WEEK 9: Halfway There - Heartbreaks, Heroes & New Beginnings
11-04-2025
Q2 WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Three people locked in first place: JACEJESSE3212, POTATO KMISH, and WHISKEYRISKY & FRISKY, each scored 21 points. They each walked away with $83,333.
Tough luck to 1EYEDKING, who was riding high last week but couldn’t seal it this time. That’s the beauty of quarterly standings though: reset, refresh, reload. Q3 kicks off next week so get your mind right.
WCP CLIENTS ON THE RISE
Our guys are holding it down. TheMind97, one of our own, is tied for 2nd place in the full-season Circa Millions standings. He placed 9th in Q2, not high enough for a prize, but legit positioning. Keep grinding, we see you.
Also: ALATOS, FIVE ALIVE, MCKINKLEY22, and SVIK’S PICKX are all tied for 6th place overall. All WCP clients. We’re rooting for you hard.
SURVIVOR POOL SHOCKS
About 13% of the Circa Survivor pool went down this week, and the Packers did most of the damage. Around 12.8% of entries were wiped after Green Bay’s shocking loss to Carolina.
The Packers came in favored against the Panthers but looked flat all game. Jordan Love threw for 273 yards but couldn’t find the end zone, and Carolina’s defense kept the pressure on. The Panthers’ ground game, led by Rico Dowdle’s 130 yards and two touchdowns, chewed up clock and confidence. And just when it looked like overtime was coming, Ryan Fitzgerald drilled a 49-yard field goal as time expired to hand Green Bay a 16-13 loss.
BLUE JAYS HEARTBREAK
I can’t end this blog without talking about the elephant in the room. Toronto sports fans got crushed again. The Blue Jays’ magical run ended in Game 7 of the World Series against the Dodgers, and I don’t think anyone in this city has fully recovered yet.
Toronto came out swinging, Bo Bichette’s three-run homer in the third had the city buzzing and the dome shaking. It finally felt like the curse was lifting. But as every Jays fan knows, the baseball gods can be cruel. The Dodgers slowly chipped away, and when Miguel Rojas launched a game-tying homer in the ninth, you could feel every Toronto heart drop at once. By the eleventh, Will Smith’s go-ahead blast sealed it for L.A. It was actually the kind of gut-punch that left me staring at the screen in silence.
I was actually at Game 6 of the World Series, and walking out that night, even after a loss, there was still hope, that thrill of “we get one more shot tomorrow.” But Game 7 was the one that broke us. The Jays stranded runners, the bats went cold at the wrong time, and suddenly the dream was over. Still, for the first time in a long time, Toronto baseball felt alive. We may not have the trophy, but we’ve got the fire and I am so proud of us. On the bright side now that baseball is over football can have my utmost attention.
HALFTIME OF THE SEASON
We’re halfway through the NFL year, Q3 of Circa Millions starts next week, and Survivor pools are thinning by the minute. The grind doesn’t stop, and if Week 9 taught us anything, it’s that no pick is safe, no lead is guaranteed, and no fan base loves harder through heartbreak than Toronto.
See you in Week 10.