It might be a tad late but it’s back for season 2024! The tipping competition with a difference. No need to pick your tips week by week - you pick them all before the season starts!
Now in its 18th year, From Long Range (FLR) is a competition available exclusively to all Blitzers. Originally conceived and run by Mero, FLR provides you with something to do in the off season, as well as an interest during the season no matter how the Bombers are going.
Past winners include:
2007 Sloots
2008 Mero
2009 swoodley
2010 #11
2011 Red Rover / Plugs
2012 WindyDill
2013 Paddyl90
2014 Ivan
2015 Quietachiever
2016 CrazyBomber
2017 Paddyl90
2018 Klawdy
2019 swoodley, samwoods, Cyberbomber
2020 Yossarian
2021 Lifetime_ban
2022 samwoods
2023 stuka
2024 ???
This year’s major prize is a Tim Watson Hall Of Fame Legend jumper in the (one day to be) traditional clash jumper format. It has the name of every Essendon player sublimated everywhere except the sash plus some other details of Tim’s career on the inside neck. It’s brand new with tags and is a size XXL which will suit some of you but others might want to frame it.
If the winner doesn’t want the jumper, they can optionally swap it for this year’s booby prize! It’s something a little different – an original Bomberblitz polo! The winner of this will be selected at random at season’s end, so you all have a chance of winning something even if you are no good at tipping. If the winner opts for the polo, the jumper will become the booby prize.
Yes, you could be part of an exclusive bunch of Blitzers who currently don the polo. From memory, there were only about 20 of these ever made. Mero organised it - he’d probably remember. I think wimmera1 even has his name embroided on his. Anyway, if you wear this to the footy you’re bound to be recognised by other Blitzers. (Wait, is that a good thing?)
Most of you know how it goes, but for those who don’t, here are the rules and instructions:
- You must be a BomberBlitz member to play.
- Download the entry spreadsheet from here FLR 2024 - Your Blitz Name.xls
- Rename the file with your BomberBlitz name.
- Select the predicted winner (or draw) for each of the 207 matches of the season. Note: You may have to “Enable Editing” to be able to make your picks.
- Email your entry to BomberMcVeigh @ Gmail.com (without the spaces). Give it about 24 hours to be processed as I’m not checking that inbox too often.
- You must do all of this BEFORE Thursday 7th March 2024, 19:30 (start of the season) Any entries received after this time will be ignored.
- Any games that you don’t select a winner for will be assumed to be the AWAY team.
- Only one entry per Blitzer, including those with multiple personas.
- In the event of a tie, all winners will be recognised in the honour roll however due to the uniqueness of the prize, there will be a countback for the prize winner with the tipper with the most "9"s, “8”'s etc. being the winner.
- Darren Bewick
- Any complaining or correspondence will probably be ignored.
- Entries will be recorded in this opening post as they have been processed.
- All “ladders” will be sent in the replies to your entry emails.
- Progressive results will be published after each round in this thread.
Go for it!
2024 Entry List (43)
2011
AnnStBomber
Bboy10
bomber3232
BomberAbroad
BomberMcVeigh
Borneo13tk2
Bush
Captain Jack
chess
coldblood
Crazy Bomber
CyberBomber
Dodga
Engulfma
frankston_bomber2005
HurleyBurley
jackman7
Kialla
Kj_11
Klawdy
Koala
Lifetime_ban
Mackster
Muriel_St_Bomber
nickers
paddyl90
percebushby
Quietachiever
RobThommo
samwoods
Scotty21
stuka
sweatyman
swoodley
swooper
thegeoffrode
Vince_Black
Vozdog
Windy Dill
Windyhill
Wrighty05
Yossarian
