The College World Series Contest

Earlier today, the NCAA announced the 64 teams that will be competing for the 2010 College World Series championship. To commememorate it, I am holding the first 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 this week 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. Arizona State
1. Arkansas
2. Kansas State
2. San Diego
3. Washington State
3. Hawaii
4. Grambling
4. Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Slot two
1. Auburn
1. Georgia Tech
2. Alabama
2. Clemson
3. Elon
3. Southern Miss
4. Jacksonville State
4. Mercer

Slot three
1. Virginia
1. Oklahoma
2. Mississippi
2. California
3. North Carolina
3. St. John's (NY)
4. VCU
4. Oral Roberts

Slot four
1. South Carolina
1. Coastal Carolina
2. Virginia Tech
2. College of Charleston
3. Citadel
3. North Carolina State
4. Stony Brook
4. Bucknell

Slot five
1. Texas
1. TCU
2. Rice
2. Baylor
3. Arizona
3. Lousiana-Lafayette
4. Lamar
4. Rider

Slot six
1. Florida State
1. Louisville
2. Connecticut
2. Vanderbilt
3. Oregon
3. Illinois State
4. St. Louis
4. Central Connecticut State

Slot seven
1. UCLA
1. Cal State Fullerton
2. Stanford
2. LSU
3. UC Irvine
3. New Mexico
4. Minnesota
4. Kent State

Slot eight
1. Florida
1. Miami (FL)
2. Texas A&M
2. Florida Atlantic
3. Oregon State
3. Florida International
4. Bethune-Cookman
4. Dartmouth

All you have to do is pick one team from each slot for a total of eight teams. Don't worry about prizes or what the second phase is going to be. Just pick eight teams, one from each slot. 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'm going to be out of town and away from the internet for the whole time entries are allowed, so don't screw this up. If you do, there isn't anything I can do for you. If someone notices that a commenter only guessed seven teams or they picked two teams from one slot, please leave them a comment of their error so that they can fix it.

Here is how your entries (comments) should look.

Slot 1:Grambling
Slot 2:Mercer
Slot 3:VCU
Slot 4:Stony Brook
Slot 5:Rider
Slot 6:St Louis
Slot 7:Kent State
Slot 8:FIU
Bonus: 0

Try to be precise when spelling the team in case there are two schools in the same slot with similar abbreveations. If I'm not sure what team you are talking about, I'm going with what I think it is.

All entries are due by Friday, June 4, at 11:00 am, central. I hope everyone had a good Memorial day and good luck with your picks.

Here is the bonus, worth two points: Guess how many autographs I will get on my trip. If you don't know what trip I'm talking about, look back a couple of posts. Whoever comes closest without going over will get the points. Don't pick a number someone else picked or that pick will not count (but schools can be picked multiple times).