In a strange twist of the net the outcome in our pool was more certain than the game itself. And even that was close. In fact, for the first time in at least 6 months the tiebreaker was invoked twice in order to decide the final pool standings.
As previously noted, at the top of the heap, TKC2 (Tom Chan) was in relatively good shape with either Villanova or UNC winning the championship game except if Villanova won with a total score of 158 or more. With a final total score of 151 this was a closer finish than it seemed like it might be. Second place finisher Brandon Stout (keep that name in mind) was twisting on the spit hoping both that Villanova could hang on, but also that a few more buckets would drop. Sadly for Brandon this was not to be. With the scoring drought Tom became the first 2 time champion since… ever. Congrats, Tom!!
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In a rare occurrence, third place AND 5th place finisher Todd Schoentrup of the “Zag Nation” franchise failed to match last year’s 2nd place finish, but did polish up his resume. We’re pouring through the pool bylaws to see if there is a category worthy for finishing in 2nd, 3rd, and 5th places combined in two successive pools. We’re down to the fine print without any indications that such an award exists. We’ll hit the thesaurus next year if you can take 1st and 4th places.
Rounding out the top five, in fourth place was none other than the pool’s own Sven Cushing (“Toos N Twees”).
Just missing finishing in the neon lights was kzieg who lost out to Zag Nation 3 by a mere 5 points in the tie breaker.
And in the least surprising outcome of the evening, the Brandy Award (Brandy Stout. Ring a bell?) goes to pool slouch DD3 as previously discussed with a pretty unimpressive total score of 35 points. “Congratulations” are due (once again) to David Ditlevsen. Having achieved this outcome for 5 of the last 6 years David is encouraging pool HQ to reconsider the award. Given that the whole point of this award is to make it fun for pool administrators to make light of the plight of the less fortunate entries (a skill that we honed fairly well up until 2012) we believe that the illogical but somehow beguiling award of a free entry in the successive year for a poor effort this year is making this award overly attractive. Even though it shouldn’t be.
