Our Basketball Contest $100 First Place winner
is announced; wins by a razor thin edge |
April 10, 2018 |
The final tallies are in on the big Basketball
Tournament Contest, sponsored by Boundary County
Live-NewsBF during the recently completed NCAA
College Basketball Championship Tournament.
Those who entered the contest filled out their
brackets for the ESPN Tournament Contest, then
signed up for participation in the Boundary
County Live - NewsBF Contest. A Grand Prize of
$100 was awaiting the bracket with the most
points at the conclusion of the championship
game of the tournament.
The competition was intense, and enthusiasm ran
high as the brackets of some contestants
collapsed in short order during the Tournament,
while others held up under the wild basketball
action.
Going into the final championship game, three
contestants were tied for the top spot. All
three of these were not only tied, but all had
picked Villanova to win the championship game.
Villanova did win the championship game, so
according to the contest rules, the contest
winner was determined based on which entrant had
most closely predicted the final score of the
championship game.
That winner was Brian Rae, of Naples, whose
First Place bracket accumulated 1,320 points in
the contest, earning him the First Place
Championship Prize of $100.
Two other contestants also scored 1,320 points.
Using the Tiebreaker under the rules of the
game, second place and a prize of $50 was
awarded to Jesse Medearis of Missoula, Montana.
Third place and a prize of $30 went to Justin
Mullet of Oldtown, Idaho.
Brian Rae, our First Place winner, found out
about the contest from the NewsBF Facebook page,
as did many of our other contestants. Although
he enjoys college basketball, he says he is
primarily a football fan.
He had a remarkable run in our contest; when all
the dust had settled he had correctly selected
the winner of 44 games out of the total of 63
games played during the NCAA Tournament. He even
correctly picked a couple of the big upsets of
the Tournament: he correctly selected 13-seeded
Buffalo to defeat 4-seeded Arizona, and also
correctly called for 11 seed Loyola-Chicago to
beat 6-seed Miami.
Asked his secret for making so many correct
selections, Brian explained that he started with
an "expert pick" bracket, then modified it with
several of his own selections and changes. Along
with entering his bracket in the Boundary County
Live-NewsBF contest, he entered the same bracket
in another contest, and won that contest, also.
"But the NewsBF contest was much closer!" he
said.
As our First Place winner, Brian Rae is awarded
the $100 Grand Prize for the contest. His plan
is to donate his winnings to the fund set up to
help Emma Pinkerton, a young woman from Boundary
County who is currently having some difficult
medical problems. According to a public Facebook
post from family friend Angela Jones, Emma has
not been well for some time, and is consulting
with specialists in Spokane and Seattle
regarding her medical issues. An account has
been set up at Columbia Bank in Bonners Ferry to
help with her medical expenses. Good luck to
Emma and to her family.
Congratulations to Brian Rae, Jesse Medearis,
and Justin Mullet, our basketball contest
winners. |
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