BDV...speaking of the Buffet billion dollar bracket

[BanditVol]

Did you know that it pays the top 20 $100,000 each? 

http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/the-billion-dollar-bracket-challenge-is-really-a-hundred-thousand-dollar-lottery/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0


Forget the billion, which for all practical purposes is impossible to get, that's not a bad consolation prize at all!

There currently are only 3 perfect entries out of about 8.7 million  entries.  Technically I am tied for 4908th, having picked 21 of 24 correctly.  Unfortunately there are about 400,000 other people tied for 4908th, lol.

But with 20 prizes I have a random chance of about 1 in 20,000 to win 100K.  That's not bad at all for something like this.

Of course, a long way to go...by the end of next weekend I will likely be out of it.

But this is a much, much better contest than ESPN!  The prize there for the top person only, is a 10K gift card from Best Buy.  Not too shabby, but I like trying win one of 20 $100K prizes a lot better. 

[Black Diamond Vol]

Did you know that it pays the top 20 $100,000 each? 

http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/the-billion-dollar-bracket-challenge-is-really-a-hundred-thousand-dollar-lottery/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0


Forget the billion, which for all practical purposes is impossible to get, that's not a bad consolation prize at all!

There currently are only 3 perfect entries out of about 8.7 million  entries.  Technically I am tied for 4908th, having picked 21 of 24 correctly.  Unfortunately there are about 400,000 other people tied for 4908th, lol.

But with 20 prizes I have a random chance of about 1 in 20,000 to win 100K.  That's not bad at all for something like this.

Of course, a long way to go...by the end of next weekend I will likely be out of it.

But this is a much, much better contest than ESPN!  The prize there for the top person only, is a 10K gift card from Best Buy.  Not too shabby, but I like trying win one of 20 $100K prizes a lot better. 

Yeah, I knew.  I'm already pretty much out of it for the 100K, unless I run the table from here.

[BanditVol]

Yeah, I knew.  I'm already pretty much out of it for the 100K, unless I run the table from here.

I didn't know that until after I signed up....I only signed up because a co-worker goaded me into it.  But I am going to be all over that next year if they do it again.