Ok Cigar Geeks, its time to sign up for the 2023/2024 NFL Football Super Bowl Squares!
First of all, thanks for your feedback on my earlier post, I have left it down below in quotes for posterity.
On Sunday, February 11th the AFC and NFC Champions will play to determine the undisputed NFL Football Champion of the World. The final score will consist of a pair of numbers, 38-35 for example from last year's Super Bowl. The last digit of each score is the only digit that matters, 8 and 5 in my example from last year. There will be 100 squares, each of which will line up with one digit across the top and left of the grid. For right now, those numbers are blank, and will be randomly selected a day or so before the Super Bowl using a random number generator.
Prizes will be awarded for the winner, the reverse winner, the half time winner, the 1st quarter, and 3rd quarter.
UPDTATE: Here is the final set for the big game! Good luck to the participants!
Prize packages
There are 95 cigars to win, the remaining 5 being a donation to CFW because nobody bought those squares.
1st Quarter - 10 cigars
Half-Time - 20 cigars
Half-Reverse - 10 cigars
3rd Quarter - 10 cigars
Final - 35 cigars
Final Reverse - 10 cigars
The Super Bowl Squares is open to any member in good standing who has posted within the last calendar year. Each square must be "bought" with a quality cigar with a street purchase price above $8 or MSRP above $10. Pick your squares by listing the square #, 1 through 100. To secure your squares, before the date cutoff you must post what each cigar is, and post a picture of the sticks. Squares are first come first serve. Minimum buy-in is 5 squares, and an option to buy additional squares will be opened up once we see how many entrants we get to start out. By joining this contest, each participant acknowledges they are obligating themselves to ship their cigars to a winner; everyone will ship to someone, even the winners. I will be determining the prize packs and who ships to whom later. I will PM each participant after the game is over with the address of their recipient.
Unless a site admin over-rides me, I reserve the right to tell any participant any number of their cigar submissions are not accepted, for any reason without giving justification. To retain the squares, those participants will need to stake alternate cigars. I want to make it fair and clear to all participants that everyone is staking quality cigars that any Cigar Geek would be happy to receive in a prize pack.
Members may enter up until February 2nd, which is the cutoff and I'll evaluate where we stand on filling the squares. Around that time I'll have a good idea what the prize packs will look like as well.
If there is anything that needs clarification or important details that I have forgotten, please ask!
DATES:
NOW - singups, pick your squares
02/04/2024 - Cutoff for posting cigars to secure squares
02/11/2024 - Super Bowl 58
UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE - signups are opened up to 10 picks per member! The squares have been updated, grab any extra numbers you may want. New entrants may pick up to 10 spots. Buy-in remains the same, one cigar per square.
Participants are:
Participant
cfickter 11 27 40 65 68 15 43 81 37 79
appolo 9 18 26 36 45 71 82 53 35 60
brlesq 3 6 16 17 28
nirab 44 57 91 12 5 20 24 94 64 77
ninfiction 31 52 74 88 100 25 29 93 63 56
headfirst 1 13 22 34 46 55 70 78 89 97
05Venturer 2 4 99 98 50
bstessl 23 54 10 75 87 32 61 86 47 38
Kid Montana 21 33 14 85 96 8 48 59 80 67
Bewaredapenguin 41 62 73 84 95 19 30 58 66 7
Otis 39 42 76 83 90
CFW 49 51 69 72 92
We still have 25 open spaces! Quote
Hi Geeks,
In years past I've run a number of versions of a Super Bowl squares contest, and want to guage interest. We can do it a few ways, but I want a bit of feedback since its important to have enough entrants to fill the squares.
The whole point of a Cigar Geeks Super Bowl Squares is to stake cigars as the buy-in for each square you want. We can do premium cigars, where there's some sort of price or desirability criteria, or open it up to any good regular cigar, so long as its not a dog rocket. We can do 25 squares, we can do 100 squares, or we can do no squares and not have the contest though that would be a bummer.
I'd like to get the contest started after this weekend which is the end of regular season play. I will update this post with all the official rules and requirements once I get some feedback on participation and buy-in criteria, or whatever you may suggest.
