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Title: BDV...speaking of the Buffet billion dollar bracket Post by: BanditVol on March 22, 2014, 02:24:09 EDT 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. :biggrin: Title: Re: BDV...speaking of the Buffet billion dollar bracket Post by: Black Diamond Vol on March 22, 2014, 02:29:26 EDT 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. :biggrin: Yeah, I knew. I'm already pretty much out of it for the 100K, unless I run the table from here. :laugh: Title: Re: BDV...speaking of the Buffet billion dollar bracket Post by: BanditVol on March 22, 2014, 02:35:05 EDT Yeah, I knew. I'm already pretty much out of it for the 100K, unless I run the table from here. :laugh: 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. :thumbup: |