2018 Pan Pacs Pick’em Final Results

2018 PAN PACIFIC CHAMPIONSHIPS

• Thursday, August 9 – Tuesday, August 14, 2018
• Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center, Tokyo, Japan
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The final night of 2018 led off with a victory for Katie Ledecky in the 1500 free. Her margin of victory was huge and 100% of pick’em entries correctly had her to win. Kiah Melverton was 2nd – picked by 12% of entries – followed by Leah Smith (15%) and Kareena Lee (44%).

Favored pair Zane Grothe (83%) and Jordan Wilimovsky (69%) were 1-2 in the men’s 800 free. The next spots were taken by Jack McLoughlin (9%) and Guilherme Costa (31%).

There wasn’t a clear front runner among the pick’em entries for the women’s 200 back so a winner with a low picked percentage wasn’t shocking. Kathleen Baker (15%) took the title over Taylor Ruck (19%), Regan Smith (15%), and Kylie Masse (12%).

The men’s 200 back was a return to the big favorites with Ryan Murphy (95%) delivering on expectations. Ryosuke Irie (21%) was 2nd. The favorite 2nd place pick, Jacob Pebley, missed the final after being bumped out by 3rd place Austin Katz (3%). Mitch Larkin (50%) was a popular pick in 4th.

The women’s 50 free saw the consensus top 2 again deliver. Cate Campbell (57%) won over Simone Manuel (53%). Emma McKeon (0%-no one correct) was a surprise in 3rd. Taylor Ruck (34%) was 4th.

Michael Andrew (13%) pulled the upset over favored Caeleb Dressel (12%) in the men’s 50 free. Yuri Kisil (0%-2 people correct) was a surprising 3rd. Katsumi Nakamura (28) was 4th.

The women’s 200 breast was another event that pick’em contestants weren’t quite sure what to do with. Micah Sumrall (14%) emerged from the pack to win over Lilly King (19%). There was again a surprise 3rd place finisher, Satomi Suzuki (0%- no one correct). Reona Aoki (16%) was 4th.

Ippei Watanabe won the men’s 200 breast followed by 2nd place surprise Zach Stubblety-Cook (0% – 1 person right, well done Aps). Matthew Wilson (6%) was 3rd and Yasuhiro Koseki (6%) was 4th.

The women’s 400 medley saw the U.S. upset in yet another relay. Australia (1%) beat out the U.S. (2%), Japan (53%), and Canada (68%).

The men’s 400 medley saw the U.S. (99%) actually deliver on their favorite status. They were followed by Japan (68%), Australia (55%), and Brazil (76%).

Standings

godawgs17 was the overall winner with 371.5 points. Congratulations to them. They book ended the meet with days over 100 points to give them a 20.5 margin of victory over Bear drinks beer. Rafael was 3rd .5 points behind. If you’re outside the top 10, view your final ranking here.

The daily winner was DragonSwim with 115 points. They were followed by DobbyMcDobbins with 109.