It Is Done........ Round 1

Yes indeed March Madness Round 1 is done, but more importantly, twas a beautiful morning today in Sitges....

Beautiful more so as the the Hopski Spanish HQ has been repurchased, successfully Reversing the Curse!!  

Much as the trade of the Bambino haunted the Sox so many years, the sale of the Sitges HQ in 2019 has haunted the Commish, with no top 10 Hopski finishes since!  Oh yeah - there was that other haunting by my better half - but that is all done now (for atleast a few days anyway!).....

Because as my wife wrote yesterday - WE ARE BACK BABY!!!!!

THUS, ON TO THE LEADERBOARD!!!

Taking the top of the leaderboard is Taco Trader (The 2013 Hopski Champion David Miller of Muscle Shoals, Alabama), picking 28 out of 32 first round winners, including the big upset points from High Point and VCU!

Kudos as well to Bay area residents in a tie for 2nd - The Portal Did This To Me (Jacob Kivett, a Palo Alto Dad and friend as well as a Florida alum - yeah - pretty much "A Florida Man" himself!  Also took 2nd in the 2018 Hopski) alongside Wish I Was in Sitges (Jay Baum the 2012 Hopski Champion).

A SPECIAL SHOUT OUT is due to 2024 Hopski Champion and Menlo Park resident Mark Iantosca - one that is impossible to overlook (well unless you don't look all the way to the bottom of the standings report!).  Talk about a slow start out of the gates, as not just one but both of his entries are at the bottom of the standings in 140th and 141st place (Qhubert- great creativity - love this one Mark! and The Russian Judge)!!!

Gotta run for now and this will likely be the lasts update until I get out of Sitges on Tuesday morning, as quite a few things to deal with here (like what the heck are we doing with this place for the next 4 years and oh - btw - anyone want to take a year or two sabatical?).  

So most likely the next update will be from the flight home or Wednesday after some pickleball.

Get your entry fees paid and enjoy the Madness!

The Commish