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World Cup Sweepstake

Fri May 28, 2010 3:28 pm

Following on from the other thread, who would be interested in a world cup sweepstake?

How about £5 to enter, with everyone getting a team selected at random.

1st Prize: £100
2nd Prize: £50
3rd Prize: £10

How does that sound? We could change the prize amounts, or give part to charity?

I can set up a webpage then with all the teams/details to track who's winning

Money wise, either through paypal, or myself or Annis or someone could possibly collect cash if it's easier?

Post on this thread if you want to take part. Once we've got 32 members I'll sort out the payment details etc.

Let me know if you have any suggestions/ideas

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So far we have:

1. Owain
2. Ptb
3. Thomas Fish
4. Laz
5. Casual
6. The Premier 1
7. Baz
8. Chippy
9. roberts1927
10. carlccfc
11. ngriffiths
12. ccfcdan
13. Gareth Bluebird
14. AndyFS
15. Sack
16. nobby
17. forever blue
18. dean
19. earnieblue
20. splottbluebird48
21. Marc
22. hughesygirl
23. 2blue2handle
24. Uncle Fester
25. JoshCCFCLewis
26: ackers1927
27. jamieccfc
28. allynp
29. Wayne S
30 RobP
31. jamccfc
32. bluecheg

Re: World Cup Sweepstake

Fri May 28, 2010 3:31 pm

Sounds like a good idea if you can work out a system to operate it.

Re: World Cup Sweepstake

Fri May 28, 2010 3:38 pm

PtB wrote:Sounds like a good idea if you can work out a system to operate it.


exactly what i was gonna say.. theres gonna be more than 32 of us wanting to enter so how you gonna do it?

Re: World Cup Sweepstake

Fri May 28, 2010 3:45 pm

Billy Hunt. wrote:
PtB wrote:Sounds like a good idea if you can work out a system to operate it.


exactly what i was gonna say.. theres gonna be more than 32 of us wanting to enter so how you gonna do it?


Put the stakes up to £100 each. :o

Re: World Cup Sweepstake

Fri May 28, 2010 3:46 pm

Billy Hunt. wrote:
PtB wrote:Sounds like a good idea if you can work out a system to operate it.


exactly what i was gonna say.. theres gonna be more than 32 of us wanting to enter so how you gonna do it?


It depends how much demand there is I guess, it would be first come first serve up to 32. We could always have a second if there was demand for it.

With regards to payment, if Annis or someone was willing to collect cash that could be one option if people are likely to see him. Alternatively I'll set up a paypal account or something so people can pay that way.
Unless anyone else has any suggestions?

Re: World Cup Sweepstake

Fri May 28, 2010 3:51 pm

Owain wrote:
Billy Hunt. wrote:
PtB wrote:Sounds like a good idea if you can work out a system to operate it.


exactly what i was gonna say.. theres gonna be more than 32 of us wanting to enter so how you gonna do it?


It depends how much demand there is I guess, it would be first come first serve up to 32. We could always have a second if there was demand for it.

With regards to payment, if Annis or someone was willing to collect cash that could be one option if people are likely to see him. Alternatively I'll set up a paypal account or something so people can pay that way.
Unless anyone else has any suggestions?


How we gonna know it aint fixed ;)
prehaps record it? saying something like.. this is thomas fish' go, (put hand in pull out team and show)

Re: World Cup Sweepstake

Fri May 28, 2010 4:05 pm

Billy Hunt. wrote:
How we gonna know it aint fixed ;)
prehaps record it? saying something like.. this is thomas fish' go, (put hand in pull out team and show)


Oh right yeah, that could be an option.

I will have a think tonight and try and work out the best way. Obviously I'll get someone independent to do that bit, or I won't take part.

The other way I was thinking was, that everyone gets assigned a number (in order of when they signed up 1,2,3....)

There are plenty of 'random number generators' online that could be used to come up with a random sequence of numbers.

So we'd put numbers 1-32 into the generator, and it comes out with a list. see here put 1 and 32 in the boxes, then press 'get sequence' to see what I mean

if the countries are sorted alphabetically (or any other way) we match up the countries to the random list of numbers.

So say we randomize the numbers and we get:

23
5
18
6

that would mean:

23 : Algeria
5 : Argentina
18: Australia
6: Brazil

It would be recorded or something to make sure there was no cheating, but that might be a good way of doing it?

Re: World Cup Sweepstake

Fri May 28, 2010 4:10 pm

Sounds good to me.

Will the draw be done in Scottish, Welsh and English? :lol:

Re: World Cup Sweepstake

Fri May 28, 2010 4:55 pm

Ok I think I've found a better way!

http://www.easysweepstake.com/

The above site let's you input everyone's names, and choose a time and date for the draw.
The participants then get an email with a link to the draw. You can then watch the draw live at the time chosen.
Sounds pretty good.
Just need to sort out the money side of it now!

Re: World Cup Sweepstake

Fri May 28, 2010 5:12 pm

Owain wrote:Ok I think I've found a better way!

http://www.easysweepstake.com/

The above site let's you input everyone's names, and choose a time and date for the draw.
The participants then get an email with a link to the draw. You can then watch the draw live at the time chosen.
Sounds pretty good.
Just need to sort out the money side of it now!


very good

Re: World Cup Sweepstake

Fri May 28, 2010 5:14 pm

i'm in!

Re: World Cup Sweepstake

Fri May 28, 2010 5:16 pm

Well done Owain, you're putting far too much work into this lol

Count me in with what ever you decide on.

Re: World Cup Sweepstake

Fri May 28, 2010 5:20 pm

32 envelopes each with a team inside, you buy an envelope your name goes on it, all the envelopes are opened after final


simples :ayatollah:

Re: World Cup Sweepstake

Fri May 28, 2010 5:21 pm

PtB wrote:Sounds good to me.

Will the draw be done in Scottish, Welsh and English? :lol:
and patagonian :D

Re: World Cup Sweepstake

Fri May 28, 2010 7:18 pm

bluebirdbaz wrote:
PtB wrote:Sounds good to me.

Will the draw be done in Scottish, Welsh and English? :lol:
and patagonian :D


Possibly :?

Re: World Cup Sweepstake

Fri May 28, 2010 7:47 pm

Im in

Re: World Cup Sweepstake

Fri May 28, 2010 8:20 pm

im in. believe im the third to say it.
good luck owain :D

i was given a suggestion which was too late for our one in work, but it went along the lines of 2 or 3 money back bogie prizes so it keeps an interest for the players with shit teams

along the lines of but not limited too

team in the group stages with most foul points (red=2 yellow=1)
team in the group stages with most goals scored against
team in the group stages conceding the most penelties

paypal payment seems the easiest, no running around for anyone then

Re: World Cup Sweepstake

Fri May 28, 2010 8:22 pm

1st team out, baggsy england :D

Re: World Cup Sweepstake

Fri May 28, 2010 9:03 pm

So far we have

1. Owain
2. Ptb
3. Thomas Fish
4. Laz
5. Casual
6. The Premier 1
7. Baz
8.

I think that's right. Who else fancies it?

Re: World Cup Sweepstake

Fri May 28, 2010 9:11 pm

The Premier 1 wrote:im in. believe im the third to say it.
good luck owain :D

i was given a suggestion which was too late for our one in work, but it went along the lines of 2 or 3 money back bogie prizes so it keeps an interest for the players with shit teams

along the lines of but not limited too

team in the group stages with most foul points (red=2 yellow=1)
team in the group stages with most goals scored against
team in the group stages conceding the most penelties

paypal payment seems the easiest, no running around for anyone then


can we just keep it simple.. all the money too the winner?

Re: World Cup Sweepstake

Sat May 29, 2010 11:13 am

bump

Re: World Cup Sweepstake

Sat May 29, 2010 11:16 am

Owain wrote:So far we have

1. Owain
2. Ptb
3. Thomas Fish
4. Laz
5. Casual
6. The Premier 1
7. Baz
8.

I think that's right. Who else fancies it?



Chippy :ayatollah:

Re: World Cup Sweepstake

Sat May 29, 2010 1:35 pm

im in was my idea :ayatollah:

Re: World Cup Sweepstake

Sat May 29, 2010 3:29 pm

Go on then Count me in for a win :ayatollah:

Re: World Cup Sweepstake

Sat May 29, 2010 3:31 pm

put me in as well, thanks

Re: World Cup Sweepstake

Sat May 29, 2010 3:33 pm

So far

1. Owain
2. Ptb
3. Thomas Fish
4. Laz
5. Casual
6. The Premier 1
7. Baz
8. Chippy
9. roberts1927
10. carlccfc
11. ngriffiths
12.

Once we have a better idea of number we can sort out money+prizes etc then.

Re: World Cup Sweepstake

Sat May 29, 2010 3:35 pm

im in who shall i paypal the £5 to?

Re: World Cup Sweepstake

Sat May 29, 2010 3:37 pm

ccfcdan wrote:im in who shall i paypal the £5 to?


I'll sort that once we've filled the numbers, or got a better idea of how many are in

I'll keep everyone informed. :ayatollah:

Re: World Cup Sweepstake

Sat May 29, 2010 4:52 pm

awesome, i'll have some of that :ayatollah:

can i have spain/brazil please?

many thanks

Re: World Cup Sweepstake

Sat May 29, 2010 5:38 pm

Laz wrote:awesome, i'll have some of that :ayatollah:

can i have spain/brazil please?

many thanks




No you have got Honduras :lol: :lol: Good Luck :lol: :ayatollah: