{"id":2481,"date":"2023-03-17T12:14:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T12:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=2481"},"modified":"2023-03-17T12:14:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T12:14:43","slug":"congratulations-to-the-first-day-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=2481","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to the First Day Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy St. Patrick&#8217;s Day, everyone!!!!\u00a0 \u00a0Hope today brings good luck to all of you!!!<\/p>\n<p>These people needed no luck yesterday &#8211; they showed they are much better than the Lunatic at predicting the games.\u00a0 But a special call-out needs to go to the Ams family.\u00a0 They are rocking this tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Our leader is Cooper Ams &#8211; who managed to get 15 of 16 games correct yesterday, with only missing the Princeton victory.\u00a0 When you go perfect except for the 15 seed upset, that is pretty impressive picks.\u00a0 Right behind him in a tie for 2nd place is Gabbi Ams with 14 games correct.\u00a0 In a tie for 7th is Joey Ams at 13 games correct.\u00a0 And Michelle Ams did a very respectable 12 games correct and is in a tie for 28th.<\/p>\n<p>Tied with Gabbi in 2nd place is William Craft, Matt Reilly, Drew Bradley, and Will Caldwell.<\/p>\n<p>And while I am not going to list out all the people in a tie for 7th, it is worth calling out that our defending champion, Edward Zhang, is one of the many with a great start.<\/p>\n<p>The Lunatic is hanging around in a tie for 78th, with only 11 games right.\u00a0 He is too shell-shocked from his computer network issues last night to be concerned about the stomping he is about to receive.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck to everyone today!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy St. Patrick&#8217;s Day, everyone!!!!\u00a0 \u00a0Hope today brings good luck to all of you!!! These people needed no luck yesterday &#8211; they showed they are much better than the Lunatic at predicting the games.\u00a0 But a special call-out needs to go to the Ams family.\u00a0 They are rocking this tournament. Our leader is Cooper Ams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2023-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481","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=2481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2482,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions\/2482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}