Arena Arena Bracket Challenge 2011

March Madness is upon us! The brackets are about to be set for this year's NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. And The Arena is going to have another bracket challenge ... and you can win colors and VIPship for a week!

Rather than having someone track all submitted brackets and leaving room for human error, we'll be using Yahoo.com to host a group for us. To participate, you'll need to not only sign-up in this thread, but you'll also need to sign up at yahoo for the group.

The winner of this challenge will be the user declared the winner of the Yahoo group. That user will enjoy one week of VIPship and custom colors.

The information you need at Yahoo Sports:

Group name: The Arena Bracket Challenge
Group ID#: 96777
Group Password: jcarena

http://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/t1/group/96777

To sign up here, please include the following on the sign-up list: Your JC ID, your yahoo username (that you use for this game), your pick set name. Please keep in mind that the TOS will still apply to things posted at the yahoo group.

Let's sign up ... add your information, and add as many spots as we need.

1. Rogue...Jedi | elenion13 | R...J's bracket
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(Oh, and I stole this post from Inty's two years ago and which I used last year )

 

1. Rogue...Jedi | elenion13 | R...J's bracket
2. DarthIntegral | DarthIntegral | More Talents Than South Beach
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Also as the "first round" (aka play-in) games are not included, the deadline for entry is before the first game on Thursday.

 

1. Rogue...Jedi | elenion13 | R...J's bracket
2. DarthIntegral | DarthIntegral | More Talents Than South Beach
3. JediGunship | Gunny | On the Bubble
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I literally flipped a coin for all of these so we'll see how that goes! (Given who the winner came up as I think I'm in trouble...)

1. Rogue...Jedi | elenion13 | R...J's bracket
2. DarthIntegral | DarthIntegral | More Talents Than South Beach
3. JediGunship | Gunny | On the Bubble
4. s65horsey | s65horsey | Coin Flip
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1. Rogue...Jedi | elenion13 | R...J's bracket
2. DarthIntegral | DarthIntegral | More Talents Than South Beach
3. JediGunship | Gunny | On the Bubble
4. s65horsey | s65horsey | Coin Flip
5. DMC | Lost47 | DMC's Wraiths of Madness
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1. Rogue...Jedi | elenion13 | R...J's bracket
2. DarthIntegral | DarthIntegral | More Talents Than South Beach
3. JediGunship | Gunny | On the Bubble
4. s65horsey | s65horsey | Coin Flip
5. DMC | Lost47 | DMC's Wraiths of Madness
6. Darth Dark Helmet | bamfra78 | Creative and Witty Team Name
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The play in games should count.

 

1. Rogue...Jedi | elenion13 | R...J's bracket
2. DarthIntegral | DarthIntegral | More Talents Than South Beach
3. JediGunship | Gunny | On the Bubble
4. s65horsey | s65horsey | Coin Flip
5. DMC | Lost47 | DMC's Wraiths of Madness
6. Darth Dark Helmet | bamfra78 | Creative and Witty Team Name
7. Trika | trickytrikes | Tricky Trikes's Likes
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reche, ESPN's also doing it without the play-in games.

I think the reasoning is to give everyone a chance to enter their brackets, and less than 2 days is pretty rushed for a lot of people.

 

1. Rogue...Jedi | elenion13 | R...J's bracket
2. DarthIntegral | DarthIntegral | More Talents Than South Beach
3. JediGunship | Gunny | On the Bubble
4. s65horsey | s65horsey | Coin Flip
5. DMC | Lost47 | DMC's Wraiths of Madness
6. Darth Dark Helmet | bamfra78 | Creative and Witty Team Name
7. Trika | trickytrikes | Tricky Trikes's Likes
8. darth_gersh | mgerstner | Dunk on Duke
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1. Rogue...Jedi | elenion13 | R...J's bracket
2. DarthIntegral | DarthIntegral | More Talents Than South Beach
3. JediGunship | Gunny | On the Bubble
4. s65horsey | s65horsey | Coin Flip
5. DMC | Lost47 | DMC's Wraiths of Madness
6. Darth Dark Helmet | bamfra78 | Creative and Witty Team Name
7. Trika | trickytrikes | Tricky Trikes's Likes
8. darth_gersh | mgerstner | Dunk on Duke
9. NYCitygurl | nycitygurl08 | Nat Likes Sports?
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1. Rogue...Jedi | elenion13 | R...J's bracket
2. DarthIntegral | DarthIntegral | More Talents Than South Beach
3. JediGunship | Gunny | On the Bubble
4. s65horsey | s65horsey | Coin Flip
5. DMC | Lost47 | DMC's Wraiths of Madness
6. Darth Dark Helmet | bamfra78 | Creative and Witty Team Name
7. Trika | trickytrikes | Tricky Trikes's Likes
8. darth_gersh | mgerstner | Dunk on Duke
9. NYCitygurl | nycitygurl08 | Nat Likes Sports?
10. -polymath- | tednova | RCJHWK
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My dad disagrees. He made us pick the play in games as well for the family pool.

 

For small groups of people, that's easier to do. But for large online groups, the extra time is probably pretty significant.

 

1. Rogue...Jedi | elenion13 | R...J's bracket
2. DarthIntegral | DarthIntegral | More Talents Than South Beach
3. JediGunship | Gunny | On the Bubble
4. s65horsey | s65horsey | Coin Flip
5. DMC | Lost47 | DMC's Wraiths of Madness
6. Darth Dark Helmet | bamfra78 | Creative and Witty Team Name
7. Trika | trickytrikes | Tricky Trikes's Likes
8. darth_gersh | mgerstner | Dunk on Duke
9. NYCitygurl | nycitygurl08 | Nat Likes Sports?
10. -polymath- | tednova | RCJHWK
11. RX_Sith | RX_Sith | Bracket-LOL-Ology
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1. Rogue...Jedi | elenion13 | R...J's bracket
2. DarthIntegral | DarthIntegral | More Talents Than South Beach
3. JediGunship | Gunny | On the Bubble
4. s65horsey | s65horsey | Coin Flip
5. DMC | Lost47 | DMC's Wraiths of Madness
6. Darth Dark Helmet | bamfra78 | Creative and Witty Team Name
7. Trika | trickytrikes | Tricky Trikes's Likes
8. darth_gersh | mgerstner | Dunk on Duke
9. NYCitygurl | nycitygurl08 | Nat Likes Sports?
10. -polymath- | tednova | RCJHWK
11. RX_Sith | RX_Sith | Bracket-LOL-Ology
12. rechedelphar | rechedelphar | Stitt Happens
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1. Rogue...Jedi | elenion13 | R...J's bracket
2. DarthIntegral | DarthIntegral | More Talents Than South Beach
3. JediGunship | Gunny | On the Bubble
4. s65horsey | s65horsey | Coin Flip
5. DMC | Lost47 | DMC's Wraiths of Madness
6. Darth Dark Helmet | bamfra78 | Creative and Witty Team Name
7. Trika | trickytrikes | Tricky Trikes's Likes
8. darth_gersh | mgerstner | Dunk on Duke
9. NYCitygurl | nycitygurl08 | Nat Likes Sports?
10. -polymath- | tednova | RCJHWK
11. RX_Sith | RX_Sith | Bracket-LOL-Ology
12. rechedelphar | rechedelphar | Stitt Happens
13. Drago | rivet_head12 | dartboard + blindfold = picks
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1. Rogue...Jedi | elenion13 | R...J's bracket
2. DarthIntegral | DarthIntegral | More Talents Than South Beach
3. JediGunship | Gunny | On the Bubble
4. s65horsey | s65horsey | Coin Flip
5. DMC | Lost47 | DMC's Wraiths of Madness
6. Darth Dark Helmet | bamfra78 | Creative and Witty Team Name
7. Trika | trickytrikes | Tricky Trikes's Likes
8. darth_gersh | mgerstner | Dunk on Duke
9. NYCitygurl | nycitygurl08 | Nat Likes Sports?
10. -polymath- | tednova | RCJHWK
11. RX_Sith | RX_Sith | Bracket-LOL-Ology
12. rechedelphar | rechedelphar | Stitt Happens
13. Drago | rivet_head12 | dartboard + blindfold = picks
14. tom | sloe_t | tom's wild guesses
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1. Rogue...Jedi | elenion13 | R...J's bracket
2. DarthIntegral | DarthIntegral | More Talents Than South Beach
3. JediGunship | Gunny | On the Bubble
4. s65horsey | s65horsey | Coin Flip
5. DMC | Lost47 | DMC's Wraiths of Madness
6. Darth Dark Helmet | bamfra78 | Creative and Witty Team Name
7. Trika | trickytrikes | Tricky Trikes's Likes
8. darth_gersh | mgerstner | Dunk on Duke
9. NYCitygurl | nycitygurl08 | Nat Likes Sports?
10. -polymath- | tednova | RCJHWK
11. RX_Sith | RX_Sith | Bracket-LOL-Ology
12. rechedelphar | rechedelphar | Stitt Happens
13. Drago | rivet_head12 | dartboard + blindfold = picks
14. tom | sloe_t | tom's wild guesses
15. Lowbacca_1977 | Lowbacca_1977 | Lowbacca_1977
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National Champion picks in our group:

5 Ohio State
4 Kansas
2 Pittsburgh
1 Duke
1 Temple
1 St.John's
1 Kansas State
1 Washington
1 San Diego State
1 Tennessee

certainly a diverse mix

 

So 12 of us picked 1 seeds, then 1 2 seed, a 5 seed, a 6 seed, a couple 7 seeds, and a 9 seed. Interesting.

EDIT: also, it looks like we have 3 more brackets than people signed up in here. Remember, if you want colors, you need to sign up in here so we know who you are!

 

Guess who's tied for the lead?

 

Well, there's 4 of us thus far, so this is a crowded first place.

 

I'm counting on winning via the same method I did last year: the only person to pick Duke to win it all