Option c seems good to me!

Entries for the AO pick 'em are now open at the britishtennis.net competitions page http://www.britishtennis.net/Competitions.html

The deadline is 23.30 GMT on Sunday, which is 18.30 US EST, 00.30 Monday CET, etc - half an hour before play is due to start. N.B. Because you get much longer to enter for slams than for AMS pick 'ems, entries received after play starts will not be accepted (even with penalties) for slams.

You can enter now and pick qualifiers 'blind', but if you want to wait until qualifiers have been placed in the draw, you would be better off entering after about 12.00 GMT on Saturday - I will post here again once they have been added to the entry form.

A few changes for 2008:

- the scoring system will be 1 for a R1 win, 2 for a R2 win, 3 for a R3 win, ... , 7 for a win in the Final, instead of 1, 2, 4, ... , 64 as last year

- as a consequence of this, the bonus points for the overall rankings for each 0.1% above the average for a tournament will double compared with last year
- this is to stop pick 'em winners getting less ranking points on average than pick 'em winners last year

- if you are not playing for one of the more popular teams, you can pick an alternate team from among those that always get plenty of entries which you will be switched to (for this tournament only) if your team ends up below the minimum size (5 is the minimum team size for a slam), though you can also elect to play as an individual only if that happens

Please be careful when entering to look at the 'Pre-submission checks' at the bottom of the entry form (and deal with any errors reported there) before submitting your entry ... and to print your entry if possible before you send it.

Good luck everybody - it looks like the AO is going to be another tough pick 'em!


-- Edited by steven at 03:34, 2008-01-11

Entered. Taken some bigger risks later in the tournament now the points there aren't so massive. Nole to win!

This table shows the entrants from each board 24 hrs
before the deadline. The number in (..) is the final total
no. of entrants that board had for the USO pick 'em.

AO = -%- Cd Team ( USO )

39 = 28% AM AndyMurray.com ( 43 )
20 = 15% BT BritishTennis.net ( 20 )
16 = 12% AR AndyRoddick.com ( 26 )
10 = 7% RF RogerFederer.com ( 11 )
8 = 6% CC CentreCourtHavoc ( new )
8 = 6% MT MensTennisForums ( 32 )
6 = 4% IN Individuals (no team) ( 30 )
7 = 5% GR Rusedski.co.uk ( 10 )
7 = 5% RG RichardGasquet.net ( new )
5 = 4% TY Tennis4you.com ( 14 )
---- below: have not reached the min. team size yet ----
3 = 2% VB VamosBrigade.com ( new )
2 = 1% TN Tennisopolis.com ( new )
2 = 1% MK MarkKnowlesTennis ( new )
2 = 1% SG Stevegtennis.com ( 12 )
1 = 1% BB BBC boards ( 7 )
1 = 1% BZ BritishTennisZone ( 6 )

Hi Steven,

I recieved a message from my site moderator stating that only 2 people from my site have registered for the inter-board competition. I did register but somehow he's saying my name hasn't shown up under our team name. My team name is tennisopolis we are new to the competition. The name I used to sign up is ThePoet. Could you tell me if I'm registered under my team name please?

Thank you

Well, it was around noon Us pacific time zone. I recieved the message that my entry was successful. So hopefully you're right and Bethan has my name listed. I will check back tomorrow.

Thank you

-- Edited by TheDeuceCourt at 07:04, 2008-01-13