This year's Madness comp will be at the same site as last year. A bracket for 2020 has been setup once again at cbssports.com .. for those of us who played last year, you're half-way there, as invite emails have been sent by csbssports.com to all of last year's participants (using last year's email addresses). The email does not display your reg'd cbs ID.

The scoring system remains unchanged. There are 63 games in this comp; we pick all of them in one go on the cbssports.com website: 1st Round (32 games) : 1 pt 2nd Round (16 games) : 2 pts 3rd Round ( 8 games) : 3 pts (regional semis ) Sweet Sixteen 4th Round ( 4 games) : 4 pts (regional finals) Elite Eight 5th Round ( 2 games) : 6 pts (national semis ) Final Four 6th Round ( 1 game ) : 9 pts (national final) Seedings: additional pts added for each correct pick, being the team's seed.

Link to comp at cbs: http://ftmm2004.mayhem.cbssports.com
but if that doesn't work, try this link: http://ftmm2004.mayhem.cbssports.com/e
If you've sucessfully logged in, you will see this in the top LH corner of the screen: 2020 Comp FT

• if you'd like to join the Madness tipping comp but do not have a cbssports ID, there's a link on that page to register. You must have a cbs ID to play in this comp! Please note - you may, but don't have to, use your real name to register (surname, first name); but please pick something for those two fields that looks like your FT username (so that we know who you are).
  
• this also applies to those who played last year, but can't remember their ID and/or have changed their email address and thus can't retrieve their password (which they've forgotten) .. you will need to re-register.
  
• please check your reg'd email address in Options after you login.

This year's Madness starts on Thursday, March 19 and the final is on Monday, April 6. The bracket will open for tipping when the field is inserted by cbssports.com, which should happen on Sunday, March 15. However, the last four teams to qualify will not be known until Monday and Tuesday (they will enter the comp as the four #16 seeds) .. btw a #16 seed has never won a game against their #1 seed opponent since the NCAA started the current Madness format in 1985, until last year, when UMBC beat Virginia 74-54 .. #16 seeds are now 1-135 all-time.

Sunday 15th March: the full field of 68, seedings and bracket are released. Last Four play-in: Tue-Wed 17-18 March now aka First Four 1st Round: Thu-Fri March 19-20 2nd Round: Sat-Sun March 21-22 3rd Round: Thu-Fri March 26-27 4th Round: Sat-Sun March 28-29 Final Four: Saturday 4th April Championship: Monday 6th April Final Four is at Merceds-Benz Stadium in Atlanta GA. DEADLINE: cbssports.com will close the bracket of 63 picks at noon EDT on Thursday, March 19th.

Rankings: http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/basketball-men/d1 and here: http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/rankings

This year's tipping comp is the 19th edition of March Madness! No one has retained their title in this comp and N-Bomb is the only person to win it twice (2011 and 2017) .. dg_dave won last year's comp, silver went to N-Bomb and Sypher collected the bronze medal.

Good luck remembering your password (if you receive the email) or your ID (if you're reg'd but have changed your email address) .. and good luck registering if you're new! To confirm you're in and that everything's hunky dory, please post in the Group Message Board (it's in the Brackets drop-down menu). Good luck to all of us; and may the best man or best woman win!

This year's tipping comp is the 19th edition of March Madness! No one has retained their title in this comp and N-Bomb is the only person to win it twice (2011 and 2017). The winner of the 2008 comp, ralzzz, and the winner of the 2015 comp, toocool4u, hold the record for the biggest winning margin (see summary tables below) .. and doomed won bronze in 2008 the hard way; he failed to pick any of the Final Four! Eleven years later, dg_dave went one better .. he won the 2019 comp without picking any of the Final Four! Howie72 holds the record for the most correct picks with 51/63, achieved in the 2007 comp, and the fewest correct picks for gold was 32/63 by blinkybill in 2006. 2002 LordAndry gtho4 TemplarLLM 2003 izzi gtho4 rudogg 2004 wez Sarah606 gtho4 2005 ElfTwinkle kevinatilusa linkan 2006 Blinkybill LeoDaVinci ElfTwinkle 2007 Howie72 dg_dave Nannanut 2008 ralzzz LeoDaVinci doomed 2009 jonnowales dg_dave Sypher 2010 illiniman14 LeoDaVinci jonnowales 2011 N-Bomb rxbigdawg toocool4u 2012 George95 BxBarracuda Howie72 2013 Sarah606 BxBarracuda LeoDaVinci 2014 themonarch illiniman14 George95 2015 toocool4u LeoDaVinci gtho4 2016 kevinatilusa LeoDaVinci yoyoandcigs 2017 N-Bomb LeoDaVinci illiniman14 2018 gtho4 N-Bomb George95 2019 dg_dave N-Bomb Sypher

2002		2003		2004		2005
Lord Andry gtho4 TemplarLLM Sypher thejazzkickazz	38 64 39 62 37 60 34 58 35 56	izzi gtho4 rudogg marchmadness ElfTwinkle	46 59 45 53 42 49 40 47 39 47	wez Sarah606 gtho4 izzi JuniorTheJaws	37 216 39 212 41 208 40 195 28 185	ElfTwinkle kevinatilusa . . linkan Sarah606 Blinkybill	43 220 41 212 38 194 37 183 26 181
2006		2007		2008		2009
Blinkybill LeoDaVinci ElfTwinkle . . gtho4 dg_dave	32 205 33 189 39 189 36 184 34 181	Howie72 dg_dave Nannanut Blinkybill DakotaNorth	51 260 50 253 50 244 48 235 47 226	ralzzz LeoDaVinci doomed Nannanut JuniorTheJaws	46 243 43 223 42 215 44 213 43 212	jonnowales dg_dave Sypher ralzzz LeoDaVinci	49 256 46 248 47 238 44 219 42 218
2010		2011		2012		2013
illiniman14 LeoDaVinci jonnowales themonarch kevinatilusa . .	39 223 39 221 39 219 39 213 38 210	N-Bomb rxbigdawg toocool4u Sypher illiniman14	38 210 35 192 37 191 37 180 35 178	George95 BxBarracuda Howie72 themonarch srini701	41 237 38 232 41 226 38 220 40 216	Sarah606 BxBarracuda LeoDaVinci ozzz2002 N-Bomb	42 232 37 224 41 221 39 219 39 210
2014		2015		2016		2017
themonarch illiniman14 George95 N-Bomb Howie72	39 218 38 215 39 213 38 207 37 204	toocool4u LeoDaVinci gtho4 srini701 illiniman14	42 239 41 219 41 213 41 212 40 206	kevinatilusa LeoDaVinci yoyoandcigs N-Bomb srini701	42 249 40 232 40 228 40 221 40 217	N-Bomb LeoDaVinci illiniman14 gtho4 Howie72	46 254 43 238 41 221 42 220 39 217
2018		2019		2020
gtho4 N-Bomb George95 Howie72 ElfTwinkle	37 201 37 198 34 193 36 191 37 189	dg_dave N-Bomb Sypher LeoDaVinci Howie72	44 246 44 237 41 236 42 234 42 231

2006 : no-one picked any of the Final Four, not one

March Madness has been cancelled:

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/12/us/march-madness-withdrawals-spt/index.html