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Nobody wants Syracuse to win it all. Pick against them here:

http://y.ahoo.it/aChMImLh

You shouldn't need the group info using that link, but just in case:
Group: 8857
Group Name: CoNCAA
Group Password: flanprincess

Selection Sunday is on March 14, and the first games that count take place on the 18th, so you'll have the evening (American EST) of the 14th until just before noon (again, American EST) to get your picks in for every game of the tournament.

If you have questions, ask in here so one of the many CoNCAA veterans can help you out. Otherwise, I'm going back to my holiday and my lovely wife's birthday today.

Note: prize will be determined after we get all the signups in.


And here's a widget to use to watch games or get stats once the games start on Thursday:



This post has been edited by Rangers51 on 16th March 2010 00:17

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN?

The college basketball tournament is my favorite annual sporting event. I am SO in.

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Hummel references make me cry.

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Hey, put the cellphone down for a while
In the night there is something wild
Can you hear it breathing?
And hey, put the laptop down for a while
In the night there is something wild
I feel it, it's leaving me

time to get in where I fit in, Galvatrons Glory is go

This post has been edited by Nytecrawla on 4th March 2010 15:55

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This is a webcomic and gaming blog where I rant about nonsense. Enjoy.

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Quote (Neal @ 2nd March 2010 11:00)

Hummel references make me cry.

roflolz.

Crazy tourney coming up, feels like. Can't wait!

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I find your lack of faith disturbing...

Up to eight already, not a bad start. Seriously, though, if you even read this, you should get in on it. Nobody's going to mock you if you fail, and even the people who have been doing this for years don't always do well.

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN?

And if by all things good and right you shouldn't win, then you probably will.

OH MY GOD IT'S CHRISTMAS!

Avoiding My Research Paper is on board.

Ah brilliant! March is a bad month for coursework but a great month for sport. I'm in as 'If I Win I Will Eat My Shoes' to tempt fate a little. I'm not going to decide on a pair yet for the same reason.

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Scepticism, that dry rot of the intellect, had not left one entire idea in his mind.

Me on the Starcraft.

I'm in as always. Trucruballer2004, takin it!

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"The answer is, of course, that it would be best to be both loved and feared. But since the two rarely come together, anyone compelled to choose will find greater security in being feared than in being loved."
- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

I forgot to say I'm in, but at this point the fact there's a team with Mewsevelt in the name should be a huuuge clue to those in the know.

Reporting once more to show everyone how NOT to do it

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"Only the dead have seen the end of their quotes being misattributed to Plato."
-George Santayana

"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here..."
-Abraham Lincoln, prior to the discovery of Irony.

Aigh Yigh captain.

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The clouds ran away, opened up the sky
And one by one I watched every constellation die
And there I was frozen, standing in my backyard
Face to face, eye to eye, staring at the last star
I should've known, walked all the way home
To find that she wasn't here, I'm still all alone

-Atmosphere "Always Coming Back Home to You"

we're gonna win it all, boys.

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"We're not tools of the government or anyone else. Fighting... fighting was the only thing I was ever good at, but at least I always fought for what I believed in." - Frank Yeager (a.k.a. Grey Fox)

What is basketball, I don't understand.

Mow wow.

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Okay, but there was a goat!

Oh yeah, here's a question from someone out the loop. Why don't we want Syracuse to win?

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Scepticism, that dry rot of the intellect, had not left one entire idea in his mind.

Me on the Starcraft.

I used to work with a LOT of guys who went to 'Cuse. They got irritating this time of year.

We're up to sixteen now, not terrible for this time in the process, with a week to go before picks become available. Make sure you post your team name in here, too, if you haven't done so and it isn't completely obvious.

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN?

I know nothing about sports.


That's me, and that's the truth. If I win, y'all will need to hide your faces in shame!

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"And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped” -Sir Bedevere the Wise

OK, we're up to nineteen so far. Still ten shy of last year's final number, I think, but the games don't start for another week. So, make sure you get in, and if you don't know quite how it works, I'll post some resources after the picks can be made (Sunday night American time, roughly).

Here are the players so far:

ALL of the Points	R51
Mewsevelt Marauders	Del
Lazzie Come Home	laszlow
Gold and Black 2011	Neal
Galvatrons Glory	Nytecrawla
Picks by Krappa	Kappa
Oh My God It's Christmas!	footbigmike
Hiring a Monkey + Dartboard	MeHael
Avoiding my Research Paper	Kane
If I Win I'll Eat My Shoes	sweeetdude
TruCruBallerz2004	Baralai
Xenon's pickins	Quad
Tidu's Teabaggers (class, that -Ed.)	Tidu
we're gonna win it all boys	FallingHeart
I known nothing about sports.	Fadien
Mow Wow	Dragon Fire
Green Team	Olly
Welcome TO TIDDLE	Tiddles
Bracket Racket	Gabe
LOL Maryland Part 2 - LOL ACC	Super Moogle
Arctic Foxes love Wisconsin	Sasquatch
My Gut Says UConn-UNC	Gears
Program61	Anh
Oh no! What Rautin Luck.	SSJ_Cloud
Woooo sports	Relm Arrowny
Josh made me do this	Hanyou
KansasIsALocke	???
DP's PDs	Death Penalty

If you know someone who normally plays but hasn't signed up yet, reach out to them. I know a lot of people just don't check the email that Yahoo has for them, even though they might want to play.

This post has been edited by Rangers51 on 18th March 2010 16:38

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN?

I'm too distracted with work to go forth with it but maybe this weekend I can dare say tho go Wisconsin!

Quote (Sasquatch @ 11th March 2010 19:07)

I'm too distracted with work to go forth with it but maybe this weekend I can dare say tho go Wisconsin!

You can't even pick teams until after Sunday, just so it's clear. It's just early signups now, then picks made between Sunday night and Thursday morning. Then sit back and watch.

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN?

Well then joined I have Now then back to FFXIII and Megaman 10 :3~

Everyone on Syracuse, indeed. Including Georgetown.

Two new players since yesterday's post, the aforementioned Sasquatch playing as "Arctic Foxes love Wisconsin," and long time player and onetime staffer Super Moogle, as "LOL Maryland Part 2 - LOL ACC." Twenty-one total, reckon it's time for me to start bugging folks on Facebook.

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN?

Quote (Rangers51 @ 12th March 2010 09:29)

Everyone on Syracuse, indeed. Including Georgetown.

Two new players since yesterday's post, the aforementioned Sasquatch playing as "Arctic Foxes love Wisconsin," and long time player and onetime staffer Super Moogle, as "LOL Maryland Part 2 - LOL ACC." Twenty-one total, reckon it's time for me to start bugging folks on Facebook.

See if you can't get Ryan, Gears, and Sabin back in. I don't think any of them have missed more than one season of this, if any at all.

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Hey, put the cellphone down for a while
In the night there is something wild
Can you hear it breathing?
And hey, put the laptop down for a while
In the night there is something wild
I feel it, it's leaving me

Quote (Neal @ 12th March 2010 09:53)

Quote (Rangers51 @ 12th March 2010 09:29)

Everyone on Syracuse, indeed. Including Georgetown.

Two new players since yesterday's post, the aforementioned Sasquatch playing as "Arctic Foxes love Wisconsin," and long time player and onetime staffer Super Moogle, as "LOL Maryland Part 2 - LOL ACC." Twenty-one total, reckon it's time for me to start bugging folks on Facebook.

See if you can't get Ryan, Gears, and Sabin back in. I don't think any of them have missed more than one season of this, if any at all.

Yep, I already messaged all of them on FB.

It brings up an interesting point, though. Most of those guys will show up and participate, even if they're not around much any more. Why is it that it works this way, but we don't get much new blood from year to year? Surely among the younger members and/or older members who are still new to the site, some must like NCAA basketball or are willing to try something new? Surely not all of them care only about Final Fantasy and never pay attention to anything else?

Time to branch out, kiddos.

This post has been edited by Rangers51 on 12th March 2010 16:29

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN?

I'm in as My Gut Says UConn-UNC in honor of the fact that I've watched less college basketball than any year since I have cable. It's a combination of the Bulls and Blackhawks both being watchable again.

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Hip-Hop QOTW:

"Yeah, where I'ma start it at, look I'ma part of that
Downtown Philly where it's realer than a heart attack
It wasn't really that ill until the start of crack
Now it's a body caught every night on the Almanac"

"Game Theory"
The Roots

Quote (Gears @ 12th March 2010 21:03)

I'm in as My Gut Says UConn-UNC in honor of the fact that I've watched less college basketball than any year since I have cable. It's a combination of the Bulls and Blackhawks both being watchable again.

I agree I haven't watched much College BBall either this year. But come on, the Bulls will be watchable when they get Lebron/D Wade/Bosh/Joe Johnson next near.

The /'s mean "and" by the way.

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The clouds ran away, opened up the sky
And one by one I watched every constellation die
And there I was frozen, standing in my backyard
Face to face, eye to eye, staring at the last star
I should've known, walked all the way home
To find that she wasn't here, I'm still all alone

-Atmosphere "Always Coming Back Home to You"

So what is this Fantasy Sport and how do you play it?

Program61 checking in.

This post has been edited by Anh on 14th March 2010 04:48

OK, we're up to 23 24 26. I'd love to get several more over the next few days, so again, if you have any friends on CoN or are in touch with someone who's played in the past, we'd love to have them.

For those of you who aren't quite clear on how it goes, this is the tournament for Men's College Basketball here in the US. The winner of this tournament is the national champion for the year, and the span of this tournament is one of the biggest sporting events of the year every year. People cheer for their hometown universities, the schools they went to or go to, or for any school they care about. It's called "March Madness" because it is the kind of sporting event where just about anyone can win some games, and there are a lot of David and Goliath matches that take place every year.

The way the tournament works is this; there are 65 teams to start, who get in based on winning their conference tournament (think of it as a smaller tournament with a reward for the winner) or based just on how good they did over the course of the season. The "worst" two teams in have a "play in" game at the beginning to see who gets the honour of playing the "best" team in the tournament.

The remaining 64 teams, starting this Thursday at noon American Eastern time, play each other in a single elimination tournament - lose and you're done playing for the year. In a few weeks, we'll have a national champion.

This is where our brackets come in. Starting right now, if you've signed up, you can go to Yahoo and see a the whole bracket of 64 teams. Each team has a number beside its name, which is how good, relatively, the people who pick the teams think a team is; this is called the "seed." Higher seeds are, allegedly, better, so a 3 should be a better team than a 12. However, like I say, a lot of things can happen in this tournament, so you can't just always pick the higher seeds and expect to win.

What you need to do is pick a team for every single game in the tournament. You do this by clicking a team's name or clicking and dragging the name up the ladder. Every time you click a team's name, it will move up the ladder a bit closer to the center. You aren't done until there's a team on every single line, and you have a team name in the box that says "National Champion." You also need to fill in scores in the very center, for the tiebreaker. On this, you look at the two teams that you have in the national championship game in the center, and you guess how many points each team will score in that game. Once all that's done, you click the big yellow button at the top that says "Save Bracket." I suggest doing your initial picks right away, because once you have picks in place, you can edit them until the first game starts on Thursday; however, if you leave any blank, and the first game has started, you're screwed: all picks are final as of the time the first game starts. Blank picks get you no points.

The number of points you get, gets bigger with every round for right picks. You get one point for the first tier of games, for instance, and two for the second tier of games, and so on. At the end of it all, the player with the most points is the winner.

If you have any other questions, post them here or find one of the players who have played a lot in chat. It's me, it's Neal, it's footbigmike, it's Kappa, it's a variety of folks. Finally, here are some links to help you in your research or guessing:

http://sports.yahoo.com/fantasy/nba/news?s...ney_primer_2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_Men%27s_...ll_Championship
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_NCAA_Men...ball_Tournament
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/

This post has been edited by Rangers51 on 16th March 2010 19:11

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN?

I hate the South Region. I wouldn't pick a single team in it to go to the sweet 16 in any other region.

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Hip-Hop QOTW:

"Yeah, where I'ma start it at, look I'ma part of that
Downtown Philly where it's realer than a heart attack
It wasn't really that ill until the start of crack
Now it's a body caught every night on the Almanac"

"Game Theory"
The Roots

Quote (Gears @ 14th March 2010 19:04)

I hate the South Region. I wouldn't pick a single team in it to go to the sweet 16 in any other region.

I agree 100%. I dislike the path Duke has before them, much less any team in the region.

Only other thing I have to say on first glance is that I love Maryland getting a (generous) 4 seed, but dislike being against a hot Houston team and being in Kansas' field.

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I find your lack of faith disturbing...