rats! bummer! phooey! drat! ack!

[Mel On Ice]

:evil:

Entirely my fault... I entered Fantasy Skating at home and I didn't think it went through, because one year it DIDN'T. So I was playing around at work and decided to give it another try, and decided to just throw together a team for fun. I realized only AFTER the first event that BOTH teams made it in. No big deal, I never win anything anyway, right!?


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So I get this from the USFSA:

Hi Melissa,

I'm finishing up the final standings for the 2003 Fantasy Skating Series on the U.S. Figure Skating web site. Your team, Biscuit 2 Biscuit, is the unofficial winner.

However, while verifyng your team, I realized there is another entry similar to yours -- same name, but different e-mail address, different mailing address. The mailing addresses are both in Missouri, however, and the second team name is Team Biscuit.

Obviously, I am inclined to guess you entered twice with different
information, which will unfortunately disqualify you.

Please let me know if that is the case, as I want to be fair to all 750 entries who are waiting for the final results.

Sincerely
Laura Fawcett
Director of Online Services

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Let this be a lesson to me... argh!
:cry: :oops:

[ceceB]

That sucks Melissa! At least you know in your heart you won (I know no one ever wants to hear that ;) )
That's why I love those draws where you can enter as many times as you want.

[Mel On Ice]

here's the unofficial disqualified because I'm a moron winning team

Sasha Cohen
Beatrisa Liang
Michael Weiss
Jeff Buttle
Pterova and Tikinov
Inoue and Baldwin
Belbin and Agosto
Gregory and Pethukov

[Skatewind]

I think that happened to Adrian or someone else here last year & they actually had won a prize. That's too bad.

[ClevelandDancer]

Doh! I hate it when things like that happen. If you don't mind my asking, do you know how many points your unofficial winning team had? If I did my math right for NHK, I'm at 264. It won't win (someone else is already at that), but it seems a little better than I usually do. I always seem to end up with one entry that withdraws from everything. This year my worst pick (Matt Savoie, 6 pts. total) only withdrew from half his events.

BTW, I had the exact same pairs/dance as you, then:

Sasha Cohen
Jennifer Kirk
Yvgeny Plushenko
Matt Savoie

[Mel On Ice]

I have no clue. After 5 events, I wasn't even in the top 25, so Cup of Russia must have been good to me.

I think before the last event, I had 236 points.

I have been burned year after year by one skater or another withdrawing - last year it was Yags, another year it was Nicole Bobek.

Hey, at least I have a good story out of the experience... and a cautionary tale to others! Don't assume your that error message means your entry didn't go through.

[PaulWyliefan]

Technology stinks, doesn't it? I hope it goes better for you next time.

[ClevelandDancer]

I ended up with 264 like I thought, the winner had 284. I'm in a 12-way tie for 17th ("Great Expectations") ... not bad really. My picks were the same as the winner's except for the men. That's where I lost points. I picked Plushy and Savoie. Plushy did fine, but Savoie got injured and only skated in one of his two events (and came in 9th! I'm guessing he's not quite up to par yet). Still, better than I usually do, every year previously I've had one entry that pulled out of everything and it was always one of my "high" picks. Yagudin last year, Lang & Tchernyshev another, Eldridge yet another.

Ah well, there is always next year! ;)

[The Village Idiot]

Can you explain what happened to her? Having 2 teams doesn't influence the outcome does it? (unless you had 2 different teams listed)?

[ClevelandDancer]

The rules stated you could have only one team, therefore anyone with two or more entries was disqualified. Her two teams were different ... I don't know how much so, but one was at the top and one in the middle-bottom.

[Justine_R]

KOOL!sounds an awesome game! How do u play.

[Mel On Ice]

If "her" means me, I can explain... I did one team at home. I got some garbled messages when I submitted that I thought meant the team didn't go through.

Then I remembered I still had time to enter, and submitted a team at work. The teams were a little different, that's how the scores were different. I didn't realize I had two teams until a few weeks in, and didn't think anything of it except "oh, they both went through."