Sign Up For The Official 2011 Awl March Madness Bracket Tournament Challenge Presented By The Awl!
That's right, folks, it's that time again! The ides of March are upon us, and it's TIME TO GO MAD! Don't have any idea what I'm talking about? Well, that makes sense as I've currently not given you much, if any, context with which to understand what I'm saying. Wait, but you know what, readers of The Awl are so sports savvy*, I'm sure you guys caught my "mad March" reference up there as an allusion to our (now) annual tradition: The Official 2011 Awl March Madness Bracket Tournament Challenge Sponsored By The Awl!
The details are as follows:
1. Go to our official bracket page at Yahoo! (ESPN's system is way too confusing and it was annoying to deal with last year) and sign up for an account if you don't have an one already.
1b. Try to remember your Yahoo! account login and/or password.
1c. Click the password recovery link, but realize that you can't remember what your alternate email address from 2003 was.
1d. Give up, take a deep breath, and just make a brand new Yahoo! account.
1e. Oh, Yahoo! ids work with Flickr now? That's cool!
2. Fill out a bracket. You can find some pro tips here. NOTE: ONLY ONE BRACKET PER USER. Please don't try to circumvent this rule, it will be annoying for us to police and embarrassing for you that you even tried to do that. If you want to name your bracket the same as your commenter name, that could be helpful for identification, but I'm sure you have some clever name picked out for your bracket that involves punnery. Oh, you and your wordplay!
3. Sit back and ENJOY THE TOURNEY—that's short for tournament, but as if I had to tell you that, you crazy sports fan, you. Will Alex beat Choire this year? Where will young upstarts Adam Frucci, Edith Zimmerman and Carrie Frye land? Which users will complain to me that this bracket challenge system is annoying and they don't get how it works! The suspense is killing me! Is it killing you? RIP me. I'm dead!
4. So get this, let's say you win the whole bracket contest (Congratulations! You've won!), you win an actual awl, the very object that will never exist in the logo of this website. So that's pretty fun for you! March is turning out better than you thought!
* Websites with poetry sections are often known to cater to the most savvy and fanatical sports fans.
Also: Contest void where prohibited by law etc., etc. disclaimer, disclaimer, you can imagine what sort of terms and conditions would need to be here.
Oh my god I want the prize so badly.
And there better be a ceremony.
Last year I got Jock Jams, delivered via the mails. If they don't give me more Jock Jams, and administer this contest via Compuserve, I may have to boycott.
Can there be an alternate prize for best pun team name? Also can the awl be signed?
It's tough juggling so many anonymous online identities!
This just made me realize that my yahoo ID is not so anonymous. Gulp.
There is no way that I'll remember to check my standings on this without constant reminders of this thing's existence
This is goung to give my Yahoo ID an undeserved sense of usefulness outside "spam depostitory" and "craigslist ad responder".
cho's has an avatar. i wouldn't have pointed this out except for the whole "the very object that will never exist in the logo of this website" thing.
My Yahoo! login is what I use for Fantasy Football, so it is VERY active (except not the email at all).
Ditto.
I'm going to kick all your asses. Especially that Keiser bastard.
Damn him, for stealing our word "twenty"!
DBU, as an American citizen I am by law immune to Australian booting laws. And BOD, I have dickety-two brackets filled out already.
who would've guessed that the thing yahoo would get out of acquiring flickr would be a reason for people to remember their yahoo ID and password?
No, I absolutely cannot imagine what sort of terms and conditions would need to be there. Does this mean I'm disqualified?
is there also a prize for lowest score?
NOPE.
Maybe the loser could get a newsletter?
If you get into any NCAA copyright violation hot water, I know a guy.
Done! I still use my Yahoo email account, but apparently this is now not a thing. Garge gave me guff about it around the time of the December Boston Bawl.
(And now I've surely jinxed myself, and my email will now get hacked and constantly barraged by spyware and porn sites.)
You and my abandoned-yet-haunting-my-google flickr account get the last laugh!
I picked a team I hate, so when they lose, I won't feel so bad.
The rest of us thank you for jinxing the Blue Devils.
It can't be said enough: Duke sucks.
I just filled out my first March Madness bracket ever! I went with deciding factors like, "Aww, Wisonsin's had a rough couple of weeks. Let's give it to them!" (They're not in my final two, though.)
I've been doing this for years and I can assure that actually knowing anything about college basketball is pretty much a disadvantage. If you're deciding it like that I'm sure you'll do fine.
Important question: which of the teams has the cutest dudes?
TO THE GOOGLES!
Morehead State?
I tried. But I couldn't quite bring myself to pick against my alma mater, and was too embarrassed to pick them to win everything. So.
Cho, keep an eye on Seth. He's been known to submit multiple brackets.
Why is my name some crazy string of letters and numbers? Is this Yahoo passive-aggressively sniping at Google? I HATE IT. LET ME CHANGE MY NAME YAHOO.
(I'm really happy about this though!)
yahoo gave a picture for each team when you click the little "info" button. definitely chose based on cutest picture, most of the time. hello xavier! you're in my final four.
also, I used to get really into this and actually try to know something about college sports. so that made me assume that all the same teams I used to root for (WHERES WAKE FOREST?) are still hot.
Yeah it's weird because a lot of historically strong college basketball programs are absolutely terrible these days: Wake Forest, Georgia Tech, Indiana, really bad for the last few years.
At least GT finally fired their coach. Wait'l next year. Or the year after that.
I'm taking a flyer and picking my Tar Heels to win the whole enchilada!
With you all the way, superdave…somehow couldn't see my (UConn) Huskies making it work this year.
I am only the fifth person to use "Awl" as a pun in my bracket name. I'm not sure whether I should be proud or ashamed.