About The Challenge:
The Fundamentals:
Free to enter
Sponsors & anonymous donors pay for all awards and bonus opportunities
ALL donations go directly to ‘The Cause’ - read about this years goal here.
General Rules: (see Official Rules for details)
One bracket per person (4 yrs old min. age)
Enter bracket before March 19th, Thursday noon ET [now closed]
Track your bracket through dynamic leaderboard
Watch games and win prizes
Mission statement:
An annual, free March Madness contest connecting basketball fans with opportunities to ‘pour yourself out’ (Isaiah 58:10).
Awards:
1st Place
Two NCAA
Championship Tickets with lodging*
*choose any NCAA Finals in the next 3 years
2021- Indianapolis, IN
2022- New Orleans, LA
2023- Houston, TX
2nd Place
— Unlimited Chick-fil-A for you and your family for the entire month of May.
3rd Place
— Unlimited pizza for you and your family for the entire month of May.
4th Place
— Unlimited ice cream for you and your family for the entire month of May.
5th Place
— Unlimited coffee for you and your family for the entire month of May.
BONUS OPPORTUNITIES:
$1,000 cash - to anyone who scores 1,000+ points
$334 cash - to anyone who correctly predicts the Final Four WITH seeds aggregating to 9 or greater (e.g.- 3,2,3,1= 9)
$63 cash - to anyone who correctly predicts the Elite 8.
$21 cash- to anyone who picks 29 (or more) of 32 games in the first round (Thurs/ Fri).
SCORING SYSTEM:
Round 1: actual seed number of the winner
Round 2: 15 pts
Round 3: 30 pts
Round 4: 50 pts
Round 5: 75 pts
Round 6: 100 pts *
(The play-in games will not be part of the scoring system)
* tiebreaker will be the person with the highest % of games won followed by the person who entered their bracket first.