It is that time of year again - March Madness! TERRIO Therapy-Fitness is proud to bring you the 2009 TERRIO March Madness Pick'Em game. Playing is free, easy, and fun - you just need to have a valid myTERRIO username and password in order to participate. Prizes will be awarded to the top two contestants with the most overall points at the end of the game. All points will be tracked automatically and will be updated each day. A leaderboard will be available once the competition has begun so you can see where you rank. |
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Sample Bracket
Here is what you can expect. There will be four regions of 16 teams - East, Midwest, South, and West. The teams are determined by automatic bids given to the winners of the 31 eligible conference tournaments and by a selection committee that selects the rest of the teams and then seeds all of them 1 through 16 in each region. The teams and seeds are announced from 3-4pm on Sunday 3/15/2009 on the CBS Selection Show. Once the seeds are determined then your four brackets (one for each region) will be available for you to start making selections. Selections are made by clicking on the team that you think will win the associated matchup. You can view the team information including their AP, USA Today, RPI and Strength of Schedule ranks along with the teams overall and conference records by clicking on the team logo. Click on the image to the left to view a completed sample bracket (teams shown are for demonstration purposes only and are not the actual teams in the region). |
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| March Madness Pick'Em Rules and Prizes |
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Game Info - The objective of the game is to accumulate the most points by correctly selecting the "winning pick" for each of the sixty-three (63) match-ups associated with the 2009 Men's NCAA Basketball Tournament. |
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Playing the Game - pick selection will be available from Sunday 3/15/2009 after the seeds are announced on the CBS Selection Show until 15 minutes before the first game tip-off on Thursday 3/19/2009. The play-in game IS NOT INCLUDED in this game. During this pick selection time period you will be able to change your selections as often as you like. After the first tip-off all selections will be considered final and will be locked (including non-completed brackets). |
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Prizes - prizes for the top (2) overall points leaders at the end of the competition will include, but are not limited to, a choice of two of the following (for first place) and one of the following (for second place) - (1) a one month free pass to the TERRIO EDGE, (2) a free Metabolic Test with one free month of TERRIO Lifestyle, (3) a free baseball hitting lesson at the TERRIO EDGE, (4) a free massage, (5) a $50 gift card to your choice of several local businesses, or (6) four tickets to a Condor's playoff hockey game (if applicable). Prizes are subject to change without prior notice. |
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Scoring - the first place prize winner will be determined based on the total number of points accumulated during the game. A correct answer in a given round is shown below:
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Round 1 - 1 point per pick
Round 2 - 2 points per pick
Round 3 - 4 points per pick
Round 4 - 8 points per pick
Round 5 - 16 points per pick
Round 6 - 32 points per pick
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In the event a Tournament match does not occur as scheduled (e.g., due to cancellation, postponement, etc.) no points will be awarded. Ties for the first place prize will be broken in accordance with the tiebreaker procedure below.
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Tiebreaker Procedure - contestants may but are not required to submit answers to one (1) tiebreaker question to be used for tiebreaking purposes only. The question is "What will the final score of the championship game be?" If no answer to a tiebreaker question is submitted for an entry, it is given a default prediction of zero (0). It is possible for a default prediction to break a tie. How are the ties broken? The pool of tied entrants is reduced until only one (1) potential winner remains by applying the rules below in the order listed. |
| Tiebreaker #1 - The predicted score of the championship game is compared to the score of the championship game. The differences between the predicted scores and actual scores are calculated and added. The entry with the smallest total difference is considered the winning entry.
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If more than one entry has the smallest total difference, those entries go on to the next tiebreaker: |
Tiebreaker #2 - Number of points scored in Round 6.
Tiebreaker #3 - Number of points scored in Round 5.
Tiebreaker #4 - Number of points scored in Round 4.
Tiebreaker #5 - Number of points scored in Round 3.
Tiebreaker #6 - Number of points scored in Round 2.
Tiebreaker #7 - Number of points scored in Round 1.
Tiebreaker #8 - The entrant whose date of entry creation was recorded in the system the earliest.
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In all cases, an entry that does not win a tiebreaker is eliminated from consideration for the first place prize. |
