***Congratulations to Salger - The 2016 RAWK Cheltenham Tipping Champion!!!*** 
2016 sees The 'RAWK Cheltenham Tipster' competition entering it's 9th year.
With just 5 days to the start of the Cheltenham Festival on
Tuesday 15th March, it's time to get this years competition rolling again. The previous eight competitions have all been good fun with a good turnout.
Last years competition was a close one yet again and went down to the wire again. Beefdog consolidated his 3rd round lead on the final day and stopped CK from claiming his 2nd title.
The general Rules of the game are simple and remain exactly the same as last year.
Pick one horse per race each day of the festival. Points are accumulated as follows depending on where your selection is placed. These point awards remain exactly the the same as all previous years competition.
Winner - 15 points
Second - 10 points
Third - 7 points
Fourth - 4 points
Points are only awarded for places which the bookies pay out on (e.g. third for 8 or more runners and fourth for 16+ runners).
All important Odds Bonus points are available for a
winner only.
Winner 33/1 and over = 15 bonus points
Winner 16/1 and over = 10 bonus points
Winner 8/1 and over = 5 bonus points
On each days racing you must also pick ONE NAP horse. If your NAP selection wins, then you receive double points. In previous years, players received a 10 point bonus for picking a NAP winner. I felt that a double point bonus may encourage people to try and NAP a more risky selection at longer odds and therefore gain more points. It also gives people further down the leader board a chance to move up with a bit more of a risk/reward tactic.
The double point NAP bonus worked well in its first year (2014) and WernerRed scored a huge 100 points on day 4 and probably would have won the whole competition had he not entered the competition late on Day 2.
So to clarify the scoring and NAP bonus - if you picked a 10/1 winner you will get 20 points as standard (15 + 5). If you made this your NAP of the day you would receive double and get 40 points. Napping a 33/1 winner would get you 60 Points (15 + 15 x 2). Napping an odds on favorite would gather no odds bonus and just get you the standard 15 points for a winner then doubled. (15 x 2 = 30). And so on.
I will provide a daily points tally and overall leader board each evening in this thread and will also update the tables on this OP.
Important info:Entries to be posted in this thread BEFORE the first race each day. (you can also post the night before if you wish).
Any Non-Runners in your selections will be replaced by the SP Favourite.
If you don't think you've got the time to make any proper selections on one of the days at least try and post something along the lines of "Fav every race". In the event of JT Favorites your selection will be deemed as the favorite first alphabetically.
**Anyone with edits on their original post AFTER the start of the FIRST race each day, will void ALL their selections for that day!!! No exceptions**Any player who neglects to post their entries for any 2 of the 4 festival days will be removed completely from the competition. NO EXCEPTIONS. This rule allows players to join the competition late on Wednesday but not beyond.
Please feel free to edit your selections right up to the time of the first race or post your whole weeks selections in one go.
Any questions about the point scoring or selections please feel free to ask in this thread or drop me a PM. We will not be having separate threads for chat and selections this year we can just keep it all contained in this thread.
No prizes I'm afraid - just the glory of being RAWK's Champion Cheltenham Tipster 2016 and getting your name on the lovely 'virtual' trophy below!!
Hall of Fame2015 Winner - Beefdog
2014 Winner - Desi Kopite
2013 Winner - Fazak_Red
2012 Winner - Alex
2011 Winner - Alex
2010 Winner - CK
2009 Winner - Somerset Red
2008 Winner - StuwieG
