Tournament News

Connecticut is your 2023 NCAA Men's Basketball Champion!!!

Congratulations to UConn and all of the winners in the pool this year. I am reaching out individually to arrange payment preferences. Thank you all for another great year. I look forward greatly to next year already.

2nd Chance Pool

I want to thank all of you who took the time to submit a bracket for the 2nd Chance Pool as we test out the feature. Feedback has been positive and the process has ended up being fairly straightforward so I fully plan to implement it next year. We had 95 out of 287 entries submit a bracket which is a great turnout for this attempt. Future years will require a password so that getting into the 2nd Chance is as you would expect with any other login. Also, as noted previously, independent of the 2nd Chance, next year entry rates will go up but one of the features from that will be payouts for this portion. All fees collected go straight into the prize fund so the more collected for entries next year also means bigger payouts.

Top Players in Current Standings

Place	Name Last, First	Earned Points	Possible Points	Predicted Champ	Pick Pct.	Correct Picks / Round					Picked Champ
						32	16	8	4	2
1	Grant, Iain	419	419	Connecticut	54%	20	8	3	1	1	YES!
2	Vecchi, Joey	417	417	Connecticut	60%	22	10	3	1	1	YES!
3	Crooks, Matthew (1)	409	409	Connecticut	57%	22	8	3	1	1	YES!
4	Sajdak, Nick (3)	401	401	Connecticut	59%	22	8	4	1	1	YES!
5	Tripp, Jonathan	398	398	Connecticut	54%	22	7	2	1	1	YES!
6	Dusseault, Dan (3)	397	397	Connecticut	52%	21	8	1	1	1	YES!
7	Vaillancourt, David (1)	396	396	Connecticut	54%	19	8	4	1	1	YES!
8	Andersen, Annika	391	391	San Diego St.	63%	25	9	3	2	1	NO
9	Levin, Adam	380	380	Connecticut	43%	18	5	1	1	1	YES!
10	Battle, Darrell (6)	376	376	Connecticut	54%	20	9	2	1	1	YES!

Tournament Rules

Tournament Entry is $10. This year all payments should come directly to Spencer. All payments must be made prior to the start of games!!! I have spent too much of the pool trying to collect all of the entry fees. Again, there are so many ways to send money now that there is no excuse to not be paid before the games start.

PLEASE DO NOT MENTION BRACKET, NCAA, TOURNAMENT, POOL, ETC. in any comments for your payment.

You have any number of ways to pay me:

• Venmo (PREFERRED) - My username is @Boilers2000 and you can send it that way.
• Cash App (PREFERRED) - My username is $Boilers2000 for sending through Cash App.
• Cash - If you live near me, you can pay me in cash.
• Credit Card - To pay using credit card, use Square Market. Credit card purchases will include a $1.00 surcharge per entry and that is built in. This fee goes directly toward processing the card transaction.
• Pay Pal - I will accept Pay Pal, please use tourney - at - stantonfamilyonline.com (actual e-mail address) for the account.
• Other - If prior arrangements are made, you can inquire about other options. Whether that be check or directly from your bank, etc. The main thing will be making those arrangments in advance and not after the games have started.

In all cases, if there are any transfer fees, make sure you set it up so that you are responsible for them. I have only included a fee with the credit card purchase.

Multiple entries are also perfectly allowed. Please use the following format for entries:

• Lastname, Firstname (1)
• Lastname, Firstname (2)
• ...

Round points x Seed

Round points are 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32. This keeps the pool very interesting and rewards correct upset picks.

Tournament Prizes

Remember, for this year, as we are testing out the 2nd Chance portion of the pool, all prizes still will be for the main pool only.