closest to the pin at close 15/05/09

So today I feel a bit like this:

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Congrats to MLV01 for taking yesterday's cup.

These are the standings for the monthly comp for May:

Poster Bid Difference Points
russiancircles 27 19 10
willious 32 14 10
mattyrt 33 13 10
Uglystik 37 9 10
MVL01 52 6 10
letemroll 56 10 10
vorzaw 58 12 10
niclou 60 14 10
paulb1 63 17 10
inimitable 0 46 5
Kiwitrade 8 38 5
mick1972 17 29 5
donedeal 18 28 5
Big Kahuna 101 21 25 5
HY22 22 24 5
Devander 71 25 5
Maddoc 75 29 5
ecsc 78 32 5
jtaylor1 79 33 5
bigdaddydog 80 34 5
victorious 82 36 5
Draig 91 45 5
Specialist -30 76 0
LCG -29 75 0
ryderman -19 65 0
cha -13 59 0
papermoney -7 53 0
RevelsCat -5 51 0
robbbbbbb 99 53 0
BlackEos1 102 56 0
kingcarmelo 112 66 0
zlato -151 197 -5
LDKS -140 186 -5
Funkymonk63 -134 180 -5
Asimov -120 166 -5
SunburntLand -103 149 -5
sharks37 -100 146 -5
debarwa -98 144 -5
cgfactor -87 133 -5
dharry -86 132 -5
LAURENZO -70 116 -5
sounda -70 116 -5
MobyT -69 115 -5
mustaine -67 113 -5
hoohoogrub 166 120 -5
Sungar 166 120 -5
PhatProphit 184 138 -5
selmax 231 185 -5
Biggle -212 258 -10
practisingaccountant -202 248 -10
ctindale -193 239 -10

To prevent clutter, next time I will only provide the Top 10.

Rehash of the rules:

1. Winner of the day or night is the closest to the pin. We can do some arithmetic acrobatic to adjust for the accuracy advantage one gains by bidding late but that will make it difficult for the poor sod who has to do the tallying at the end of the day (night). My vision for the comp is to have some fun and have a bit of a laugh on the side. For those who want to play it seriously that's fine too and they can wait till 10:59 PM AEST to put in their accurate bid but they lose a bit of that advantage if somebody else has already bid their value

2. For the running monthly comp we have the following rules:
a. If your bid is within 20 points of actual DJIA value, you get +10 points
b. If your bid is within 50 points but more than 20 points away from actual DJIA value, you get +5 points
c. If your bid is within 100 points but more than 50 points away from actual DJIA value, you get zero points
d. If your bid is within 200 points but more than 100 points away from actual DJIA value you get -5 points
e. If your bid is more than 200 points away from actual DJIA value you get -10 points
f. At the end of the month, we award the winner of the month cup to the punter with the highest score and wipe the slate clean i.e. start from zero.

My tip is for +12.