Entry Fee? PayPal!

Hey Everyone!

It looks like PayPal is going to keep things simple for us. Just pay your entry fee via PayPal! Just $10! And then, if you win the Summer League you will the whole pot!

You should have received an email saying the exact same thing.

Contest #101: Pre-Season: New Cartoon

Contest #101 is ready to go!! Are you feeling those caption muscles burn? Are you out of breath? You have not pulled anything yet, have you? Keep going! That's what preseason is for!! We are going to have one more preseason round and by next week you will be in fighting shape, ready to caption with the best of 'em!! Send in your captions for this cartoon by Sunday night. Good luck!

The votes are coming in on Contest #100 and it is quite a battle. I can not wait to find who the winner will be. Hey Stragglers! Send in those votes!!

I need to figure out how to get the money thing working. Someone suggested PayPal, so I will look into that. More later.

Contest #100: Cast Your Votes

All right!! The time has come to vote! Just read the entries below, give 2 points to your favorite and give 1 piont to your second favorite. And, YES!, you can vote for your own submission! Send your votes to me.


1 Let's hit the buffet before the elephants and lions get there.
2 Cruise insurance?  Who needs cruise insurance?  What could possibly go wrong? you said...
3 40 days and 40 nights. I'm glad it's just us men!
4 Cool! You can't even see Staten Island.
5 Okay, okay, you've made your point. I would sleep with you if you were the last man on earth.
6 So wait...there's only ONE bathroom on this thing?
7 Sunglasses—what foresight! God forbid you bring two umbrellas. Putz.

Late Entry: I'm sorry I can't relax, but I think I left the stove on at home.

Contest #100: Pre-Season: Extension!

With the holiday, everyone is getting a one day extension on this preseason game. Get your submissions in!

Contest #100: Pre-Season

All right! I think we should run a couple of practice runs to work out the kinks. Pre-Season if you will. The game has not started yet, so do not get too stressed, just practice for now.

Just email me your entry for this cartoon by Sunday night. This is contest #100, so reference that in your email if you can. Also, send in your entry to the New Yorker Caption Contest, the link is in the right nav, under 'http things'. Next week, I will send out submissions and you can vote. We will also do another training round. The Summer League will not start for real until June 4th. We will worry about money after Memorial Day.

I am going to make the blog public so anyone can view it. If Google harasses me, I might need to make it private. Cross your fingers that they do not harass me.

Ok! Think for half a second, think of a caption for this cartoon and send it to me! You will win! I have faith in you. I love you! You! Seriously, you! This message only appears for you, no one else!!

Link to blog: http://nyccsummerleague.blogspot.com/

Welcome and Rules

So! Do you think you can come up with THE caption for this cartoon? Do you think your caption will be more funny than your peers? HA!

HA HA!!

Welcome to the New Yorker Caption Contest Summer League!! Every week we will post the cartoon for the New Yorker Caption Contest. You will contribute money to a pool. All entrants will contribute money to the pool. There will be a lot of money. Winner takes all. You will send in your caption for the cartoon to both this blog and to the New Yorker Caption Contest. The New Yorker will judge your caption and your peers will judge your caption. The winner takes all. You might be wondering, "What are the rules?"

The Rules
1. Winner takes all!
2 The season starts on June 1st. We will start with the first cartoon after June 1st.
3 The season ends August 31st. We will not compete with any cartoons after August 31st.
4. Get your money to me, Jamie or Charlie. There is a $10 entry fee. My name is Stewart Haddock. You can send me an email (messed up for the spammers: stewart @ the haddocks . com ... well, it was not that messed up, now was it??) I will hold the money.
5. Every Monday I will post the cartoon for the contest
6. You have until 11:59pm Sunday to send in your caption. Send your posts to me.
7. I will post all the captions to this blog Monday.
8. Everyone will vote on the what they think is the best caption. Give two points to your favorite caption. Give one point to your second favorite caption. You can vote for your own entry. Send your votes to me by the following Sunday at Midnight.
9. I will notify you of the winning caption and who entered it.
9. I will keep track of the total score, but I will keep this to myself until the end of the season.
10. At the end of the season, the person with the most points wins. Winner takes all!
11. Now! If the New Yorker picks your cartoon for the final three, that trumps the final score of your peers. So, if you make it to the final three during week seven and no one else makes it to the final three, then you win the Summer League Contest outright. Who cares what your peers think.
12. However, if someone else makes it to the final three then you would be considered tied for first. If, at the end of the season, you and that fucker who also made it to the final three are tied with your New Yorker score, then final score of your peers will determine who wins the game.
13. Winner takes all!
14. There will be a party or a gather or an exhale when the season is over.
15. The rules of the game might need to be tweaked as the season progresses. No whining about lack of fairness and no suing. Got that? You can not play this game if you think there is a remote possibility that you might sue me. Yes, I like you but I do not trust you and that is very sad.

If you are not familiar with the New Yorker Caption Contest, click here:New Yorker Caption Contest

To avoid the ire of the New Yorker, this is a private blog which means I will need to invite you to read the blog. Just shoot me an email!

I like you alot!

Stewart

Questions and Answers!
1. Q: Can we make several entries per week?
A: To the New Yorker you can, but just one to the game.