There Still is Time - LetsRun.com NCAA Bracket On The Only Site Giving $50,000 To the Winner

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  • wejo
    cofounder
    4 years ago 03/19/2015 10:16am CDT
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    I just read Yahoo is the only major site paying cash to it's bracket winner. The NCAA is so messed up and actually worried that athletes would fix games so someone could win a bracket challenge (that means they would fix the NCAA Final) that ESPN and other major sites are only picking random people within the top 1%, or 10% to get prizes.

    Not Yahoo. The winner of its bracket, ie the person with the highest score, gets $50,000.

    So I just created a LetsRun.com pool on Yahoo.

    https://yho.com/tourney?g=234715&k=c00c5598c9db20d9

    Get your entries in. They make it easy as you can autopick the top seeds and adjust from there. Spread the word. If we get more than 200 entries, LRC will chip in $100 to our winner.
  • wejo
    cofounder
    4 years ago 03/19/2015 10:17am CDT
    re: wejo
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    The first game is in 59 minutes. So get those entries in (12:15 easten)
  • Mr Realism
    4 years ago 03/19/2015 10:25am CDT
    re: wejo
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    Most people are working
  • wejo
    cofounder
    4 years ago 03/19/2015 10:28am CDT
    re: Mr Realism
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    Mr Realism wrote:

    Most people are working

    Exactly. And that is why Monday morning is often the biggest time for traffic on LetsRun.com - people are bored at work.

    When our server used to crash a lot US productivity rose.
  • rojo
    cofounder
    4 years ago 03/19/2015 11:00am CDT
    re: wejo
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    wejo wrote:


    Exactly. And that is why Monday morning is often the biggest time for traffic on LetsRun.com - people are bored at work.

    Thanks man. Iwas one of those guys bored at work. Just slacked off 20 minutes on the boss's dime and entered the tourney. I've got a tv next to my computer and will be watching games all afternoon.

    On a serious note, I was about to start a thread - how come no one is talking about march madness - what happened to the billion dollar bracket.

    The NCAA is a JOKE. they are worried about ncaa tournament pools corrupting the youth of america. meanwhile profs do their papers for them which isn't a surpise as it would be hard for me to do well in school if I was playing every tuesday night.
  • george oscar bluth
    4 years ago 03/19/2015 12:13pm CDT
    re: wejo
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    Wejo going against the grain a bit and picking Arizona to win it all!
  • slowjorojo
    4 years ago 03/19/2015 12:51pm CDT
    re: rojo
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    20 minutes? You thought too much over your pics. Think I filled it out in less than five. And I'll earn the same $0 that you did for your pics.
  • random lrunner
    4 years ago 03/19/2015 1:01pm CDT
    re: wejo
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    its too bad you announced this less than an hour before the start of the tourney. My brackets are on other sites. I could have made one on yahoo, a dinosaur website from the early days of the internet that no one uses if you'd done it this morning or last night.
  • Deadman Running
    4 years ago 03/19/2015 1:51pm CDT
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    I think Hingle just set a record for the fastest busted bracket in Tourney history picking Iowa State to win it all, and they lost in the second game of the first day of the Tourney. Wow.
  • SadDad
    4 years ago 03/19/2015 2:28pm CDT
    re: wejo
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    Why didn't you post this sooner??? I'm a sucker for March Madness.
  • hingletingle
    4 years ago 03/19/2015 6:48pm CDT
    re: Deadman Running
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    Hingle did make a nice call on the much maligned UCLA team knocking off SMU. Mad props, Hingle. Go smell one now.
  • Gym Class Shuffle
    4 years ago 03/19/2015 8:24pm CDT
    re: Deadman Running
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    Deadman Running wrote:

    I think Hingle just set a record for the fastest busted bracket in Tourney history picking Iowa State to win it all, and they lost in the second game of the first day of the Tourney. Wow.

    And now he's leading the pool ... while he wont win with that bust its he actually made some great calls
  • DQ
    4 years ago 03/19/2015 9:08pm CDT
    re: wejo
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    Unfortunately, I am SO busy this spring semester that I don't have time to play...:( I played last year and had fun but I'm taking a review course right now plus raising family and doing a little coaching on the side. I hope to be back next year to play!
  • Old Man Winter
    registered
    4 years ago 03/19/2015 9:35pm CDT
    re: DQ
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    You know it just consisted of filling out a bracket once, right?
  • erik
    LRC web guy
    4 years ago 03/20/2015 7:41am CDT
    re: Gym Class Shuffle
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    Gym Class Shuffle wrote:

    Deadman Running wrote:

    I think Hingle just set a record for the fastest busted bracket in Tourney history picking Iowa State to win it all, and they lost in the second game of the first day of the Tourney. Wow.

    And now he's leading the pool ... while he wont win with that bust its he actually made some great calls


    HINGLE IS DONE.
  • hinglehoops
    4 years ago 03/21/2015 5:48am CDT
    re: erik
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    In the long run, yes. But 27 of 32 in the first round is pretty solid. I admire his genius.
  • Field Good
    4 years ago 03/21/2015 9:38am CDT
    re: hinglehoops
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    hinglehoops wrote:

    In the long run, yes. But 27 of 32 in the first round is pretty solid. I admire his genius.

    Nice try, Hingle. You are on track to finish next to dead last in the pool - only ahead of the guy who didn't make a single pick. Quite the genius.
  • Hingle McCringleberry
    4 years ago 03/23/2015 2:01pm CDT
    re: wejo
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    And i still lead the pool HAHA
  • hinglehoops
    4 years ago 03/23/2015 2:13pm CDT
    re: Field Good
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    Not Hingle. Just impressed at how well his picks have done so far. Haters gonna hate hate hate...
  • george oscar bluth
    4 years ago 03/23/2015 2:30pm CDT
    re: hinglehoops
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    hinglehoops wrote:

    Not Hingle. Just impressed at how well his picks have done so far. Haters gonna hate hate hate...

    But the contest isn't over, and he is utterly screwed. Were you also praising Robert Morris when they were leading Duke 5-2?