{"id":44682,"date":"2016-03-01T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/?p=44682"},"modified":"2022-05-04T22:32:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T02:32:38","slug":"making-disney-bracket-march-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/making-disney-bracket-march-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Your Own Disney Bracket for March Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"
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March Madness is ensuing upon us soon.\u00a0 Many will associate the term with NCAA basketball where 68 teams compete the national championship title.\u00a0 Each round eliminates half of the teams playing.\u00a0 However, as a Disney household, we adapt the brackets for our own fun and enjoyment.\u00a0 My husband is really the bracket mastermind and will spend time with my children selecting our starting competitors.\u00a0 If you don’t know how a bracket works, an actual bracket lists 64 “teams” (those extra 4 play an initial game to narrow down to 64) that are paired up according to seed, which means rank in their region. \u00a0So the top seed is paired with the worst seed. \u00a0It sounds easy enough right? \u00a0Like all of the top seeds would always advance? \u00a0But no, there are many \u00a0– what they call “upsets” – that happen. \u00a0And of course there’s the whole chunk of teams that are in the mid-ranked seeds, which can make deciding on your own winner, a challenge!<\/p>\n

In 2014, and again in 2015, the Disney Parks Blog matched up thirty-two Disneyland and Walt Disney World Attractions in a bracket that framed the attractions as teams. \u00a0They even went as far as to sell t-shirts with each “team’s” logo, to the public during each round. \u00a0They’re so smart that Disney company. \u00a0(wink) \u00a0The Disney Parks Blog executed this bracket with the help of social media, accepting votes from Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. \u00a0Then after a specified time frame, the team with the most votes proceeded to the next round. \u00a0In the end, a team from either Disneyland or Walt Disney World would be named Champion.\u00a0 We should know soon if there will be a 2016 match up!<\/p>\n

At home, we play the Disney brackets during March Madness, and sometimes at other times because, well, because it’s fun! \u00a0And even the youngest fans can play! \u00a0My husband starts the selection of the 64 “teams” by asking our children for suggestions. \u00a0The most popular are attractions, characters, and restaurants – each category getting its\u00a0own bracket. \u00a0Sometimes it takes a little while to come up with 64 (think restaurants), and others we have to narrow down before we even start (think more than 64 characters). \u00a0My husband\u00a0uses his own seeding system. \u00a0Let’s take characters for example – he would consider the Fab Five, Princesses, Winnie the Pooh characters (because they’re classics) higher seeds than Pixar characters. \u00a0Of course this isn’t an exact science, or math problem, so feel free to create your own system! \u00a0Then he fills in a bracket with 64 “teams” to start, prints them out, and then we fill them out! \u00a0When our little ones couldn’t read, well one still can’t, we just read the teams off to them and they vote. \u00a0If you’re feeling productive, you can go right through the entire bracket and come up with your winner – and then of course debate with your family as to why yours is right! \u00a0Or, you can play a “round” (another elimination), every couple of days to mirror a more NCAA-like schedule.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Attractions Bracket – 64, you pick your winner!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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64 characters matched up make for an interesting competition<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

You can create your own bracket in many ways – you can simply write one out, you can use Excel, or you can use one of many free bracket generator sites available online. \u00a0When you create one online, there are character limitations so some abbreviation may be needed.\u00a0 Most importantly, these are to have fun with – to bring some of the Disney magic alive at home.\u00a0 I know that my answers can vary from one day to the next.\u00a0 See below for how my “teams” did today!\u00a0 And enjoy this game with your family and friends and let me know who your winner is!<\/div>\n
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Jocelyn’s Attraction Bracket<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jocelyn’s Character Bracket<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Have you ever done something like this with your family? What March Madness Brackets would you come up with? Share in the comments!<\/em><\/p>\n

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    Edit: We’ve updated this article with a brand new bracket for 2018! Try your hand at our brand new offering. March Madness is ensuing upon us soon.\u00a0 Many will associate the term with NCAA basketball where 68 teams compete the national championship title.\u00a0 Each round eliminates half of the teams playing.\u00a0 However, as a Disney…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":44696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4705],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-disney-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44682"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61266,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44682\/revisions\/61266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}