"Pick the right side of the line" contest idea

[MMA_scientist]

I will lose interest if no money is involved, especially if I fall behind. I assume everyone would stop posting as soon as they got behind unless money was involved.

I think you should play svino. No one is worried about you cheating us. If we trust Ludo to run a contest, we can for damn sure trust you. Don't know how you would cheat anyway.

[SPX]

Your no help at all.

I'd prefer if we did the first one as more of a "trial run" to see how it goes. Maybe try it for 5 events or something just to get all the mechanics worked out.

I will lose interest if no money is involved, especially if I fall behind. I assume everyone would stop posting as soon as they got behind unless money was involved.

I think you should play svino. No one is worried about you cheating us. If we trust Ludo to run a contest, we can for damn sure trust you. Don't know how you would cheat anyway.

Maybe we should do a trial run that only runs a few events?

As an aside, I also have an idea for a contest. I haven't given it an overwhelming amount of thought, but I can create a private pool just for us through tkofantasy.com and I think we should take advantage of that.

[Svino]

OK, tell you what: Why don't we do a trial run including this Strikeforce Card and UFC 141, and then start a real contest starting with the events of 2012 that will be for a cash prize?

I'll put the odds together and start a new thread.

[SPX]

Okay. . .

[mike]

i want to join u guys but i pretty much only watch ufc events so events like strikeforce and bellators, ill be clueless on who to pick. any chance we can reduce it to only ufc and strikeforce?

[SPX]

Why don't you watch SF or Bellator?

[mike]

i watch the big sf events but ghe challenger serries, somehow i almost always missed them. and i dont havw mtv2 so i miss out on bellator too lol.

[Luke]

Wtf is Bellator?

[Svino]

OK, time to get this up and rolling... Here's the proposed format, let me know if there are any objections.

Let's have the contest run for 10 events, consisting only of UFC and Strikeforce events. I will try to put the odds up Thursday evening, and the lines will be no-vig lines based on BookMaker's lines. Let's shoot for starting with the Rockhold vs. Jardine event.

I'm proposing a $20 entry fee, with first place getting the majority of the money, and second place getting (say) $40 back, in order to give people an easier target to shoot for if they fall behind.

Anyone who wants in should send me a PM and I will respond to tell them where they can PayPal the entry fee.

I will also participate if there are no objections, but I won't be offended if anyone objects. In any case, I will be happy to track picks in the contest threads for non-paying people if anyone doesn't want to be part of the formal contest but would like to "play along" so to speak.

[Ludo]

I'm in.

[High5]

Yeah, I'll play....even though I sucked in the trial.

[poopoo333]

I'll play even though I don't get it still

[MMA_scientist]

Im in if we get a few more confirmations. Don't want to play with 4 people.

[trotterz]

I'm in

[SPX]

Y'all call me when there's another normal contest starting up. I'll be happy to defend my title then.