The Official Not606 Australian GP Sweepstakes Australia is the only country in the world where you can start a sentence with "Get F***ed!", and it's normal. - Carl Barron please log in to view this image Yep, we're back, and like BLS, I'm keen as for F1, so we're gonna start this a bit early with a few changes to this year's competition. It's all about the fun here so let's get this season started and see if anyone can topple reigning and inaugural champ Cosicave! Rules Quick Guide: Monday, 5th March: sweepstakes opens Pick a unique number from 1 to 24 (drivers). Once all numbers have gone, latecomers can pick a duplicate number from 1b to 24b (duplicate drivers). Monday, 12th March Number selections (drivers) ends. Monday, 12th March - Tuesday, 13th March Driver choices will be revealed Tuesday, 13th March Optional: after driver choices have been revealed barter your driver choice with other forum members. Thursday, 15th March Bartering ends. Duplicate driver selection ends and are revealed. Friday, 16th March, before FP1 OP updated with final driver and team allocations. Friday, 16th March: Australian GP Points are scored in FP1, FP2, FP3, Qualifying and the Race. Monday 19th March Points awarded by mods. __________________________________________________ Full Rules (for reference): 1.The mods will assign the numbers 1 to 24 to drivers as per previous sweepstakes. 2.The mods will assign the numbers 1b to 24b to duplicate drivers. 3.The drivers will be split into the following four tiers, based on current WCC standings: 1.Red Bull Racing, McLaren, Ferrari 2.Mercedes GP, Lotus, Force India 3.Sauber, Toro Rosso, Williams 4.Caterham, HRT, Marussia SELECTION 4.The selection phase will open on Monday, 5th March. 5.Forum members should pick one number (from 1 to 24). 6.After all the numbers have been picked, latecomers (who missed the chance to pick a number) can pick a duplicate number (1b to 24b) for a duplicate driver. 7.The selection phase will close on Monday 12th March. No further number picks will be allowed but any further latecomers may continue to pick a duplicate number (1b to 24b). 8.Number selections (which forum member has what driver) will be revealed during the evenings of Monday, 12th March and Tuesday, 13th March. BARTERING 9.The quickfire bartering phase will open on Tuesday, 13th March after all number selections have been revealed. This applies to drivers only. 10.Forum members who wish to swap their drivers may do so. Both members should post: 1.which member they want to swap with 2.which driver they want to give away 3.which driver they want to receive in return. 11.The bartering phase will close on Thursday, 15th March. No further swaps will be allowed. 12.The final allocation of drivers and duplicate drivers to forum members will be published before the first free practice session on Friday, 16th March. SCORING 13. Points will be given to members by way of the new Bando System as seen below. x Practice Qualifying Race 1st 5 25 50 2nd 4 20 40 3rd 3 15 30 4th 2 10 20 5th 1 5 10 6th 0 0 0 Example 1: The member whose driver achieves the best result in their tier in free practice will recieve a full 5 points for that session. Example 2: The member whose driver achieves the 4th-best result in their tier in qualifying will recieve only 10 points for that session. Should the member's driver achieve the worst result in any session, no points will be recieved for that session. 14. Duplicate drivers will achieve the same amount of points as normal drivers.
Driver Allocations: 01. Ernie Beccelstone B. Senna ....... 13. tomtom94 S. Vettel 02. Sportydan N. Rosberg ............. 14. AbsGlorious D. Ricciardo 03. EternalMSC N. Hulkenberg ......... 15. happyal M. Schumacher 04. The Ninja Kirby H. Kovalainen .... 16. Miggins S. Perez 05. genjigonzales F. Massa............ 17. Max Whiplash J. Button 06. BrightLampshade R. Grosjean ...... 18. El Bando C. Pic 07. N.N. Watford P. Di Resta ......... 19. WestCoastBoogie M. Webber 08. Forza Ferrari V. Petrov .......... 20. Kyle? P. De La Rosa 09. cosicave K. Kobayashi ............ 21. Mifune N. Karthikeyan 10. Fred! F. Alonso .................. 22. Jacky Ickx P. Maldonado 11. SilverArrow T. Glock ............. 23. Bergkamp A D.M. K. Raikkonen 12. Sovereign T.R. L. Hamilton ....... 24. DHCanary J. Vergne Duplicate Driver Allocations: 01b. Drudeboy J. Vergne............... 13b. ............... .............. 02b. Julius Caesar V. Petrov.......... 14b. Chris. P. Di Resta 03b. ............. ................... 15b. ............... .............. 04b. ............. ................... 16b. ............... .............. 05b. ............. ................... 17b. ............... .............. 06b. ............. ................... 18b. ............... .............. 07b. ............. ................... 19b. ............... .............. 08b. ............. ................... 20b. .............. .............. 09b. ............. ................... 21b. .............. .............. 10b. jerseymackem M. Schumacher....... 22b. .............. ............... 11b. ............. ................... 23b. Paco Montoya L. Hamilton 12b. ............. ................... 24b. .............. ...............
BLS - 6 Gloria - 14 EL.B - 18 I can't see why we should wait until near the end of picks anymore? (with duplicates available).
Tradition. One of us might have wanted one of those numbers. Politeness. Trying to encourage more players and new members. Duplicates only bag half points. TBH, I'm not so sure the half points thing is a good idea. It worked with teams because there was a higher probability of scoring something with a team so it was only fair that you got less for doing so. Anyways, I shall plump for: 5 The mods have done the number generation, right?
I'll have 17, please. I'm not sure about half-points either, for what it's worth: let's be generous. Or fair even.
Yeah, some of these ideas are making the game a fair bit more difficult to structure and more complicated than necessary. We might need to have a rethink after two or three races, yeah? For what it's worth though, there weren't a lot of teams chosen towards the end of the year, so I don't expect duplicates to exactly light up.
Appreciate you picking me out a number Bergy, but I wouldn't want to deny someone a place in the main draw, so I've put myself down for 14b instead. If we can't fill the main draw I'll have whatever's left.
I too shall accept 6b instead cheers Bergy, unless a number isn't taken by the deadline (or 6 is Vettel or Kovi )
OK. On that magnanimous note I'll take 5b and will revise it nearer to closing time if there are any gaps.
I'm not sure how complicated this would get, but I'll float an idea anyway. After the first race is out of the way, how about the highest placed competitors in the championship take half points when we're oversubscribed? Let's say for example that I'm fortunate enough to get one of the Finnish drivers in this round, and my man pulls 80 points out of the bag. If in the next round there are 25 entrants, I should be the one who takes half points.
I'm not sure I can see the reasoning underlying that suggestion but I do like the idea of a handicap. I don't think it would be fair to only apply it in the case of oversubscription, though. If you're going to apply it then it should be to whoever's at the top of the leaderboard regardless of how many players there are. I'm all in favour of turning this into F1 Mornington Crescent.
