2025 Dark Horse Derby - Final Standings

[Wrestleknownothing]

Congratulations @CHROMEBIRD, winning by the smallest of margins over @flyingcement

Two of the best posters on these forums are now the two finest judges of talent.

And if you recall from the first post, CHROME took the second longest of shots. The sum of his ten wrestlers' seeds was 237, just one away from @GimJustafan's 238 high total. Let that be a lesson to all those who thought there was gold in the 17/18 hills.

  

Like wrestling, this stuff is hard. So, thank you to all who participated. There is always next year.

As for the Dark Horses who made this all possible, Northwestern's Trevor Chumbley shall rule them all. He didn't just put up the highest total, his total was more than the next two wrestlers combined.

Coming soo - how each seed performed.

[PortaJohn]

WKN, thanks for doing this again and congrats to @CHROMEBIRD !!!

[Pin Head]

Thank you so very much for putting this together. It put a different spin on the consolation brackets .

[BruceyB]

  On 3/22/2025 at 5:49 PM, Wrestleknownothing said:

Congratulations @CHROMEBIRD, winning by the smallest of margins over @flyingcement

Two of the best posters on these forums are now the two finest judges of talent.

And if you recall from the first post, CHROME took the second longest of shots. The sum of his ten wrestlers' seeds was 237, just one away from @GimJustafan's 238 high total. Let that be a lesson to all those who thought there was gold in the 17/18 hills.

  

Like wrestling, this stuff is hard. So, thank you to all who participated. There is always next year.

As for the Dark Horses who made this all possible, Northwestern's Trevor Chumbley shall rule them all. He didn't just put up the highest total, his total was more than the next two wrestlers combined.

Coming soo - how each seed performed.

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McDanel scored 6 points. Van Dee scored 8 points. Donnell Washington scored 7.5. Are we missing placement points?

[Wrestleknownothing]

  On 3/22/2025 at 5:57 PM, BruceyB said:

McDanel scored 6 points. Van Dee scored 8 points. Donnell Washington scored 7.5. Are we missing placement points?

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Oh, shiit. my sum came up one column short. Just missing 7th placement. Dammit.

Edited Saturday at 06:02 PM by Wrestleknownothing

[CHROMEBIRD]

Thanks Wkn for pulling this together. Tbf, Trevor Chumbley did all the heavy lifting and carried my roster

[CHROMEBIRD]

  On 3/22/2025 at 5:59 PM, Wrestleknownothing said:

Oh, shiit. my sum came up one column short. Dammit.

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Oh shiii, good call @BruceyB! However, I raised my arm and ran off the mat before you could throw the challenge brick 

[BruceyB]

  On 3/22/2025 at 6:03 PM, CHROMEBIRD said:

Oh shiii, good call @BruceyB! However, I raised my arm and ran off the mat before you could throw the challenge brick 

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I was trying to find the Miss Universe or whatever pageant where they crowned the wrong winner for you, just in case. 

[Wrestleknownothing]

Thank you to my QA department headed up by @BruceyB for catching an error in scoring.

There will be sanctions and fines. Heads will roll, but Brucey is in line for a big promotion.

New final results. No change in the order.

Take the victory @CHROMEBIRD all that happened was the margin grew.

[Paul158]

  On 3/22/2025 at 6:03 PM, CHROMEBIRD said:

Oh shiii, good call @BruceyB! However, I raised my arm and ran off the mat before you could throw the challenge brick 

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. The challenge brick was thrown in time. There is going to be a full review. We are also going to penalize you 3 points for running off the mat before the it was thoroughly investigated.

[CHROMEBIRD]

  On 3/22/2025 at 6:10 PM, Paul158 said:

. The challenge brick was thrown in time. There is going to be a full review. We are also going to penalize you 3 points for running off the mat before the it was thoroughly investigated.

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(Does the splits and flips everyone double buckets of KFC chicken tenders. Walks off with a sports hernia)

[BruceyB]

  On 3/22/2025 at 6:09 PM, Wrestleknownothing said:

Thank you to my QA department headed up by @BruceyB for catching an error in scoring.

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Glad it didn't takeaway @CHROMEBIRD's moment of glory. 

[1032004]

  On 3/22/2025 at 6:02 PM, CHROMEBIRD said:

Thanks Wkn for pulling this together. Tbf, Trevor Chumbley did all the heavy lifting and carried my roster

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How many people had Chumbley?  I know most of us got suckered into Teemer, I guess we should have known when the Iowa fan didn’t even take him 

[Wrestleknownothing]

  On 3/22/2025 at 10:43 PM, 1032004 said:

How many people had Chumbley?  I know most of us got suckered into Teemer, I guess we should have known when the Iowa fan didn’t even take him 

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3 of 72

[jross]

  On 3/22/2025 at 6:09 PM, Wrestleknownothing said:

New final results. No change in the order.

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Aye! This knocked me from the R12 to a dark horse that went zero and barbeque.  Even the swimmer outperformed me.

[Wrestleknownothing]

  On 3/24/2025 at 7:31 PM, jross said:

Aye! This knocked me from the R12 to a dark horse that went zero and barbeque.  Even the swimmer outperformed me.

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I wouldn't worry about it too much, swimmers are like blind squirrels and stopped clocks.

[flyingcement]

Thanks for running this WKN!  

[flyingcement]

Congrats ChromeBird!

[Wrestleknownothing]

I almost forgot. I owe you this. A team of just #20 seeds would have scored 28 points. Good enough for a tie for fourth. Like investing, diversification is the answer.

 

And if you were wise enough to invest in this diversified portfolio of seeds, you would be sitting pretty on easy street at this point. You would be no richer, of course, but you would be prettier.