College World Series Contest!!!!

It's that time again! It is time for my fifth annual College World Series Contest.

Yesterday, the NCAA announced the 64 teams that will be competing for the 2014 College World Series championship. To commemorate it, I am holding the fifth 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. Oregon St
1. Oklahoma St
2. UNLV
2. Nebraska
3. UC Irvine
3. Cal St Fullerton
4. North Dakota St
4. Binghampton

Slot Two
1. Rice
1. LSU
2. Texas
2. Houston
3. Texas A&M
3. Bryant
4. George Mason
4. SE Louisiana

Slot Three
1. Florida St
1. Louisville
2. Alabama
2. Kentucky
3. Kansas
3. Kennesaw St
4. Kent St
4. Georgia Southern

Slot Four
1. Indiana
1. Vanderbilt
2. Indiana St
2. Oregon
3. Clemson
3. Stanford
4. Xavier
4. Youngstown St

Slot Five
1. Florida
1. Miami (FL)
2. Long Beach St
2. Texas Tech
3. North Carolina
3. Columbia
4. College of Charleston
4. Bethune-Cookman

Slot Six
1. Cal Poly
1. TCU
2. Arizona St
2. Dallas Baptist
3. Sam Houston St
3. Pepperdine
4. Siena
4. Sacramento St

Slot Seven
1. Louisiana-Lafayette
1. Ole Miss
2. Mississippi St
2. Washington
3. San Diego St
3. Georgia Tech
4. Jackson St
4. Jacksonville St

Slot Eight
1. South Carolina
1. Virginia
2. Maryland
2. Arkansas
3. Old Dominion
3. Liberty
4. Campbell
4. Bucknell

All you have to do is pick one team from each slot for a total of eight teams. In the past, for every team that you picked that made it into the College World Series, you got one point. But, I am going to mix it up this year. Now, any team you pick that makes it to Omaha gets as many points as their seed. So, if you make the safe bet and pick the one seed correctly, you get one point. But, if you pick the dark horse four seed and get lucky, you get four points for that pick. 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 usually end up with some really good stuff at the College World Series. I just probably won't know what they are until I get back from Omaha on the 15th of June. Last year, I gave away signed photos of Ivan Rodriguez and John Smoltz.


This blog has been in the doldrums of late since I am lucky to post a card twice a week. So, to get a few extra contestants in the contest, 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 1- Oregon St
Slot 2- Rice
Slot 3- Florida St
Slot 4- Indiana
Slot 5- Florida
Slot 6- TCU
Slot 7- Ole Miss
Slot 8- South Carolina
Link to your blog (which can be left on a separate comment).

Make sure you specify which school you want. For instance, in slot one, Oregon St and Oklahoma St are up for grabs. DO NOT PICK OSU OR O ST. Be specific!

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 and the link must be posted 24 hours prior to that. 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.