Bowl Pick 'em

With Bowl Season coming up, it's time for a Bowl Pick 'em contest.

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Anyone can play - invite your friends!

Have fun and good luck!

Bracket contest winners and t-shirts

Thanks to everyone for playing the bracket contest.
I had a lot of fun with it, even if I did get destroyed (damn Pac-10 loyalty!)

It's something that we will definitely do again in the future. I am hoping to do future contests with the baseball tournament, Pac-10 football picks and a bowl pick 'em.

Congratulations to our bracket contest winners!

1. Whitney Loper (269 points) - picked all 4 final four teams (way to go out on a limb there - four number ones :-) )
   
2. Scott Baranick (263 points) - one of only three people to pick Kansas to win
   
3. Dylan Darling (255 points) - duck fan whose insane duck loyalty cost him
   

Thankfully disaster was averted and Duck fan (and former Duck mascot) Dylan Darling was pushed down to 3rd place after leading earlier. Whitney and Scott made great picks and rose in the standings as the tourney went on.

You are all the lucky recipients of a brand new OSUBeaverSports.com t-shirt!


If anyone else wants to buy a t-shirt ($15), please email me at nick@osubeaversports.com.

(see full final standings for the bracket challenge http://obs.mayhem.sportsline.com/opm/standings)

Some new imporovements

I've added a few new improvements to the site over the past week or so.

1. Keep me logged in - this feature will allow you to stay logged into the site. No more logging in every time you want to do something on the site.
2. Simple filter/sort - it's now a lot simpler to filter and sort messages. Advanced options are still available via the advanced tab.
3. Improved the message rendering. Message threads have always looked pretty nice on Firefox, but they looked pretty bad on Internet Explorer. It now looks even better in both browsers.

More improvements will be coming soon...

March Madness Bracket Contest

Play the brackets and win some prizes with OSUBeaverSports.com

How do I play?
Sign up at http://obs.mayhem.sportsline.com/e
Password: gobeavs
We are managing the bracket with the CBS bracket manager. You will need a CBS Sportsline account. Since your CBS user name will be different than your OSUBeaverSports.com name, we will need a way to sync up the two. Please post a message with your CBS id in it to this thread so that everyone knows who you are and so that we can give you prizes!

What are the rules?
You'll get set points for each correct pick - plus we'll add the seed of the team you picked. For example, if you pick a 10 seed to win and you are right, you'll get 10 extra points. If you pick a 2 seed to win, you get 2 extra points. This means that you get rewarded for picking upsets correctly. Choose wisely!
For more on the rules see the rules.

When do I have to get this done?
The entries must be in before the first tournament game starts on Thursday.

What about the prizes?
You mean the glory of competing and winning against the best Beaver Nation has to offer? Well, since you insist, we will have some prizes for the top three finishers. More details to follow, but they will probably be some brand new OSUBeaverSports.com T-shirts!

Why do I have to go to some CBS website to make this work?
We will hopefully have some bracket software on the OSUBeaverSports.com website soon. That way we can do future contests and you won't have to create a new account on another site. Future bracket contests will include the baseball playoffs and the football bowls.

RSS Feeds!

We now have RSS feeds working! This means that you can now keep up with the latest on OSUBeaverSports.com without even coming to the site. You can use an RSS reader.
For any of you out there who don't know what RSS is - this site does a great job explaining it "the Oprah way". Basically RSS allows you to see what is new on a website quickly and easily, without even going to that website.

We have a few feeds set up:

1. Top-rated articles
2. Recent articles
3. Top-rated message
   
4. Recent messages
5. Upcoming events
6. Recently submitted events

Internet Explorer and Firefox can both read RSS feeds. You can also use a site like Netvibes (I use this all the time, it's awesome). There are lots of other feed readers out there you can try.

Check out the OSUBeaverSports.com RSS feeds.

You can also subscribe to this Blog's RSS feed.

There are also a few other small improvements to the site. The best one is now the results on the view articles page are separated into pages and the total number of articles is shown.

Enjoy the feeds!