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. Enough with the my blabbering, let’s get to the good stuff!

Our Championship Round came down to two 1 seeds that I think most of us could have picked to run the gauntlet at the outset of our voting. It was quite the journey for our two finalists but they persevered to make it to the finale.

This particular year was probably the least surprising of the past few for sure. We lost one of our 1 seeds in the Round of 32 but the other three made it all the way to the Final 4. While last year’s average seed of our Elite 8 was almost 9, this year it was under 5. We only had one double digit seed make it to the Sweet 16.

After three straight years that we had run though an entire bracket without having any team catch the ever elusive 100-0 final score, we got a grand total of one this year – 2 seed Oscar Meyer’s “I’d Love To Be an Oscar Meyer Weiner” over 15 seed Bumble Bee Tuna. We did have 6 match-ups come within one vote (with finalist Toys ‘R’ Us getting within 1 vote of total domination three times in a row) but no one was able to pull it off.

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 difficult brackets we’ve ever done. We’ve had a few Cinderella runs but in the end, it was the closest to scratch that we have ever done.

Just like every year, I like to make picks like I’m in an office pool before March Madness. For the first time, the Final 4 was exactly what I picked. I thought there was a chance for someone outside the top 2 to get into the Semi-Finals but the 1’s and 2’s were just so strong. 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 Championship!

The Championship Round voting begins now and will end Wednesday April 5 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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My people, this has been a really fun 3 weeks together. I love this time of year so much. Thank you all again for taking the time to read these dumb posts and vote in these oh so important brackets. With a couple of exceptions, this is by far the best I have done at seeding a tournament. A few upsets here and there but the high seeds have really shone this year.

We have our Regional Champions and are ready to move on to the Final 4! The Elite 8 saw nothing but blowouts. There were 7 or 8 jingles that I felt were head and shoulders above the rest and they showed out in the Regional Finals. We enter the Final 4 with four teams that I think most of us could have easily seen winning the whole thing from the beginning. But enough with my rambling…on to the scores!

The Final 4 voting begins now and voting will end Sunday April 2 at 5pm Central. Championship round begins on Monday. 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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Well, here we are. After an absolute mad dash of a first two rounds we have already arrived at our Sweet 16. The Round of 32 went by with a couple of massive surprises but mostly things went as expected. This is the first year since our fast food bracket that we enter the Sweet 16 with only one double digit seed making it this far. We lost our first 1 seed in a shocker and a couple of 3 seeds to what were probably underseeded jingles. I should really have a talk with whoever it is that is responsible for these seedings… whoever it is. We also had our first tie, which as always was broken by Mrs. Clumsy Optimist (she never votes unless there is a tie). I’m not completely stunned by the 16 jingles that have made it this far but some of the ones that have been dispatched are a little surprising.

The Regional Semifinals begins now and voting will end Sunday, March 26 at 5pm Central. Good luck with making up your mind on some of these. I’m for real at a complete loss at how to vote on a full 6 out of these 8 match-ups.

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

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Well our first round of voting was not nearly as chaotic as the first weekend of the real NCAA tournament but we did have a few underdogs prevail. March Madness is upon us, my friends!

I have to apologize up front for the technical issues we had with the Round of 64 post. I really think the problem came down to there just being too many videos on one page. This should not be an issue going forward but please let me know if these pages crash and I’ll break the regions down like I did last week.

The seeding this year, while again, completely and wholly biased as I went along seems to have been somewhat close to right. We only had one 4-seed go down and all other 1-4 seeds sailed through to the second round. We had one match-up end up in the ever elusive 100-0 victory and one semi-surprising match-up that came down to one vote. We had a couple of surprising votes to me but that’s the fun thing about these brackets, finding out how wrong I am about things!

The second round begins now and voting will end Wednesday, March 22 at 5pm Central. There are already a few damn near impossible choices to be made. Good luck!

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

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