Welcome to the 2008 FM99 Fantasy Racing Challenge! After getting feedback from listeners who played last year, Dell Sports, which provides the game for us, decided to revamp the game. There are two key changes:
1) Your goal this year is to simply pick the drivers you think will finish in the Top 10 each week. (There are no more “salaries.”) You score points for each of your drivers who finishes in the Top 10. And you get bonus points for each of your drivers who finishes in the exact position you select for him.
2) By popular demand the game has been extended and will continue through the chase for the cup. That means 36 races in all!
If you're already a whiz at this and don't need all the excellent information below and want to get straight to the game, and you're already an esteemed member of the FM99 E-Force, all you have to do is click here to log in to the FM99 E-Force to begin your registration and start racin'!
If you're not yet a member of the FM99 E-Force, click here to register and then you'll be on your way to the FM99 Fantasy Racing Challenge.
How the game works:
Points are scored as follows:
Weekly Racing Challenge Scoring Table
Predicting Driver That Finishes In The Top 10 = 100 Points/Driver
Bonus Points Scale
Actual Driver Finish
Top 10 Finish
Exact Finish Bonus
Total Points Awarded
1st Place
100
80
180
2nd Place
100
70
170
3rd Place
100
65
165
4th Place
100
60
160
5th Place
100
55
155
6th Place
100
50
150
7th Place
100
46
146
8th Place
100
42
142
9th Place
100
38
138
10th Place
100
34
134
To check the weekly winners, click on the "Results" tab at the top, and then select "Weekly Winners." This will show you who finished in first, second, third and fourth places within the FM99 pool. Feel free to explore the other tabs to get all sorts of other information. A quick reference for the tabs and what they do is here:
Home includes your profile, your picks, your messages, fan zones and trash talk (this is a discussion board that lets you communicate with other players - just because it says "trash" doesn't mean you should. There, we've done our part to ask you to keep it clean.).
Make Picks allows you to check out driver profiles and track profiles along side your own picks.
Results will show you your results along with the weekly standings (first, second, third and fourth in the local FM99 pool), local standings (showing the most points earned in a single week per race), and national standings so you can compare yourself to people from everywhere else.
Game Time gives you the latest race news, results, cup standings, and schedules.
Groups allows you to join various groups both locallly and nationally along with letting you create your own groups for you and your friends (all of whom you should force to play the game as well).
Support will show you even more info than this page within the game rules, scoring chart, frequently asked questions, prizing grid and contact options.
Are there prizes? Of course! FM99 will offer weekly local prizes to the four listeners who score the most points:
1st place: 2 tickets to Richmond International Raceway 2nd place: $50 gift card to Tidewater Sports & Collectibles 3rd place: $25 gift card to Hooter’s 4th place: 4 Hardee’s combo dinner coupons
In addition, FM99 will offer a local grand prize: A trip for two to the Richard Petty Driving Experience! The grand prize will go to the FM99 listener who posts the highest single-week score of the 36- race season.
In the event of a tie, we have some tiebreakers that will be executed in order to determine a weekly and/or overall Grand Prize winner. The tiebreakers include:
Tiebreaker #1 – Most Drivers In The Top 10 Tiebreaker #2 – Most Correctly Predicted Exact Finish Drivers Tiebreaker #3 – Highest Exact Finish Driver Tiebreaker #4 – Random Drawing.
But wait, there’s more: Dell Sports is also putting up a national grand prize of their own: a Playstation 3 along with the NASCAR ’08 game. This prize will go to the person who posts the highest single-week score among all players in the country.
A few of the technical things, real quick:
FM99 WNOR operates the FM99 Fantasy Racing through Dell Sports, a 3rd-party contest provider. Dell Sports determines all scoring and national grand prize selection and fulfillment. FM99 determines all local prizing, and in order to receive local prizing, a winner must comply with the FM99 General Contest Rules. One of the most important things this means is that you must be a resident of Virginia or Northeastern North Carolina within the FM99 air signal range as determined by management in order to win any WNOR-provided weekly prizes. You're welcome to play the game if you live in California, but you can't win the local prizes unless you're a local.
If you're already an esteemed member of the FM99 E-Force, all you have to do is click here to log in to the FM99 E-Force and begin your registration to start racin'!
If you're not yet a member of the FM99 E-Force, click here to register and then you'll be on your way to the FM99 Fantasy Racing Challenge.
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