Whomever y'all pick, don't make it Blaney...
The racing-forum.com version of Nostradamus tried to warn us of the impeding doom that he saw coming down upon Ryan Blaney and was laughed off by us all as the #12 car appeared to be headed to victory lane until . . . the very last lap of the race.
Then again, in the midst of his prophetic vision,
@RayinTX slipped up while posting his quatrain and, along with five others, made Blaney his pick for the race.
And so it goes . . .
Meanwhile, congratulations to
@Conover and
@Clutch, the recipients of the "Highest Finishing Pick" award following the first place finish of their pick, Austin Cindric, in the Enjoy(s) Illinois 300 at the World Wide Technology Raceway.
That's the second consecutive race that
@Clutch has used his erratic time zone differential machine to pick the race winner.
The "Most Upward Movement" award went to
@Greg as his pick of fifth place finisher Joey Logano enabled him to gain six positions in the standings and move to within sniffin' distance of the Top 20 in the standings, a spot he hasn't seen since the first race of the season.
The "Slipping & Sliding" award was shared by
@LibertyU24 and
@Blaze when their picks caused each of them to drop four spots in the standings.
The "Top Five" club saw
@Spotter22 replace both
@antman12 and
@ToyYoda in the fifth place spot when his long shot pick, Carson Hocevar, brought it home in eighth place.
Currently the hottest player in the game,
@Spotter22 has picked a driver with a Top 10 finish in seven of the last eight races, enabling his movement from 24th to 5th place in the standings.
Additional congratulations to
@Biggreen695 who has used his picks of a Top 5 finishing driver in each of the last three races to take over the top spot in the standings for the second time this season.
Finally, the "Wiping Up the Rear" award is hereby presented to the only two-time champions of the Pick 'Em game,
@Head423 and
@Jorge De Guzman, thanks to the last place finish of their pick, Josh Berry.