Frogs O’ War Survivor Pool: Champion

Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty ImagesThe most brutal single elimination tournament in all of sports came to a close last week, as Boilerup was crowned One True Champion of our Survivor Pool, taking down Lara Harris in a winner-take-all props contest during the National Championship. We don’t need to acknowledge the result of the actual basketball game that took place (and perhaps that’s why it took so long for me to publish these results), but let’s take a quick look back at how these two contenders reached the pinnacle and how Boilerup ended up as our Champion:

The finalists’ picks to survive to the Championship GameBoth finalists employed the strategy of saving the top teams for later rounds,…