Elbows Music Blog Community

Count me in. I'm gonna ride Kent St all the way to the finals.

Me 4.

how are we gonna do it? should we have like a yahoo! leauge or something similar like that? it might be the easiest.

oh sweet. because i've used the yahoo! one before and i hated it.

Yeah, just tell me where to click.

Alrighty, here it is. First off, go to http://games.espn.go.com/tcmen/group?groupID=24093&password=thebeatles

You're going to need to have an account of ESPN or the Go network I think, and then you're going to click the Create Entry link or whatever it is. I think your brackets - up to five of them - get automatically entered into the free ESPN tournament challenge, too. But, for this pool, we're going to just do one bracket per person.

When you name your bracket, use the name of your site. It'll keep it looking fancy, since it shows up as BurningOak, K. Jamison when you're looking at the standings. K. Jamison is my name.

In case the link above didn't automatically stick you in the group, here's that info:

Group: "Music Bloggers"
Password: "thebeatles" all lower case

Can anyone think of some sort of fun stakes to use? Or should we just go with bragging rights on this forum for a year lol. I wasn't thinking money, just something creative. Example, everyone writes a (rather ridiculous sounding) post about how much they adore the winner. Am I the only one that would find that extremely funny?

Once you finally get everything set up, you can bookmark http://games.espn.go.com/tcmen/frontpage and it will always show the standings of the group etc.

I like the post idea, and I'm going to add a list of links to people in this bracket's blogs and the standings page on my site

update: I put a button thingy on my sidebar that I made in Paint about the bracket. Hit me up for the code if you like.

Yeah, I know. I will probably make a better one when I am somewhere with more appropriate software.

I would like to see a "prize" for the person who finishes in last place. The last place finisher should have to write a serious piece on why Lynyrd Skynyrd's Freebird is the best song ever written. : )

It will probably be me.. I don't follow college "hoops".

we should all be sure to link to the standings page and to the other participants pages.

I pick up bits and pieces at school, but I don't have the time or desire to follow it closely.

Well I'll try and get something together that we can all post on our sites within a day or two, that way we've got a little uniformity.

Is uniformity a word?

So, should we invite other bloggers to join who aren't on this forum, or keep it more on the DL?

Okay, you get Stereogum and Brooklyn Vegan.

Invite anyone and everyone you know that would vaguely qualify as a music blogger I say. I'm gonna work up something neat on the standings if I can.

Wooooo, brackets are up, have at it!

I'm gonna bump this from time to time to make sure people see it.

Brackets must be submitted by tipoff of the first game on the 16th. The tuesday game for the 16th spot against Villanova doesn't count, either.

I would guess so.

Bumping this to the top.

KEEP ENTERING, we'd love more contestants. Also let's finalize some stakes for this badboy.

Current Ideas (Not Final):
1) Everyone writes a (rather ridiculous sounding) post about how much they adore the winner.
2) A "prize" for the person who finishes in last place. The last place finisher should have to write a serious piece on why Lynyrd Skynyrd's Freebird is the best song ever written.
3) Let's add some other things on. Who's Got Ideas?

HERE'S A REPOST OF THE ENTRANCE INSTRUCTIONS:
First off, go to http://games.espn.go.com/tcmen/group?groupID=24093&password=thebeatles

You're going to need to have an account of ESPN or the Go network I think, and then you're going to click the Create Entry link or whatever it is. I think your brackets - up to five of them - get automatically entered into the free ESPN tournament challenge, too. But, for this pool, we're going to just do one bracket per person.

When you name your bracket, use the name of your site. In case the link above didn't automatically stick you in the group, here's that info:

Group: "Music Bloggers"
Password: "thebeatles" all lower case

Here's the icon I made up. It's admittedly not quite what I wanted but I think it will do the trick. The dimensions are W136 x H150. That should work for everyone, it's rather thin.



Here's the code you can use to put it on your page. You'll have to change all [tags] to arrows:">" or "<." The [center] tags are optional.

[center][a href="http://games.espn.go.com/tcmen/group?groupID=24093"][img src="http://static.flickr.com/46/112571890_ebdd15d70f.jpg"][/a][/center]

If this link doesn't work on your page or something let me know, we'll figure something out.

If you'd like you can also change that ESPN link to the info page I made on my site. I didn't like their automatically just in case anyone didn't want to. Here's that link:

http://www.burningoak.com/music-bloggers-ncaa-pool/

Got the button on the page. Looks great.

I'll have links to participants on my info page, which you can relink the button to if you'd like.

http://www.burningoak.com/music-bloggers-ncaa-pool/

I'm just gonna update rankings on my sidebar once this begins. And Mike, this tournament determines the best college basketball team. Pick who you think will win each game in your bracket, and once the tournament begins on Thursday sit back and hope you guessed right. You get points for every win you predict, and in the end the person with the most points wins.

That is pretty much how I did mine.. plus just what general feelings I have toward a state.