Pick the correct champion for a chance to win a share of $50,000! Fill out 25 brackets to compete for more cash! See Official Rules for full details.

ESPN Tournament Challenge Sets New All-time Record: 20 Million Brackets - ESPN Press Room U.S.

20 million Out of more than 20 million men's March Madness brackets compiled by the NCAA across various platforms, less than 1,000 are still perfect following the first day of action. Here is how many are left by site, according to the NCAA: ESPN: 658.

Playing is simple

1. Go to Women's Tournament Challenge; click "Create New Bracket"
2. Click "Edit your entry settings here." Select a name for your bracket; click "Save Settings.
3. (Optional) Create a group to play against your friends, family, coworkers or others; click "Create Group."

BLOCK: In ESPN's contest, the top 1 percent of all the brackets are entered into a raffle. The grand prize is a $20,000 gift card to Best Buy and a trip to this year's Maui Invitational basketball tournament. LIL BOW WOW: (Rapping) Playing basketball all around the world.

Every year, sports fans participate in March Madness bracket challenges, where they attempt to predict the winning teams in the NCAA men's basketball tournament.

ESPN is tracking perfect men's brackets and says there are 658 perfect brackets remaining. The ESPN men's bracket challenge started with 20,056,273, which means . 003 percent of brackets remain perfect. Over at Yahoo!

WASHINGTON - Day one of March Madness 2023 was a bracket buster. Ten games in to the first-round of the men's college basketball tournament, fewer than 0.02% of men's March Madness brackets remain perfect, according to the NCAA website.

Your Bracket - Explained

1. Green: Correct pick - You have selected the right team to win the game.
2. Red: Incorrect pick - You picked the wrong team to win the game.
3. Grey: Incorrect Team - The team is grey, with a lint through it, means they did not make it to the game as you had predicted.

Follow these basic guidelines, and you'll have as good a shot as anybody.

1. Start by picking your Champion and Final 4.
2. Pick a 1-, 2-, or 3-seed as your champion.
3. Only once in the past 36 years did all four 1-seeds make it to the Final 4, so don't do that either!
4. Be creative in filling in the rest of your Bracket!

As such, we were bound by their rules, and the main clause which states 'the contest winner must incorporate a random drawing element for any prizes'. For the $50,000 in Grand Prizes we choose to include every entry that correctly picks the national champion to be eligible for the ten drawings of $5,000 each.

DraftKings Free Bracket Beach Challenge DraftKings is offering another free bracket challenge this year and the prize pool for 2023 is at $50,000. The DraftKings free bracket challenge is a pretty standard bracket picking contest. The scoring doubles for each round as follows: First Round: 10 points.

How does a bracket work?

1. Brackets need to include at least four teams or participants.
2. Teams or individuals compete in head-to-head competitions.
3. Winners move on to the next round. Losers are either eliminated or they may move to a consolation round.
4. The final two winners meet in a head-to-head competition.