The Pick ‘Em Contest for the 2017 NCAA Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships has arrived! This year’s contest is sponsored by SwimSwam partners A3, who will be providing prizes to the winners.
Not sure who to pick? Check our official event page for event-by-event previews and predictions.
Click Here to Enter!
SCORING SYSTEM
Correctly picking a swimmer to place:
- 1st – 7 points
- 2nd – 5 points
- 3rd – 4 points
- 4th – 3 points
Correctly picking a swimmer to place in the top 4, but putting them in the wrong spot, will earn you 1 point.
In the team picks, correctly picking a team to finish in exactly each place will earn this many points:
- 1st – 20
A3 Performance Knit Hat
- 2nd – 17
- 3rd – 16
- 4th – 15
- 5th – 14
- 6th – 13
- 7th – 12
- 8th – 11
- 9th – 9
- 10th – 7
Picks will close at 4PM Eastern Time on Wednesday, March 14th, and at that time, we will post everyone’s picks for them to see.
By using the new Google Forms format, you CAN go in and edit your responses up until 4 PM on Wednesday. You can also use this “edit responses” ability to go in and print or save your answers.
The tie-breaker for prizes, if necessary, will be the most correctly-picked winners in the relevant time period, then 2nd-place finishers, then 3rd-place finishers, etc. in the relevant time period.
Note: this year, we’ve solved a technical limitation that we had last year that made it impossible to change your mind on the team selections once a team had been clicked. The “JK” columns are designed for any such errors. If you don’t need them, feel free to leave them blank!
PRIZES
The highest scorer on each of the 3 days of the meet (with days 1 and 2 being combined for prize purposes) will receive the following prize package:
- A3 Performance Cinch Bag
- Silicone Cap
- A3 t-shirt
- A3 knit hat
- A3 Fuse Goggles
- Pair of BODIMAX Sleeves
The person who has the most points at the end of the competition will win the grand prize:
- New VICI Tech Suit
New VICI tech suit by A3
- Silicone Dome Cap
- Pair of Fuse Goggles
OFFICIAL RULES
Anybody is eligible to play, but only certain people are eligible for prizes. For starters, only one entry per person is allowed. If we discover that you have made multiple entries, we may disqualify all of your entries.
To win prizes, entrant must:
- Be 18 or older
- Accept responsibility for any and all taxes
- Accept responsibility for any impact on high school or college eligibility
- Be a legal resident of the United States or Canada (prizes will only be mailed to these countries)
- Must enter contest using their real name
- No purchase is required for entry
- Agree to allow SwimSwam to provide their personal information to the sponsor in order to distribute prizes
Should our team picks incorporate diving results? If so, is there a list of qualified divers?
80th and 12th last year for Women’s and Men’s NCs. Let’s see if I can improve on those this year, good luck y’all!
Well I entered as per usual, but I always do terrible since I always pick who I want to win, not who I think will win. I think it was last year that I was the only person to pick Leah Smith to win the 500 (since I’m a huge Leah Smith fan)?
Tell me about it when we did worlds I had conger winning the 200fly and Cordes winning the 200 breast:/// only person the strategy helped with was dressel except for the 50 fly lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
All my picks were realistic but they were all slightly skewed in favor of what I wanted to happen (for example I picked Sydney Pickrem to win both the 200 IM and the 200 Breast which is feasibly possible but unlikely given her competition).
#36 seed Peyton Palsha (FR-Arkansas) for the win in the 1650 over Katie Ledecky! #upset #gobigorgohome
Ah crap the last time I did one of these I finished way too high for every day but the last one and it REALLY HURT, OK.
In case it was throwing anyone else off in the breaststroke events, Lindsey Horejsi of Minnesota recently got married and is now listed as Lindsey Kozelsky.
Hush Kate!
Don’t help my competition!
first time entering the pick ’em contest, it’s going to be fun seeing who ends up where!
My first time too, think I will find the men’s slightly easier to pick (famous last words and won’t get any correct except Dressel) but it will make looking at the results fun
Wow just realized how stacked TA&M is in 200 breast. 1-3-4-7 seeds
Lilly King for the win tho.
It’s not as guaranteed as it may have looked the past 2 years. I’m expecting some big things from Galat after last summer, but we’ll see.