With the first weekend of the ECAC, WCHA, Atlantic Hockey, and Big Ten 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 lead in the Pick the Tourneys Contest #1 is held by Nathan Hampton with 46 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 46 Scott Kaplan 41 John Edwards 41 William Sangrey 39 Tony Buffa 39 Andy Weise 39 Mark Lewin 36 Bill Fenwick 35 Sean Keller 30 Jim Dixon 29 USCHO 32 Higher Seed 40 ECAC WCHA NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL Andy Weise 12 Bill Fenwick 14 Nathan Hampton 11 Andy Weise 13 Tony Buffa 11 Nathan Hampton 13 Scott Kaplan 11 Tony Buffa 11 John Edwards 11 Scott Kaplan 11 William Sangrey 10 John Edwards 10 Mark Lewin 8 Mark Lewin 10 Sean Keller 8 Sean Keller 10 Jim Dixon 8 William Sangrey 7 Bill Fenwick 6 Jim Dixon 7 USCHO 7 USCHO 7 Higher Seed 11 Higher Seed 7 Atlantic Hockey Big Ten NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL Mark Lewin 12 Nathan Hampton 12 William Sangrey 11 William Sangrey 11 Nathan Hampton 10 John Edwards 10 Scott Kaplan 10 Scott Kaplan 9 John Edwards 10 Jim Dixon 8 Tony Buffa 10 Tony Buffa 7 Bill Fenwick 8 Bill Fenwick 7 Andy Weise 7 Andy Weise 7 Sean Keller 6 Mark Lewin 6 Jim Dixon 6 Sean Keller 6 USCHO 11 USCHO 7 Higher Seed 11 Higher Seed 11 Bill Fenwick [log in to unmask]