2016 Olympic Trials ‘Guess the Times’ Contest: Final Results

2016 U.S. OLYMPIC TEAM TRIALS

Night 7 Best Predictors :

1. Amunnn – 5.533%
2. Old Rocket Swimmer – 5.563%
3. bladam – 5.824%
4. dannymills – 6.757%
5. RUN-DMC – 6.964%

Night 8 Best Predictors :

1. JST – 1.746%
2. Caleb – 1.942%
3. WUSwim4TheWin – 2.171%
4. SWIMSWIMSWIM – 2.262%
5. dannymills – 2.267%

Overall Current Leaders:

1. RUN-DMC – 39.502%
2. Amunnn – 47.858%
3.
 BlueDevilDawg – 48.774%
4. bladam – 49.310%
5. Steph Y. – 52.221%

Congratulations to RUN-DMC, our overall winner by a large margin at 39.502%.  RUN-DMC finished in the daily top ten 7 of 8 nights, including five appearances in the daily top five.  Amunnn finished a distant second with 47.858%, overtaking BlueDevilDawg in the final two days of competition.

Thanks to all who turned out for the contest!  We’ll be running a similar one during the Olympic Games, so stay tuned!

*Note: our contest included guessing Missy Franklin’s 100 freestyle time, but she failed to make the event final last night.  We have decided to use her semifinal time (54.24) as her benchmark.

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RUN-DMC
7 years ago

All glory to God.

I’d like to thank God for the grace that allowed USA Swimming to put on these trials, and thank God for the ability that the swimmers had to do their times.

Thanks, Swimswam, for a good contest.

HULKSWIM
Reply to  RUN-DMC
7 years ago

teach me your ways master

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