It's that time of year again. It's time for the Random Bracket Challenge, now in its third year.
Maybe you've had fun voting in our random bracket challenge in the past.
Maybe you voted but didn’t have fun.
Then again, you may have neither have voted nor had fun.
Or, you could be like my wife and think the whole thing is kind of dumb.
At any rate, we’re doing it again this year. The committee has been working diligently for several days to sort through and seed the entries.
After two years on Twitter, the venue has switched to Substack. You don't have to subscribe to receive my newsletters to vote but for crying out loud, why wouldn't you? It remains free.
We had controversy involving champion mini-donuts in the inaiugural Random Bracket Challenge so last year we posted a photo of each entrant at the time of voting.
The number one seeds in the four pods are:
Tom Schuller Pod: Toast
Rodger Taylor Pod: That groove below your nose
Randy Baker Pod: Zamboni
Shelly Hotzler Pod: Wiffleball
As word broke of the committee's initial seeds this afternoon there was immediate grumbling. Some entries thought they were seeded too low. Some thought others were seeded too high. Others wanted to be assigned to a different pod.
All decisions of the committee are final. No questions will be taken at this time. Or ever.
Food entries have won the first two challenges. As shown above, Chili was the winner in Random Bracket Challenge part deu. In the inaugural challenge it was Mini-donuts:
At this point some more ado seems appropriate, but due to time constraints there actually will be no further ado.
The Tom Schuller pod will be posted tomorrow (Wednesday) night with any luck. You can stay up to date here on Substack and on my Twitter account: @sportsdr44
Here are the first-round pairings in each of the pods. Listed are the seed number and the contestant.
Tom Schuller Pod
1 Toast vs. 8 Shoveling Snow
4 Dial up Internet vs. 5 Changing the oil
2 Rubber bands vs. 7 Gump Worsley
3 Sombreros vs. 6 Turnips
Rodger Taylor Pod
1 That groove below your nose vs. 8 Minnesota Muskies
4 Photography vs. 5 Medical cables
2 Cheese on apple pie vs. 7 Napster
3 Stevie Nicks vs. 6 Identity theft
Randy Baker Pod
1 Zamboni vs. 8 1972 AMC Gremlin
4 Grape Nuts vs. 5 French toast
2 Tinikling vs. 7 Millard Fillmore
3 Tambourine vs. 6 Mowing the lawn
Shelly Hotzler Pod
1 Wiffleball vs. 8 Guy Smiley
4 The nickname Tiny vs. 5 Chicken a la King
2 Horseback riding vs. 7 Cat Ballou
3 Billy Joel vs. 6 Allen wrench