Festival Tipping Competition Application

Royal Ascot is open for business!

I hope it goes smoothly but **** happens! It'll be a while before I open the application for business again after this cause theres so much work to be done. This was obviously a rush job so it could be available for Ascot. Next festival could be Longchamp or Champions Day or even Breeders Cup....we'll have to see. It'll be much better by then though.

Good luck to all who sail in her!

Jesus! I just looked at it for the first time in Internet Explorer and its not pretty!

Reminder - I've only tested it in FireFox and Chrome so best use those browsers for now!

Bluetonic wrote: »

Pity you didn't open it earlier than you did, really should have been open two days ago :-(

It was open, races were available from midnight on Sunday. I just announced it t'other day. You had time to register up until 2.10 - unless you're posting from a mobile device which I doubt is supported.

wexford the only one to take Prohibit in the Kings Stand!

Position| Username| Profit/Loss |Bets
1| wexford| 5.88| 6
2| bonescap| 2.35| 4
3| Esprit| 2.35| 1
4| loadedscream| 1.35| 5
5| mr.jingle| 1.35| 6
6| aidankk| 1.35| 6
7| Denners_Fly| 1.35| 6
8| only1stevo |1.35| 6
9| primadonna| 1.35| 6
10| Istabraq| 1.35| 5
11| ziggy67| 0.00| 0
12| Nultyi| -1.00| 3
13| Crumbs| -2.00| 3

Have you signed up? I'll see if I can get you in if you sign up

Well this is the first time I've ever even thought about how to do something like this so I'm feeling my way through it but my initial plan was to have a user register with the application ("App Reg") and then register ("Fest Reg") for each competition. That way if someone misses the Fest Reg they are not allowed makes tips in that festival. That only really works if I enforce users to make tips in every race. As it stands now its a bit all over the place because users don't have to make selections in every race thereby rendering the registration kind of meaningless.

Fest Reg is only a matter of clicking a button but App Reg is emails, usernames and activations etc. I deleted your account by accident Urban. Its complicated. Sign up again and I'll chuck you in for tomorrow.

I plan to have a quota in the future of users making selections in 75% races to qualify for the result if you know what I mean. If a user selects less than that they are disqualified. I think thats the best way of making it work.

I'd be open to suggestions - as I've said many times - as to how the competitions should be run, if anyone is bothered to think about it?

The way its working now if you register with the application tomorrow I will register you with the festival manually just this once because there are no real rules being enforced - its just a **** around, you know?

As for future competitions...I won't be putting any on for a good while - maybe a couple of months until I can recover from this one; work on the application more to make it work better, add features and design it better and test it better. I'm not making any promises but it could be as far away as September/October before I do another one. I've got other stuff I need to do and this takes up a lot of time fixing **** and making database entries etc.

If you made a selection who is now a non runner, you are now able to make a new selection

Non Runners:

2.30
Fury

4.25
Green Destiny
Cloudy Start
Greensward

One race to go on the second day of Royal Ascot and Mister Py face (a.k.a. Esprit) is making a mockery of the rest of the contestants bar aidankk.

*Best ignore the bottom placed as it seems their account was hacked!

Position| Username |Profit/Loss| Bets
1| Esprit |29.76| 7
2| aidankk |15.83| 11
3| loadedscream |3.78| 8
4| Denners_Fly |2.78 |9
5| primadonna |2.45 |9
6| Crumbs |1.42 |8
7| bonescap| -0.39 |4
8| Istabraq| -1.39 |5
9| mr.jingle| -2.39 |6
10| only1stevo| -2.39 |6
11| ziggy67| -4.00 |4
12| BlackSamBellamy| -5.00| 6
14| Nultyi| -9.00 |10

I've got the eachway betting in place. I'll need to test it but it should be ok for Wednesday. It ought to make the Ebor meeting a bit better with the each way option. 1pt win or 0.5pts eachway.

Any takers?

Firefox isn't doing what it's supposed to so try using a different browser.

Bluetonic wrote: »

Yes copy cat tipping would be a big problem if you had more entrants.

I'm sure between us all we can get suggest improvements which will be for the better. I'll throw together my notes at the end of the week if you want anyhow, no problem if you don't.

That would be brilliant Bluetonic. Really appreciated. Not really getting enough feedback unless theres a direct problem with the site.

Also, Javascript problem. Firefox is ok now

Non-runners for day one have been removed so if you made a selection, you can now make a new one.

Registration closes at 13.40 this afternoon.

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