The Official CougarStadium 2013 Bracket Challenge Contest

[Jeff Lebowski]

It is that time of year folks. Make your picks and join our NCAA tourney contest here:

http://games.espn.go.com/tournament-...groupID=122632

Group name: CougarStadium.com
Password: swish!

One entry. No money this time, just bragging rights.

When you create your bracket, you must pick a name for your bracket that clearly identifies your CougarStadium user name. If you do not identify yourself, your bracket will be deleted from the group.

[byu71]

It is that time of year folks. Make your picks and join our NCAA tourney contest here:

http://games.espn.go.com/tournament-...groupID=122632

Group name: CougarStadium.com
Password: swish!

You can make up to four entries. No money this time, just bragging rights.

Let me know if the link doesn't work.

If you enter 4 times and win, don't come bragging to me!!!



Why did I end up with a my bracket and no one else has one?

[cougjunkie]

It is that time of year folks. Make your picks and join our NCAA tourney contest here:

http://games.espn.go.com/tournament-...groupID=122632

Group name: CougarStadium.com
Password: swish!

You can make up to four entries. No money this time, just bragging rights.

Let me know if the link doesn't work.

I agree with 71, no money involved you should only submit 1 bracket.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I agree with 71, no money involved you should only submit 1 bracket.

Changed. One entry.

[Jeff Lebowski]

BTW, when you create your bracket please give the bracket a name that allows me to identify the associated poster here. I would rather delete entries from random spammers, etc who may find the link shown above and join.

[byu71]

BTW, when you create your bracket please give the bracket a name that allows me to identify the associated poster here. I would rather delete entries from random spammers, etc who may find the link shown above and join.

As everyone knows this stuff confuses me. Looks like I set up a bracket, but I really didn't want to do that did I?

Edit: Looks like you fixed it for me JL. Thanks

[FN Phat]

BTW, when you create your bracket please give the bracket a name that allows me to identify the associated poster here. I would rather delete entries from random spammers, etc who may find the link shown above and join.

Which bracket of mine do you show? I filled out a few before I realized that you had changed the format.

EDIT: I see it now. Thanks!

[Flystripper]

No money on the line? The board continues to slip!

[Color Me Badd Fan]

I want in on any money bracket group. It would be greatly appreciated if someone PMd me on this.

[Donuthole]

Brackets are beyond played out. Anyone interested in a knockout pool?

• Let's say $20 per entry, if gambling were legal.

• You have to send in your picks before the start of the first game on Thursday. No exceptions.

• For Thursday of Round 1, you have to pick TWO WINNERS. Not against the spread, just outright winners — again, both teams just have to win. If either loses, you're out ... but you can buy back in for another $20 (and if you buy back in, you have to pick FOUR winners on Friday, not two).

• For Friday, same thing if you advanced ... you have to pick TWO more winners. Both teams have to win. If either of them loses, you're out ... but you can buy back in on Saturday for another $20 (only now, you have to pick FIVE winners that day and go 5-for-5 to stay alive).

• You can only buy back in a maximum of three times (and you can't buy in after the conclusion of Sunday's games).

• You cannot pick the same team twice. Even if you get knocked out and buy back in, you can't reuse a team. One and done.

• If you nailed your Friday pick (or picks), you only have to pick one winner on Saturday.

• If you lose your Saturday pick (or any one of your Saturday picks), you can buy back in for Sunday's games for the final time ... only now, you have to pick SIX winners that day and go 6-for-6 to stay alive. And again, you can't pick a team you already used.

• If you nailed your Saturday pick (or picks), you only have to pick one winner on Sunday to advance. Can't be a team you already used.

• If you make it out of the weekend alive, you only have to pick one winner per day after that. (Again, you can't buy back in after that first Sunday.) Remember, you can't use the same team twice. I hate to keep harping on this, but you'd be amazed how many times it's been screwed up in our pool.

• Once you run out of teams to pick, you advance to the next day but automatically lose. For instance, let's say you already used Duke in Round 1 and Kentucky in Round 2, then they met on Sunday in the Elite Eight ... only you had already picked every other team playing that Sunday. In that scenario, you automatically lose on the next day of games (in this case, Saturday of the Final Four). You are out of teams.

• Important wrinkle for that last point: Even if you're out of teams and headed for an automatic loss, you still have to be beaten by another contestant who made a successful pick that same day. An "automatic loss" and "a pick that became a loss" means the same.

• Last man standing wins. Winner takes all. Second-place prizes are for wusses.

• If more than one person is left standing, they can either split the pot or agree to keep going until someone wins ... which is obviously the manly thing to do.

• Honor system goes for the entry fees — once someone wins, everyone sends him their 20 bucks (or more than that if they bought back in). If you don't trust someone to pay his debts, then he shouldn't be in the pool.

• Last note: You'd be amazed how quickly this pool ends. Last March, we did it with 27 people and everyone was done by Sunday of the first weekend. You read that correctly.

[Moliere]

Brackets are beyond played out. Anyone interested in a knockout pool?

That's a lot of rules but I'd participate if something like this was set up.

[CJF]

That's a lot of rules but I'd participate if something like this was set up.

Me too.

[Flystripper]

i'd be in

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Can you not print out the ESPN bracket once you've filled it out?

[ERCougar]

I'm in on the knockout pool. Are we doing it?