Hi all! Well, that was last season. We've got a new CFL Football season fast approaching! First, a handful of announcements. Then scroll down for pool docs and helpful links!!
So first off, here's the SCHEDULE for 2025's pools! Another normal CFL season this year, with 21 regular season weeks, followed by the usual playoff schedule!
POOL 1: Covers CFL weeks 1 to 7, Thursday, June 5 to Sunday, July 20. This one is 27 games, six full 4-game weeks and one 3-day week!
POOL 2: Covers CFL weeks 8 to 14: Starts Thursday, July 24 and goes to Saturday, September 6! That's another 27 games!
POOL 3: The final pool of the season! Covers the remaining CFL regular season weeks 15 to 21, plus the playoffs! Starts Friday, September 12, and goes right to Grey Cup Sunday, November 16! And this one is the last 27 regular season games, plus 5 playoff and Final games = 32 games! Includes the semifinals, East and West finals, AND the 112th Grey Cup Final! Played right here in Winnipeg, Manitoba this year!
NEW IN 2024: Correctly predicting a TIE will net you TRIPLE your assigned points! This overrides what it says in the rules document, where you only get DOUBLE. Now it's TRIPLE! So... nobody picked a tie this pool. But if you do... and you get it right... woo hoo!
If you've been in on the Curling pools, you know those are now 5 bucks each. Same with our Football pools now! 5 bucks, up from $2. As of 2022. Two and 1/2 times the price. BUT, likewise, two and 1/2 times the PRIZES! So the 2019 Pool 3 first prize was $35. With the new entry fee, that would have been... $87.50!! So... Even MORE better than a kick in the pants!!
And speaking of entry fees, with Stupid Covid, we really got into e-Transfers! To my email address, glenmoor@shaw.ca! Worked rather well! Might as well continue that as well!
THE 2025 CFL MINI-POOL 1!So okay, here it is, CFL Pool 1, the first pool of the 2025 season! Coming up real soon! Thursday, June 5th as a matter of fact!
Who's Entered So Far? Well... nobody yet! So be the first why not?
The 2025 Pool 1 Entry Form! Here is where you make your picks! Enter once, enter often! Deadline for Pool 1 is Thursday, June 5 at 8:00 PM, the start of the first game of the CFL regular season! Which is Ottawa at Saskatchewan! The entry form is the same cool format as usual, an Excel spreadsheet with drop-down everything! (Credit for the original form goes to a guy who worked at MTS who did hockey pools.)
Instructions for using the Excel Pool Entry Form
To fill out the interactive entry form and send it to me, you MUST save your picks on your computer. Then email the file you saved to me as an attachment. That's the only way I will get your picks! That's because the form is not a true online form. But it's still very easy to use.
The 2025 Pool 1 Entry Form -- in web page format! This is the same as the Excel spreadsheet, except in web page format. Not interactive though, but you can print it off and fill it out if you like doing it the old-fashioned way!
The above docs can be downloaded in the following ZIP file!
The 2025 CFL Pool 1 Zip File Currently just 20K bytes, the entry form in two formats. Quick, easy downloadability! Your best download value!
THE SAME FORMAT: Yeah, this is yet another year of CFL "MINI" pools! Each one based on a different part of the season. Continuing with the usual 3 pools as of 2022. And all you gotta do is predict the results of all the CFL games! Every game of the CFL season, except the Pre-Season, makes up the 3 pools!
WHAT TO DO: If you're new to the pools, what you do is: Using the entry form, predict the winners of all the games in the pool. You can also predict a TIE for regular season games! (Scroll way down for a summary of TIES in the CFL.) NEW as of 2024: Correctly predicting a TIE will net you TRIPLE your assigned points!! When we get to Pool 3, you will also predict what teams will play in the Playoffs and Grey Cup Final as well, and of course the winners of these! (But NO TIES in the playoffs!)
THEN: After predicting all the game winners or ties, you apply RANK POINTS to each prediction, based on how sure you are of each. Apply the highest points to the games you're most sure of, and the lowest points to the games you're least sure of! Using each number ONLY ONCE. For ALL the games you picked. Then get your entry in!
GETTING YOUR ENTRY IN: It don't matter how you get your entry to me. Email it. Print it off and hand it to me, or take a picture of it and text or email that to me! One warning, I don't do Apple "numbers" documents. I'm a Microsoft, Android only person! Sorry! I just don't think Apple plays well with others. By choice. BUT that's another story!!!
THAT'S IT in a nutshell. For more detailed description, see the RULES document using the links above. Or check out the ENTRY FORM, and just go for it already!
This space reserved for advertising. HAHAHA just kidding NO WAY man!! All I "advertise" is the CFL, its website, and a couple other helpful websites. See links below!
Yes, why not get some of your friends or family into this, it's only 2 oops uh 5 bucks, and hey that will make the pot a little sweeter for the winners! Which will be YOU, right? Sure, of course! We welcome anybody with money, and who thinks they can predict CFL Football! Or not predict it! Hahahaa!
So yeah the start of the 2025 CFL season is fast approaching, and so is the first pool of the season! So let's get together at a restaurant or patio, to talk football, eat, and whatever! What do you say?
When? Thursday, June 6! The night of the first game of the season!
Time? Any time after 5:30 PM.
Where? How about Santa Lucia Pizza, 4 St Mary's Road, Upstairs Patio! They always seem to have room. Unless it rains. Then we'll go inside!
Interested? Let me know so I can know how big a table to get! Or if you're keen, beat me there why not!
Recent and Upcoming Games!
(Date and time or result, but no more attendance stats.)
Coming up: 2025 CFL Week 1 (First week of regular season!)
Thu Jun 5 8:00 PM CDT OTT @ SSK
Fri Jun 6 6:30 PM CDT TOR @ MTL
Sat Jun 7 6:00 PM CDT HAM @ CGY
Sat Jun 7 9:00 PM CDT EDM @ BC
All done: The 2024 CFL Playoffs!
Eastern Semi-Final Sat Nov 2 FINAL OTT 38 @ 58 TOR
Western Semi-Final Sat Nov 2 FINAL BC 19 @ 28 SASK
Eastern Final Sat Nov 9 FINAL TOR 30 @ MTL 28
Western Final Sat Nov 9 FINAL SASK 22 @ WPG 38
111th Grey Cup Sun Nov 17 FINAL TOR 41 vs WPG 24 at BC Place, Vancouver, BC
(source: www.cfl.ca)
Helpful LinksIf you need CFL information, check out these important links:
The CFL's OFFICIAL Web Site This has the stats, schedule, results, plus all the players, team Rosters, transactions, depth charts... Everything you need to predict who will win all the games! And guarantee you a win in the pool! (Guarantee not actually valid)
The CFL's Schedule and Results Page This year, plus you can get to previous seasons from here too!
TSN's CFL Site There's information and Broadcast schedules here!
* TSN's CFL Broadcast Schedule * Looks like ALL CFL regular season games are on "TSN"! Whether that's TSN 1, 3, Plus, or whatever, not sure. Click for details! But Spoiler Alert though! They've got the latest scores at the top of the page!
Canoe.com's CFL Site (Formerly SLAM.ca)
Hey why not take a CFL trivia quiz? See how much you know about our game! Mostly I think it's accurate.
Calvillo Sets All-Time CFL TD Pass Record
// Stegall All Time Receiving Yards King
Bruce Boa: Former Calgary Stampeder and Waldorf Salad ordering actor from British sitcom Fawlty Towers
Who the heck is Luther Selbo? Clue #1
Clue #2
Farrell Funston makes the catch!
Kapp & Mosca: Can't we just get along? I guess not. Try to understand it here!
When was the last tie game in the CFL? (Regular season - pre-season doesn't count) Well! Updated as of Sept 14, 2024... The CFL just had its SECOND TIE OF THE 2024 SEASON! Montreal at Calgary. Score 19 all. The first tie of the 2024 season was Aug 8, Sask at Ottawa! 22 all. Before that though, gotta go back to Friday, June 23rd, 2017, Calgary at Ottawa! 31 - 31 tie in overtime. Before that, Friday, July 8, 2016! Calgary at Ottawa again! Final score 26 - 26. Which was the first tie since 2009: October 17, 2009, Sask 44 @ Calgary 44. And before that, there were two in 2007: June 28, 2007, Wpg 39 @ Edm 39; and August 17, 2007, BC 45 @ Cal 45. And another in 2004. So there you go! There's your recap as of Sept 14, 2024!
That’s all I’ve got for now. Remember, you can contact me by phone or text, if you know my land line or cell numbers; or email: glenmoor@shaw.ca!
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