Pick'em Info, TD traffic numbers and other news...

Football season's arrival means Pick'em contests on TigerDroppings.com. Our Pick'em contests are easy to play and they are FREE. We will be giving away prizes to the winners of each contest. Prizes will also be given to those who have the best picking %. In order to qualify for the picking % prize, you must have picked at least 75% games offered in the contest. This allows someone who may have missed a week or two to still have a shot at winning something.

The NFL Pick'em and NFL Survivor contests begin this Sunday. The deadline this weekend to get picks in for both contests is noon CT. Please note that we are not including the Thursday night game for this week in order to give everyone a few extra days to get in on the action. In the future, all games will be picked.

For the NFL Pick'em contest, all you have to do is pick the winner of each game each week.

Pay attention to the deadlines listed on the contest home page since some weeks later in the season have Thursday, Friday and Saturday games.

For the NFL Survivor contest, you have to pick one team that you think will win its game for a given week. If the team you picked wins, you continue to the next week. If that team loses, you are out of the contest. You cannot pick the same team more than once over the course of the contest. Due to the nature of the Survivor contest, you must participate in it from the very beginning. So get your picks in now.

The College Football Pick'em contest started last week with 2,378 entries. Eight users went 15-2 and sit atop the leaderboard. There are 76 users just one game back. The leaders include:

IB6UB9
thumperpait
chuckyshah19
MSG
frazie
iwyLSUiwy
HeadChange
jorts4food

Congrats to them for a job well done. The deadline for Week 2 is Saturday at 10am CT.

LINK to Pick'em Home Page

On the subject of site traffic, the last few weeks have seen a surge in hits to the site, and we are poised to set a monthly record for visitors to the site. More traffic means more posters, and more work for us to admin the site. I ask that we all seek to improve the quality of our posts. Threads on the Tiger Rant that degenerate into name-calling and/or flaming serve no purpose.

Also, while criticizing our team is acceptable and debate is encouraged, please keep it as constructive as possible.

Help us police the boards by using the Request Admin button, or sending us an email and alerting us to something that needs to be addressed.

We want to make this place enjoyable for all of our users.

Finally, we had some new sponsors start this past week.

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Walking distance from campus, the store is open on football and baseball gamedays to provide you with the necessities for your tailgate, big or small. Located in the Fieldhouse Condominiums on Nicholson in Baton Rouge (just minutes from Tiger Stadium). You can email them at Tailgate2Geaux@gmail.com.

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