Nothing like a little friendly competition among colleagues and friends to spice up Saturday’s World 100 heat races. DirtonDirt and FloRacing writers Kevin Kovac, Kyle McFadden and Todd Turner predict 18 drivers to transfer from the six prelims.

Our point system: One point per transferring drivers with bonus points for picking winners and for picking all three transfers (maximum of five points per heat and 30 points overall).

This could be interesting. There’s no consensus in any heat and no prognosticator chose a driver to transfer from beyond the third row (deep-starting drivers can lodge their complaints now).

Here are the picks with a brief comment on each heat:

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Kevin Kovac’s Heat Picks

First heat: Nick Hoffman, Bobby Pierce, Mike Marlar (Hoffman flexes his muscle immediately, beating Pierce to the front).
Second heat: Ethan Dotson, Zack Mitchell, Brandon Sheppard (Dotson 2-for-2 in World 100 qualifications).
Third heat: Dale McDowell, Tim McCreadie, Hudson O’Neal (McDowell’s speed makes him second winner from sixth).
Fourth heat: Tyler Erb, Chris Madden, Jason Jameson (Cory Hedgecock falls just short, but gets break with high-points provisional).
Fifth heat: Jonathan Davenport, Josh Rice, Devin Moran (Davenport too much for the competition from fourth starting spot).
Sixth heat: Jimmy Owens, Ricky Thornton Jr., Garrett Alberson (Jordan Koehler nearly gives Koehler Motorsports a transfer-spot sweep).

Kyle McFadden’s Heat Picks

First heat: Bobby Pierce, Nick Hoffman, Mike Marlar (most drivers dread first heat because it’s hard to pass, but Pierce embraces juiced-up track conditions to win from fifth).
Second heat: Joseph Joiner, Brandon Sheppard, Gregg Satterlee (Joiner takes advantage of clean air to keep hard-charging Sheppard and Satterlee behind in a Rocket Chassis 1-2-3 finish).
Third heat: Brian Shirley, Hudson O’Neal, Dale McDowell (Shirley gets going quicker than Dennis Erb Jr., who slips out of transfer while O’Neal and McDowell claw their way from third row).
Fourth heat: Garrett Smith, Chris Madden, Tyler Erb (an underrated driver at the Big E with two career Eldora crown jewel top-10s, Smith runs away from the pole as Madden drives from fifth-to-second).
Fifth heat: Jonathan Davenport, Josh Rice, Devin Moran (Davenport from the second row too much to handle while throttle-mashers Rice and Moran are aggressive enough to transfer).
Sixth heat: Ricky Thornton Jr., Ryan Gustin, Garrett Alberson (Liking his car in heat action this week, RTJ drives past his Koehler teammates for the victory as Gustin hangs to transfer with Alberson sneaking in from sixth).

Todd Turner Heat Picks

First heat: Bobby Pierce, Mike Marlar, Nick Hoffman (A good start by outside front-row starter Brandon Overton might may make me regret this).
Second heat: Ethan Dotson, Brandon Sheppard, Zack Mitchell (Baltes Classic winner Kyle Bronson from 10th? I don’t see it).
Third heat: Dale McDowell, Hudson O’Neal, Tim McCreadie (McDowell has proven he doesn’t need a ton of laps to go forward).
Fourth heat: Cory Hedgecock, Chris Madden, Michael Chilton (Overlooking front row of Garrett Smith and Tyler Erb at my own peril).
Fifth heat: Jonathan Davenport, Josh Rice, Devin Moran (J.D. taking the checkers first a familiar site this weekend — and this might not be the last time).
Sixth heat: Ricky Thornton Jr., Jimmy Owens, Ryan Gustin (Garrett Alberson and his throwback scheme likeliest to spoil my predictions).