Australian Open Sweepstake 2012 [Winners: IheartBB & Lee.]

[Marc]

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Tennis is back!

The first Grand Slam event is the Australian Open and it begins on the 16th January. I'm looking for 32 forum members to participate and once I have those 32 people (or as many as I can get) you will all be allocated one male and one female tennis player. This is just a little bit of fun and there is a little forum award that will be given out to the winners. You don't need to be a fan of tennis, you don't get to pick your players, you can just sign up and let the players do the rest of the hard work!

Everybody will be RANDOMLY allocated two seeded players for the tournament. It is hugely unlikely that a unseeded player will win the Australian Open this year, though that is a possibility, and if that rarity occurs the forum member with the player who gets the furthest will win.

Whoever gets the female winner wins this award: http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/forums/images/medals/tennisicon.gif
Whoever gets the male winner wins this award: http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/forums/images/medals/racqueticon.png

32 Forum Members, 2 Winners.

List of Members

1. Novo - Del Potro, Pennetta
2. IheartBB - Simon, Azarenka
3. Marc - Raonic, Petrova
4. Lee. - Djokovic, Kirilenko
5. GypsyGoth - Nadal, Cibulkova
6. Jords - Roddick, Safarova
7. Mollie - Murray, Kuznetsova
8. BigSister - Gasquet, Kvitova
9. King_Anton - Dolgopolov, Hantuchova
10. Roy_Mars_III - Bogomolov Jr, Clijsters
11. tomflint - Fish, Peng
12. fruit_cake - Berdych, Pavlyuchenkova
13. seanraff07 - Federer, Ivanovic
14. Locke. - Isner, Kerber
15. Corkie - Lopez, Radwanska
16. Doogle - Nishkori, S. Williams
17. joeysteele - Ljubicic, Stosur
18. michael21 - Melzer, Kanepi
19. ukturtle - Verdasco, Li
20. MTVN - Monaco, Bartoli
21. Shaun - Tipsarevic, Niculescu
22. Kate - Soderling, Jankovic
23. Niamh - Anderson, Goerges
24. MeMyselfandI - Almagro, Wozniacki
25. Nathan - Chela, Schiavone
26. Dezzy - Stepanek, Vinci
27. InOne - Triocki, Sharapova
28. Kaz - Wawrinka, Medina Garrigues
29. Karl - Ferrer, Zvonereva
30. icecakes - Tsonga, Wickmayer
31. Wildcat! - Mayer, Cetkovska
32. Josy - Granollers, Lisicki

Mens Seedings:
1 Djokovic
2 Nadal
3 Federer
4 Murray
5 Ferrer
6 Tsonga
7 Berdych
8 Fish
9 Tipsarevic
10 Almagro
11 Del Potro
12 Simon
13 Soderling
14 Dolgopolov
15 Roddick
16 Isner
17 Gasquet
18 Lopez
19 Triocki
20 Mayer
21 Wawrinka
22 Verdasco
23 Raonic
24 Nishkori
25 Monaco
26 Granollers
27 Chela
28 Ljubicic
29 Stepanek
30 Anderson
31 Melzer
32 Bogomolov Jr

Womens Seedings:
1 Wozniacki
2 Kvitova
3 Azarenka
4 Sharapova
5 Li
6 Stosur
7 Zvonareva
8 Radwanska
9 Bartoli
10 Schiavone
11 Clijsters
12 S. Williams
13 Jankovic
14 Lisicki
15 Pavlyuchenkova
16 Peng
17 Cibulkova
18 Kuznetsova
19 Pennetta
20 Hantuchova
21 Ivanovic
22 Goerges
23 Vinci
24 Safarova
25 Kanepi
26 Medina Garrigues
27 Kirilenko
28 Wickmayer
29 Petrova
30 Kerber
31 Niculescu
32 Cetkovska



Past Sweepstakes:

Australian Open 2011, [was none]
French Open 2011, [was none]
Wimbledon 2011, http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/forums/showthread.php?t=177651 (Winners James & KG.)
US Open 2011, http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/forums/showthread.php?t=183184 (Winners Novo & IheartBB)

[Lee.]

Sign me up!

[GypsyGoth]

Me too.

[Maia]

Me!

[BigSister]

And me.

[Brother Leon]

In


Hoping to get good old Novak :)

[Brother Leon]

In


Hoping to get good old Novak :)

[Roy Mars III]

Sign me up

[Marc]

Novo and IheartBB have automatically been put in because they are defending champions :D

[tomflint]

Add me

[Marc]

Anybody else?

[fruit_cake]

sign me up please hope I get Nadal

[seanraff07]

Sign me up hoping I get Murray

[Locke.]

go on

[Marc]

Added :)

[Corkie]

Sign me up please!

[Doogle]

Just for you Marc I will if there's space :D

It said 32 so I assume there is.

[joeysteele]

Sign me up too please Marc.

[michael21]

Sign me up!

[Marc]

Done :thumbs: thanks!

[Benjamin]

Me again please. Jesus, I can't believe it's been two years since I was in Oz watching this. :shocked:

[Marc]

:( jealous of you watching it in real time with all the crazy Australians

[MTVN]

I'll join it I suppose :p

[Marc]

Anybody else? I need 12 more people to sign up. No effort required from you once you've signed up

[Marc]

bump

[Shaun]

k hai/

[Marc]

Any more??

[Kate!]

I would like to play please Marc. :)

[tomflint]

when's the draw?

[Niamh.]

I'll play

[Marc]

We may actually get 32 members this time around :amazed:

[Marc]

when's the draw?

That'll be the weekend before the Monday 16th

[IheartBB]

Add me :D

Edit - nevermind, already in :laugh: *Hopes for Djokovic and/or Kvitova*

[Marc]

:D

[MeMyselfAndI]

Me

[King Gizzard]

er

[InOne]

Add me :amazed: Think I came close to winning in the last one

[Marc]

Yeah Rafa got to the final of Wimbledon.

Thanks for joining :D

[Kaz]

Count me in.

[Marc]

:thumbs:

[Ramsay]

Sign me up scotty!!

[Marc]

I need three more people, anybody! Just.sign.up.please! :bawling:

[icecakes]

add me to the list :xyxwave:

[Marc]

One spot left :)

[Marc]

I believe we have 32 players :D

[Kate!]

Yay, well done Marc

was fun last time, seeing how long everyone lasted. :)

[Marc]

I'm going to speak like Ben for a moment..

I will draw players this weekend.

[tomflint]

Draw it now....I'm intrigued to know who I'll be getting

[Marc]

I have deadlines today and tomorrow sorry you'll all have to wait until saturday

[Marc]

Also some players have in the past been awarded special rankings which alter the seed that they are so I have to wait until the draw is made to know what seed everybody is 1 through to 32

[Marc]

Everybody now has a Male/Female seeded player. Good luck!

[Shaun]

9th and 31st

¬_¬

[Marc]

God you're so pessimistic.. that's 9th and 31st out of 128 hai/

[Lee.]

Hmm.. I'm quite happy with mine! :D

[Marc]

Thought you might be! :joker:

[joeysteele]

Not likely to win this but I am happy with mine as well.

[Roy Mars III]

Bogomolov Jr. The upset of the decade begins now

[tomflint]

mines ****e.
won't be looking at this thread again.

[Marc]

mines ****e.
won't be looking at this thread again.

:( sorry.

[Marc]

I think next sweepstake I'll make it 16 forum members with 4 players each

[GypsyGoth]

I've heard of Nadal but not Cibulkova, still I'm happy with both :D

[Roy Mars III]

I know literally nothing about tennis but this guy looks solid

http://en.rian.ru/images/17053/32/170533279.jpg

[MTVN]

Looks like my guy's pretty crap but my female's French no.1 which sounds promising

[Marc]

I know literally nothing about tennis but this guy looks solid

http://en.rian.ru/images/17053/32/170533279.jpg

I'd be focusing on Clijsters if I were you, defending champ!

[IheartBB]

Simon and Azarenka... Not bad at all! If Serena or Kvitova slip up, Azarenka may well take advantage. And Simon is more than capable of an upset on his day.

I've heard of Nadal but not Cibulkova, still I'm happy with both :D

Google her, she's lush! :lovedup:

[Maia]

Andy Murray yes!!

[Marc]

Mollie I want you to win more than anything!!

C'mon Andy

[Benjamin]

I got Li. :amazed:

[Marc]

She beat Kvitova this week (the most on form player at the moment)

[Marc]

Men's Odds

Lee - Djokovic : 11/8
seanraff07 - Federer : 22/5
Mollie - Murray : 13/2
GypsyGoth - Nadal : 8/1
icecakes - Tsonga : 22/1

Women's Odds
BigSister - Kvitova : 3/1
Doogle - Williams : 4/1
IheartBB - Azarenka : 6/1
Roy_Mars_III - Clijsters : 10/1
ukturtle - Li Na : 12/1


By the looks of those odds we should definitely be getting two different winners :)

[Marc]

If somebody wants to be clever and work out the odds for the chances of each forum member achieving the double :wink:

[fruit_cake]

watch out because Berdych and Pavlyuchenkova are on the case

[IheartBB]

Double odds according to SkyBet. Only included top 5 male and female contenders.

Mollie (Murray & Kuznetsova) - 203/1
seanraff07 (Fedrer & Ivanovic) - 301/1
Lee. (Djokovic & Kirilenko) - 564/1
BigSister (Gasquet & Kvitova) - 878/1
GypsyGoth (Nadal & Cibulkova) - 981/1
Novo (Del Potro & Pennetta) - 1214/1
IheartBB (Simon & Azarenka) - 1631/1
Doogle (Nishikori & Williams) - 1804/1
ukturtle (Verdasco & Li) - 2760/1
Roy_Mars_III (Bogomolov & Clijsters) - 13508/1

I'm too lazy to do more :p The woman's game is so wide open that the likes of Sharapova, Wozniacki and Stosur are not even considered to be top 5 favourites so don't read too much into these!

[Marc]

Ta! :D

[King Gizzard]

er

:bawling:

[Marc]

We've had our first casualties

[Novo]

what channel are most matches on? Eurosport?

[Brother Leon]

Dolgopolov :(



Is this life :( lol

[Marc]

Stosur falls.

:bawling:

[arista]

what channel are most matches on? Eurosport?



EurosportHD

[BigSister]

YAY ive got Petra even though wimbledon champs dont really do well at other events sometimes *crosses fingers*. And gasquet im kinda happy with although if he gets murray again lol

[Marc]

Petra is amazing right now

[Marc]

We have our first casuality... tomflint has lost Fish and Peng in the same day

[IheartBB]

Surprising loss for Fish.

I think Vinci is in the most danger tomorrow. Also worried for Lisicki and Monfils. Maybe even Simon (:bawling:)

[IheartBB]

So many casualties last night :eek:

[Marc]

Jords, Dezzy, michael21 and joeysteele all out.

[tomflint]

Marc fixed the draw!!!!!!!!

[Jords]

jords, dezzy, michael21 and joeysteele all out.

:hmph:

[joeysteele]

At least I went out in very good company.

[BigSister]

Crap....................
So many shocks
And i agree Marc she is

[Marc]

We're getting down to the nitty gritty now. A lot of people have lost both their players.

Only members to have a player left are:

Novo, IheartBB, Lee, GypsyGoth, Mollie, BigSister, Roy_Mars_III, fruit_cake, seanraff, Corkie, Doogle, MeMyselfandI, InOne, Karl and Josy

[BigSister]

Haha Gasquet sucks. At least he didnt play Murray he and Andy have a tendancyto meet one another.

[IheartBB]

Shocked at Serena's exit. I know it's a bad idea to write her off but I think her best days are well behind her. That's not to say she won't win another major again, but I think all the injuries as well as her age have taken its toll on her body. I get a feeling that her main focus for this year is the Olympics.

[Marc]

Randwanska and Wozniacki are out, kicking out MMI and Corkie

[Marc]

Men's semi's:

Lee or Karl v. Mollie or Doogle
seanraff07 v. GypsyGoth

Women's semi's:

Roy Mars III v. IheartBB
[unseeded player] or InOne v. [unseeded player] or BigSister

[BigSister]

*crosses fingers for a semi final place*

[Marc]

Pretty sure you're guaranteed a spot in the final with that bottom half of the draw

[Marc]

Men's semi's:

Lee or Karl v. Mollie
seanraff07 v. GypsyGoth

Women's semi's:

Roy Mars III v. IheartBB
InOne v. BigSister

Edit.

[Marc]

InOne and IheartBB up for the womens award.

GypsyGoth and either Mollie/Lee will be up for the men's award.

[Marc]

Lee and GypsyGoth up for the men's tomorrow.

InOne and iheartBB currently awaiting the final of the women's, which is currently being played.

[Marc]

IheartBB wins another Sweepstake!

[IheartBB]

:cheer2:

Here's to drawing Nadal at Roland Garros :evilgrin:

[Benjamin]

Lol, lucky bugger. :laugh:

[tomflint]

Marc has fixed the draw for Lee to win :/

[Lee.]

Marc has fixed the draw for Lee to win :/

I do things for him in return :evilgrin:

[Marc]

Marc has fixed the draw for Lee to win :/

:suspect:

Go away.

[Marc]

Well Done Lee :) I'll give you your award now.

[Lee.]

Omg.. thank you Marc! :)

[Kate!]

Well done Lee :)

[BigSister]

WEll done iheartbb and Lee. Just glad i got to the semis