No it's not too late. Just PM me the txid when you're done.
I'm absolutely sure you're wrong about that. I think it would be a conflict of interest for a global moderator who's managing the pool to pin the thread for this pool and no other. Not that H&Co would profit from it, but he is sporting a Sportsbet.io signature in one of his accounts, and Sportsbet.io is sponsoring this pool. It definitely would look like preferential treatment, and would cause a shit-storm of controversy.
Yeah. Can't really just sticky any thread I want. As long as they're bumped often it does the trick.
I think we had 50 participants last year, which is a pretty good turnout. I don't know about the previous years, last year was the first time I participated. Being that it's a pool, the more the merrier and the bigger the prize pool. I can't think of any drawbacks to having more people join.
The main PL pool grew by about ten each year, and it was about 20 extra last year probably because on what was on offer with the free shirt etc. I suspect we'll get about 40 this year unless there's a surge of late sign-ups. I would like to get 50 though to match last year and just because that makes the pot a a nice 0.2 to divvy out.