The Punters Lounge 100/1 Challenge

[fintron]

Ok guys, I've had a little idea for a new competition to run this year and having had a couple of thumbs up from a few of the mods I will go ahead with it. Basically, I want to reward the first punter that lands a 100/1 winner in 2010 with a free bet out of my own pocket of £20.10. I know that isn't an amount that is gonna have people scrambling into their formbook libraries, furiously flipping the pages to steal the loot, but the intention was to add a bit of light hearted competition into the forum in the hope people will participate for the kudos, as they do in BBOTD. I will outline the rules of the competition in a minute but there is no need to post selections in this thread pre-race each day, as long as a selection is posted within the At The Races - Horse Racing Forum Section of the site in either the meeting, Best Bet of the Day or personal threads, that will suffice, however, only selections that are posted with reasoning can count for entry purposes - we don't want people desperately putting up horse A because 'it has good outsider claims' and 'will win etc' - we need some meat to go on the bones - but nothing more extravagant that that everyone provides in BBOTD and stuff anyway. Like with BBOTD I think that a 10 minute rule should be introduced too - only bets posted 10 minutes or more before the off can count. I think its necessary that prices can be taken as outsiders are volatile and 100/1 can shorten into 80/1 with only small amounts down, so it will be possible to take a price, which has to be verifiable on Oddschecker at the time a tip is posted. If you post a selection at 50/1 but actually took 100/1 in the morning, you only get 50/1 for the competition, from the time you posted. BOG is allowed though. The idea for the competition came from seeing StuSimmy's Bold Rose win at 50/1 the other day. It isn't the first time a PL member has tipped up a big priced winner and the aim of this competition is to recognise those big priced winners. It won't be like BBOTD where a profit and loss column is worked out, you can fire as many bullets at the target as you like and any big priced winners over 25/1 will go onto a leaderboard that I will update. Its bloody hard to pick a 100/1 shot and get it to run well, so that is why I set the bar at that price level. The first person to bag a 100/1 winner (or 100.0 winner on the exchanges) (they can advise it EW in the forum but it still counts as a win bet for this competition) wins the free bet , and can bet it however they choose, win or each-way. I will place the bets via one of my accounts and then bank transfer any winnings onto them. If we get to the end of the calendar year and no-one has nailed a 100/1 winner then whoever is highest on the roll of honour will win the free-bet. In the event of a tie the punters in contention and myself will agree on a tiebreaker card from which they both pick a winner from each of the races on that card. The winner is the punter that accumulates the most points from backing all of their runners to mythical 1 pt win stakes. The competition is open to everyone, newbie and current members, and like I say, you don't have to post anything in here pre-race, anyone that provides reasoning, posts within 10 mins of the off and DOESNT EDIT their post, has a valid entry. However, it would help me that if someone wants to participate that they post a message in here notifying they landed a big priced winner in one of the forum threads, as although I am on here most days and will try and do that myself, I may miss the odd one or two. Ante-post bets wil not count - the reasoning behind these is often sketchy and I think if they are allowed a punter could post up all the names under the sun at big prices to try get one up - which isnt what the comp is about, its designed to reward guys for posting just as they do normally. So just to try summarise the rules a bit more concisely: 1. Any bet posted within the ATR - Horse Racing Forum counts. Bets in DHRC or the systems section don't count as the competition aims to attract interest to ATR. 2. Bets posted within 10 mins of the off will not count. 3. Only selections with proper reasoning will count. Obviously its hard to define 'proper' but "it will win because it is good" and "lively outsider" etc are not valid reasons in my opinion. Still, only has to be a sentence or too though. 4. You can take a price, but it is the price available on oddschecker with the bookie at the time you posted. BOG is allowed though. EDIT: Betfair prices CAN be taken - if need be a screen shot may be requested to prove a price was available (I can advise how to do this if need be). If backing through Betfair, you get the price you took (minus any reduction factors) but dont get the benefit of betfair SP as well. in order for a bet to count at Betfair SP, Betfair SP must be specified in the write up. 5. No ante-post bets count. Selections can be in the win market, w/o the fav markets or TBP markets, but no forecasts will count. 6. Strictly no editing of posts. 7. Bets can be placed in any race listed in the Racing Post/on the RP site. 8. Theres no need to post a selection pre-race in here, as long as selections meet the above rules and are posted in the main ATR forum then they count 9. Any winner of 25/1 or above goes onto a leaderboard. The first first to bag a 100/1 winner wins the free bet, if at the end of the year no one manages 100/1 the highest positioned punter on the leaderboard takes the prize. 9. The judges (me!) decision is final 10. As in BBOTD rule 4 deductions will be applied to fixed odds prices although I will be willing to ignore 10p and 5p rule 4s like some of the big firms do anyway. On betfair, if the reduction factor is less than 10 % then similarly I'll ignore it. I hope those rules seem fair and that I have explained things clearly. Hopefully this isn't a wacky idea that worked in my head but which others won't find interesting. I think it will be nice to see a leaderboard of big priced winners though - I've seen it on other sites boasting about 10/1 winners and stuff and our guys can make a mockery of those prices. Competition open! Happy punting Wayne

[BillyHills]

Re: The Punters Lounge 100/1 Challenge Nice one Wayne:ok