MeanPC's picks for Wednesday, Sept 29th matches
Nor'Easters SHANK the ArchBishops (4.0-0)
Blitz fix the Mechanics (2.5-1.5)
Knockouts suckerpunch the Sluggers (3.0-1.0)
Scorpions poison the Kingfishers (2.5-1.5)
Week 6 Match Prediction Contest
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Sep 29, 2010
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#23
My picks for Wednesday, September 29th:
Nor'Easters over St. Louis 3-1
Blitz and Mechanics go 2-2
Knockouts over the Slggers 3-1
Scorpions sting the Kingfishers 2.5-1.5
wednesday:
blitz v mechanics 2-2
knockouts beat slugers 2.5-1.5
nor'easters beat st louis 3.5-.5
scorpions beat batlimore 2.5-1.5
Wednesday, September 29th picks:
5. New England Nor'easters vs St. Louis Arch Bishops New England Wins 3-1
6. Boston Blitz vs San Francisco Mechanics San Francisco Wins 2.5-1.5
7. Seattle Sluggers vs New Jersey Knockouts New Jersey Wins 2.5-1.5
8. Arizona Scorpions vs Baltimore Kingfishers Arizona Wins 2.5-1.5
Wednesday matches are under way! 
Week 6 Match Prediction Contest - Results
The following are the picks made by members who participated in the week 6 contest. They are listed by: Member name; followed by the names of the teams they predicted correctly, and end with a total number of matches correct.
meanpc – (DAL, CHI, NE, BOS) = 4 games
WanderingWinder – (DAL, NE, BOS, BAL) = 4 games
IM ACEChess – (DAL, CHI, LA/MAN Tie, BOS) = 4 games
nimzo5 – (DAL, CHI, LA/MAN Tie, NE) = 4 games
IM dpruess – (DAL, LA/MAN Tie, NE) = 3 games
pdela – (DAL, NE, BAL) = 3 games
ArchBadger – (BOS, SEA, BAL) = 3 games
Zendo – (DAL, NE) = 2 games
William_Smitham – (LA/MAN Tie, NE) = 2 games
ChessMarkstheSpot – (NE) = 1 game
vowles_23 – (NE) = 1 game
notlesu – (DAL) = 1 game
In week 6, we had 4 members who tied for the most correct predictions. By contest rules, we then applied tie-breakers to determine the weekly winner.
Our first tie breaker is to determine which member's match points came closest to those scored in the actual U.S.C.L. matches. Listed below are the results of the first tie-breaker. We started by listing the League match results: Game number; Team(s) that won (or tied); and points scored (points in parentheses). This is followed by each member's match predictions: Game number; followed by points predicted (points in parentheses).
U.S.C.L. results in week 6 - 1. MIA - (2.5), 2. DAL - (3), 3. CHI - (2.5), 4. LA/MAN Tie - (2), 5. NE - (3.5), 6. BOS - (2.5), 7. SEA - (3.5), 8. BAL - (2.5) = 22 points
meanpc - 1. (2), 2. (3), 3. (2.5), 4. (2.5), 5. (4), 6. (2.5), 7. (3), 8. (2.5) = 22 pts.
WanderingWinder - 1. (2.5), 2. (3), 3. (2.5), 4. (2.5), 5. (3), 6. (2.5), 7. (2.5), 8. (2.5) = 21 pts.
IM ACEChess - 1. (2.5), 2. (3), 3. (2.5), 4. (2), 5. (2.5), 6. (2.5), 7. (3), 8. (2.5) = 20.5 pts.
nimzo5 - 1. (2), 2. (3), 3. (2.5), 4. (2), 5. (3), 6. (2.5), 7. (2.5), 8. (2.5) = 20 pts.
The Week 6 Winner is: meanpc! Congratulations!
Awesome!
Thanks for running this contest William - a brilliant idea to get people interested in the USCL. Looking forward to next week.
I glanced through all the games from the week, and wanted to post a few of the more interesting ones I noticed.
IM Shankland impressed me with this one:
Can someone please explain this draw to me? Hua is down a pawn and about 500 rating points, and her opponent takes a draw. WEIRD :
Larry Christiansen is a beast!
Sep 30, 2010
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#31
I was meaning to give you congrats earlier meanpc, but better late than never, I'll just follow your picks from now on 
As for myself, I need to get some of Chris Berman's "Swami Says" mojo. 1 outta 4, not the kind of way I would like my fortune telling career to start.
I was observing some of the games you listed last night. I agree that IM Sam Shankland's game was impressive (from my limited knowledge). He seemed to be able to have good control of the center, and had an answer for everything Finegold seemed to throw his way.
Not sure what happened with the NE/STL game you listed.
GM Larry Christiansen is really an amazing player from what I can tell. In doing research while getting this group going, his name comes up again and again. There is a quote from GM Charbonneau from the 2005 game of the year that made me laugh: "In any case, I have to say preparing for a game with Larry is the easiest thing I have ever done. I create a tree in chessbase, I see he plays every move imaginable, and I'm done." 
thanks for the congrats guys, but it really is dumb luck.
I was hoping to post danny's game, as I had him winning. Unfortunately his game was not so bueno. :(
For those of you who are interested, all of the games for each week are packaged in one pgn file download if you want to check them out.
Oct 1, 2010
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#34
meanpc, I have all the games from all the seasons so far, I just wish I had time to sit and watch them LOL. Well, by dumb luck or magic mojo, throw some of that dust this way 
Wednesday, September 29th picks:
5. New England Nor'easters vs St. Louis Arch Bishops Nor'easters win 3-1
6. Boston Blitz vs San Francisco Mechanics Draw 2-2
7. Seattle Sluggers vs New Jersey Knockouts Knockouts win 2.5-1.5
8. Arizona Scorpions vs Baltimore Kingfishers Scorpions win 2.5-1.5