A tournament of a different type. March Madness is upon us, and everyone’s filling out brackets trying to win stuff. Liquid Egg Product recognizes the thirst of the people to brag about their bracketology skills, so is offering a contest of its own via ESPN’s Tournament Challenge.

The Mascot has generously offered to give the winner a Mascot T-shirt or mug! The winner can customize the shirt or mug by selecting any Mascot picture (he’ll even take a custom photo if it’s not too difficult a request) and the winner’s favorite quote from the not-so-wise quotes.

Next year, I hope he offers a prize that someone will actually want.

To join:

1. Register on ESPN.com at the Tournament Challenge. (Uncheck the “offers” so you don’t get a bunch of unwanted e-mail.)

2. Join the Liquid Egg Product group.

3. Create a bracket.

That’s it! Imagine the joy you’ll experience by owning a shirt that has this, this, or even this on the front.

Week 5 Results

Week 6 Matchups

Standings

		 dnk Pol Whr Tac LEP cl  l3r Tom RR  gor
1  drunknknite   xxx --- --- --- 1.0 1.0 --- 1.0 1.0 1.0 5.0
2  Polly         --- xxx 1.0 --- 1.0 --- 0.0 1.0 1.0 --- 4.0
3  Wahrheit      --- 0.0 xxx 1.0 1.0 1.0 --- --- 1.0 --- 4.0
4  Tacticus      --- --- 0.0 xxx 0.0 --- 1.0 1.0 --- 1.0 3.0
5  Liquid Egg    0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 xxx --- --- --- 1.0 --- 2.0
6  chessloser    0.0 --- 0.0 --- --- xxx 1.0 0.0 --- 1.0 2.0
7  l3rucewayne   --- 1.0 --- 0.0 --- 0.0 xxx --- 1.0 --- 2.0
8  Tom           0.0 0.0 --- 0.0 --- 1.0 --- xxx --- --- 1.0
9  Rocky Rook    0.0 0.0 0.0 --- 0.0 --- 0.0 --- xxx --- 0.0
10  gorckat      0.0 --- --- 0.0 --- 0.0 --- --- --- xxx 0.0

Sometimes, you get a little of the “luck of the Irish”, and I certainly got that in my upset win. The game comes complete with an Exchange sac and I’ll be showing it off despite that Tacticus already posted it on his site.

There will be another tournament after this one completes (probably with a couple week break), and sign-up will start soon. Next time around, I want to try a format that’s not round robin and not Swiss, and any ideas are welcome.

Congratulations to drunknknite on hitting the rank of USCF Expert!