It’s bold predictions time… we’re launching our annual Men’s NCAA Championships Pick ‘Em Contest with a tweaked scoring format and a lineup of great prizes! This year’s contest is sponsored by FINIS, who will be providing prizes to the winners.
Not sure who to pick? Stay tuned for our official event-by-event previews starting this week.
CLICK HERE TO ENTER!
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.
We’re streamlining our team picks scoring, awarding 10 points for picking the winning team and 5 points for each correctly-guessed team after that:
- 1st – 10
- 2nd-10th – 5
Picks will close at 4PM Eastern Time on Wednesday, March 27th, 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 in the relevant time period, then 2nd-place finishers, then 3rd-place finishers, etc. in the relevant time period.
Note: this year, we’ve solved a technical limitation that we’ve had in the past that made it impossible to change your mind on the team selections once a team had been clicked. The “JK” columns are designed for any such errors. If you don’t need them, feel free to leave them blank!
PRIZES
The highest scorer on each of the 3 days of the meet (with days 1 and 2 being combined for prize purposes) will receive the following prize package:
- FINIS swim cap
- FINIS Goggles
- FINIS T-Shirt
The person who has the most points at the end of the competition will win the grand prize:
- FINIS Rival 2.0 Tech Suit
- FINIS Dome Cap
- FINIS Goggles
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)
- Must enter contest using their real name
- No purchase is required for entry
- Agree to allow SwimSwam to provide their personal information to the sponsor in order to distribute prizes
Pick’em Prizes are courtesy of FINIS, a SwimSwam partner.
I accidently picked eligible but I’m not…
Sorry
Jack LeVant isn’t removed from the choices. He posted a few days ago on Instagram that he wouldn’t be competing due to “medical circumstances.” Don’t want anyone to pick someone that isn’t competing!!
Where is Dean Farris in the 200?!?!?
He’s not entered in the 200.
It would interesting if you guys made an article with the statistics of all the contest entries and show who was picked most likely to win each event, etc.
Yup. We do that every year. Look for it on day 1 of the meet.
Are college swimmers allowed to win prizes?
Put your parents name in
Generally no, you’re not allowed to “bet” on any NCAA sport if you are an NCAA athlete. This was sometimes an important thing to remember come March Madness time.
As for NCAA rules, you are allowed to win prizes as long as you did not pay to enter the contest. If you are concerned your institution may have different rules I would stay on the side of caution and not enter for prizes.
And it’s open to all, not just athletes.
HOWEVER, there may be other rules involving ‘having a stake in your own competition’ that could apply to some athletes. When in doubt, it’s best to ask.
Townley Haas is not a select-able swimmer in the 200 free.
I think that might be a problem.
We’re working on it…crickets in the code.
I think they assumed Dean would sweep top 8 without even swimming it
Um, so there’s some guys missing in the 400 IM… I don’t see DeVine anywhere.
Should be fixed now.