BG March Madness Tournament Challenge

[Byrd]

It's that time of year again, when work place productivity falls to zero.

BG's third annual March Madness challenge is starting, on ESPN.com.

Front page is: ESPN - Tournament Challenge - Game Home

Go there, the group name is Bluegartr.

Password is: zonadontbelong

Try to incorporate your BG login into your team name somehow so we know who the hell you are. You will need to sign up for ESPN.com if you haven't previously, but it's free and you can set up everything so that you don't receive junk mail. I wouldn't go in with a dummy e-mail because there are grand prizes for the best entries across all 100,000 entries or whatever. Only prize for winning the BG contest is bragging rights, +1" to your e-peen and your name on the list below.

Picks are up and ready to be made.

If you have any problems getting signed up or registered, send me a PM and I'll get it taken care of.

EDIT: One entry per person in the group, please.

2006 Bowl Pick Em: Makaveli
2006 BG Fantasy Football: Thuggy
2007 March Madness: Byrd
2007 College Football Pick Em: Ryany
2007 Bowl Pick Em: Akiyama
2008 NFL Gridiron Playoff Challenge: Tyr
2008 March Madness: Snoogans
2008 College Pick Em: Byrd
2008 Eliminator: Byrd
2008 Pigskin Pick Em: Weltall
2008 Bowl Pick Em: Laguna
2009 NFL Gridiron Playoff Challenge: Sekaran
2009 Super (Bowl) Pick Em: Stiker

[Tyche]

Trying to make the chalk bracket, but I dunno if UNC or Pitt was the 2nd #1.

[Akiyama]

Trying to make the chalk bracket, but I dunno if UNC or Pitt was the 2nd #1.

I believe UNC was the third #1 seed.

[Olo401]

Funny thing.. you can get Huskies vs. Huskies & Tigers vs. Tigers in the West Region round of 16.

[sekaran]

In.

[Vade]

in. texas A&M national champions!

[volcanicweather]

in... go gophers!!

[Stiker]

I'm in as well. Go Iris---wait a sec, we went from pre-season top 10 to NIT. Damn... ; ;

Edit: btw, I was too lazy to put my BG name on my bracket. I'm "Brey's Unused Ties".

[Byrd]

Slightly less than 24 hours left to enter. We've got 36 entries, which is a BG record, I believe. Let's see if we can hit 40.

As a reminder, if I'm reading the group listing correctly, BarthelloSylph and Plow have not picked their entries yet.

Btw, Barack Obama's entry is here: ESPN - Tournament Challenge - President Obama's Entry

[Olo401]

His picks are HORRIBLE.. no real upsets, and there's no way UNC beats Pitt even if they maange to get past Zaga OR 'Cuse.

At least he didn't pick Arizona.. I'd lose all faith in the guy if he did that.

[Kyo]

My entry looks alot like his, a few small diffrent changes, I had WV coming out of the East tho.

[Plow]

wtf @ having to do it all at one time, I thought I'd saved it with the first 2 rounds done and went back to finish and it's all cleared off ><

[Akiyama]

Haha. It's always been like that. Once game 1 starts, it's locked through the whole tourney, or else picking the latter rounds would be pretty darned easy. I hope to at least finish Top 10.

[Kyo]

You missunderstand what he meant aki, he did first two rounds and saved it, was going to complete it later, brackets dont lock down till noon est so he has plenty time.

[Boyiee]

It says next to the button you cant submit till the entire thing is finished...

[Byrd]

A big fat "Congratulations" goes to Mr. W for winning this bracket contest. +1 E-Peen to him.

Interesting tidbits: Nobody had more than two teams right in the final 4, and nobody had the national championship game right. Mr. W already had this thing clinched after Saturday's game -- nobody had Michigan State winning the whole thing, not even the Spartan homers. Mr. W beat all the other UNC championship entries largely based on the fact that he got 14 of the Sweet 16 right, and 7 of the 8 Elite Eight. That was the big difference between him and everyone else. Also, every single person who picked UNC to win the whole thing finished ahead of every single person who picked any other team. The difference between the worst UNC pick (Kyo) and the best anyone else pick (Tyche and Skurlover) was 110 points.

Second place was a tie between Sekaran and "ras1".

BG Sports Champions:

2006 Bowl Pick Em: Makaveli
2006 BG Fantasy Football: Thuggy
2007 March Madness: Byrd
2007 College Football Pick Em: Ryany
2007 Bowl Pick Em: Akiyama
2008 NFL Gridiron Playoff Challenge: Tyr
2008 March Madness: Snoogans
2008 College Pick Em: Byrd
2008 Eliminator: Byrd
2008 Pigskin Pick Em: Weltall
2008 Bowl Pick Em: Laguna
2009 NFL Gridiron Playoff Challenge: Sekaran
2009 Super (Bowl) Pick Em: Stiker
2009 March Madness: MrW

Now it's time for a 4-5 month break until football season comes around again.

[Mizango]

MrW did it! Congrats man. But I must warn you, the NFL one is mine this year.

A North Carolina win is a win for me!

[Tyche]

Too many points are awarded for picking the champion. Everyone who picked UNC to win took 1-10th place. Noone who picked UNC is out of the Top 10. I've got the highest score of someone who didn't pick UNC =/

[Akiyama]

Grats Mr. W

I continue to fucking suck at bracketology. Needs more College Football for me to do well again. D:

[recuperi]

Why is my name missing from last year's fantasy football? D:

I think I just need to stick to that type of thing. I failed badly in the Gridiron Playoff challenge and then almost all my teams were gone before the Elite Eight this year