CUF March Madness Bracket Challenge 2010

[scottie]

On that note - I signed up for the wrong one. I meant to sign up for the free only but accidentally signed up for the paid one too. scottie, can you take me off of the one?

Yep. So just to be clear -- you want to be removed from the $5 league correct?

[Pheidippides]

Yep. So just to be clear -- you want to be removed from the $5 league correct?

Right. You can thank Donuthole.

[ewth8tr]

Anyone know who El Duderino might be? He/she has their email address hidden in the Yahoo league, and no CUF moniker by that name.

Thanks.

I'm guessing it is JL

Let me explain something to you. Um, I am not "Mr. Lebowski". You're Mr. Lebowski. I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.

[Donuthole]

Right. You can thank Donuthole.

Hey, that reminds me, I have $72 in my paypal account for you from your (lucky-ass) 2nd place fantasy football season!

[scottie]

Hey, that reminds me, I have $72 in my paypal account for you from your (lucky-ass) 2nd place fantasy football season!

Yet he doesn't want to play in the $5 march madness???

[Pheidippides]

Hey, that reminds me, I have $72 in my paypal account for you from your (lucky-ass) 2nd place fantasy football season!

Damn, I can use that! Send it my way.

And lucky-ass was right, except for the championship game. What a week for all my stars to mail it in.

[Donuthole]

Damn, I can use that! Send it my way.

And lucky-ass was right, except for the championship game. What a week for all my stars to mail it in.

Sent.

[cougjunkie]

I paid as well!

[Pheidippides]

http://abovethelaw.com/2010/03/how_t...tournament.php

[RobinFinderson]

Bracket #2 (free bracket)
Site: www.yahoo.com
Link: http://tournament.fantasysports.yaho...cougarsandutes
Group name: CougarUteForum
Password: cougarsandutes
Entry fee: $0
Scoring: Progressive with Upset Pick bonuses (Scoring details here: http://tournament.fantasysports.yaho...?context=group)
Reward: Bragging rights

Comments:
- I'd appreciate it if you would give your bracket the same name as your CUF moniker
- Invite as many people to participate as you'd like, even non-CUFers
- RobinFinderson was the winner last year

Note how little bragging I did, because that is just how humble I am.

[falafel]

Note how little bragging I did, because that is just how humble I am.

Or how surprised you were.

[RobinFinderson]

Pascal's Wager in Reverse

In honor of all of you Mormons who have ever asked an apostate the question, "And what if you are wrong?" I based my picks on a reverse version of Pascal's Wager. As most know, the conclusion of Pascal's Wager is that one ought to believe in God for the simple reason that, if one is wrong, there isn't much to lose, and if one is right, there is everything in the world to gain. So I figured that when it comes to gambling, a reverse version of Pascal's Wager might be in order.

What I am saying is that I have invoked the powers of Lucifer in making my picks. Yes, folks, 'just in case it might help,' I have called upon Satanic powers to beat the Mormons and take their money. As many God-fearing people, in moments of struggle and desperation, promise to devote their lives to righteousness if God will help them, in my reversed Pascal's Wager I have promised Old Scratch to spend your money on whiskey and lap dances... and trust me , I have better things to spend money on, so this represents a kind of personal sacrifice.

My system was simple. I would let my cursor hover over each bracket pick and I would whisper under my breath, "Beelzebub inspire me!" I would then wait for there to be a coldness in my bosom, which is how I made all of my picks. Please note, folks, that I would never pick BYU to go down in the first round, if it were up to me, but I picked against Brigham Young because the Devil made me do it.

I hope this doesn't make anyone feel uncomfortable, but if it does, maybe it will help if you remember that I don't actually believe any of this. I'm just doing it 'in case it works.' TIA for your Mormon money, and Scottie, I owe you ten bucks.

[scottie]

Update on the $5 bracket:

24 entries -- technically 21, but Katy Lied and Blueintheface (2) have paid for brackets, just haven't submitted them on Yahoo yet -- and all but five have paid, nice job.

Think we can get it to 30? $150 ain't bad for the winner.

[BoylenOver]

I will dominate all of you.

And by "dominate", I mean "be completely out of the running by early Sunday morning".

[Fiyero]

Update on the $5 bracket:

24 entries -- technically 21, but Katy Lied and Blueintheface (2) have paid for brackets, just haven't submitted them on Yahoo yet -- and all but five have paid, nice job.

Think we can get it to 30? $150 ain't bad for the winner.

How many of the 21 brackets have Kansas St losing in the second round?