2018 8th Annual FABO NHRA "Pick 'Em" Game - Time For Your NITRO Fix! Here We Go Again!!!
Congratulations to 'Back in Time' (FABO) and 'memike' (FABO) for sharing the win for the 2018 AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals "Top Picker Eliminator" title with a outstanding totals of 176.0 points. They both picked the class winners in Top Fuel, Funny Car and Pro Stock, and their Pro Stock Motorcycle pick lost in the semi-final round of eliminations. Their point totals were also helped by picking up Speed bonus points in both Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle.
'Budnicks' (FBBO) was the event runner-up with 155.5 points.
Our visiting player, 'gtxracer' (FBBO) scored 96.5 points. I hope he sticks around for the rest of the Countdown and then comes back as a regular player for the 2019 season.
Here's where the bonus points were earned if you picked the right drivers:
Top Fuel
E.T. - Clay Millican, 3.726 during qualifying
Speed - Brittany Force, 330.07 during Round 1 of eliminations
Funny Car
E.T. - Tommy Johnson Jr., 3.918 during qualifying
Speed - John Force, 325.77 while losing during Round 2 of eliminations
Pro Stock
E.T. - Jeg Coughlin Jr., 6.599 during qualifying
Speed - Tanner Gray, 208.91 during qualifying
Pro Stock Motorcycle
E.T. - Eddie Krawiec, 6.873 during qualifying
Speed - Matt Smith, 197.65 during qualifying
Here are the game point standings after the 21st event of the 2018 season, the 3rd event of the Countdown:
2406.0 - Back in Time (FABO) no change in the game standings
2309.5 - Duster 79 (FABO) +1
2290.5 - cuda20 (FABO) +1
2288.5 - stroked340 (FABO) -2
2278.5 - Budnicks (FBBO) +1
2257.5 - Nick2317 (FBBO) -1
2235.0 - ocdart (FABO) +1
2221.0 - memike (FABO) +5
2207.5 - SSG_Karg (FABO) no change
2199.5 - alsant (FBBO) -3
2187.5 - 64BEL (FBBO) -1
2172.5 - johnnycuda (FABO) no change
2158.5 - 71dartswinger (FABO) -2
2026.5 - super-bee_ski (FBBO) no change
No rest after this event. The 22nd event of the 2018 season, the fourth event of the Countdown, is the 11th annual NHRA Carolina Nationals, October 12-14, at the zMAX Dragway in Concord, North Carolina.
As always, your picks need to be posted before Pro Qualifying starts on Friday, October 12th in order to qualify for all event bonus points. Pro qualifying is scheduled to start at 2:45PM EDT (11:45PM PDT).
The Carolina Nationals entry list is posted on NHRA.com and currently shows 18 Top Fuel, 18 Funny Car, 14 Pro Stock and 23 Pro Stock Motorcycle entries, but the counts are always subject to change. Keep checking NHRA.com for an updated entry list.
Get your picks posted and good luck!