The 2009 Comic Crack March Madness Challenge!!!

I figured it was outrageous for me to try this to get a little activity going around here, but I did hope at least 1 person would take me up on it. I mean, I remember when I used to be at valiantfans.com. I remember they set up tournament and about 20-30 guys tried it out. I think that year I came in 4th. It was fun. It gave some of us something to talk about and no one took it too seriously.

I also played fantasy football with valiantfans.com. Although towards the end I believe the commissioner cheated towards the very end to give himself a playoff advantage, until that point I was having fun. After having a fairly dominant team during the regular season, my team would fall 1 game away from the Super Bowl and I still feel in large part due to a corrupt trade right after the trading deadline had ended. But he was the commissioner and like Ive found with just about every fantasy football league Ive ever been in, if the commissioner is playing in your league, you can never trust the commissioner. I find they are usually the most likely to win the thing because nobody can tell them they did something illegal. I mean, they are the law. So what happened is, the next year, I just didnt play again even though I was invited. I felt cheating was the reason I didn't play.

In any event, there is no way to cheat in this fantasy league. Its set up by espn.com and they are impartial to whatever would happen with us. Anyway, I know no one comes here for sports. But if you just take it for fun and something to do and a way to participate in the board, because no one is taking it serious, it would have been nice. It's taking part in things that makes 1 board better than another.

I guess I will just have to figure out something else again....

Back to the drawing board.

The basketball challenge is not really a fantasy sports thing. Its a fill out a bracket which if you put no effort into it take 10 minutes and 2 weeks later you see how you did. When I used to work at my office job, some of the more sports minding guys at work would always try and get people to fill in a bracket and maybe everyone put in $5 to see who picked the best bracket. Usually we had enough people that the winning bracket fetched like $500 - $700. Half the office was playing the damn thing. Shit during work guys would be giving updates of who was doing what. Who had a shot at it. The other guys were just hoping for respectable finishes. There might have even been a handful of girls playing and some of the guys would hope they did at least better than the girls. Its just a 1 time fill it out and wait to see how you did.

I actually had 1 guy from my old job fill one out. Made my day. I posted it on myspace and he must have seen it.

At 12 noon on Thursday, the time to enter is over.

Although I know I don't have a snowball's chance in hell, a side note is a shot to win $10,000. Where Im sitting, that would be nice.

Wow! I forgot all about it, I need to go look!

Wow! I am TRIPPIN OUT!!! BIGTIME!!!

With Missouri and Villainova winning, I jumped up to now Im beating 98.27% of the country with my bracket CURRENTLY as we speak. There was nearly 5 million entries in this thing.

I know even if I get the rest of my picks right, I still wont win this thing. I have 660 points and the currently leader of the United States has 770. I can still make another possible 1120 points (which is the highest that still can be made).

Im just tripping out that with currently 12 teams left in it, Im just 1.73% of the brackets away from that $10,000!

Dammit! I could have used that damn money!!!