SurvivorBowl XXIV (4 Viewers)

[JRead2]

SurvivorBowl XXIV - A Saintsreport Tradition

Welcome to season XXIV of SurvivorBowl on saintsreport.com. The site has been updated for the 2024 season. Please let me know if you have any problems.

All SurvivorBowl entries should be made at https://survivorbowl.net. Any issues should be reported here, in this thread, or by sending me ( @JRead2 ) a private message. If you are ever unable to make your pick on the site, you can make the pick in this thread. Just be mindful of the timestamp. The pick must be made on time.

Your Account:

• I have added the ability to create an account, which will require email verification. New accounts may be created up until the week 1 deadline has passed. After that time, no new accounts.
• Please do not create a new account if you already have one -- just use the "Forgot Password" and/or "Forgot Username" links.
• You can now reset your password, using your username and email address.
• If you forget you username, you can use your email address to look it up.

I'd like to give a big shout out to everyone involved with SurvivorBowl over the years!

• Thanks to @JBconway for coming up with the original idea for Survivorbowl, and for running it from a thread on this site for multiple years.
• Thanks to @d3cyph3r for his many years of dedication to SurvivorBowl, and for making it much more automated by moving it to its own web site.
• Thanks to @superchuck500 for managing a temporary site for the beginning of the 2021 season, as a new site was brought online.
• Thanks to @Andrus for allowing us to host the site on the SaintsReport server for a few years, and for always supporting SurvivorBowl on SaintsReport.

Rules:
1. Pick a winner (no point spread involved) of any NFL game during week 1. If problems arise on the main website, you can place your pick as a comment to this very thread.
2. If the team you selected wins their week 1 game, you continue to week 2. If your team of choice lost their week 1 battle, you have been pigskinned from SURVIVORBOWL already and should be ashamed of yourself!
3. A team may only be selected once during the season to win their game. For example. if you pick the Saints in week 1, you may not select the Saints again for the remainder of the SURVIVORBOWL.
4. You continue in the SURVIVORBOWL until a loss (or tie) is suffered, then you're out of the pool. YES, TIES ARE LOSSES! You are picking a team to WIN. If they don't win, you don't win.
5. A winning pick must be in before the very last game starts for that week or you will be pigskinned.
6. Picks selected in the thread will supersede what is entered in the system. The official record for your pick will be in the thread if the system has an error, or some other mishap. Just notify jread2 by a PM to update it.
7. Any pick not submitted by any of the deadlines set within the rules posted each week will be considered a loss and the contestant will be eliminated from SURVIVORBOWL
8. The game will continue until one contestant remains.
9. If all remaining contestants are eliminated in the same week, the contest will consist of a tiebreaker. The highest point total from all picks combined will win!
10. If the regular season ends with no outright winner, the winner of the main pool will be chosen by the total of the win margins of each team you chose to win. For example, if the you pick the Saints to beat Atlanta, and the Saints win with a score of 117 - 3, the win margin is 114. The total of all your selected teams' win margins will determine the tie-breaker.

SURVIVORBOWL CHAMPIONS:
I - DavidM
II - CliffBurton
III - Harvey Hornet
IV - Sloth
V - Jlroby69
VI - Pure Energy
VII - 62 DEFENSE
VIII - IrishSaint
IX - Wahoo
X - KebCam
XI - SaintReggie
XII - Garvatron
XIII - Seve
XIV - Smith
XV - 62 Defense (first 2 time winner)
XVI - tonytiger436
XVII - send-them-all (legacy winner of 62 Defense family)
XVIII - jayd265
XIX - cajunjoeysaint
XX - Saint Kamara (2 time winner, formerly known as SaintReggie)
XXI - dctransplant
XXII - BudWiser
XXIII - Obsession Saints
XXIV - you?

Best of luck to all!

 

[Irish Saint]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but of the 10 remaining survivors, it appears two of them are previous SurvivorBowl winners.

I'm a previous winner back in the 2007 season alright. Think it had about 350 entrants & ran till week 13 or 14. Always hoped to win it again. Had a decent run last year but this is the furthest I've got since back in the glory year as regards amount of people left. And it's only Week 4 coming up !!!

 

[DaveXA]

hey someone takes the blame. lol

but its falcons hate week. record is 0-0 now. nothing else matters but beating the falcons. idc if saints would have a 2-15 record for a season one year as long as those 2 are falcons. haha. joking seriously cause thatd suck

No doubt.

 

[0rion]

I finished 2nd a few years ago. There were 2 of us remaining and we both picked wrong. I lost the tie-breaker.

Of course, I went out week 2 this year.

Think that might've been the year I was 3rd or 4th. Everything tends to blend together these days so who knows but I remember the what it went to a tie breaker.

 

[jayd265]

at least 2 are onto week 5

 

[Paul]

It’s possible that all but 1 will head into week 5. Awesome.

 

[Bill]

It’s possible that all but 1 will head into week 5. Awesome.

It gets easier to pick winners as the contestants get deeper into the season. Contenders and pretenders aren’t as hard to identify.

But they still occasionally surprise our contestants.

 

[saintfan1972]

I picked Houston, so barely made it through. Never been this far in this contest, so will see what happens next week. I can tell you who I'm not picking next week lol

 

[JRead2]

Well, the Jets made sure we dropped at least 1 this week. No one picked a winner from either of the Monday night games. We are now down to 9, and week 5 is open for picks.

1. 0rion: BUF / LAC / KC / SF /
2. El Caliente: BUF / LAC / BAL / SF /
3. Haughton Who Dat: BUF / HOU / SEA / SF /
4. Irish Saint: CHI / LAC / KC / SF /
5. jayd265: BUF / LAC / SEA / KC /
6. Joalgo: NO / HOU / SEA / KC /
7. junebug: DET / LAC / SEA / DAL /
8. saintfan1972: SF / LAC / SEA / HOU /
9. Saints 4 life: HOU / LAC / BUF / DAL /

 

[Bill]

Well, the Jets made sure we dropped at least 1 this week. No one picked a winner from either of the Monday night games. We are now down to 9, and week 5 is open for picks.

1. 0rion: BUF / LAC / KC / SF /
2. El Caliente: BUF / LAC / BAL / SF /
3. Haughton Who Dat: BUF / HOU / SEA / SF /
4. Irish Saint: CHI / LAC / KC / SF /
5. jayd265: BUF / LAC / SEA / KC /
6. Joalgo: NO / HOU / SEA / KC /
7. junebug: DET / LAC / SEA / DAL /
8. saintfan1972: SF / LAC / SEA / HOU /
9. Saints 4 life: HOU / LAC / BUF / DAL /

I have a feeling that now that we are down to the cream of the crop, and we've eliminated all the bush league riff raff, these remaining folks are going to be duking it out for a while.

 

[Joalgo]

I’m hoping I can last long enough to have no choice but to pick between Carolina or Chicago as my best options

 

[Haughton Who Dat]

Uncharted territory for me. I was just as nervous about my pick as the Saints game. I can make a case for each team winning and losing at this point. I haven't looked at next week yet. But it's getting fun.

 

[0rion]

It gets easier to pick winners as the contestants get deeper into the season. Contenders and pretenders aren’t as hard to identify.

But they still occasionally surprise our contestants.

For me it's the opposite of that. I run out of lock picks as the season plays out. This week I'm down to basically 2 games I'd feel comfortable enough making picks and even those 2 are pretty sketchy.

 

[Andrus]

Well, the Jets made sure we dropped at least 1 this week. No one picked a winner from either of the Monday night games. We are now down to 9, and week 5 is open for picks.

1. 0rion: BUF / LAC / KC / SF /
2. El Caliente: BUF / LAC / BAL / SF /
3. Haughton Who Dat: BUF / HOU / SEA / SF /
4. Irish Saint: CHI / LAC / KC / SF /
5. jayd265: BUF / LAC / SEA / KC /
6. Joalgo: NO / HOU / SEA / KC /
7. junebug: DET / LAC / SEA / DAL /
8. saintfan1972: SF / LAC / SEA / HOU /
9. Saints 4 life: HOU / LAC / BUF / DAL /

At this rate we may be able to start a Survival Bowl Part 2 by Midseason.

 

[saints4eva]

At this rate we may be able to start a Survival Bowl Part 2 by Midseason.

Are you telling me there's a chance??

 

[0rion]

At this rate we may be able to start a Survival Bowl Part 2 by Midseason.

And I plan on winning both of them ......just kidding...it'll be a miracle of I survive this week. Who do you like more...Minnesota or Baltimore? Seriously....I need the help.