Official 2021 Annual Pick 'Ems Rules and Standings

[Spoon]

Past winners:

Season 1 2016 Winner: Giblert=Excitement
Season 2 2016 Winner: Spoon
UFC 200 Super Weekend Champion: Poindexter
Season 3 2016 Winner: Sakara=Excitement
Season 4 2016 Winner: Cat--Smasher
Season 2016 Combined Champion: Sakara=Excitement
Season 1 2017 Winner: Sakara=Excitement
Season 2 2017 Winner: Cat--Smasher
Season 3 2017 Winner: Fedorlei Gomipierre
Season 4 2017 Winner: Fedorlei Gomipierre
Season 2017 Combined Champion: Sakara=Excitement
Season 1 2018 Winner: ATJ-Lucko
Season 2 2018 Winner: Spoon
Season 3 2018 Winner: ckauffman28
Season 4 2018 Winner: Fedorlei Gomipierre
Season 2018 Combined Champion: ATJ-Lucko
Season 1 2019 Winners: ATJ-Lucko & Poindexter
Season 2 2019 Winner: ATJ-Lucko
Season 3 2019 Winner: ATJ-Lucko
Season 4 2019 Winner: ckauffman28
Season 2019 Combined Champion: ATJ-Lucko
Season 1 2020 Winner: Cat--Smasher
Season 2 2020 Winner: Spoon
Season 3 2020 Winner: ATJ-Lucko
Season 4 2020 Winner: Spoon
Season 2020 Combined Champion: Spoon

Official Rules:

What you win:

• $1000 for the Sportsbook/Betting for the highest score for each event.
• $5250 for having the highest overall points for each season.
• A Title below your name letting everyone know you're the "MMA Pick 'Ems World Champion".

Timeline:

- The Challenge is no longer a full year. Instead it restarts every 3 month. January thru March, April thru June, July thru September, and October thru December.

Scoring:

• Correct fighter = 1 point
• Correct fighter and way of winning = 2 points (3 points total)
• Correct fighter and round = 2 points (3 points total)
• Correct fighter, way of winning, and round = 5 points
• Correct fighter and Decision = 3 points
• FOTN bonus and POTN bonus are now 4 Generic 'OTN bonuses. If any of your 4 picks are awarded POTN or FOTN you get 4 point for each. If a fighter gets POTN and FOTN you get 8 points.

Fight Card Exceptions:

- Some Fight Pass, ESPN+ exclusives or TUF events might not be counted. Or the main card might be only counted. Or the main event might be only counted. Vote is usually in either the past event's thread or a new thread. Usually only occurs during multi-event weekends.

Posting in thread after event started:

- After the event has started, if you were the last poster in the thread, do NOT post again until after the event has ended, or until someone else has made a post. Doing so will change the time the picks were posted to a later time. So there will be no way to know if the picks were made before or after the event start time. This will result in picks for fights before the new shown post time, to not count towards your score.

Editing Picks:

- Because the forum does not accurately show the edit times of a post, after it has been edited once, any changes or additions to picks must be made in a separate post.

Copying Picks:

- If you blatantly copy another person's picks, your picks will not be counted, and you will be barred from making picks for the next 2 events. Repeat offenders will be barred from the rest of the season, or from participating permanently.


Official Standings (as of Season 6.1):

Spoon - 138
Poindexter - 124
ATJ-Lucko - 110
ckauffman28 - 94
* All others get 85 points

 

[Spoon]

Official 2021 Annual Pick 'Ems Challenge 1.1 - ABC 1: Holloway vs. Kattar

ATJ-Lucko - 21
ckauffman28 - 16
Poindexter - 14
Spoon - 14
* All others get 13 points

Official 2021 Annual Pick 'Ems Challenge 2.1 - ESPN 20: Chiesa vs. Magny

Spoon - 24
Poindexter - 23
ATJ-Lucko - 21
ckauffman28 - 20
* All others get 19

Official 2021 Annual Pick 'Ems Challenge 3.1 - UFC 257: Poirier vs. McGregor 2

Spoon - 25
Poindexter - 18
ATJ-Lucko - 14
ckauffman28 - 13
* All others get 12 points

Official 2021 Annual Pick 'Ems Challenge 4.1 - FN 184: Overeem vs. Volkov

Poindexter - 32
Spoon - 28
ATJ-Lucko - 21
ckauffman28 - 13
* All others get 12 points