Congratulations to our Standard Pool champion – Lauren Martin.\u00a0\u00a0 Lauren ran away with the pool as she got 3 of the Final 4 correct in UNC, Gonzaga and Oregon, but also correctly forecasted that UNC would beat Gonzaga in the championship game.\u00a0\u00a0 Ashley Peterson finished second, just 70 points behind, and Jessica Atkinson finished in 3rd, just 110 points behind.<\/p>\n
The Lunatic then has to give a special call out to those who were tied for 4th.\u00a0 That is because I know that my mother-in-law, Kate Yost, is thrilled to death that her Tar Heels won and helped her bracket get into 4th place.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 She ended up tied with David Zimmerman, who was my roommate in college at Purdue.\u00a0\u00a0 As I was getting stomped, it was enjoyable for me to see my mother-in-law and one of my close friends do so well in the pool.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And they were not the only ones who did well – my wonderful wife, Elizabeth, also finished tied for 10th.\u00a0\u00a0 That is a fitting prize for the wonderful woman who puts up with my madness every March – oh who am I kidding, she puts up with my madness all year round.\u00a0 Not sure how I got so lucky.<\/p>\n
In the Upset Pool, Greg Williams was the big winner as he picked UNC to win the championship.\u00a0\u00a0 It was those 6 points that allowed Greg to sneak out the championship over our Round 4 leader Kyle Kelly by a single point.\u00a0\u00a0 Both Greg and Kyle managed to get to the top of the board by picking 11 seed Xavier to the Elite 8, but in the end, it was picking a #1 seed that led Greg to the championship.\u00a0\u00a0 This really was one of the closest upset pools that I remember, because Earl McKnight came 1 point short of catching Kyle as well thanks to the Tar Heels victory in his third place finish.<\/p>\n
In the Second Chance Pool, Tony Bisese correctly picked UNC to beat Gonzaga and win by 40 points.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He was closely followed by a 4-way tie for 2nd place – congrats to Jack White, Kelly McDowell, John Howarth, and Andrea Zimmerman (yes, Dave’s wife also managed to make it into the prize list).<\/p>\n
The Lunatic managed to quietly sneak up the standings a little bit with his sane picks, since they had picked North Carolina to win the championship as well.\u00a0\u00a0 But unlike his mother-in-law and wife, that pick was only good enough to move up to a tie for 68th place.\u00a0\u00a0 That also put the Lunatic behind his 10 year old son Charlie (tie for 30th) and his 7 year old daughter Katie (tie for 53rd).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So while not as big of a stomping as it looked like when he was buried on the standings page somewhere in the 100s, if we include the tie-breaker, 69 of you Stomped the Lunatic!!!!\u00a0\u00a0 So that is still a pretty good stomping.<\/p>\n
Congratulations below to all of our Stomp the Lunatic winners!!!!!<\/p>\n
STANDARD POOL<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 1) Lauren Martin – 1300<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 2) Ashley Peterson – 1230 (FUN)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 3) Jessica Atkinson – 1190 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 4th Tie) Kate Yost and David Zimmerman – 1180<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 6) Joel Lander – 1170<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 7) William England – 1150<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 8) Earl McKnight – 1120<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 9) KJ Martin – 1110<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 10th Tie) Rohit Kapoor #1, Rohit Kapoor #2, Elizabeth Hodgson and Kevin Flippen – 1100<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n LAST) Joe Chapman – 380<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n UPSET POOL<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 1) Greg Williams – 246<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 2) Kyle Kelly – 245<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 3) Earl McKnight – 244<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 4th Tie) Mark Schumaker and John Howarth – 239<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n SECOND CHANCE POOL<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 1) Tony Bisese – 840<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 2nd Tie) Jack White, Kelly McDowell, John Howarth, and Andrea Zimmerman – 800<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Congratulations again to Lauren Martin – our 2017 Standard Pool champion, Greg Williams – our 2017 Upset Pool champion, and Tony Bisese – our 2017 Second Chance champion!!!! \u00a0 And of course, congratulations again to the North Carolina Tar Heels – our 2017 National Champions!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Congratulations to our Standard Pool champion – Lauren Martin.\u00a0\u00a0 Lauren ran away with the pool as she got 3 of the Final 4 correct in UNC, Gonzaga and Oregon, but also correctly forecasted that UNC would beat Gonzaga in the championship game.\u00a0\u00a0 Ashley Peterson finished second, just 70 points behind, and Jessica Atkinson finished in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1153,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/1153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}