March 13, 1994

Dear College Hoops Enthusiast:

Thank you for your interest in the 1994 College Hoops Pick-Em Pool
Extravaganza! (Version 1.2).

As avid college basketball fans who have used this program ourselves,
we're confident you're going to love this package.  It makes setting
up and running your college hoops tournament pool at the office or
with friends a breeze, and makes participating in the pool tons more 
fun than you ever had before!

The College Hoops Pick-Em Pool Extravaganza! has something for 
everyone.  Pool administrators will love how painless it is to 
enter player picks, and how easy it is to enter official results, 
keep score, and generate printed reports.  Other pool players will 
love how easy it is to generate standings, and play around with 
pool stats, what-if scenarios, competitive analyses, and much more. 
It all happens instantly -- just with the click of a mouse!

Pool Info
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The program essentially applies to the kind of pool where people
pick the winner of ALL games before the tournament begins, and 
the one with the most correct picks at the end of the tournament 
wins.  Given this basic scheme, you can also use the program to:
  - weight the value of correct picks in each round of the tournament
    to customize scoring of your pool.
  - start your pool with any round of the tournament -- for example,
    run a pool just for the last "Sweet 16" or "Final Four".
  - run a pool for any tournament that uses the single-elimination,
    "brackets" format.
  - run more than one pool at the same time.

Technical Info & Setup
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System requirements, program setup, and a description of all program
documentation are included in the readable text file SYSTEM.HLP 
that came with this package.  With the aid of this file, it really
should take no more than five minutes to have the software up and 
running in Windows 3.1.

Getting In Touch
----------------
We at HomeGrown Software are extremely excited about the College
Hoops Pick-Em Pool Extravaganza!, and hope you have as much fun 
using it as we've had bringing it to you.  If you have any questions
or comments about our program, we'd love to hear from you.  Drop us
a line at:
              HomeGrown Software
              P.O. Box 8031 FDR Station
              New York, NY  10150-8031

Enjoy, and good luck in your college hoops tournament pool. But most
of all:  Happy Pick-Ems!

Regards,
Morty Bernstein
President & Programmer
HomeGrown Software, Inc.