WINNER: 2016-17 NCAA basketball (ViperOverLord)

[flexmaster33]

Prize breakdown...
NCAA champion: 1200 credits -- ViperOverLord
NCAA runner-up: 600 credits -- Witt13
Other two Final Four teams: 300 credits -- RKCVED & aalii
Highest RPI team not to reach the Final Four: 200 credits -- agentcom

Link to full-season schedules/results and full 50-team RPI rankings (update March 5)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing










6-23 NCAA bracket* by David Ball, on Flickr

6-23 NCAA FinalFour* by David Ball, on Flickr

6-23 NIT bracket* by David Ball, on Flickr

6-23 NIT finalBox* by David Ball, on Flickr

NCAA Elite Eight
https://flic.kr/p/VKv1wX

NCAA First and Second rounds
https://flic.kr/p/V8KJV8
https://flic.kr/p/UKdbVQ

Conference tournament brackets
https://flic.kr/p/TFTMB7
https://flic.kr/p/UsJrzM
https://flic.kr/p/TFTMHj

4-11 FinalRPI* by David Ball, on Flickr

3-28 NCAA1 by David Ball, on Flickr
3-28 NCAA2 by David Ball, on Flickr
3-28 NCAA3 by David Ball, on Flickr

Archives...
Game 28 ...
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Game 27 ...
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GAme 16 ...
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Game 4...
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Game 3...
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Game 2...
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Game 1...
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RULES
Welcome to my favorite tournament — the 2015-16 installment of the NCAA College Baseball season (this marks our seventh year).

FORMAT: 1 vs. 1 play
ELIGIBILITY: Open to all players, although I ask freebies to keep pace with the flow of the tourney — six maps per week. If you start falling behind I will go to the reserves list at my discretion.
HOME MAPS: Sequential order is required…the rest is up to you. No poly.
DEADLINE: Registration will close Wednesday, Nov. 16

Teams to this point — 21

PRIZES: Request to be put in and I will update this when I get confirmation

TEAMS: The leagues are preset to follow last year's guidelines. If you don't see your Division I school on the list just let me know and we can add it in. The number of teams and shape of each league is fluid. The goal is to sort leagues into groups of 8-10 teams that best mimic the true NCAA landscape.

REGULAR SEASON: We will have a 28-game regular-season schedule, although some teams may sneak in more games based on holiday and league tournament results.

• Scoring is based on a three-map system (see box below). Teams that win 2 of 3 will usually come out on top, but it is possible to win once and take the game if you win quickly and lose long battles. This allows us to post realistic basketball scores and track scoring stats for the teams. Two of the three maps will be played on the home team’s settings, while a random map (escalating, chained, sunny) will round out each game.

If overtime is required an extra map will be sent out on random map settings.



• Scoring example…
Team A wins in 7 rounds (28-17)
Team A wins in 10 rounds (24-16)
Team A loses in 12 rounds (15-22)
FINAL SCORE: Team A wins 67-55

Tournament scoring...



MARCH MADNESS: At the end of the regular season, a tournament committee will select the 24-team field for the March Madness playoff bracket. Automatic bids are awarded to the winners of each conference tournament, so you can finish last during the regular season and still have a shot at the Big Dance with a run at the end of the year. The top 8 teams will earn a first-round bye.
The March Madness phase of the tournament will be played under an eight-map format with each map representing a different player — 5 starters and 3 bench players. These are played on preset maps (see list below) to replicate the neutral-court environment of the NCAA bracket.

PG — Higher seed’s Home Settings
SG — Lower seed’s home settings
*SF — Classic
*PF — USA
*C — City map (to reflect which region you are playing in)

*Bench #1 — Random
*Bench #2 — Random
*Bench #3 — Random
*settings — escalating, chained, sunny

POWER UPS: Teams earn “power-ups” for their tournament teams by accomplishing various tasks during the regular season.

* If both teams hold a 'sharp-shooter' the higher seeded team gets the booster, replacing the 'C' map with their own.



TOURNAMENT CHAMPION — The winner of this March Madness tournament is the winner of our Conquer Club event.

NIT TOURNEY — We will also hold a consolation NIT tournament.

Signups
12-30 NCAAteamsA by David Ball, on Flickr
12-30 NCAAteamsB by David Ball, on Flickr

[Keefie]

I would love to play.

AOR 1

Nuke Chained Fog

Michigan Wolverines

[rmjw10]

in please...indiana

[rmjw10]

jamaica....auto, sequ, fog, chained

[aalii]

Please sign me up
Standford

Thanks
aalii

[frank_tank]

i will take my boys at penn state like always..


wwii poland
fog
trench
chained


lets see if the basketball team can do as well as the football team... especially after beating THE OHIO STATE BUCKEYES!!!

[dutchxc]

Northern Iowa Panthers

[DJ1985]

I am in, please

[Gawddog]

I'll take LSU.........WW1 Ottoman Empire - Auto, Flat, Chained, Foggy, No Trench

[G0rgatr0n]

In please - Arkansas Razorbacks.

Lunar War Fog Trench Flat Chained

[flexmaster33]

Hi all,
When signing up please be sure to include
1) Your preferred school
2) Home court settings

thanks, flex

PS -- If you don't see your school on the list, just name your school...preferably keep it to teams that play DI basketball

[aalii]

Sorry I forgot.

WWII Poland, flat rate, fog trench, chained, sequential
Thanks
aalii

[JCKing]

In Nebraska

Same settings as MLS Please.

[cazmart]

I'm in as Texas - will get settings and Map within the next day or 2

[iAmCaffeine]

Damn someone took Panthers. Okay, give me LSU Tigers. We'll play ball on Operation Drug War, no spoils, chained, fog, trench.

[vykingsfan64]

Minnesota Gophers
Prison Riot/Flat/Chained/Foggy

[overlander]

sds
3 king korea, esc, chain, fog
thnks

[molespe]

In, please Cincinnati Bearcats. World Cup 2015 escalating fog

[Frito Bandito]

In please

Oregon State Beavers

IRAQ nuclear foggy chained

[william tennant]

Awesome that you're doing this again, thanks Flex. I would love Yale please. Baltic Crusades, foggy, chained, no spoils.

thanks!

[mcshanester29]

Boise state,

Battle for Iraq, nuclear, chained, fog, trench

Thanks mate

[RKCVED]

Maryland

Same settings as last year please

[Ratrin]

Back in it, with Rutgers Scarlet Knights...
Battle for Iraq!, auto, seq, flat, parachute, fog
Thanks

[Swimmerdude99]

I'm sad NC State didn't make the cut ;P I'll take Ohio state buckeyes instead!
Home Stadium:
Czecho Slovak Fragmentation: Trench, no spoils, foggy, parachute

[flexmaster33]

Just a reminder, if you don't see you team on the list, just denote a school when you sign-up...let's just make it a Division I basketball playing school.

No limit to the number of teams who can play.