{"id":1598,"date":"2019-03-27T01:50:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T01:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2019-03-27T01:50:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T01:50:39","slug":"ten-reasons-to-do-the-stomp-the-lunatic-second-chance-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=1598","title":{"rendered":"Ten Reasons to do the Stomp the Lunatic Second Chance Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten reasons to do the Stomp the Lunatic Second Chance Pool<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You no longer have a Final Four team left in your real bracket after what you thought was an awesome upset picks of top mid-majors of Buffalo, Wofford, Belmont and Murray State did not product this year\u2019s Loyola-Chicago like you hoped.<\/li>\n<li>You want another chance to say that you had a perfect bracket after your billion dollar picks were ruined when Minnesota upset Louisville in the first game of the tournament.<\/li>\n<li>You are so excited that Games of Thrones is about to start that you want to pick the schools with mascots that would be closest to best in battles that end in total carnage.<\/li>\n<li>Your children somehow are crushing you in the pool by picking all favorites (or maybe picking where their grandparents went to school like my daughter does).<\/li>\n<li>Your favorite team has been eliminated from the tournament so now you can pick teams intelligently to show off how much you know about basketball, and you know you will be able to easily beat the Lunatic since his school, Purdue, is still alive in the tournament.<\/li>\n<li>You have always wanted to pick an all-ACC Final 4 and Duke, Florida State, Virginia and UNC is probably the closest you will ever get to doing this and having a realistic chance at it happening.<\/li>\n<li>With all the top teams remaining in the tournament, you can comfortably pick upsets and not feel like you are picking something that will happen only if all the stars align.<\/li>\n<li>Flipping a coin could actually create a feasible and interesting bracket and so you would like to really try your luck.<\/li>\n<li>It is another \u2013 and more importantly, last chance in 2019 to STOMP THE LUNATIC!<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s absolutely FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That\u2019s right \u2013 your entry fee already covers your Second Chance Pool entry \u2013 and so there is absolutely no good reason not to do the Second Chance Pool. \u00a0\u00a0Just go to the login page and once on your main page, click the Enter Bracket button under Second Chance Entry.<\/p>\n<p>You even have all Wednesday and Thursday afternoon to do them, since the games don\u2019t start until 7:10 pm EST. Good luck to all of you!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The Crazed Lunatic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten reasons to do the Stomp the Lunatic Second Chance Pool You no longer have a Final Four team left in your real bracket after what you thought was an awesome upset picks of top mid-majors of Buffalo, Wofford, Belmont and Murray State did not product this year\u2019s Loyola-Chicago like you hoped. You want another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598","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=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1599,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions\/1599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}