March Radness: The 10th Anniversary

Celebrating ten years of March Radness with the biggest contest yet. #MarchRadness 

For the tenth year (seriously?!) of this contest, I am going to step it up a bit with the prizes. If you've participated before, you know the drill. Fill out a bracket, compete with others, and maybe win a prize. If you've never played before, it's as easy as logging into a corporately-owned website and filling out a bracket!

This shindig is open to all Cards on Cards readers, lurkers, and friends of friends. It's conference tournament week, so there are still games to be played before the field is set, but you can sign up whenever you like. Selection Sunday is a week from tonight, and the games that count for the contest begin on March 15th.

One of the requirements is having an ESPN account. ESPN should hopefully not ask you for any invasive information as part of the conditions for signing up. If they do, please tell me immediately and I'll consider other options. If you absolutely, positively refuse to sign up for one of those things, go ahead and send me your bracket before the deadline in some sort of legible form and I'll send you a prize if you manage to pick a lot of winners.

ESPN's default scoring rules apply. "Play-in" games (i.e. the games before the first Thursday of the tournament) do not count. Should you choose one of the play-in winners to advance in the real part of the tournament, not only do you do so at your own peril but you also have the advantage of showing success no matter which play-in team makes it in. PLEASE make sure you fill out the entire bracket, including the tie-breaking final score of the final game. I hate to disqualify people for not filling everything out, but it seems to happen every year. 

Along with bragging rights, the first prize winner will receive a 2018 Topps Heritage, 2018 Topps Gypsy Queen or 2018 Panini Diamond Kings baseball retail blaster box (your choice! *subject to availability because Ohtani-mania) AND a second baseball blaster of my choosing. Three runners-up (runner-ups?) will receive prize packs for their MLB or NBA team of their choice including no less than one certified autograph or memorabilia card (or both?!). A random, valid bracket will also be awarded a baseball blaster of my choosing. Worst place will receive something truly terrible. You will close your mailbox for good and leave no forwarding address. 

If you'd like to participate, click here and click on the "Create a Bracket Now!" button (password = marchradness). The deadline is the morning prior to the first real (non play-in) tournament game on Thursday, March 15th, though I would suggest getting your bracket done by the night before just to be safe. Leave a comment here or send me an email if the invite link doesn't work or if you are otherwise having trouble joining up so I can send you a direct invitation. 

Don't forget to pick the tiebreaker score for the final game!