I want to start with a big thank you to everyone who takes time out of your week to read these silly blogs and vote in our tournaments. I really do look forward to this every single year and hope you do too. I’m gonna throw out the tip jar one more time, just for funsies – Don’t be an Oscar the Grouch. If you enjoy what we do here and feel so inclined to throw a couple Dollary-Do’s my way to help pay for the sites and whatnot, feel free to Venmo me @ josh-sorensen-5 or PayPal @ JoshSorensen5. Enough with the my blabbering, let’s get to the good stuff!

Our Championship Round came down to a 1 seed and a 2 seed that I think most of us could have picked to run the gauntlet at the outset of our voting even if it took a couple of massive upsets to get there. It was quite the journey for our two finalists but they pushed hard to make it to the finale.

This year was probably the least surprising bracket we’ve ever had in the first two rounds but more than made up for it in the final three rounds. Also it’s been incredibly tight down the stretch. We have not had a muppet win a matchup by 10 or more points (and no more than 4 votes) in the last three rounds. Absolute barn-burner of an ending this year!

This bracket also saw THREE 100-0 victories in the first two rounds and that was it! We end our year together with only one (1) tie in the entire tournament being broken by Mrs. Clumsy Optimist. She most definitely enjoyed that after having to break a record SEVEN last year.

Time to find out how the Championship Round fared. Remember all “scores” are in percentages.

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Hey guys, we made it! We’re already through this great tournament. This has been a ton of fun and honestly one of the most regular, boring brackets we’ve ever done early on as far as upsets and Cinderella teams go but shocking in the last few rounds.

Just like every year, I like to make picks like I’m in an office pool before March Madness. For the first time in years, our Final 4 was close to exactly what I picked even if my two favorites to make the finals got the boot in the Elite 8. This is the first year that there were no major surprises as our Final 4 was one 1 seed and three 2 seeds. After this great run, let’s see how the winners of each region fared in the Final Four and who will face off in the title game!

The Championship Round voting begins now and will end Wednesday April 8 at 5pm Central. Championship winner will be announced on Thursday. I can’t believe we are already almost through this year!

But first — Let’s get on to the results! Remember all “scores” are percentages from voting.

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Y’all. Holy crap. When I put this bracket together, in my mind the final was always going to be two of our muppets that made it to the finals. Both of them almost got the axe in our Elite 8. This may truly have been the most competitive round of voting we have ever had. Not one team in our four regional finals was ever more that 10 points ahead. By the end of voting we had two matchups decided by 1 vote and another decided by 3. Wild week of voting!

So here we are. The Semi-Finals begin now and voting will end Sunday, April 5 at 5pm Central. I truly cannot believe we are already at the Final 4, this year’s tourney has absolutely flown by!

But first — Let’s get on to the results! Remember all “scores” are percentages from voting.

Continue reading “March Madness: Muppets – Final 4” →

And just like that, we are already down to the regional finals. Crazy how fast time flies! Welcome to the Elite 8.

And let me just say. Y’all. We had a couple of massive shockers (to me, at least) this week. I looked at the final votes on the way to home Sunday night and truly had my jaw drop on one of these. This particular bracket, has gone almost completely scratch thus far with the higher seeds moving on and maybe I was getting a bit of a big head that you all collectively decided to pop. Well done. We lost some favorites to win the whole damn thing in the Sweet 16.

So here we are. The Regional Finals begin now and voting will end Wednesday, April 1 at 5pm Central. No April Fools, I promise! This tournament always surprises me every year with how fast it flies by. We are at the best vs the best. Good luck making up your mind. I am officially at a loss on how to vote on all of these.

But first — Let’s get on to the results! Remember all “scores” are percentages from voting.

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The second round of our tournament saw a ton of runaways and a few very tough picks that I ultimately could not choose. By the end of Wednesday voting we ended up with our first tie of the tournament, which was really unbelievably tough on Mrs. Clumsy Optimist after having made zero tie-breaks in the Round of 64. There were two other matchups that were decided by three votes or less! We also had only one match end in the 100-0 score. This is also the best seeding I have ever done. More on that later.

The Regional Semifinal round begins now and voting will end Sunday, March 29 at 5pm Central. It’s hard to believe March is basically finished. Good luck with making up your mind on some of these. I’m still completely at a loss on how to vote on almost all but like 2 of these match-ups and I honestly have been for the last two rounds. Definitely not going to get any easier going forward.

But first — Let’s get on to the results! Remember all “scores” are percentages from voting.

Continue reading “March Madness: Muppets – Sweet 16” →

First off – thank you everyone for voting. It makes me so happy to do these every year and see so much action from y’all. In the past, we have typically had some nail biters in the first round, but it was not so this year. It seemed to be the year of the runaway victory. With a few hours left in voting on the Round of 64, we were looking at only needing Mrs. Clumsy Optimist to cast her tie-breaking vote on possibly one of our 32 matchups. In the end, that matchup ended up being our only one vote victory, while we ended the first round with two 100-0 wins and three other matches that ended with the losing side getting only one vote. Quite possibly the best seeding I have ever done in the first round.

To that effect, our first round saw two regions go completely scratch with the 1-8 seeds winning and a 3rd region go scratch with the exception of a 10 seed beating a 7 seed. To that end, after 32 matches we only lost one 5 seed and two 7 seeds. Every other higher seed took a victory. Again, great seeding by whoever put this bracket together! And we officially have one Cinderella story ready to jump into action! Although I would not be totally surprised to see our Sweet 16 not have a double digit seed for the first time in years. But I’m not counting any (Camilla the) Chickens before they hatch. Y’all have chosen some matches in a way I could never have seen coming before.

The second round begins now and voting will end Wednesday, March 25 at 5pm Central. There are already a few damn near impossible choices to be made and matchups for the ages. There is one matchup in particular that I cannot wait to see what y’all do with. Good luck!

But first — Let’s get on to the results! Remember all “scores” are percentages from voting.

Continue reading “March Madness: Muppets – Round of 32” →

Guess who’s back? Back again? It’s me! Well, let’s look back on the past year. Once again all I’ve written one fairly fun Halloween Movie post for this site. Seriously go watch Tucker & Dale vs Evil. It’s a great time all year round. That is exactly the same amount and category of posts as I did last year. Is it progress? No. But is it back-sliding? Also no! Will I be better in 2026? Who knows! I knew we were on the same page! Anyway…once again…

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