March Madness '08 [WINNER: Buba]

[lancehoch]

March Madness ’08

64 players/teams (10 reserves)
All players welcome (please have one game slot open to begin the tournament and have that slot remain open until you lose or the tournament ends)
Subsequent rounds will not begin until all games in the previous round have been completed.
This will be a single loss elimination, bracket style tournament
Pick an NCAA Division 1 basketball team (men’s or women’s, if you need an idea you can go to http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/standings for men’s teams and http://sports.espn.go.com/ncw/standings for women’s teams)
Game settings for all games: 2 player, standard, sequential, escalating, chained, no fog (no infected neutral if it is implemented before the end of the tournament)
If the game is not joined within 48 hours this will result in a forfeit and a replacement player will be sought…please make an effort to join your games in a reasonable amount of time.
If your opponent is on your ignore list, please remove them for the duration of the game. If you cannot access your game because you are on your opponent’s ignore list, send me a pm and I will make a request of the other player to remove you. Non-compliance will result in a forfeit and a replacement player will be sought.
Seeding will be done by rank at the time that all slots are filled. Everyone will be ordered 1-64 and set into four quarters with 1v64, 2v63…32v33. Region 1 will contain ranks 1,8,9,16,17,24,25,32 and their opponents. Region 2 will contain ranks 2,7,10,15,18,23,26,31 and their opponents. Region 3 will contain ranks 3,6,11,14,19,22,27,30 and their opponents. Region 4 will contain ranks 4,5,12,13,20,21,28,29 and their opponents. At this point the players in each region will be renumbered 1-16 by rank and the games in each region will be played as follows:
1v16____1/16 v 8/9____1/16/8/9 v 5/12/4/13____1/16/8/9/5/12/4/13 v
8v9________________________________________3/14/6/11/7/10/2/15
5v12____5/12 v 4/13
4v13
3v14____3/14 v 6/11____3/14/6/11 v 7/10/2/15
6v11
7v10____7/10 v 2/15
2v15

At the time that ranks are being determined the maps will be randomly assigned to each quarter.

Round 1 & Round 2
8 maps ([D,ME]Africa, [ME,Mi]Asia, [Mi,T]Australia, [ME,T]Europe, [D,ME]North America, [D,T]South America, [D,Mi]British Isles, [Mi,T]USA)
Same map from Round 1 to Round 2
The lettering inside the [brackets] corresponds to the second set of maps. That is, Africa will be played as a first and second round map in the Draknor-Level 1 region as well as the Middle Earth region.

Round 3 & Round 4 (Regional Semifinals and Finals)
4 maps (Draknor-Level 1, Middle Earth, Midkemdil, Tamriel)
Same map from Round 3 to Round 4

Round 5 & Round 6 (National Semifinals and Finals)
1 map (Classic)

[lancehoch]

Signed Up
1 brandoncfi - UCLA
2 goggles paisano - Murray State
3 Rallyraider - Texas Tech
4 mangus - Boston College
5 badnuzjr - Drake
6 overanalyzer - Kansas
7 flexmaster33 - Portland State
8 Tapiavw - North Carolina
9 denominator - Texas A&M
10 dantheman1991 - Southern Illinois
11 vexx - Oral Roberts
12 harvmax - Oklahoma
13 vykingsfan64 - Minnesota
14 RedBaron0 - St. Joseph's (PA)
15 cougfan82 - Washington State
16 MostMackinest - Georgetown
17 taxmanjle - Michigan
18 Diamonds14 - Liberty
19 blakebowling - Kentucky
20 Marfski - Memphis
21 zat - Missouri
22 solar - Ohio State
23 Buba - Purdue
24 acores2005 - UMBC (Maryland, Baltimore County)
25 graulenst - Creighton
26 JKING - Alabama
27 lancehoch - Vanderbilt
28 BeckstaWVU - West Virginia
29 Hoosiers21 - Indiana
30 masonhogfan - Arkansas
31 laci_mae - Florida State
32 dcc1220 - Iowa State
33 allrightx3 - Wisconsin
34 risk it all - Utah
35 Hath - Duke
36 shaneramma - Montana State
37 cave man - Michigan State
38 Sir. Ricco - Penn State
39 blockhead15 - Rider
40 reahma - North Carolina State
41 Gamecock - South Carolina
42 hammyshawn - Louisville
43 Supposesublys - Arizona State
44 spurgistan - UMass
45 McCrap - Pittsburgh
46 raider7 - Georgia
47 SouthernWarrior - Gonzaga
48 croat_ante - Niagara
49 girque - IPFW (Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne)
50 dfp2dep - Washington
51 popeyelvc - Villanova
52 foxhunter8 - Stanford
53 amazzony - Tennessee (Lady Vols)
54 Topo Tim - Marquette
55 Icefog99 - Oregon
56 redorangeyellow - Maryland
57 hideaway - Northwestern
58 japser_be - Mississippi
59 jakejake - Texas
60 spock11384 - Clemson
61 Drunk_Idiot - Notre Dame
62 Fireside Poet - Florida
63 johnnysrx - Wisconsin Milwaukee
64 goferlord - Belmont

Reserves:
1 Jedlueds - George Mason
2 got tonkaed
3 Boss_oss_ss
4 Sir Big Spur

[lancehoch]

You will be playing the person below you if you are ranked 1-8 in your region, or the person above you if you are 9-16 in your region. Both the first and second round games will be on the map that is listed above a group of 4 names. PMs will be sent as soon as the games are created.

Draknor Region
South America
1 dcc1220
16 goferlord
8 flexmaster33
9 RedBaron0
Africa
5 croat_ante
12 cougfan82
4 Topo Tim
13 foxhunter8
British Isles
3 harvmax
14 acores2005
6 hammyshawn
11 spock11384
North America
7 Diamonds14
10 dantheman1991
2 japser_be
15 raider7

Midkemdil Region
Australia
2 MostMackinest
15 Rallyraider
7 BeckstaWVU
10 vykingsfan64
British Isles
6 vexx
11 overanalyzer
3 Sir. Ricco
14 jakejake
Asia
4 Icefog99
13 lancehoch
5 Supposesublys
12 SouthernWarrior
USA
8 johnnysrx
9 solar
1 goggles paisano
16 redorangeyellow

Tamriel Region
USA
1 Marfski
16 mangus
8 hideaway
9 laci_mae
Australia
5 brandoncfi
12 Drunk_Idiot
4 amazzony
13 blockhead15
South America
3 dfp2dep
14 blakebowling
6 taxmanjle
11 Buba
Europe
7 JKING
10 graulenst
2 allrightx3
15 McCrap

Middle Earth Region
Asia
2 Fireside Poet
15 risk it all
7 zat
10 popeyelvc
Africa
6 spurgistan
11 denominator
3 cave man
14 girque
North America
4 Hoosiers21
13 Tapiavw
5 shaneramma
12 Gamecock
Europe
8 reahma
9 badnuzjr
1 Hath
16 masonhogfan

EDIT: I had improperly numbered the Midkemdil and Middle Earth regions, my apologies to anyone who was misled and thanks to Hath for spotting the error. Also, the winner of the Draknor region will play the winner of the Midkemdil region while the winner of the Tamriel region will play the winner of the Middle Earth region. As a side note, congratulations to the four number 1 seeds: dcc1220 (1st overall), Hath (2nd overall), Marfski (3rd overall), and goggles paisano (4th overall).

[lancehoch]

RESERVED

[brandoncfi]

Im In UCLA

[goggles paisano]

murray state

[Rallyraider]

How about the texas tech red raiders. the ones from about 10 days ago, with bobby knight as coach.haha

[mangus]

I am in, BC please.

[badnuzjr]

I'm in ---- Drake Bulldogs

[overanalyzer]

I'm In for KANSAS .....

ROCK CHALK!!

[flexmaster33]

I'm in...I'll take Big Sky leaders Portland State...GO VIKINGS!!! chasing our first real NCAA bid this year.

[Tapiavw]

Im in.

North Carolina

[denominator]

I'll play as Texas A&M please.

[dantheman1991]

I'm in I'll take S. Illinois.

[vexx]

I'll play as

Oral Roberts

[harvmax]

please put me in for Oklahoma, kansas, or Gonzaga which ever is open in this order

[lancehoch]

All posts to this point have been added. Everyone has their first choice of teams.

[vykingsfan64]

I'll take Minnesota. Thank you Kentucky for your coach!

[RedBaron0]

St. Joseph's (PA)

THE HAWK WILL NEVER DIE!

[cougfan82]

Washington State University

GO COUGS!

[MostMackinest]

Georgetown Hoyas please.

[taxmanjle]

I'll take Michigan

[Diamonds14]

hey can i join.. i want to be liberty

[JKING]

put me in!

[blakebowling]

i want kentucky