Spreadsheet link:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aia1Hxq-NDNWdFlHYlZxcmZ3T2lGdzB4ekdSa0dKRlE#gid=0I am pleased to announce this year's Blonde Cheltenham Tipster Competition.
The rules are as follows:
1. Entry is open to everyone upon payment of a £25 or £10 entry fee to me. I will PM my bank details to everyone who has expressed even a remote interest (see post below).
Payment must be received by me before midday on Tuesday 10th March. If you are interested, please indicate below or PM me. Each person may enter up to a maximum of two times. Each entry costs £25 or £10.
There will be two pools for this event. One costing £10 and one costing £15. It will not be possible to enter the £15 pool on its own. The same selections will be entered in both pools. The object for this is to try to encourage more people to take part.
2. The competition will be run over the 27 races from Tuesday 10th March to Friday 13th March.
The charity race on Thursday will
not be included in this competition.
3. Each entrant will pick one horse per race. The selection must either be for a £2 win or a £1 each-way bet. Winnings will be settled on the basis of Starting Prices.
If you fail to make a selection or select a non-runner it will be counted as a £2 win bet on the SP favourite (lowest racecard number if there are joint/co favourites).
I will take instructions for "random" selections (e.g. first horse alphabetically) for each race if you do not have the time/inclination to make your own selections but, in a rather dictatorial manner, I am not going to allow selections such as "pick the SP favourite for every race" or attempts to circumvent this rule. For anyone who has entered but not submitted their selections by the deadline on any day I will make random selections.
4. The place component of an each-way bet will be decided using the following criteria:
1/4 the odds for a place for each horse officially returned on the results for each race on
www.gg.com5. I will be using
www.gg.com for the purpose of deciding the result of each race.
6. Entries must be sent to me via PM by midday on the day of the races. I will then make everyone's selections available via the spreadsheet by 12:30pm that day. This will hopefully give you time to marvel at each other's selections before the first race starts.
7. The winner will be the person who makes most profit (or least loss) over the course of the festival.
8. My decision is final in all matters (until proven otherwise).
The payout structure will be as follows:
1-10 entrants
1st 100%
11-20 entrants
1st 75%
2nd 25%
21-30 entrants
1st 60%
2nd 30%
3rd 10%
>30 entrants
tba
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