Mike Palm, VP of Circa Sports, went on VSiN’s “The Football Contest Show” at 5 p.m. PT and gave us our headline.
He pointed out that out of the 2,685 Circa Survivor contestants who navigated the minefield of NFL Week 1 when 56.2 percent of the original 6,133-entry field were one-and-done, 21 entries weren’t submitted for Week 2 and were also eliminated.
For those who don’t know, Circa Survivor is a single-elimination-type contest (also known as Last Man Standing, King of the Hill, etc.) where contestants pick one NFL team a week to win a game straight-up and can’t use the same team twice during the season. The Circa Survivor version cost $1,000 to enter and drew a Las Vegas football record 6,133 entries this year, exceeding the $6 million guarantee by Circa owner Derek Stevens.
Of the entrants who did submit their picks this week, the Broncos were the No. 1 choice by 869 of those. The Broncos are 10-point home favorites vs. the Texans on Sunday, but, again, in this contest they just have to win the game (note: ties count as losses in this contest as some people learned last week when the Colts and Texans played to a 20-20 tie).