Hi everyone - It's that time of the year as March is coming in a few weeks. The 2026 PCF March DB Madness High Card Tournament will be here again shortly in the next few weeks. This will be the 6th iteration of this Tournament and I love running it as I think it is fun.
This tournament will be run like the NCAA March Madness Tournament Brackets. There are 68 teams that make the Tournament with 4 Play in games that determine the Final 64 Teams in the Tournament. In the DB March Madness Tournament I will allow 68 entrants in the tournament with 4 Play in Games for the 8 lowest seeded entrants so we can get to 64. Entrants like tournaments before people will get their seed by the number of posts they have on the PCF. The higher the number posts you have the higher number the seed. If we have more than 68 people who sign up we'll go with the highest number of posts on the post to determine the 68 people. This will be a High Card Tournament which the person with the Highest Card moves onto the next round. In the first round Seeds #1 - Seed #8 will get an extra card to their opponents 1 card. So seeds #9-#16 will only get one card while Seeds #1-#8 will get two cards. Out of all the cards whoever has the highest card moves on. In the second round the remaining entrants Seeded#1 - Seed #4 will still get an extra card and anyone seeded lower than #4 will only get one card. In the Sweet 16 and further rounds everyone will only get one card. If more than 68 People sign up I will have the 68 People in the list by Post count order. Those will be the people in the tournament. I will then go through and seed everyone.
Here are the signup requirements. You must have at least 25 Posts on the PCF to be eligible to enter. To Sign up you must Post "March Madness 2026". Sign ups will start Now! The actual NCAA Selection Sunday for the real NCAA Tournament will be on Sunday March 15th. I will close out signups for this on Selection Show Sunday March 15th at 10PM EST. The 2026 DB Madness Tournament will run and coincide with the NCAA Tournament and it should be finished before the NCAA Tournament ends.
Prizes - There will be 10 Prizes awarded in this contest. We will play until there is a National Champion. The National Champion will be Winner #1 and get to choose the first prize and the runner up will choose the second prize. There will be games to decide Prizes #3 and #4 and then a game for Prizes #5 and #6, Prizes #7 and #8, and finally #9 and #10. Winners will pay actual shipping for prizes unless you are local in NJ to me. I would prefer those with US Shipping addresses, but would ship to anywhere as long as buyer pays for actual shipping. The Prizes mostly will be Dealer Buttons, but I will throw in some Plastic Decks or other Poker related/themed stuff. Prizes will be posted in the second post in the coming week or two.
I will collect the post counts after the signup ends as some may have seeding deciding posts between 3/1-3/15 that will get them a higher seed.
Past Champions
2025 - @surfik
2024 - @k9dr
2023 - @mattross1313
2022 - Tournament Suspended that year
2021 - @inca911
2020 (4th of July Chip March Madness Style Tournament) - @Dodger
Here is how my Blank Bracket Sheet looks like.
This tournament will be run like the NCAA March Madness Tournament Brackets. There are 68 teams that make the Tournament with 4 Play in games that determine the Final 64 Teams in the Tournament. In the DB March Madness Tournament I will allow 68 entrants in the tournament with 4 Play in Games for the 8 lowest seeded entrants so we can get to 64. Entrants like tournaments before people will get their seed by the number of posts they have on the PCF. The higher the number posts you have the higher number the seed. If we have more than 68 people who sign up we'll go with the highest number of posts on the post to determine the 68 people. This will be a High Card Tournament which the person with the Highest Card moves onto the next round. In the first round Seeds #1 - Seed #8 will get an extra card to their opponents 1 card. So seeds #9-#16 will only get one card while Seeds #1-#8 will get two cards. Out of all the cards whoever has the highest card moves on. In the second round the remaining entrants Seeded#1 - Seed #4 will still get an extra card and anyone seeded lower than #4 will only get one card. In the Sweet 16 and further rounds everyone will only get one card. If more than 68 People sign up I will have the 68 People in the list by Post count order. Those will be the people in the tournament. I will then go through and seed everyone.
Here are the signup requirements. You must have at least 25 Posts on the PCF to be eligible to enter. To Sign up you must Post "March Madness 2026". Sign ups will start Now! The actual NCAA Selection Sunday for the real NCAA Tournament will be on Sunday March 15th. I will close out signups for this on Selection Show Sunday March 15th at 10PM EST. The 2026 DB Madness Tournament will run and coincide with the NCAA Tournament and it should be finished before the NCAA Tournament ends.
Prizes - There will be 10 Prizes awarded in this contest. We will play until there is a National Champion. The National Champion will be Winner #1 and get to choose the first prize and the runner up will choose the second prize. There will be games to decide Prizes #3 and #4 and then a game for Prizes #5 and #6, Prizes #7 and #8, and finally #9 and #10. Winners will pay actual shipping for prizes unless you are local in NJ to me. I would prefer those with US Shipping addresses, but would ship to anywhere as long as buyer pays for actual shipping. The Prizes mostly will be Dealer Buttons, but I will throw in some Plastic Decks or other Poker related/themed stuff. Prizes will be posted in the second post in the coming week or two.
I will collect the post counts after the signup ends as some may have seeding deciding posts between 3/1-3/15 that will get them a higher seed.
Past Champions
2025 - @surfik
2024 - @k9dr
2023 - @mattross1313
2022 - Tournament Suspended that year
2021 - @inca911
2020 (4th of July Chip March Madness Style Tournament) - @Dodger
Here is how my Blank Bracket Sheet looks like.
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