I-mockery Bracket Bunch 2011

[Pentegarn]

It's that time if year again, and here's the link that hopefully gets you to this year's i-mockery bracket bunch

http://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/t1/group/31473?ng=1


group ID is 31473

password is bracketbunch

Let's all get pissed off at our bad picks! :lol

[Pub Lover]

Woo hoo.

[Tadao]

Herro

[Esuohlim]

It just wouldn't be March without WhiteRat's catastrophic braket and Pub accidentally choosing all the 16 seeds :eek

[Colonel Flagg]

I'll be in, if I can remember what this is all about. :confused

[Pentegarn]

I'll be in, if I can remember what this is all about. :confused

Heartbreak mostly

[Colonel Flagg]

:lol

[Pentegarn]

Selection Sunday is underway

[Pentegarn]

Michigan gets an 8 seed. Way to be, MU!

I mean you're gonna get killed by Tennessee but still, good on ya!

[Pentegarn]

MSU made it in Milpool

They will even probably make it to round 2

[Pentegarn]

So Bama and Colorado got screwed and the talking heads are pissed about it.

And they are right to be

[MailCall]

I hit that link and it told me I was no longer a member and to f*ck off. Does this mean something? I've been away a while healing lepers in Palestine, but now I am back. Look out, Satan!!

[Colonel Flagg]

I'm already regretting this. :(

[Babs]

Notre Dame anybody?

[Tadao]

I got mine done last night. I HAVE A GREAT FEELING ABOUT THIS!

[WhiteRat]

It just wouldn't be March without WhiteRat's catastrophic braket and Pub accidentally choosing all the 16 seeds :eek

>:Hey I got 2nd in 2009!

[Pentegarn]

But where is Willie?

[MailCall]

Okay. 'Bro fixed me up and I'm in. Then he made fun of my Duke prediction.:confused:

[Colonel Flagg]

I picked Duke to go the distance last year figuring that it would be a slam dunk they would get knocked out in the first round.

Didn't happen. :(

[Babs]

I think Kansas could make it this year along with the Buckeyes maybe?

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Is this the same thing as March Madness, I have to do one of the for work now.

[Babs]

What do you think it's for Bill? Brackets, March, WhiteRat. See the pattern?

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

That just makes me think of Tic tac toe, St Patricks day and The GZA so that doesn't help Chad.

[Babs]

Your wasting precious time you can be spending on your bracket.

[WhiteRat]

I haphazardly threw my bracket together. I can already see some sparks developing.

[Babs]

I got a little run by Gonzaga in mine. It could happen.

[Pentegarn]

I haphazardly threw my bracket together. I can already see some sparks developing.

You can already see sparks on yours? I have BYU in the finals despite the fact that they are one man down:lol

[WhiteRat]

You can already see sparks on yours? I have BYU in the finals despite the fact that they are one man down:lol

Final Four or bust for K-State over here.

[Pentegarn]

Not the worst pick ever

[Colonel Flagg]

No, that would be mine. :tear

[executioneer]

i used a random number generator, i am sure to win best prize

[Pentegarn]

If you used a RNG you might lose to Pub this year :lol

[Esuohlim]

CINCINATTI IN THE SWEET 16, PURDUE IN THE FINAL 4, LET'S DO THIS

[Colonel Flagg]

One hour 6 minutes and counting.

[Babs]

Purdue... final four :lol

[executioneer]

If you used a RNG you might lose to Pub this year :lol
it was weighted, each team got a number from 0 to (17-rank) so it's not TOTAL randomness since the better teams tend to get better scores

[executioneer]

not saying i won't lose to pub though, but that's got good odds of happening anyways since i know/care fuck all about college basketball

[Esuohlim]

Purdue... final four :lol

Shut it :( I needed a couple of gutsy picks. I've even got MSU winning round 1 :eek

[executioneer]

the weirdest one i got was st. peters making it to sweet 16 and arizona making it to the semis

[Babs]

I think MSU can beat UCLA. Izzo has March Magic.

I'm starting to regret having Pitt make such a deep run.

[WhiteRat]

To hell with this, i'm not doing a bracket ever again, this time it's for real.

[Pentegarn]

Shut it :( I needed a couple of gutsy picks. I've even got MSU winning round 1 :eek

I have both Purdue in the Final Four and MSU over UCLA. What'd you do spy on my picks :lol

[Pentegarn]

To hell with this, i'm not doing a bracket ever again, this time it's for real.

Why must you turn this thread into a house of lies?

[Pentegarn]

I knew knew knew Pub would be the one person to call Morehead St. over Louisville right

[Pub Lover]

I had Vanderbilt going rather far in my bracket. Dammit. :lol

[Tadao]

I can't believe my random picks are doing so well. I don't even watch basket ball. :(

[Tadao]

Fromm 11 of 12 to 11 of 16 :eek

[Pentegarn]

I had Vanderbilt going rather far in my bracket. Dammit. :lol

That was me last year IIRC, they failed me for the last time though and I eliminated them in round one this year.

I see Gonzaga is fucking me once again, it doesn't matter what I do. I pick them to lose, they win, I pick them to win, they lose. Who would have thought a school that sounds like an Italian ingredient would be so goddamn much trouble for me?

[Pentegarn]

Fromm 11 of 12 to 11 of 16 :eek

Yeah that will happen a lot in the bracket game :(

[WhiteRat]

That was me last year IIRC, they failed me for the last time though and I eliminated them in round one this year.

I see Gonzaga is fucking me once again, it doesn't matter what I do. I pick them to lose, they win, I pick them to win, they lose. Who would have thought a school that sounds like an Italian ingredient would be so goddamn much trouble for me?

That's how it goes for me whenever I pick Syracuse to go far. They always lose in the first or second round.

I'd be in really good shape but St. John's losing is the first sign of smoke coming from my bracket.

[Babs]

Now it's time for Gonzaga to beat a crippled BYU.

[Pentegarn]

Too right :(

[MailCall]

Oh, yeah!! Go Eagles, all the way!! After all, how can you argue with a school by the name of "Morehead?"

[Pentegarn]

Morehead sounds like the name of a Bond Girl from the Roger Moore era

[WhiteRat]

Oh Tennessee, you were only down by 4 at the half, but somehow you've managed to be down by 30 points to Michigan. Thanks!

[Pentegarn]

Way to be, MU!

I mean you're gonna get killed by Tennessee

Yeah that shut me up :lol

[WhiteRat]

With all that's going on within their program I don't know why anyone would pick Tennessee, but lo and behold yours truly picks them anyway.

[WhiteRat]

C'mon Memphis, make me look smart.

[Colonel Flagg]

Way to go 'Cats. Forget how to score much? >:

[Babs]

Only lucky because Villanove blew it as well as Memphis. It's alright though, GURANTEE that Gonzaga pulls me through over BYU and Florida. OSU will make it wall the way along with Duke falling to Texas in the elite 8? My final four will be in so that's all that matters. Milhouse looking lucky right now but we'll see far that goes.

[Babs]

Oh, yeah!! Go Eagles, all the way!! After all, how can you argue with a school by the name of "Morehead?"

Shut up

[WhiteRat]

If Syracuse and Washington win (both leading as of now) my East bracket will be perfect. I don't think i've ever had that before.

[Pentegarn]

Only lucky because Villanove blew it as well as Memphis. It's alright though, GURANTEE that Gonzaga pulls me through over BYU

I have BYU in the finals, Gonzaga makes it their business to fuck my brackets in the ass with a barbed flaming phallus, so yes, Gonzaga by 7 over BYU

[Babs]

I think I can still win if Richmond tops Morehead State and Gonzaga makes it all the way to the elite eight before faltering to Pitt. I had no idea about VCU until they destroyed Georgetown so I guess this new 68 team thing is something I underestimated. I just hope my sweet 16 will be all intact (minus Georgetown of course).

[WhiteRat]

I think I can still win if Richmond tops Morehead State and Gonzaga makes it all the way to the elite eight before faltering to Pitt. I had no idea about VCU until they destroyed Georgetown so I guess this new 68 team thing is something I underestimated. I just hope my sweet 16 will be all intact (minus Georgetown of course).

The 68 team field is irrelevant. VCU usually makes a nice little run every few years, although this year's team barely got it in so maybe that explains why not many people picked them to do anything really, myself included.

[Pentegarn]

Jimmer Ferdette may be the best player in college basketball right now. That three followed by the charge draw was just flawless

[Colonel Flagg]

BOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!

[WhiteRat]

:lol Milhouse just took a huge hit with the Pitt loss. K-State is going to have to beat Butler and Florida or my bracket will be in serious trouble.

[Pentegarn]

K State still has Wisky to deal with, and that is not going to be an easy fight for them at all. Moreover if BYU keeps playing like this and Florida won't make it out of their match

Also too right about Thrillho's bracket. Poor Milpool, 122 max score puts his bracket's weight at the bottom

[WhiteRat]

K State still has Wisky to deal with, and that is not going to be an easy fight for them at all

Forgot about that important part.

Deep down though I really want Butler to make another deep run. I don't think I've ever rooted harder for a non-Minnesota team than I did last year when they nearly beat Duke.

[Pentegarn]

I am certainly not too shocked that Pitt was the first #1 out. I had them out first, only I had it a round later :lol

[Esuohlim]

Well it's been real, folks!

Butler is on my shit list two years in a row. Also, a lot of my friends were giving me shit about my BYU decision, but they're playing great despite dealing with the whole EARTH-SHATTERING SEX-WITH-GIRLFRIEND FIASCO.

But yeah, fuck it all regardless

[Pentegarn]

You aren't technically out yet, I think last year's top score overall was in the high 80s, and you still have 122 on the table

[Pentegarn]

Also Wisky and K State are leaving it all on the court in this game

[Colonel Flagg]

^^^ Good game that.

I don't know what I was thinking, putting Pitt in the Final 4. :(

[Pentegarn]

I thought that was a no call on that trip/fall till I saw the replay. But it was just good d from Wisky

[Colonel Flagg]

My SE Region is now completed. With 'sconnie's win, I now have no possibility of any more points in that bracket. :(

[Pentegarn]

Wisky's win was key to me getting a foothold in the endgame against you peeps :P

[Esuohlim]

The Pitt loss ruined me, but other than the completely inconsequential Richmond-Morehead game it was a solid day. If Cincy can pull it off over UConn they'll probably have a good chance against San Diego St., hopefully.

[WhiteRat]

Well fuck me, K-State just pooped their pants. Is it getting really hot here or is it just me?

[Pentegarn]

I think this has to be some of the hardest playing in a tourney I have ever seen. Cincy-UConn is almost as intense as Wisky-K State was

[Babs]

I'm an idiot.

[WhiteRat]

I think i've posted this here before a long time ago but in the spirit of brackets crashing, I give you a typical Duke fan during the 2004 ACC Tourny:

http://i55.tinypic.com/nfr3t3.jpg

[Esuohlim]

For the Duke-Michigan game I think the best possible outcome is that the roof caves in

[Babs]

How over rated can Duke possibly be?

[Pentegarn]

If OSU shows up at all their games like they have so far in this one it will be all OSU without much of a fight.

[Esuohlim]

Just once I'd like to experience a stellar football/basketball season combination. In the two previous years our football seasons were mediocre and our basketball seasons were amazing. Now, this year, our football season was amazing and, of course, basketball was mediocre. You Buckeye fans are spoiled bitches

[Pentegarn]

Usually our basketball program has been less than great though. This has been a recent development.

And OSU looks like they will be dropping a c-note on George Mason

[Esuohlim]

I seem to recall March Madness 2007 being a veritable cornucopia of Greg Oden dick-sucking :x

[Pentegarn]

Then you forgot all the, "Look at the 40 year old freshman" jokes :lol

[WhiteRat]

Just once I'd like to experience a stellar football/basketball season combination. In the two previous years our football seasons were mediocre and our basketball seasons were amazing. Now, this year, our football season was amazing and, of course, basketball was mediocre. You Buckeye fans are spoiled bitches

At least you have football. How many Big 10 football programs can say they've lost two games against 1AA schools from the Dakotas in the last 3 years? Basketball at one point this year beat North Carolina, WVU, and Purdue, was ranked 13th in the country, then lost their most dynamic scorer and only competent point guard (transfer and foot injury) and promptly lost 10 out of 11 and no post season play. Hockey? 8 years removed from back to back National Championships and now the Gophers are getting swept at home by Alaska-Anchorage and missing the playoffs for the 3rd straight year (first time ever that's happened). Not to mention losing recruiting battles to other in-state schools.

Just remember that no matter how bad your athletic department is doing, it could always be worse like Minnesota. :(

[WhiteRat]

Damn. Texas and Az are battling it out now. Let's all collectively root for Texas so my bracket doesn't spontaneously burst into flames like a Libyan AAA emplacement.

[Esuohlim]

It looks like both you and I are on the path to perfect East region picks :eek

That's my new goal now anyway :(

[WhiteRat]

It looks like both you and I are on the path to perfect East region picks :eek

Yeah it's looking that way. Like I mentioned before I don't think i've ever had that happen before.

[WhiteRat]

AZ just messed the hell out of Texas and my bracket. There's always next year I guess.

ps someone call 911 i'm completely engulfed in flames

[Colonel Flagg]

texas goes down, and I'm down to 2 final 4 picks. :tear

[Colonel Flagg]

And VCU is kicking Purdue's ass.

[Pentegarn]

No Purdue is kicking Purdue's ass by not bothering to play

[WhiteRat]

No Purdue is kicking Purdue's ass by not bothering to play

Purdue+Robbie Hummel=National Champions

Purdue-Robbie Hummel=Fodder for VCU

[Colonel Flagg]

No Purdue is kicking Purdue's ass by not bothering to play
Whatever the reason, the end result is the same - I'm getting my ass kicked. >:

[Colonel Flagg]

I fucking hate the Big 10.

[Colonel Flagg]

Losers.

[Esuohlim]

I sure am looking forward to dipping below 100 possible points before the second round is even over

[WhiteRat]

That's how it goes for me whenever I pick Syracuse to go far. They always lose in the first or second round.
.

Every year I suffer. Why, Orange, why?

[Colonel Flagg]

Big East sucks too.

[Esuohlim]

Good GOD the Big East >: 11 teams and only Marquette and UConn are left after one goddamn weekend? >:

H8 MARCH MADNESS

[Babs]

VCU?

[WhiteRat]

How the fuck does FSU upset Notre Dame? Good god I go from having a pretty decent bracket to having my NC runner up losing, thus leaving me with only 1 Final Four team and one hell of a colossal nosedive in possible points. The pain won't end!

[Colonel Flagg]

I hereby announce I will never participate in March effing Madness again.

Ever.

Never ever EVER.

(until next year)

[Pentegarn]

At least you're honest :lol

[Babs]

Purdue is always a bad choice, especially in the national :(

[Pentegarn]

They made it to the sweet sixteen the last 2 years running though. Not this year though

[Esuohlim]

Oh look there's more basketball going on today :whocares

[Tadao]

Do I get points for predicting a team will lose? :(

[executioneer]

guys why am i in first place

[Pentegarn]

Do I get points for predicting a team will lose? :(

If you did we'd all be in a tie for first :lol

[Pentegarn]

guys why am i in first place

You mean why is the randomizer you used for those picks winning? :lol

[Pentegarn]

At least Duke bit it

[Pentegarn]

Okay. 'Bro fixed me up and I'm in. Then he made fun of my Duke prediction.:confused:

See why I stood by this?

Also, since you were the only living soul to know I originally picked Arizona in the Final Four then got cold feet about it, how much to you think I am kicking myself for changing it now?

[Colonel Flagg]

And now for something completely different ... I currently have no teams in the elite 8.

If you feel stupid, Pent, how the hell do you think I feel right about now?

[Colonel Flagg]

Now, if Kansas, OSU and UNC win tonight, then I still have a pulse.

[Colonel Flagg]

And UConn sucks ass. >: Although Lamb certainly has established himself as the "go to" guy in the clutch.

[Tadao]

Do I get points for predicting a team will lose? :(

If you did we'd all be in a tie for first :lol

What I mean is that I predicted Florida to lose to Utah, instead it will be Florida vrs. Butler. If Florida loses to Butler I should still get points because I predicted that game is where the will be off the bracket. I doubt that counts though.

[Colonel Flagg]

What I mean is that I predicted Florida to lose to Utah, instead it will be Florida vrs. Butler. If Florida loses to Butler I should still get points because I predicted that game is where the will be off the bracket. I doubt that counts though.

Your last statement is correct - it doesn't count.

If you picked the losers instead of the winners, then you'd have to pick ALL the losers from the very beginning, and this would be an entirely different pool altogether. It might be fun to try it once (as a separate bracktbunch bracket?), to see who could come closest to obtaining zero points. Maybe next year ....

[Pentegarn]

What I mean is that I predicted Florida to lose to Utah, instead it will be Florida vrs. Butler. If Florida loses to Butler I should still get points because I predicted that game is where the will be off the bracket. I doubt that counts though.

Oh serious question. I see.

No you have to have the winning team picked, so if you picked someone else to knock off Florida in that round, but they lost previously, you can't score points for the team that beat them doing so because you did not predict them getting there in the first place. That's why the further along your predictions are correct, the more points they are worth.

[Pentegarn]

Ythen you'd have to pick ALL the losers from the very beginning, and this would be an entirely different pool altogether. It might be fun to try it once (as a separate bracktbunch bracket?), to see who could come closest to obtaining zero points. Maybe next year ....

Would be an easier bracket to fill I think. Have all the 16s in your final four and call it a day :lol

Or as I call it, Pub's bracket :lol

[Tadao]

Half serious.

[Esuohlim]

Would be an easier bracket to fill I think. Have all the 16s in your final four and call it a day :lol

Or as I call it, Pub's bracket :lol

Obviously everyone would pick the 16 seeds in the final four, but then there's the little nuances that would make it interesting, such as this year with the guaranteed Sweet 16 spot for a 12 or 13 seed. We should try it next year :sports

[Pentegarn]

If I remember, I'll set up a second one for that next year

[WhiteRat]

Just make a rule that no one can pick a 16 and maybe only pick two 15s or something. It would be fun to see if it would work.

[Pentegarn]

In any case the whole game would be decided by the end of round one

And OSU is giving me ulcers tonight

[Pentegarn]

Fucking Kentucky

[WhiteRat]

Now that all of my Final Four teams are no longer in the tournement, I will gracefully bow out of the 4th annual I-Mockery Bracket Bunch.

This year is an even bigger slap in the face than years past as I felt I did pretty damn well in the first two rounds. I honestly thought I had a shot at winning the prestigious honor of I-Mockery Basketball Prediction King (Collegiate Edition).

At least I can still cling on to my historic victory back in 2002 when my winning bracket netted me 250 big ones in a pool at my dad's work. After 9 years it still carries weight, right? Right?

Now if you'll excuse me i'll be recovering in the burn ward for the next year.

[Esuohlim]

It's interesting how I'm suddenly back in the game

EDIT: Nevermind, Flagg and whoever maildude is has UNC in the Final Four too. Can't win :(

Rooting for the Colonel in this one because he's got a PhD and that's awesome and I don't know who maildude is >:

[Colonel Flagg]

Hard to believe, Harry. :shocked

[Pentegarn]

This is officially the worst I have ever done on the brackets.

I wasn't even being a homer when I picked OSU in the finals, I figured they would actually bother to show up for yesterday's game >:

[Esuohlim]

Way to represent the Big Ten OSU >: >:

[Babs]

Very good game between OSU and Kentucky. Diebler hit a very clutch 3 and Knight just realized how much time him and his wildcats had and hit a shot with 5.1 seconds left. Good news for Buckeyes fans, at least Sully is coming back.

[Esuohlim]

jesus christ Butler

[Tadao]

No matter what happens I'm dead last. Where's my trophy?

[Colonel Flagg]

Butler deserves the Final Four after that victory over Florida. What a comeback.

[Pentegarn]

I regret not realizing Butler is a lumbering Juggernaut sooner. I might have still had a horse in this game

[Colonel Flagg]

Lumbering Juggernaut? Butler? No, my friend you were obviously thinking instead about VCU. Bitches ruined my hopes of winning this thing two years in a row. :tear

[Esuohlim]

At this moment I have the highest possible points? How the hell did that happen?

BACK IN THE GAME :eek

[Esuohlim]

Spoke too soon :x

CONGRATULATIONS WILLIE

And congrats Babs and Pentegarn, you were the only two to pick a correct Final Four team

[Pentegarn]

This is only the second time a final four had no number 1 seeds. Last time was 2006, another fucked up year where George Mason (another 11) made it to the final four

[Pentegarn]

Lumbering Juggernaut? Butler? No, my friend you were obviously thinking instead about VCU. Bitches ruined my hopes of winning this thing two years in a row. :tear

VCU's success is entirely due to their coach. He is selling a bunch of tier 2/tier 3 talent that they are blue chippers and they are buying it and producing like blue chippers. The only person who thought VCU would do this was the VCU head coach

[Colonel Flagg]

So, that was Willie who won? Congratulations, big guy. You sure showed us!

Isn't this the earliest the bracketbunch was completely decided (no one has any more possible points to achieve)? And the lowest winning score (61 points)?

[Colonel Flagg]

VCU's success is entirely due to their coach. He is selling a bunch of tier 2/tier 3 talent that they are blue chippers and they are buying it and producing like blue chippers. The only person who thought VCU would do this was the VCU head coach

Does it really matter? This is the first time in history that a team that had to play itself into the tournament won even one game, let alone make the Final Four.

I don't care what he's feeding that team, I want some. Maybe it's some of that new drug, charliesheen.

Winning.

[Babs]

All thanks goes to Kemba Walker and company.

[Pentegarn]

This is the first time in history that a team that had to play itself into the tournament won even one game, let alone make the Final Four.

To be fair, a play in 11 seed is vastly different than a play in 16 seed. That said they still stunned everyone but the VCU coach

[Colonel Flagg]

To be fair, a play in 11 seed is vastly different than a play in 16 seed.

Yeah I thought about that. But still VCU had to win 1 more game than everyone else in the final 4, and they are the only team to upset (according to the seedings) every team they've played in the tourney. Butler was seeded 8th, and beat the 9 seed Old Dominion in Round 1.

On the other hand this is the year of the 11 seed. The Zags beat St. Johns before getting ousted, and Marquette went to the Sweet Sixteen. The only 11 seed to get beat in Round 1 was Mizzou.

Now that it's just for fun, I'm pulling for VCU to go ALL. THE. WAY.

[executioneer]

man absolutely nobody had any idea how this was going to happen

the first-place bracket on yahoo sports doesn't even have both of the finalists right

[Pentegarn]

i used a random number generator, i am sure to win best prize

And win it you did! And since you used a computer to win, I think a computer should congratulate you! :lol

http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q1/Pentegarn/samsung-computer-monitor.jpg

So congrats to Willie for winning the first bracket bunch where nobody had any teams left 2 rounds before it was all finished

[Womti]

Heartbreak mostly


no, this is totally all about the ongoing saga of me and terra's love lust for each other.

[Pentegarn]

Not only was that weird, it was also pointless, and also probably a womti alt post, so well deserved ban

[Colonel Flagg]

Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out, Womti.

[Babs]

Sorry to ask this, but who/what is Womti?

[Pentegarn]

You would remember him as Sherlock Homeless

[Esuohlim]

Womti is the most persistent person ever. I ban his ass every two months and he keeps coming back and without being inconspicuous about his identity.

There was a thread where someone posted a bunch of local newspaper articles related to his homeless misdemeanors and it was very lol.

Also, if you ever see another Esuohlim elsewhere on the internet it's most likely him. He got a myspace and something like a vampirepornlivejournalfuckfetish.com account with that username but kept all his usual womti bio and avatars for them.

[Babs]

That's actually kind of sad. At least I'm not a Womti. Hopefully, I'm not comparable.

[Esuohlim]

Well, that was the best high school basketball championship I've ever watched

[Fathom Zero]

lol