[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Bracket Manager Invitation

Hi guys, If you follow NCAA basketball and want to join a department bracket pool, please email Graham to sign up! (see below). If you don't follow basketball and want to try to predict the tournament anyway, feel free to sign up as well... winners are often people who don't know anything about the teams ;) Cheers, Leslie -- Leslie Vogt Aspuru-Guzik Group Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Graham Sazama <gsazama(a)yahoo.com> Date: Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 7:00 PM Subject: Bracket Manager Invitation To: leslievogt(a)gmail.com Hello Everyone, My favorite season of the year is upon us: MARCH MADNESS. Any two day stretch with 32 basketball games in it is a fabulous two days, Nor'easters be damned. What better way to celebrate this momentous yearly tradition than a Department-wide bracket competition? I have chosen you as my lab contact, such that you can ask (read: pester) anyone in your lab you think might be even remotely interested to join our bracket pool. The more, the merrier (and more the winnings!). If they're interested, get me their name and email address and I'll send them an invite. There's no way this list has even close to everyone who's possibly interested, so please spread the word (especially in the ChemBio areas)! Now the details... It's a piddling $5 entry fee, with 60/30/10 payouts to the First, second and third places. Your entry fee is due in my hands before the first game tips off (which gives you from tonight until Thursday afternoon, time TBA) or your bracket gets removed from the competition. We'll be using CBS Sportsline to set up the bracket - it's super easy and works like a charm. One bracket per person; may the best bracket win. All the details of scoring are included on the website. So, whether you slaved over months of research (basketball or chemistry, although one might be more useful here than the other) to figure out all the possible matchups, or if you chose by whichever teams' colors would make the prettiest home decor scheme, it's time to pit your strategy against the rest of Harvard's finest. Good luck! Graham http://chembrackets.mayhem.cbssports.com/e?ttag=BM10_EM_all_cspt_os_inlk_00… Our Group password is: HahvadSqueah