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Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
edited April 2009 in Social Entropy++
We are a mere 5 days from Selection Sunday and it's time to get a group together for some ESPN.com bracket busting.

Get in the action now:
http://games.espn.go.com/tcmen/group?groupID=8473

Group: Penny Arcade Bracketeers
Password: wang


Every year I lose horribly but this year might be different though I don't really expect it to be.

Will it be UNC? Duke? Pittsburgh? Kansas? Uconn? College of Charleston? Siena? Only time will tell.


Sign up fuckers! Even if you don't know college basketball you have a very good chance of winning. I almost always end up losing to someone who just completely guessed their way through the brackets.

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  • JimothyJimothy Not in front of the fox he's with the owlRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    BIG BOARD...

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  • AirAir Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    [bracket thread]

    ?

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  • JohnHamJohnHam Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I'm down.

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  • redfenixredfenix Aka'd as rfix Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    joined, i don't know shit about sports like ever

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  • lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    i would join, but i forgot my espn login and i think its linked to my now-defunct school e-mail account. i'll probably sign up again after work, but cmon, yahoo fantasy sports is so much better than espn

    also, GO NOVA

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2009
    redfenix wrote: »
    joined, i don't know shit about sports like ever

    In my experience this means you will win.

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  • ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Yeah yahoo would be best but I guess I can make an ESPN account.

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  • redfenixredfenix Aka'd as rfix Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »
    redfenix wrote: »
    joined, i don't know shit about sports like ever

    In my experience this means you will win.

    haha sweet

    i doubt it, but hey

    maybe ill do the 'which one sounds scarier' strategy

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited March 2009
    Noooooooooooooooooooo
    ACCESS DENIED !

    Access to this site has been denied in accordance with the Vanguard Electronic Communications Policy

    games.espn.go.com/tcmen/group?groupID=8473 is categorized as: Games (N941)

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  • lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    i blame rick reilly for being blawful

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2009
    I got an internal server error for a minute then it worked again.

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  • GRMikeGRMike The Last Best Hope for Humanity The God Pod Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I'm in.

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  • ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    http://www.theonion.com/content/video/ncaa_expands_march_madness_to?utm_source=a-section

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  • EbfanEbfan Wimmy Wam Wam Wozzle! Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I shall win this by picking Cornell to go all the way.

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  • simosimo Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    i'm in

    bc going to dominate (by losing in the first round)

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  • vsovevsove ....also yes. Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I saw this the other day on TV, I kind of want to sign up and then just guess everything. I figure the way professional sports seem to go, I have almost as good a chance of winning as anyone who knows a lot about it.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2009
    vsove wrote: »
    I saw this the other day on TV, I kind of want to sign up and then just guess everything. I figure the way professional sports seem to go, I have almost as good a chance of winning as anyone who knows a lot about it.

    The teams are all ranked. You have 4 groups ranked 1-16. A 16 seed has never beat a 1 and usually the 15 seeds all lost as well though they have won in the past. After that you usually get a 14 seed and a smattering of the other lower seeds get through.

    It's basically luck. It's almost impossible to know where the big upsets are going to be.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2009
    simo wrote: »
    i'm in

    bc going to dominate (by losing in the first round)

    It's a total points game so I don't know if you can technically be eliminated in round one. I guess if you managed to pick every team wrong.

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  • simosimo Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    it's luck in the early rounds maybe

    but it's almost impossible to win a good-sized pool without picking the right champion

    picking early round upsets are nice, but you could get them all right but if two of your final four teams lose in the second round you're fucked

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  • simosimo Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »
    simo wrote: »
    i'm in

    bc going to dominate (by losing in the first round)

    It's a total points game so I don't know if you can technically be eliminated in round one. I guess if you managed to pick every team wrong.

    no i meant bc as in boston college

    going to lose in the first round of the tournament most likely (though i hope not)

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  • nateknatek unh unh Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    this is a good year for the 10-13 seeds to win some games

    unless one of those teams is my gophers if they get in (nobody pick the gophers)

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2009
    simo wrote: »
    Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »
    simo wrote: »
    i'm in

    bc going to dominate (by losing in the first round)

    It's a total points game so I don't know if you can technically be eliminated in round one. I guess if you managed to pick every team wrong.

    no i meant bc as in boston college

    going to lose in the first round of the tournament most likely (though i hope not)

    I got you. I misread your statement.

    Somewhere deep down I want to say that Pitt is going to win it all but it just sounds so weird.

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited March 2009
    illinois is going to win it all (this is not going to happen)

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  • lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    i'm thinking just go by last year's tourney and have all the # 1 seeds advance to the final four. boring, i know. it'll probably be close to my usual strategery of all big east final fours the past few years, since three big east teams seem to have locks on the # 1 seeds

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited March 2009
    nova is going all the way

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  • Ness445Ness445 Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    really the only sport I've ver cared for is football but because my uncle lives in chapel hill and went to UNC I sort of wanted them to do the impossible and not lose for an entire season.

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  • simosimo Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Ness445 wrote: »
    really the only sport I've ver cared for is football but because my uncle lives in chapel hill and went to UNC I sort of wanted them to do the impossible and not lose for an entire season.

    not really impossible since it's been done a bunch of times

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  • Ness445Ness445 Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    simo wrote: »
    Ness445 wrote: »
    really the only sport I've ver cared for is football but because my uncle lives in chapel hill and went to UNC I sort of wanted them to do the impossible and not lose for an entire season.

    not really impossible since it's been done a bunch of times
    I thought it was just that one time, with Bob Knight's team.

    My history on the subject is pretty much nonexistant, though, so I'm willing to believe that.

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  • lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    but the only team that could out-douche UNC this year is duke! how can you root for them?

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  • SchideSchide Yeoh! Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Hey why the hell not.

    If Pitt didn't have a history of not making it past the Sweet 16 then I might pick them to win it all. But they do so I won't.

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  • simosimo Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Ness445 wrote: »
    simo wrote: »
    Ness445 wrote: »
    really the only sport I've ver cared for is football but because my uncle lives in chapel hill and went to UNC I sort of wanted them to do the impossible and not lose for an entire season.

    not really impossible since it's been done a bunch of times
    I thought it was just that one time, with Bob Knight's team.

    My history on the subject is pretty much nonexistant, though, so I'm willing to believe that.

    they were the last team to do it

    ucla did it like 4 or 5 times in the 60s/70s

    but yeah, you're right in the sense that it's probably impossible to do now

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited March 2009
    I think Stanford made it to the tournament with an undefeated record a couple of years back, but I don't think they made it to the title game. Illinois lost the last game of the regular season a couple of years ago also and lost in the title game. So there have been some close calls, but undefeated seasons tend to only happen on the women's side now, and they're becoming a bit more rare.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2009
    I hate Duke with the passion of a million burning suns and I honestly don't really know why.

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited March 2009
    I hate north carolina for beating Illinois in the national championship game the one year they'll probably have a legitimate shot at it in my lifetime

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  • ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Schide wrote: »
    Hey why the hell not.

    If Pitt didn't have a history of not making it past the Sweet 16 then I might pick them to win it all. But they do so I won't.

    When they show up ready to play they're the best team in the NCAA. Unfortunately that just doesn't seem to happen every day.

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  • simosimo Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »
    I hate Duke with the passion of a million burning suns and I honestly don't really know why.

    greg paulus

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  • Ness445Ness445 Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »
    I hate Duke with the passion of a million burning suns and I honestly don't really know why.
    hating duke has been instilled in me since...ever.

    indoctrine is really frightening on a base level.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2009
    I'm a Kentucky fan so I know part of it is fucking Christial Laettner.

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  • FortyTwoFortyTwo strongest man in the world The Land of Pleasant Living Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Red 5 standing by.

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited March 2009
    as a general rule if a team is on the east coast I hate them

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