Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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

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