March Madness Survivor
2011
| Rules | Results: Rounds 1 & 2 or Sweet 16 to Championship | Past Pools: 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007 | |
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» Pick one team that plays its 1st Round matchup on Thursday to win.
» If your team wins, then you advance in the pool and pick one team that plays its 1st Round matchup on Friday to win.
» You continue in the pool each round as long as you keep picking winnings teams. If the team you pick loses, then you are out of the pool.
» You cannot pick the same team more than once!
» We will run this all the way through to the National Championship game if necessary, so plan ahead!
» Entry Fee: $20 Canadian / $20 U.S.
» Grand Prize: 95% Prize Pool, Winner Takes All
The deadline to enter is tipoff of the first Round 1 game, 12:15pm Eastern on Thursday March 17th.
Deadline Passed
We're sorry, but this pool has already started and we cannot accept any more entries at this time.
Rules Summary
Starting the first round of the pool you have to pick one team that will win its game straight up (no point spreads).
If the team you picked wins, then you survive to the next round to pick another team to win. If the team you picked loses, then you are eliminated from the pool.
The rounds of the pool are as follows: Round 1 Thursday games, Round 1 Friday games, Round 2 Saturday games, Round 2 Sunday games, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final 4, and the National Championship game.
If necessary, the pool will run through the National Championship game on April 4th.
You cannot pick the same team more than once during the pool.
The last person in the pool still alive after all others have been eliminated, our Survivor, is the winner.
The pool will continue as long as there are entries still alive or until the pool's final round, whichever comes first.
Make sure to review the Tie Breakers and Mass Knockout Rule described below.
Important Points
Pick Deadline
The final deadline for making your pick is opening tipoff of the first game of each round. A reminder will be sent each round with the exact time.
These deadlines will be strictly enforced! There will be no exceptions for picks not being submitted on
time.
No picks for any games can be submitted once games have started for the day. The system will lock out all submissions until it is reset after the round and pick results are updated.
Default Pick
If no pick is submitted prior to the deadline, then a default pick will be assigned. The default pick will be the first team sorted alphabetically in ascending order by college name as shown on the contest entry form that you have not already selected.
Alternate Pick Submission
If you are having difficulty submitting your pick online, then send the pick by email to mike@myofficepool.ca. Make sure to clearly state your username, entry number, round of the contest and pick. The email must be received time stamped prior to the deadline and from the email account associated with your username. We take no responsibility for email being delayed past the deadline or not being delivered. Everyone should use the online system to make their picks and only send an email in the case of an emergency.
Tie Breakers
As the March Madness tournament is an elimination, it is possible to run out of available teams to select, so the following tie breakers exist:
- An entry that survives a round but does not have any teams left to pick from is deemed to have survived further than an entry that does not survive that last round.
- An entry that can pick a team but loses in a round is deemed to have survived further than an entry that had no teams to pick from at the start of that round.
If 5 or more entries are knocked out of the pool at the same time, after tie breakers and prior to the final round, resulting in zero entries still alive in the pool, then the pool will continue to the next round as if those entries did not get eliminated.
Multiple Winners
If more than one person is still alive at the end of the pool, then the prize is divided equally amongst the winners.
