With the Kansas Jayhawk winning, Edward Zhang also came from behind – as both his entries edged out Ann Hawkins amazing picks to become the first person in Stomp the Lunatic history to win first and second place in the contest.

Ann Hawkins gets some consolation – without UNC helping Adrian Young to get an additional 48 points for an upset victory, Ann was able to hold on to win the Upset Pool.

Congratulations also goes to Kevin Busby – he did the best with his second chance, as he also correctly predicted Kansas to beat UNC in the championship.

Here is the list of all our prize winners – congratulations to all of them!!!!

STANDARD POOL

• 1) Edward Zhang – 1140 pts
• 2) Edward Zhang – 1040 pts
• 3) Ann Hawkins – 1010 pts
• 4 tie) Kevin Bostic and Tanmay Gautam – 980 pts
• 6) Kelly Woods – 960 pts
• 7 tie) Sam Brunner and Jim Sell – 930 pts
• 9 tie) Steve Manley and Laura Ahles – 910 pts
• LAST) Kristian Schmidt – 290 pts (you should not have challenged Edward and Ann)

UPSET POOL

• 1) Ann Hawkins – 306 pts
• 2) Tanmay Gautam – 293 pts
• 3) John Howarth – 282 pts
• 4) Adrian Young – 275 pts
• 5 tie) Christy Lindvall and Gregg Farber – 255 pts

SECOND CHANCE POOL

• 1) Kevin Busby – 760 pts
• 2 tie) William Panak, Karl Knox and Doug Brunner – 720 pts

As for the Lunatic, he gave it an impressive try this year. His second chance picks tied for 9th place. His Insane picks hung around to finish in 13th place in the Upset pool – just 20 pts behind the leaders (which symbolically would have been the points that Purdue would have gotten him if they made the Final Four). But in the end, 54 people if you count the tie-breakers ended up Stomping the Lunatic. A decent try, but at the end a pretty good stomping.

As always, thank you to all of you for making this such a fun tournament to run!!! I love getting to cheer on my Boilers and rant about the tournament, even if it means another stomping is inevitably coming. I hope that everyone enjoyed the great games and my sleep-deprived blog. I am sure the Lunatic will get over his wounds and be ready to do this all again next March – and I hope that you all come back to put the Lunatic in his place with a good stomping.

Congratulations again to the Kansas Jayhawks – for a tournament that had so many unique events, having it finish with a team come back from being down 16 seems to be a very fitting ending to produce a very deserving national champion.

And congratulations once again to Edward Zhang, Ann Hawkins and Kevin Busby – our three Stomp the Lunatic pool winners!!!!