March (May) Madness Grading Contest

[Nostalgic Attic]

Patience Grasshopper.

 

We have 31 teams. Grades are due midnight tonight!

[burntboy]

Can we change them if so inclined until then?? i only ask because i did them all in about 4 minutes while rushing out the door yesterday, and have no indication from you or anyone where i stand...............

[abracadabra]

Beat the deadline! Grades are in!

-William

[Comicdey]

I wanted to play, but my computer service is too slow downloading the darn images, so I gave up...have fun guys.

[Warlord]

I wanted to play, but my computer service is too slow downloading the darn images, so I gave up...have fun guys.

 

Just make random guesses, that's my strategy!

[silverage12c]

Just make random guesses, that's my strategy!

 

[Aces]

I wanted to play, but my computer service is too slow downloading the darn images, so I gave up...have fun guys.

 

Take a shot.

 

You got till midnight.

Let'em load slow.

 

 

[Old Fashion PB and J]

Just make random guesses, that's my strategy!

 

 

 

[SolitaireOne]

Just make random guesses, that's my strategy!

(thumbs u Ha~HA!

[oakman29]

11:45 PM

[tablism]

is it too late to play?

[tablism]

grades sent

[Nostalgic Attic]

Thanks everyone for playing. We ended up with 34 teams, so we will have two 'play-in' games in the brackets of the two top ranked teams. Here are the answers and the standings. Please chack your score and PM me by Noon PST if I have made a mistake. Remember, if you got within .5 of the grade, it counted as a win. For example, if the book was graded as a 9.0, any answer between 8.5 and 9.4 got a win. (9.6 would be a loss because it is .6 off the answer)

 

 

Amazing Spider-Man 177 9.0

Amazing Spider-Man 195 9.6

Amazing Spider-Man 312 9.4

Conan 2 8.0

Daredevil 143 9.6

Daredevil 168 8.0

Silver Surfer 6 9.6

Daredevil 158 7.5

Justice League America 94 7.5

Marvel Premiere 25 9.0

Strange Tales 150 8.5

Strange Tales 156 9.2

Tales Of Suspense 56 8.0

Tales To Astonish 80 8.5

Tales To Astonish 100 7.5

X-Men 118 9.2

 

A few of the books proved to be tough. Out of the 34 entries, no one got the ASM 177 or the DD 158 correct. Interstingly, the average grade guessed on the DD 168, Conan 2, TOS 56 and DD 158 was 9.0. The average grade guessed on the JLA 94 was a wopping 9.0 also!

 

And now for the Rankings:

 

 

1 Oakman SW 13- 3

2 aces NE 12- 4

3 Cap freek SW 12- 4

4 SolitaireOne 12- 4

5 Mjacobs8 SW 11- 5

6 skao SW 11- 5

7 October 11- 5

8 Comicdonna NE 11- 5

9 Dollarbill SW 11- 5

10 Silverage12 NE 11- 5

11 Transplant SE 11- 5

12 Warlord NE 11- 6

13 Count 11- 5

14 steveout22 SE 11- 5

15 Tablism SE 11- 5

16 Timmay NE 10- 6

17 Dicex SE 10- 6

18 ffcomics 10- 6

19 Divad 10- 6

20 Djpinkpanther SW 9- 7

21 Agro23 SW 9- 7

22 Inconceivable 9- 7

23 Hesdeadjim NE 9- 7

24 Canickus SW 9- 8

25 TheResurrectionNE 9- 7

26 Burntboy 9- 7

27 JohnT NE 9- 7

28 Nick 8- 8

29 Pirate 8- 8

30 Turokhunter NW 8- 8

31 MarvelCollector 7- 9

32 Abracadabra NE 7- 9

33 BlowupthemoonNE 6- 10

34 TRmoore54 6-10

35 Silvers 5- 11

 

Congratulations to Oakman..the top ranked team in the Nation

 

[Nostalgic Attic]

I will be working on the brackets today and will post it this afternoon- just in time to post it in your office Monday for the office pool. I promise it will make as much sense as the real thing!

 

From here on for each round, starting with the four teams in the play-in games, I will post four books. Each team needs to PM me their grades and I will score them as follows:

 

Guess the grade: 20 points

Guess within .2: 15 points

Guess within .5 or better: 10 points

Guess within .7 or better: 7 points

Guess within 1: 5 points

 

Bonus:

5 points if you guess two books correctly

15 points if you guess three books correctly

Guess all four and you're DQ'd- This is college ball and you're running up the score!

 

 

 

[mjacobs8]

Looks like the west coast is representin'

We should field a team to battle the evil Central Florida Posse.

Good job oakman29, now how about a name for our team of West Coast collectors? It seems we are all high ranking.

[silverage12c]

Great job with the contest, Nostalgic!

 

And, congrats to Oakman for the early lead! (thumbs u

[Old Fashion PB and J]

Do the grades get submitted by individuals ?

[oakman29]

WHEW! Thanx guys what should we call ourselves?

[mjacobs8]

WHEW! Thanx guys what should we call ourselves?

How about The "West Coast Comic Syndicate" ?

WCCS for short. It sounds a little silly, but it's the best I could come up with.

Can you belive I wasted my 1,000th post on this?

[oakman29]

WHEW! Thanx guys what should we call ourselves?

How about The "West Coast Comic Syndicate" ?

WCCS for short. It sounds a little silly, but it's the best I could come up with.

Can you belive I wasted my 1,000th post on this?

:news:"West coast comic syndicate" sounds good I guess we could put it to a vote ALL IN FAVOR!