March Movie Madness!

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We’ve been pitting movies one against another for months around here. I often hear from folks who would like to see different options. Here’s your chance.

It’s time for you, yes you, to take control. We gonna have us some fun ’round these here parts.

As many of you know, March is the season of America’s great college basketball tournament, a time when millions of people fill out brackets despite never watching the sport or knowing where Gonzaga is located. Making picks is just fun.

I’ve come up with a way we can use that idea to get jiggy, chat about a few movies, and get to know each other better because you can use your site to build support.

Welcome to March Movie Madness. It’s just like the real tournament only we don’t have to run or sprain ankles. Or play basketball.

A few months back, I threw options out for the 12 Days of Christmas Movies. That was fun, but many of you wanted to see the tourney go a different direction. So I propose a movie bracket designed by you!

College hoops hosts 64 teams, an awfully high number. I’m shooting for 32. Get it? “Shooting” is what you do in basketball! I’ll wait for the laughter to die down as you wipe those joyful tears off your face.

In the sports world, this coming weekend features Selection Sunday when all the team seedings are announced. So today we’ll start the submission process and have our own selection. I’m hoping to use this Friday’s post to announce the field and participants, so be sure to get yourself on record in the comments here.

The b-ball tournament goes from next week until the first week of April. We’ll mirror that time frame as we work from 32 movies down. Like Highlander, there can be only 1 in the end. Let’s begin.

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The Rules Committee (read: 2 people that pretended to listen while I brainstormed) has come up with the following humdingers. Please don’t commit any fouls. Get it? FOULS? Ha!

• Give me 2-3 movies that you want to be in the bracket. Some picks will be chosen by others. Some (like Christmas Vacation which already won the Christmas poll) will not be included.
• Depending on response, you may be teamed up with another person in support of the same film. Kind of like Team Edward and Team Jacob only without the vampires, werewolves, or ripped abs.
• When your movie comes up in the bracket, all you have to do is write 3-4 sentences on why it’s the best. You can do this here and I’ll link back to your blog, or you can do that on your blog and I’ll link to your post! Yay for you! We can do four head-to-head matchups at a time.
• If you don’t have a blog you can be part of a team with someone who does or maybe pick a site that you support.
• Seeding will be completely random.
• I reserve the right to screw up the mathematical and scientific portions of this contest. So please help me.
• Winner will receive a prize ranging from $1 million dollars to nothing.

That’s it. Are you in? Just use the comment section to say so. Even if you don’t want to participate, help us out by suggestion a couple flicks that should be in.

Give me the names of movies YOU want in this bracket!

[UPDATE: I will post the bracket Friday morning with further instructions for ya. It’ll be simple!]

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