We Can't Win the Pool... Emo Alert!

“Time to put on our Dashboard Confessionals record…”

As a person who has done bracket pools a lot, I usually know that the Final Four spells elimination not only for the teams involved, but also for the people in the brackets. With only four teams left, only a few people have anything on the line while the others.

This is no exception for our pool.

Here are the standings thus far:

Gossip on Sports – 91
The Battle of California – 82
The Sports Lounge – 80
The Play in CA – 76
Apples & Moustaches – 75
Bears Necessity – 68

A few of you will remember that we picked UCLA all the way and might think “well if UCLA wins it all, then these guys might have a chance. That’s where you are wrong…. dead wrong! Though UCLA winning will bring us major points, The Sports Lounge has the exact same picks as us, and since they have more points than us now, they would end up being higher than us in the end anyway. Just think of it this way: if UCLA and UNC go to the finals and UCLA wins, then we both get 64 more points, meaning in the end they’d still be 4 points ahead of us. We can get no higher than second. Shit.

So do we still care? Of course! As others may remember, we also ran a side bet with Bears Necessity. They have Kansas going all the way and we have UCLA. We’re also up by 8. Thus we’re rooting for a Kansas knockout via UNC or a UCLA championship run. Go California!

Anyway, here’s a breakdown of the scenarios of who wins the pool if the Final Four plays out in the following scenarios:

If the championship game comes down to UNC vs. UCLA:
UNC wins, the winner of the pool is: Gossip on Sports
UCLA wins, the winner of the pool is: The Sports Lounge
We win our side bet with Bears Necessity.

If the championship game comes down to UNC vs. Memphis:
Gossip on Sports wins no matter who the champion is.
We win our side bet with Bears Necessity.

If the championship game comes down to Kansas vs. UCLA:
Kansas wins, the winner of the pool is: Bears Necessity(we lose our side bet with Bears Necessity)
UCLA wins, the winner of the pool is: Battle of California (we win our side bet with Bears Necessity)

If the championship game comes down to Kansas vs. Memphis:
Kansas wins, the winner of the pool is: Bears Necessity (we lose our side bet with Bears Necessity)
UCLA(Oops, Memphis) wins, the winner of the pool is: Gossip on Sports(we win our side bet with Bears Necessity)

As you can see Gossip On Sports has the most “outs” to win this one. I would like to attest that in all the pools I have done, females surprisingly do better than males. Make what you want of that.

So that pretty much wraps it up. We still want to win our side bet, so we pray to god that UCLA can get some help from the refs again.

We hope this happens. Fuck Kansas!