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Plaag
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Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 4:41 pm

Ah, thanks..yeah studying the bracket, thats the reason.

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Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:05 pm

The Cougar's Innards are ready to rawk.

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Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:12 pm

Nice! That gives us an even 10 ... what about the rest of you girls' blouses? Hit the link and sign up, you big weenies ...

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Reminder: the games begin early on Thursday; anyone thinking "I'll just do it Thursday" should keep that in mind. Yahoo will lock our league at about 10 minutes before the first tip-off.

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Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:26 pm

Xaxaxe wrote:Nice! That gives us an even 10 ... what about the rest of you girls' blouses? Hit the link and sign up, you big weenies ...

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Reminder: the games begin early on Thursday; anyone thinking "I'll just do it Thursday" should keep that in mind. Yahoo will lock our league at about 10 minutes before the first tip-off.

I should be sufficiently prepared tomorrow...if I have the chance to glance at a sports page before then.

My favorite March Madness story: Every year at work there was a huge bracket racket that had close to 100 people...some big money at $10 a pop (highly illegal of course). The day the tournament started, I hadn't handed in my bracket sheet. The co-worked running the thing called me while I was driving to work and said I had to have it in asap or he wouldn't accept it as games started that morning...so I did it on the seat next to me while driving to work, picking at random most of the time, choosing the better known name when it jumped out at me.

Well, you know the rest. I came in 2nd place, among dozens of rabid college basketball fans who devoured every piece of college March Madness news available. The only thing funnier...the winner was some girl in accounting who had picked ENTIRELY randomly.

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Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:32 pm

That's how these things usually go. I've organized/played in ... lots ... of these things and my lifetime in-the-money finishes are exactly two. I've had better luck in blindly choosing squares in those Super Bowl Squares pools that a lot of offices do.

I also have a theory that no one who organizes an NCAA pool can ever hope to finish well. I fully expect to record an ugly 9th-place finish in the Acaeum pool.

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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 7:16 am

i am going to give this a miss if thats alrigt dude. would have liked to participate, but i travel to the Sahara next wednesday and then i am away another week after that too. once back, i then have multiple weeks of catching up etc, so havent really got the time tbh...

sorry!

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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 5:22 pm

I decided not to pick at random, rather let a dice do it for me

Picking games is hard with all the randomness that can go on, compared to like a fantasy football league were you sort of know what players can do and just hope they do that each week.

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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:48 am

O.K. I'm in. I got confused on the name thing so I'm Dungeons & Baskets and can't figure out how to change my name and don't really care. :oops:

Only eleven people entered in our group? Come on! Here's who's in so far:

Xaxaxe's Berserkers Duke R.
davidc dcogs555
Blackmoor Jeff
Ekim Toor kampfgrupperoot
Plaags Legion ShaneG
March Massacre sheeadog
Screaming Evils Kingofpain89
Ladies of Pain lucyjoyce
Beholder Eyes hrothgardsl
The Cougar's Innards hide_ever_free
Dungeons & Baskets fuller_cd

You've still got time. Don't miss out on the embarrassment!

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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 11:53 am

benjoshua wrote:I got confused on the name thing so I'm Dungeons & Baskets and can't figure out how to change my name and don't really care.

My Bracket -->> Edit Bracket Info

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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 1:09 pm

The pool is locked! Game on!

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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:07 pm

Gah..I'm last.
Damn dice failed me so far, knew I should have used an online dice roller.

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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:10 pm

Shane, in the old days, we used to buy beers for guys who managed to lose their national champion pick on the first day of the tournament. So you've got that going for you.

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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:28 pm

Xaxaxe wrote:Shane, in the old days, we used to buy beers for guys who managed to lose their national champion pick on the first day of the tournament. So you've got that going for you.

Woo Hoo!

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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 11:54 pm

My big upset happened: Kansas St. advanced. Of course, I have them going to the Final Four, so I may be a wee bit optimistic.....

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Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:09 pm

[sexism]

Argh! Our pool is currently being led by ... a girl!

[/sexism]

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Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:16 pm

If anyone has less points then me when this is done, expect to be laughed at

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Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:24 pm

Plaag wrote:If anyone has less points then me when this is done, expect to be laughed at

ShaneG.

Sheeadog prepares to be laughed at...

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Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:32 pm

Let's laugh at Blackmoor, too ... he forgot to pick a national champion.

When we're done with that, let's laugh about why in the world I would think USC was any good ... my West Coast bias killed me there.

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