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Student with ESPN App has Last Remaining Perfect Bracket in the World

  • Robbie Franklin
  • Apr 3, 2015
  • 2 min read

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With only the final game of the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament left to play, local High School Sophomore Alex Stewart, who reportedly downloaded the ESPN SportsCenter App two weeks before the beginning of March Madness, has the last remaining perfect bracket in the world.

If Wisconsin were to win tonight over Duke, Stewart would be the first person to successfully predict every game correctly in a March Madness Bracket, and would win the $10,000 cash prize for doing so.

“To be perfectly honest, most of those I just picked randomly.” stated Stewart when asked to comment, “Like I had Villanova lose in the second round because their name sounded evil, and Judge Judy told me Michigan State would make it to the Final Four in a dream once.”

The study of Stewart’s method for choosing a perfect bracket has been a hot topic for the Nation’s leading Sports Analysts, none of which had perfect brackets past the first round. Charles Barkley shared his findings on his show last Saturday. “Alex’s approach to forming a bracket baffles me.” He said. “It is completely illogical, yet somehow his arbitrary combination of flipping coins, throwing darts blindfolded at the bracket, and playing rock-paper-scissors with himself seems to be more accurate than the hours of statistical, technical, and strategic analysis that professionals put into their predictions. Like seriously, are our jobs here meaningless?”

When asked what he would do with the prize money he would win if his bracket remained perfect through the final game, Stewart responded, “Wait, $10,000? What happened to Warren Buffett’s $1 billion thing? Am I seriously doing something this stupid for only $10,000? That’s like a half semester’s worth of college.”

 
 
 

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Hipster Quote of the Week:

The message at the end of “The Tortoise and the Hare” isn’t that ‘slow and steady wins the race’, but actually a well-remembered quote from the 1977 Disney classic “A New Hope”: “Great kid! Don’t get cocky”. Bullshit that the hare was gonna lose that race if he didn’t choose to stop for a nap and a snack and whatever else he did. Bullshit that the tortoise was going to catch up in any capacity if the hare didn’t slow down for him. Maybe that platitude makes sense, but definitely not in this situation.

 

A race is a sheer contest of speed. No other skills go into that. The tortoise and the hare aren’t making miniature wooden horses and getting judged on the craftsmanship of their products alongside their finish time; they are moving from one point to another. In no universe does slow and steady win that race. Slow and steady wins no races, except for races where the point is to go as slow as possible. Even in cases where slow and steady could be considered a possible alternative to fast, such as the aforementioned miniature-wooden-horse-making competition, someone who can do similar quality work at a much faster pace still wins that competition.

 

Slow and steady does not win the race. Not being too full of yourself does.."

 

~Nick Gilfor

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