2010-11 U.S. Figure Skating Fantasy Challenge

[Sylvia]

The 15th season begins: http://www.usfigureskating.org/Story...168&type=media
(Mods, feel free to move this thread to the Trash Can forum if that's where it belongs.)

[victoriaheidi]

Yay! I've already submitted my scorecard. This always makes the events so much more fun for me.

[MysticHaze]

Thank you for the reminder! I always enjoy doing these.

[Sylvia]

UPDATE (11/1) - Due to the makeup of the pairs field at the Cup of China, Qing Pang and Jian Tong (CHN) have been excluded from the fantasy game.

[TanithandBenFan]

I won Skate Canada! Would like to give a shout-out to those who gave practice reports for aiding my picks.

[HeatherC]

I always suck at this game but darn it, I keep trying to pick the right people anyway, LOL

[haribobo]

Oops, double post. Anyway, I finished 54th week 1 and 55th week 2. I'm certainly consistent! Finding this game slightly easier and less humiliating than the FSU prediction game, but enjoying them both...

[haribobo]

Taking out Pang/Tong is kind of smart and bizarre at the same time.

[Puffy71]

As the commissioner of fantasy skating, I admit that omitting Pang and Tong from the game this week is a little bizarre. However, there is no one else is the field who is in their league, and the other seven entries fall neatly into three "pools." While it was not my preference to leave them out, doing so was the fairest thing to do.

[victoriaheidi]

I always suck at this game but darn it, I keep trying to pick the right people anyway, LOL

Haha, same! I make picks that seem oh so very logical at the moment, but I never seem to get very far!

[Sylvia]

Congrats to haribobo for winning Cup of Russia this week (2000 points) AND zooming to the top of the leaderboard! (9837 points total)

ETA Overall Leaderboard top 12 after CoR:

Rank Team Name Score
1 haribobo 9837
2 In Memory of Stacy 9751
3 Team Deutschland 9697
4 Team America 9647
5 Divas in Training 9642
6 Hearts of Gold 9633
7 oscarella 9625
8 luv2sk8 9622
9 Don't You Know Craig 9612
10 T DM 9603
10 T u-mskating 9603
12 RachAngels 9584

CoR standings top 12:
1 haribobo 2000
2 Amazing Axels 1990
3 T Team America 1977
3 T Poggi 1977
5 In Memory of Stacy 1969
6 Tamara 1958
7 Buttle Babes 1942
8 czisnysnumber1 1929
9 The Golden Pheasants 1912
10 The Golden E.D.G.E.S. 1901
11 Sasha's Team 1886
12 icetiff 1885

[mgobluegirl]

All those dance withdrawals totally killed my predictions this week

[haribobo]

Congrats to haribobo for winning Cup of Russia this week (2000 points) AND zooming to the top of the leaderboard! (9837 points total)

Thanks! Somehow I am winning this one but almost last place in the FSU game.

[TanithandBenFan]

I went crashing from the top of the leaderboard to trailing by three hundred points. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted....

[victoriaheidi]

Thanks! Somehow I am winning this one but almost last place in the FSU game.

Haha, Haribobo, what's your secret?

[Lanie]

I totally suck.

[haribobo]

Haha, Haribobo, what's your secret?

Blind faith in Tomas Verner, and lucked out picking the dance teams who finished the competition. It really stinks when you pick a skater/team that withdraws, happened to me in the past. I like that the FSU game lets you go down your list so your score is not devastated by a withdrawal.

[Lurking Skater]

CoR was my best event thus far, until all three of my dance picks withdrew and I went back to my usual placement range.

I always seem to sick at picking the right skaters.

[stjeaskategym]

So far, 4 of my skaters have withdrawn mid-competition (all three dance teams this weekend + Voronov a couple weeks ago). I've fallen from top 5 overall to 200th something place. I wish the computer could just select a different pick at random when someone withdraws so that all our other picks don't go to complete waste. I applaud everyone who gets through this entire season without one of your picks withdrawing and sucking all the fun out of it for you.

[luvsasha2]

All those dance withdrawals totally killed my predictions this week

Me too! i picked all three teams who withdrew.