Just for kicks I'm going to try to handicap the field:

WINNERS:
- MIKE AULBY
- AMLETO MONACELLI
- BRIEN LECLAIR
- JASON QUEEN
- RONNY RUSSELL
- BRYON SMITH
- PAUL FLEMING
- MIKA KOIVUNIEMI

Anybody want to speak up BEFORE they enter the RING?
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Hit them light and watch them fight
      J O E - F A L C O

Edited on 11/7/2003 11:44 PM

Thanks for noting the TYPO .. fixed it!
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Hit them light and watch them fight
      J O E - F A L C O

Lol, I never guess until I see scores from the rounds of 16 and 8.  Then I make an educated guess about the show.  This would just screw my percentage all up probably . .
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The weekly signature series, by Hamster.

My cat is 21.  I never thought I'd see the day when I'd actually think that 21 year old "kitty" was a bad thing.

Okay, I'll take a shot:

Weber
Kent
LeClair
Jones
Russell
Johnson
Wiseman
Koivuniemi

I'd love to see Aulby make the show, but I don't think he will get past Pete.  

Brian LeClair is so overdue it's not funny, so he's gotta be the sentimental favorite.
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seadrive
Cogito ergo bowl

Weber over Aulby in 6
Monacelli over Kent in 7 (although I would have liked to see big Wes in this match)
LeClair over Jaros in 5
Jones over Queen in 5
Lawrence over Russell in 4
The Real Deal over Smith in 5
Fleming over Wiseman in 7
Healey over Koivuniemi in 6

Gotta love all the Texan influence going to the Round of 8  If only Wes could have pulled his match out so it wasn't just a D/FW round of 8... *sigh*

Well, we were all definitely wrong on the Aulby match (outside of Joe )...and the others are turning into bigger slugfests than I had expected...

Now its time to move on to our predictions for the Round of 8 and who you expect to get the wild card.  Remember that the wild card goes to the Round of 8 loser that qualified highest after the 18 games of qualifying...



Edited on 11/8/2003 2:03 PM

Round of 8 predictions...

Monacelli over Aulby  
Queen over Jaros
CJ over Russell
Healey over Wiseman (hey, he was +260 in his 4 wins)

Scenario above brings Russell in as wild card since he qualified 3rd and would make for a potentially interesting show since there would be 4 of the top 6 qualifiers making it to the finals...