remaining after week 17, the scales are divided equally between the survivors. We would have a /roll off if there is an odd number of scales issue.

3) The scales must be mailed or given to my main toon, Queazy, prior to week 1. If payment is not made by week 1, you can not participate.

4) If you don't trust me or think that I'd try to abscond with your scales, I would allow your guild leader to post into this thread and publicly vouch/co-sign for you. I'm not thrilled with this, but I figure that if I'd ask y'all to trust me, I should afford y'all the same courtesy.

Good luck! Hopefully we can get 15-20 people and the winner would get the scale equivalent of dual min 2's. That'd be a pretty nice deal!

Note: If this is somehow deemed inappropriate by Turbine or is a violation of the EULA in some way, then I'll forget about the whole idea.

Note 2: I will be out of town and away from my computer for the next few days, so I won't be able to answer questions/clarify things until I return 8/31. (I'll be in Vegas for my fantasy football draft. )

[LargeMarge]

I'm in...sounds like fun.

[Vileborg]

I'll hold the devil scales to ensure that nothing happens to the prize pool.

[Peep]

Sounds good Queazy, I'm just not a hundred percent I can get a scale by Season lol, but you know I love football!!! I think everyone that reads this and knows his charactor, even if you dont like football should add to Queazy's reputation just to show what a straight shooter he is... Good luck on forming the pool man!

Peep

[geoffhanna]

I'm in!

p.s. GO! BRONCOS!

[Grinndal]

Cool idea I will be considering joining.

I'm in!

p.s. GO! BRONCOS!

Sorry just have to laugh and maybe apologize a little. As a Bears fan I have to say I feel very sorry for you to have to have Orton as your QB!

[Pallol_One-Eye]

If I can come up with a scale between now and the official start of the season, I am in as well.

Sucks that I just saw this today, I used all 9 scales I had last night

[Poe76]

Yeah Bronco's fan, I would have never wished you to get Ortoned - Or
Grossmaned for that matter. Can't believe my team may have finally
got a QB that will step into a 4th quarter bomb into the endzone in a
huge game, instead of throwing off his back foot and sissyfying a pick
6 giftwrapped to the other squad. Bears fan since I was 9 - keepin
my fingers crossed on Cutler.

{crack} heres a cold one Bronco's Fan, I've got the first round for
you all gettin Ortoned.

(i know orton didn't blow the game, grossman did...but they both suck) :P

[Poe76]

lol I forgot, sounds like a good time.

GO BEARS!

[arcsonist]

I will be cheering for the Gaints! Go gaints down with the tor!

[geoffhanna]

Sorry just have to laugh and maybe apologize a little. As a Bears fan I have to say I feel very sorry for you to have to have Orton as your QB!

Yeah Bronco's fan, I would have never wished you to get Ortoned - Or Grossmaned for that matter... {crack} heres a cold one Bronco's Fan, I've got the first round for you all gettin Ortoned.

<ponders>

<shrugs>

Hey whatever! I'd probably still be rooting for them if they were empty uniforms.

GO! BRONCOS!

[geoffhanna]

Is this still on? We'll need to get first week picks in soon.

[Vileborg]

Conveniently, if the Broncos do have a bad year they will have a good shot at three of the hottest quarterback draft prospects come 2010. Tim Tebow, Sam Bradford, and Colt McCoy will all be up for the taking. Each of which would be a franchise quarterback.

[Olympia]

Contest cancelled due to lack of interest. Will try again next year.

Go Bears.