It's that time of year again. Get's your brackets on; it's Mrach Madness the Men's NCAA Basketball Tourney Saimoe Tournament 2013! Vote for your waifu's; be bitter when they lose.
Q: WFT chrono? WTF is this Saimoe shit?
A: Saimoe is a yearly event where a bunch of people looking for something to kill time decided to vote for the most "moe" anime character from the past year. Personally this is just great troll material and I can't pass up the opportunity for troll material.
Q: W(here)TF do you find this shit?
A: The official site is here: http://acst13.saimoe.me/ If you're not really into all those cryptic symbols here's an English page: http://www.animesaimoe.org/ That English also provides previous results and today's match-ups.
Q: This shit is cash. How do I participate?
A: English guide here: http://www.animesaimoe.org/votingguide.html I don't bother voting cause I'm a lazy fuck, but you can knock yourself out.
Alright because this is going to get very boring if I'm just going to post results here so how about bout if I raise the stakes. I'm going to turn this into a game. You make predictions. I'll score your prediction. Person at the end with the highest point total wins. What do you win? I'm going to put my money on the line and I'm putting $10 in for each person who becomes active. $8 of the $10 will go to the winner. The remaining $2 will go straight to SPAMM as a donation. For now I will put a cap of $150. Barring any personal financial disaster, this value will not go down. If more than 15 people join I'll see about bumping this value up. Note I said active, this means have a prediction > 50% of the days of the week. If the fuzz shows up and says I can't do this, I'll turn this into a non-monetary game and have a ride with the winner and give them some gas money *nudge* *nudge* *wink* *wink*.
Rules: Bets open at 6pm the 3 days before the match (exception you may bet on Monday matches starting at 6pm Thursday along with Sunday's match but I won't post odds until Friday; this is mainly for people not on the internet over the weekend), bets close at 10am the day before the match, I will use the SPAMM forum time to determine if bet is in on time. All times CDT. If you want to change your bet please edit your original post and make note of your edit and do it before the deadline. If I determine someone is trying to subvert these rules there will be a warning on first offense, immediate forfeiture of participation on second offense. My money so decisions by me are final and absolute. The timings may change as we near the end as there will not be as much time to place bets.
Because the betting times may be confusing stated that way, here's the times for each day:
Monday match-up: Open at 6pm Friday; close at 10am Sunday (actually opens at 6pm Thursday)
Tuesday match-up: Open at 6pm Saturday; close at 10am Monday
Wednesday match-up: Open at 6pm Sunday; close at 10am Tuesday
Thursday match-up: Open at 6pm Monday; close at 10am Wednesday
Friday match-up: Open at 6pm Tuesday; close at 10am Thursday
Saturday match-up: Open at 6pm Wednesday; close at 10am Friday
Sunday match-up: Open at 6pm Thursday; close at 10am Saturday
Scoring: Points awarded = Vote count for character * odds * place modifier, where odds = leader's previous vote count / character's previous vote count and place modifier = -0.1 * (place - 11) [1st = 1, 2nd = .9, 3rd = .8, 4th = .7]. Because I'm an honest bookkeeper leader will always have 1:1 odds. Someone with 2 should end up with half the votes of the leader, etc. I'll post the odds when you can start voting. I'll keep a running average so if new people want to join they can start at the average and still have a chance. I'll keep it open until the end of the loser's brackets. If you forget to vote min(daily point standings) + 1/6 * range(daily point standings) will be added to your total.
I will try to post who you can start voting for ~7pm each day as well as results of that day's match up. We'll see how these rules roll and I might tweak a few things if I see something not working.
CURRENT POOL: $60 ($50 to the winner)
Standings:
Oci 4961
Chrono 4800
Bootkiller 4704
Creed 4268
Echotech 4231
Starting point 4352
