March Madness: Holiday Movies – Elite 8

On By Josh SorensenIn Christmas Movies, March Madness1 Comment

Ok, so last year’s Sweet 16 was the closest rounds of voting we have ever had. This year’s group of 16 on the other hand was full of blowouts with the exception of one extremely close game. That one, which we will get to momentarily was back and forth or tied every time I checked. Neither movie ever got more than a 2 vote lead.

The Regional Finals begins now and voting will end Wednesday, March 31 at 5pm Central. Our Final 4 and regional winners will be announced and start the ultimate battle for Holiday movie supremacy on April Fools Day. Good luck with making up your mind on some of these.

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

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March Madness: Holiday Movies – Sweet 16

On By Josh SorensenIn Christmas Movies, March Madness1 Comment

The Round of 32 went by with bunch of votes, a few legitimate surprises, and our first 1 seed going down. I am absolutely gobsmacked by this #1 falling. Not even this early, just going down in general. Starting with the Sweet 16 this week the choices get more and more difficult. I’m really going to have to sit with some of these decisions to be honest.

The Regional Semifinals begins now and voting will end Sunday, March 28 at 5pm Central. Good luck with making up your mind on some of these.

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

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March Madness: Holiday Movies – Round of 32

On By Josh SorensenIn Christmas Movies, March Madness1 Comment

Alright y’all, that was very exciting! For the most part things went down as expected. There were a couple of close games and one match-up that came down to Mrs. Clumsy Optimist pulling in to fulfill her duty as official bracket game tie-breaker for the first time in years. (She doesn’t vote unless there is a tie).

The seeding this year, although completely and wholly biased as I went along, seems to have been just about right. The Animated Region went completely scratch and the Classic Region also went scratch with the exception of an 8/9 match-up that always seems like it can go either way. We basically only had two real upsets, with an 11 seed in the Modern Region and a VERY strong 13 seed in the Non-Typical Region making it through.

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March Madness: Holiday Movies – Round of 64

On By Josh SorensenIn Christmas Movies, March MadnessLeave a comment

Well y’all, here we are again. We’ve been stuck in this Coronavirus pandemic loop of nothingness for just over a year. But help (in the form of mass vaccination) is coming, and the end is on the horizon! Once again, it’s been almost a full year since I’ve written anything. Shocking. And I even had some good ideas! I really need to work on my procrastination issues. Maybe later…

As it is, we are back for our 6th year doing these brackets. Our bracket last year found our favorite fast-food joint in one of our closer finals matchups as Whataburger was crowned. Whataburger joins the group of champions with our fourth-year winner of favorite TV theme song which was won in a rout by The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. This joins our third-year winner for favorite breakfast food: Breakfast Tacos and Burritos. Our second-year bracket crowned The Sandlot as our champions of the Best Sports Movie Bracket. Our first champion was in the music bracket where The Beatles reigned victorious. It’s my pleasure to announce our topic this year: Christmas/Holiday Movies.

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March Madness: Fast Food – Our Champion

On By Josh SorensenIn Fast Food, March Madness4 Comments

I don’t know about you guys, but thanks to the Coronavirus and being stuck at home, I needed this more than ever. If nothing else I hope this was a welcome distraction for you. Thank you again everyone for taking time to vote on these silly things. I really do look forward to this every single year and hope you do as well. 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 I think most had picked to win the whole thing. Like I said, every time I looked at the bracket I honestly couldn’t see the participants in the championship game breaking any other way.  Time to find out how the Championship Round fared. Remember all “scores” are in percentages. Continue reading “March Madness: Fast Food – Our Champion” →

March Madness: Fast Food – Championship

On By Josh SorensenIn Fast Food, March Madness1 Comment

I can’t believe we are already at the finale of our 5th bracket. This has flown by. Probably because thanks to quarantine we have absolutely nothing better to do but write these posts and vote. So this year’s tournament stayed closer to chalk except for the wacky Miscellaneous Region.

After a mad scramble, I feel like we landed on a couple of really strong Final 4 match-ups. Let’s see how the winners of each region fared in the Final Four and who will face off in the Championship! Continue reading “March Madness: Fast Food – Championship” →

March Madness: Fast Food – Final 4

On By Josh SorensenIn Fast Food, March Madness1 Comment

Ok y’all. Here we are. We have our Regional Champions and are ready to move on to the Final 4! The Elite 8 saw two very, very close games and two blowouts. We enter the Final 4 with two teams that I thought were the biggest contenders going in and two that surprised me a little. But enough with my rambling…on to the scores!

The Final 4 voting begins now and voting will end Wednesday April 15 at 5pm Central. Championship round begins 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. Continue reading “March Madness: Fast Food – Final 4” →

March Madness: Fast Food – Elite 8

On By Josh SorensenIn Fast Food, March Madness1 Comment

Yall. The Sweet (and Savory) 16 was one of the tightest rounds of voting we have ever had with the exception of a few blowouts. I kept checking on a few of these match-ups and they were back and forth the whole time. As hard as voting in the last round was, I feel confident in how I’m going to vote in the Elite 8 – which I was reprimanded on Facebook last round for not finishing the pun at the end of the last post. I went with El-Eat 8. The appropriate pun, which I feel incredibly shameful about missing out on, is El-Eat Ate. Gotta finish the pun. I’ll be better. I promise.

The Regional Finals begins now and voting will end Sunday April 12 at 5pm Central. Good luck with making up your mind on some of these.

But first — Let’s get on to the results! Remember all “scores” are percentages from voting. Continue reading “March Madness: Fast Food – Elite 8” →

March Madness: Fast Food – Sweet 16

On By Josh SorensenIn Fast Food, March Madness2 Comments

The Round of 32 went by with tons of votes, a few surprises, and our first 1 seed going down. In all honesty I thought it was the weakest of the top seeds and that played out. Starting with the Sweet 16 this week the choices get more and more difficult and frankly I have no idea how I’m going to vote on a few of these upcoming match-ups.

The Regional Semifinals begins now and voting will end Wednesday April 8 at 5pm Central. Good luck with making up your mind on some of these.

But first — Let’s get on to the results! Remember all “scores” are percentages from voting. Continue reading “March Madness: Fast Food – Sweet 16” →

March Madness: Fast Food – Round of 32

On By Josh SorensenIn Fast Food, March Madness3 Comments

I seem to have done an okay job ranking things this year. With the exception of a couple of major upsets in the opening round that I did not see coming, all went without shock, but we will get to that shortly. With everyone at home and probably hungry this was by far the most voted on round in the history of us doing this bracket.

The second round begins now and voting will end Sunday April 5 at 5pm Central. There are already some damn near impossible choices to be made.

But first — Let’s get on to the results! Remember all “scores” are percentages from voting. Continue reading “March Madness: Fast Food – Round of 32” →