Sam's - Fantasy league

if you build it they will come............

I had a blast picking last year, I imagine the administration of the thing had to be a major PIA! Thought it was a good system but its a 10 month process, hard for those of us with ADD

If they keep the rule of no cook doing more than 1, I think we'll see some that don't fill up. With the trend here in FL for last minute entries it could well be the 16th if Tampat fills up. Expect we'll see that at some others. Also lots of folks signed up and now dropping out. Probably can publish a list until at least a week before and may not have a list on KCBS website at all.

2012 Sam's Club Fantasy BBQ Contest

So if this is going to happen this year, we are down to the last few days before it needs to get organized.

I think one of the reasons that last year's deal flamed out at the end of the year was it was pretty complicated to administer and track. Every regional had to be seeded ahead of time, the awards shows were major undertakings (although entertaining), etc.

Maybe we can simplify this for 2012 and have a better shot of getting it all the way to the end of the Sam's National event in October. Maybe I can talk Brew-B-Q into helping as well. :grin:

Here's my proposal:

- No seeding of teams will occur.

A simplified scoring system, as follows:

- For each event, you pick who you think will get the GC, and you pick who you think will finish in the Top 10.

- If you pick the GC correct, you receive 10 points.

- For each team you pick to finish in the top 10 correctly, you are awarded 1 point per team.

- All Sam's events would be treated equally. Local, Regional and the National final will all be scored the same way, as described above.

So a submission would be simply:

My pick for GC: Team Name
My pick for Top 10: List 10 of the teams competing in that event.

We'll track cumulative points, and we can declare winners for each region and an end of year best picker for the entire year.

Anyone can participate, entries just have to be posted in this thread prior to the 1st turn in time of the contest that you are picking.

Unlike last year, none of the pre-work is done to line up folks who are willing to donate product or gifts for winners, so this would just be for bragging rights unless prize donors come forward.

Whaddya think? Give it a thumbs up :thumb: if you want to participate.


Here are the teams for the 1st local, which starts this weekend:

Region 3 Local Event: Tampa, FL
Date: February 18, 2012

1. Big Tymer Bbq
2. accutech bbq
3. Big Papa's Country Kitchen
4. Sweet Smoke Q
5. Everglades Seasoning BBQ Team
6. Git-R-Smoked
7. bamboo warrior
8. TEAM HOLY HOG BBQ
9. Hot Wachulas
10. Getta Grip BBQ
11. Whiskey Bent BBQ
12. great lakes bbq & feed co
13. SunState Smokers
14. All Fired Up and Kicking Ash
15. Good Buddies BBQ
16. Naked Bones
17. Dr. BBQ
18. southern style bbq
19. florida's divine swine
20. Kathleen Roadkill

I think you would make it even easier on yourself if you just told everyone to pick their top ten. Then to score give each correct entry a point and each correct placing an extra point.

So if i pick Capt'n Ron to win and he gets 10th i still get a point but would have gotten two points if he won.

If i could help you a week here or there let me know.

I thought picking 10/30 was too many and a lot of the entries were basically the same as a result. I think picking 5/30 would be more interesting. .02

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