Hello. It’s contest time again! This year’s Prize will be a new with tags 2000 Chicago Fire Official Replica Home short-sleeved shirt in size XL, autographed by Justin Evans, Tenywa Bonseu, Dema Kovalenko, Josh Wolff, Carlos Bocanegra and DaMarcus Beasley. The rules will be mostly the same as last year’s with a minor tweak or two. Each Contestant will be allowed to pick six combine invitees whom they think will be on the Minnesota Thunder's opening day roster. Contestants can also pick up to four alternates (in order of preference) to be counted only if members of their first six picks do not attend the combine. The Contestant who picks the most Thunder signees will win the jersey. The following are the tiebreakers: If two or more contestants correctly pick the same amount of signees, the signee who first plays in a regular season game will determine the winner. If two or more contestants pick two different signees who both begin play at the same game at the same time, the contest continues until one of the signees falls behind the other in playing time. If two or more contestants pick the same signee or signees, a drawing will determine the winner. If no one picks a Thunder combine signee who is on the opening day roster, the contest will continue until whichever picked invitee is signed first by the Thunder some time during the season. If a picked invitee is not signed by the Thunder by the last regular season home game of the season, the next tiebreaker will be combine participants who sign with another USL Division One team or MLS team by the last Thunder home game of the regular season. If two or more contestants pick an equal amount of USL Division One and MLS signees, the signee who plays in the regular season first will determine the winner. Any ties at this point will be decided by a drawing held at the last Thunder regular season home game. If no one picks a combine participant who is signed by the Thunder, another USL Division One team or MLS team, no jersey will be awarded. There is no cost to enter the contest. It is open to anyone who is not an employee or volunteer working for the Minnesota Thunder or any combine invitees. Entries must be posted at this thread or it's companion at BigSoccer.com before 1PM Eastern, 12PM Central, 11AM Mountain, 10AM Pacific time on Tuesday, February 17th. One entry per person. Arrangements can be made for the winner to pick up the jersey locally. If the winner cannot pick up the jersey locally (Minneapolis/St. Paul or Milwaukee area), there will be a five dollar domestic shipping charge to the winner(foreign shipping charge to be determined), payable upon receipt of the jersey. The decision of the current owner of the jersey (me ) as to who is awarded the jersey is final. Any questions as to the rules should be posted here or at the sister thread at usldiscussions.com.com. This contest is not affiliated in any way with the Minnesota Thunder. Info on the player pool will be posted here: http://www.usldiscussions.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=4;t=002617 And here: https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=917604 Pretty much the same rules as last year, when a jersey was awarded, for the second time in the contest’s history, to Leprechan (or LeperKhan as he’s known at BigSoccer). Waiting for those entries to come rollin’ in, I remain That little old jersey collector Me
Hello. Just a quick reminder. Six days until the contest deadline and your chance to win that free, autographed Chicago Fire jersey. "Don't let it get away, " warns That little old jersey collector Me
To commemorate my poor showing last year, here are my entries for 2009: Bracalello, Simono Cream, Max Gkionis, Nico Lewis, Garry Nerkowski, Mark Noschang, Kevin Good luck, guys!
Hello, Dave Thanks for the entry. Got bad news and good news for ya. The bad news is that your first four picks have cancelled. The good news is that since the deadline for entry isn't until mid-day Tuesday, you can replace those players with four more, plus select four more aternates, as the rules allow. Make sure you check the latest update on the Combine report. There are some HOT prospects there. And I'll have the most current list of expected attendees and cancellations posted on this thread by sometime tomorrow. "Bon Chance," enthuses That little old jersey collector Me
Okay gang... I understand that you were probably waiting for the annual list of cancellations to appear before you decided to submit your entries. Well, I'm gonna do you one better. I'm going to put out the current list of players who have ACCEPTED as well as the list of cancellations. Here's who have said yes: These players are YES or are trying to make it First Last Leon Abravanel Robert Acosta Akihide Adachi Jean Agazzi Kofi Ahenkora Adrian Alvarado Garth Archibald Alexander Arcos Paul Ballard Djibril Barboza Esaiah Benson Milton Blanco Cameron Boyd Jonathan Bru Ethan Carter Hugo Casillas Aaron Chandler Akaki Chkhikvabze Jonathan Cloud Aaron Crusoe Sergio de Luca Massimo Di Ioia Marc Djessouho Jacob Dobson Alexander Dryablov Obakeng Dube Laurent Gagnier Hilario Garcia-Juarez Max Griessbach Thiago Guimaraes Michael Gumz Jacob Harris Nedim Hasanbegovic Andrew Helling Jacob Helling Samuel Hendry Nicolas Hernandez Trujillo Jonah Hietala Jeremy Houbeaut Justin Howell Branko Isailovic Anthony Iyayi Marty Johnston Abraham Kabana Sito Trokon Kaigboyah Isao Kato Mohamed Keesely Andrew Konopelsky Ilya Krivulin Max Lipset Christian Lugungu Mateus Maraccini Linderson Martins Oliveira Coleson Mayer Ben Metcalfe Andrew Millan John Molet Christian Morfaw Steven Morris Brandon Mustful Colin Mustful Mark Nave Mark Nerkowski Kevin Noschang Jimmy Nummy Anthony Okongwu Jorge Oropeza Torres David Peplinski Brad Peters Justin Porter John Prindl Pete Randall Juan Reyes Stefan Robson Miguel Rodrigues Kyle Roelke Drew Russell Abdifatah Saleban Edoh Sodji Kentarou Takada William Totimeh David Tuesta William Weaver Tanner Wolfe Daniel Zuckweiler And these are the cancellations: These players are NOT attending First Last Simone Bracalello Albert Bertrand Kim Bliksas Richard Bowden Matt Browne Rafael Carpes Nicholas Chalmet Joe Clancy Wesley Costa John Crawley Max Cream Nyemb Cyrille Fofana Daouda Jamal Dibi Adrian DuBois Ludovic Dubreuil Gareth Evans Daniel Gatternig Nicholas Gkionis Griffin Halpern Martin Herman Justin Hoskins Evan Hosseini Solomon Kallon Marco Kuck Andon Lazarov Jacob Letsholo Garry Lewis Samuel Mboso Ikpe Daniel McGarry Gabriel Mercier Mpho Moloi Vinicius Morais Diogo Moreira Sow Papa Abdoulaye Chris Parr Gonzalo Ramella Silva Wayne Robbins Mauro Salvatore Brancaccio Tessa Sebastien Kyamran Tairov Long Tan Eigner Thomas Michael Unwin Jonathan Weiss Micheal Zitto There ya go. Direct from Trina Kramer, Combine Co-ordinator, who has been wonderful, as usual, in getting me the info I need. Well, there you are. Remember to check the Combine reports posted already. The links for those are in the first post in this thread. Some of the late additions are HOT! The deadline is midday Tuesday. Pick six players and four alternates. Post them here, and the free jersey could be yours. "I'll be waiting," promises That little old jersey collector Me
Hm, given the changes, can I re-up? Here is a new top 6: Aaron Chandler Marty Johnston Andrew Konopelsky Kevin Noschang Steven Morris Tanner Wolfe And new alternates: Hilario Garcia-Juarez Ben Metcalfe Jimmy Nummy William Weaver If it's too late, no worries. This game's still well worth the ticket price!