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Sheddie


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(copy of Bethan's post from tennis competitions section... will get more notice here)

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 hopewink.gif).

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 (shortwink.gif) 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 wink.gif) 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!
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The entry form with qualifiers placed is now available via http://www.britishtennis.net/Competitions.html - good luck everyone!

Just a reminder that we'll be very happy with you if you can manage to enter by 09.30 GMT tomorrow morning, but the final deadline is 15.00 GMT when play starts.

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aww, you started a whole new thread! And there I was just doing random (shameless wink.gif) advertising on other threads. Thanks Sheddie smile.gif

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steven


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All good stuff. smile.gif The final 70+ emails (to those who didn't want them until qualifiers had been placed) are going out now.

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If you are still intending to enter but have not yet filled in your entry form, please note that because play on the outside courts turns out to be starting one hour earlier than play on the show courts, the deadline for entries is 14.00 GMT instead of 15.00 GMT. To be as fair as possible to everyone in an imperfect situation, entries between 14.00 and 15.00 will be accepted, but entries received after a player has taken a clear lead in one of the early matches will not be able to score a point for that match.

The reason for the confusion is that when I first published the entry form on Monday, it said on Miami site that play would be starting at 11.00 EDT on main draw days. This implied to me that they meant play on all courts. That's probably also why the ATP bracket challenge page said at the time that their deadline (09.00 Eastern) was 2 hours before play starts - they have since changed it to say that it is 1 hour before play starts, though their rules page still says 2 hours!


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I see that i've dropped out of the top 20 because I missed the Aussie Open. Let's just call that an "injury break" and once i win miami i should be back where i belong.

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We ended up with 177 entrants, nearly twice as many as we had for Paris, our previous biggest AMS pick 'em.

Results as at the end of day 1 can be found via http://www.britishtennis.net/Competitions.html, they'll get updated intra-day at least a couple of times tomorrow.

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And I'm up there in 23rd! Must be some sort of career best for me. Can I get into DJ's thread?

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Annoying that Haas pulled out but I see most people are affected by that. Thank you Kevin Anderson - a good win. Did Jamie really beat him recently?

Pleased to see that Aria is still around. She used to contribute interesting comments here and on the GR board but seems to have abandoned us recently. Hope you are well Aria.

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Well all i can say after the initial matches is that I am....ahead of Count and Sheddie....!!!

Good start for Bethan who leads BT.net.....and is joint 5th overall clap.gif

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Yes, great start for Bethan smile.gif

Unfortunately though, she's the only entrant to already have lost one of their finalists, i.e. Haas aka Garcia-Lopez.

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What a crazy R1 this is. After the first two matches today, Bethan is up to 3rd=, the Count is languishing in in 81st=, but the big news is:

Sheddie is in the gorillas' cage!

He's 154= with 8/18.

Not that I can talk - I'm at the cage door just a point further ahead.

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Goooo Imo

woohoooo to me tho.

does the sheddie dance

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Well 17/23 my best start ever I think....cmon Marat hang in there...GO Acasuso !

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Reynolds beat Safin dam !....at least Mario is doing well...at the moment...pray.gif

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