March Madness 2011

[Xzinum]

Are we doing this or is TNR too nerdy for such an event?

OMG sports
http://www.xtothezracing.com/files/tumblr_leukbsfuMc1qzfkud.gif

[MoeB]

http://www.sportssuck.org/sportssuck/newlogo.gif

[Derfel]

What would you like to do about it?

[Xzinum]

Have a TNR bracket tournament. Prior experience/knowledge is usually not an advantage. I have been doing this since HS and i'm terrible at it.

[iheartyou]

Yes, i will be filling out many brackets, would totally be in for some TNR madness

[Xzinum]

Well, it's going to be you and me. Everyone else is busy playing WoW or Eve or with themselves.

[Derfel]

How much will it cost me?

[Xzinum]

Nothing, it's purely for bragging rights. The more the merrier.

[Sweetlou]

memememememememememememme

add meme

[Aydz]

Sure, sign me up Xzin.
I'm not a huge sports van, but I'll hop on the bandwagon.

[Xzinum]

http://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/t1/register/joinprivategroup

Group ID: 29957
password: manofphat

You need a yahoo ID to join.

You will not be able to fill your bracket until Selection Sunday (March 13th). And you have until March 15th ~11am to complete your bracket.

[0ptik]

i'm registered, dunno much about the college scene though.

[Xzinum]

i'm registered, dunno much about the college scene though.

That's excellent, you'll probably do well.

[Cleavage Monkey]

We have done this in the past. I believe Sharpshooter arranged it before. I will through in my picks as well. I have done well in the past so here's hoping.

[Xzinum]

We have done this in the past. I believe Sharpshooter arranged it before. I will through in my picks as well. I have done well in the past so here's hoping.

Will your beloved Blue Devils take it all again?

[Cleavage Monkey]

Will your beloved Blue Devils take it all again?

One can only hope :)

[Gorbachev22]

I'm not a huge sports van, but I'll hop on the bandwagon.

I'm a huge fan of this comment; +1 for Aydz.

Also, I predict that Michigan will go all the way :cool:

[Xzinum]

Where is Gorb? Aydz? KT? Lou? Dave? Derf?

[Sweetlou]

im chillin where are you lol =)
i take my time as always

[Derfel]

Where is Gorb? Aydz? KT? Lou? Dave? Derf?

I don't think I could name more than two top ranked teams.

[0ptik]

I don't think I could name more than two top ranked teams.

I have no idea what is happening, i'm just participating :)

who's nuggets?

[Sweetlou]

me /

[Xzinum]

Today is selection Sunday. You will be able to make your picks shortly after the field has been announced.

To all of you that said "I don't know anything", "it'll be guesswork", it does not matter as i too have no idea and i'll be guessing the whole way. I watched one half of college basketball all year long. The appeal is that no matter what game is playing, you always have a team to root for. Think of it as the lottery, you just might get lucky.

[grum]

I'm in like Flynn with a bottle of gin.

SqueakSqueakSqueakSwish

[Cleavage Monkey]

I'm Betsy's Bracket. May the best woman win :)

[Xzinum]

And the field is set:
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/ncaa-tournament/brackets/viewable_men

You have until Thursday 11:30am EST to join and make your picks.

Good luck everyone, it's not too late to come in and make random picks.

[Derfel]

So what does all of that mean? What am I picking? What does "Suspended" mean?

[Sweetlou]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EetSDTdLoLE&hd=1

[Cleavage Monkey]

Ok I'm all finished. I am going on past performance and this years standings.

[0ptik]

Mine is finished... I guess you could say that i went with the top tier every time, even though i was looking at rank, ppg and ratios.

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Whats this tie-breaker thing i have to enter?

[Cleavage Monkey]

Final game. What do you think the score will be?

[0ptik]

ok, so its tie breaker for points for us, not the teams. Got it.

[Xzinum]

No, tie breaker is the total amount of points scored in the final game (both teams combined). So if both you and kathy have the exact same amount of points going into the final matchup and both picked the same team to win, we need a tie breaker.

[Cleavage Monkey]

Oh crap I did it wrong then. But wait there are 2 spots to fill in points. 1 under each team so would it not be the score for each team?

[Xzinum]

In that case yes, some years they do total score, some years they don't.

[Derfel]

HEY! There's a random picks option. Nice!

[Sweetlou]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtGzJQaYZZg

[Xzinum]

Ok, THIS is the awesomest thing i've ever seen. I remember every one of those games.

Plus, y no Memphis vs Kansas? Most epic finals ever.

[Sweetlou]

odd had to make another account, i could not log into my other one for some reason =/

anywho my picks are set time to see a few upsets

[Xzinum]

A little more than an hour left to make your picks.

You can stream every game in HD here:
http://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/2010-12-19/ncaa-march-madness-demand

[Sweetlou]

every game is on tv this year, to bad TBS isnt in HD yet =/ i gotta hope CBS and TSN dont fuck up

[Xzinum]

Hopefully TSN will do that same thing The Score has been doing for the last few years; Court surfing.

[Sweetlou]

im watching some old school Steve Nash Vs Mighty mouse from there NCAA days, Nash game isnt as smooth as it is now. homeboy is missing ez layups =/

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damnit i dont get True TV =(

TSN dont fail me now

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BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CLEMSON!

[Xzinum]

So how's the TSN coverage?

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TIED at HALF!

[Sweetlou]

shitty. i have cbs on. they have Kenny the jet smith, Barkley & crew from tnt

tsn2 dose have the other game on which is nice. both CBS-CBSw and TSN have the same games on =/

[Xzinum]

But there is only 2 games on right now. I wonder what it will be like when there are 4.

[Sweetlou]

the 3rd is just starting up now

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TSN2 is gonna play the lou Vs MOREHEAD St
=/

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fail, when did rogers lose TBS. i guess no more braves games this summer

[Sweetlou]

ight take matters into my own hands, i have a small window of the lou vs morehead st game. to bad i pick lou for once in my life, MORE HEAD st made me money last year =/

[Xzinum]

WVU is looking good right now.

[Sweetlou]

i can see butler funkin this game up

[Xzinum]

I've got ODU for that one.

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dammit, no i don't :unamused:

just hold on Butler

[Sweetlou]

huddle and crosses fingers tie games

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OMFG COME ON MEOW!

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YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Xzinum]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sweetlou]

LEts go kent go go.... Lets go Kent .. . . ..

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two words that make me rage..... TV...... TIMEOUT!!!!!!!!!!!


four channels all showing ad's come on meow,

[Xzinum]

L'VILLE!!

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FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

[Sweetlou]

no call WTF wowowowowowwowowowo
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damn all ball!

[Xzinum]

:unamused:

[Derfel]

I wish I knew what you guys were talking about...!

[Xzinum]

:lol: i had Morehead to win it!

[Sweetlou]

wow

i knew picking lou was fail.... how could i not pick MOREHEAD come on me =( damnit!!

[Xzinum]

I wish I knew what you guys were talking about...!
Morehead was down by two with 4.1 seconds left and drained a 3.

[Sweetlou]

http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/54/homer_facepalm.jpg

[Xzinum]

Temple by 2 right now with 0:28 left

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FFFFFFFFFFFF
Tied with 0:11 left.

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Also, :lol: @ Lebron, Howard & Bird commercial.

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Still perfect.

[Sweetlou]

lost two in a row. come on team green

[iheartyou]

Great games so far, can't believe Kentucky lost, my heart it bleeds.
Damn Xz, heck of a 12/13 pick man

[Sweetlou]

JIMMERRRRRRRRRRR

[Xzinum]

the 5-12 upset is the most common, somewhere in the 65% range. Last year 3/4 of the 12 seeds won.

It's so weird to see my name at the top of the three 50+players pools.

edit: Also, this is ROUND 1, NOT 2 dammit. :unamused:

[Cleavage Monkey]

I always pick at least 2 12 seeds to win in round 1. So far one of the 12 seed picks I chose won :)

And nice going on the 8/8 so far.

[Xzinum]

Come on MSU!

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Gah. FU Kablam :unamused:

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Utah St and K-State is gearing up

[Cleavage Monkey]

So far the 4 match-ups that I picked wrong I have the other team (which I got right) winning in round 2 (or round 3 in the case of my Louisville pick)...phew.

Plus my Gonzaga boys won :). How can you not pick a team named Gonzaga.

[Derfel]

http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/01251/dip1703-01-ncaa_1251741cl-8.jpg

[Sweetlou]

tied for last

http://rob.nu/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/facepalm.gif

with dave none the less =/

[Derfel]

Whoever is in dead last didn't make their picks in time, though.

[Sweetlou]

one of thos are mine, for some reason, i could not log into my new account that i made for this. =/

shit happens

[Sweetlou]

lets go longhorns

\o/

[Mr Fax Sender]

Come on MSU!

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Gah. FU Kablam :unamused:

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Utah St and K-State is gearing up

Yeah. I don't know why they couldn't just pull their heads out of their asses the first half.

[Sweetlou]

WTF...... Odrama on tv talking about fighting Libya

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where is my ball game ... . . ..

[Xzinum]

<3 Gus Johnson

:lol:

[Sweetlou]

after the first two days we got a three way tie for first -_-

also after two days ive worked my way from last into 2nd place tie

dave keep up the hope, you can work yourself out of last place bro=)

[Xzinum]

This is the highest score after the first round i've had in recent memory.

I'm afraid i went too conservative for the 2nd round. :\

[Cleavage Monkey]

Whoppeee I jumped into first with Xzinum and Optik over night. :)

[Xzinum]

I knew Pitt were choke artists, but i still had them to go further. :unamused:

[0ptik]

I'm doing good? hmmm

[Derfel]

It's pretty much over for me now.

[0ptik]

Ok, these scores are way too close to be comfortable.

[Sweetlou]

Ohio State is running away

[Xzinum]

This angered me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgzRqDzbAQY
:unamused:

[Derfel]

Well, one of my finalists has been eliminated. I think my chances of doing well in this pool have died.

[Xzinum]

Only one of them> Bah, there are people here that lost their two teams going to the finals. :lol:

[Gorbachev22]

i'm normally not a big bball fan, but that michigan game was really fun to watch

[Xzinum]

It certainly was. Coming off a big win against Tenn and then making a game out of Duke to make it a 2 point game.

[Xzinum]

I really like what SD State is doing right now.

[0ptik]

i've gone done a few ranks and i'm down 2 semi finalists.

[Cleavage Monkey]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

The Blue Devils are out :(

But I am still tied for first but I don't think that will last too long. Only 3 more games were I could possibly pick up points.

[Yoshio]

if the huskies keep playing like they are i will seem like a genius (men's team of course, thier women's team going very far is kinda a foregone conclusion for alot of people)

[Derfel]

Well, that bracket of mine was short-lived.

[Cleavage Monkey]

Wow Ohio St is out. I have 2 more possibilities of points. Kansas gets to the finals and then wins.

[Xzinum]

Yeah, in my money pool, with Uconn winning last night, it eliminated me from any paying positions. :(

[0ptik]

I dont think anybody got 1 semifinalist right.

Anyways, Congrats to TIM! for finishing first in our brackets. Sadly, he was bad at picking the teams, but we were worst.

[Xzinum]

Rounds 1 and 2 were pretty typical for most tournaments, however, anything past that was the weirdest I've seen in a very long time.

Congrats Tim

[Cleavage Monkey]

Not at all what I expected for the final 4.

Congrats Tim and congrats to Xzinum and I for coming in 2nd :)

[Yoshio]

my final four prediction:

Butler, Uconn, Ohio State, Kansas

it's too bad i came to the party late since 2 out of 4 seems alot better than what alot of people thought ;~;

[Sweetlou]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5H3e6I98Qk

i hope this is the season!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Yoshio]

uconn wins :3

though now i am sad i didn't enter any bracket pools :(

(i had uconn beating kansas in the final)

[MoeB]

don't worry yoshio. there's always next year!