With the first weekend of the Hockey East and WCHA playoffs in the books, and with the ECAC, CCHA, and Atlantic Hockey playoffs continuing, here's another look at the score so far in the Pick the Tourneys Contest #1 (in which the later rounds are weighted more heavily than the earlier ones). Also included are the scores for the predictions by the USCHO staff (who, it should be pointed out, don't have to pick all the games at once) and a "Higher Seed" entry, showing what would have happened if the higher seed for each game had been picked to win. Thus, in the "Higher Seed" entry, all first-round/quarterfinal series get picked as sweeps.

The overall lead is held by Robin Lock with 95 points.

Scoring reminder:  Three points are awarded for each correctly predicted winner in the first round.  An additional bonus point was given for correctly forecasting the number of games (2 or 3) a series would go.  The quarterfinal round will be scored the same way; predicting the winner is worth three points, and correctly picking the number of games in the series is worth a bonus point.

Scoring for the rest of the contest is as follows:  4 points for correctly picking the winner of each play-in/finals qualifier game (WCHA only), 8 points for correctly picking semifinal winners, 4 points for picking the consolation winner (ECAC and CCHA only), and 16 points for picking the championship game winner.


Overall
NAME                    TOTAL
Robin Lock                95
CHODR                     92
Wayne Smith               90
Tony Buffa                85
Mark Lewin                85
Troy D. Mills             80
Andy Weise                80
William Sangrey           78
Bill Fenwick              74
Charlie Shub              74
Scott Kaplan              72
Bill Groskreutz           71
Todd Nielson              67
* John Edwards            48
* Nathan Hampton          26
* Mike Larson             22
* Will Groskreutz         18

USCHO                     79
Higher Seed               96

* Did not submit picks for all conferences


ECAC                            Hockey East
NAME                   TOTAL    NAME                   TOTAL
Mark Lewin              24      Tony Buffa              12
CHODR                   22      Mark Lewin              12
Robin Lock              21      CHODR                   11
Tony Buffa              20      Bill Fenwick            11
William Sangrey         20      Robin Lock              11
Todd Nielson            19      Troy D. Mills           11
Wayne Smith             19      Wayne Smith             11
Troy D. Mills           18      Nathan Hampton           8
Charlie Shub            18      Scott Kaplan             8
Bill Groskreutz         17      Todd Nielson             8
Scott Kaplan            17      Charlie Shub             8
Andy Weise              16      Andy Weise               8
John Edwards            14      William Sangrey          7
Bill Fenwick            13      Bill Groskreutz          4

USCHO                   17      USCHO                    7
Higher Seed             20      Higher Seed             10


CCHA                            WCHA
NAME                   TOTAL    NAME                   TOTAL
Andy Weise              18      Mike Larson             22
Robin Lock              17      Robin Lock              20
John Edwards            15      CHODR                   19
Mark Lewin              15      Bill Groskreutz         19
Troy D. Mills           15      Scott Kaplan            19
Charlie Shub            15      Will Groskreutz         18
Tony Buffa              14      Nathan Hampton          18
William Sangrey         14      Wayne Smith             18
CHODR                   13      Mark Lewin              17
Wayne Smith             13      Bill Fenwick            16
Bill Fenwick            10      Todd Nielson            16
Bill Groskreutz         10      Charlie Shub            16
Scott Kaplan             8      Andy Weise              16
Todd Nielson             7      Tony Buffa              14
                                Troy D. Mills           14
USCHO                   17      William Sangrey         14
Higher Seed             20
                                USCHO                   15
                                Higher Seed             19


Atlantic Hockey
NAME                   TOTAL
Wayne Smith             29
CHODR                   27
Robin Lock              26
Tony Buffa              25
Bill Fenwick            24
William Sangrey         23
Troy D. Mills           22
Andy Weise              22
Bill Groskreutz         21
Scott Kaplan            20
John Edwards            19
Mark Lewin              17
Todd Nielson            17
Charlie Shub            17

USCHO                   23
Higher Seed             27

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Bill Fenwick
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