LAST EDITED ON 02-27-13 AT 11:31 PM (EST)

Just Switch!

It's such a bummer seeing a team struggle so much at one Detour and them seemingly breeze through the other option. It's such a shame too, since Idries/Jamil really did face their fear and push through it, even if they were unsuccessful with it. I was really glad to see they didn't just take the penalty right off the bat, and actually gave it the old college try.

Week 2 Results
1st place - Bates/Anthony (2x)
2nd place - David/Connor (1.5x)
3rd place - Jessica/John (1.3x)
4th place - Joey/Meghan (1.2x)
5th place - Chuck/Wynona (1.1x)
6th place - Mona/Beth (.9x)
7th place - Caroline/Jennifer (.8x)
8th place - Max/Katie (.7x)
9th place - Pam/Winnie (.5x)
10th place - Idries/Jamil (0x)

Too easy.

OK, so here's everything you need know about how Week 2 went. Not a single person lost points in this week's scoring. And 11 players made perfect bets on Bates/Anthony. Which was admittedly pretty easy to do considering the TAR previews showed them on the mat right in front of David/Connor.

So, drinks all around!

We also had 6 new entrants this week, bringing us up to a healthy 31 total. A big welcome to alemattos, michel, IanQuentin, bystander, MzTee, and chiubakka.

This season's inaugural Greatest Gainer Award goes to amazing triumvirate of CTgirl, vennui, and FFantasyFX, who each jumped up 7 ranks. Nice going, you triumvirate, you.

And this week's Perfect Bet Award will be chopped up into equal-sized pieces among the following: Yogi, CTgirl, vennui, FFantasyFX, Jims02, taffnic, alemattos, michel, IanQuentin, flipxcyd, and Molaholic. Congrats all around!

Leaderboard
1. mikey - 64
2. KwietOne - 64
3. pepperz - 64
4. beau_30 - 64
5. ARNutz - 64
6. Estee - 62
7. bbenzenberg - 51
8. Yogi - 48
9. CTgirl - 46
10. vennui - 46
11. FFantasyFX - 46
12. Starshine - 44
13. sarah1234 - 40
14. jbenz - 38
15. Jims02 - 38
16. Belle Book - 35
17. kduck - 34
18. Java - 34
19. taffnic - 34
20. alemattos - 30
21. michel - 30
22. IanQuentin - 30
23. bystander - 28
24. flipxcyd - 24
25. Ontheroadagain - 23
26. MzTee - 23
27. louislam - 20
28. Molaholic - 20
29. chiubakka - 20
30. Floyd1 - 18
31. esquire - 12

We've got a crazy-tight race so far, with a 5-way tie for the top spot. mikey still retains the title as being last week's #1 guy, but it's definitely wide open!

New Players Still Welcome!

Throughout the next two weeks, the TAR Casino Game will be open to new entrants. Players who join this week will receive 10 points to start.

For an entire list of rules, check out Week 1's thread.

Week 3 Payout Table
1st place - 2x
2nd place - 1.8x
3rd place - 1.6x
4th place - 1.2x
5th place - Break even
6th place - .8x
7th place - .4x
8th place - .2x
9th place - 0x

Max Individual Bet - 35 points

Special thanks to Belle Book for having a nice, round median score this week, so I didn't have to round up or down.

TAR22 Teams Remaining
Bates/Anthony
Caroline/Jennifer
Chuck/Wynona
David/Connor
Jessica/John
Joey/Meghan
Max/Katie
Mona/Beth
Pam/Winnie

Can we repeat our success from last week? Only time will tell.

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