Diamond Geezer
Gone But Not Forgotten
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Nearly time for the forum competitions for the Winter and I seek anyone able to donate prizes towards the Ten To Follow and Ante Post competitions.
NewHorizon has said she will run the Ante Post competition again and I have the TTF competition ready.
The TTF will start on a date still to be decided but will be either October 10th/11th (Big Chepstow meeting heralding start of NH racing proper this side of the water) or 23rd/24th (First meeting at Cheltenham) or October 31st (Charlie Hall & JN Wines day) and the Ante Post will start on November 1st regardless. I would like to give everyone at leat two weeks notice of the list so if we're going with the former date I will roll out the list this weekend.
Grey has very kindly agreed to donate £100 as the prize for the Winter Competition which is for the best combined performance in the TTF and AP competitions using a formula devised by himself and which has been used in previous seasons.
Apart from sponsorship for the TTF and the AP , does anyone have any views on when they would like the TTF to start and do they want the option of a Dark Horse in their team of ten or are they happy to just choose ten horses from the list bearing in mind I have increased the list of horses to 250 this year and each player will be allowed to enter up to three teams. As an aside, as well as posting the list of horses on the thread with this year's rules, I'm also giving every player a chance to email me at a special email address I have set up requesting the list be sent to them in Excel format including a link to the profile of each horse on ATR. Might make picking their teams easier (or harder!)
In case we do not find sponsors from within the forum I have been discussing with Col the option of players paying a small entry fee for each team in the TTF, say 50p or £1 so a maximum of £1.50 or £3 per player if they nominate three teams. Col thinks it would be possible to insert a pay button within the thread similar to the donate button for the Forum running costs. Last year we had 57 entrants with one team per player, this year we may drop a few with the demise of FF but also pick up more from new members from on here. Say we had 60/70 players paying £3 for three teams that would raise roughly £200 which would cover the £100 prizes for the TTF and the AP.
Thoughts and preferences on any of these ideas please.
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NewHorizon has said she will run the Ante Post competition again and I have the TTF competition ready.
The TTF will start on a date still to be decided but will be either October 10th/11th (Big Chepstow meeting heralding start of NH racing proper this side of the water) or 23rd/24th (First meeting at Cheltenham) or October 31st (Charlie Hall & JN Wines day) and the Ante Post will start on November 1st regardless. I would like to give everyone at leat two weeks notice of the list so if we're going with the former date I will roll out the list this weekend.
Grey has very kindly agreed to donate £100 as the prize for the Winter Competition which is for the best combined performance in the TTF and AP competitions using a formula devised by himself and which has been used in previous seasons.
Apart from sponsorship for the TTF and the AP , does anyone have any views on when they would like the TTF to start and do they want the option of a Dark Horse in their team of ten or are they happy to just choose ten horses from the list bearing in mind I have increased the list of horses to 250 this year and each player will be allowed to enter up to three teams. As an aside, as well as posting the list of horses on the thread with this year's rules, I'm also giving every player a chance to email me at a special email address I have set up requesting the list be sent to them in Excel format including a link to the profile of each horse on ATR. Might make picking their teams easier (or harder!)
In case we do not find sponsors from within the forum I have been discussing with Col the option of players paying a small entry fee for each team in the TTF, say 50p or £1 so a maximum of £1.50 or £3 per player if they nominate three teams. Col thinks it would be possible to insert a pay button within the thread similar to the donate button for the Forum running costs. Last year we had 57 entrants with one team per player, this year we may drop a few with the demise of FF but also pick up more from new members from on here. Say we had 60/70 players paying £3 for three teams that would raise roughly £200 which would cover the £100 prizes for the TTF and the AP.
Thoughts and preferences on any of these ideas please.
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- so if the list goes up soon I can put my intentions forward before I go.
