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RotB Pick'em Survival: The Ranks Thin

Three season-long participants went with Peyton Manning's Colts and were reminded that Jacksonville still has an NFL team and they weren't playing a Pop Warner team of 8-year old kids.  Three participants came and went so fast I barely had a chance to know their usernames.  Fare thee well.   Ten participants are still in the running having survived the first four weeks of this odd NFL season.  Can they survive Week Five?  Can those in a trailing position catch up?

Week 1 - 4 Survivors
AlaskanCard, blank_38, CardsIrish, Cuckoo for Coco Puffs, Dem_Cardz, Drullin'OverDaCards, jallred350, manphibian, quid pro quo, SenSurround, StuckinColorado
Week 2 - 4 Survivors
Cardinalfever, KDean75
Week 4 Survivor
Skii
I drank what?
az78true, CARDstuckinVA, Fitz Jizzle, Gildo, hadrarius, robloosli

Star-divide

Pick'em Survival is relatively straightforward:

  • You pick ONE team to win each week. You don't pick every game, just one team that will win each week out of one game. If you pick a team and they fail to win, you are eliminated, with no chance to join again (it's a thrill-ride I know).
  • Another determining factor in the Survival Pick'em League is that you cannot select a single team more then once in the season.  So save a "hot" team for a week of unfavourable match-ups.  You are responsible to remember which teams you've used in previous weeks.  I'll check your submissions leading up to game day and if I note you're using a team for a second time, I'll ask you to change.  If you don't change or I don't notice until too late, your steak ends.  
  • The winner of the league needs to have the longest stretch of games picked correctly. You can start your picks late, depending on a favorable match up that starts later, but be careful you don't start too late. You can also end your streak whenever you want but don't end it too early, or somebody could pass your stretch.  So if SenSurround picks week 1 through week 11 correct, then SenSurround has lasted through 64% of the season. If hevchv doesn't start till week 3, then picks through week 17 correct, he lasted 88% of the season and he would win.  If we end up with a tie, the tie breaker is the lowest winning percentage of the teams used to survive.  If it's still a tie, we'll get creative.
  • You cannot skip a week once you start the streak.  You miss a week your streak is done.
  • Submission are simple: post your ONE team every week. You are responsible to remember which teams you've used in previous weeks.  The only deadline is to submit your pick before that game's opening kick off time, so it's feasible to party hard all weekend and still use one of the MNF teams to keep the streak going..if either of those teams haven't already been used earlier in the season.

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Dem Ravens

Dammit… wished I woulda saved my Cardinal pick for this week

by Dem_Cardz on Oct 5, 2010 10:35 PM MDT reply actions  

Dallas Cowboys

"There are preachermen on TV in a suit and a tie, they tell you to send your money to the Lord, but they give you their address" Hank Williams Jr.

by StuckinColorado on Oct 6, 2010 4:36 AM MDT reply actions  

week 5

I’m going with INDY @ home over KC

No more night. I have seen the light. Let it shine on bright.
HANG HIM HIGHER!!!

by Cuckoo for Coco Puffs on Oct 6, 2010 7:01 AM MDT reply actions  

49ers

Who would win in a fight, Whisenhunt or a Hurricane?
Hold on, hold on, what if the Hurricanes name was Whisenhunt?
Daaaaaaaaaa Cards, Da Cards Da Cards Da Cards Da Cards!!!

by boogatt66 on Oct 6, 2010 11:36 AM MDT reply actions  

I can't remember who I picked week 1

and I can’t find the thread …(I may have picked Cards week 1) weeks 2-4 were Broncos, New England, Houston

this week I’ll keep on survivin’ with the Saints (I know I know)

by quid pro quo on Oct 7, 2010 6:59 PM MDT reply actions  

i got a -1 from someone for picking SD last week.

by KDean75 on Oct 8, 2010 8:15 AM MDT up reply actions  

I like Max Hall

… just not this week :)

the Saints are a very confusing Def to get in your first game as a starter

by quid pro quo on Oct 8, 2010 12:14 PM MDT up reply actions  

bummer

.. and my gut said I should take Detroit

I figured the Cards would stay close, I just didn’t think Hall would make plays, and I thought Brees would (who knew the Defense would wake up)

by quid pro quo on Oct 11, 2010 12:48 PM MDT up reply actions  

i can't find any of the older posts...

so i think i’ve picked atlanta, miami, green bay,and arizona….
sooooooo i pick the
jacksonville jaguars

Haiku are simple,
But they often don't make sense,
Refrigerator.

by blank_38 on Oct 9, 2010 11:34 AM MDT reply actions  

and for good reason

Freaking cinncinati boned me on that on. Why would you throw the ball when you’re up 7 with 2 minutes? and how could you possibly throw an int to give them the game. I’m a little pissed if you can’t tell.

by AlaskanCard on Oct 10, 2010 2:27 PM MDT up reply actions  

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