Hey there Olypi-fans,
After much anticipation, the Vancouver 2010 Olympics Pool is finally ready! This quadrennial's host, Quatchi the Plush Sasquatch, proudly presents the Pool of Champions - where passionate fans of all race and creed are united together to celebrate the ancient ritual that is the Olympics...with gambling, nationalistic hate-speech, and endorsement of scandals of any sort!
This year's affair will include 2 distinct pools: the Olympic pool is a challenge demanding the very best of our Olympifans. This gruelling research task will require each participant to select a winner for each of the 87 events that make up the Winter Olympic Games. The second pool is equally challenging, but more for the strain on the hearts of our hockey-mad nation than our mouse-pushing wrists. The Men's hockey tournament pool will require each of you to select 12 players some of whom may not be Canadian (gasp!)
The terms of the agreement (in bullet form as Quatchi is unable to form sentences into paragraphs):
1) The Olympic Pool entry fee is $20. 65% of the pot will go to the winner, 25% to the runner up, and the remaining 10% to the bronze medallist.
2) The Hockey Pool entry fee is $10. The winnings will be split up the same way.
3) Scandals are again a factor this year. On the entry form (attached), you'll be asked to guess the number of scandals that develop over the course of the games. Scandal suggestions are submitted by participants via our blog (http://van2010pool.blogspot.com/) and her honour, Judge Moose Ito, will decide if each is a certified, capital "S", Scandal.
4) I'll need your entries before the flame is lit. I'll need your moolah before the flame is extinguished.
The Olympic Pool:
5) Instructions are provided on the entry form. There are two worksheets in the Excel file. The first worksheet contains the Olympic pool. You may either select a candidate from the pink drop-down list, or write-in your own candidate in the green field. Spelling will not be judged unless we cannot determine the intention of the entry.
6) Each drop-down list contains a best-efforts compiling of the top candidates in each event as provided by their international governing bodies. They are not in any particular order, however. Note, there is no guarantee the names are correct, that the entrants have qualified and that they are able to compete at the games. Verifying that is on your shoulders.
7) To find the governing bodies for each sport, visit the official Van 2010 site (http://www.vancouver2010.com/) and click on any sport icon along the top of the page. On the sport's page, you'll see a link at the top-right side of the main screen that says "About the Sport". On this page, you'll find the link you need.
The Hockey Pool:
8) The second worksheet contains the entry form for the hockey pool. Enter 6 forwards, 4 defensemen, 2 goalies and an overall winning team. A link is provided on that form to the announced rosters (as published by tsn) of each team.
Follow the pool action on our blog: http://www.vancouver2010.com/. As participants register, they will be added as "authors" on the blog so they can take full advantage of this trash-talking forum.
Also, please pass this along to whomever you wish. I may have missed some people.
Best of luck to you all!
Sincerely,
Quatchi
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