ESPN Tournament Challenge Group -- All Tourney Talk Here

[JRutledge]

My fellow officials,

I created a group on the ESPN Tournament Challenge Page for officials off of this forum to choose your brackets for the Men’s NCAA Tournament. The information is below that you need to enter in order to participate. There is another group that has a similar name, only use this group name and password and you should be OK to sign up. I hope this takes away a little confusion that people have been having for the last day or so. Good luck to all and let us all have a little fun.

Group name: Official's Forum

Password: Whistle blower

I hope to see many of you participating. Let the games begin.

Tournament Challenge Link

Peace

[SamIAm]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

My fellow officials,

I created a group

...

I hope to see many of you participating. Let the games begin.

Tournament Challenge Link

Peace

I'm in.
Thanks Rut

[Back In The Saddle]

Okay, here's my proposed FAQ. This is the entire thing:

Q: Did those refs just really suck, or were they trying to screw my team?

A: Both. The higher up you go, the worse the refs are. This is universally how it's done. The best refs of all of us work 2nd and 3rd grade travel leagues, feeders for high-level 4th grade leagues.

And just so you know, all refs hate your team. Every last one of us. If any one of us had the misfortune to work a game with your team, we'd make sure you not only got hosed again like you got in your last game, we'd probably do worse.

[Back In The Saddle]

Oh yeah, I forgot to add this -------------->

[Coltdoggs]

I'm In!

After wathing KU and UT yesterday...I'll take that game for the Championship! Wow..what a game yesterday!

[rgncjn]

I have joined the group.

[lpbreeze]

for those who can't get in--- for the search type in official's and then view all results. it should be there. without it only the bracket one was showing up. if it says wrong password refresh and try again.

[Scrapper1]

For some reason, I can't sign into the game. I've been trying all morning. I'll keep trying, but everytime I try, it comes back and says it can't find the page or something. Hopefully, it's just a temporary thing for the day.

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

Hopefully, it's just a temporary thing for the day.

More hopefully it's not.

[26 Year Gap]

There is a similar sounding group name. Of course, if you are typing "Billy Packer Fans", you are going to continue to have problems.

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap

There is a similar sounding group name. Of course, if you are typing "Billy Packer Fans", you are going to continue to have problems.

I saw that too.

The one we all want is called Official's Forum.

The group that is not "us" is called Official Forums Bracket.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

I saw that too.

The one we all want is called Official's Forum.

The group that is not "us" is called Official Forums Bracket.

You are correct. I should have clarified that as well. I almost joined that group until I figured out that was not from this site. That is why I created this group.

Peace

[stewcall]

ok I'm in
Stew in VA

[Mark Padgett]

Stanford - Marquette. I noticed that when Lopez of Stanford scored the final bucket with 1.3 to go in OT, one of his teammates came close to going out on the floor to celebrate but another teammate grabbed his jersey and pulled him back. Smart.

Of course it was followed by a State Farm commercial that showed what ostensibly was an NCAA official wearing a shirt with a collar. It wouldn't have cost them anything to research that. Can't have confidence in a company that stupid.

[SCalScoreKeeper]

How about the ejection of Trent Johnson in that game!
I'm pretty sure the guy deserved it but do any of you have opinions?