they have a new one going! see details below:


Entries for our Miami AMS pick 'em competition are now open. You can access the entry form via http://www.britishtennis.net/Competitions.html - if you want to wait until qualifiers have been placed in the draw rather than having to pick them 'blind', the entry form with qualifiers placed will be available very soon after the draw is updated with qualifiers on the ATP site, which should be mid-late Tuesday evening UK time. The results at the end of day 1 will be accessible via that same link before the start of day 2 and intra-day updates will appear from day 2 onwards.

IMPORTANT: In order for your ranking points from this competition to be combined with your ranking points from earlier pick 'ems, you need to enter with EXACTLY the same name as you used for previous pick 'ems - even an extra space or a single missing character may be enough to throw the system. If in doubt, please copy the name after the 'Hi' at the top of this email and paste it into the entry form. If you want to change the name or team you use for pick 'em permanently, please email btpickem@hotmail.com after you enter Miami to let us know what you have changed it from or to instead of just entering with a new name and hoping that we spot that it is the same person!

PLEASE TELL YOUR FRIENDS Because of the tight timescales and the ever-increasing number of boards/forums taking part, I won't have time to go round and advertise this competition everywhere as I have done in the past, so if you think that other people from your board/forum might like to take part too, I would be really grateful if you would set up a thread or post about the competition there if nobody else from your board has already done so.

ENTRY DEADLINE The entry deadline is when play is due to start in the main draw, i.e. 15.00 GMT / 3 pm UK / 16.00 CET / 11.00 US Eastern / 08.00 US Pacific tomorrow, WEDNESDAY. However, because both of us running the competition have limited availability on Wednesday/Thursday, please enter by 09.30 GMT on Wednesday if you can. Entries received between 09.30 and 15.00 GMT will be included, but may not appear on results updates until the start of day 3.

LATE CHANGES TO THE DRAW If you can, please use the Print button at the bottom of the entry form to print your picks before you send your entry so that you have a record of them. The page you will see after sending your entry will explain what your options are if there are any changes to the draw due to late withdrawals before play starts.

ATP BRACKET CHALLENGE The ATP has started to run a competition that works in a very similar way (but with different scoring) for the remaining 8 AMS events, which they call the 'bracket challenge'. Since they have thrown a fair bit of money at their competition, it has some advantages, e.g. a proper login system so that you do not have to make your picks all at once, tens of thousands of entrants, a few prizes, etc. Conversely, our competition has its own advantages linked to it being run just for fun by volunteers and not being quite so huge, e.g. you will be able to see the results for all players on one page making it easier to compare your results with those of your friends and engage in a bit of friendly banter, we have a teams competition and robots to compare yourselves against which should keep things interesting even if you are not right at the top and we cover the slams as well as most of the AMS events.

The good thing is that it is easy to enter both competitions if you want to, since once you have worked out your selections for one, it should take only a minute or two to fill them in on the other entry form too, assuming that you decide to use all or most of the same selections for both. If you do decide to enter both, hopefully your past experience in this competition will help you to do well in their competition too! Good luck :-) Steven

Hopefully we will get a good crowd entering - though its a little late in the day :huh: sorry folks, only just read my email...

Thanks, I didn't knwo about this. How do they let us know, or did you visit the site?

when I joined up before, I ticked the box about letting me know about future tournaments so I had this arrive for me today :)

My entrys in , though I didnt do the last one .

didnt you? there was a player in there I didnt recognise and I am sure someone said it was you :unsure:

Ah! I did too but I've achnge dmy e-mail addres in the meantime! :doh:

I did haev a go at filling in the form but dont think I submitted it . :shrug:
Then again, I might have been drunk at the time ... :cheers:

Never! :rolleyes:

:D

At least I can type coherently when under the influence :blush:

that's cos you are such a hardened drinker that you don't notice the difference :lol:

But seriously, I dont remember hititing the submit button, but I had a look at Alexander Paul Lindsays predictions and they look close to what I would have picked--- :blink: :blink:

I just entered for the first time, so don't laughh too loudly at my predictions will you :blush:

You're ok Pebs, I didn't predict Hewitt for champion :P

Howdy folks we ain't doing to bad here :yahoo:

3rd after day 1 is cool :D
http://www.britishtennis.net/pickem/2008mitm.htm?n=1

Individual results by team - http://www.britishtennis.net/pickem/2008miin.htm?n=1

Some strong results for us I think and 14 entrants isn't at all bad.
Cheers folks, hope we can keep it up :ok:

Lex and I bringing up the rear in our team already. You all know we like to stare at you lot from behind ;) Although Lex is behind me... I think he wants to look at my Dairy Lea. :yep:

Seems they have given nicknames the players under the predicted winner section. I can see Rafa and Nol and Fed.... but is "Numpty" Nalbandian? And who is "Duck"? Is there a guide as to who those players are?

stupid question time..

so do we go back now and do predictions for round 2? Or do we stick with our original predictions for the whole tournament? Sorry, I ain't done this before (shows with my stellar results) :blush:

(Gav, you left the wrappers on ;))

No, that's it :ok:

Not sure who Duck is... maybe Roddick? Something to do with a Duck Ass?? :wacko: Pure guess by me there but sorta does make sense...

Yeah, Numpty is Nalbandian and Ia m not sure if they do have a list of some sort...

Well done WA and Trisco, us 3 are all in 5th equal overall.

I'm expecting that to change for me later today as I think I made some shockers in this half :wacko:

I cant even remember my picks - but I am already on my way down :unsure:

whos Millwall Brick?

I was thinking the same! :unsure:

I've gone down already! Damn Tommy pulling put didnt help!! Whats he like!!!

but you were up to 3rd in the overall rankings when I last looked WA - you were flying! :yep: :clap:

oooo ouch ouch ouch - todays matches are hurting me bad - I feel my :turkey: waiting!

Oh no, that's me screwed too :( Poor Tommy.

Anyone know why Ferrer is called Pics???!!!

Would be good if we could see who we all picked, wonder if they will do that this time.

17th now :wacko:

you can have a look at everyones picks here WA

who picked who

Fabtastic thanx!!!!! H-T Lee is going to cost me bad!!!! I thought he would have a good run for some reason.
Have Fed going out to Ferrer in semis, fingers crossed!

My qualies did well!

down 9 places :( I didn't think was possible... Good for Gav to have come a little closer, I get a much better view now :P2

Well done WA :clap: 5th is very good.

I'm doing alright in 15th :)

I'm pacing myself for a late dash from 152nd.... :blush:

Im sure I will spiral at some point! Gd so far though :o

Good to see you all having fun again. It's a bit tight in the middle of the tams table, so you went up to 3rd early on today, but now down to 6th. It'll all change again a few times before the end of the day though, I'd guess!

For a list of nicknames used, see http://www.andymurray.com/forum/showthread.php?t=253

my results arent helping us - i am having some shockers at the moment :blush:

Hey Steven :)

yep, we got quite excited realising it was up and running again - although, I forget why I did now with my selections! :angry: - once again, thanks to you and your peeps for sorting it :hug:

I knew it, the nose dive has started!

:unsure:

you always come in and say that - and yet when I have looked, you are right up there in the top ten - thrashing the pants of us all!

I have gone down q a few places. I think it was my stepanek and jc ferrero predicts going wrong. :(

Just checked, down 17 places. We have gone up as a team though, :yahoo: