Jersey Contest Playoffs

by Dave on Apr 2, 2009 2:31 AM PDT

After tabulating scores for the season we now have our Jersey Contest Playoff participants.

The selection process used various critieria:

Anyone who finished in the Top 3 in any month got in.
Anyone with two or more Top 20 finishes got in.
We looked at cumulative scores after that but those were basically duplicated by the people already chosen. We did fill out the ranks with a few remaining players with high average scores in given months.

We ended up with 32 worthy players, all of whom now have a shot at the season's Grand Prize.

Here's how the system will work:

The Blazers' April games will be used to narrow down the field.
After each pair of games the lowest scorers will exit the contest. After the Thunder and Rockets' contests the 8 lowest scorers will leave. The rest of the field will continue through the Grizzlies and Spurs games, after which 8 more will go. After the L*kers and Clippers 8 more will depart. The final games of the season against the Thunder and Nuggets will narrow the remaining field from 8 to 4.
Scores will reset after each pair of games. You're only as good as your last two predictions. This is sudden death.
The final four players will continue on into the real, live Blazers post-season. They will enter predictions as long as the Blazers keep playing. Whichever player of the four is ahead when the Blazers are eliminated from the playoffs (or win the championship, natch) will be declared the winner and receive the Fabulous Grand Prize.

Click through to see the Jersey Contest Playoff participants. Good luck to all of them!

--Dave (blazersub@yahoo.com)

Here are the 32 participants in the Jersey Contest playoffs:

Sir-1
Blazerbear
nep_blazers
tweener
djudd
zaron5551
MavetheGreat
megustanumerocinco
amlmart1
the-arkitect
HeffBlazer
Lakitao
Arby
marble47
halfasiansensation
saregister
OldSchool
you'vegottomakeyourfreethrows
darkwebs
goden
madding
FromAfar
Bonesbarry
DirtyFernandez
Ruodrola
jbcooper80
jsmuc
Cablinasian
Itheryn
blazersand2000
ChiliConKyle
TheNatural#7

ONLY PLAYOFF PARTICIPANTS MAY ENTER THIS GAME. I will seriously consider banning anyone who violates this directive from next year's contest entirely. Clicking through to see the questions is fine, but do not submit an entry unless your name is above. You are creating extra work for me by doing so. You can click through to see the questions,

Jersey Contest Playoff Game 1 Form

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i got my bracket ready!

by Blazerland on Apr 2, 2009 3:31 AM PDT reply actions

Pretty slick form.

by torsoheap on Apr 2, 2009 8:08 AM PDT reply actions

oooooh...

steep competition. Most of those names were regularly at the top of the cumulative months’ scores.

Gonna need to bring my “A” game.

Good luck, all!

Give the man his "M"!!!

by you'vegottomakeyourfreethrows on Apr 2, 2009 8:33 AM PDT reply actions

I made it!

sweet! I was hoping that my roller coaster predictions would be good enough! I can finally say i belong to something! LoL

good luck everyone! I’ll check the rearview often to see if you are still there =D

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by saregister on Apr 2, 2009 9:59 AM PDT reply actions

I knew all those triple digit finishes

would eventually catch up to me.

I’m in the NIT of Jersey Contests. The winner has to go to New Jersey.

I’ll remember my two top 3 finishes fondly.

by sagcat on Apr 2, 2009 10:16 AM PDT reply actions

I'm think I made the CBI.

I was so bad this year I let my 12 year old do the picking during March.

by TallTimber on Apr 2, 2009 11:15 AM PDT up reply actions

Oops

I submitted an entry before seeing this post and realizing we were in the playoffs. Sorry, Dave, I’d remove it if I could. You might want to add some sort of notification about “selected participants only” on the game form page.

by Smooth on Apr 2, 2009 12:26 PM PDT reply actions

It's OK

One mistake won’t kill us.

I can’t edit the game form without just putting the warning in the question, which seemed awkward.

—Dave

by Dave on Apr 2, 2009 12:32 PM PDT up reply actions

Sweet...

ME : See honey, all that time I spend on BlazersEdge has finally paid off, I made the playoffs of the jersey contest!
HER : So what do you get?
ME : I get to fill out more forms on the BlazersEdge jersey contest!
HER : awesome…

I feel like I need to get fired up for the stretch run. Anyone want to run me over and then throw a bll at my face?

" if you don't like it, you can shove it
but you don't like it, you love it!"
- Weezer (Red Album)

by halfasiansensation on Apr 2, 2009 1:32 PM PDT reply actions