2025 TENAMINT College Basketball Bracket Challenge - Powered by: SKALE Network
🗓️ Key Dates
| Item |
Date |
| Bracket Selection Ends |
March 20 (12PM ET) |
| First Four |
March 18-19 |
| First Round |
March 20-21 |
| Second Round |
March 22-23 |
| Sweet 16 |
March 27-28 |
| Elite Eight |
March 29-30 |
| Final Four |
April 5 |
| Championship Game |
April 7 |
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📋 Table of Contents
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📣 Registration is open now at BRACKET.TENAMINT.COM
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🗓️ Start making your picks on Sunday - March 16th, 2025
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🏀 Welcome to the TENAMINT Bracket Challenge!
The biggest college basketball tournament of the year is here and taking part in it is simple: pick the winners, follow the action, and take your shot at over $100,000 in cash prizes!
No prior experience or knowledge is necessary and it’s free to play so lock in your bracket, challenge your friends, and enjoy the march mayhem!
⛹️♂️ Get Started in 4 Easy Steps
Get registered here as early as Wednesday, March 12th.
2️⃣ Invite Your Friends
Send your invite link out to your friends, family, co-workers, and community. All bracket entries will be included on the TENAMINT global leaderboard.
3️⃣ Select Your Picks
Click to select the winner of each game to complete your bracket before March 20th
4️⃣ Embrace The Mayhem!
Keep track of your score and your competition on the leaderboard.
💡 About the TENAMINT Bracket Challenge
The Ultimate Free-to-Play Bracket Experience
- 📈 Leaderboards & Challenges: Track your progress, compete with friends, and climb the leaderboards. Elevate the competition and connect with the TENAMINT community.
- 💸 $100,000 Perfect Bracket Grand Prize: Think you can predict a perfect bracket? Do it, and you’ll take home the $100,000 Perfect Bracket Grand Prize.
- 💰 $1,000 Prize Pool: Even if you don’t go perfect, the top 10 brackets will split a $1,000 prize pool.
- 🏅 Everyone Wins: Every bracket submission earns TENAMINT Rewards Points, which will be redeemable in our upcoming marketplace (Coming Soon).
- ⛹️♂️ Free-to-Play & Open to All: Whether you’re a college basketball expert or filling out your first bracket, TENAMINT makes it easy to join, play, and win. No experience required—sometimes, beginners outperform even the biggest hoops fanatics!
Join the TENAMINT Bracket Challenge and get in the game. Bragging rights, cash prizes, and rewards are on the line!
📊 Bracket Challenge Scoring System and Leaderboards
You earn points for each correct matchup selection. No points are deducted for incorrect picks, and point values increase with each round.
Note: If multiple entries are tied at the end, the final game’s correct score serves as the tiebreaker. The entry with the closest predicted score to the actual final score wins.
Here is a scoring breakdown for each round of play:
- First Round: 10 point.
- Second Round: 20 points.
- Sweet 16: 40 points.
- Elite 8: 80 points.
- Final Four: 160 points.
- Championship: 320 points.
💸 Bracket Challenge: Prizes, Eligibility, and Scoring
Perfect Bracket Grand Prize: $100,000
- All selections must be correct resulting in a perfect bracket to be eligible for the $100,000 Perfect Bracket Grand Prize.
Bracket Challenge Global Leaderboard Prizes
- $1000 is up for grabs for the highest scoring submissions
| Global Leaderboard Ranking |
Prize Amount ($1000) |
| 🥇 1st |
$500 |
| 🥈 2nd |
$250 |
| 🥉 3rd |
$100 |
| 4th |
$50 |
| 5th |
$25 |
| 6th |
$25 |
| 7th |
$20 |
| 8th |
$10 |
| 9th |
$10 |
| 10th |
$10 |
Total Prize Pool: $1,000
Bracket Challenge Rules and Prize Eligibility Requirements
- Bracket submission must be finalized before March 20th (ET) to be eligible for the $100,000 Perfect Bracket Grand Prize
- All submissions must be in prior to scheduled start time of the first game on March 20th to be eligible for the $1000 Prize Pool
- Each participant may only make one submission and enter the challenge from one account
- Any attempts to exploit the leaderboard, referral system, or bracket will be grounds for instant disqualification from prizing
🗯️ Strategies to Selecting Your Bracket:
Selecting a March mayhem bracket is whatever you make of it—go all-in on strategy, embrace the chaos, or just have fun with it. Whether you're crunching stats like a seasoned analyst or picking teams based on mascot battles, there's no wrong way to fill out your bracket.
No matter your approach, the mayhem is what makes it great—so pick your style, lock in your bracket, and enjoy the ride! Check-out some strategies to consider:
🙋♂️ 1. The Favorites Strategy
- Stick with top-seeded teams and powerhouse programs that have dominated all season.
- No No. 16 seed had ever beaten a No. 1 seed—until 2018. It’s rare, but top seeds are still the safest picks to go deep.
- This method favors consistency but lacks the chaos of upsets.
🏆 2. Trust the Experts Strategy
- Follow analysts, betting odds, and advanced metrics like KenPom ratings or NET rankings to make informed choices.
- Check expert brackets from major sports networks