Random Bracket Challenge

Voting in the Randy Baker Pod starts tonight

Voting in the Randy Baker Pod will start on Twitter this evening.

There were two big upsets in the quarterfinals of the Rodger Taylor Pod in Random Bracket Challenge III and none of the matchups were particularly close.

The top two seeds both met defeat.

Eighth-seeded Minnesota Muskies defeated top-seeded That Groove Below Your Nose 76.2-23.8 and #7 Napster beat #2 Cheese on Apple Pie.

Here are the results:

Rodger Taylor Pod

Quarterfinals

• #8 Minnesota Muskies def. #1 That Groove Below Your Nose 76.2-23.8

• #4 Photography def. #5 Medical Cables 75-25

• #7 Napster def. #2 Cheese on Apple Pie 61.1-38.9

• #3 Stevie Nicks def. #6 Identity Theft 75-25

That sets up the semifinals:

• #4 Photography vs. #8 Minnesota Muskies

• #3 Stevie Nicks vs. #7 Napster

Voting will start this evening (Thursday) on Twitter. If you don’t follow me on Twitter (and if not, why not?) its @sportsdr44

Here are the matchups:

#1 Zamboni vs. #8 1972 AMC Gremlin

A Zamboni is an ice resurfacing vehicle used to clean and smooth the surface of a sheet of ice, usually in an ice rink. The first ice resurfacer was developed by American inventor and engineer Frank Zamboni in 1949 in the city of Paramount, Calif.

The AMC Gremlin (also American Motors Gremlin) is a subcompact automobile introduced in 1970.

#4 Grape-Nuts vs. #5 French toast

Grape-Nuts is a brand of breakfast cereal made from flour, salt and dried yeast, developed in 1897 by C. W. Post, a former patient and later competitor of the 19th-century breakfast food innovator Dr. John Harvey Kellogg.

French toast is a dish of sliced bread soaked in beaten eggs and often milk or cream, then pan fried. Alternative names and variants include "eggy bread", "Bombay toast", "gypsy toast", and "poor knights" (of Windsor).

#2 Tinikling vs. #7 Millard Fillmore

Tinikling is a traditional Philippine folk dance which originated during the Spanish colonial era. The dance involves at least two people beating, tapping, and sliding bamboo poles on the ground and against each other in coordination with one or more dancers who step over and in between the poles in a dance.

Millard Fillmore was the 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850-1853, the last to be a member of the Whig Party while in the White House.

#3 Tambourine vs. #6 Mowing the Lawn

The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zills".

Mowing the lawn is to cut the grass on a lawn with a lawn mower.