Now that the Melbourne Cup is a month away, I'm looking for opinions on how people want the Melbourne Cup Contest run this year
We can either do:
- a traditional sweep where I randomy pick out a horse for everyone (how it's always been done) OR
- everyone can pick their own horses in an order, which is randomly selected by me
What is the preferred option of the two? Or if someone has an alternative, by all means share.
I'll put in some cash and there'll be an entry fee to ensure a pretty epic prize pool. Possibly around $3mil SIM money or something. My original aim was the actual Mebourne Cup prizemoney amount, but I don't have that much money and I'm not feeling that generous anymore, haha. If anyone wants to donate a prize, let me know.
If anyone is interested in entering now, feel free to express interest in this thread, but I'm really just looking for thoughts as to how it should be run at this stage.
Cleo will win of course, so maybe I should just give her some cash and not worry about this
Thanks for reading!
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Update: Entries for the sweep have begun
How it works:
For starters you will pay 50k to enter. In the week before the race I will sell you a horse for this amount, you accept and return at your leisure.
Once everyone has paid, I will randomly draw out names for each horse in the Melbourne cup. If your horse comes in first, second, third or last you get the amount of cash in the post a couple above this one.
Entry fee: 50K SIM
Prize Pool: 3mil to be split up as follows:
1st: $1.65m
2nd: $850k
3rd: $400k
Last: 100K
Since I'll be in it, there will be 23 spots available. Scratchings on the day will result in either a deduction from the prize pool of 50K or I'll just absorb the cost - it will depend on my mood.
Special mention to Laura Cameron who has donated 500k into the prize pool.
