Madness Remix Bracket Challenge

Official home of the Madness Remix Bracket Challenge contest hosted by @Joe_Sobczyk. The upgrade to traditional bracket challenges that March Madness deserves.

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March Madness is the best time of year, but I got tired of traditional bracket challenges where the scoring places too little emphasis on the first few rounds and too much on the later rounds, so I created a unique scoring system to combat those issues: 🧵

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One participant chose NC State to make the Elite 8, however, they did not select them as one of their Cinderella teams.

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Only 6 teams remain who were picked to win it all:

UConn
Houston
Purdue
Tennessee
Illinois
Creighton

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Marquette goes down, marking the 4th team in the Sweet 16 to lose who were predicted to win the whole thing by participant(s) of this bracket challenge joining Arizona, Iowa State, and North Carolina.

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Apologies for the late post, but pictured below is the number of brackets that selected each team to win in the Second Round:

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Down goes Auburn!

Auburn was the 2nd team to lose that was picked to win the title in this pool. Below is the number (out of 64) of participants who chose Auburn to advance to each round:

2nd round: 58
Sweet 16: 48
Elite 8: 10
Final 4: 8
Championship: 5
Champion: 2

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4 years, 0 wins for the most popular annual Cinderella pick.

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In the first 3 years of this bracket challenge, the most commonly chosen Cinderella team lost in the first round.

New Mexico is down 7 early in the first half.

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In the first 3 years of this bracket challenge, the most commonly chosen Cinderella team lost in the first round.

New Mexico is down 7 early in the first half.

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Pictured below are the Cinderella team selections. In this bracket pool, participants earn 2x points for every game they correctly predict from their chosen Cinderella teams. In year's past, the most common Cinderella teams chosen have not fared well in the first round.

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Bump for day 2.

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Pictured below are the first round predictions from the 64 brackets we received. 55(!) submissions had 11 seed New Mexico over 6 seed Clemson. New Mexico is a slight favorite to win the game, so it wouldn't be quite the upset the seed lines would make seem.

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McNeese State was chosen as a Cinderella team in 20 of the 64 submissions (2nd most) and were never in the game against Gonzaga. We’ll see if New Mexico fared any better tomorrow.

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Pictured below are the Cinderella team selections. In this bracket pool, participants earn 2x points for every game they correctly predict from their chosen Cinderella teams. In year's past, the most common Cinderella teams chosen have not fared well in the first round.

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Down goes Kentucky!

Kentucky was the first team to lose that was picked to win the title in this pool. Below is the number (out of 64) of participants who chose UK to advance to each round:

2nd round: 59
Sweet 16: 41
Elite 8: 27
Final 4: 15
Championship: 7
Champion: 3

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All they have to do is change the name to Joe Lunardi to master realism.

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6 completed games and only 4 perfect brackets remain in this bracket pool!

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2 lower seeded teams win the first 2 games of the tournament.

This pool is down to 6 perfect brackets after Duquesne’s win over BYU.

1 participant selected Duquesne as a Cinderella team and earned 2x points for their win.

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41 out of 64 perfect brackets remain after Michigan State’s win over Mississippi State.

The 9 participants who chose Michigan State as their Cinderella team earned 2x points.

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Pictured below is the predictions for each of the top 4 seeds from our pool. For example, all 64 participants chose UConn to make it to Round 2 and the Sweet 16, 52 to make the Elite 8, 40 to the Final 4, 31 to the Championship, and 24 to be the Champion.

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Pictured below are the Cinderella team selections. In this bracket pool, participants earn 2x points for every game they correctly predict from their chosen Cinderella teams. In year's past, the most common Cinderella teams chosen have not fared well in the first round.

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Pictured below are the champion predictions from our bracket pool. There were 12 different teams chosen to cut down the nets, with UConn being the clear favorite according to our pool (and everyone else).

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Pictured below are the first round predictions from the 64 brackets we received. 55(!) submissions had 11 seed New Mexico over 6 seed Clemson. New Mexico is a slight favorite to win the game, so it wouldn't be quite the upset the seed lines would make seem.

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The tournament is about to begin and the Scoring Sheet has been sent out to all participants.

64 brackets were submitted this year. Thanks to everyone for participating and especially those with referrals!

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Selection Sunday is here!

If you��re looking for a unique bracket challenge, look no further. Take a look at the thread below for information on the scoring system, and feel free to let me know if you’re interested in participating and I will send you more details.

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March Madness is the best time of year, but I got tired of traditional bracket challenges where the scoring places too little emphasis on the first few rounds and too much on the later rounds, so I created a unique scoring system to combat those issues: 🧵