Welcome to the first Vizzed NCAA March Madness Tournament Competition!As some people might not know; March Madness is a special competition held every March. This is a national competition in the NCAA College Basketball game. Every year thousands of people do competitions where they try to predict the outcome of the competition. Since we have no such thing on vizzed, I figure I try to start one as it could be fun for the vizzed community. So here are the rules for the competition...

You must submit your bracket before March 21st- On March 21st, March Madness starts. All you folks have to do is submit your bracket on this thread so that you can participate in this. There are 2 ways of doing this...

   1. You can provide a Link to your bracket from another site that has a similar bracket challenge (ESPN, Yahoosports, FOXsports, etc).
   or
   2. Post a screenshot of your bracket and post it on the forum.
   or
   3 Any other way that will allow for vizzed users to see your bracket

To find the bracket, you can go into ESPN or FOX as they usually have brackets. If not you can always do a Google search for "NCAA 2013 March Madness Brackets" and you should be able to find them. If you submit a bracket after the First Four games have started, then you WILL NOT be allowed into the competition.

A couple of extra things also.

1. The tournament starts on MARCH 21ST when the 1st round starts. If you submit a bracket while the 1st 4 games on MARCH 21ST, you bracket will still count; BUT THOSE 4 GAMES WILL NOT COUNT AS YOU FAILED TO REACH THE DEADLINE. YOU HAVE ALMOST 4 DAYS TO SUMBIT A BRACKET, NOT ENOUGH TIME SHOULD NOT BE AN EXCUSE.

2. IF YOU CHANGE YOUR BRACKET AT ANYTIME AFTER THE DEADLINE, YOU WILL BE DISQUALIFIED. SINCE EVERYONE IN VIZZED CAN SEE YOUR BRACKET, SOMEONE WILL FIND OUT IF YOU CHANGED IT.

3. There are 4 "GET IN" games that happen on Tuesday March 19th. These games will not count toward the score as they are "buy in" games. If you wish to guess who will win, then by all means go ahead; but you will not recieve Viz or Points for those games.

4. If you are handwriting a bracket for upload, make sure your handwriting is neat and readable. If we can't make out what team you picked, then that game will not count.

5. I will be doing all the point calculations and Viz donations. I will do the point and Viz totals AFTER ALL GAMES FOR THAT DAY ARE OVER. These might take a while and since I'm working as well, some nights the calculations might not come up until the next day. Feel free to calculate your point and Viz totals as well; but its not required.

6. Remember watching the games is NOT REQUIRED. Since some people don't live in the US or don't have cable; they might not be able to watch the games. Just submit your bracket, check to see it works, and your free to do whatever.

7. If you have any questions about who to select, feel free to post them on this thread. Doesn't hurt to ask for advice on who would most likely win.

Now unto the actual competition part. Here is how you'll earn points....

YOU WILL EARN POINTS AND Viz BASED ON THE GAMES YOU CORRECTLY PREDICT

Round 1: 15 Viz and 10 points for each correct game

Round 2: 30 Viz and 20 points

Round 3: 60 Viz and 40 points

Round 4: 120 Viz and 80 points

Round 5: 240 Viz and 160 points

Final Round: 500 Viz and 320 points for picking the Champion.

THE PERSON WITH THE MOST AMOUNT OF POINTS WINS THE COMPETITION AND THE VIZZ JACKPOT!!

1st place: 5,000 viz

2nd place: 2,500 viz

3rd place: 1,000 viz

Now here is a warning: THE AMOUNT OF Viz EARNED WILL CHANGE BASED ON THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE PARTICIPATING.

Since I'm using my own viz, I want to make sure that I don't run out of Viz during the competition and people think that I'm not giving them what they earned. So before the competition I feel that if I can't afford that amount of Viz based on how many people are participating, then I will lower the Viz amount. I don't wish to ask someone else to help fund this competition, unless I truely have to. But I'm sure I can fund this. POINTS WILL REMAIN THE SAME NO MATTER HOW MANY PEOPLE.

That is it folks. If anyone has any questions feel free to post on this thread. Also if you wish for me to summon you once the brackets are out, then I will do so. Just post that you would like a summon on March 21st when the brackets come out, and I will summon you.

Good Luck to Everyone who Participates!!

Okay folks the official bracket has come out, so now is the time for you all to create your brackets. Remember for your bracket to count in the competition you must either...

1. Post a link via website that does a similar competition (ESPN, Yahoo, FOXsports, etc). Make sure links work and everyone can see it.

2. Take a screenshot of your bracket and upload them to the thread.

If you have another way of getting your bracket sumbited, feel free to do so as long as....

1. It works

2. The Vizzed community can access it.

A couple of extra things also.

1. The tournament starts on MARCH 21ST when the 1st round starts. If you submit a bracket while the 1st 4 games on MARCH 21ST, you bracket will still count; BUT THOSE 4 GAMES WILL NOT COUNT AS YOU FAILED TO REACH THE DEADLINE. YOU HAVE ALMOST 4 DAYS TO SUMBIT A BRACKET, NOT ENOUGH TIME SHOULD NOT BE AN EXCUSE.

2. IF YOU CHANGE YOUR BRACKET AT ANYTIME AFTER THE DEADLINE, YOU WILL BE DISQUALIFIED. SINCE EVERYONE IN VIZZED CAN SEE YOUR BRACKET, SOMEONE WILL FIND OUT IF YOU CHANGED IT.

3. There are 4 "GET IN" games that happen on Tuesday March 19th. These games will not count toward the score as they are "buy in" games. If you wish to guess who will win, then by all means go ahead; but you will not recieve Viz or Points for those games.

4. If you are handwriting a bracket for upload, make sure your handwriting is neat and readable. If we can't make out what team you picked, then that game will not count.

5. I will be doing all the point calculations and Viz donations. I will do the point and Viz totals AFTER ALL GAMES FOR THAT DAY ARE OVER. These might take a while and since I'm working as well, some nights the calculations might not come up until the next day. Feel free to calculate your point and Viz totals as well; but its not required.

6. Remember watching the games is NOT REQUIRED. Since some people don't live in the US or don't have cable; they might not be able to watch the games. Just submit your bracket, check to see it works, and your free to do whatever.

7. If you have any questions about who to select, feel free to post them on this thread. Doesn't hurt to ask for advice on who would most likely win.

I will now summon those who expressed interest in doing this to tell you the brackets are out.

geeogree:
Thing1:
mrfe:
play4fun:
earthwarrior:
FrankThePunisherCastle:

Good luck to you folks and to the rest who also wish to participate!

Local Mods : Any chance we could sticky this thread? I figure we could double this as a March Madness Discussion thread as well. If you don't wish to sticky this, then I won't complain as I'm just making a suggestion.

Also could someone redo my summons? They didn't work.

AND THE MADNESS IS UNDERWAY!!

Thank you to all of those who sumbited their brackets before the deadline; you folks will not be deducted Viz.

To those who didn't post or link a bracket; you folks still can. Instead I decided that you will not earn Viz if you submit a bracket later. If you still wish to be involved...

SUBMIT A BRACKET BEFORE THE FIRST 4 GAMES END. LAST GAME STARTS AT 2:15 PM ET, SO DEPENDING ON WHEN THE LAST GAME ENDS, YOUR BRACKET WILL NOT COUNT. DON'T FORGET YOU MUST EITHER UPLOAD OR LINK A BRACKET TO THIS THREAD.

(sorry for caps).