this. am. March. Do you know what March means? It's the season of the year here at Coaster101 where we typically compile college basketball brackets and focus on what some (no one) would call broke after the first two days of college basketball tournaments. “The most important matchup of March.”
This year we are bringing back our annual bracket event. Park Mania! (Cleverly named in an effort to avoid getting a cease and desist letter!) There are a few variations.
Similar to a “real” bracket, we created a 64-park bracket with some “play-in” games to create the final field. A few additional parks were pushed in for voting areas (to include more parks overall), but the process is still largely the same. When creating brackets, it is important to keep the following in mind: No ranking and There are no geographic regions. Except for the “voting” round, parks were randomly selected for matchups. This year we named areas after several roller coasters that have “-hawk” in their names. You'll know that parks with “-hawks” are in your area!
Instead of parks facing each other on hardwood, we'll let Coaster101.com's readers pick their favorite parks in North America!
We have made some updates to our voting process and are closely monitoring the surge in voting. Voter turnout will be checked periodically, and we reserve the right to conduct “blind” voting in future rounds where the results will not be shown. We also reserve the right to remove potentially fraudulent votes from the results, which defeats the purpose of having fun. Conclusion: Don't cheat or ruin this for your favorite park and everyone else who is voting legally. Because we have to deal with this too!
Each voting round takes place over several days, and the schedule is as follows: We will create a post each day with a new poll for you to vote on. All voting takes place right here at Coaster101.com and closes at 8 PM ET on the date specified.
Rolling Voting: Monday, March 18 – Wednesday, March 20
1st round of voting: Thursday March 21 – Sunday March 24
Second round of voting: Monday 25 March – Wednesday 27 March
Regional semifinal voting: Thursday March 28 – Sunday March 31
Local final vote: Monday April 1 – Wednesday April 3
National Semifinal Voting: Thursday, April 4 – Saturday, April 6
Championship Voting: Sunday, April 7 – Tuesday, April 9
Winner Announcement: Wednesday, April 10
first round
Firehawk Region
Thunderhawk Region
Nighthawk Region
Timberhawk Area
Voting closes at 8pm ET on Sunday. Round 2 starts on Monday!
Join the conversation on social media using the hashtag #C101ParkMania!