Contest: My Two Holdouts

My two holdouts are Minnesota and North Dakota.

So here's the contest:

Guess the date on which each will be hit. The closest to the date, either early or late, gets the 5 bucks for each state. Extra credit: 5 bucks if you also guess the County correct...2 bucks if the County you guess is a Contiguous County of the one hit.

Only the winner of the date may claim the County part of this. This means, while everyone could guess different dates, they could still guess the same County.

This means if the date winner wins, and someone else has the County right...too bad, only the date winner's county guess will be taken into consideration.

Prize will be paid in cash, marked bills, sent by mail to the winner. Prize will be paid upon the win.

Let the guessing begin.

Hennepin County, MN on Nov 1st, 2012.
Cass County, ND on Dec 1st, 2012.

Minnesota just went.

12/2/12

St. Louis County

As such, as Tony is currently the only guesser...he wins the five bucks for closest date.
He wins nothing on the County, however, as Hennepin is not contiguous to St. Louis.

You want the five bucks now, or wait on the other to hit, Tony?

I'll wait.

OK.
Still see if there's any other takers on guessing for ND, but MN is now closed, and Tony wins that one.

Cass County, North Dakota is hit January 11, 2013.

Tony gets ten bucks for this one, five for closest date, five for correct county.

total winnings $15. You will get them in marked Track Dollars. Please don't hit them, just spend them in your area...or wherever else you may go...preferable a long way away from the Northeast!

PM me your address again, Tony, so I may send you your winnings.

I like this idea! I'm about a month into the hobby and have yet to have a hit on a TrackDollar. However, I am not discourages, but am eagerly awaiting the when/where/who/what/why/how?! of my first hit. I'm going to start my own contest. Details to follow in a separate thread.