Is anyone doing a bracket challenge for TKP? If not and enough people express interest I'll start one on the preferred platform.
Edit: Bracket created.
http://games.espn.go.com/tournament-challenge-bracket/en/group?invitesou...
Password is: LOLUVA
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you can count me in on entering should you start one up
I was hoping someone would set this up. I'm in
What is preferred hosting site for everyone? CBS? ESPN? Other?
I usually fill one out using ESPN. Mostly because I can never remember my Yahoo login.
espn
Just tell me which outlet is being used and I'm in
I'm in! I prefer ESPN, just because I already have an ESPN account. Just let me know the details.
EDIT:
Just so everyone knows, I'm going to win this thing, and when I do, I demand that everyone switch over to TEAM COOKIES #Cookies4Life!!!
I'm in for sure. But maybe change up the title so we can differentiate between this topic and a Tourney discussion topic?
ill be in again (though i shit the bed last year)....espn works for me since i already have an account.....Swag from Joe for the winner would be sweet too.....(nudge nudge)
OK - i'm in...I've got final four of Kansas, Oklahoma, UNC & Utah, with Kansas over UNC in the final.
I took UNC over Kansas in the final.
same final four for you?, or just the final.....
Everyone join me in laughing at Michigan State being underseeded and in the same region as UVA.
Maybe next year Hoos.
me watching the midwest bracket getting picked
Count me in. Thanks!!
ESPN.
Also, I'm in.
ETA:
I signed in to Tournament Challenge and there's already a group named "thekeyplay" up there. Whoever the manager is can resend the details to everyone else.
looks like joe did
Shiben127 is the owner.
there were two brackets, i made one and then joe said hed make one and his has about 150 members wheras mine had roughly 20
In it to win it
Also, does it bother anyone when people fill out more than one bracket as much as it bothers me? For 11 months out of the year I forget about this pet peeve of mine and then each year when the bracket is released, I think about people filling out multiple brackets and it pisses me off all over again
I usually do two: one with legit picks and the other with coin tosses. This year my coin toss bracket has UNC-A/Yale and UVa/16 Play-in in the Final Four. UNC-Asheville wins it all over 16 Play-in.
same here, i have one with the badgers in the final four because its fun, two years ago my joke one actually did better than my legit one haha
Solid except I don't see UVA getting past Hampton
It depends. If someone enters multiple brackets into the same contest, that irks me. Make your picks and stand by them, man! However, in years past, ESPN has limited the number of contests you can enter a single bracket into. Since I'm usually in a half dozen different contests, I have no choice but to make multiple entries and there's inevitably some difference between the two.
Also, since some sites like ESPN have prizes for the best bracket, I plan to fill out the maximum number possible just to increase my chances of the grand prize, but I won't be bragging about my awesomeness unless my #1 entry is the winner.
I usually only ever fill out one per bracket pool, but sometimes I will do two, with the second being a complete just-for-fun kind of entry. Not like I'm trying to side-step the hardest matchups to pick, but literally just doing something wild like "what if the mascots got into a fight, who would win?" or "who has the better colors?" Sadly, those brackets usually do better than the ones I legitimately try to fill out.
I guess that's the only thing that bothers me about it (the bragging). "I picked that 14 over 3 upset in one of my brackets!" Yeah, well, you didn't in five of your brackets so I'm not sure you really called it
Also I feel like it would be tough to be conflicted between rooting for different results in the same games
I'm in if its on espn. TKP group creator hitting up commentors with info?
Count me in. I usually have at least one bracket at ESPN, Yahoo and CBS, so any of those will work for me.
If I had to pick a favorite, I would vote for ESPN.
Bracket created on ESPN see above for direct link and password.
So wait which one is the official one? I joined eshibens.
I stuck my brackets in all three, that way when i win three times over im three times as awesome
thats how math works right?
I only see yours and fireman's. link to the 3rd group?
I'm in. When The Fairleigh Dickinson Knights run the table to be crowned NCAA champs you know I'll have won the bracket.
Well that's over:
via GIPHY
Yeah, somehow I remember it ending a little more like this (some parts MNBSFW):
Created both of my brackets by coin flip. Figured it couldn't be any worse than my brackets in the past. There were some uh...interesting results.
is the password case sensitive? I have tried LOLuva, loluva, LOLUVA, and lolUVA.. all with no luck?
LOLUVA for fireman's one. hokies for eshiben's one
it's hokies for Joe's (the key play)
I hope you guys won't think less of me for picking LOLUVA to win. I never get the champion right, so I figured I might as well put my misfortune to good use.
Wow, and I thought I'd be shunned for picking WVU to make the Final 4. Glad to see I'll only be 2nd-most hated contestant in this year's pool.
Ya'll can move over! My Final 4 is Duke, Miami, UVA, WVU. let the hate begin!
Sorry. I can't find any hate for that. The closest feeling I can muster is a blend of pity and haughty derision.
Happy National Vasectomy Day (or was that yesterday)
Alum is gonna win... is gonna win
I put all of 5 minutes of thought into my bracket this year.
Not having cash on the line does that to you.
I have cash on the line for a few brackets and I still only put in 5 minutes of thought into. The moment I start thinking is the moment my bracket is burned.
Two entries:
Wife's picks (TKP - fireman group)
All coin flips after 1st round (the key play - joe's group)
12 of you picked Yale for the upset and still have perfect Brackets, the other 148+ of us who didn't better luck next year.Well I was counting and typing this up as Purdue lost. So 4 of you have perfect brackets now.
And only coldblood4vt picked ArkyPB and is still perfect...
Save us, CB4VT, you're our only hope
West Virginia treated my bracket like they were related to it.
Wait, so is that what a hlkiss is?
We may not end the day with any perfect brackets the way things are going.
And there you have it no perfect brackets.
I was stupid and switched my pick to Purdue after reading UA-LR's coach broke his hand on a white board in the conference tournament. Apparently whiteboards will get after ya.
So I have a perfect bracket on CBS and I'm tied for last in this group.
At least i only had them to the sweet sixteen....actually was the only of my 4 losses yesterday that i had going past the round of 32......
Which one of y'all picked the Yale and Hawaii and Little Rock and Wichita upsets but not VCU?
I picked VACU. I will ALWAYS pick VACU because one of my sis in laws got her bach while my dad earned his Masters.
I got VCU, Little Rock and Hawai'i, but not Yale or Wichita. Not that it matters. I picked Sparty to win the whole thing.
Are you me?
This whole thing is about to go up in flames...
First year in forever that I put no money on pools for the Tourney. Did a bracket here for fun, so really just looking forward to it imploding on Day 2.
We've been saying all season long it will be a wild tournament, but people still went chalk based on the ESPN %s.
Edit: Unfortunately this makes LOLUVAs road almost a shoe in to make the Final Four
I wouldn't count out Butler just yet.
I have Butler beating UVA. Some smart-sounding analyst said that Butler is a bad matchup for UVA, and as if I needed a reason to knock out the Hoos...
Luckily I had sparty losing to Utah in the sweet 16, and uva losing to Utah in the elite 8, so all of that is still alive for me, and the sparty loss really doesn't hurt me that much, especially considering how far most people had sparty going, thereby giving me a lot more possible points remaining than most. 13 out of my sweet 16 are alive & well right now, and all of my elite 8. I'm stunned how well I'm doing this year compared to last (where i completely shit the bed), considering i spent all of 3 minutes filling out my bracket this year.....of course, I'm sure I'll still get sucker punched by somebody's loss to send my bracket into utter chaos at some point......
Ask and you shall receive. That region is a mess for everyone now
ugh....the midwest is a flaming pile of dog poop indeed.....thanks to Utah, the only possible remaining points I have in that section is one more win from LOLUVA to the elite 8 where i had them losing to Utah. Welp... at least my other 3 sections are in relatively good shape......for now....
Alrighty, then. Everyone who picked Michigan State to win the whole thing, you are hereby excused from this thread. I'll be throwing a pity party in about 11 seconds. You're all welcome to join me.
I don't think I've ever lost my championship pick in round 1 before. That's incredible.
The entire Midwest Region is in flames for me. 3 of my 4 Sweet 16 teams in that group failed to win the first round (Texas Tech, Michigan State, Seton Hall)
If it weren't for Michigan State mine wouldn't be so ba despite only picking three correctly because those three all go to the sweet sixteen, I had MSU in the final four though. My West bracket is mired in red though.
Go Blue!! I love that win!!! It hoses my bracket, but my daughters graduated from MTSU!
I know....Doht!, but I do my bracket with me head not my heart, - head got in the way.......
If you created this then you've not only won the internet for today but for a very, very long time.
Indeed I did :)
The cousins are getting a game from SFA.
My favorite correct upset pick!
jesus im in the 99th percentile still... if only i hadnt picked michigan state
This is the first year I've actually paid attention to college basketball, thanks to work. And I'm doing the worst I've ever done, including high school brackets where I picked by mascot. I don't understand sports at all.
Well as of right now I'm sitting pretty, tied for 5th. But I picked MSU to win it all...
Maybe MtSU was under seeded?
My coin-flip bracket is sitting at 88%, had Oregon State over UNC in the championship, but the coin favored the favorites a lot (I think the "tails" side is heavier...that's how that works, isn't it?)
You need to turn in TruTV and watch the AM UNI game.
HOLY CRAP GO BADGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that was crazy
UNI just put the finishing touches on the biggest tournament choke job I've ever seen. Up by 12 with 44 seconds left and lost.
I hope they locked the doors on anyone who left.
Not just up by 12 but scored 2 more points in that time frame and still let AM tie it up for OT.
A&M didn't even do anything special, Panthers just went dumb. Makes it even worse that I picked UNI over the Aggies in this one.
Going 6/6 in 33 seconds is pretty special, but you're right, it wouldn't have been possible without all of those UNI turnovers.
Sports Talk radio guys were saying that this was the biggest choke job in NCAA men's bball history not just tournament but overall.
I suck at picking brackets, but it seems that every year I manage to still have an outside chance just because I pick a random team to win it all. so...GO DUCKS!!!!
I'm aboard the Oregon train as well! I don't look like a complete fool just yet!
I think I counted three of us. Unfortunately, you're ahead right now so chances are if Oregon wins it all, I'll still come in second to you.
I know virtually nothing about roundball. I have watched a grand total of 6 full games this year. All of them have included VT and 2 of them were NIT games. Amazingly, my final four is still intact. I don't expect that to last much longer.
Looks like we have our winner,
Hokies5025. Congrats.Haha, thanks. Of course the year I have no money on it my bracket isn't a plate of hot garbage. Used an old ESPN login from my freshman year in Pritchard, room 5025. At least we can all rejoice in the loluva choke. Enjoy the final four.
is that a corner room in the corner closest to D2? I have a friend who I think was in that room our freshman year
No, not a corner room. Window faced out towards the cassell.
Have some legs.
It's not about who wins and who loses, but how drunk you were when you filled out your bracket. I apparently was not drunk enough when I filled mine out. Also, it is about who wins and loses, and UVA lost. Hooray for that!
Actually, if UNC wins it all then I'm pretty sure that piercepj takes home the crown. National championship pick is worth 320 points right?
Great, now I've got to call and cancel my celebratory pie.
Congrats to Travis87972.
Well, I came in 4th in the TKP bracket, but came in 1st and won a nice chunk of change in another one.
Definitely more happy about the other bracket.
Well, now I'm really happy there wasn't any money on this one.
Congrats to Travis!
Long time reader, first time commenting on the TKP thread.
I was Travis87972 and this victory tastes delicious. A strong close to a good NCAA basketball season in Blacksburg.
Welcome and have some legs.
Yessir - leg to the winner! Welcome aboard!