FANTASY REGIONALS WEEK 1: South + East Regionals

[thisgoodriddle]

@oldman1941 Nice

 

[tracyx4]

@oldman1941 I have one ticket for the east regionals if anyone wants to go

 

[christine98]

@tracyx4 Which day?

 

[tracyx4]

@christine98 Sunday

 

[mixedupnicely]

@oldman1941 Yes!! Even though I made terrible picks last year...

 

[ben3721]

@oldman1941 money on Bethany Branham

 

[juliussneezer]

@oldman1941 I did so badly at this last year. A good third of the athletes I picked each weekend ended up being on a Team, not individual, or had already announced that they were injured and withdrawn. Let's hope I can avoid that this year

 

[mixedupnicely]

@juliussneezer Me too! Fingers crossed we make better picks this year

 

[samanthamathis]

@oldman1941 I feel like Matt Fraser, chasing the repeat

 

[truman]

@oldman1941 Where can i see the schedule for the weekend?

 

[jonjones229]

@truman Schedule isn't fully set yet unfortunately. All we've got is when doors open (8:15am) and when things are going to be done by (5:15pm latest).

Presumably the teams start up at 9am, but HQ hasn't released the heat/event schedule yet (expect it today/tomorrow).

 

[yosoy220]

@oldman1941 Straight to the top bottom

 

[emerald518]

@oldman1941 It won't let me enter any text in the username box? edit: resolved

 

[mp22]

@oldman1941 I wrote a quick predictive model to choose for me... We'll see how it does. It made some controversial choices (e.g. had Vellner at 3rd) that I am curious to see if it pans out.

Next week the model should be better since it will include the results from this first week.

 

[jonjones229]

@mp22 That'd be interesting to see! Vellner as 3rd honestly isn't a huge stretch in this region either.

 

[mp22]

@jonjones229 Very true. My intuition would have been to place him second after Fraser, obviously.

The model even shows Chase Smith with an almost identical score as Vellner (just slightly less). You could think of it as my model scoring him at 3.4th place if that were possible.

I think Vellner takes an "unfair" hit in my model because of his injury last year during regionals... He probably could have scored better than he did if it were not for his injury. But, I think the main reason Vellner is not solidly in 2nd is due to his Open performance (mainly 17.3).

 

[jonjones229]

@mp22 He's definitely got a solid chance at 2nd, no question there. There's a lot of people who will be battling though. Vigneault definitely has done well in regionals and came 9th at the games last year.

The Men's division of the east regional is nuts. It has 9 former individual games competitors, 2 former Games team athletes (not including the individuals who did both) and 1 former games teen athlete.

 

[ddixxonn]

@oldman1941 WooT!

 

[mixedupnicely]

@oldman1941 Did I see correctly on IG earlier today that Vigneault is most likely withdrawing due to injury and there's only a 5% chance he'll compete tomorrow?? There goes one of East picks!

I just checked the CrossFit/CrossFit Games/Alex's IGs and cannot find the post...

 

[oldman1941]

@mixedupnicely waiting to the last second helps me once again!