THE Royal Ascot Tipster Competition 2014

[tikay]

Quick shout out to Mere, as Nick said, so efficient it is frightening, Mere imposes his authority early, clearly explains the rules, stands no nonsense, got the results up promptly after every race (nearly 30 races?), chases the daily selections, &, most importantly, adds a little bit of humour to oil the fun wheels. 

I award him 9/10 for the thread.

Would have been 9.5, or even a perfect 10, but he's so bloody miserable.

Thanks Vince, you are a star.

[Knottikay]

Congrats to the winners.

Cheers again for organising.

[tikay]

Prizes:

£15 pool
1st  £180  claypole
2nd £90   DrDevious
3rd £30   bookiebasher


£10 pool
1st  £156   claypole
2nd £78   TightEnd
3rd  £26  DrDevious


Overall:

claypole    £336
TightEnd    £78
DrDevious   £116
bookiebasher £30


Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone who took part.

I'll leave it for an hour so that people have time to raise objections and then I will contact the winners for bank details.

OBJECTION

[bookiebasher]

Quick shout out to Mere, as Nick said, so efficient it is frightening, Mere imposes his authority early, clearly explains the rules, stands no nonsense, got the results up promptly after every race (nearly 30 races?), chases the daily selections, &, most importantly, adds a little bit of humour to oil the fun wheels. 

I award him 9/10 for the thread.

Would have been 9.5, or even a perfect 10, but he's so bloody miserable.

Thanks Vince, you are a star.

This , cheers Vince

[MereNovice]

Prizes:

£15 pool
1st  £180  claypole
2nd £90   DrDevious
3rd £30   bookiebasher


£10 pool
1st  £156   claypole
2nd £78   TightEnd
3rd  £26  DrDevious


Overall:

claypole    £336
TightEnd    £78
DrDevious   £116
bookiebasher £30


Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone who took part.

I'll leave it for an hour so that people have time to raise objections and then I will contact the winners for bank details.

OBJECTION

After careful consideration of all the relevant factors, OVERRULED.

[MereNovice]

Thanks for all the kind comments and to everyone for taking part in such good spirit.

[Karabiner]

What happened to the wooden-spoon prize that I was so obviously playing for?

[Nico29]

Quick shout out to Mere, as Nick said, so efficient it is frightening, Mere imposes his authority early, clearly explains the rules, stands no nonsense, got the results up promptly after every race (nearly 30 races?), chases the daily selections, &, most importantly, adds a little bit of humour to oil the fun wheels. 

I award him 9/10 for the thread.

Would have been 9.5, or even a perfect 10, but he's so bloody miserable.

Thanks Vince, you are a star.

This , cheers Vince

+1

[Marky147]

Yeah, Mere is an absolute legend!

Thanks very much, and well done to all who got weighed in

<3 the punting comps

[MereNovice]

What happened to the wooden-spoon prize that I was so obviously playing for?

tikay awards these from his extensive collection.

[MereNovice]

Topic for debate.

Before the start of today's races, doubleup suggested that for future competitions it might be a good idea to allow people to choose a "reserve" in the event of their horse being a non-runner.
This would be significant on the last day particularly where getting the SP favourite as a replacement isn't very helpful for people who are a long way behind.

Any thoughts?

[TheDazzler]

Topic for debate.

Before the start of today's races, doubleup suggested that for future competitions it might be a good idea to allow people to choose a "reserve" in the event of their horse being a non-runner.
This would be significant on the last day particularly where getting the SP favourite as a replacement isn't very helpful for people who are a long way behind.

Any thoughts?

As long as it isn't more work for you, I think that sounds fine.
Thx for running, great job.

[Simon Galloway]

Surely everyone factors that in to their algorithm?

SELECT red rum IF NR THEN desert orchid.  Etc.

[Karabiner]

Another great competition superbly run by Baron Spreadsheet as usual.

Good craic all week.

Congratulations to the luckboxes who cashed.

[MereNovice]

Surely everyone factors that in to their algorithm?

SELECT red rum IF NR THEN desert orchid.  Etc.

I believe that some algorithms are more sophisticated than others.