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Announcing the First Annual Lost City Knits NCAA Basketball Tournament Pool! Yes, March Madness hits Lost City, too, but here it should be called March MadKnits.
Anyone who is interested in yarn is welcome to enter, because we’re going to pony up winner’s choice of a skein of our PathWays Sock Yarn, Oak Barn Merino Lace, or Lost City Silk. Silk? Yeah, you can choose silk if you win. ESPN does not let you win silk.
We have a dedicated website to keep track of scores, which can be found at www.pickhoops.com/lostcityknits. It’s an easy website to navigate, even if you’ve never entered a pool before. You can sign up anytime using the password lostcityknits when prompted. There isn’t much to do there right now because the official brackets won’t be decided until Sunday night. So right now you can sign up, design your jersey, and take the meaningless polls I spent too much time on this morning. There’s already some trash talk going on. Get in on that, too.
Then on Monday pick up a newspaper for the scoop on possible upsets, read up a little (or not at all) and fill out your bracket online. Be sure and pick some upsets. A fair amount of higher seeds always lose, and that uncertainty is the beauty of the tournament pool. You can choose based on your intimate knowledge of college hoops, three point shooting statistics, a coach’s reputation, geographical loyalties, mascot preference, or jersey color. It doesn’t matter. OK, it matters a little, but anyone can lose at any time.
Denise and I are leaving early next week for a road trip to New York City to visit our daughter Hillarey, so we’ll be updating from the road for the first weekend of the tournament.
Now let’s get out there and have a safe pool. And remember…through the hole, around the needle, onto the other needle…nothing but knit.
Chris
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