Here’s the play-by-play for this week.

Round 1

Q: Which team has more net rushing yards? (10 – 50 points available)

A: South Carolina (10 points) (The Gamecocks had 224 rushing yards to Tennessee’s 144)

Eight players got this right.

Mushrooms: LTVol99 and Bulldog85

Bananas: Pete and Rtbrwb66

Blue shells and bolts: 

  • Blue Shell #3 Counter: 2
  • Blue Shell #4 Counter: 4
  • No new blue shells or bolts

Top 10 after Round 1:

  1. Displaced_Vol_Fan
  2. Raven17
  3. Randy Holtzclaw
  4. Mitchell K
  5. Will Shelton
  6. Jayyyy
  7. JWheel101
  8. Joel Hollingsworth
  9. daetilus
  10. Sam Hensley

Round 2

Q: Who wins and by how much? (10 – 25 points available)

A: South Carolina, by 1-3 (15 points) (The Gamecocks won 27-24)

Nobody got this right.

Mushrooms: LTVol99 and Pete

Bananas: Bulldog85 and Pete

Blue shells and bolts: 

  • Blue Shell #3 Counter: 1
  • Blue Shell #4 Counter: 3
  • New Blue Shell #5 Counter: 5
  • No bolts

Top 10 after Round 2:

  1. Displaced_Vol_Fan
  2. Raven17
  3. Randy Holtzclaw
  4. Mitchell K
  5. Will Shelton
  6. Jayyyy
  7. JWheel101
  8. Joel Hollingsworth
  9. daetilus
  10. Sam Hensley

Round 3

Q: Which Tennessee player finishes with the most combined rushing and receiving yards? (20 – 50 points available)

A: Tim Jordan (20 points) (He had 91 total combined rushing and receiving yards)

Again, nobody got this right.

Mushrooms: cscott95 and Mariettavol

Bananas: Randy Holtzclaw and Isaac Bishop

Blue shells and bolts: 

  • Blue Shell #3 blows up and displaces Displaced_Vol_Fan, who loses 10 points. He or she remains in the lead, though. For now.
  • Blue Shell #4 Counter: 2
  • Blue Shell #5 Counter: 4
  • New Blue Shell #6 Counter: 5
  • Mariettavol gets a bolt and an extra 10 points

NEW

Bowser comes along and purges every player who hasn’t participated in any of the past three weeks. If you’ve been purged, you can re-join, but you’ll have to start over at zero.

Final Standings After Week 9:

Rank Player Points
1 Displaced_Vol_Fan 67
2 Raven17 62.5
3 Mitchell K 57
4 Will Shelton 56.5
5 Randy Holtzclaw 54
6 Jayyyy 53.5
7 JWheel101 53.5
8 Joel Hollingsworth 53.5
9 daetilus 52
10 cscott95 50
11 Mariettavol 49
12 Sam Hensley 48
13 Jrstep 45
14 jfarrar90 44
15 Harley 41.5
16 Evan 39
17 LTVol99 36.5
18 Isaac Bishop 33.5
19 Gavin Driskill 26
20 HT 23
21 Bulldog85 4
22 brandon galford 0
23 Pete -5
24 Rtbrwb66 -5
25 rdbulet96 -5
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Harley
Harley
6 years ago

Tough “Guessing Week” 🙂

Jayyyy
Jayyyy
6 years ago

When does the rubber band effect come into play?

daetilus
daetilus
6 years ago

I believe he’s referring to the miraculous recovery of AI opponents late in the race to make the ending a bit more interesting.

Just a guess though

Pete
Pete
6 years ago

I must be old. I have no idea what mushrooms or bananas are. Since I am at -5, you can go ahead and purge me.

Pete
Pete
6 years ago

Great, Joel. Now I feel both old AND no fun! More seriously, thanks for the splanation. You can purge me though.