Join SI.com’s unbustable bracket competition for the March Madness. Signups begin Monday.
Get more control and get more involved than ever with March Madness with Sports Illustrated’s unbustable bracket challenge. Unlike traditional brackets, SI and FanSided will allow you to adjust your brackets as the tournament plays out with in-game, Realtime Brackets.
Those brackets allow you to switch your picks during the live tournament, avoiding the discouraging heartache of losing one of your top seeds in the first round. For those who picked Virginia to go all the way a year ago only to see them get upset by Maryland-Baltimore County, this is a chance at salvation. SI’s new bracket format allows you to change your pick as the game plays out.
You can sign up for the bracket on Monday, Feb. 25, giving you the power to stay in the game longer.
SI’s unbustable bracket challenge tracked both the traditional pre-tournament pick and the real-time, in-game pick, awarding points for both. While pre-tournament picks get the highest value, this allows you to recoup points as the game happens, preventing those losses that can knock you out of the pool on the first and second rounds of the tournament.
In addition, SI Realtime Bracket will give you real-time score alerts about your picks, allowing you to change picks quickly if you’re in danger of losing a game. That allows you to switch a pick earlier and get more points for the earlier you switch.