10 Days of FESTIVUS CHALLENGE Tampa Bay

[Arletta]

R1) $10 Win/$10 Place ~ #3 Magical Cat
R4) $20 Win / $10 Place ~ #4 Eltham
R8) $50 Win ~ #8 Collin's Smile

[JolyB]

A caution to all. I think that it's important to check for scratches, especially if you post your picks early.

Their scratch rule is somewhat unusual and ties in to the "you must bet your $100 or be disqualified" rule.

Here's the provision concerning scratches:

"Selection scratches: If your selection is scratched at any time before 0 minutes to post, you may make another selection. No changes may be made after that point. If your horse is scratched and you do not make another selection, you are credited for the mythical dollars, but players must be aware they need to make a bet on another race to utilize their entire $100 bankroll. Exception: if the player chooses a horse in the last race that is a late scratch after the cutoff time has expired, the player is given the post time favorite."

So, if your pick in the next to last race is a late scratch and you have had to do something associated with real living, you get disqualified for failing to wager your full $100. Who comes up with these chicken**** rules?

[Arletta]

Originally Posted by JolyB

A caution to all. I think that it's important to check for scratches, especially if you post your picks early.

Their scratch rule is somewhat unusual and ties in to the "you must bet your $100 or be disqualified" rule.

Here's the provision concerning scratches:

"Selection scratches: If your selection is scratched at any time before 0 minutes to post, you may make another selection. No changes may be made after that point. If your horse is scratched and you do not make another selection, you are credited for the mythical dollars, but players must be aware they need to make a bet on another race to utilize their entire $100 bankroll. Exception: if the player chooses a horse in the last race that is a late scratch after the cutoff time has expired, the player is given the post time favorite."

So, if your pick in the next to last race is a late scratch and you have had to do something associated with real living, you get disqualified for failing to wager your full $100. Who comes up with these chicken**** rules?

Agree.. Shouldn't take long to go through the players this way.

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by JolyB

A caution to all. I think that it's important to check for scratches, especially if you post your picks early.

Their scratch rule is somewhat unusual and ties in to the "you must bet your $100 or be disqualified" rule.

Here's the provision concerning scratches:

"Selection scratches: If your selection is scratched at any time before 0 minutes to post, you may make another selection. No changes may be made after that point. If your horse is scratched and you do not make another selection, you are credited for the mythical dollars, but players must be aware they need to make a bet on another race to utilize their entire $100 bankroll. Exception: if the player chooses a horse in the last race that is a late scratch after the cutoff time has expired, the player is given the post time favorite."

So, if your pick in the next to last race is a late scratch and you have had to do something associated with real living, you get disqualified for failing to wager your full $100. Who comes up with these chicken**** rules?

Think it was clyde or the guy that came up with this contest...if everyone gets eliminated he gets all the prizes...

[ryonker1]

all- they now have a login tab at the top....but my pick entered yesterday was gone/wiped......needed to redo

Ron

[JolyB]

The picks I had made yesterday had also been wiped out. When I went to redo them this morning, I was able to access the site and log in, but on the selection page, I was able to choose the amounts to wager, but was unable to pick the horse I wanted. The column marked "Pick" had the percentages of those who had selected the horse, but no way that I could find to make a pick. Then the next time I tried, everything worked properly. Very strange arrangement.

[Arletta]

This thing blows already

Now it says Dec. 8th

[Arletta]

I too had to re-enter my picks. Not sure what Dec. 8th is all about.

[mclem0822]

Originally Posted by JolyB

The picks I had made yesterday had also been wiped out. When I went to redo them this morning, I was able to access the site and log in, but on the selection page, I was able to choose the amounts to wager, but was unable to pick the horse I wanted. The column marked "Pick" had the percentages of those who had selected the horse, but no way that I could find to make a pick. Then the next time I tried, everything worked properly. Very strange arrangement.

This doesn't sound good!

[mclem0822]

Finally got it to work I hope on my cell! No scratches posted on Equibase yet, will keep checking.

[mclem0822]

Originally Posted by JolyB

A caution to all. I think that it's important to check for scratches, especially if you post your picks early.

Their scratch rule is somewhat unusual and ties in to the "you must bet your $100 or be disqualified" rule.

Here's the provision concerning scratches:

"Selection scratches: If your selection is scratched at any time before 0 minutes to post, you may make another selection. No changes may be made after that point. If your horse is scratched and you do not make another selection, you are credited for the mythical dollars, but players must be aware they need to make a bet on another race to utilize their entire $100 bankroll. Exception: if the player chooses a horse in the last race that is a late scratch after the cutoff time has expired, the player is given the post time favorite."

So, if your pick in the next to last race is a late scratch and you have had to do something associated with real living, you get disqualified for failing to wager your full $100. Who comes up with these chicken**** rules?

I checked to see if I could get this to work on my cell phone, it wouldn't. I would not normally post so early, but being busy at work and it not working, I was going to reach out to a friend for help in changing picks if scratches came up. I certainly normally know it is not recommended to post that early.