Rules

Cost To Play - $5 Per Bracket
Unlimited Entries. Your friends and family are welcome to play

How To Enter
You can fill out your online entry form online.
PDF scans or the excel spreadsheet can be emailed to eddy@ebtalk.com
Paper brackets may be submitted in person or mail and postmarked by 3/17.

Entries must be turned in by March 18th at 11 am cst unless mailed in.

Mailed entries can be sent to the following address, please notify us if you plan on mailing in an entry:

Eddy Brotemarkle
PO Box 781352
Wichita, KS 67278

Determining The Winner
The winner with the most points after the championship game is over is determined the winner. If there happens to be a tie-breaker for 1st, then it will be determined in order of the following situations:

1.) Person to pick the correct champion is the first tie-breaker
2.) Highest Percentage of Correct Picks
3.) Most correct picks in the Round of 64
4.) Most correct combined picks in the 2nd round-Final Four

Tie-breakers will not be done for any other spots. If there is a tie for 2nd and 3rd, they will split both

Extra Ways To Make Money

Referral Rewards

"Rookies" are a first time entry to ebTalk. Each entry will have a referral box. If you have a rookie referral, have them put your name in the referral box and you can earn an extra chance to win as long as they have paid by March 21st!

Prizes go to the following three people:

1.) Most Rookie Brackets Referred - $5 and a paid OVERTIME entry.
2.) Most Individual People Referred - $5 and a paid OVERTIME entry.
3.) Highest Finishing Referred Bracket wins- $10 (example, if Player A finishes second and is the highest finishing rookie, the person who referred Player A wins $10) - so each referral is guaranteed a chance to win!

Please note, your referred rookies must be paid up by March 21st at noon to count towards Referral Rewards.

Rookie Rewards

The highest placing Rookie will win their entry fee back. To be a Rookie, this must be your first time entering into the ebTalk NCAA Tournament Pool and they must be paid by March 21st.

Powerplay Pot

For all entrants who puts in 4 or more paid entries, $5 will be taken from their total entry and added into a "Power Play Pool". All power play entrants will have a separate sidepot which goes to the top two people who score the most points. For example, if Blake Griffin puts in 6 entries at $30 total. Since it was more than 4, $5 from his $30 will be entered into the Power Play Pool. All of his entries will be eligible for that sidepot.

Person with the most Total Entries this year will win a prize.

For every four entries you turn an, you will receive a paid OVERTIME! entry.

Top Female Scorer

The top female scorer will receive an additional $10 cash prize.

Anchor Award

Do you have what it takes to earn the lowest score? Lowest score in this year's tournament pool will be paid out their entire bracket entry! If the record for the lowest score ever is broken, that person will win 150% of their entry back.

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Payouts
Payouts will be made to the top finishers in the brackets after the sidepots are distributed. Minimum will be top three finishers paid out. If 150+ entries are made, top four will be paid out. After that, for every 50 more entries an additional person will be paid out.

Payouts will be based on the total paid entries received in, not total entries in case of non-paid entries. So please make your entry payments on time to keep payouts to a maximum.