2018 Iditarod Top Ten Picks (TTP)

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Re: 2018 Iditarod Top Ten Picks (TTP)

Postby adella » Sun Mar 04, 2018 10:38 am

1. Zirkle
2. Seavey
3. Petit
4. Ulsom
5. Marrs
6. King
7. Royer
8. Burmeister
9. Kaiser
10. Phillips

ROTY. Hall

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Re: 2018 Iditarod Top Ten Picks (TTP)

Postby drstrue » Sun Mar 04, 2018 12:26 pm

1. Ally Z
2. Mitch S.
3. Jeff K.
4. Peter K
5. Jessie R.
6. Wade M.
7. Aaron. B.
8. Nick P.
9. Ryan R.
10. Ramey S.
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Re: 2018 Iditarod Top Ten Picks (TTP)

Postby Moose » Sun Mar 04, 2018 12:44 pm

Oh, man. I just popped in to remind myself of my final TTP--and find they didn't post! Yikes! So, let me try again.

1. Aliy Zirkle
2. Joan Leifseth Ulsom
3. Nicholas Petit
4. Jessie Royer
5. Matt Hall
6. Wade Marrs
7. Pete Kaiser
8. Mitch Seavey
9. Jeff King
10. Ramey Smyth

ROTY: Matt Hall

Time: (Dang! I can't remember my earlier guess.) New guess: 8 - 23 - 59 - 9
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Re: 2018 Iditarod Top Ten Picks (TTP)

Postby Frozen Chosen » Sun Mar 04, 2018 2:44 pm

1. Joar Ulsom
2. Aliy Zirkle
3. Mitch Seavey
4. Peter Kaiser
5. Nicolas Petit
6. Jessie Royer
7. Ramie Smyth
8. Mike Williams Jr
9. Ray Redington Jr
10. Wade Marrs

ROY MATT HALL

winner 8 days 6 hrs 32 mins 51 secs

Mitch n Aliy will be ahead going into Unk, with Peter, Nicolas just behind. Joar will be 3 hrs behind front runners. In a bold move, Joar will run nearly nonstop to Wt Mtn fr Shaktoolik, and find himself @ 35 mins behind Mitch n Aliy leaving Wt Mtn.

Joar will pass Mitch on the Topkok Hills, then catch Aliy at Fort Davis, just 3 miles from Front Street! It will be a near Photo finish as these two arr Front Street...

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Re: 2018 Iditarod Top Ten Picks (TTP)

Postby Marlyn » Sun Mar 04, 2018 4:43 pm

Here's my top ten picks:

Ali Z
Joar Ulsom
Jessie Royer
Mitch Seavey
A Burmeister
M Phillips
J King
Wade M
Nick P
Pete Kaiser

Roty : Matt Hall
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Re: 2018 Iditarod Top Ten Picks (TTP)

Postby mira » Thu Mar 15, 2018 1:18 am

While we waiting for the final calculations, here are some stats.

22 picked Aliy as a winner, no surprise. Only 2 had Mitch as winner, but 12 had put him as runner up and 14 as number three (there's some points for you :) ). Joar were picked as winner of 6, 10 had him in second and 7 in third. Nicolas were 8/4/6. Both Joar and Nicolas were quite evenly spread out as picks from 1 to 10, as opposite to Aliy and Mitch who were picked mostly in 1-4.

Based on our picks, this is "our" result list (1-15), we did at least get Matt Hall in correct position :lol:

Aliy Zirkle:
Mitch Seavey:
Joar Leifseth Ulsom:
Nicolas Petit:
Jessie Royer:
Wade Marrs:
Peter Kaiser:
Aaron Burmeister:
Jeff King:
Ray Redington:
Matt Hall:
Ramey Smyth:
Ketil Reitan:
Martin Buser:
Michelle Phillips:

ROTY, 37 picked Matt Hall, 3 picked Jessie Holmes!
Many of us were quite off on the time, but fladogfan guessed 9d 11h 11m 36s, that is only 48 minutes and 24 seconds from the correct time! That is impressive :D
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Re: 2018 Iditarod Top Ten Picks (TTP)

Postby fladogfan » Thu Mar 15, 2018 3:00 am

LOL mira that time guess was purely that, a wild guess. :lol: :lol: And only 2 of my TT guess were even in the TT and not where I guessed them.. Still it's fun to do.
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Re: 2018 Iditarod Top Ten Picks (TTP)

Postby mira » Thu Mar 15, 2018 9:00 am

The winner will be announced later this evening(my time), just need some time at my computer.
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Re: 2018 Iditarod Top Ten Picks (TTP)

Postby mira » Thu Mar 15, 2018 1:28 pm

...and the winner is... drum rolls...

Frozen Chosen!

..and what's more impressive it's the description of how Joar will win:

Joar will be 3 hrs behind front runners. In a bold move, Joar will run nearly nonstop to Wt Mtn fr Shaktoolik,


Make that koyuk and not exactly three hours, but close enough :lol:


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Re: 2018 Iditarod Top Ten Picks (TTP)

Postby fladogfan » Thu Mar 15, 2018 1:43 pm

:D :D :D :D Congratulations Frozen :D :D :D :D

This is not the first time our Froz has won TTP! Good Job Frozen!! :D
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