{"id":69986,"date":"2013-03-18T19:12:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T00:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=69986"},"modified":"2013-03-18T21:10:13","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T02:10:13","slug":"middle-earth-march-madness-2013-tournament-bracket-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/03\/18\/69986-middle-earth-march-madness-2013-tournament-bracket-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle-earth March Madness 2013 – Tournament Bracket Revealed!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"middleearthmarchmadness13-vertical\"<\/a>We teased it last week, and now it is finally here: The 2013 Middle-earth March Madness Tournament<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

If you recall, the brave Samwise Gamgee came out as the 2012 victor<\/a> after a series of amazing match-ups and votes that were decided by a single vote!<\/p>\n

After weeks of deliberation, our Selection Committee<\/em> have chosen our combatants and assigned them appropriate seeding on our 64 character\/object tournament sheet. Yes, that’s right, we decided that instead of seeding the tournament with only ‘popular’ characters, we should shake things up a bit and offer a more diverse range of characters and objects that span the entire history of Middle-earth.<\/p>\n

This year’s divisions are geographic based: The Shire<\/strong>, Angmar<\/strong>, Erebor<\/strong> and Mordor<\/strong>. Like the NCAA Tournament, being assigned into a division does not necessarily mean the character or object comes from that area.<\/p>\n

Get ready for a few weeks of unique match-ups and non-stop excitement! Voting will start tomorrow right here on TheOneRing.net, so download your bracket today and fill it out. See if you can predict who will be our 2013 champion! [Download Bracket<\/a>] [Last Year’s March Madness Results<\/a>]\u00a0(And of course, feel free to rant and rave against our Selection Committee in our comments – after all, that is also part of the whole March Madness experience!)<\/em><\/p>\n

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