DFS Tournament Report: Live Finals Qualifiers Review for Weeks 5 and 6

Another two weeks of qualifiers saw plenty more big names winning seats including aejones, CONDIA, DraftCheat, reigning TPOY ehafner, former TPOY winner McJester, and top 5 ranked Grinder youdacao. RotoGrinders.com was again represented with analysts BigT444 and cjhopkins07 winning seats as well as co-founder GrindersCam.

Here’s a quick review of those who have qualified along with a peek at a few of the winning lineups:

DraftKings Fantasy Football World Championship (FFWC)

Defending champion in this event aejones will be returning to defend his title as he took down a seat this past two weeks. He’s joined by other top ranked Grinders like CONDIA, DraftCheat, ehafner, and RotoMania. Escot4 was featured in the documentary, A Perfect Lineup, and he’ll have a shot to add to his previous live finals glory as he too has won a seat. Here’s a look at all of those who won seats the last two weeks as well as escot4’s winning lineup:

1ucror
aejones
ajv174
ARaven52
Backnine
bcalicore
cfrieder
CONDIA
DraftCheat
drafthero2015
ehafner
escot4
fairweatherfan
JBELL37
kidcanepa
KingDan
Kmilk2
loveai
NoaBoa
Rotomania
trucksenuf
underjones x2
wining247

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DraftKings King of the Beach Atlantis (KOTB)

The King of the Beach Atlantis is a unique event that will eventually see 50 people taking a trip down to the Bahamas and the Atlantis Resort. Until November 13th, DraftKings will be running weekly qualifiers for their online Round 1 event. Players may qualify up to five times and the 180 that do make it to Round 1 will battle it out on November 20th. The top 50 from that event will go to the live final two weeks later in the Bahamas. The past two weeks saw RotoGrinders.com co-founder Cameron MacMillan (aka GrindersCam on DK) win a seat to the Round 1 event. He will be joined by the likes of CSURAM88 and DraftCheat at that event. Here’s a look at all the players advancing and Cameron’s winning lineup from the two game primetime slate:

AndrewIPFW
Awesemo
Backnine x2
Batchisme
chase1197
cjack51
cjhopkins07
cldrumm683
CSURAM88
Diorio
DraftCheat
DUKEE69
dylan2207
feartheturtle7
flyingz
Frunkis30
FuegoSteve
GrindersCam
handman55
huff0711
huntersinclair
IslandBanker
jerb123
jlladner90
Kellybundyswag
Kmilk2
Mccready10
Muntradamus
nyjets070
pdparv
RotoHobo
Sillyhats
spadeking
TeamMG
ThatStunna
TomPapaGeorgio
wartluft_gary
wining247

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FanDuel World Fantasy Football Championship (WFFC)

RotoGrinders.com analyst BigT444 continues his insanely hot run as he took down two seats to the FanDuel WFFC. Yet more big names will join him including DraftCheat (whom if you didn’t notice had an insanely good week), mirage88, and one of our Wednesday Night GrindersLive personalities tipandpick who was one of five who won a seat in his contest. Tipandpick’s winning lineup and the rest of the winners follow:

bcalicore
BigT444 ×2
chripe01
crappieheel
crimasaad
ianj300
janxon007
mirage8888
neworleanssaints1991
oneistheloneliestnumber
philmasta
rlstang
tinderella
tipandpick
zrramba

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FanDuel Playboy Championship

More players were battling it out to go to Southern Cali and the Playboy Championship and 2014 TPOY Winner McJester is among the familiar faces that will be making that trip. He’s joined by top 5 ranked Grinder, youdacao (aka boourns) and a member of the RotoGrinders.com team, ihaveareputation (who dominated the FantasyDraft RG promotion the same week)

bidt1
boourns
chachang251
crimasaad1
ebreed44441
gameofderps1
gtsru351
ianj3001
ihaveareputation1
jersey161
joelb1
mcjester
nickdowns91
propersundays1

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About the Author

thehazyone
Aaron Hendrix (thehazyone)

Aaron Hendrix is a former professional poker player who made the transition from season long fantasy sports to DFS in October of 2014. He used to cover poker tournaments for a living until stepping into his current role at RotoGrinders. He can be found on Twitter at @aaronhendrix