UWS Tournament Bracket Challenge

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UWS Tournament Bracket Challenge

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URL: https://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/
Pool Name: United We Stand (uwsboard.com)
Group Number: 83742
Password: gohokies
Invitation Link: http://y.ahoo.it/vFJCnEQh

Instructions for entering without signing up for Yahoo's stupid SMS marketing nonsense: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/tourney-picke ... sions=true

(Yahoo has been nagging for years about validating your account with a phone number. Apparently, now it is mandatory, not just a nag. If you have not previously validated your Yahoo account using a phone number, when you attempt to log in, they will ask you to sign up for marketing SMS messages. This has to do with the billion dollar bracket thing. You can instead follow the linked instructions to validate your account using a land line and not be subjected to their marketing texts. If having to validate your account with a phone number is a deal killer for anyone, maybe we move to ESPN?)

By the way, only the first 15 million to sign up for the Billion dollar challenge bracket are eligible. I have no idea if that threshold has already been met, but if you'd like to have a few days of dreaming about being a billionaire before being bitterly disappointed when a wild upset nobody saw coming happens in the first game of day one, you should sign up BEFORE the pairings are announced - presumably 15 million will come pretty quickly after the pairings come out.
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I'm in. :)
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Regrettably, I will not be winning $1 billion.
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BigDave wrote:Regrettably, I will not be winning $1 billion.
Me too but I did pick Harvard. :mrgreen:
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BigDave wrote:Regrettably, I will not be winning $1 billion.
Brilliant promotion.
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Major Kong wrote:
BigDave wrote:Regrettably, I will not be winning $1 billion.
Me too but I did pick Harvard. :mrgreen:
I missed it on Harvard, so no billion for me either, but I did get Dayton over OSU
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The weekend has not been kind to me.
It's been an exciting tourney though, a lot of close games
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Apparently Yahoo isn't doing the second chance pick 'em this year where you re-do your bracket for the sweet 16? That sucks.

So it looks like our leaderboard is:

1. LD
2. David (BigDave)
3. JBreezey
4. Jason (IP Law Hokie)
5. Jmac (jmac610)
5. Bill S (Florida Hokie)
7. Mark
7. Jimbo

Who are LD, JBreezey, Mark, and Jimbo?
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I'm LD
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Major Kong wrote:I'm LD
That's what you say because LD is in the lead ;) (tic)
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BigDave wrote:
Major Kong wrote:I'm LD
That's what you say because LD is in the lead ;) (tic)

I'm Mark, btw. Go Wiscy!!!
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Oddly, nobody seems to have had Kentucky of UConn in the championship game and so we are done here. Congratulations to IP Law Hokie on his win.

Our final standings are:

1. Jason (IP Law Hokie)
2. JBreezey (???)
3. Bill S (Florida Hokie)
4. Mark (HokieFanDC)
5. LD (Major Kong)
6. David (BigDave)
7. Jmac (jmac610)
8. Jimbo (???)
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BigDave wrote:Oddly, nobody seems to have had Kentucky of UConn in the championship game and so we are done here. Congratulations to IP Law Hokie on his win.

Our final standings are:

1. Jason (IP Law Hokie)
2. JBreezey (???)
3. Bill S (Florida Hokie)
4. Mark (HokieFanDC)
5. LD (Major Kong)
6. David (BigDave)
7. Jmac (jmac610)
8. Jimbo (???)
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I am Jimbo :(


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