With the first week/weekend of the ECAC, CCHA, 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 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 and quarter- final series get picked as sweeps. I have not been able to find any predictions for USCHO on their site, so they are not included this year. The current overall lead in the Pick the Tourneys Contest #1 is held by myself, with 49 points. (No really, I checked. More than once.) 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 (7 in Atlantic Hockey plus a point for correct series length), and 16 points for picking the championship game winner. Overall NAME TOTAL Bill Fenwick 49 Tony Buffa 46 William Krebs 46 Andy Weise 44 Jim Dixon 44 Mark Lewin 43 Sean Keller 39 Steve Roth 37 William Sangrey 34 Higher Seed 46 ECAC CCHA NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL Tony Buffa 9 Bill Fenwick 15 William Krebs 9 William Krebs 14 Jim Dixon 9 Tony Buffa 11 Bill Fenwick 6 Jim Dixon 11 Andy Weise 6 Mark Lewin 11 Mark Lewin 6 Steve Roth 11 Sean Keller 6 Sean Keller 10 William Sangrey 6 William Sangrey 10 Steve Roth 3 Andy Weise 8 Higher Seed 9 Higher Seed 12 Atlantic Hockey Big Ten NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL Andy Weise 23 Bill Fenwick 8 Bill Fenwick 20 Andy Weise 7 Tony Buffa 20 Mark Lewin 7 Mark Lewin 19 Jim Dixon 7 Sean Keller 19 William Krebs 7 Jim Dixon 17 Steve Roth 7 William Krebs 16 Tony Buffa 6 Steve Roth 16 Sean Keller 4 William Sangrey 15 William Sangrey 3 Higher Seed 17 Higher Seed 8 -- Bill Fenwick AJF 5/27/94 Cornell '86 and '95 JCF 12/2/97 LET'S GO RED!!