Contest tracker: William Hill pays out $325K college winners

Two entries collected $325,000 each aft tying for archetypal successful the William Hill College Pick’em contest.

The entries, nether the aliases Heatwave and CastleRocker, went 6-2 successful the past week to decorativeness 51-29. No names were available.

Three entries tied for 3rd and got $66,666.67 each, and 5 entries tied for sixth and got $30,000 each.

In the contest, entrants selected 8 assemblage shot games against the dispersed each week for 10 weeks.

The elimination contests continued to whittle their fields. Station Casinos’ NFL Last Man Standing contention is down to the last 2 vying for $150,000.

Nearly 75 percent of the Circa Survivor tract was wiped out, with astir of those eliminated having the Pittsburgh Steelers, who tied 16-16 with the Detroit Lions. (A necktie is simply a nonaccomplishment successful Survivor.)

Circa Sports pointed retired 1 positive: Last week was the archetypal 1 successful which each introduction really made a enactment and nary 1 was eliminated by default.

Each week, I’ll way the large handicapping contests and item my advancement (or deficiency thereof). Here’s however the contests basal aft Week 10:

Circa Sports Million III

Format: Contestants prime 5 NFL games against the dispersed each week ($1,000 per entry).

Field: 4,087 entries.

Leaders: Two entries (JJarvis117 and Price Check) astatine 38-12.

Barnes’ status: 3-2 past week, 24-25-1 overall, tied for 2,541st. Winners connected Cowboys -9, Packers -3 and Eagles +3, and losers connected Browns +2½ and Raiders +2½.

Circa Survivor

Format: Contestants prime 1 straight-up NFL victor each week (each squad tin beryllium utilized lone once) and are eliminated with a nonaccomplishment ($1,000 per entry).

Field: 4,080 entries, but Circa added $1.92 cardinal to the prize excavation to scope the $6 cardinal guarantee.

Leaders: 173 survivors advance. Week 10 eliminated 513 entries — 248 connected the Steelers (ties number arsenic losses), 187 connected the Ravens, 40 connected the Cardinals, 31 connected the Buccaneers, 5 connected the Chargers, 1 connected the Saints and 1 connected the Rams.

Barnes’ status: Eliminated successful Week 9 erstwhile the Bills mislaid to the Jaguars 9-6.

Westgate SuperContest

Format: Contestants prime 5 NFL games against the dispersed each week ($1,000 per entry).

Field: 1,972 entries.

Leader: One introduction (PackDG) astatine 35-15.

Barnes’ status: 4-1 past week, 25-24-1 overall, tied for 806th. Winners connected Cowboys -9½, Bills -11½, Vikings +3 and Packers -3½, and a loser connected Raiders +2½.

Westgate SuperContest Gold

Format: Same arsenic the SuperContest, but with a $5,000 buy-in and the victor taking all.

Field: 87 entries.

Leader: One introduction (The Prognasticator 2) astatine 34-15-1.

Barnes’ status: Not entered.

Station Last Man Standing

Format: Contestants prime 1 crippled against the dispersed each week. Entries outgo $25, but the maximum $100 gets 5 entries. There are abstracted pro and assemblage contests. Winner takes each — $150,000 successful the pro contest, $100,000 successful the college.

Entries: Pro — Two live retired of starting 6,241; assemblage — 1 victor retired of 3,075 aft Week 9.

Barnes’ status: Done. Eliminated from pro contention successful Week 5; eliminated from assemblage successful Week 3.

William Hill College Pick’em

Format: Contestants prime 8 assemblage games against the dispersed each week for 10 weeks ($1,000 per entry).

Field: 452 entries, but an other $548,000 added to the prize excavation to scope the $1 cardinal guarantee.

Winners: Two entries (CastleRocker and Heatwave) tied astatine 51-29 and divided the archetypal prize, getting $325,000 each.

Barnes’ status: 4-4 past week to decorativeness astatine 39-41, tied for 176th. Winners connected Baylor +5½, Minnesota +5½, Missouri -½ and Arkansas -2½, and losers connected Penn State -½, Northwestern +24½, Texas A&M -2½ and Texas -30½.

William Hill Pro Pick’em

Format: Contestants prime 15 NFL straight-up winners (or selected totals) each week ($25 per entry). There are play and season-long prizes.

Field: 7,316 entries.

Season leader: One introduction (no sanction given) astatine 106-44.

Weekly winners: Fifteen entries (no names given) went 13-2 and divided $10,000, getting $666.66 each.

Barnes’ status: 8-7 past week, 89-61 overall.

Golden Nugget Ultimate Football Challenge

Format: Contestants prime 7 NFL and/or assemblage games against the dispersed each week ($1,000 to enter).

Field: 149 entries.

Leaders: Two entries (Charlie Scott and CrimsonTideSuperFan) astatine 45-25.

Barnes’ status: Not entered.

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