Here’s your first leaderboard for TQBR Prediction Game 3.0. But before we get into the standings, I have a question for the playas:
What fights should we do next for the game? Take a look at the schedule — several “bigger” fights aren’t expected to be too competitive until about August 7, and several smaller fights could be a bit tougher to predict. So check the schedule, and help me pick which one(s) we should do next, please.
At it stands now, accuracy is the difference between 1st place and a very long list of 2nd-placers. The man of the moment? Frankie Topanga aka ScottB, who called both a unanimous decision win for Andre Ward over Allan Green, like 24 other people, and a knockout win for Juan Manuel Lopez over Bernabe Concepcion, like 24 other people. Ah, but here’s the difference: He predicted a 3rd round knockout for Juanma, one round late but one round earlier than anyone else. That’s good for a 50-point edge over all us others types.
I gotta give an affectionately defamatory bonus mention to Da Weasel aka FunkyBadger, who picked both Green and Concepcion, and didn’t get the Concepcion pick in by deadline, either. Triple-fail! A lot of people left points on the table from one fight to the next, too — 11 fewer people made predictions for Lopez-Concepcion than Ward-Green. So wasteful.
As for the picture, yes, Paul the World Cup-predicting octopus is stale and uncreative, but someday I’m going to run out of pics related to things that can predict things, so I gotta go with this now or never.
Now, your standings. If you see any tabulation errors, notify me so we can adjudicate:
STANDINGS
Frankie Topanga (ScottB) 1200
KO Onan (Tim Starks) 1150
The Fire In The Flint (Apemantus) 1150
Drederick Tatum (Scott Kraus) 1150
Paul Kelly 1150
David Schraub 1150
DukeShadeBlue 1150
Geordie Dancer (Andrew Harrison) 1150
Grillmaster (indiebass) 1150
Bigmaxy 1150
nazarioz 1150
Team Judge Smails (willfrank) 1150
Hit Dog 1150
team individuality 1150
cguenard 1150
miggs88 1150
Arthur Billette 1150
Pew Pew Pew PJ 1100
cardscott5 1100
Mean Eugene (Eugene Dammrod) 1100
Unifythebelts 1100
Da Legend Killa (cNcEDDIE) 1100
Eu-ro-pe, Eu-ro-pe! (Dobbler) 1050
Sad Keanu (ALEXMAC) 1050
the legend 1050
Ben Olson 1050
johnkzoo 1000
JB 1000
Vuvuzela (edub) 1000
Basque Country 600
The Royal Marcus 600
beccapooka 600
Malignant Narcissism (Eric Naff) 600
Stickfigure 550
Burbank Baker 550
PI Joe (Irvin Ryan) 500
Shortfuse (rowyn) 500
sam.fong 500
Queensberry Wench 500
fadein2bolivian 0
Da Weasel (FunkyBadger) 0
