SBR Forum is guaranteeing a $15,000 prize-pool to the top 20 bracket submissions. No perfect bracket is required, read here for more details!
Can you feel it in the air? To quote a man synonymous with this time of year – it’s March Madness, baby. Dick Vitale’s voice echoes through television sets across North America and abroad; in countries where ex-pats gather around a Direct TV feed to inhale a healthy dosage of March Madness basketball. It's safe to say the world will be watching these exceptionally talented young men go at it. For real sports betting enthusiasts and college basketball fanatics, March Madness also presents an opportunity to win some free cash as bracket pools are offered all across the internet, bar rooms, and offices ad nauseum. Everyone is gunning for a perfect bracket, but the chances of predicting an exactly correct 64 team bracket are higher than being struck by lightning seven times in a row.
That is what makes SBR Forum’s
Free $15,000 Bracket Tournament so special. SBR recognizes that a perfect bracket is nothing more than a cheap marketing tactic; nobody will hit one, no super duper grand prize will be given out, so why not guarantee a significant prize-pool to the best 20 bracketeers? I might’ve just invented a word, but my point remains – if you’re going to invest your time into filling out an NCAA March Madness bracket, you might as well choose one where you are guaranteed a decent return if you can put together a respectable bracket. Of course, it all depends on the way the ball bounces, but that’s the very essence of gambling anyway, isn’t it?
All that is required to participate in SBR Forum’s 2010 Free Bracket Tournament is an SBR screenname, and submission of three new sportsbook accounts from a list of sixteen sponsors. No deposit is required to play. The format for SBR’s bracket tournament could not be simpler. You are rewarded for sticking your neck out a little bit in the early rounds and predicting upsets. Each round awards points for each win, but the first round also takes into account the seed differential. In the championship round, you receive the highest number of points and those points are multiplied by seed number. Here is SBR Forum’s scoring summary chart:
SCORING SUMMARY
- Round One - 1 point per win PLUS seed differential (if underdog picked & wins)
- Round Two - 3 points per win
- Round Three - 5 points per win
- Round Four - 8 points per win
- Round Five - 12 points per win
- Round Six - 16 points per win MULTIPLIED by seed number
If you have any questions about payouts, registration, or how the whole well-oiled contest machine works; do not hesitate to shoot me an e-mail at
Lou@sbrmarketing.com. Now if you will excuse me, I am off to my chambers to chase that ever elusive perfect bracket – something tells me this is my year.
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