This Is Madness, The Star Wars Character Tournament Returns!
The Star Wars answer to the NCAA’s March Madness basketball tournament will hit the web in two weeks – this time, featuring several key characters from The Force Awakens and multiple prizes!
From the official Star Wars website:
StarWars.com’s annual event, where you choose the most popular character of a galaxy far, far away, is back. See below for full details on this year’s competition, including voting dates, matchups (featuring new heroes and villains from Star Wars: The Force Awakens!), and how you can fill out your own bracket and win a bounty of Star Wars-themed prizes.
Set your hyperspace coordinates for StarWars.com/This-Is-Madness — the tournament kicks off on Monday, March 14. Vote on new matchups every day until the championship showdown on Monday, April 4; the winner will be announced on Tuesday, April 5. Get a first look at the bracket below, including opening round matchups!
Can you see the future as well as Yoda? Now’s the time to put your abilities to the test. Wookieepedia once again presents Predict the Madness, where fans can fill out their own brackets and take home amazing prizes that Unkar Plutt would love! Here’s how it works: Visit Predict the Madness, pick who you think will win each matchup and, ultimately, the tournament. Choose wisely! The most accurate brackets will qualify for incredible prizes, but make like BB-8 speeding away from the First Order — the deadline to submit your bracket is Monday, March 14, at 9:59 a.m., or just before the first round of This Is Madness begins.
Players have to predict which characters will win which rounds – the closest guessers wind up with the most points, and those who make the top five get their own bundles of prizes. The bundles vary based on how well one places. The specific details on these bundles can be viewed on the website itself.
There are already some really hard choices. Like Han vs. Chewie; Leia vs. Poe and Ahsoka vs. BB-8.
Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.
Its nice to see how competitive The Force Awakens characters will get. Rey and Kylo can be a great addition to the game.
Already placed my bets.
Threepio needs to be up there! He’s the one whose quote is the title of the tournament!
I could really care less about Sabine.
*couldn’t*
You’re right! Thanks for catching that.
what was the seeding used for this? having obi-wan, luke and han all in the top side of the light bracket seems unfairly stacked. same with the dark side having vader, palps, maul and tarkin(!) in the same side of their bracket.
Let the Wookie win !
How did Sabine get in the bracket instead of Kanan?
Also if you put the Inquisitors, you really ought to put the Grand Inquisitor.
It’s clear The Clone Wars got no love here. Captain Rex? Mace Windu? Savage Opress? Mother Talzin?
Agreed. Atleast my favourite characters from TCW are in, Ahsoka and Ventress. But I’d like to see Talzin and Rex aswell.
hera too. i wonder if they forgot about kanan until it was too late to change it.
I got Rey beating Vader in the championship.
Yoda vs Finn…
Han vs. Kylo at the end and Han winning!!
Rey FTW
Kylo is my champion!
No snoke?
yea it needs snoke vs palpatine
EU characters allowed?
Yes. But no one likes them so they’re not going to win.
But seriously, no. The entire bracket is composed of canonical characters.
Lol…the EU is so much more overpowering. Jaxx would wax all of them!
Kyle Katarn FTW.
wow. some hard choices but i ended up with luke vs rey and vader vs kylo with kylo vs luke and kylo as champion
Han vs. Darth Vader in the finals (beating Rey and Boba Fett in the Final 4). Han wins to go off into the sunset in style!!!
So how do the matchups work? Are they just polls that are open for a certain amount of time that we vote on and the poll winner is our matchup champion?