Pearl Jam NCAA March Madness Pool 2011 - SENT/RECEIVED

After last year's successful PJ NCAA March Madness pool (see the thread here: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=124830), I have decided to run another pool for the upcoming NCAA tournament. This is one of the great sporting events of the year and it presents an exciting opportunity for another PJ pool.

If you have participated in the Super Bowl pools in the past, the NCAA pool will work a lot of differently. Rather than a board that will be based on the winning score, this time around I want to run a traditional NCAA Bracket pool. That means that each participant will have to fill out a tournament bracket and pick who they think will win each round of games. We will be using Yahoo!s "Tournament Pick 'em" game to conduct our pool. That means that each participant will need to have a Yahoo e-mail address (or create a Yahoo address -- it's free) in order to participate.

I have already created a private group at Yahoo and will provide the league ID and password (via PM) upon completion of the participant list for our pool.

The rules are pretty simple. On Sunday, March 13 the brackets/seedings will be announced. Between that time and the time the first tournament game is played (on Thursday, March 17), each participant will need to fill out his/her bracket on the Yahoo Pick 'Em site. Yahoo will then track how each participant fares as the games are played. We will use a basic scoring system in which every team picked correctly in the first round earns 1 point, each winning team picked correctly in the second round earns 2 points, each winning third round team earns 3 points, etc., up until the final, in which the having picked the winning team will earn the participant 6 points. Of course, all brackets must be filled out in full before the 17th, so the challenge is to have correctly identified at least one of the two teams in the Finals so that you at least have a shot at those 6 points when the game is played.

To make this a Pearl Jam board, the cost of playing will not be money, but rather a Pearl Jam 2000, 2003, 2008, or 2009 official bootleg -- or a PJ item of greater or equal value (please, please, please, no burned copies!!). So, if you are the winner, every other participant will have to send you the Pearl Jam bootleg they pledge in this thread.

Here are some other rules for the game:

1. You must be 18 or over to play!

2. In the case of a tie, winners will split the prizes. Each winner will take turns selecting the item from the list that he/she wants until all have been selected. First choice will be determined by random draw.

3. You MUST pledge an OFFICIAL PJ bootleg when you sign up. That means no burned copies; I want to make this worthwhile for us collectors! If you have another item of equal or greater value that you would like to pledge, you may do so ONLY if you offer it as an alternative to an official bootleg; for example, you may offer "LA 9/30/09 official boot OR Yield vinyl WINNER'S CHOICE", but you may not offer the vinyl itself without the option of an official boot.

The bootleg may be new or used, but it must be in good (playable) condition. Also, only boots that were not commercially released are accepted (for example, please don't pledge State College '03).

Once somebody has pledged a specific boot, please do not repeat the same show. I would prefer that whoever wins gets a variety of different boots, not a number of the same ones.

4. If you enter, you MUST pay up if you lose. As you all know, building a reputation as a reliable person is important on this board -- enough said. Please be committed to sending the boot you pledge to the winner within a week after the game ends.

5. Participants must send me their e-mail and the address that they want their prizes to be sent if they win BEFORE Thursday, March 17. This is simply to ensure that all members are committed to following through with their pledge. I will be in charge of distributing the winner's address to the other participants when the game is over.

8. Sign-ups for the game will end on Thursday, 3/17 or when 25 people sign up (whichever happens first).

If anyone has any problems with these rules, or anything that's need to be added, please let me know.

Here are a list of the participants (will be updated as people sign up):


1. walkunafraid (walkunafraid) -- Any bootleg OR any scratch & dent poster available in goods section OR Immagine In Cornice new/sealed DVD (winner's choice) package received
2. Ando -- Denver 2003 official boot package received
3. dwhite76 (dwhite76) -- Boston 8/29/00 official boot WINNER!
4. lippy002 (lippy002) -- Tampa 8/12/00 official boot package received
5. MayDay10 (MayDay10) -- winner's choice (any boot available in goods section) package received ]
6. mfc2006 (ROCK CHALK) -- winner's choice (any boot OR any scratch & dent poster available in goods section) package received
7. rrivers (rrivers) - package received
8. withtheleaves - any 2009/2010 boot OR LO10L vinyl (winner's choice) package received
9. AtlantaJammer (AtlantaJammer) - any boot in goods section, PJ20 shirt / 10 of clubs shirt (winner's choice) package received
10. jethrojam420 (jethro's jams) - any item $35 or less in goods section package received
11. ACE10 (ACE10) - Melbourne 2003 (official boot) package received
12. JH204621 - Atlanta 2000 (official boot) package received
13. Vedderhead1 (Vedderhead1) - any boot or scratch & dent poster in goods section
14. Black 73 (Black 73) - Hamburg 2000, Milan 2000 or Columbus OH 2000 for this contest (winner's choice) package received
15. jjheel13 - any bootleg from goods (winner's choice)
16. Ledbetterdays - official mystery boot package received


If you are interested in joining the pool, please post in this thread and indicate which official boot (or other PJ item) you will be putting in to the pot. You will not be added to the list until you indicate the specific boot you would like to pledge. Also, please PM me your e-mail address and the mailing address that you want your prizes to be sent in case you are the winner as soon as possible. I will be updating the list above as boots and names are added.

Thanks.