Free and optional if you wish to play. This sidepot called “Couple Up”, puts you with another person. It could be your spouse, significant other, parent, sibling, your call.
When you fill out your bracket, there will be an option for “Couple Up”, fill in your partner’s name if you have one. We will take your bracket score (highest score if you have multiple brackets), and add your partners best bracket score. The couple with the highest combined score wins $75 and the second best couple wins $30.
Only rule is you can only partner with one person regardless of how many brackets you have. So encourage your spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend, coworker, brother/sister, friend, mother/father, parent/child to get in on the fun with you and give yourself more brackets to root for!
Free and optional if you wish to play. First Family will pit your family against all other families in the pool. Register your family here.
In this pool, you and your family members will have your family’s best four scores combined.
Your family must consist of 4 to 9 family members.
Scoring:
Regardless of the family size, we will only take the best four scores from your family members.
Those four best scores must be from four different family members.
The family with the best score wins First Family!
Prizes:
There will be two prizes this year. The winning family with 7-9 members will split $100. The winning family with 4-6 members will split $50.
To enter in “First Family”, send an e-mail to eddy@ebtalk.com with your 4-9 family members.
100% of payout is guaranteed for those paying before end of day of the first day of the tournament. Entry fees received after receive 80% of payouts.
For late fees received after the second round of the tournament, payouts are 50%.
Example:
| Payout | By Start of Tournament | |
| 1st | $800 | $1000 |
| 2nd | $400 | $500 |
| 3rd | $320 | $400 |
Lowest score in this year’s tournament pool will be refunded their bracket entry.
If you can break, not tie, the record for the lowest number of points scored in a single year (5.5), you will win $96! If the record isn’t broken this, we will add $8 to the pot for next year.
Get a “perfect” 0 points and win $200.
A Perfect Region will be paid out $10 up to five winners. If more than five people select a Perfect Region, the tie-breaker will be total points scored in the main pool.
“Rookies” are a first time entrant to ebTalk. Each entry will have a referral box. If you have a rookie referral, have them put your name in the referral box.
For every three people you refer, you will receive a free $8 paid entry. Maximum four free entries can be earned. Referrals must be completed by end of day Wednesday before the first round of games. You cannot count yourself as a referral.
Please note, referred rookies must also be paid at the time of entry.
The highest placing Newcomer (first time entrant) will win $15. To be eligible, your entry must be paid for by the start of the first round.
81 participants have played in or are entering their tenth year in this pool. We call them our Seniors. To say thank you for their long time dedication in this Benefit we are having a special little prize pool for them. Moving forward, the highest placing bracket from anybody who has or is playing in their tenth year, will win $50. The second highest placing bracket will receive $20 and the third will receive $10.
Respect has to be given to the first bracket that everybody enters. We will award $50 to the best placing bracket of everybody’s first bracket entered into the pool. Anybody’s second, third or additional entries turned in are not eligible.
We will be awarding prizes out to the kids who are old enough to fill out their own bracket. Any child between the ages of 0-17 will be eligible for this prize. Each of the top THREE placing kids brackets wins $15.
The child between the ages of 0-4 who has the highest score, will win $15.
If you played last year, we will be awarding a $15 cash prize to the most improved player. We will look at how you finish and compare that to how you finish this year. The biggest gap in improvement wins this year’s Most Improved Player Award.
If you turned in multiple brackets, we will take your best bracket finish. Only eligible for participants from 2021 to 2022.
* Regular ebTalk Tie-Breaker rules apply to any of the Props
100% of props is guaranteed for those paying before end of day of the first Thursday of the tournament.
Entry fees received after receive 80% of prop payouts.
For fees received after the second round of the tournament (First Sunday), payouts are 50%.
