2011 USATF Track and Field Nationals Prediction Contest

by: LetsRun.com
June 20, 2011

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2011 LetsRun.com USATF Prediction Contest
Our famous prediction contest is back!

The 2011 USA Track and Field Championships start Thursday and just in time we're rolling out our world famous prediction contest.

How it Works
The process is quite simple. On the next few pages you will pick who you think will get 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in each distance running event (800m+). Inevitably, some competitors may drop out at the last minute or your buddy may call you with inside info and you'll want to change your picks. We have a feature that allows you to change your picks up until about 10 minutes before a particular event is scheduled to start. So you don't have to fill all of your picks at once. For those of you who work for a living, this is a very important feature. We know you can only fool your boss for so long and make it look like you are actually doing some work, so now you hopefully won't get fired for participating in the contest. You can partially fill the bracket out and then come back later.

Even if you know very little about some of the foreign competitors competing we have a very detailed form chart ever to help you out.

Scoring
The scoring is as follows:

• Each person that you correctly pick to finish in the top 3 = 1 point
  (It doesn't matter if you actually get the pick exactly right. If you pick someone for 1st and they finish 3rd you still get the point. Vice versa is true as well. If you pick them to get third and they get third, it's still only one point.)
• Each event winner picked correctly = 3 more points (you pick someone for first and they get first)
• Each event picked perfectly - All three picks: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in the right order = 2 more points (here the order is key)

Do you understand the rules fully? The following example should explain any questions you have. If you pick 1st, 2nd, and 3rd correctly in any event in the proper order, it is 3 points (1 point for each person in the top 3) + 3 points (for getting the winner correct) + 2 points (bonus for perfect pick of top 3 in order) = 8 points.

The more points the better.

Now for the Prizes:

Perfect Ballot: $20,011 (A perfect ballot means you pick the top three in the correct order for every distance event for both sexes - doing it for just one sex doesn't count as a perfect ballot)  1 winner maximum. If more than 1 person has a perfect ballot, the winner will be selected by random drawing. The $20,011 will be paid out over two years.

1st Place: $150 Roadrunner Sports Gift Certificate

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1st Place in the Largest Group - $100 Cash
You can play in a group against your friends. As an incentive for people to play in groups we will give the winner of the largest group (when we cut off group entries) $100 cash. So you get a group of your friends and you all enter the contest. Your group has 25 people in it. If it's the largest group, the winner of your group will get $100.

Group Scoring: Remember, you can sign up to play in a group and play against your friends. So please let them know about this contest as we want this to be the biggest one in our history.

Oh yeah, only one entry per person. No computerized/mechanical entries. I'm sure we should have a bunch of legal stuff here. How about this: your picks and your login name are not private and may be displayed on our website. And we're not responsible if the free contest gets cancelled for any reason including if our database crashes. We'll do our best to keep everything running smoothly. The top 3 in any event are final when we determine them at the end of the meet and this may not be the ultimate final top 3 (mainly due to drug busts in the future). Additionally, this contest is obviously void where prohibited by law, which states  and countries that is - we don't know. Also you need to be of the right minimum age which we'll say is 15 to be safe.  No purchase necessary. And yes we can win our own contest. If we beat you, you'll hear about it for sure.

We have a guide to help you with your picks and are not responsible for any errors in the guide.
*And we'll try and keep events open until 10 minutes before each event but we're not guaranteeing anything.

(Please note: For tie-breaking purposes, we'll first look at the number of 1st places correctly chosen. If there's still a tie, we'll look at the number of 2nd places correctly chosen correctly, and then if need be, the number of 3rd places correctly chosen. If there still is a tie, we'll conduct a random drawing.)

Sound easy? Then get started.
You'll be able to login and check your scores during the contest. You need a letsrun.com login to play. If you have any questions email us at letsrun@letsrun.com

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