Knockout Game: NCAA Tournament Knockout Pool

[Joe Public]

Well done, Captain.

[cougjunkie]

Congrats Captain. More importantly I now lead the Ranches bracket challenge. Winner gets a trip to st george including golf and hotel for a foursome.

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[PaloAltoCougar]

He's too excited to start planning yet. I'll post and let everyone know.

When Mrs. Parrot Head was around 8-9, she won a contest and received a ToysRUs gift certificate worth a lot of dough. When we told her we would take her shopping, she said she wanted to bring her siblings and share it with them, since that would be a lot more fun. So without any prompting from us she split it with fils and three sisters.

I've got Hawk's back here.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Captain!!!

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

[smokymountainrain]

That is awesome. Perhaps if you're a nice daddy, he'll give you some of that so you'll have a little extra cash with which to buy me lunch.

[Mormon Red Death]

We doing this again?

[Donuthole]

Yep.

[DrumNFeather]

Yep.

Sounds fun...come on Lafayette!

[scottie]

Yep.

Have you found a good site for managing a knockout/survivor pool? That'd obviously be way easier on you, but it seems the major sites only offer full bracket contests.

[Donuthole]

Have you found a good site for managing a knockout/survivor pool? That'd obviously be way easier on you, but it seems the major sites only offer full bracket contests.

I haven't found anything, but I don't really mind doing it. Now that I have the spreadsheet template, it's really not that difficult.

[Donuthole]

Remix 2015: Captain Defends His Crown

Remix 2015. Here are the rules for those who are too lazy to go back to the OP (note I have rephrased the rules a bit in hopes of making the game easier to understand, but the rules have not changed. Maybe for next year I'll create a flow chart):

CS.com Knockout Pool Rules:
- $10 per entry

- You have to send in your picks via PM (or email for the few non CS members who join) before the start of the first game on Thursday. No exceptions.

- For Thursday of Round 64, you have to pick TWO WINNERS. Not against the spread, just outright winners — again, both teams just have to win. If either loses, you’re out.

- If your Thursday teams both won, you advance and pick TWO WINNERS for Friday. If one or both of your Thursday teams lost, you're out, but you can re-buy in for Friday for another $10 but you have to pick FOUR winners to advance to Saturday).

- If your Friday teams all won, you advance and pick ONE WINNER for Saturday. If any of your Friday picks loses, you’re out … but you can re-buy back in for Saturday for another $10 (only now, you have to pick FIVE Saturday winners and go 5-for-5 to stay alive).

- You can only re-buy in a maximum of three times (and you can’t buy in after the start of Sunday's games).

- You cannot pick the same team twice.Even if you get knocked out and buy back in, you can’t reuse a team. One and done.

- If you nailed your Friday pick (or picks), you only have to pick one winner on Saturday

- If you nailed your Saturday pick (or picks), you only have to pick one winner on Sunday to advance. Can’t be a team you already used.

- If you lose your Saturday pick (or any one of your Saturday picks), you can buy back in for Sunday’s games for the final time … only now, you have to pick SIX Sunday winners that day and go 6-for-6 to stay alive. And again, you can’t pick a team you already used.

- If you make it out of the first weekend alive, you only have to pick one winner per day after that. (Again, you can’t buy back in after that first Sunday.) Remember, you can’t use the same team twice. I hate to keep harping on this, but you’d be amazed how many times it’s been screwed up.

-Once you run out of teams to pick, you advance to the next day but automatically lose. For instance, let’s say you already used Duke in Round 1 and Kentucky in Round 2, then they met on Sunday in the Elite 8 … only you had already picked every other team playing that Sunday. In that scenario, you automatically lose on the next day of games (in this hypothetical, Saturday of the Final 4). You are out of teams.

-Important wrinkle for that last point: Even if you’re out of teams and headed for an automatic loss, you still have to be beaten by another contestant who made a successful pick that same day. An “automatic loss” and “a pick that became a loss” means the same.

- Last man standing wins. Winner takes all. Second-place prizes are for wusses.

- If more than one person is left standing, they can either split the pot or agree to keep going until someone wins … which is obviously the manly thing to do.

If you want in, make it known ASAP. And PM me your picks for Thursday before the first game tips and I'll reply with payment information. Good luck and Go Gougars!

[Jeff Lebowski]

Sounds fun, DH. Didn't you have some deadbeats last year that never paid? We should make a rule that if you aren't paid up when the games start you are out.

[TripletDaddy]

You are all going to jail. I wont hesitate to testify against anyone here.

http://www.nj.com/sports/index.ssf/2...epage-featured

[Donuthole]

Sounds fun, DH. Didn't you have some deadbeats last year that never paid? We should make a rule that if you aren't paid up when the games start you are out.

I think that was two years ago, and they eventually paid. Last year we implemented the pay or get kicked out rule, and payment went off without a hitch.