Discussion: US Champs Picks

Anyone have predictions for the US Champs results in Telemark this weekend? The startlists are available at
http://www.mnoc.org/uschamps/startlist.shtml .

To make it easier to make your picks, here is the
Women's F21 list (with no knowledge of eligibility)
Bohnen, Julia MNOC
DeMoss, Penny BAOC
Dickison, Peggy OK
Dvinyaninova, Yekaterina HVO
Fuller, Amy Unknown
Nelson, Josie MNOC
Savchenko, Polina CAOC
Sell, Ioana BGR
Sergueeva, Svetlana CAOC
Smith, Katarina Falcons

And the M21 (again, no indication of who is actually eligible...)
Anderson, Leif SAMM
Azarov, Alexei HVO
Bakken, Justin MNOC
Benetis, Vytenis QOC
Bergeron, Eddie SVO
Bone, Eric COC
Bulka, Yuriy Unknown
Conradi, Mikkel CSU
Cote, J-J RMOC
Dale, Andy ORCA
Eglin, Michael BGR
Everett, Mark OK
Goeres, Patrick Coureurs de Bois
Granovskiy, Boris CSU
Hall, Randy DVOA
Hawkins, William CSU
Johnston, Jerritt MNOC
Kubala, Everett Unknown
Lee, Timothy Hartney Gougers
Moore, Brian RMOC
Nelson, Dave MNOC
Olaru, Maricel CAOC
Osborn, Erik ORCA
Pekhour, Mikhail CAOC
Platt, Mikell MBOK
Prior, Mark BAOC
Rachev, Boyko BGR
Reader, Syd BAOC
Riley, Wyatt Unknown
Sack, Carl MNOC
Scarborough, James BAOC
Shean, Ben USMAOC
Smith, Wil Falcons
Torrance, Jon OOC
Velichko, Sergey CTOC
Veres, Mihai SVO
Walker, Greg CSU
Walker, Jr., Ken CSU

I pick my club mates to win: Peggy Dickison and Mark Everett. Go OK !

Wish I could be out there.... have fun everyone. Here are my picks.

1 Yekaterina Dvinyaninova
2 Peggy Dickison
3. Josie Nelson

1 William Hawkins
2 Leif Anderson
3 Vytenis Benetis

I see all the usual names on the men's side. Where are all the women?

Will Hawkins
Mikell Platt
Eric Bone

Katarina Smith
I don't know anything about the other ladies, so I'll just go by the length of the first names.
Dvinyaninova, Yekaterina
Sergueeva, Svetlana

Katarina Smith and Eric Bone

"Where are all the women?"

Karen W. & Sandra are overseas
Angelica is staying home with the kids (and I presume Kristin is doing the same)

Not sure about Erin. Supposedly someone saw her at the Highlander, but she didn't race. Sam ran the Highlander and was 1st woman (suffering some kind of Saeger family back cramp shortly after the finish :) Pavlina was close behind. Not sure why they aren't going - anyone have further info on these F21s? Any of these 3 would be my top US pick if they showed up...

On the mens side, I think I'll pick Mikell - He's in shape, (unless he's hit the bottle hard since WOC :) and the navigation is intense.

Men: William (Go CSU!), Benetis, Eric, Eddie (are you going to wear the secret O-top?)

Women: Kata, Peggy, ??

Have a great weekend!

:) Heh. Probably not this weekend - will bring it along though just in case. Forecast right now is for some light snow showers, or at least some cold rain showers, so that will dictate clothing. I did wear it in the Night-O champs and it seemed to work.

William, Sergei, Mikell, Eric for the men.
Katarina for the women.

Erin isn't coming - she was at the Highlander to cheer a little and to hand over her US Champs trophy from last year so it can be passed on at the Champs this week-end.

Mikell, Eddie, William
Peggy (the only one I know...)

I'll pick lots of names so there is a better chance of getting one right.
Will H., Eddie, Mikell, Eric, Boris, James. Assumes that Boris' ankle is better and Eric is recovered from adventure race. I also expect Wil Smith to be up there, but am pretty sure he is ineligible. Put him 3rd just behind Eddie.
For the women, I haven't a clue.
Peggy, Katrina, Yekaterina, Penny

If Katarina were running in M21, I would pick for her in top 3.

smith one and one

pressure's on, will !!!

Men's medals: hawkins, bone, platt

whaddya mean? has will been training??!!??

Congratulations to William, Eric and Mikell. So who won the women's race?

2- Day Results (from memory, they aren't yet posted):
M21
1. William Hawkins
2. Eric Bone
3. Michael Eglin (Swiss)
4. Mikell Platt

F21
1. Katarina Smith (Sweden)
2. Yekaterina Dvinyaninova
3. Peggy Dickison
4. Penny DeMoss

Mikell and Katarina were tops in the WRE (day 2).

My estimate of men's WRE points is about 940 for the winner (Swampfox), going down about 20 per minute. I think these are quite representative points for those of you in the mid-high placings. My calculations may be a bit off, so wait for the official points on the IOF site. There were not enough ranked women to award WRE points.

The WRE points have been posted on the IOF page. They used to take all people with any points into calculation before, not just those with (average points) >= 600 (note: average means of all races that scored > 0 points, not just your top 4). It appears they no longer do. Hence, fewer points to the winner and everyone. I.e. you don't benefit from beating Mark Prior.

But still, a lot of people are now with points > 600! Three WREs next year! (disclaimer: pending). Let's all go get some points!