1st annual .Org March Madness Challenge

[GeneralHankerchief]

With Selection Sunday and the dawn of the NCAA Division I-A Men's Basketball Tournament (also known as the college basketball playoffs) bearing down on us, I wonder how many Orgahs are college basketball fans and, more importantly, how many fill out March Madness brackets.

I am willing to run a competition between Orgahs and crown the winner King of the Brackets. This will work like any office pool. You will fill out your bracket and PM it to me by a certain date (most likely Wednesday). Depending on the round number, I'll assign a certain amount of points for every victory you correctly predict, and post the standings after every round.

Detailed rules are below. If you are interested, please post. I'm not going to do it if I don't get more than a few people.

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Bracket:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Filling out and sending the bracket:

You can do this however you want; however, it has to get to me by the due time (TBD).

My suggestion is to copy it to Paint or a similar program. Select the area around the school you think will move on and paste it into the next space. Repeat as necessary.

Once your bracket is done, upload the image to your hoster of choice (if you don't have one, I suggest Photobucket) and PM it to me. Your brackets will remain private until after the deadline has passed, in which time I will be posting all of them into the second post of this thread for all to see.

Scoring:

The scoring system is as follows:

• 1st round and play-in game: 1 point
• 2nd round: 2 points
• 3rd round (Sweet Sixteen/Regional semis): 4 points
• 4th round: (Elite Eight/Regional finals): 8 points
• 5th round: (Final Four/national semis): 12 points
• 6th round (National championship): 16 points

Tiebreakers will be total points scored in the national championship game. If you forget to put it in your inital bracket, no biggie. If you're still in the running when the time comes I'll ask you for your prediction.

How to win:

Get the most points.

The winner will only receive bragging rights, unless some twisted mind in the .Org hierarchy wants to give out a badge for this. I'll be playing too.

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Remember, if you're interested, post here. I want to gauge how many players we're going to have.

Good luck to all!