With just a few days until Selection Sunday, we thought it was an appropriate time to unveil our latest contest, the 2008 Bracket Challenge. Our veteran readers may remember a similar contest we held last year. This one is fairly similar. The top five finishers in the challenge will win free shirts from our Sportable Shirts selection. If the size of our group grows, we may open up the contest to even more winners.

Once again, the pool will be run on Yahoo Fantasy Sports.

Group ID: 25361
Password: sportable

To make it interesting, the members of the Sportable staff will be in the group as well. Just so you know whose ass you’re beating, these are the names to look out for.

Ryan: Bruce Pearl’s Orange Blazer
Kevin: Kelvin Sampson’s Texting Buddy
Sonny: Sonny @ Sportable.com
Rich: George’s Tournament Masonry

With last night’s win by Florida over Ohio State, we’ve concluded our 2007 Bracket Challenge. We’d like to thank everyone for participating, it was lots of fun and we got some nice participation.

Congratulations to the following people.
bingbeez
Rolled Tacos from Las Panchos
E
Tim Hardaway Hates Sportable
I am Kobe?s Violent Elbow

So what’s the next step? We’ve sent the winners an email asking for their shirt size. The email was sent to your Yahoo email address. We’ll order the shirts tonight and as soon as we get them, we’ll send them out to our winners. The final shirt design is after the jump.

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With just the Final Four and National Championship remaining, we’re able to start sorting out who has a chance to win a free shirt. The top five brackets will receive shirts but if you’d like to order one, just drop us an email. We’ve blacked out the Yahoo IDs in our updated leaderboard, which can be seen after the jump.

Here’s the updated scenarios. Names listed are shirt winners if the scenario plays out.

If Florida beats Georgetown: bingbeez, E, Tim Hardaway Hates Sportable, Rolled Tacos from Las Panchos, Will’s Bracket
If UCLA beats Georgetown: aaron, Will’s Bracket, bingbeez, Aztec AT, Mad Science 2
If Georgetown beats Florida: Will’s Bracket, bingbeez, Mad Science 2, E, Tim Hardaway Hates Sportable
If Georgetown beats UCLA: Will’s Bracket, Mad Science 2, bingbeez, Aztec AT, aztecbrothers
If Florida beats Ohio St.: bingbeez, Rolled Tacos from Las Panchos, E, Tim Hardaway Hates Sportable, I am Kobe’s Violent Elbow
If UCLA beats Ohio St.: Aztec AT, aaron, this is sparta, Will’s Bracket, I am Kobe’s Violent Elbow
If Ohio St. beats Florida: I Am Kobe’s Violent Elbow, BrownsCows, Aztec AT, Ducks Quack Quack, Bracket Yah-Yo
If Ohio St. beats UCLA: Aztec AT, I am Kobe’s Violent Elbow, Ducks Quack Quack, hoobs, Brownscows

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With the first round wrapped up, I thought it would be a good time to humiliate myself as well as update the leaderboard for the contest. Remember, the top five will win our new Sportable shirts. If you’re newer to the site and didn’t know we had a contest, you can still buy a shirt. Just drop us an email and we’ll get something arranged.

Ryan: Tim Hardaway Hates Sportable
Kevin: Shotgun in Eddie Sutton?s Car
Rich: Durant 37 pts 23 rebs FTW
Sonny: Saintshow at Sportable

The leaderboard is available after the jump. Yahoo IDs have been blacked out for anonymity’s sake. Yes, we’re really struggling.

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If you’re a regular reader of this site, you probably already have some plans to fill out a few brackets. Whether it’s a work pool or just an online group with friends, most everyone takes part in some sort of Bracket contest. Why not try and get more than bragging rights out of the contest?

Sportable will be giving away shirts to the top five players in the 2007 Bracket Challenge. We’re not 100% on the design of the shirt yet, but the following design will probably be used. To make this more specific towards 2007, the color of the player’s jersey will be based on who wins the NCAA Tournament.

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