The Participants

A little welcome to everybody, I'm gonna use this to keep track of points, and let everyone know where they stand. I can't say how often I'll be able to update this point list, but it'll at least be after every round, hopefully every day, and, if I'm bored, more often.

In case anybody's unclear about the scoring system, this is how it'll work. Correct picks are worth 10 points in the first round, 20 in the Round of 32, 30 in the Sweet 16, 40 in the Elite Eight (or Great Eight, if you will), 50 in the Final Four and 60 for the Championship game. There are also bonus points available for picking upsets. The first requirement for bonus points is that you have both teams picked to be in that game (so if you pick a 12 and 13 to meet in the second round with the 12 to win; but instead the 4 seed beats the 13, you won't be able to get the bonus points for the 12 beating the 4, even though you have the 12 correctly picked). For the first round, you get the difference between the seeds (so like 15 points if a 16 beats a 1 or 1 point if a 9 beats an 8), and that bonus will be multiplied by the round (so Round of 32 upsets are worth double, Sweet 16 worth triple and so on).

The first point totals should be up late tonight. Good luck to everybody.