The Amazing Race 19 PTTE Game Are you ready for some PTTE?
What's a PTTE, you ask?
Well, PTTE is short for "Picks To The End"
It is a boot list prediction game.
It is a game about the order of who IS kicked off each week
New players are always welcome, and for new folks who want to play the PTTE game this season, here's how it works:
Here's the goal:
Post your prediction about the ENTIRE elimination order for the season, starting with the first team to be eliminated and ending with the winner. Please put WINNER next to the team that you think will win.
This doesn't need to have any analysis, although you're welcome to throw anything in that you want. With any spoiler information available to you, coupled with your own intuition, see how well you can do.
The game won't close for a few weeks, but all picks made after the first episode begins will incur a point penalty... the earlier you enter, the less points you can earn, so enter early!
Remember, the goal is to end the season with the fewest points.
Scoring:
Here's the way that the scoring works:
1) You do NOT want points... they're bad... it's like golf.
Every point counts against you in the standings, so try to avoid them.
2) Points will be awarded to every contestant in the game after each episode of The
Amazing Race 19. They will be awarded as the difference between where you thought this week's eliminee would finish and where the eliminee actually finished.
If it is a non-elimination episode, then no points will be scored for that week, and if there is a double-elimination episode, the eliminees will be scored according to the order they were eliminated.
For example: If you think Ethen & Jenna will come in 5th, and they actually come in 11th, you'll receive 6 points (the difference between 11th and 5th) for that week's episode.
3) You will be given 4 penalty points every time you change your PTTE list after the first episode has aired, but it's only 4 points so change your list if you think it will help you out.
4) If you do not enter before the first episode, you will start with a score equivalent to 8 points per episode you missed.
5) I will post a few tiebreaker questions in the event of ties at the end of the season.
These are important, as tiebreakers have decided the winner in seasons past!
More information to follow.
Here are the teams!
Amani/Marcus
Amani Pollard
Age: 36
Hometown: Pine Mountain, Ga.
Connection to your teammate: Married¬
Current occupation: Business owner
Pet peeve about your teammate: His sound effects while I’m driving. He'll say "uurrpp" when he wants me to break, "bammm" (as he hits the dash or window) if he thinks I could have hit something or "you see that car?" I'll be like, "the one right in front of me?"
Marcus Pollard
Age: 39
Hometown: Pine Mountain, Ga.
Connection to your teammate: Married
Current occupation: Retired professional football player/football coach
Pet peeve about your teammate: When she doesn’t make the bed in the morning.
Andy/Tommy
Andy Finch
Age: 30
Hometown: Truckee, Calif.
Connection to your teammate: Friend
Current occupation: Professional snowboarder/former Olympic snowboarder
Pet peeve about your teammate: Trying to reach him on his phone. He lives in the middle of nowhere.
Tommy Czeschin
Age: 32
Hometown: Crowley Lake, Calif.
Connection to your teammate: Friend
Current occupation: Professional snowboarder/former Olympic snowboarder
Pet peeve about your teammate: He’s always going off the Richter scale and by being so crazy he’s always getting injured. Also, he always wears flip flops.
Bill/Cathi
Bill Alden
Age: 63
Hometown: Albany, Ore.
Connection to your teammate: Married
Current occupation: I’m a retired teacher. I’m currently a farmer/rancher.
Pet peeve about your teammate: She throws my things away without asking!
Cathi Alden
Age: 62
Hometown: Albany, Ore.
Connection to your teammate: Married
Current occupation: College instructor/retired high school principal
Pet peeve about your teammate: He is an angry driver at times and that really irritates me.
Ernie/Cindy
Ernie Halvorsen
Age: 29
Hometown: Chicago
Connection to your teammate: Engaged
Current occupation: Project Manager
Pet peeve about your teammate: Planning – Cindy loves to plan every aspect of our lives and sometimes it can be overwhelming.
Cindy Chiang
Age: 30
Hometown: Chicago
Connection to your teammate: Engaged
Current occupation: Brand Manager
Pet peeve about your teammate: He’s a really happy-go-lucky person with a positive attitude and outlook on life, but for some crazy reason he always gives me some round-about answer to any of my questions.
Ethan/Jenna
Ethan Zohn
Age: 37
Hometown: New York, N.Y.
Connection to your teammate: Dating
Current occupation: Change maker
Pet peeve about your teammate: She thinks that animals are real people and can understand what she is saying… I also kind of love it.
Jenna Morasca
Age: 30
Hometown: New York, N.Y.
Connection to your teammate: Dating
Current occupation: TV host/student
Pet peeve about your teammate: He’s too goody-goody.
Jeremy/Sandy
Jeremy Cline
Age: 35
Hometown: Alamo, Calif.
Connection to your teammate: Dating
Current occupation: Commercial real estate broker
Pet peeve about your teammate: She calls me “skinny.”
Sandy Draghi
Age: 33
Hometown: Dublin, Calif.
Connection to your teammate: Dating
Current occupation: Nurse practitioner
Pet peeve about your teammate: My biggest pet peeve about Jeremy is his thoroughness. He is very meticulous in all that he does. I’m more of a “just get it over with” type of person. I guess I need more patience.
Justin/Jennifer
Justin Young
Age: 31
Hometown: Stone Mountain, Ga.¬
Connection to your teammate: Brother
Current occupation: Doctor¬
Pet peeve about your teammate: Her hunger and her sleep rage – she can get pretty irrational when she feels she has been wronged.
Jennifer Young
Age: 26
Hometown: Stone Mountain, Ga.
Connection to your teammate: Sister
Current occupation: Special Education Teacher
Pet peeve about your teammate: His whistling. Arrgh!
Kaylani/Lisa
Kaylani Paliotta
Age: 33
Hometown: Las Vegas
Connection to your teammate: Friend
Current occupation: Cocktail waitress¬
Pet peeve about your teammate: Sometimes when you talk to her and she doesn’t agree, Lisa will stare at you with this blank stare and start shaking her head. And, if you are talking, you can be certain that Lisa will cut you off and she will twist anything to make herself right. Should you disagree with her she throws a fit.
Lisa Tilley
Age: 32
Hometown: Las Vegas
Connection to your teammate: Friend
Current occupation: Cocktail waitress
Pet peeve about your teammate: Sometimes she’s too nice and can come off as being fake.
Laurence/Zac
Laurence Sunderland
Age: 48
Hometown: Thousand Oaks, Calif.
Connection to your teammate: Father
Current occupation: Yacht manager
Pet peeve about your teammate: His ability to shift responsibility when it’s convenient.
Zac Sunderland
Age: 19
Hometown: Thousand Oaks, Calif.
Connection to your teammate: Son
Current occupation: Record-setting boat captain
Pet peeve about your teammate: My dad gets stuck in his ways and will not hear reason.
Liz/Marie
Liz Canavan
Age: 24
Hometown: Deerfield, Ill.
Connection to your teammate: Twin sister
Current occupation: Marketing assistant
Pet peeve about your teammate: She is very bossy and tells me what to do all the time. Plus, she always thinks she’s right.
Marie Canavan
Age: 24
Hometown: Deerfield, Ill.
Connection to your teammate: Twin sister
Current occupation: Soul searching
Pet peeve about your teammate: She relies on me to do everything that is important and make all the difficult decisions.
Ron/Bill
Ron Zeitz
Age: 44
Hometown: Laguna Niguel, Calif.
Connection to your teammate: Domestic partner
Current occupation: Flight attendant
Pet peeve about your teammate: He uses a lot of word inflation.
Bill Smith
Age: 49
Hometown: Laguna Niguel, Calif.
Connection to your teammate: Domestic partner
Current occupation: Flight attendant
Pet peeve about your teammate: His occasional moodiness.
You can find out more on the teams at the CBS Amazing Race site.
If you have any questions post them in this thread or PM me.
(Private Message located top right on page, larger envelope icon.)
That's it for now. Post your list.
Sit back and enjoy the first episode of:
The Amazing Race 19
I will lock in your list at 7:59 pm EDT on Sunday, October 2, 2011.
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