{"id":4200,"date":"2026-03-12T15:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runninghottakes.com\/?p=4200"},"modified":"2026-03-12T15:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:33:19","slug":"2026-u-sports-track-and-field-prediction-contest-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runninghottakes.com\/?p=4200","title":{"rendered":"2026 U SPORTS Track and Field Prediction Contest Results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>*Official* results for the 2026 U SPORTS Track and Field Prediction Contest are in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We had some stat corrections due to U SPORTS rules that dictate 600m runners who miss the final do not score points, and that athletes who DQ or DNF in a final do not score points. Miraculously, we reviewed our previous T&amp;F prediction contests and found that factoring these rules into the scoring would not have changed the top 3 in the contests for those years. Phew.<br><br>Congrats to Purndog, GlizzyGobby, and Gaels101. Air Blair just misses the top 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/runninghottakes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2026-usportsTF-resultsSummary.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/runninghottakes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2026-usportsTF-resultsSummary.pdf\">Results Summary<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1Hlu33xcdnxlueH21tuiYNOtAlDYVzy9INKQ9bFuY5Q4\/edit?usp=sharing\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1Hlu33xcdnxlueH21tuiYNOtAlDYVzy9INKQ9bFuY5Q4\/edit?usp=sharing\">Full Results<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Name creativity shoutouts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>GlizzyGobby (2nd place too \ud83d\ude2e)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dalhousie FTW Dan lord<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To be or not Tobi<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Boumster (needed to go all caps though)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Waterwaterwater (would have been better if another registrant used &#8220;loolooloo&#8221;)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Freddy Beach Freakoff<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gunning for Third (respect)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>John Pork<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>X didn&#8217;t give it to ya<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>D-Nastyville (perennial fav)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sphaghettilover45<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>yogurt boy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>KneeMan (should write superhero comics about yogurt boy and KneeMan)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sir Michael Janet Joyce Joseph (good name but DFL unfortunately)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Official* results for the 2026 U SPORTS Track and Field Prediction Contest are in. We had some stat corrections due to U SPORTS rules that dictate 600m runners who miss the final do not score points, and that athletes who DQ or DNF in a final do not score points. Miraculously, we reviewed our previous<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"more-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link button\" href=\"https:\/\/runninghottakes.com\/?p=4200\">Continue reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prediction-contests","category-u-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runninghottakes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runninghottakes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runninghottakes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runninghottakes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runninghottakes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runninghottakes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4205,"href":"https:\/\/runninghottakes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200\/revisions\/4205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runninghottakes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runninghottakes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runninghottakes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runninghottakes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}