DTers Road to the Roses Contest

[zippyneedsawin]

Here's a new twist to this year's game. Aside from the regular prizes, contestants can also compete for a pool of money players contribute. $10 entry, top 10 players get paid. Interesting idea. The overall game is still free. ( I know there's already a thread on RTTR, but I thought this deserved it's own)

Here are the rules:




PAY TO PLAY OPTION:

The Road to the Roses fantasy challenge is free to play. However, new to this year's Road to the Roses game is a "Pay for Play" option. First, and most important to note, that this is a completely optional feature. If you choose not to use this feature, you will still be able to play the game just as you have in years past with all other features and functionality available to you. You also remain eligible for the top 25 regular prizes, the weekly prizes, and the stage prizes. Odds of winning and amount of the entry pool depends on the number of players and selecting the proper horses, trainers and jockeys from the official lists.

Briefly, here is how "pay for play" works:

As a player in the game, you can run through the payment process in the upper-right corner of the website.
For a small $10 fee, you will become eligible for cash payout.
All players in the game that pay, their money will go into one pool.
At the end of the game, the top 10 "paying" players will receive cash payout. See Prizes for distribution of the entry pool to the top 10 pay to playing participants.
Any ties in the monetary payouts will be broken using the Derby 133 attendance estimate.
Players may sign up multiple stables in the Pay to Play option, but must have a unique email address and username for each stable. In other words, the same person at the same address may sign up as many stables as they desire, at a cost of $10 per stable. Note that Pay to Play participants are also eligible for the regular game prizes in addition to any monies available.

Very important to note that if you do not pay, you are not eligible for a payout! However, you do have the option to sign up and create your stable without immediately paying, yet can still become eligible for the cash prizes. There is a ten-day window from after time of sign-up in which a player can change their status from playing for free to Pay for Play. You will see this option and how much time you have remaining to change your status when you log in to view your stable. After the ten days have expired, and you have not chosen to Play for Pay, that option is no longer available.

The final pool size will be determined at the conclusion of the signup for the game, which is April 27, 2007. All payments must be verified by Churchill Downs Incorporated prior to announcing the Pay to Play pool total dollar value.




http://www.roadtotheroses.com/G=46/official_rules.phtml

[SniperSB23]

Has anyone tried to actually add horses yet? For some reason I am getting all the horses from 2005. It would be nice to have Afleet Alex again but somehow I can't see him getting me too many points.

[slotdirt]

I have Any Given Saturday, Hard Spun, etc., in my stable.

[ddthetide]

i built my stable, jockeys and trainers yesterday. it was the 2007 list.

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by ddthetide

i built my stable, jockeys and trainers yesterday. it was the 2007 list.

So am I really the only one getting the list of 2005 horses? It is pretty amusing to look through them but I don't think they will score me many points.

[Holland Hacker]

The 2007 Road to the Roses Contest allows leagues ti be set up is anyone interested in forming a league for DTers?

See the excerpt from the Q & A? Maybe we could even have a tie in with ATRAB and they could give away hats or shirts or something. Just a thought.

Q: Tell me more about the League feature that was added for 2006?

A: One of the two new highlights of the game (along with weekly prizes), the League creation adds an exciting element to the game no matter where you rank in the overall standings. During the signup process, every player will have the option to create their own league in which they can compete against friends, co-workers, etc. Basically, you will be able to invite as many people as you want to join your league by simply inputting their email addresses in the appropriate box. Once they accept, all the people in your league can track their rankings within your league each time they log in to the game. This is a great new addition to the game; even if you find yourself far out of first place overall, you still could be doing much better than everyone in your league, earning bragging rights over your co-workers, family, or friends.

[txshorns02]

Originally Posted by Holland Hacker

The 2007 Road to the Roses Contest allows leagues ti be set up is anyone interested in forming a league for DTers?

That seems like a good idea, not sure who will run it though.

[Swap Fliparoo]

Originally Posted by SniperSB23

So am I really the only one getting the list of 2005 horses? It is pretty amusing to look through them but I don't think they will score me many points.

Maybe try signing up anew under a different email address, and see if it works correctly??

Make sure you are using a link for the 133rd Derby (2005 links lead to 2005 horses.)

[ultracapper]

Am I missing something? How can someone get 13 total points, when only possible pointer were available in the 3 races today?
AGS = 4
Johnny V = 3
Pletcher = 3

Where is the other 3?

[todko]

It's a stupid contest really -- doesn't reward handicapping skills at all. The winner gets you the same points whether he's 50-1 or 2-1. And you're stuck with the original horses plus a few add-ons. Last year I had the same 5 horses activated from late March to the Derby -- all my others were injured and I think one or two were even dead by Derby.

It's a management issue too. The activation feature is bizarre. You have to pay attention to it and "activate" 5 horses and deactivate others before each weekend. You can have a horse in your stable win and if you forgot to activate the horse you don't get any points. With all the other things going on this time of year who wants to worry about things like this?

[miraja2]

Originally Posted by SniperSB23

Has anyone tried to actually add horses yet? For some reason I am getting all the horses from 2005. It would be nice to have Afleet Alex again but somehow I can't see him getting me too many points.

Mine were from 2007.
Here is my advice for the contest this year: Take Nakatani. He is the regular rider on more of the top 30 contenders than almost anyone else.

[slotdirt]

Way ahead of you, already have Nakatani on my list. It's a stone cold lock he'll have a runner in the Derby, IMO.

[ddthetide]

my stable,
nakatani, j. velazquez
o'neil, plecter
air commander
circular quay
drums of thunder
great hunter
liquidity
nobiz like sobiz
notional
ravel
rescue party
street sense

[bugsoup]

i sign up yesterday. so its up in running.