So guys, it's that time again. The Pickem returns. This competition marks the one year anniversary since we started playing in a team competition against the AMmers. There are more teams now, but the target is still the same...we need to defend our title!!

So, the details.
1)As always, anyone can play, whether new or old, no need to ask permission from anyone, and no need to be any good at all. This is all for a bit of fun and to be quite frank you'd be hard pushed to be much worse than me, so have no fear!!
2)As always, the Count will be out to beat the Shedmeister and regardless of anybody else.
3)And as always he's liable to fail (but we can live in hope).

I think that's all the important details, just a couple of other minor points to mention,
entries can be made through: http://www.britishtennis.net/Competitions.html and finally a (short) note about name changes:

"The overall rankings use an Excel lookup on the results of previous tournaments, which means that any difference between pick 'ems in the name you use on the entry form will result in your overall ranking points not being added together.

Capitalisation doesn't make any difference, but even a single extra letter, an extra space, using "-" when you used to use "_" or calling yourself "SONIque__" when you used to call yourself "SONIque_____" (had to be one of the ducklings from AR.com, didn't it ) is enough to mess things up.

At the end of each tournament, I try to correct for any changes when I spot them (checking email addresses to make sure that it really is the same person first), but it involves pasting the changed name back into up to 9 previous spreadsheets and it is the single biggest hassle and waste of time out of anything connected to pick 'em.

So, when you enter, please either:

- use exactly the same name you used last time
- if in doubt, go to the overall rankings page and copy and paste from there
- if you have the same name as a player from another team who has played in previous tournaments, e.g. there is a Linda (AM) and a Linda (AR), please enter with the team code in brackets as shown on the rankings table (please don't do this though if your pick 'em name is currently unique)

OR

- email me at btpickem@hotmail.com after you enter and tell me what you have changed your name from and to (just posting here is not enough, we might miss it)
- also, to avoid me having to check whether or not you are really a new player, if you are changing teams from the one shown for you on the rankings, please email me at btpickem@hotmail.com and make it clear that you are doing this (I will continue to check for and correct these myself too though, since in this case it isn't the entrant's fault that this has happened like it is with name changes)

Thank you!
"

Good luck and please enter, BT.net needs you're expertise (at the very least to balance out my own poor attempts!)