Olympic Winners Contest

Because I am obsessed with the olympics and can't wait for them to start I thought it would be fun to do a contest where people pick the winners (there will be prizes involved).  In order to make things easier, I am limiting it to the team competitions.  But to make it more difficult (and other discipline friendly) you have to pick for dressage, eventing, and show jumping.  Let the games begin.

The official judge, but don't worry I will still do the math.

How it works
You pick what country you think will win the gold, silver, and bronze medal for each discipline.  As a potential tie breaker, you have to guess what the score will be for the eventing individual gold medalist.  Entries are due Friday August 5th by midnight pacific time (email them to eventing.saddlebred.style (at) gmail or comment on this post).

Example:

• Dressage
• Gold=Cuba
• Silver=Mexico
• Bronze=Peru
• Eventing
• Gold=South Africa
• Silver=Swaziland
• Bronze=Botswana
• Show Jumping
• Gold=Nepal
• Silver=Thailand
• Bronze=Cambodia
• Tiebreaker=19.3 (remember lower is better in eventing)

Scoring

• For every medal you get correct, you get 20 points.
• If you get all three correct in the same category you get 30 bonus points.
• If you get two correct (ex. gold and bronze are correct) in the same category you get 20 bonus points.
• If you pick a team in the incorrect medal spot (ex. your gold team wins bronze) you get 5 points.
• In the event that there is a tie, the score that is closest for the eventing gold medalist will win the tie.

Prizes (the fun part)

• 1st place will get their choice of a gift card 
• Dark Jewel Design
• If the Bonnet Fits
• Riding Warehouse
• 2nd place will get their choice of a gift card after (1st place)
• 3rd place will get the remaining card

In addition to the winning prizes, I am putting together some small ones (these will be humorous and not set in stone yet) for the non-winners.

• Lowest total score (aka please enter my contest because even if you are terrible you can still win something)
• If you share the contest on your blog, your name will be entered into a random drawing.
• Most eliminations (aka if you have terrible luck and your riders are falling off left and right you can still win something).

Team Options

Dressage (Link to Teams)

• Australia
• Brazil
• Denmark
• France
• Germany
• Great Britain
• Japan
• Netherlands
• Spain
• Sweden
• USA

Eventing (Link to Teams)

• Australia
• Brazil
• Canada
• France
• Germany
• Great Britain
• Ireland
• Italy
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Russia
• Sweden
• USA

Show Jumping (Link to Teams)

• Argentina
• Australia
• Brazil
• Canada
• France
• Germany
• Great Britain
• Japan
• Netherlands
• Qatar
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Ukraine
• USA