It's official the jinx is in. Manhattan is now up by 3.
He needs Lousiville and SDSU to win.
It's official the jinx is in. Manhattan is now up by 3.
He needs Lousiville and SDSU to win.
I'm surprised anyone called both Dayton and Harvard.
manhattan just lost, bracket busted... manhattan played great though!
Ugh OT, we're in trouble.
Oops. Not manhattan.
He had lousiville. so he's 15 for 15 but SDSU just blue a 5 point leadin 5 seconds.
Go SDSU
In my excitement. I had the title wrong. He's got lousivlle (who won) and SDSU who just blew a 5 point lead and is now in overtime.
So is Chris still alive or not?
WE are alive, WE...
Now I could be wrong but it looks like "Chris"'s bracket is not entered into the 'Quicken Loans Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge Pool' Pool just the 'Letsrun.com' pool and 'overall' pool so even if he goes perfect no one wins.
still cool he went 16 for 16 (provided SDst wins)
not in quicken pool wrote:
Now I could be wrong but it looks like "Chris"'s bracket is not entered into the 'Quicken Loans Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge Pool' Pool just the 'Letsrun.com' pool and 'overall' pool so even if he goes perfect no one wins.
still cool he went 16 for 16 (provided SDst wins)
Figures
I can't seem to see that level of detail.
not in quicken pool wrote:
Now I could be wrong but it looks like "Chris"'s bracket is not entered into the 'Quicken Loans Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge Pool' Pool just the 'Letsrun.com' pool and 'overall' pool so even if he goes perfect no one wins.
still cool he went 16 for 16 (provided SDst wins)
If true, that's why lawyers exist. We'll get them involved when this thing keeps going.
Yahoo/Quicken should be ashamed. They made it impossible to sign up for the billion thing. I literally tried to enter my wife 3 times and coudln't figure it out. They kept saying our phone number was already entered.
Clearly if he entered, he meant to play in the billion.
Chris, please email us at
robertjohnson@letsrun.com. We'd like to interview you on your picking strategy.
I'm convinced I'd just jinxed him by realizing that but it will be fun to sweat this out.
Everyone who entered our pool agreed to split it.
Update> Chris has finished day 1 a perfect 16 for 16. Chris please email us at robertjohnson@letsrun.com as we want to interview you and give you your 15 minutes of fame.
If he didn't enter, he didn't enter. Game over.
Fwiw, I meant to enter. Deadline was 1:00 AM on March 20, and so last night on the 19th I entered. But I didn't notice until after I tried to do so that for me on the west coast, registration ended at 10:00 PM on the 19th. So I missed out by like 20 minutes. I was relieved when Dayton won today to know I didn't miss out on my billion. I did pick Harvard and NDSU though.
rojo wrote:
If true, that's why lawyers exist. We'll get them involved when this thing keeps going.
Yahoo/Quicken should be ashamed. They made it impossible to sign up for the billion thing. I literally tried to enter my wife 3 times and coudln't figure it out. They kept saying our phone number was already entered.
Clearly if he entered, he meant to play in the billion.
I meant to mention you still owe me a quarter mil from the last letsrun WC prediction contest. I made a complete, clean sweep of all the picks. I didn't submit it, but I meant to. Now that I know that's why lawyers exist, I think I'll pursue this.
Rules state only one bracket per household.
Excitement about the billion for 1 person predicting 14 games? This is the equivalent of someone running 1:41 for 800m and assuming he can maintain that pace for 2 full miles.
My co-worker's son was perfect yesterday.
He actually picked both Harvard and North Dakota State.
Perfection will certainly be broken today.
And I doubt anyone in the country will make it through the weekend, let alone the whole tournament.
xenonscreams wrote:
I'm surprised anyone called both Dayton and Harvard.
At least three of us did. I only missed Syracuse yesterday, and I haven't checked to see what the other 2nd place guy missed.
LOLer wrote:
Excitement about the billion for 1 person predicting 14 games? This is the equivalent of someone running 1:41 for 800m and assuming he can maintain that pace for 2 full miles.
I like the analogy.
Aren't you going to admit, it's pretty freaking amazing he did the 1:41 to begin with even if he can't keep it going.
With the amount of bonus points you get for picking an upset, why the heck would you not pick Dayton and Harvard? You get 1 point if Cincinnati wins and 8 if Harvard wins. If you're not going to pick Cinci to advance past that then of course you should pick Harvard!