The first week of the 24th Annual McCarthy Cup is in the books! The current standings can be found here:
https://ntn.donrdenton.com/contest.php?contest=97(Sincerest thanks, as always, to Don Denton for creating and maintaining the tournament page for the community!)
A few notes on the standings and the tournament:
1) A full year-and-a-half after Red Fox officially changed its name to Punts and Pints, it finally showed up by its new(-ish) name in the Network Rankings for the first time on Tuesday. For those wondering who these new guys were at Punts & Pints last night, they were the same old Fellowship.
2) Congrats to Time Out West, Primetime, Moose McGuires, and Phat Turtle for rounding out the top five and getting what will probably be "keeper" scores for the preliminary round. For those teams which had a stumble, remember that everyone gets to drop a low score, so everyone is definitely still in it at this point.
3) Because only 15 teams signed up this year, Danny K's has chosen to make the knockout round a quarterfinal of the top eight teams after the preliminary round. Currently, Danny K's and Wallaby's straddle that bubble of the 8th seed, but again, with dropped scores and three more weeks of preliminaries, there really isn't a bubble yet.
4) At the request of MERKIN from the Teaser's team, Danny K's had also chosen to have a bronze-medal game between the two teams knocked out in the semi-finals. If the runner-up and the 3rd-place team want them, I will have a silver(-ish) and bronze(-ish) medal made up and sent to them after the tournament.
Good skill to all teams this week!