Tournament News

Duke Is Your 2010 Champion!!

Duke wins the NCAA Tournament for 2010. Congratulations to all of the winners. I will be in touch via e-mail on Tuesday to arrange payment and will send any checks out on Tuesday night.

I have accounted for all of the money. The two entries that are left I've been assured are on their way. Regardless the full amounts listed in the prizes will be honored. For those two, please, if not already, send your money. Thanks.

Thank you all for another successful year. Some payments were a bit later than I prefer but I know that is part of running a nationwide pool. I still plan to run something next year, even if they expand to 96 teams. I will just have to figure out how to best accomplish it.


Top Players in Current Standings
Place Name Last, First Total
Points
Possible
Points
Predicted
Champ
Pick
Pct.
Final Picked
Champ
32 16 8 4 2
1 Consoles, Matt 288 288 Kentucky 63% 23 12 5 0 0 NO
2 Chi, Sun 265 265 Duke 67% 23 10 5 2 1 YES!
3 Shammies (3) 264 264 Duke 68% 24 10 5 2 1 YES!
4 Proctor, Bruce (2) 259 259 Duke 63% 25 8 3 2 1 YES!
5 Vecchi, Joe 257 257 Duke 62% 23 8 4 2 1 YES!
6 Sajdak, Nick 248 248 Michigan St. 62% 23 9 5 2 0 NO
7 Do, Kim 239 239 Kansas St. 65% 23 10 5 2 1 NO
8 Krumick, Shannon (4) 237 237 Syracuse 62% 24 11 4 0 0 NO
9 Melton, Ryan (1) 226 226 Kansas 62% 22 10 5 2 0 NO
10 Ellis, Clint (2) 226 226 Kansas St. 62% 24 8 5 2 0 NO
Tournament Rules

Tournament Entry is $10. For those working for Elekta, please pay Spencer G. Stanton directly (or use inter-office mail). For all others, please contact me to arrange payment.

If you are going to pay using PayPal, please select "Personal" in Send Money Options and select "Payment owed". Depending on your payment source there may be a fee (usually if using credit card). If there is a fee, it is your responsibility to pay it.

Multiple entries are also perfectly allowed. Just please add a number to the end of your name to signify multiple entries so I don't have to ask if you are replacing your original picks.

Scoring is as follows

Round points x Seed

Round points are 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 (and then multiply by the seed) This keeps the pool very interesting and rewards correct upset picks.

Tournament Prizes

The number of entries is 116. Assuming all entrants pay as required, this year will have 9 payouts.

  • 1st Place - $448
  • 2nd Place - $278
  • 3rd Place - $172
  • 4th Place - $106
  • 5th Place - $66
  • 6th Place - $40
  • 7th Place - $25
  • 8th Place - $15
  • 9th Place - $10