I know I’m not the only blogger out here that loves the NCAA Men’s Hoops Tournament. I am starting the official ‘Bloggers NCAA Tournament Pick’em Contest’. We are going to find out who the best bracket busting blogger is. I mean, it’s probably going to be me, but maybe there’s a darkhorse out there? Maybe John Chow secretly studies bracketology.

This pick’em contest is going to be run on Yahoo Sports, so you have to have a Yahoo account to sign up. If you don’t have one, then make one… it takes 1 minute.

Rules:

  • Only bloggers. You need to have a blog about web/business/internet/money, like me and the people on my friends list. If you own a random fashion blog, thats fine… but you need to also have a personal/business type of blog too. If you sign up and you don’t have a blog you will be banned.
  • Your bracket name must be either your domain, name, or blog title. It must distinguish you from the rest of the pack.
  • You must complete your bracket by Thursday March 15, before the first game.
  • Anyone who signs up must acknowledge the winner in a blog post. The blog post must have a link back to the winner’s blog. You can simply say ‘Congrats to David Lithman for winning the Bloggers NCAA Tournament Pick’em Contest’.
  • If you do not acknowledge the winner in your blog somewhere you will be ostracized from the community.
  • I am the commish and control the league. Don’t mess with me :-)

Prizes:

  • A free link back from every blogger who signs up in the tournament. This could be a lot of free links if we get everyone to signup.
  • 1 week of advertising on my blog in the 468×60 banner spot.
  • Electric Shock package from Forum Shock – Thanks to Bryan Le for this one.
  • Free customized skin from http://www.skinsforwp.com/
  • If anyone else wants to ante up a prize, let me know.

Sign up information:

  1. Go to this page – http://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/
  2. Click join a group
  3. Click join private group
  4. Enter in Group ID #103030 and password bloggers
  5. Create your bracket name. Remember the rules!!!
  6. Fill out your bracket
  7. Pray you win

For those of you who don’t follow Men’s Hoops, you really don’t need to to have a chance to win. Anyone can win this. You can just pick your favorite mascot and have as good of a chance as me at winning.
I hope this really gets a lot of interest. I love doing this stuff. If you sign up, please spread the word. And sorry to discriminate, but this is for bloggers only!