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Coronavirus allowing - 2020 sees The 'RAWK Cheltenham Tipster' competition return for it's 13th Edition.

With less than a week until this years Festival kicks off on Tuesday 10th March, it's time to get this years competition rolling again.  The previous 12 editions have all been really good fun, competitive with a healthy turnout each day.

Last years competition saw poster 'Red_Irishman' cruise to the title on the final day

The general rules of the game are simple and remain the same as last few years in which we began to include bonus points for placed horses with larger SP's as a general consensus revealed that we agreed players tipping a large priced horse that manages to place should be rewarded as such.

SO, on to the Rules...

Pick one horse per race each day of the festival. Points are accumulated as follows depending on where your selection is placed.

Winner - 15 points
Second - 10 points
Third - 7 points
Fourth - 4 points

Points are only awarded for places conforming to the bookies industry standard (e.g. 2 places for races with less than 8 runners, 3 places for 8 or more runner races and 4 places for 16+ runner HANDICAP races). I appreciate some bookies pay out on 5,6,7 or even 8 places on certain races but these are purely promotions on behalf of the individual bookies and will NOT apply to this competition.

To avoid any confusion over the above, points will be awarded on only the places specified on the results page of the Sporting Life Website  https://www.sportinglife.com/racing/results

All important Odds Bonus points are available for certain winners and placed horses that are above a certain price. (SP).

Winner 33/1 and over = 20 bonus points
Winner 16/1 and over =  15 bonus points
Winner 8/1 and over = 5 bonus points

Placed horses 33/1 and over - 10 Bonus points
Placed horses between 16/1 and 33/1 - 5 Bonus points


NOTE: A horse cannot gain both win and place bonus points in any one race.

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 just 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 70 Points (15 + 20 x 2). Napping an odds on favourite 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 Joint Favourites your selection will be deemed as the favourite that is 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 entries for any 2 of the 4 festival days will be removed completely from the competition.  NO EXCEPTIONS. This rule allows players to miss posting selections for any one day and also gives other players the opportunity to join the competition a day late (Wednesday).

Please feel free to post/edit your selections right up to the time of the first race each day or maybe even post your whole weeks selections in one go. (reminder: NR's will be replaced by SP Fav)

Again, if you're pressed for time to get your entry in, I'll even except an entry posted in the thread consisting of random numbers eg: 8,5,11,9,3,2 or maybe even 'number 2 every race'.  If any of these number selections don't figure in the race you will still get the SP favourite and a chance to score points.

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 crowned RAWK's Champion Cheltenham Tipster 2020 and becoming the 13th name in the 'hall of fame' and inscribed on the much sought after 'virtual' trophy (as seen below)


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Nice one pete. I’ll try my luck again

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Fingers crossed it goes ahead.

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In  :)
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In, need to regain that title this year!!!  ;D
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In please, week off work and heading down to the Festival for the GC, 9th year in a row to Cheltenham.

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Re: Cheltenham 2020 - The 13th Annual RAWK Cheltenham Tipster Competition
« Reply #10 on: March 5, 2020, 03:24:17 pm »
Favourite week of the year. God knows why it’s also usually the most expensive!

I’m in
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« Reply #11 on: March 5, 2020, 03:40:16 pm »
I'm in.

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« Reply #12 on: March 5, 2020, 08:55:41 pm »
In
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« Reply #13 on: March 5, 2020, 08:59:16 pm »
In if it's on.

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« Reply #14 on: March 5, 2020, 09:17:29 pm »
Count me in please Pete.
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« Reply #15 on: March 5, 2020, 09:47:42 pm »
Just watched the Betfair preview night very informative
Count me in
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« Reply #16 on: March 6, 2020, 10:18:07 am »
I'm in again. Hopefully see some money back as well.
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« Reply #17 on: March 6, 2020, 10:26:46 am »
In if it's on.

Hope so mate.  Fingers sanitised & crossed and face masks on.

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« Reply #18 on: March 6, 2020, 01:53:09 pm »
Count me in boys
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Re: Cheltenham 2020 - The 13th Annual RAWK Cheltenham Tipster Competition
« Reply #19 on: March 8, 2020, 01:08:11 pm »
Looks like Cheltenham is all systems go. Unfortunately Altior is lame today and may not make the Champion Chase on Weds, a real shame as it’s probably the race of the meeting between the front 3 in the market
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« Reply #20 on: March 8, 2020, 02:10:47 pm »
Always look forward to this and the Aintree competition, and here is a thank you in advance to Pete for doing it again.


Maybe I'll crack the top 20 this year. Maybe :D

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Re: Cheltenham 2020 - The 13th Annual RAWK Cheltenham Tipster Competition
« Reply #21 on: March 8, 2020, 03:08:09 pm »
Looks like Cheltenham is all systems go. Unfortunately Altior is lame today and may not make the Champion Chase on Weds, a real shame as it’s probably the race of the meeting between the front 3 in the market
Yeah, what a race that would have been. could see 3 horses battling it out over the last 2 fences. probably would have backed Altior but couldn't put anyone off backing any of the top 3.
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Re: Cheltenham 2020 - The 13th Annual RAWK Cheltenham Tipster Competition
« Reply #22 on: March 9, 2020, 11:43:37 am »
Day 1

1.30 - Shishkin
2.10 - Fakir D'oudairies
2.50 - Kildisart
3.30 - Cilaos Emery
4.10 - Benie Des Dieux (NAP)
4.40 - Imperial Aura
5.30 - Lord Du Mesnil

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Re: Cheltenham 2020 - The 13th Annual RAWK Cheltenham Tipster Competition
« Reply #23 on: March 9, 2020, 12:03:17 pm »
In like Flynn ......and top man for running this every year
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Re: Cheltenham 2020 - The 13th Annual RAWK Cheltenham Tipster Competition
« Reply #24 on: March 9, 2020, 12:49:16 pm »
Day 1:

13:30 Asterion Forlonge
14:10 Rouge Vif
14:50 Mister Malarkey
15:30 Darasso
16:10 Benie Des Dieux NAP
16:50 Hold The Note
17:30 Newtide

As always, thanks for running Pete!
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« Reply #25 on: March 9, 2020, 01:29:53 pm »
Count me in.

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« Reply #26 on: March 9, 2020, 02:28:51 pm »
Day 1

1.30 Chantry House
2.10 Fakir Doudairies
2.50 Vinndication NAP
3.30 Supasundae
4.10 Benie Des Dieux
4.50 Torpillo
5.30 Carefully Selected
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Re: Cheltenham 2020 - The 13th Annual RAWK Cheltenham Tipster Competition
« Reply #27 on: March 9, 2020, 03:12:40 pm »
13:30 Abacadabras
14:10 Notebook
14:50 Who Dares Wins
15:30 Darver Star
16:10 Benie Des Dieux NAP
16:50 Hold The Note
17:30 Springfield Fox

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« Reply #28 on: March 9, 2020, 04:51:59 pm »
Count me in please and thanks for running it again  :wave
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« Reply #29 on: March 9, 2020, 05:19:09 pm »
1.30 Chantry House
2.10 Maire Banrigh
2.50 Who dares Wins
3.30 Pentland Hills
4.10 Benie Des Dieux (NAP)
4.50 Espoir De Guye
5.30 Carefully Selected

Good luck to everyone

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Re: Cheltenham 2020 - The 13th Annual RAWK Cheltenham Tipster Competition
« Reply #30 on: March 9, 2020, 06:07:48 pm »
1:30 - Abacadabras
2:10 - Notebook
2:50 - Kidistart
3:30 - Pentland Hills
4:10 - Benie Des Dieux (NAP)
4:50 - Espoir De Guye
5:30 - Carefully Selected

Cheers.

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Re: Cheltenham 2020 - The 13th Annual RAWK Cheltenham Tipster Competition
« Reply #31 on: March 9, 2020, 06:44:28 pm »
Evening All

1:30 - Shishkin
2:10 - Notebook(NAP)
2:50 - The Conditional
3:30 - Supasundae
4:10 - Honeysuckle
4:50 - Espoir De Guye
5:30 - Springfield Fox
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Re: Cheltenham 2020 - The 13th Annual RAWK Cheltenham Tipster Competition
« Reply #32 on: March 9, 2020, 07:03:10 pm »
Day 1

1:30 - Chantry House
2:10 - Maire Banrigh
2:50 - Kildisart
3:30 - Epatante (Nap)
4:10 - Benie Des Dieux
4:50 - Beakstown
5:30 - Carefully Selected

Thanks for running this again Pete and good luck everyone. YNWA.
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« Reply #33 on: March 9, 2020, 07:10:25 pm »
Day 1

1:30 - Abacadabras
2:10 - Cash Back
2:50 - The Conditional
3:30 - Epatante
4:10 - Benie Des Dieux
4:50 - Galvin
5:30 - Carefully Selected

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Re: Cheltenham 2020 - The 13th Annual RAWK Cheltenham Tipster Competition
« Reply #34 on: March 9, 2020, 07:41:01 pm »
Day 1

1.30 Asterian Forlonge
2.10 Rouge Vif
2.50 Vinndication
3.30 Darver Star
4.10 Benie Des Dieux (NAP)
4.50 Imperial Aura
5.30 Carefully Selected

Many thanks Pete!

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Re: Cheltenham 2020 - The 13th Annual RAWK Cheltenham Tipster Competition
« Reply #35 on: March 9, 2020, 08:01:20 pm »
1:30 shishkin
2:10 cash back
2:50 who dares wins NAP
3:30 supasundae
4:10 honeysuckle
4:50 trainwreck
5:30 forza Milan

Cheers Pete

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« Reply #36 on: March 9, 2020, 08:29:09 pm »
Thanks for running this again Pete. :thumbup

My Certs for day 1

Asterion Forlonge 1.30pm
Notebook.   2.10pm
The Conditional 2.50pm
Pentland Hills, 3.30pm
Benie Des Dieux  4.10pm NAP
Espoir De Guye  4,50pm
Lord De Mesnil 5.30 pm


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Re: Cheltenham 2020 - The 13th Annual RAWK Cheltenham Tipster Competition
« Reply #37 on: March 9, 2020, 08:32:00 pm »
1:30 Abacadabras
2:10 Notebook
2:50 Discorama (NAP)
3:30 Epatante
4:10 Benie Des Dieux
4:50 Espoir De Guye
5:30 Lord Du Mesnil

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« Reply #38 on: March 9, 2020, 09:18:11 pm »
1:30 Asterion Forlonge
2:10 Notebook (NAP)
2:50 Vinndication
3:30 Cilaos Emery
4:10 Benie Des Dieux
4:50 Espoir De Guye
5:30 Ravenhill
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« Reply #39 on: March 9, 2020, 09:45:00 pm »
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discorama nap
supasundae
benie de deuix
galvin
newtide
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