… commenter audashdriver! Congratulations to him for picking 23 of the 34 bowl games correctly and totaling 409 bowl-pickin’ points. For winning, he receives a two-week supply of pride. (Also, if there’s some particular topic he would love to see blogged about or some particular question answered here at WBE, he can leave that request in the comments.)
Your top 10:
Whatever the standings say, I nominate thejimhammer for runner-up on the basis of using an Arrested Development reference for his entry name. (Third place: bobloblaw22.) Two personal notes:
— You think we bloggers don’t know what we’re talking about, huh? Between myself, TWER’s own John Comer, JRS, and Section 25, we took up four of the top seven slots. Clearly, we are all geniuses.
— I was going to award myself 55 bonus points for picking the 10 SEC games correctly and declare myself the winner, banana republic dictator-style, until I realized audashdriver had done the same thing. Instead, I should probably deduct 55 points from my score for going a perfect 0-5 in games involving the Mountain West, four of which I had in my top 10 for “confidence.” Like I said: GENIUS.
OK, seriously, we had 42 different people participating and that’s some 7 times more than I was expecting. You are all awesome, thank you so much for participating and reading, and we’ll do it again next year.
Woohoo! If the Tiger gymnasts win tonight then give it a shout tomorrow and erase the stinging defeat of last seasons 25 thousandths of a point defeat to prolong the sickening streak of futility against, well, against that school that shouldn’t have their name mentioned.
2nd place just makes me the first loser. i suck in the world of pick ems.
You top three participates go ahead and celebrate your “confidence” points that Bama would win. A Texas and we all would have won — with me at the top of course.
Thanks, me and Trinity Crusader, my 11-year-old son, had a blast competing against the insiders.
See you at NCAA tourney time.
I blame my out-of-conference love of Troy and Georgia Tech football for my downfall. I played with my gut and not my head. Dang. Still, third place is the closest I’ve ever came to winning anything fantasy related.
I think I was in the lead on the 30th or 31st. Then all hell broke loose for me. 0-5 on BCS games. I maybe picked 3 or 4 more games correctly the rest of the way.
I knew I was doomed from the very start; I had Fresno State beating Wyoming at the highest confidence level.