Given the rather sudden end to the college hockey season, I thought I should recognize the winners of the abbreviated Pick the Post-season Tournament Contest, so the final results for Contest #1 are below. Not to kill the suspense or anything, but this is pretty much the same as last week's update. Anyway... For Contest #1, in which the later rounds were weighted more than the earlier ones, the overall winner is... Nathan Hampton whose total of 46 was good for a five-point victory over Scott Kaplan and John Edwards. Congratulations, Nathan! As for the individual conference winners... Andy Weise won the top spot in the ECAC with 12 points. The WCHA crown went to moi with 14 points. Mark Lewin's 12 points were good for first place in Atlantic Hockey. Nathan Hampton won the Big Ten with 12 points. The Hockey East and NCHC tournaments did not have any games played. Complete scoring results are below. Congratulations to all the winners, and thanks again to all those who participated. Tiebreaker notes: As there were no championship games, the first tie- breaker (the difference between your predicted championship-game score and the actual score) was not used. The second tiebreaker was the difference between your predicted total of goals scored in the entire tournament and the actual number. The lower the point total the better. No tiebreakers were needed for Contest #1. The USCHO prognosticators' numbers are included below, as are the "Higher Seed" picks showing what would have happened if the higher seed for each game had been picked to win. Not that it made a difference this year, but it should still be noted that the USCHO staff did not pick the games all at once, the way the rest of us did, which might have been an advantage. Please be safe, everybody. Take care of yourselves and each other. 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]