With the first weekend of the ECAC, Hockey East, WCHA, and Atlantic Hockey playoffs in the books, here's a 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, along with the WCHA semis, get picked as sweeps. The current overall leader in the Pick the Tourneys Contest #1 is Nathan Hampton with 49 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: 8 points for correctly picking semifinal winners (except in the WCHA, where 7 points are awarded for correctly predicting the winner and an additional bonus point is given for correctly forecasting the number of games), 4 points for picking the conso- lation winner, and 16 points for picking the championship game winner. Overall NAME TOTAL Nathan Hampton 49 Bill Fenwick 47 Mark Lewin 47 Scott Kaplan 45 Jim Dixon 43 Rick McAdoo 43 William Sangrey 41 Tony Buffa 40 Charlie Shub 40 Bill Krebs 36 Andy Weise 36 Sean Keller 36 USCHO 51 Higher Seed 49 ECAC Hockey East NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL Scott Kaplan 16 Bill Fenwick 15 Nathan Hampton 15 Jim Dixon 15 William Sangrey 15 Nathan Hampton 12 Rick McAdoo 14 Bill Krebs 12 Sean Keller 14 Scott Kaplan 11 Mark Lewin 14 William Sangrey 11 Andy Weise 11 Rick McAdoo 11 Bill Fenwick 11 Mark Lewin 11 Charlie Shub 11 Andy Weise 11 Tony Buffa 10 Charlie Shub 11 Bill Krebs 10 Tony Buffa 11 Jim Dixon 10 Sean Keller 8 USCHO 15 USCHO 15 Higher Seed 15 Higher Seed 12 WCHA Atlantic Hockey NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL Nathan Hampton 15 Mark Lewin 8 Bill Fenwick 14 Tony Buffa 8 Mark Lewin 14 Jim Dixon 8 William Sangrey 11 Scott Kaplan 8 Tony Buffa 11 Rick McAdoo 8 Jim Dixon 10 Charlie Shub 8 Bill Krebs 10 Nathan Hampton 7 Scott Kaplan 10 Bill Fenwick 7 Rick McAdoo 10 William Sangrey 4 Andy Weise 10 Bill Krebs 4 Charlie Shub 10 Andy Weise 4 Sean Keller 10 Sean Keller 4 USCHO 13 USCHO 8 Higher Seed 15 Higher Seed 7 Bill Fenwick [log in to unmask]