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March 18, 2014
Enter the SportsFilter NCAA Bracket Contest: The password is slamdunk and the entry deadline is Thursday at 1:00 am Eastern. Quicken Loans and Warren Buffett are holding a contest to award $1 billion to the person who picks the entire bracket perfectly, which has a 1 in 9.2 quintillion chance of happening.
In. Is there a contest here per se or am I just filling out a bracket for someone else to soundly beat?
posted by werty at 10:01 AM on March 18, 2014
Protip: the road to a billion dollars starts with Virginia beating Michigan to win the championship.
posted by NoMich at 11:21 AM on March 18, 2014
Quicken Loans and Warren Buffett are holding a contest to award $1 billion to the person who picks the entire bracket perfectly, which has a 1 in 9.2 quintillion chance of happening.
Stupid "American citizens only" requirement!
*kicks dirt*
posted by grum@work at 12:10 PM on March 18, 2014
I am in and gunning for the coveted Constanza.
posted by ursus_comiter at 12:36 PM on March 18, 2014
Send me your picks, grum. I'll only ask for 10 percent.
posted by Etrigan at 12:39 PM on March 18, 2014
The Pre-Busted Bracket is in. Again, I have to warn you all, I watched a few games back in college. It was only 20 years ago.
posted by tahoemoj at 01:15 PM on March 18, 2014
Send me your picks, grum. I'll only ask for 10 percent.
I'll do it for 7.5%. If we're going to have a bidding war, we may as well make it profitable. Once you get through with taxes, transfer fees, and explaining to the IRS why you are transferring such a large sum of money out of the country, the extra $25M doesn't matter so much.
Transfer fees and IRS explanations might be avoidable by large knapsacks and a hike into northern Maine or NH. We'll meet at the border, grum.
posted by Howard_T at 01:45 PM on March 18, 2014
Sorry, you leeches, but I was able to get my picks in the system. No money if I win, but I'll be sure to hype up Sportsfilter when the press come knocking on my door to talk about my perfect picks.
posted by grum@work at 03:22 PM on March 18, 2014
I'm no good at brackets. I'm just going to borrow some curlers and put on a bathrobe and wait by the front door for the Publisher's Clearinghouse Prize Patrol.
posted by beaverboard at 03:46 PM on March 18, 2014
Protip: the road to a billion dollars starts with Virginia beating Michigan to win the championship
From your fingertips to God's browser history, NoMich.
posted by LionIndex at 04:20 PM on March 18, 2014
which has a 1 in 9.2 quintillion chance of happening
Made the mistake of using a Chevy Cobalt platform for my time machine (couldn't afford the DeLorean) and lost the whole damn thing to an ignition switch malfunction.
We'll meet at the border, grum
Be careful, H - grum is known to support a terrorist organization .. The Leafs, who have been terrorizing their fans for decades.
posted by cixelsyd at 05:06 PM on March 18, 2014
Is there a way of getting into the pool without entering a cell number and agreeing to bullshit marketing text messages? Yahoo is garbage.
posted by dyams at 09:46 PM on March 18, 2014
Agreed. What about the Pool ID number? It won't accept the SportsFilter2014 name.
posted by owlhouse at 10:08 PM on March 18, 2014
I think the group's ID is 286760. Sorry about the phone number hassle. If anyone has a convenient workaround, post it here.
posted by rcade at 09:50 AM on March 19, 2014
Oh, yeah. Hugh Janus Means Love. Mmmm hmmmmm.
posted by Hugh Janus at 03:15 PM on March 19, 2014
Thanks. Can't get in without the US phone number. Oh well, there goes my chance to show you how much I know about College hoops.
*not much*<*none*
posted by owlhouse at 10:15 PM on March 19, 2014
"Mammoth probability aside, I would not be surprised to see someone walk away with a billion of Buffett's dollars." -- link
How can you not be surprised if a 1 in 9.2 quintillion longshot comes through?
posted by rcade at 08:12 AM on March 20, 2014
Hey, if there are 25 million unique entries, those odds improve to 1 in 370 trillion that someone wins!
posted by bender at 09:55 AM on March 20, 2014
We didn't quite make it in time ... but good luck to those who did!
And go Michigan St.!
posted by DraftSharksFF at 03:36 PM on March 20, 2014
I'm in.
Odds of me winning the Spofi pool are about the same.