Cheaters never win. Unless they cheat well. What does that have to do with our fantasy league? Maybe nothing.

For the last time this season, you can see the full player popularity rankings here: Purple Rock Pick-4 Fantasy Teams

Individual scoring

Shockingly thin scoring for a finale.

Chrissy gets 8 points for two immunity wins.

Chrissy gets an additional 2 points for individual reward win, because I’m being generous and it won’t affect the top of the standings anyway.

Ben gets 3 points for finding the immunity idol. He gets an additional 4 points for playing it correctly.

Devon- and only Devon- gets 2 VTEP points. That’s right, only 2 VTEP points for the entire finale. Very odd.

Ben gets 10 points for the five votes he got at final tribal. Chrissy gets 4 points for the two votes she got. Ryan gets 2 points because Devon is far too generous.

Pick-4 League

In a conclusion that’s not at all suspicious, BBB wins the league by a single point. Icy Truth and Survivor Central tie for second place, just a single point behind. Bamboozled and my real-life actual human friend FriendChooser round out the top five. But just to let her linger in suspense, I’m not going to text her to let her know where she finished. She can click on the spreadsheet link and find her results just like the rest of you.

Diego Armando, despite coming into the finale with a completely intact team, finishes in 9th place. That puts him one spot ahead of TheForRealDeal, who despite sporting an avatar of The Cheat did not seem to cheat. Longtime fantasy leaguer DoctorWu33 finishes in 15th place, three spots ahead of me. Dezbot and rookie commenter Star Z just barely crack into the top 25.

And now for the fun part: Champions League invitations. Per the always-reliable Redmond at Inside Survivor, next season’s cast features 20 players. That means 10 Champions League spots are available. Four of those spots will go to the top four finishers in this season’s Champions League. One of those spots will go to the winner of Outcasts League. And at least four of those spots will go to the top four finishers in the Pick-4 league. Unless, of course, one of them violated Rule #1 of our fantasy league: “Don’t be a dick.” (In layman’s terms, this means don’t play in our league if you’re spoiled.) If I were to find evidence of such, that person’s Champions League invitation would be revoked and instead offered to the next-highest eligible score.

“Eligible score?”, you ask? Well, surely you remember this from this season’s fantasy draft post:

What if I forget/don’t bother to give some indication of my Disqus or Twitter name in my team name? 

That’s cool. But you won’t be eligible for Champions League.

Someone did create a Disqus account with the name Icy Truth (our second place finisher) and post here last week, but the committee is going to review if that person will still be eligible. Bamboozled, our fourth place finisher, has never posted here under that name. So until the committee decides on Icy Truth’s eligibility, that means only three Champions League invitations are being extended right now: BBB, Survivor Central, and…my real life human friend Friend Chooser! If your team finished in the top 10 (and you have an already-established Disqus account with that name), please post in the comments so I can send you a notification of when it’s time to draft for next season.

If you missed out on Champions League- and that’s most of you- you might be able to land an invite to next season’s Outcasts league. If you pay close attention, the path to finding a possible invite has already been laid out for you.

Champions and Outcasts Leagues

Holy shit. I’m too lazy to check right now, but XL Pelican’s 99 points might be an all-time record. Congrats to XL Pelican, this season’s league champion. He’ll be joined in next season’s league by Jersey Luck, DrVanNostrand, and PurpleTally- who despite having the word purple in her name is not a part of the PRP staff. That means next season’s Champions League will likely have no PRP staff in it for the first time. I’m fairly confident I can reach all four of you to notify you of next season’s draft, but if you want to drop a comment on this post that would be useful for laziness purposes.

			Player points
	Team		Pick 1		Pick 2
1	XL Pelican	99	Ben	64	Joe	35
2	jersey_luck	75	Chrissy	51	JP	24
3	DrVanNostrand	65	Devon	30	Ashley	35
4	Purple Tally	60	Jessica	24	Lauren	36
5	Purple Rock Mark	43	Alan	7	Mike	36
6	corndogshuffle	38	Ryan	30	Ali	8
7	Barbara Anderson	33	Cole	32	Katrina	1
8	jaredholland32	26	Patrick	3	Desi	23
9	Mike Hirsch	13	Simone	2	Roark	11

Oh wait! I forgot about the no-longer-cancelled Outcasts League! I can’t believe it finally happened, but longtime Outcasts League commissioner Matt has finally won the league he runs! Despite scoring just 67 points, he managed to narrowly edge out Final Boss Emma by just one point to take the crown. Blurry Denzel and I finished tied for third, despite a late rally by Chrissy that almost let Ms Sweaterfan tie our score.

So let’s all extend our heartiest congratulations to Matt, who we can all agree won the Outcasts League. I’d also like to congratulate every player that participated in Outcasts this season. Except Saturday Night Palsy. Fuck that guy.

			Player points
	Team		Pick 1		Pick 2
1	Saturday Night Palsy	94	Ryan	30	Ben	64
2	Purple Rock Matt	67	Cole	32	Ashley	35
3	Purple Rock Emma	66	Devon	30	Mike	36
4	Purple Rock John	59	Joe	35	JP	24
4	Blurry Denzel	59	Desi	23	Lauren	36
6	Ms. Sweaterfan	54	Chrissy	51	Patrick	3
7	EmAndScoutInBK	26	Jessica	24	Simone	2
8	Taako from Teevhi	15	Alan	7	Ali	8
9	Storm of Cuteness	12	Roark	11	Katrina	1

Other leagues

We allowed people to do their own draft-based leagues again this season, because drafts are fun. You can find the results of those leagues here (click the tabs at the bottom to switch to see the other leagues): PRP fantasy leagues.