The Rules - 2009

It’s that time again...the twelfth year of King of the Hill.

Please let me know if you would like to participate.

I am collecting money now. The season starts September 10th with a Thursday night game. Then on Sunday, September 13th a full schedule is played. I am running behind this year, but please send your money right away. Please mail a check to me at 999 Bay Ridge Dr., Benton, LA 71006.

Picks will be entered on ESPN’s Eliminator, just like last year.

To enter you will need an ESPN ID and Password. Once you register at ESPN you go to this link…http://games.espn.go.com/eliminator/en/frontpage. Sign in, set up your eliminator entry and then “Join a Group”.

Group: GV King of the Hill
Password: ?????????? (The password will be emailed to you when you let me know you are playing and when you tell me a check is in the mail.)

Here’s how it works, each week of the regular season you pick one team to win (no point spread). If your team wins, you advance to the next week. If your team loses, you drop into the loser’s bracket. If you lose again, in the loser’s bracket, you are out. I will keep track of this because on ESPN you can lose more than once.

Each week you advance, you again pick one team to win. Here's the catch -- you cannot pick a team more than once during the season, even if the team loses. ESPN enforces this selection.
The last person standing with no losses wins and is "King of the Hill", the last person standing in the loser’s bracket (one loss) gets second place.

Your picks can be entered right up to game time. And they can be entered weeks in advance. Because of this, there is no default pick. If you do not enter a pick it will be counted as a loss. Last year some voiced concern about not having the default pick, so here’s a suggestion. Pick every week of the year right at the start. Then each week simply modify your picks according to current performance. If you miss a week for vacation, as an example, you will already have a pick entered.

The entry fee is up this year to $40. The winner’s bracket champion will receive $30 from each entry. The loser’s bracket champion will receive $10 from each entry. I hope to have 50 paid entries - $1,500 and $500 to the champions. You can enter more than once, but not more than twice. To enter twice on ESPN you will need two User IDs.

King of the Hill is limited to people I know. If you don't see someone on this list and you think they would be interested, please tell me (most of you know many of the same people I do).
And my favorite rule. I play one pick for free (for all this work).

During the season I will update this blog (http://www.gvkingofthehill.blogspot.com) at least once a week.

Tie Breaker Rules – Fine Print
If multiple players remain in the winners bracket and they all lose on the same weekend, they will all drop into the loser’s bracket and play will continue (in this situation the winner of the loser’s bracket will get 1st and 2nd place money). If there are two or three players in the loser’s bracket, and none remaining in the winner's bracket, and they all lose on the same weekend, the pot will be split evenly. If there are more than three players that all lose and none in the winner's bracket, all will continue until a winner is determined. In this situation, the losing team selected cannot be used again.