November 2, 2011

New Home

Greetings, all!

So, a funny thing happened this morning. Well, not funny so much, but interesting. Well, interesting to me. Okay, not that interesting. Long story short, I've decided to go all Qwikster on you and divorce the Top Chef Power Rankings from Skillet Doux. Sort of. As you can see, it's easy enough to flip back and forth between the two. But with the switch between Top Chef season and not Top Chef season, Skillet Doux was starting to feel kind of bipolar. So for my own sanity, I've opted to keep them separate. From here on out, I'll do all of the Top Chef stuff here, while keeping Skillet Doux focused on the food.

This was kind of a last-moment (read: eight hours ago) decision, so things are still a little messy. Over the next couple of weeks, I'll still be tidying things up, possibly migrating all of the old Top Chef content over here (if I can maintain the legacy links... need to figure that one out), working up a new archive, etc. etc. And in the interim, if anybody catches any funny bugs, a quick comment on this post would be greatly appreciated.

I think this is the best way to do it. There have been many times I hesitated to do things with the Power Rankings because I felt like I was making a mess of Skillet Doux. No more! At least that's the theory. We'll see how it works out in practice. In the meantime, we have a premiere to check out... see you all for the postmortem!

September 2, 2009

Top Oddsmaker

So I'm clicking through some referral traffic, which I do (obsessively), and I come across this:

Top Chef Vegas Odds

So let me get this straight... I can win money handicapping Top Chef and NOBODY TOLD ME?!?!?

Look at my preseason and current top four (coincidentally, now Vegas' top four):

Opening Line Current
Michael V. 11/1 7/2
Jennifer C. 20/1 9/2
Kevin 8/1 5/1
Bryan 15/1 6/1

$100 on each at the outset of the season, and a win from any of the four would have earned me anywhere from $800 to $2000.

That's it. I'm going to Vegas before next season starts.

UPDATE : Ah, it's purely promotional (Wynn's Bookmaker Sets Odds On Top Chef Las Vegas Contestants). You're all off the hook. And my get rich quick scheme is dashed. (Thanks, Dave)