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It's that time again! Our group is renewed, go join it and fill out a bracket! You can enter until Thursday!
ESPN Tournament Challenge Password: thetoo

If you don't care or don't know anything about the sport, that's absolutely fine! :) Just advance random teams, it takes less than three minutes, then you can forget all about it. There's no reason not to do one!

Even if you don't really follow the games go ahead and do a bracket anyway! Even if you don't follow at all! The more participants there are the more fun it is, it doesn't matter at all if you actually know what you're doing. I don't! \:D/

This is the ToO's longest running unofficial annual event; we've done a bracket competition for all but the very first year of this community's existence! (2005 doesn't count because we didn't open until April, and there was no 2020 tournament because of covid.) This is our 18th year! Come be a part of this great tradition!

2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

Expand below for how to join the group if you need help:
You will need an account on espn.com, make one now if you don't have one already. It's very easy and fast and you don't have to provide identifying information. PM me if you have trouble or concerns making an account and I can make one for you.
  • Log in to your ESPN account and go to the page for our group linked above. Click on "Join Group"
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  • Enter the group password and click "Join Group" again.
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  • You should be taken back to the group homepage and now see your unfilled bracket in the list of players.
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Expand below for instructions if you're confused about how to do the bracket:
It can be a little hard to understand what you're doing here at first because the website layout isn't the best, but actually it's really simple. You're predicting (or just randomly choosing) how the tournament's bracket will play out by selecting one team in each game to win and advance until there are only two left and you pick the ultimate winner.
  • Click on the name of your bracket in the list to start filling it out.
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How to fill out the bracket:
(These pictures are just examples of the process, the teams you see will be different.)
  • Start with the outermost layer of games and click on one team in each game. (The one you think will win.) That team will be moved up into the next round.
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  • Scroll down for the other half.
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  • When you have picked winners for all the games in that first layer there will now be a second level of new games between the teams you advanced. Repeat the process, clicking one team in each game in this new layer.
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  • Scroll down for the other half.
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  • Repeat for the third layer of games that is created.
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  • Scroll down for the other half.
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  • And repeat for the fourth layer.
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  • Scroll down for the other half.
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  • There are now just four teams left. In the middle of the page choose one on each side to advance into the final game.
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  • Choose which of the final two teams you think will be the ultimate champion. Then guess how many total points will be scored in the final game. (This is used for the contest tiebreaker if one is needed.)
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  • Leave the extra offers under the score box unchecked, unless you want to enter them. At the bottom of the page make sure it shows 63 picks made, then click "Submit Bracket"
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That's it! You're all set! \:D/
PM me if you have problems or questions with anything!
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My bracket is in!
I am confused
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-- March 21st, 2025, 10:31 am --

Big upsets already in the first round! #12 McNeese over #5 Clemson and #11 Drake over #6 Missouri

-- March 25th, 2025, 8:29 pm --

My runner up is knocked out in the second round! \:D/ In another upset, #10 over #2

The rest of my bracket is pretty decent though; I jumped from last place in our group to pretty solidly in first.

-- April 3rd, 2025, 1:06 pm --

I got half of the Final Four right. Both on the same side, so the only points left for me are if Duke advances and then wins it all. Every other player can still get points on the other side that I can't (two have Florida going to the final, two have Auburn), but I don't know how to do the math on whether it's enough to make any of them jump me in the end. It would only be one additional correct pick over me from this point; we all have Duke picked as champion other than Almanzo.
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