The NFBC's Main Event Is Full At 300 Teams

[Greg Ambrosius]

This might be the happiest post I've ever made on the Message Boards. Last night we got three more signups for the main event and two more for the auction leagues in Las Vegas and as of this minute the NFBC's main event is full at 300 teams! We had one person in New York whose credit card did not go through this week and this morning I got an e-mail from his partner saying there was a death in the family and they couldn't make it. Thus, we fortunately had one extra signup last night to make it official at 300.



Unbelievably, we have full 15-team leagues in each city! We have 9 full leagues in Las Vegas, 7 full leagues in New York and 4 full leagues in Chicago. There will be no phone hookup drafts for the NFBC in 2005!



I have one person whose credit card has not cleared yet that I must get in touch with before I can pull the leagues, but Walla Walla has been nice enough to secure the final spot if there is a problem, which may be enough for me to pull the draft spots today.



Tom is coming into the office to help with this and it's very possible that we will announce the leagues today. I will send out an e-mail to everyone before I do that and then post each city online and each league in the league forums. What a great, great night it was as we had five online signups in the two hours after I left as we officially closed the event out at 12:26 a.m. CST on March 12th, 48 hours before our deadline.



So what's left in the NFBC? We have one mixed auction league spot in New York-Chicago ($650 entry fee), four Mixed Auction League spots in Las Vegas ($650) and 6 NL Auction League ($650 entry fee) spots in Las Vegas. That's it, unless this one spot in Las Vegas' main event opens up. Let's fill all of this out and just spend the next seven days preparing for our drafts.



I can't tell you in words how happy I am about the response to our event. It's been unreal and uplifting. We will finish this year with 158 of our 195 guys from last year returning and the other 37 guys I swear all had legitimate reasons why they couldn't come this year, from weddings to births to even deaths. The return rate for an event with a $1,250 entry fee was astounding even to Tom and I, even though initially we knew we'd have a lot of guys coming back. But this final number just blew us away.



But enough of the rhetoric. There's work to be done today and draft spots to be determined. I promise to get this done before taking the kids sledding (yeah, 3-4 more inches of snow here in Wisconsin last night) and get you guys started. THANKS EVERYONE FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART! I don't know any better way to say it.