Okay, so we have had the coming soon banner up forever so you knew it was coming. BobcatNation.com is hosting a bracket pick'em game for all our members to enjoy. This is free and while there are not any super prizes, it should be good for some fun discussion and good-natured smack with other members. Below are the "Official Rules" of the contest, please look them over and ask any questions now.
1. The BobcatNation.com Bracket Challenge is for entertainment purposes only. There will be no prizes or rewards provided to any participants. -- Prize for first place will now be offered. Donated by poster Cat-theotherwhitemeat from his online store, http://www.monsandlacus.com ,the prize will be four log candles. These can be seen at http://www.monsandlacus.com/gifts.htm#Candles .
1a. Staff of bobcatnation.com and the poster Cat-theotherwhitemeat will not be eligible for a prize but will be allowed to compete in the contest. Should any of these posters win the contest, the prize will be awarded to the next highest eligible entry based on scoring and tiebreaker rules listed below.
1b. The winner of the contest will be contact following conclusion via both message board private message and at the email address listed in their message board profile. BobcatNation.com will make every effort to contact the winner, however we are not responsible for failure of winner to check private messages or provide a valid email address.
2. The Bracket Challenge is completely free to enter, however a valid BobcatNation.com message board login is required to submit a bracket entry.
3. Only one bracket entry will be allowed per message board user.
4. Submissions will be accepted beginning as soon after Selection Sunday(Mar. 13th) as we can get the teams entered until 10:00 AM Mountain time on Thursday Mar. 17th.
5. Once submitted, all brackets are final and cannot be modified.
6. Scoring of the bracket entries will be as follows:
• 1 point per correct Round 1 pick – Maximum 32 points possible for Round 1
• 2 points per correct Round 2 pick – Maximum 32 points possible for Round 2
• 4 points per correct Sweet Sixteen pick – Maximum 32 points possible for Round of Sixteen
• 6 points per correct Elite Eight pick – Maximum 24 points possible for Round of Eight
• 8 points per correct Final Four pick – Maximum 16 points possible for Semi-Finals
• 12 points for correct Finals pick
7. The winner of the 2005 BobcatNation.com Bracket Challenge and recipient of eternal message board praise will be the entry with the most points per the scoring system above.
8. Should more than one entry be tied following the conclusion of the tournament, all ties will be broken by first looking at the most correct first round picks, then the most correct second round picks, etc. until a winner is found.
9. Game results will be updated as regularly as possible throughout the tournament. As soon as game results are updated, scores for all entries will be recalculated. Please be patient, we are all busy and we may not be able to update the results immediately after each game.
10. These rules are subject to change to ensure the integrity of the game. Any changes to these rules will be announced in this post.
Once the field of teams is announced and I can get it entered into the system, I will update this post with links to the entry page and appropriate standings. Please post any comments/questions/etc. about the game itself, rules, etc. here in this post and I will try to get back to people as quickly as possible.
For discussions about the NCAA Tournament, standings in the Bracket Challenge, Smack about other member's entries, etc. please post threads on the College Sports World board. We will allow some level of bracket smack to exist on threads in this board, just keep it civil and don't go overboard please.
EDIT to add the links for signup and standings for anyone who may just read this post and not my followup post below.
To submit your bracket go to http://www.bobcatnation.com/bracket/bracket.php
To view brackets that have been submitted as well as results once the tourney gets underway go to http://www.bobcatnation.com/bracket/standings.php You will also be taken to this page after submitting your bracket.
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