Geordie Nation Charity Fantasy F1 Competition 2014
Entry Details
It’s just the price of a pint so get a round in! Please
forward this to all of your friends, colleagues, family, etc.
This
bit of fun was started in 2001 by a dozen people in Eaga Partnership Ltd who
liked a laugh, and it was a happy place to work where having fun with your work
colleagues was encouraged. Now this bit of fun is open to anyone, anywhere in
the world, and raises money for charity. The minimum entry fee is just the price of a pint, £3.50. Entrants can
choose to donate more to charity, and many do. The money raised from the entry
fees is donated to charity, the winners choosing the charities the money is donated
to.
The
new season is upon us, so here are the values and scoring rules for the Geordie
Nation Charity Fantasy F1 Competition 2014. This is the best excuse I have
to encourage and have some fun with my fellow entrants and, as previous
entrants will know, make endless fun of any efforts that may appear dopey, daft
or downright lucky, and, as the ultimate judge, the classification of such
efforts is at my sole discretion! If you're a Geordie Nation Charity
Fantasy F1 virgin I promise I'll be gentle with you, at least until the second
race. I also use “promise” in the same way as all politicians. So,
if you want some fun, here goes.
This
year you choose the maximum amount of your entry fee you wish to go to
charity. You can pay the minimum entry fee of £3.50 or whatever the
equivalent is in your local currency, all of which will go to charity, or you
can pay more for charity. Over the last nine years, since I started to
charge you the price of a pint for the privilege of being abused by me, this little
piece of stupidity in the name of fun has raised and donated almost £5,000 to charities chosen by the winners, and the
charities, with the benefit of Gift Aid, have benefitted by over £6,100.
If you’re feeling lucky you can pay an additional £1 with all of the additional
£1’s going towards a personal prize for the three highest placed additional £1
entrants in the same ratio as the charity prizes for them to spend as they
wish. Last year 67 people paid the additional
£1 to try and win the personal prize which went to the highest placed
additional £1 entrant. If you are feeling generous and philanthropic you
can decide to pay more than the minimum £3.50 entry fee for charity, the choice
is yours. If you want to pay more than the minimum entry fee how about
entering more teams rather than pay more for just one team? Last year the
Young family of Jason, Michele and Naomi entered a total of 13 teams and paid £71.50.
Can any family or group of friends equal or beat that? It gives the same
result for the charities and gives you more chance of winning and picking a
charity you want to benefit.
Irrespective of the entry fee you decide to pay, there are huge
egalitarian philanthropic prizes for the winners as they get to nominate the
charities that the money raised is donated to. Last year we raised and
donated £569.50 to charity, and Gift Aid further increased the value of the
donations to £711.88. The winners last year and the charities they chose to
benefit from their largesse were as follows.
Lawrence Connelly, courtesy of entering eight teams, came first.
This gave him prize money of £251.25, and he also donated the personal prize of
£67.00 to charity, giving a total charity donation of £318.25 which he shared
equally between The Great North Air Ambulance, The Sir Bobby Robson Foundation,
and The Salvation Army. Peter Leatherland entered two teams and had the
good fortune to come second and third winning a total of £201.00. He donated
his £126.00 prize for second place to Comrades of Children Overseas (COCO), and
he donated his £50.00 prize for third place to Cancer Research UK.
If we get more entrants and raise more money we’ll be able to give
more prizes. So, tell all of your colleagues to enter or bully them into
it if they are scared of having their automotive deficiencies aired in
public. If they’re just apathetic and too lazy to enter, shame them into
admitting that they’re just selfish and don’t have a charitable bone in their
body, and especially no funny bone.
You don’t need to know anything about Formula 1 to enter or
win. It's just for fun with nothing at stake but your pride and
ego. The ladies are just as good as the men – one year a lady won by
picking her team based on the best looking drivers and prettiest cars!
Add some spice by having your own department / family / company competition.
Make your own rules for your competition – for example, the loser buys
the others a pint at the end of the season. Even ex-Eaga employees and
their family members are still taking part from homes all over the world for
the fun, and God knows we all need a bit of fun in the current economic
climate.
Below is the entry form and details of the values and points
scoring for the 2014 competition, and the results of the 2013 F1 championship
to assist your deliberations. You must make your entries in the cells
coloured green. You must select 4 drivers, 2 chassis and 2 engines, and the total value of your selections must not
exceed £55,000,000. The drivers, their chassis (teams) and the engines in
their cars are all on the same line for ease of identification. For example, Nico Hulkenberg
Driver
|
Value
|
Chassis
|
Value
|
Engine
|
Value
|
Nico Hulkenberg
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£12,000,000
|
Force India
|
£7,250,000
|
Mercedes
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£3,250,000
|
You must also complete the laps 'tiebreaker' that will be used to
determine the final places in the unlikely event of people selecting identical
teams.
If you have not already been emailed the team selection Excel spreadsheet by me and want the automatic calculating Excel spreadsheet please email me and I will send it to you. Using the automatic Excel spreadsheet makes your team selection easy; you don't even need to be able
to add up. Just mark your choice of drivers, chassis and engines in the
'Selection' column and your total team value will calculate automatically and
even tell you when you have missed something. Enter your choice of entry
fee and your personal details, using the drop-down menus where appropriate.
Please also add both a work and home
email address if you have them both.
Alternatively you can use the team selection values below and use a calculator. When you have made your team
selections save each of your team selections, attach them to an email and
email them to me at
| Geordie Nation Charity Fantasy F1 Competition 2014 - Values & Team Selection | ||||||||||||
| Mark your selections, including the laps tiebreaker, in the sections coloured green. Total team value must NOT exceed £55,000,000 | ||||||||||||
| Team Name: | Work email: | Gender: | ||||||||||
| Home email: | ||||||||||||
| Constructor | Drivers (Select 4) | Chassis (Select 2) | Engines (Select 2) | |||||||||
| Driver | Value | Selections | Chassis | Value | Selections | Engine | Value | Selections | ||||
| Red Bull | Sebastian Vettel | £23,000,000 | Red Bull | £10,000,000 | Renault | £6,000,000 | ||||||
| Red Bull | Daniel Ricciardo | £18,000,000 | Red Bull | £8,750,000 | Renault | £4,750,000 | ||||||
| Ferrari | Fernando Alonso | £22,000,000 | Ferrari | £9,750,000 | Ferrari | £5,750,000 | ||||||
| Ferrari | Kimi Räikkönen | £17,000,000 | Ferrari | £8,500,000 | Ferrari | £4,500,000 | ||||||
| Lotus | Romain Grosjean | £21,000,000 | Lotus | £9,500,000 | Renault | £5,500,000 | ||||||
| Lotus | Pastor Maldonado | £16,000,000 | Lotus | £8,250,000 | Renault | £4,250,000 | ||||||
| McLaren | Jenson Button | £19,000,000 | McLaren | £9,000,000 | Mercedes | £5,000,000 | ||||||
| McLaren | Kevin Magnussen | £14,000,000 | McLaren | £7,750,000 | Mercedes | £3,750,000 | ||||||
| Mercedes | Lewis Hamilton | £20,000,000 | Mercedes | £9,250,000 | Mercedes | £5,250,000 | ||||||
| Mercedes | Nico Rosberg | £15,000,000 | Mercedes | £8,000,000 | Mercedes | £4,000,000 | ||||||
| Williams | Felipe Massa | £10,000,000 | Williams | £6,750,000 | Mercedes | £2,750,000 | ||||||
| Williams | Valtteri Bottas | £6,000,000 | Williams | £5,500,000 | Mercedes | £1,500,000 | ENTRY FEE | |||||
| Sauber | Adrian Sutil | £13,000,000 | Sauber | £7,500,000 | Ferrari | £3,500,000 | My entry fee (min £3.50) | |||||
| Sauber | Esteban Gutierrez | £7,000,000 | Sauber | £6,000,000 | Ferrari | £2,000,000 | Plus £1 for personal prize? | Yes / No | ||||
| Force India | Nico Hulkenberg | £12,000,000 | Force India | £7,250,000 | Mercedes | £3,250,000 | Amount for charity: | £0.00 | ||||
| Force India | Sergio Perez | £11,000,000 | Force India | £7,000,000 | Mercedes | £3,000,000 | ||||||
| Toro Rosso | Jean-Eric Vergne | £9,000,000 | Toro Rosso | £6,500,000 | Renault | £2,500,000 | TIEBREAK | |||||
| Toro Rosso | Daniil Kvyat | £8,000,000 | Toro Rosso | £6,250,000 | Renault | £2,250,000 | Tiebreak: Estimate the total number of laps completed by all 22 drivers in all 19 races of the 2014 season. In the event of a tie, the nearest estimate will decide the winner. Last season the total was 22,778 laps for 22 drivers from 19 races. | |||||
| Caterham | Kamui Kobayashi | £5,000,000 | Caterham | £5,750,000 | Renault | £1,750,000 | ||||||
| Caterham | Marcus Ericsson | £4,000,000 | Caterham | £5,250,000 | Renault | £1,250,000 | ||||||
| Marussia | Jules Bianchi | £3,000,000 | Marussia | £5,000,000 | Ferrari | £1,000,000 | ||||||
| Marussia | Max Chilton | £2,000,000 | Marussia | £4,750,000 | Ferrari | £750,000 | Tiebreak laps total: | |||||
If you have any questions please email me. To prevent errors please check your entry before you send it.
Entries must be emailed to me to be received by 02:00am on Saturday 15th
March 2014. This
gives you plenty of time to make your selections and ensures that entries are
received before the Saturday qualifying session of the Australian GP, the first
race of this season. Any entries received after this time will still be
entered but may receive the lowest competitor score for each Grand Prix that
has been completed prior to the entry being received by me.
WARNING
To prevent me being sued for libel for making "inappropriate
comments" you must understand that in the post-race reports I issue I will
be mercilessly seeking out any opportunity to have some fun at your expense –
see last season’s reports on the web
for proof. The key words here are fun and merciless! For those of a
sensitive disposition...I do tend to push all the boundaries in my quest to
extract every ounce of humour…be warned! This quest for fun can be on the
grounds of stupidity / ignorance / gender / nationality or anything else that
takes my fancy if your performance warrants it. I also praise outstanding
performances by those that actually win races or show any skill at all, or luck
as everyone else will call it. By entering you understand that in the
event of coming at the bottom of the results you will most definitely become a
target for humiliation. If you are of a sensitive disposition and don't
want to be the subject of ridicule by your mates in the name of fun then you
can still enter but tell me when you submit your entry and I'll respect your
wishes. I may be a sadist, but I’m a sensitive one.
Anyone can enter so tell
all of your colleagues, friends, enemies, family, etc. Pass this on to others
not on the email list. It’s only the price of a pint so get a round in
with your mates or, better still, have a competition binge with your
mates. You can enter as many teams as you like. Any or all of your
teams can be entered under an assumed name but each team must have a different
name, the funnier the better if you use an alias. You must submit a
separate entry form for each team you enter.
GET YOUR ENTRIES IN – PLEASE!
Try to raise some money for a charity of your choice anywhere in the world and have a laugh with and
at your colleagues, friends, family, etc. It’s just good clean
fun.
Best wishes and good luck,Lawrence Connelly (aka the final adjudicator)
