Nihon Series Contest
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Re: Nihon Series Contest
[ Author: westbaystars | Posted: Oct 24, 2001 12:58 PM
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Well, Game 1 saw the Swallows win 7-0. So, from out list of contestants, it's safe to elliminate those who guessed Kintetsu in 4 (like me). That's #12 and #35. Two down, 39 to go.
Game 2 Eliminations
[ Author: westbaystars | Posted: Oct 24, 2001 1:02 PM
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Game 2 saw the Buffs make a big come back victory winning 9-6. That eliminates the Swallows in 4 and #34 on the list of contestants.
Re: Nihon Series Contest
[ Author: westbaystars | Posted: Oct 24, 2001 1:08 PM
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And Yakult wins again! Yakult returned to their home nest and went Buffaloe hunting to the tune of a 9-2 victory in Game 3. Kintetsu can no longer win in 5, so contestants #3, #6, #22, and #26 are out of the running. That's still only 7 out of 41 out of it, so well over half the predictions are still good.
Game 4 Eliminations
[ Author: westbaystars | Posted: Oct 25, 2001 12:44 PM
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14 of you predicted Kinetsu in 6. Well, That isn't going to happen as they dropped the best pitchers' battle of the Series last night 1-2 in Game 4. I didn't realize it at the time, but Yakult's 5 pitchers combined for a two hitter!
The first hit was by Ohmura to lead off the game. After being sacrificed to second, he got picked off.
The other hit was Rhodes' 4th inning home run over the center field backstop. It was a 140 meter long shot to put the Buffs up 1-0, temporarily.
Again, a walk cost Kintetsu a run as Dobashi led off the 5th drawing a base on balls. Two outs later, Miyamoto, hitting .533 and having a sacrifice bunt in every game, brought him around to tie the game.
Soejima led off the 7th inning with a pinch hit home run which turned out to be the game decider.
A pair of pick offs meant that the walk to Nakamura in the 4th was the only Buffaloe left on base.
#s 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 15, 17, 20, 21, 23, 27, 31, 32, 38, and 40 have dropped out of the contest.
Six of you have predicted Yakult in 5. We'll see tonight.
The first hit was by Ohmura to lead off the game. After being sacrificed to second, he got picked off.
The other hit was Rhodes' 4th inning home run over the center field backstop. It was a 140 meter long shot to put the Buffs up 1-0, temporarily.
Again, a walk cost Kintetsu a run as Dobashi led off the 5th drawing a base on balls. Two outs later, Miyamoto, hitting .533 and having a sacrifice bunt in every game, brought him around to tie the game.
Soejima led off the 7th inning with a pinch hit home run which turned out to be the game decider.
A pair of pick offs meant that the walk to Nakamura in the 4th was the only Buffaloe left on base.
#s 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 15, 17, 20, 21, 23, 27, 31, 32, 38, and 40 have dropped out of the contest.
Six of you have predicted Yakult in 5. We'll see tonight.
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I thought about it a bit. The YakyuShop does provide a very important service to the Pro Yakyu community. I'd waited for such a service since I first started getting requests for caps and jerseys since I started writing on the Web in 1995. Furthermore, when Ichiro became a big hit in the Majors, the YakyuShop could have boosted prices for Ichiro goods, but didn't. It's actions like those that tell me that Owen-san and Garcia-san have their hearts in the right place for Pro Yakyu fans.
So, Owen-san and I exchanged several more messages and decided on criteria for the contest. I then created a table in the database and set out to write a page to cast your submission for the contest.
On the contest page, you can see who voted for what team, in how many games, the point spread, and who they think will be MVP. Of these four fields, you must get the first two right to qualify for a prize. Since there may be many people who guess, for example, Kintetsu in 4, the point spread will be used to decide the order. But even that may have a tie, so if somebody gets the MVP right, (s)he will win! Multiple guesses with the same MVP as well? Well, that's OK. The final deciding order will be the timestamp of each vote, so earlier correct guesses weigh more.
You may vote as often as you like, but once every 24 hours. I'm sure that some people will get around it by creating multiple users. If it looks like there is over abuse (and the abuser is using masked and/or hidden IP addresses), I will remove the abusive entries. I would like to think that Pro Yakyu fans are above such things, though.
Oh, and be sure that your e-mail address is correct in your personal profile, or it'll be hard to contact you should you win. (No e-mail addresses will be given to anyone, including the YakyuShop, for the purposes of mass mail advertising. This is something I feel very strongly about. And I recommend that all of you keep your personal e-mail addresses hidden in your profile to prevent spam-bots from harvesting addresses from the web.)
Well, entries will be excepted up until 6:00pm on the evening of Game 1 - October 20th, JST. What are you waiting for?