Fatdaddy's Madness!!!

Welcome to "Fatdaddy's Bracket Challenge".

Below is a link that will take you to the group's homepage on CBS sportsline. Their bracket manager is free, pretty easy to fill out and follow, and should work for what we need. You will have to create a user for the site, but all they want is a username (make sure I can tell who you are, or you won't get the prizes), and a valid e-mail.

It will let you fill out up to three brackets per account so your spouse, kids or whoever can also play on one e-mail but I'd like to keep it to one bracket per person. If you have more than three people that want to play, you'll have to set up another CBS account under a different email to get another three brackets. We tried to allow more so a whole family could have a bracket on just one email, but three was the max allowable. Sorry if this makes it more difficult.

Please don't feel that you have to have some knowledge of college hoops to play. My kids usually kick my butt and they have some pretty odd ways of picking winners. Peff goes with knicknames he likes; and of course, BYU wins it all on his bracket every year because they are his team. Thanks to the Sunday school song "I Love to See the Temple", he had a real dilemma when he was forced to choose between BYU and Temple this year, and he better hope that Wofford plays out of their heads, because he has the "woofies" going to the final four.

The girls will pick based on uniform color, mascot,or funny school name, and The Boss watches press conferences to see what coaches are criers, and then picks against them. However you pick, please play because I think it is much more fun with heavy participation. The winner will receive ten free passwords for Redbox DVD rentals, or if you live in an area without Redboxes, We'll find a suitable replacement prize.


Here's how it will score:

1st round is worth one point per game for each correct pick, plus a little twist. For the first round games only, we will have an "Upset Special" bonus score. If you have the guts to pick an underdog in the opening round, you will win not only the one point for the correct pick, but also bonus points that equal the seed of the winning team. For instance, if you pick a 12 seed team to upset a 5 seed, you will earn 1 point for the win plus 12 points for the seed of the winner, for a total of 13points. This means that even if you blow a whole day, one or two good upsets can keep you in the running.

2nd round worth two points per win

3rd round worth four points per win

4th round worth eight points per win

Semi-finals worth 16 points per win

Picking the Champion is worth 32 points

Any ties will be settled by the closest guess at the combined total score of the Championship game.

All picks must be made by 9:00 AM, Mountain Daylight Time on THIS THURSDAY, in order to participate! Don't delay!

Here's the link to our page, and the password. Once you are signed in, pick your bracket and just click on a team you think will win.

http://fdangels.mayhem.cbssports.com/e

The group password is maggie42

I'm still running some tests to make sure everything works, so if you can't sign up right away let me know in the comments and I'll see if I can fix it up!

Happy Picking, and good luck!