GWJ March Madness Bracket Challenge 2018

It's that time of year again.

It's free. It's fun. It's guaranteed to make you crazy.

Everyone is invited to join the GWJ March Madness Bracket Challenge! One bracket to rule them all! This is at ESPN because Yahoo started expecting too much info to join.

You can sign up now with the password: stan

Selection Sunday is coming up, and you will be able to fill your brackets out then.

Everyone has until 12:15 PM EDT to enter and complete your brackets. That's an early start on Thursday.

Also, here are the former GWJ March Madness Bracket Challenge Champions:

2017 Champ - Ego Man
2016 Champ - SaintFaucet
2015 Champ - Stele
2014 Champ - Zaque
2013 Champ - Ego Man
2012 Champ - Ego Man
2011 Champ - Apollo0507
2010 Champ - datawang
2009 Champ - oldmanscene24
2005 Champ - Edgar_Newt

Rock Chalk!

I'm in. My school might not be but I am.

Great I have to be objective now instead of a big homer.

Stele wrote:

Great I have to be objective now instead of a big homer.

I went 100% homer to make up for it. I even have two schools winning it all.

This is the least informed bracket I've ever done. I just took a five second glance at the matchup stats that ESPN gives and made a snap decision on each one. Watch me get a perfect bracket.

I'm just flipping a coin this year. Figured it'll be more informed than any gut feeling I'd have.

I'll add this to the OP, but everyone has until 10:15 AM EDT to enter and complete your brackets. That's an early start on Thursday.

Also, here are the former GWJ March Madness Bracket Challenge Champions:

2017 Champ - Ego Man
2016 Champ - SaintFaucet
2015 Champ - Stele
2014 Champ - Zaque
2013 Champ - Ego Man
2012 Champ - Ego Man
2011 Champ - Apollo0507
2010 Champ - datawang
2009 Champ - oldmanscene24
2005 Champ - Edgar_Newt

How did I not win in 2013 when Louisville did?

This year I just picked the team that is closest to my home. LOL! Let's go baby!

Warren Buffett's March Madness offer: $1M a year for life for perfect bracket

It's that time of year again: 68 college basketball teams earn bids for the NCAA March Madness tournament. And Berkshire Hathaway employees are given a challenge by their boss.

The company's CEO, Warren Buffett, promised $1 million a year for life to the Berkshire (BRKA) employee who picks a perfect bracket through the NCAA tournament's Sweet 16.

And Buffett will sweeten the pot if a team from his home state of Nebraska clinches the national title, he announced last month.

"If either Creighton or Nebraska ends up winning the tournament, we're going to double the prize. So instead of being $1 million, it's gonna be $2 million," he said on CNBC.

Bracket submitted. Let's see how blind bracketology works this year.

Might Not Survive Week 1 seems apropos for me.

I won in 2009? Well, I guess I've got that going for me. Bracket submitted!

Just a reminder, the games start early tomorrow. Brackets lock at 10:15am EDT tomorrow. So you still have time to enter and tweak your brackets.

Good luck!

I’m bad at telling time. Games start at 12:15 EDT. Of course, I’m in Vegas, so they start at 9:15 am for me. But I just won $175 in a poker tournament, so I don’t care. Looking forward to hanging out at the sports book all day tomorrow.

Rock Chalk!

I haven't watched a basketball game all season, but filled out a bracket just because I'm a silly rabbit.

The annual joy of figuring out which channel is Tru TV.

SillyRabbit wrote:

I haven't watched a basketball game all season, but filled out a bracket just because I'm a silly rabbit.

It’s such a fun way to get emotionally invested in games with teams you know absolutely nothing about.

Kansas had as tough of a time as me waking up, but that 22-5 run to close out the half seems to have put things in order.

The bar went pretty crazy over that OU/Rhode Island OT game. Since I had to look up who I picked, OT made sense. I had OU, but I could have gone either way on that game.

I bed to make some prop bets, but the line at thespirts book was insane. A guy here had Kanas by 8 at the half, but a late Penn three cost him $50, as Kansas is up just 33-26.

This is the sporting event I miss the most. Never really looked into how I could watch some games other than the final weekend, but the first weekend is generally the best.

Hell of a finish. RI should have won in regulation.

I picked RI. Ok had no business in tourney. Star power ESPN nonsense is the only reason they are in... were in. Hah.

I picked Arizona to win because I figured it would be the most embarrassing outcome for the NCAA. Not looking good at the moment.

Wow, Buffalo.

Bye Arizona, bye PAC 12.

Everyone's so out, everyone is back in.

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I'm tied for 2nd place! I don't expect to stay there, but it's exciting for now!

Sister Jean! Loyola wins!

Woot!

Damn, that was close! Rock Chalk to the Sweet 16!

I just wanted to mention here that I had the website auto-pick my bracket this year to appease TheWalt. If I'd done it myself, it would have looked more like George H.W. Bush's.

And a buzzer beater to end the night. Wow.

Houston should have made at least one FT. Doh.

Stele wrote:

And a buzzer beater to end the night. Wow.

Houston should have made at least one FT. Doh.

Massive gut punch for my UH friends.