Out of 15M brackets, none remains to win Warren Buffet's $1B March Madness bet

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Post by callmevlad » Sat, Mar 22, 2014, 1:48 AM UTC

Original title: Out of 15M brackets, only 1 remains to win Warren Buffet's $1B March Madness bet

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-the-dagger/there-are-no-longer-any-perfect-brackets-left-in-the-billion-dollar-bracket-challenge-003853949.html

Out of 15M brackets, none remains to win Warren Buffet's $1B March Madness bet
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Post by callmevlad » Sat, Mar 22, 2014, 1:48 AM UTC

Some background: Warren Buffett Offers $1 Billion For Perfect March Madness Bracket

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2014/01/21/warr...

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Post by magikbum » Sat, Mar 22, 2014, 2:01 AM UTC

Actually down to just 1 at the time of 10 PM EST on Friday

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Mar 22, 2014, 2:03 AM UTC

magikbum wrote: post #3

Actually down to just 1 at the time of 10 PM EST on Friday

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Post by selectout » Sat, Mar 22, 2014, 2:07 AM UTC

It's actually none now. They sent out an email and push notification.

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Post by callmevlad » Sat, Mar 22, 2014, 2:14 AM UTC

selectout wrote: post #5

It's actually none now. They sent out an email and push notification.

Looks like I can no longer edit the title, but you're right.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-the-dagger/there-are-no-...

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Post by thrush » Sat, Mar 22, 2014, 2:17 AM UTC

There are currently still 3 perfect brackets on ESPN.

  1. http://games.espn.go.com/tournament-challenge-bracket/2014/en/entry?entryID=576318
  1. http://games.espn.go.com/tournament-challenge-bracket/2014/en/entry?entryID=4155737
  1. http://games.espn.go.com/tournament-challenge-bracket/2014/en/entry?entryID=10928050

http://games.espn.go.com/tournament-challenge-bracket/2014/e...

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Post by fjw » Sat, Mar 22, 2014, 2:17 AM UTC

callmevlad wrote: post #6

selectout wrote: post #5

It's actually none now. They sent out an email and push notification.

Looks like I can no longer edit the title, but you're right. http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-the-dagger/there-are-no-...

Looks like the final perfect bracket (even though it's ineligible for the Billion Dollar Challenge) is about to be busted anyway with VCU on the verge of beating S.F. Austin.

edit: March Madness.

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Post by dba7dba » Sat, Mar 22, 2014, 2:17 AM UTC

This stunt actually makes me angry. Not a good PR move imo.

"I have enough money that I can risk giving up a billion $. And I may just give it to you if you can beat the odds that's harder than getting hit by lighting multiples times in 1 year."

How about offering pot of 100 million to top (aka sweep) 16 instead...

But never mind, it's their money...

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Post by jerf » Sat, Mar 22, 2014, 2:23 AM UTC

From a game design standpoint, that was one problem with this design. Since half the tournament occurs in the first round (well, not counting the wildcard round), there's no drama; everyone gets shot down immediately. In the movie version of this, it'll come down to at least the Final Four before our hero gets knocked out, no matter how implausible the odds of making it that far are.