Hello!
For those of you that are into March Madness (or even if you’re not), I’ve decided to open up a March Madness pool for Guild Wars 2 players this year.
If you’re not familiar with March Madness, it’s essentially the grand college basketball tournament at the end of the season where 68 teams battle for a national championship.
Steps to entering:
1. Send 10 gold to Tichorum.2415 in game
2. Head to http://bit.ly/gw2mm to create an ESPN account
3. Create your bracket and fill in your picks (changeable until start time on March 17th)
3,5. MAKE SURE your bracket name is either AccountName.1234 OR you include your bracket name in the mail with your 10 gold
4. Brackets are locked on March 17th when the first game begins!
Prizing:
1st: 50% of the pool of gold + 800 gem code
2nd: 20% + 400 gem code
3rd: 15%
4th: 10%
5th: 5%
(Gem codes will only apply if there are at least 20 entrants)
Rules:
- If 10 gold is not sent by the tournament start time on March 17th your bracket will be removed from the pool
- Players may only have one bracket
- Players must create the bracket name as AccountName.1234 or include their bracket name in the mail they send with their 10 gold
- The points structure is as default on ESPN’s Tournament Challenge; we will not be using a third-party points structure (shown at the botton of this post)
FAQs
Q: How can we trust you with this much gold!?!
A: I am a fairly public person in the Guild Wars 2 community. I run the Academy Gaming PvP tournaments, stream nearly everyday, and commentate the North American ESL Pro League for Guild Wars 2. I assure you stealing your gold is the last thing I want to do.
Q: What if a random person joins the league and doesn’t pay?
A: I will be checking each bracket name to make sure it’s associated with an account name that has paid.
Q: When will prizes be sent out?
A: Once the national championship has been played on April 4th.
Q: Can both NA and EU signup?
A: Yes everyone can signup!
Points Structure
Note: The “first round” are the two play-in games that do not count towards points
- Round 2: 10 points per pick
- Round 3: 20 points per pick
- Round 4: 40 points per pick
- Round 5: 80 points per pick
- Round 6: 160 points per pick
- Championship: 320 points per pick
- Ties: The National Championship is used as the tiebreaker for the game score which you enter in the selection phase
Let me know if you have any questions here or PM me in game. Invite your friends and good luck!
Former PvP commentator for ESL & Arenanet.
I used to run the Academy Gaming tournaments for GW2.