Baby Pool

Edit: Bidding is now closed. The baby has been born. The winner has been announced.

Okay people, so this is how this works. We will have spaces for your guesses regarding the actual delivery date, the weight, and the length so that you can keep track of your competitors.

The cost per guess is $5.00 to a maximum of 2 guesses per person (to make it fair). This will be a 50/50 win, meaning that 50% of the total amount of money pooled will be given to the winner, and 50% of the total amount will go to the kid. Indirectly. 🙂

Your guess will appear officially on this table only after we have received the $5.00 (or $10, if that’s how you work) from you.

You can send us a cheque, or you can do an email bank transfer (most banks offer one free email bank transfer per month, but check yours to make sure) to us to enter yourself into the pool. Or, if you live near us and end up seeing us, cash works too.

You can make a guess at any time up until one month before the expected due date (March 8th); that would be February 8th, 2010.

The way we will determine the winner is on a points basis. If you have the correct date/weight/length, you will receive 2 points. If you are the closest to the correct date/weight/length, you will receive 1 point. The person who has the most points will win.

If you have questions, please call or email us. We’ve never done this before, so we realise the ‘rules’ may change a bit if someone spots something inconsistent.

FYI: We will not be accepting I.O.U.’s or credit. We know you all too well 🙂

Oh, and the reason we do not have gender as a guess on here is that we are hoping to find out what the gender is, and I (Jane) don’t think I’d be able to keep from telling that to people. 🙂

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And the winner is… Taking Guesses It’s A… San Francisco, Baby!