Circa Sports Million 2020-Week 5 (leaderboard Tuesday, lines Thursday, consensus picks Saturday)

[DaveTuley]

Dave Tuley @ViewFromVegas
#CircaSportsMillion Top 5 went 5-0 in #NFL Week 5 (now 16-9, 64%, on season) w/ PIT -7, CLE +1, MIA +9, MIN +7 & CAR +2; #CircaSurvivor No. 1 choice was SF as 169 were eliminated; 46 also went out with KC while 32 just avoided elimination with SEA @CircaSports @VSiNLive

[DaveTuley]

[DaveTuley]

Circa Sports Million II, which a $1,000 entry fee, drew an unbelievable 3,148 entries, outdrawing the 1,172 in the SuperContest and is the second-most entries ever for a high-end Vegas football handicapping contest behind last year's 3,328 in the SuperContest. All this came in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic that kept a lot of people from coming to Vegas to sign up in person especially as casinos were closed from March 18 through June 3. Here's my story at VSiN.com on how Circa Sports accomplished the feat: https://www.vsin.com/circa-sports-mi...just-2nd-year/

The inaugural Circa Survivor (also $1,000, and players make one straight-up pick a week and can't use the same team twice) drew 1,390 entries and the winner-take-all prize will be $1.39 million.

SUNNYSANDIEGO-1 went 5-0 in Week 4 to finish the 1st Quarter at 18-1-1 and win the $187,000 prize along with a hotel stay at the grand opening of the Circa Resort & Casino in downtown Las Vegas in December. ODBMG-2 & Red Chip Mafia-2 both went 17-3 to win $50,000 apiece as they split the $75,000 2nd-place & $25,000 3rd-place prizes; ODBMG-2 would have had 2nd place to itself if Falcons +7.5 cashed on #MNF; also of note, ODBMG-2 won the $100,000 1st Quarter prize in the Westgate SuperContest.

The Circa Sports Million Top 5 Most-Selected Teams went 3-2 in Week 4 to improve to 11-9 on the young season. Here is the leaderboard after four weeks and heading into 2nd Quarter for Week 5-8:

1ST PLACE, 18-1-1
SUNNYSANDIEGO-1

TIED FOR 2ND, 17-3
ODBMG-2
Red Chip Mafia-2

4TH AT 16-3-1
Aaron White-1

11-WAY TIE FOR 5TH, 16-4
ODBMG-1
CHICKENDINNER-1
AUGIE DAWG-3
Marphil-1
BALD RAZORS-1
StevenVegas-1
Shoots & Scores-1
Sting-2
PRESENCE-1
Carolina Saints-1
Sheila's Boys-1


In Circa Survivor, only 35 entrants were eliminated in Week 5 (most on 49ers with 28) with mostly chalky week, so 640 remain.