Compete for 20 prizes in the 2025 March Madness Bracket Competition!

March Madness is back on Overtime this year! With it, we are bringing back one of your favorite challenges - the Bracket Competition! Available on Optimism, Arbitrum, and the just recently added Base , the competition will reward the top 20 brackets by the number of points collected from predicted game outcomes. Each March Madness bracket is minted as an NFT and costs 20 USDC to produce, and the total number of participants will be used to determine the total prize pool. But this is not the only news that awaits you! In addition to the bracket competition, you’ll now be able to bet on March Madness player props and create Same Game Parlays on Overtime!

Bracket Competition Rules and Rewards

If this is your first March Madness bracket competition, let’s break down how this works. To participate, you have to predict the winner of each tournament matchup from start to finish (March 20 - April 7). As mentioned, your prediction will be minted as an NFT and costs 20 USDC to mint. You can mint as many brackets/predictions as you want. The bracket minting fees are collected into a rewards pool to be split among the Top 20 participants with the highest number of correctly predicted games. The rewards will be airdropped to you in USDC once the tournament ends. The 20 winners will share the prize pot as follows:

• 1st place: 15% of prize pool + 4,500 $OVER Free Bet
• 2nd place: 12% of prize pool + 3,600 $OVER Free Bet
• 3rd place: 10% of prize pool + 3,000 $OVER Free Bet
• 4th place: 8% of prize pool + 2,400 $OVER Free Bet
• 5th place: 7% of prize pool + 2,100 $OVER Free Bet
• 6th place: 6% of prize pool + 1,800 $OVER Free Bet
• 7th place: 5% of prize pool + 1,500 $OVER Free Bet
• 8th place: 4% of prize pool + 1,200 $OVER Free Bet
• 9th place: 4% of prize pool + 1,200 $OVER Free Bet
• 10th place: 4% of prize pool + 1,200 $OVER Free Bet
• Places 11–15: 3% of prize pool + 900 $OVER Free Bet each
• Places 16–20: 2% of prize pool + 600 $OVER Free Bet each

Your bracket points are calculated using the following principle:

• 1st Round games: 1 point per correct pick
• 2nd Round games: 2 points per correct pick
• Sweet 16 games: 4 points per correct pick
• Elite Eight games: 8 points per correct pick
• Final Four games: 16 points per correct pick
• Final Game: 32 points for the correct pick

The maximum possible points for any bracket is 192 points. Additional rules:

• One wallet can mint as many brackets as it wants.
• The bracket ID will be used as a tiebreaker for brackets with equal points, where a lower number (i.e. earlier mint) bracket IDs will have an advantage.
• Identical brackets minted by the same wallet will be counted as one bracket. The earlier you mint, the better.

And with these final details, you are all set! All that is left is to head on over to www.overtimemarkets.xyz/march-madness and patiently wait for the Sunday Selection for the minting to commence!

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