Olympic picks contest

I'm running a little bragging rights-only contest on picking winners
in the Olympic road events. These include the men's and women's road
races, and men's and women's individual time trial.

Information on the road events is available at:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2004/olympics04/

MAILING IN YOUR PICKS
How does it work? I knew you'd ask! Simply (it is, really) send entries to:
(eliminate "_"):



To enter for each event, I need four sets of picks, one for each event.
Events a

MRR: Men's road race
WRR: Women's road race
MTT: Men's time trial (apologies to the San Francisco Symphony)
WTT: Women's time trial

Entries should consist of groups of picks. The first line of each group is
the event code: "MRR", "WRR", "MTT", "WTT". Following this, three picks,
numbered, consisting of the pick number, space, and the rider name.

Riders should be UCI ranked, with names spelled correctly. Please
check, for example, http://www.cyclingnews.com/ for those gnarly
Euro-spellings....

DEADLINES
The deadline for this contest is 8am CET the day of the race for each
event. You can revise entries for a given event up to this time.

SAMPLE ENTRY
This shows an example where entries are given for each event.
Entries can also be given in separate emails. However, make
sure there is a tag for the event (for example, "MRR").

Subject: picks (subject line doesn't matter)

MRR
1. Eddy Merckx
2. Fausto Coppi
3. Jacques Anquetil

WRR
1. Linda Jackson
2. Jeannie Golay
3. Jennifer McRae

MTT
1. Chris Boardman
2. Miguel Indurain
3. Graham Obree

WTT
1. Karen Kurreck
2. Rebecca Twigg
3. Nicole Freedman

SCORING
Picks are weighted 3:2:1, from first to third.

Riders score points based on their results, heavily weighted toward medals,
weighted towards road races, weighted towards men's events:

MRR (20 places): 68, 51, 34, 17, 16, ..., 2, 1
MTT (15 places): 48, 36, 24, 12, 11, ..., 2, 1
WRR (15 places): 48, 36, 24, 12, 11, ..., 2, 1
WTT (10 places): 28, 21, 14, 7, 6, ..., 2, 1

There is a 2x bonus for picking, in order, the top 3 finishers.

That's it. Simple, isn't it?

"Dan Connelly" wrote in message
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I'm running a little bragging rights-only contest on picking winners
in the Olympic road events. These include the men's and women's road
races, and men's and women's individual time trial.

Information on the road events is available at:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2004/olympics04/

MAILING IN YOUR PICKS
How does it work? I knew you'd ask! Simply (it is, really) send entries
to:
(eliminate "_"):



To enter for each event, I need four sets of picks, one for each event.
Events a

MRR: Men's road race
WRR: Women's road race
MTT: Men's time trial (apologies to the San Francisco Symphony)
WTT: Women's time trial

Entries should consist of groups of picks. The first line of each group
is
the event code: "MRR", "WRR", "MTT", "WTT". Following this, three picks,
numbered, consisting of the pick number, space, and the rider name.

Riders should be UCI ranked, with names spelled correctly. Please
check, for example, http://www.cyclingnews.com/ for those gnarly
Euro-spellings....

DEADLINES
The deadline for this contest is 8am CET the day of the race for each
event. You can revise entries for a given event up to this time.

SAMPLE ENTRY
This shows an example where entries are given for each event.
Entries can also be given in separate emails. However, make
sure there is a tag for the event (for example, "MRR").

Subject: picks (subject line doesn't matter)

MRR
1. Eddy Merckx
2. Fausto Coppi
3. Jacques Anquetil

WRR
1. Linda Jackson
2. Jeannie Golay
3. Jennifer McRae

MTT
1. Chris Boardman
2. Miguel Indurain
3. Graham Obree

WTT
1. Karen Kurreck
2. Rebecca Twigg
3. Nicole Freedman

SCORING
Picks are weighted 3:2:1, from first to third.

Riders score points based on their results, heavily weighted toward
medals,
weighted towards road races, weighted towards men's events:

MRR (20 places): 68, 51, 34, 17, 16, ..., 2, 1
MTT (15 places): 48, 36, 24, 12, 11, ..., 2, 1
WRR (15 places): 48, 36, 24, 12, 11, ..., 2, 1
WTT (10 places): 28, 21, 14, 7, 6, ..., 2, 1

There is a 2x bonus for picking, in order, the top 3 finishers.

That's it. Simple, isn't it?

Jeannie Golay, been long time since I have heard that name. I remember her
from Spain I think, she was in the road race.