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This Week In Fantasy: Pete Overzet Plays The Twitter Machine Masterfully And Other News (Fri 12/11)

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This Week In Fantasy: Pete Overzet Plays The Twitter Machine Masterfully And Other News (Fri 12/11)

Twitter is more than just a social media platform, but as much so a grand piano calibrated to the varying tunes of emotion in-the-moment, with every nuance of humor (intentional and not) reverberating across each interaction. The spectrum of characters known to play the niche instrument features a wide range of talent in countless subcategories, but daily fantasy having a universe of its own. 

From second-nature keystroke genius like a Stevie Wonder of sarcasm, all the way down to adult children banging on the keys to make malcontent noises, it can be found on Twitter. This week in fantasy we’ll pay admiration to the recent Twitter composition of daily fantasy’s own Pete Overzet, as he reenacted a Beethoven work of sorts via the Twitter machine. Also, some other stuff that happened in the realm of daily fantasy sports. 

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Pete OWNverzet Takes Twitter Levels Over 9000

Sometimes it’s hard for us to curb our “Look At Me” tendencies in life, as padding our egos will take precedence over bells of self-awareness squawking an Asshole Alert. But that’s quite alright, because the pianists of Twitter such as DFS analyst (and co-host to a number of daily fantasy shows) Pete Overzet put some paintballs in the Nerf cannon and kicked up the velocity a tad for old friend of the site, Chris Randone.

While tweeting tones can also be mistaken and sometimes, for better or worse, interpreted louder or more maliciously than was intended, there’s no question as to precisely how comical each layer of Pete’s tweets corresponding with Randone actually were here. And one of the nods to true orchestral Twitter talent is the ability of smashing a home run on paper without going into the stands to bat flip, so to speak.

Here’s how it began, with Overzet mentioning CNBC’s Jim Cramer and with Randone following with the taboo @-tagging:

Not the First DFS Pete Twitter Beef For Randone

Speaking of the Twitter galaxy: once-contestant of The Bachelorette and winner of Bachelor In Paradise, Chris Randone had a brief stint as co-host and contributor at Awesemo before taking a detour down the path of DFS Twitter tout wars with another Pete, better known by his DFS moniker ‘DraftCheat’ during his days as contributor at Elite Fantasy. Where the initial tiff began is a tad foggy but where it ended up was negotiating terms to a “televised” boxing match while sticking jabs at each other over their proclaimed training regiments.

The Twitter beef was never resolved and Randone took a hiatus from Twitter and other social media, citing personal reasons for stepping away. Randone went on to promote his involvement with ‘stonks’ (aka: stock market trading), a familiar stepping stone for other members of the DFS community. 

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Best Ball Round 2 Begins for NFL, Round 1 for NBA

As this God-forsakenly awful year known as 2020 comes to a close, the skewered pro sports schedule continues with the NBA already returning just two months after they wrapped up their 2019-20 Playoffs. Underdog is running an NBA Best Ball Championship (which Awesemo already has Targets, Sleepers, and Values posted for by Greg Ehrenberg), which will be interesting to see if the top dog competitors follow suit on.

Running concurrently are the NFL Best Ball Playoffs, as the regular season paid out their victors with tickets to the next round (or was it tickets and cash?) after a bit of a waiting period which, naturally, members of the community didn’t respond kindly to. Well, some.

NFL Best Ball has rapidly grown in popularity over the past two seasons, with adopters of the format multiplying each season and even adding mid-season drafts. 

LPGA’s First DFS Venture A Successful One

Thursday marked the debut of LPGA Golf DFS on DraftKings featuring the U.S. Women’s Open. Judging by the turnout in the number of entrants the venture was quite the success, with the $10 4,705-entry GPP tournament hitting capacity in the chase for $10K. Even the follow-up tournament posted ($10 entry for $5K top prize) nearly filled to the maximum number of entries, with 1,764 entries of just over 1,800 spots available for reservation.

The U.S. Women’s Open will play through the weekend with Round 3 contests on DraftKings teeing off early on Saturday morning with a 2 am Pacific lock time.

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