Did you know that it pays the top 20 $100,000 each?
http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/the-billion-dollar-bracket-challenge-is-really-a-hundred-thousand-dollar-lottery/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0Forget the billion, which for all practical purposes is impossible to get, that's not a bad consolation prize at all!
There currently are only 3 perfect entries out of about 8.7 million entries. Technically I am tied for 4908th, having picked 21 of 24 correctly. Unfortunately there are about 400,000 other people tied for 4908th, lol.
But with 20 prizes I have a random chance of about 1 in 20,000 to win 100K. That's not bad at all for something like this.
Of course, a long way to go...by the end of next weekend I will likely be out of it.
But this is a much, much better contest than ESPN! The prize there for the top person only, is a 10K gift card from Best Buy. Not too shabby, but I like trying win one of 20 $100K prizes a lot better.