Last year's thread: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/15...-game-1190782/

Last year's standings: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...XUWw3b0E#gid=0

Details below:

Entry Fee
$25, VIA Paypal.
***DO NOT CHARGE ME THE PAYPAL FEE. Otherwise I will simply ship back to you whatever is left after the fee and you can try again***

You can usually avoid fees by sending it as a Gift or Other, but I believe it is dependent on how you are funding the transfer.

Scoring Details
Scoring will be as follows:
+ 1.5 pts for each team alive in 2nd round of playoffs
+ 3 pts for each team alive in 3rd round (aka Conference Finals)
+ 4 pts for successfully picking Conference Champion
+ 7.5 pts for successfully picking Stanley Cup Champion
+ 5.5 pts for successfully picking Stanley Cup Runner-Up
+ 1 pts for picked Stanley Cup Winner actually finishing runner-up in Finals
+ 1 pts for picked Stanley Cup runner-up actually winning Stanley Cup
+ .5 pts for picking correct amount of series games

Tiebreaking is as follows:
* Bracket with the most accrued points
* Bracket which successfully picks SC Winner
* Bracket which successfully picks SC Runner-Up
* Bracket which has the highest # of successfully picked Conference Winners
* Bracket with closest # to amount of playoff games in 2013. Measured in terms of absolute value, or in other words if the number turns out to be 75, then 70 and 80 are equally accurate, being 5 games off.
* Otherwise it's a chop

Prizes
This is a WINNER-TAKE-ALL event.

Method for Submitting Brackets

PM me using the format below after you have shipped your entry fee (# in brackets is amount of games in series.)

EAST
1st Round
E1
E8>>>> E8 (7)

E2
E7>>>> E7(6)

E3
E6>>>> E6 (5)

E4
E5>>>> E5 (4)

Second Round
E5
E8>>>E8(4)

E6
E7>>>E7(5)
Conference Final
E8>>>> E8(7)
E7
East Conference Winner E8

WEST
1st Round
W1
W8>>>> W8(7)

W2
W7>>>> W7 (6)

W3
W6>>>> W6 (5)

W4
W5>>>> W5 (4)

2nd Round
W5
W8>>>> W8 (5)

W6
W7>>>> W7 (4)

Conference Final
W7
W8>>>> W8 (6)
West Conference Winner W8

Stanley Cup Finals
E8>>>> E8 (5)
W8

Stanley Cup Winner= E8
Total Games Played=80

Keeping Score
I will create a public google spreadsheet with all of the entries, providing a link in the thread when the playoffs start.

Deadline
Before puck drop of first playoff game

Best of luck!

Playoffs start Tuesday night and only have 2 interested so far.

Post or PM me if you want in.

im interested. pm me.

any more signups?

Unfortunately no.

I think we need at least 8ish to make it worthwhile and if you were to join we would only be up to 4.

I have spammed a few places to try to generate interest, but obviously not working too well!

in

In

So looks like we are up to 6:

DontDoItPls
DontDoItPls Brother
eNd0x
hotwings18
cwicemvp12
Nootka

How many do you think we need minimum to go ahead with this and have it be worthwhile?

update?

Well looks like there is no other interest, so unfortunately I don't think this is going to go off. Thanks for the interest though, I tried!

Unless you want to do it with just 6, but seems kind of pointless to me.

im down, i just want a sweat

Alright, well my brother and I are definitely in, so that is 3 confirmed to go.

I will PM the other guys and hopefully we can get something together before puck drop in under 4 hours.

Im still in. why not.

Alright 4 confirmed. Send me your brackets when your ready.

Anyone care to escrow? I can do it, but rather someone else do it if possible.

I can escrow via PayPal.

Awesome! 5 confirmed now and a reputable escrow.

Now we need more entries

Here's another bracket example if DontDoItPls' proves too complicated. Teams are re-seeded from highest to lowest remaining after each round:

just sent paypal to C.W. ICE MVP

will be sending entry in a bit

I'll be in, but it'll take a few business days for me to load up funds into a PayPal account - I've never had a need for one in the past (seriously).

If someone wants to vouch for me and I ship funds over ASAP, is that cool?

*Note: I could also ship the $25 over via PokerStars but not sure if that even makes sense or if it's even viable

Fine with me.

Geddy's obv fine

Will vouch completely

Will enter in 5 and send Paypal by tomorrow

What's the Paypal address?

Alright we should end up with 9 entries. Currently have 7 confirmed.

DontDoItPls
hotwings18 (No submission yet)
eNdOx (No submission yet)
Nootka
DontDoItPls's Brother
cwicemvp12
nutshot2
Geddy Lee
nyc999

Once I get confirmation from that 2 outstanding guys to see if they are still in or not, I will post the link to the spreadsheet with all the picks.