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I almost forgot to get this started but here we are in the third annual Slam Challenge! (Mods, can we sticky this for the length of the tournament?).
The rules are basically the same as last year but I'd like to organize and rank a bit differently in order to somewhat mirror the actual ATP tour. I don't think we can get enough participant buy-in to do all the Masters, but I'd like to do the four Slams and the World Tour Finals, and then have awards for each Slam and a "year-end #1" for the participant with the most points. In other words, please note that this year the Slam Challenge includes FIVE tournaments - all four Slams and the World Tour Finals.
Here's how the revised system will work:
This system gives bragging rights for each of the five tournaments, but also a year-end #1. If I get a chance, I'll translate and post the results from 2013 and 2014 so we have a sense of history.
2015 SLAM PREDICTION CHALLENGE - RULES
*NOTE: While you can slot a player in two spots, there is really no point to it and you're essentially wasting a slot. I will try to watch any "double-booking" but if I don't before the tournament begins, I'll simply disqualify the lower pick. For example, if you pick a player for both the Dark Horse and Quarterfinal then the QF pick is lost as the DH can only equal or surpass it in terms of points.
Good luck and let me know if any of the above isn't clear! Let's consider this a "beta" version for a day or two, just to make sure I'm not completely missing something. Oh yeah, PLEASE PARTICIPATE!!!!!
The rules are basically the same as last year but I'd like to organize and rank a bit differently in order to somewhat mirror the actual ATP tour. I don't think we can get enough participant buy-in to do all the Masters, but I'd like to do the four Slams and the World Tour Finals, and then have awards for each Slam and a "year-end #1" for the participant with the most points. In other words, please note that this year the Slam Challenge includes FIVE tournaments - all four Slams and the World Tour Finals.
Here's how the revised system will work:
- Pick players and accrue points as last year - Pretty simple, just follow the rules below - the same as last year.
- Results for Each Tournament - The participant with the highest point total is the Winner of the tournament, the second highest the Runner-Up or Finalist, #3-4 are Semifinalists, #5-8 Quarterfinalists, #9-16 Fourth Rounders, etc. We probably won't have many more players than that, so you're pretty much guaranteed a 3R or 4R result
. - Year-end #1 - The player with the most points at the end of the year--after the four Slams and World Tour Final--is crowned the Year-end #1.
This system gives bragging rights for each of the five tournaments, but also a year-end #1. If I get a chance, I'll translate and post the results from 2013 and 2014 so we have a sense of history.
2015 SLAM PREDICTION CHALLENGE - RULES
- How to Play - Pick a Winner, Runner-up, two Semifinalists, four Quarterfinalists, one Dark Horse and one Wildcard candidate for each Slam; for the WTF, the rules will be slightly different.
- Points - 12 Winner, 8 Runner-up, 3 Semifinalist, 1 Quarterfinalist for a total of 30 possible. Note that points are not cumulative, but you do get points if a player finishes lower than what you picked (e.g. If you pick Djokovic to win but he's the runner-up, you still get 8 points; if you pick Murray to be the runner-up but he wins, you only get the 8 points you picked him for).
- Dark Horse - Gets points for whatever their final position is; they cannot have won a Slam within the last two calendar years, or eight Slams. This means that you cannot pick Nadal, Djokovic, Murray, Wawrinka, or Cilic as the Dark Horse.
- Wildcard - Gets points as the Dark Horse, but cannot be ranked in the top 10 at the beginning of the tournament.
- Tiebreakers - In cases in which two participants have equal points, the leader among the two will be determined by the following tiebreaks, in this order: Correctly chosen winner; points of Dark Horse; points of Wildcard.
- Missing Slams - Members who want to join after the AO or miss a later Slam get a total number of points equal to the lowest score for the missed Slam, minus one point. The default points for the three Slams so far are AO: 9, RG: 1, Wim: 4, or a total of 14.
- Late Penalty - You can make your picks without penalty until the first serve of Round 1. After that there will be a -3 point penalty per round (or two days), so if you're late by a few days you still can accrue some decent points!
*NOTE: While you can slot a player in two spots, there is really no point to it and you're essentially wasting a slot. I will try to watch any "double-booking" but if I don't before the tournament begins, I'll simply disqualify the lower pick. For example, if you pick a player for both the Dark Horse and Quarterfinal then the QF pick is lost as the DH can only equal or surpass it in terms of points.
Good luck and let me know if any of the above isn't clear! Let's consider this a "beta" version for a day or two, just to make sure I'm not completely missing something. Oh yeah, PLEASE PARTICIPATE!!!!!
