College World Series Contest

Earlier today, the NCAA announced the 64 teams that will be competing for the 2012 College World Series championship. To commemorate it, I am holding the third annual College World Series contest here at Autographed Cards. It is going to be a couple of weeks before the main phase of the contest starts, but you can earn some bonus points here that could make a difference when the main portion gets going. All you have to do right now is pick the eight teams that are going to be playing in Omaha. Here are the teams to choose from.

Slot One

1. Florida
1. North Carolina St
2. Georgia Tech
2. Vanderbilt
3. Charleston
3. UNC Wilmington
4. Bethune-Cookman
4. Sacred Heart

Slot 2

1. Virginia
1. South Carolina
2. Oklahoma
2. Clemson
3. Appalachian St
3. Coastal Carolina
4. Army
4. Manhattan

Slot 3

1. Oregon
1. Purdue
2. Cal St Fullerton
2. Kentucky
3. Indiana St
3. Kent St
4. Austin Peay
4. Valparaiso

Slot 4

1. Rice
1. Baylor
2. Arkansas
2. Dallas Baptist
3. Sam Houston St
3. UT Arlington
4. Prairie View
4. Oral Roberts

Slot 5

1. UCLA
1. Texas A&M
2. San Diego
2. TCU
3. New Mexico
3. Mississippi
4. Creighton
4. Dayton

Slot 6

1. Miami (FL)
1. LSU
2. UCF
2. Oregon St
3. Missouri St
3. Belmont
4. Stony Brook
4. La-Monroe

Slot 7

1. North Carolina
1. Arizona
2. East Carolina
2. New Mexico St
3. St. Johns
3. Louisville
4. Cornell
4. Missouri

Slot 8

1. Stanford
1. Florida St
2. Pepperdine
2. Mississippi St
3. Michigan St
3. Samford
4. Fresno St
4. UAB

All you have to do is pick one team from each slot for a total of eight teams. For every team that you pick that makes it into the College World Series, you will get one point and that point(s) could be the difference between winning and losing in the second round. If you don't feel like participating right now, that's fine. You can enter the second phase without participating in the first, but you might have some ground to make up.

I haven't figured out what the prizes are yet, but some of the prizes from the previous years include autographs from Hall of Famers Harmon Killebrew, Jim Rice, Rod Carew, and Bruce Sutter. I have a few things laying around that I plan to give away, plus I usually end up with some really good stuff at the College World Series. I am going to try to keep all of the prizes autograph related this year. I just probably won't know what they are until I get back from Omaha on the 17th of June.

You can get one bonus point just by pimping this contest on your blog. Just leave a link in the comments and I will chalk you up a point (yes, I use a chalkboard for scoring this contest).

Here is the format that your entry (comment) should look like.

Slot one: Florida
Slot two: Army
Slot three: Kent St
Slot four: Dallas Baptist
Slot five: TCU
Slot six: Belmont
Slot seven: Missouri
Slot eight: UAB

Link to your blog (which can be in a separate comment).

If you have any questions, ask in the comments or email me at zman40 at hotmail dot com. The deadline to enter the first phase of this contest is 11:00 am (central)Friday . Good luck and thanks for playing.

Keep in mind that the main portion of this contest is filling out a College World Series bracket when that field is determined in a couple of weeks. Every year, there are a couple of people that enter the first phase of the contest that never end up filling out a bracket. Those people have yet to win this contest.