Surly 2023 March Madness Bracket Contest

[BigOrange1 6432]

Join here: https://fantasy.espn.com/tournament-challenge-bracket/2023/en/group?groupID=5290681

Password: big12champs

$25 entry fee.  35 or fewer entries = 75/25 split between 1st and second, 36 or more entries = 70/20/10 split between the top 3.

i can take payments via venmo, paypal (prefer those two the most), cash app, and apple pay.  just pm me with your preferred method of payment.

[Knoxtnhorn 5971]

Heck yeah.  In for at leasr 3.

[BigOrange1 6432]

i have it set for a max of 4 entries/user but i can up it if need be.

[TxArch 2]

Paid. 

[kingkoopa6 8344]

Paid 

[BigOrange1 6432]

13 hours ago, TxArch said:

Paid. 

 

22 minutes ago, kingkoopa6 said:

Paid 

got payments from both of you.

[Mo Horn 8817]

I don't spend my money on basketball brackets. Instead I use it for much more secure investments, like powerball. But I always do the 25 brackets on ESPN. I always do a few on my own, with one where Texas wins, and then one with total chaos, but mostly I just use the auto fill smart option. One of those came up with Marquette winning it all. I was like, yup, that's the one. Can't think of a better way for the basketball gods to fuck Texas some more. 

[Welshy 907]

In for 4.

[GSU&UT 1798]

In for 2, jfc at you degenerates putting in 4.

[MNLonghornFUKM 8817]

Sent, enjoy my money.

[Dendox 102]

sent

[BigOrange1 6432]

11 hours ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

Sent, enjoy my money.

 

13 minutes ago, Dendox said:

sent

got it from both of you.

[Scraps 13560]

in...sent.

Yall don't have too much fun with my $25 

[Jameslaw121 4448]

I'm in

[TXSooner518 2438]

In. BigOrange, you gonna do my "pick a team per seed line" contest? If so, we can just mark each other paid since both $25?

[BigOrange1 6432]

47 minutes ago, TXSooner518 said:

In. BigOrange, you gonna do my "pick a team per seed line" contest? If so, we can just mark each other paid since both $25?

sounds like a plan to me!

[BigOrange1 6432]

ok - wednesday afternoon payment update:

I do not show record of payment from the following people who have signed up:

@Js1, @Loop 1604, @taybo20, @Hornsome, @SquishMitten

There are 2 espn usernames that I don't know who belong to who: BOTCH & Winning Time.  

[shadow_operative 15932]

@Pancho @blacklab @immamac request to have this topic pinned at the top of the page.

[TXSooner518 2438]

BOTCH was my dad, shipped for him.

[shadow_operative 15932]

folks gotta remember to label their team with a $ if they're playing for money. i see some names on the list that i believe are in the $25 pool but who haven't labeled their entry as such. 

Edited March 15, 2023 by shadow_operative

[TXSooner518 2438]

I thought we had moved on from that and that every entry is presumed paid for money. Someone can set up a free bracket if desired?

[shadow_operative 15932]

2 minutes ago, TXSooner518 said:

I thought we had moved on from that and that every entry is presumed paid for money. Someone can set up a free bracket if desired?

ah, excellent. hoping to get a big turnout like we used to. i remember when we'd have close to 100 people in this thing. the pot used to get very big.

[PDX_Horn 24]

Winning Time reporting in.

 

[BigOrange1 6432]

2 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

folks gotta remember to label their team with a $ if they're playing for money. i see some names on the list that i believe are in the $25 pool but who haven't labeled their entry as such. 

anyone who doesn't pay will be purged when i get back to my office next week and reconcile my spreadsheet vs the names in the contest on espn.com.  i don't do free shit.

[Darth Tron 1122]

Paid

[Zepol87 9185]

In

[BERT 4358]

I’ll be in. Waiting for the last game to end. Like that’s gonna make a shit for me. 
 

let me go find a cash machine…

[Hornsome 212]

In and $

[HornOnTheBayou 8904]

1 hour ago, BigOrange1 said:

i don't do free shit.

This whole time I thought you were SouthAustin's Mom's sock, but I guess I was wrong.

[CurlyDumps 4466]

Paid via Paypal. Gonna cruise to money riding Marquette and Tennesse, baybee!

[Hammerin Hank 1225]

In 

[HornOnTheBayou 8904]

40 minutes ago, CurlyDumps said:

Paid via Paypal. Gonna cruise to money riding Marquette and Tennesse, baybee!

Ah yes, the ghosts of Christmas Past. 

[PhillyD 1257]

In and paid via PayPal

[Js1 85258]

Paid by PayPal 

[taybo20 2825]

17 hours ago, BigOrange1 said:

ok - wednesday afternoon payment update:

I do not show record of payment from the following people who have signed up:

@Js1, @Loop 1604, @taybo20, @Hornsome, @SquishMitten

There are 2 espn usernames that I don't know who belong to who: BOTCH & Winning Time.  

Paid! Enjoy my money bitches

[BERT 4358]

2 brackets filled. Waiting for info so i can pay. 

[Js1 85258]

1 minute ago, BERT said:

2 brackets filled. Waiting for info so i can pay. 

PM Derka, obvi

[BERT 4358]

7 minutes ago, Js1 said:

PM Derka, obvi

oh yeah..... be right back

[mdmost 42997]

Submitted my terrible bracket. Let me know how to pay you. PM was sent. 

[Bevo Num1 1011]

Submitted two brackets and sent a PM.

[BigOrange1 6432]

ok this thing really blew up while i was sleeping.  it will definitely be next week when i'm back in the office before i verify that everyone in the contest has paid.  i think i have responded to every pm i got.  if i've "liked" your payment on venmo, you are accounted for on my spreadsheet.

[Pancho 44687]

Pm sent.

bracket is terrible

[BERT 4358]

12 minutes ago, BigOrange1 said:

ok this thing really blew up while i was sleeping.  it will definitely be next week when i'm back in the office before i verify that everyone in the contest has paid.  i think i have responded to every pm i got.  if i've "liked" your payment on venmo, you are accounted for on my spreadsheet.

you have not

[BERT 4358]

alright i'm all paid up. As soon as i hit submit on both brackets i instantly regretted this shit

[BigOrange1 6432]

i also don't feel very good about mine.

[Js1 85258]

I never feel good about mine.  But my approach has been "do it, don't think about it, go with your gut" this week because a) I don't have time to assess every matchup and read KenPom, BPI, etc. and b) whatever I do doesn't matter, because my Final 4 will be wrecked by the end of tomorrow, I'm sure. 

[dimyh 1874]

 

 

"Paid? Well let me see...I have no idea of what that means. I know what you think it means sonny. To me its just a made up word. A politician's word, so young Surlies like yourself can wear a t-shirt and flipflops and have a job. What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for what I did? There is not a day goes by that I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here but because you think I should. I look back at the ways I was back then...a young stupid kid who submitted that terrible bracket. I want to talk to him. Try to talk some sense into him. Tell him the way things are...but I can't. That kid is long gone and this old man is all that is left. I have to live with that. Paid is just a bullshit word. So you go ahead and stamp your forms sonny and stop wasting my time."

[NorthLoop 14180]

Here we go. I expect my bracket to be busted by about 3pm today. 

[Paul Wesley 3278]

3 minutes ago, dimyh said:

 

 

"Paid? Well let me see...I have no idea of what that means. I know what you think it means sonny. To me its just a made up word. A politician's word, so young Surlies like yourself can wear a t-shirt and flipflops and have a job. What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for what I did? There is not a day goes by that I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here but because you think I should. I look back at the ways I was back then...a young stupid kid who submitted that terrible bracket. I want to talk to him. Try to talk some sense into him. Tell him the way things are...but I can't. That kid is long gone and this old man is all that is left. I have to live with that. Paid is just a bullshit word. So you go ahead and stamp your forms sonny and stop wasting my time."

[CurlyDumps 4466]

My brother and his buddy submitted a last minute bracket, just paid again via Paypal.