100% of Players Correctly Pick Ledecky to Win 400 Free (Pick ‘Em)

Day 1 of the 2015 FINA World Championships Pick ‘Em Contest (presented by TYR) yielded some high scores thanks to a lot of races sticking pretty close to expectations.

In fact, only in one case did a non-top-8-seed finish in the top four places, netting the selectors 3 bonus points – and that was when the Brazilian men took 4th in the 400 free relay.

The women’s 400 free (Katie Ledecky) and women’s 400 free relay (Australia) were both won by the top seeds, and while the men’s 400 free (Sun Yang) was won by the #2 seed, but our readers weren’t fooled. Sun is, afterall, the defending World Champion and Olympic Champion in the event. In total, of 449 entries, 1367 points were scored by Sun’s win, meaning 309 (68%) of the contestants still chose him.

Of course, that pales in comparison to Ledecky…who was such a sure-thing that every single completed entry chose her to win.

TYROur day 1 contest went to squiggles255 and swimwild13, who both picked all four first place winners correctly. They win a prize package including the new TYR Blackhawk goggles and a swim cap.

Editor’s Note: swimwild13 technically won the second tie-breaker, but because of an editorial error, we will award a prize package to both.

1. 37 squiggles255
2. 37 swimwild13
3. 36 jd14
4. 36 ejdec
5. 35 HKSWIMMER
6. 34 Rumbuns
7. 34 Ryhore
8. 33 zazamoul72
9. 33 Unicornsand Swimbows
10. 33 nickm
11. 33 BDL Swim
12. 33 swimdork
13. 33 K.A
14. 32 Hoya13
15. 32 MichaelWinget
16. 32 wateronthebrain
17. 32 Broseph
18. 32 BKFW
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21. 31 Markster
22. 31 T5
23. 31 CsrFSeiei
24. 31 vicvator
25. 31 CdnShark
26. 31 Morals
27. 31 Mulle
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29. 30 Catherine
30. 30 swimdan949
31. 30 bianca
32. 30 MarkHun
33. 30 Sean S
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141. 26 sbd456
142. 26 IAMTHEHYPE
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146. 25 aleja1991
147. 25 I Don’t Know!
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342. 19 Nance
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347. 19 Addie
348. 19 Ben
349. 19 Chip
350. 19 TonyTheTiger
351. 19 CaptGrubCat
352. 19 Sprintswammer1992
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354. 19 mez98
355. 19 mfowler
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358. 19 clubmaster
359. 19 swimmersam18
360. 19 GWUPeaches
361. 19 DaRomo
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365. 19 CarolSwim
366. 19 fineapple
367. 19 TommyL
368. 19 lincdoge
369. 19 sikarom
370. 19 kingkunta
371. 19 DevilDawg
372. 19 Cher
373. 19 ajanszen
374. 19 amann99
375. 19 2pac
376. 19 JOBOBBY
377. 19 Glenny
378. 19 Jandro15
379. 19 NatCole
380. 18 LochtesFan
381. 18 AArechy
382. 18 op
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384. 18 kkertesz5151
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387. 18 swimmer444
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deefee
9 years ago

ledecky is the ronda rousey of swimming (or vice versa)

9 years ago

Did this change? An earlier draft had me with 33… hmmmm…

GroGro
Reply to  Hulk Swim
9 years ago

I went from 30th to 199th. I am so bad at this.

squiggles255
9 years ago

Wow!! Can’t believe I won!! Just one edit though. It’s *She instead of *he 🙂

CarterOzzy
9 years ago

143rd baby! Let’s go!

Fraseos
9 years ago

In a previous post they published the data and some people did not get their points summed up. Not sure if this is due to double entries or something, but I know it is not my case. Swim Swam, please correct this

9 years ago

I’m super bummed that I did well…

Rafael
9 years ago

Can’t find my name.I know I can’t get prizes but wanted to see how many points!

mcgillrocks
Reply to  Rafael
9 years ago

I can’t find myself either

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