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Bachelor Monday has become a cultural phenomenon akin to football Sunday, and they’re actually ricockulously similar. Sometimes agonizing to watch, a trainwreck you can’t look away from. There are the characters you root for, the ones you love to hate, the ones that enrage you. There’s a drinking component to it, and now you can actually get Bachelor wines. There are weekly recap blogs. There’s constant fan engagement on Twitter. The only thing football had that The Bachelor didn’t? A viable fantasy component.
Well ESPN and ABC are changing that. This season, you can play in a Bachelor fantasy league, powered by ESPN.
Per The Comeback:
In a bit of corporate synergy that would make Bill Simmons happy, ESPN will be running a fantasy league for The Bachelor, an ABC reality show.
The fantasy game is located on ABC’s site, but is powered by ESPN and their fantasy app. Players can guess the top four participants and the eventual winner, along with guessing various events that happen in each episode to earn points, leading up to a grand prize of a trip for two to Los Angeles.
This semi-existed previously, and we actually had a TSM/PGP Bachelor bracket that a fellow writer was running where each week you’d pick the contestants you thought would advance. (Not to brag, but I personally crushed it). The ESPN game is slightly different. You pick a final four right from the beginning, and then each week there are weekly predictions you can make.
From ABC:
Play the weekly game and answer trivia questions based on each upcoming, drama-filled episode. Every Wednesday, new questions for the upcoming episode are released and you’ll have until 4:59 pm PT/7:59 pm ET on the following Monday to lock your predictions. Each correct answer earns you 10 points and bonus questions will be worth 20 points. Each point earned is an entry into both that week’s drawing for a dozen red roses and the Grand Prize drawing at the end of the season.
This format has some promise to it. I like the thought of predicting certain events happening, not just speculating on who will and won’t get a rose. You earn points for correct predictions, and each point gets you an entry to win a sweepstakes to go to “After The Final Rose,” although it’d almost be better if the winner gets an auto-bid to be on the show. .
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Here’s a link to the PGP league. Stay tuned for more details.
Sometimes I think we’ve reached peak PGP. Then something like this happens, and I realize there is no ceiling to the sad lives of postgrads.
Is this open to everyone or just contributors
Everyone, but I LOVE the thought of WdF linking a private league for contributors right in the comment section, right in everyone’s face
It’s comments like this that serve as prime example why people not from Boston don’t like people from Boston.
If you don’t think that the idea of Will shoving a private writer’s group in everyone’ face right in the comment section, you gotta get your funny bone checked. But you’re not wrong, I’m an asshole. But still, it’s funny
Oh, it would be funny. And most of my friends are assholes which means I’m probably one too.
Errybody in the club gettin’ Bachelory.
Yeah…That’s something that you should never say again
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Can’t join, I’ve known the top for for almost a month now. Good luck to the others that like to remain spoiler free.
Based on the layout of the league and the weekly points, I think it will still be challenging despite spoilers.
Saw this at the same time I officially made my fantasy football final… It was a good day.
Sup?
100% supping you back just based on your profile pic
This is the best news I will receive all day.
Wanna start a league?
I’m offended you’re asking when the answer is obviously yes.
There’s gonna be a Peej league; stay tuned for detes
I will be sitting impatiently at my desk for these detes.
(see top comment from WdF)
So as a non bachelor watcher. Did she just slap him, or is she grabbing his balls?
Legit not looking up who wins because I think this will be actually really entertaining.
However, the sweepstakes is really disappointing because I don’t need a “dream trip” to the place I already live…
I don’t get the point. The season has already been spoiled, at least the top 4 have.
just don’t cheat, I guess?
With Brady as your Jesus we can’t really trust you
I do not consume any Bachelor media other than this site, and I have no idea who’s T4.