At long last, the Pick ‘Em Contest for the 2016 Women’s NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships is here.
This year, we’ve migrated to a new format that allows us to give our users the ability to pick much deeper into the seeds for their favorites. Specifically, we’ve listed out the top 30 seeds in each individual eventand the
Just like previous years, you will choose your top 4 finishers in each event, but unlike prior years, there will be no “other” option. We have also added a section to choose the top 10 finishing teams in the overall team battle, which will carry big weight toward the overall final standings.
To Play Pick ‘Em, Click Here (Google Login Required)
Scoring System
Correctly picking a swimmer to place:
- 1st – 7 points
- 2nd – 5 points
- 3rd – 4 points
- 4th – 3 points
Correctly picking a swimmer to place in the top 4, but putting them in the wrong spot, will earn you 1 point.
In the team picks, correctly picking a team to finish in exactly each place will earn this many points:
- 1st – 20
- 2nd – 17
- 3rd – 16
- 4th – 15
- 5th – 14
- 6th – 13
- 7th – 12
- 8th – 11
- 9th – 9
- 10th – 7
Picks will close at 4PM Eastern Time on Wednesday, March 16th, and at that time, we will post everyone’s picks for them to see.
By using the new Google Forms format, you CAN go in and edit your responses up until 4 PM on Wednesday. You can also use this “edit responses” ability to go in and print or save your answers.
The tie-breaker for prizes, if necessary, will be the most correctly-picked winners, then 2nd-place finishers, then 3rd-place finishers, etc. in the relevant time period.
Prizes
Note: Because of the revamped NCAA format, we’ll give out daily prizes for the end of days 2, 3, 4
The top 3 scorers on (day 1 + day 2), day 3, and day 4 will receive:
- A Custom Woven Towel from Custom Woven Towels
- A one-year subscription to SwimSwam Magazine
- An official, can’t-be-bought, “Swimming Expert” t-shirt (design to be revealed later this week)
The overall champion will receive:
- The daily prizes listed above, PLUS
- Your choice of: $100 food credit to Local Beer, Patio and Kitchen in Omaha, the official SwimSwam HQ during the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials, OR $100 credit to the SwimSwamSwag Store
Official Rules
Anybody is eligible to play, but only certain people are eligible for prizes. For starters, only one entry per person is allowed. If we discover that you have made multiple entries, we may disqualify all of your entries.
To win prizes, entrant must:
- Be 18 or older
- Accept responsibility for any and all taxes
- Accept responsibility for any impact on high school or college eligibility
- Be a legal resident of the United States or Canada (prizes will only be mailed to these countries)
I feel really good about my picks this year. Taper was strong, no nagging injuries and 100% healthy. Haven’t cracked the top 50, ever, but this is my year.
Hulk, cool to see you back on swimswam. It’s been a long time.
Yeah , he took a solid break . LOL
I have once again wasted 15min filling this out, and will eagerly await scrolling down for hours looking for my inevitably dissapointing results.
There seems to be an issue with picking the team scores as google is requiring me to input a place for each team to submit, and only allows one pick per column. Is there a way of getting around this?
Hi Splash – sorry about that. Was wondering why we’d had any entries yet. Still learning the best way to use Google Forms. The “one per row” validation should now be turned off.
Thanks, it allows submissions now 🙂
Similarly, I tried to change my 10th place team and now I have two teams selected for 10th (and it won’t let me submit). It switches off but only if you select another place (and I don’t want to put this team in the top 10).
no1swimfreak – it sounds like that might be a limitation of Google Forms. If you email the change you want to make at [email protected], I’ll update it manually. We’ll try and come up with a better solution before the men’s meet.
Thank you! Unfortunately it won’t let me submit so I’ll have to close the browser and start over.