Put me in coach

IN

Well hell it’s been what 3-4 years since I threw my hat in the ring. Not sure if ain Halifax.

I haven’t bought smokes in a while so all I have is some old stuff. So I’m a bit low. Maybe a Anejo or two. A few Padron x000’s. no telling what else. Probably at least 5 years old more old. They may be past their prime. What do you say? Do I qualify?

TTT

I like foosBall!!

IN!

need more players...

I just PM'd Stinger , Gumby, Mjburn, and SOB to ask if they were playing this year.

I have been slacking of late. Haven’t been on here in awhile. Football always brings me back. Maybe things will slow down a bit.

I am definitely in.

I'm in.

In like Flynn

Updated gentlemen

It's easy. You have a list of games each week and you pick the winner. But it's very important you don't pick more winners than me. Most if these azzhats never did follow that rule very well

Sounds good to me.
Count me in. I'll make sure I lose to SOB without making it look to obvious

I’m in if it’s not too late

Unfortunately I'm not on the site much due to busy work and family life.... with that being said, I'm not familiar with screen names and don't have time to research what you may have/have not done.... further more when I was active we use to respond to A LOT of individuals (albeit normally sarcastic and smartazz) regardless of your trade activities.

Take that however you please

I can't personally speak to trades for jgkamin, but he's been around since '11, enjoys political threads, and gets irritated with people who may or may not have spent a year spamming said political threads

Let me wade in and offer a bit of insight regarding the need for trade cred to participate. Since I was the person started the annual regular season contest I can speak to its purpose.

This contest has been ongoing for 6-10 seasons and if you’ll notice that the ante is 10 high quality cigars. In the pass the ante was 10 premium cigars. In my opinion premium and high quality are similar.

When this started we had 20-30 participants, many who were new here. But, back in those days we also paired a vet with newbs to teach them about the community and what was expected of trades. At that time we established that unless someone had made name for themselves as a person who consistently sent top quality smokes then someone who had such a respected reputation had to vouch for them. The idea was to prevent people who had a propensity for sending crappy cigars from winning top quality smokes.

Such was needed because there always seemed to be that one guy who thought it was ok drop shipping a few $1 cigar sampler packs to pay his end if he lost. In fact, I told one newbie that hadn’t made a single trade that he could send me his ante as well as one extra cigar to cover the cost of me forwarding his ante if he lost. I gave him very specific guidelines as to what was acceptable and what was not. He sent me two 5 packs of a bottom shelf cigar. I pm’d him and explained that that cigars in no way met the requirements, nor were they in anyway consistent with the instructions given. I offered to send them to him on my dime since he didn’t bother to send extra to cover the $5.80 it would cost me to send them back in a SFR. He got an attitude about me being an elitist. I reminded him that he was in fact correct since the ante expected was in a way elitist. He wouldn’t give me his addy so I sent them to OpFTH.

Basically the people who have been playing since the beginning all are known for being very generous with top quality cigars. They should and do expect to be compensated with like quality.

So there you have it. The reason behind the requirements. If you don’t like them, don’t participate. Easy peasy.

Indeed didn’t have trade cred or anyone to vouch for me. I understand and respect the rule. Learned the guys around here have some super aged premos I didn’t have. So had counter with new RHTF and start aging some.

Thanks for the shout out!

It took me some time to truly understand the generosity of the cigar community and the definition of premium high quality cigars.

Looking forward to playing again this year and trying to start winning some of those antes back ha ha. Knowing these guys they’ll have aged them properly for me and send them back ha ha!!

I've been down do to surgery so haven't checked but if you didn't get the invite or it didn't work please let me know.

Also I'm considering a side bet this year on the over/under on how many games Clint doesn't pick this season 😆😆

J/K Clint....maybe

PM sent Corey

Also..... we'll do a vote on spread.... I think it made it more competitive last year but also aggravating a ****

I voted against it last year, but turns out these azzhats like to see me cry

I think it has been 2yrs now. The first year was an accident and then last year it was felt to be more interesting and makes it harder for one person to run away with the season

spread works fine for me. Looks like the week 1 picks are now open with spread as the default setting.

I messaged him but as of today he hasn't opened it

And so it begins!! Good luck gentlemen!