Friday, September 25, 2009

It's on again!

That's right, everycat!

Tomorrow is the Australian Football League's Grand Final for 2009.

This year's top two teams, the Saint Kilda Saints and the Geelong Cats, will face off to see who will be this year's champion.

And YOU can be a winner too! Just join in my AWESOME Footy Finals Fever Competition.

From now until game time, 2pm Australian Eastern Standard Time tomorrow (26 September), every blogging animal of the non-human variety can enter their tip for who will win the game, and predict the winning points margin. To enter, just post your prediction, with your name, in the comments of this post. Like this:

Pablo, Geelong Cats by 999 points (an exaggeration).

Feel free to add a little cheer for your team, but these will not affect the outcome of the contest. The winner will be the blogger who guesses the winning team with the closest points margin to the actual final points margin of the game. In the event of a tie, the blogger who posted their tip first will win. One entry per blogging household. And I can change these rules whenever I want (but I'm not likely to).

A $40 (Australian dollars) donation to the Hobart Cat Centre (my local) will also be made in the winner's name... and I might even send you a little something!

A hint from Pablo: in general, most AFL matches are decided by under 30 points, but it's not unheard of to have a points margin of 100 points or more. In last year's Grand Final, the the Hawthorn Hawks beat the Geelong Cats by 26 points. If you're interested in studying the teams' form, or keeping up with the score during game time, you can visit the AFL's website. Otherwise, just make your bestest guess!

Start tipping... NOW!

Cheers,
--Pabs

11 comments:

Teddy Westlife said...

I vote for St Kilda by 39 points. I hope they win by a gazillion points though.

Huffle Mawson

Forever Foster said...

Since we can't tip the Hawks, we will go for St Kilda by 27.

And go the Eels!:)

Samantha & Mom said...

We vote for the Geelong Cats by 25 points!! Whoo! Hoo!
Your (formally FL now) TX furiends,

The Island Cats said...

We're going with the Geelong Cats...of course...by 21 points!! Go Cats!!!

Unknown said...

We is gonna go fur St. Kilda by 14.

Daisy said...

Of course I will go with the Geelong Cats by 49 points.

You can Fight! You can BITE! Fight, Bite, WIN!

Kaz's Cats said...

G'day Pabs, we're sorry that we're a bit late.

Here are our guesses anyway:

Gypsy, St Kilda by 9 points

Tasha, Geelong by 22 points

Now we gonna sit back and watch!

Teddy Westlife said...

Clearly I had no idea what I was talking about. Oh well.

Huffle Mawson

Kate (Pablo's mum) said...

Well, it was a VERY close game... and the winner was... The Cats! By just 12 points. Looks like the Island Cats have won my tipping comp! Congrats!

Angel MoMo and Charlotte said...

A bit late but I am a Cats fan. Glad they won. Yay!!

Christine and FAZ said...

Oh no, the human is so slack we haven't visited for a while and we missed the competition. She is so useless. How's things your end Pabs?

FAZ