Beer Challenge, Day 20

Dearest Drinkers,

It's been a packed 5 days! We've had our first duplication of beers, our first state origin confusion, and our first beer rejection! Your commissioner has been busy researching. I also have updated the beer entry form to require entries to list the brewing company as well as the beer name, which should make things a little clearer all around.

This week saw a major upset in the game -- AJ reported 17 beers, making him the leader by far in this competition at this point! What will happen next? All I can say is...keep drinking!

Yours Always,
Your Humble Commissioner

Beer Challenge, Day 15

Greetings,

We're going into another weekend! That means time for you to keep building on your work, to start it, or to catch up with our frontrunners!

Here's our current breakdown:
Our current leader is Kurt, who has seven beers.
He's followed closely by Peter with six.

The rest:
5 - Michael
4 - Tim
3 - Joel, Justin, Kristin
1 - Tania

Adam, AJ, Bridget, Dan, Eric, and Molly have not submitted any beers yet.

Get to it!

-Your Commissioner

Beer Challenge, Day 8

Salutations, Drinkers!

Your Humble Commissioner has been on vacation and unexpectedly without internet, so updates might not have been as swift as you hoped for the past few days. However, all is back to normal and should be complete and updated now!

Kurt is ahead with 5 states, followed by Peter with 4. It's a tight race! Keep sending in those beers. And trust me, you will want to send in pictures too!

Always,

the Commish

Beer Challenge, Day 2

We have our first beer! At 7:57pm on March 12th, Tim reported his first beer (Ohio). Not to be outdone, Kurt followed quickly with a California brew.

Who will be next?

Enter your beer reports here:

-Your Humble Commissioner

Beer Challenge, Day 1

The beer challenge began just 13 hours ago!

As you begin to drink your beers, you can record your entry on the form found here:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dDZWT3Bkckx3c3RUYTczSjY0VFpwQmc6MA

The Beer Challenge Score Card can be found here:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AqaVKhJII7rGdGE5d0tHNDd3bXRWMVNFVFBOdlU3ZUE&hl=en

Use it to keep track of which beers you've sent in, which ones you need, and how you're doing against the other competitors.

As always, if you have any further questions, email fiftyonebeers@gmail.com. Also, remind your friends and family to send an email to get in on the action. Registration is still open, but the longer they wait, the more disadvantaged they are!

Always,

Your Humble Commissioner

Rules are set

After much deliberation here are the Rules.

If after reading all of this email you are interested please email fiftyonebeers@gmail.com your intentions to join and send a check for $5.10 to
Tim Geier
401 N Clifton Ave
Wichita, KS 67208

Entry Fee: $5.10 (ten cents for every state and the District of Columbia)
Greatest Drinker (winner) receives 65% of the Pot
2nd Greatest Drinker receives 20% of the Pot
3rd Greatest Drinker receives 7.5% of the Pot
Person who drinks the most non unique beers receives 7.5% of the Pot

The Terms:

1: One beer from each state what state is listed on the label is what state the beer is from. For instance Budweiser is brewed in New Jersey, but it counts for Missouri.
2: Beer can be bottled, canned, or kegged
3: Only beer counts. Cider, Zima, Hard Lemonade, and the such don't count.
4: Brewpubs count
5: The main company counts not the subtype... For Wisconsin as an example if 4 contestants each drink Miller light, Miller Genuine Draft, Miller High Life, & Miller Dry Lite Ice (Joel) each only counts for 1 point.
6: Commissioner will make final decision. The commissioner is a non partial 3rd party.
7: Large companies such as Annheiser Busch/inbev or Miller Coors are above brand they are just too large to keep track and their ever growing holdings:
8: Rolling Rock counts for Jersey
9: 50 States and the District of Colombia
10: The contest begins at 12:01 AM on Friday March 12 and Ends at 11:59 PM June 12, 2010 Times are Central
11: Once you enter a state, the state is complete and no other entries for that state will be accepted.

Scoring:
Unique beers worth 2 points (any beer not drank by another contestant)
Double beers worth 1 point (any beer drank by another contestant)

Uploading information
Email your information to fiftyonebeers@gmail.com
We are on the honor system. There have been some technologically challenged people commenting on the ability to upload information.
If you are able to upload photos it will be fun to see what everybody has drank over the challenge. We will upload them to a photosharing service.

Updating information:
The commissioner will update 2 spreadsheets weekly on google docs. One spreadsheet will show states but keep brands anonymous. The other spreadsheet the commissioner will keep track of states and brands.

Scores will be updated weekly on the blog 51beers.blogspot.com