A New Season

Welcome to AIFL 2011, the best American Idol fantasy league ever created. After all the hype, good and bad auditions, group performances, and drama, it is finally time to get started. The process is very simple:

1. Out of the top 24 contestants, pick the 10 that you think will go the farthest.
2. Rank your choices 1-10, with #1 being your choice for the next American Idol, on down through 10th place.
3. Send me your ranked choices as a comment to this post. 

Here's how you will get points throughout the competition:

• You will get points for each contestant in your top 10 every time he/she makes it through an elimination round.  The points you get will be weighted according to the elim. round number and your contestant ranking. Your #1 will get 10 points, down through your #10 getting 1 point, multiplied by the number of elimination rounds survived.  (Example:  Your #1 ranked (10 pt.) contestant passed the 3rd elimination round. 3 x 10=30 pts.)
• You will predict who's going home each week.  The more you predict correctly, the more points you will get. 
• You will also get to participate in weekly bonus competitions where you will get lots of points if you guess correctly the questions and predictions proposed on this blog. 

So, whenever you're ready, submit your top 10 contestants, ranked, as a comment to this post.  If you're confused, you can look at my choices posted below.  Please submit your rankings by show time next Tuesday.

Also, our first bonus competition will be posted this Sunday night.  Check back early next week for your first bonus question!

Thanks for playing, and best of luck!