Gameday on Rocky Top Guessing Game Results: Indiana State

In this week’s Guessing Game, Will Shelton (and charles matthews) hog all the mushrooms, but lose ground anyway, as Fatso extends his lead. Four other players have solid performances in Week 2 as well, including Dave Strunk and Sam, who both go from right near the bottom to right near the top.

The full results are below. This week’s questions will go up sometime Friday.

Top 10 as of the end of last week

Fatso 8
Will Shelton 6
GoVols365 6
PaVol 5
btpenley 4
LTVol99 4
Jayyyy 3
Drew 3
RockyTopinKY 3
Dave Strunk 2

 

Round 1

Q: At which point does the second true quarterback get his first snap at quarterback? (2-10 points)

A: First quarter (4 points); First half (2 points)

Three players got the safe two points for guessing the first half, and six others got the full four points for guessing the first quarter.

Mushrooms: Will Shelton and charles matthews

Bananas: Rockytop01 and Displaced_Vol_Fan

Blue shells and bolts: None

Top 10 after Round 1:

Will Shelton 9
Fatso 8
Dave Strunk 6
Harley 5
PaVol 5
Evan 5
Marietta Vol 4
Daetilus 4
wreckvol 4
LTVol99 4

 

Round 2

Q: The Vols allowed 535 rushing yards last week. How many do they allow this week?

A: 101-150 (122)

A whopping 15 players get this right and get five points for it.

Mushrooms: Marietta Vol and Rockytop01

Bananas: Evan and LTVol99

Blue shells and bolts: None!

Top 10 after Round 2:

Fatso 13
Harley 10
Marietta Vol 10
Will Shelton 9
Daetilus 9
Jayyyy 8
Joel Hollingsworth 8
RockyTopinKY 8
Dave Strunk 6
charles matthews 6

 

Round 3

Q: Who is the first Vol to catch a pass from a Tennessee QB?

A: Brandon Johnson (5 points)

Only two players got this right: Dave Strunk and Sam.

Mushrooms: Will Shelton and charles matthews (hey, wait a minute . . . how did that happen?)

Bananas: Fatso and vfl_mks

Blue shells and bolts: No blue shells, but Alyas Grey draws a thunderbolt. The next question belongs to him and only him.

Top 10 after Round 3:

Fatso 12
Dave Strunk 11
Harley 10
Marietta Vol 10
Will Shelton 10
Sam 10
Daetilus 9
Jayyyy 8
Joel Hollingsworth 8
RockyTopinKY 8

 

Full table

W1 R1 R1 Sub R1 Specials R1 Total R2 R2 Sub R2 Specials R2 Total R3 R3 Sub R3 Specials R3 Total
Fatso 8 8 8 5 13 13 13 -1 12
Dave Strunk 2 4 6 6 6 6 5 11 11
Harley 1 4 5 5 5 10 10 10 10
Marietta Vol 4 4 4 5 9 1 10 10 10
Will Shelton 6 2 8 1 9 9 9 9 1 10
Sam 0 0 5 5 5 5 10 10
Daetilus 4 4 4 5 9 9 9 9
Jayyyy 3 3 3 5 8 8 8 8
Joel Hollingsworth 1 2 3 3 5 8 8 8 8
RockyTopinKY 3 3 3 5 8 8 8 8
charles matthews 0 0 1 1 5 6 6 6 1 7
Josh Farrar 1 1 1 5 6 6 6 6
PaVol 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
Alyas Grey 0 0 5 5 5 5 THUNDERBOLT 5
Gr82baTNVol 0 0 5 5 5 5 5
TennVol95 0 0 5 5 5 5 5
Rockytop01 0 -1 -1 5 4 1 5 5 5
vfl_mks 0 0 0 5 5 5 5 -1 4
Evan 1 4 5 5 5 -1 4 4 4
wreckvol 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
LTVol99 4 4 4 4 -1 3 3 3
Drew 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
Displaced_Vol_Fan 1 2 3 -1 2 2 2 2 2
cscott95 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
NJ Vol 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Raven17 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Volfaninsc 0 0 0 0 0 0

The Gameday on Rocky Top Guessing Game: Indiana State edition

It’s not too late to participate in this season’s Gameday on Rocky Top Guessing Game. If you are wondering what that is exactly, you can find out everything you need to know here. Last week’s results are here.

 

Let’sa go!

  1. Submit your answers to our three questions below.
  2. Click the “Submit” button.
  3. Copy and paste your answers in the comments below.
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Good luck!

Reminder: Get your picks in for the Gameday on Rocky Top Pick ‘Em

Here’s your promised reminder to get your picks in for the Gameday on Rocky Top Pick ‘Em. If you haven’t joined yet, it’s not too late even for the season-long contest. Head over to Fun Office Pools, find the Gameday on Rocky Top pool, and pick away.

Each weekly winner gets a  Gameday on Rocky Top T-Shirt shipped to your door. This comes in the form of a $25 coupon code to our sister store, Web Community Tees, where you can choose the options for your tee (color, size, garment, speed). You can also use it toward the purchase of a hoodie or sweatshirt or long sleeve tee or ladies or kids garments instead. The overall winner (the one with the most points when the entire regular season is complete) gets a $100 coupon code. This may be to Web Community Tees or to the store here at Gameday on Rocky Top.

Official Rules.

Gameday on Rocky Top Pick ‘Em Contest: Week 1 Results

Thanks, too, to everyone who played the GRT Pick ‘Em Pool this week. I was running way behind last week, and so we didn’t really get to announce the prizes because if there are prizes, there must be rules, and I couldn’t get the rules together in time. We’ll post the rules at the time we announce next week’s picks are open. Which, I guess better be tomorrow, right? 🙂

Anyway, no prizes this week, but we do have what we’re calling a gift for the winner: Gman15, who either picked every single game correctly this week or is a hacker and programmer who figured out how to game the system. Either way, he gets a free Gameday on Rocky Top t-shirt from our custom tee store, Web Community Tees:

Gameday on Rocky Top Logo Tee
Gameday on Rocky Top Logo Tee

You can view the full results at Fun Office Pools.

Guessing Game Results: Georgia Tech

Thanks to everyone who played our Guessing Game last week. GoVols365 and PaVol took an early lead thanks to the mushrooms, and then Will Shelton took sole possession of the lead in the second round thanks to being one of the few to guess that Jarrett Guarantano wouldn’t play (and also thanks to a mushroom).

But Fatso ends up with a two-point lead at the end of the day after Will fell prey to his optimism on the question of whether the Vols would hold Georgia Tech to less than their average rushing yards from last season.

The full results are below.

This week’s questions will go up sometime Friday.

Round 1

Q: Which true quarterback takes the first snap? (1-3 points)

A: Quinten Dormady

In a historical feat of remarkable collective prescience, every single player got the answer to the first question correct, except for Jarrett Guarantano, who didn’t play. But his time is coming.

Mushrooms: GoVols365 and PaVol

Bananas: RockyTopinKY and vfl_mks

Blue shells and bolts: None

Top 10 after Round 1:

Round 2

Q: At which point does another true quarterback get his first snap at quarterback? (2-10 points)

A: NEVER!

Shocking twist afoot.

Mushrooms: Will Shelton and GoVols365

Bananas: Drew and Dave Strunk

Blue shells and bolts: None!

Top 10 after Round 2:

Round 3

Q: Georgia Tech averaged 258.1 rushing yards per game last year. How many do they get against the Vols Monday night? (3 points)

A: 258 or more (a LOT more!)

Mushrooms: Dave Strunk and . . . Dave Strunk

Bananas: Jayyyy and charles matthews

Blue shells and bolts: None!!

Top 10 after Round 3:

Full table

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The Gameday on Rocky Top Guessing Game: Georgia Tech edition

Monday night games confuse us. On one hand, we’re still three days to Football Time in Tennessee.

On the other hand, it is the Friday before Gameday, and so we’re acting like it.

And that means it’s time for the Gameday on Rocky Top Guessing Game, even if we’re still technically way early for kickoff.

Yes, we’ll be using Mario Kart rules again this season. Here’s how to play, what you can do with your own skill, and what happens to you courtesy of the gamification ghouls.

Earn points with knowledge and skill

First, submit your answers to our three questions. Unlike seasons past, you don’t have to go somewhere else to do that. You can just submit your answers below, right here inside this post.

Nobody else will see your answers, though, unless you share them, which is half the fun. So, once you hit the “Submit” button, your answers will be displayed for you. Copy and paste them into the comments section so everyone can make fun of you.

That’s really it for the stuff you can control. New this year is that questions may have different point values so we can put some space between folks earlier in the season.

Shrooms, Shells, and Bolts, oh my!

Now for the Mario Kart-style chaos. Stuff can happen to you during each week’s tabulation of the totals. Stuff like this:

Mushroom. Plus one point. There are two of these per round, randomly distributed.

Banana. Minus one point. There are two of these per round, randomly distributed.

Blue Shell. 25% chance each round of the person in last place getting one of these. Once received, it’s automatically released and will travel from the lowest point total to the highest one place each round until it reaches the leader(s), at which point it will blow them up and cause them to lose two points.

Thunderbolt. 25% chance each round of someone in the bottom half of the standings getting this. When received, it’s automatically released, and everyone sits the next question out except for the person who received and used the thunderbolt.

We’ll check for specials after tabulating each question. In other words, we’ll tabulate the results of the first question, re-rank everyone, check for specials and their effects, re-rank everyone again, and then move on to the next question until there are no more questions.

New this year: There is always some attrition during the season, and the specials aren’t as fun when there are 50 people in the “race” that are no longer actually playing. So, I’m going to cull the list periodically of inactive players. Because there’s so much randomness involved, there are no prizes but bragging rights, and because there are no prizes, I reserve the right to change the rules as we go. 🙂

Let’sa go!

  1. Submit your answers to our three questions below.
  2. Click the “Submit” button.
  3. Copy and paste your answers in the comments below.
No Fields Found.

Good luck!

Gameday on Rocky Top Picks Contest

Our 2017 picks contest is now open and free to play at Fun Office Pools. If you played before at our old site, you know the rules:  we pick 20 games straight up every week using confidence points. You pick the winners and assign 20 points to the outcome you’re most confident in, 1 point to the outcome you’re least confident in, etc. This year there will be weekly prizes as well as something for the overall season winner.

Click here to join this year’s league. If you’ve played with us before, you should have received an email invite as well.

With apologies to the appetizer games on Saturday, here’s our full slate for week one:

Thursday, August 31

  • Indiana at #2 Ohio State – 8:00 PM – ESPN

Friday, September 1

  • Navy at Florida Atlantic – 8:00 PM – ESPNU
  • Colorado vs Colorado State (Denver, CO) – 8:00 PM – PAC 12 Network
  • Utah State at #9 Wisconsin – 9:00 PM – ESPN

Saturday, September 2

  • Wyoming at Iowa – 12:00 PM – Big Ten Network
  • California at North Carolina – 12:00 PM – ACC Network
  • NC State vs South Carolina (Charlotte, NC) – 3:00 PM – ESPN
  • #11 Michigan vs #17 Florida (Arlington, TX) – 3:30 PM – ABC
  • Temple at Notre Dame – 3:30 PM – NBC
  • Troy at Boise State – 3:45 PM – ESPNU
  • Kentucky at Southern Miss – 4:00 PM – CBS Sports Network
  • Appalachian State at #15 Georgia – 6:15 PM – ESPN
  • #16 Louisville vs Purdue (Indianapolis, IN) – 7:30 PM – FOX
  • South Alabama at Ole Miss – 7:30 PM – ESPNU
  • #1 Alabama vs #3 Florida State (Atlanta, GA) – 8:00 PM – ABC
  • Vanderbilt at MTSU – 8:00 PM – CBS Sports Network
  • #13 LSU vs BYU (Houston, TX) – 9:30 PM – ESPN

Sunday, September 3

  • #21 Virginia Tech vs #22 West Virginia (Landover, MD) – 7:30 PM – ABC
  • Texas A&M at UCLA – 7:30 PM – FOX

Monday, September 4

  • #25 Tennessee vs Georgia Tech (Atlanta, GA) – 8:00 PM – ESPN