March Madness is here, and somehow this madness has affected us here at Boundary County Live.  We are sponsoring a contest where you could win one of our Grand Prizes, if your basketball tournament bracket is good enough.

All you have to do to enter to win one of our Grand Prizes is put together your best basketball bracket—Men’s or Women’s (or both) for the NCAA Tournament, and enter your bracket in the Boundary County Live group in the ESPN.com Basketball Tournament Challenge.

Boundary County Live is sponsoring a contest for the Men’s Tournament and for the Women’s Tournament.

• The group name for the Boundary County Live group Men’s Tournament Contest is Boundary County MMadness.

• The group name for the Boundary County Live group Women’s Tournament Contest is Boundary County WMadness.

When the Tournament Champions are crowned

• on Sunday, April 3, for the Women’s Tournament, and

• on Monday, April 4, for the Men’s Tournament,

the First Place bracket in each of the Boundary County Madness contest groups will win the Grand Prize of $50.  It's that easy!  To be clear, there is a $50 prize for the winner of the Women’s Tournament Bracket Contest, and a $50 prize for the winner of the Men’s Tournament Bracket Contest.

But wait, there's more!  If you enter our contest, you aren't limited to just one bracket—we will let you enter two brackets in each contest.  (You can enter either 1 bracket or 2 brackets, whichever you wish).

Entries in this exciting contest will close and entries will be locked as follows:

• Entries for the Men’s Tournament will close on Thursday, March 17, 2022 at 9:00 a.m., Pacific Time, when the first game of the Men’s Tournament begins.

• Entries for the Women’s Tournament will close on Friday, March 18, 2022 at 9:00 a.m., Pacific Time, when the first game of the Women’s Tournament begins.

So don't wait, get your entries in soon.

Here are the Eleven Easy Steps to follow to enter the contest:

1.  See the official rules by CLICKING HERE

2.  Go to ESPN.com.  If you already have an account on ESPN.com, sign in to your account, and skip down to Step #4.

If you don't already have an account, click on the LOG IN icon, which is at the upper right side part of the screen, then when the LOG IN box opens, click on SIGN UP.

3.  Follow the instructions you will see to set up an account on ESPN.com.  Along the way, you will be asked to select your "ESPN Name," which is the screen name you will be known by on the ESPN website.

4.  Once you are set up and have an account, and you are at the home screen for ESPN, select from the menu ribbon toward the top of the screen either “NCAAM” to enter the Men’s Tournament Contest, or select “NCAAW” to enter the Women’s Tournament Contest.  Remember, in this contest you can enter brackets for both the Men’s and/or the Women’s Tournaments.

Once you get to the screen for either the Men’s or the Women’s Tournament, click on the screen where it says:  "Fill Out Your Bracket."

 
5.  Once you have expertly filled in your bracket and submitted it, you are ready to join our Group for the contest.  Before you leave the screen after submitting your bracket, note that if you wish you can change the name of your bracket from the boring ESPN-computer-assigned-name, to some ultra-cool name by clicking the gear icon to the right of your bracket name.

Here is how you join our group:  At the menu ribbon toward the top of the page, click on “My Groups,”  then select “Create or Join a Group” from the drop-down.  This will open a new page.

 6.  On the new page, scroll down toward the bottom of the page until you see the section of the page that says “ALL GROUPS.”  Inside that section is a search box that says "Search Groups."

 7.  Enter the name of our Group in this search box.  Our group for the Men’s Tournament Contest is named "Boundary County MMadness."   Our group for the Women’s Tournament Contest is named “Boundary County WMadness.”

8.  The name of our group will come up:  Boundary County MMadness, or Boundary County WMadness.  Click on the name of the group.  That will take you to the page for our group.  You will see in the description the name of our group, Boundary County Madness, and you will see that the creator of the group is Boundary County Live.

 9.  Click on the blue button that says “Join Group.”

10.  This will open a page with a description of our group, also will have a list of all of your brackets that you have filled out.  On the right side of the screen, next to each of your brackets, will be a checkbox.  Check the box of the bracket you wish to select to enter into our Boundary County Live group.  (Note:  in this contest, everyone is allowed to enter up to 2 (two) brackets).

12.  You will next need to enter our Secret Group Password.  In the box that says "Group Password," enter our password, which is "boundary madness"  (Shhhhh--don't tell anyone.  Also, the password is the SAME for both the Men’s or Women’s groups).  Once you have selected the bracket or two brackets you wish to enter in our contest, and have entered our password, click on the blue button that says "Join Group."

You are now in our Group!  You can now follow along, check back to ESPN.com once in a while, and see how your bracket is doing in the Group during the Tournament!

You can also watch for updates on our Boundary County Live Facebook page or on our Boundary County Live internet web page.  There will also be comments there from time to time on the ongoing contest, we might even talk about your bracket, and we may send out an occasional group e-mail to all those entered in the contest, to help keep everyone’s spirits up as the inevitable bracket damage progresses!  We will have some official Boundary County Live brackets entered (which are not eligible to win).  See if you can beat our expert and skilled selections.

13.  You're not quite done yet.  Since everyone in the ESPN contest is identified only with their ESPN screen name, we won't have any way of knowing the real name of the person who wins the contest.  So, to finish your entry in this contest, please send an e-mail to bracket-contest@newsbf.com and provide us the following information:

• The name of each of your entered brackets, and which contest (Men’s or Women’s) you have entered

• Your ESPN screen name

• Your actual, real name

• A valid e-mail and / or telephone number for communicating with you

This information is necessary so we can put a name to the anonymous bracket information on ESPN.com and thus determine the winners of our contest.  Also so we can contact the winner of the contest and send them their prize. And because sending this e-mail to us is also a contest rule (Rule #7(i)).

During the contest, we will not divulge the real names or e-mail address or the telephone number of anyone in the contest, however at the end of the contest, we will announce the name of the contest winner or winners.  We will announce the winner’s name only, and no other information.  Also, we do not and will not keep any information on those who have entered our contest—we will not keep nor store nor archive the names, e-mail addresses, or telephone numbers of those who enter.

Remember, you can make two brackets for each Men’s or Women’s contests if you wish, and enter both in our contest.

Please see all contest rules by CLICKING HERE.

And remember this, the first game of the Women’s Tournament begins Friday, March 18, 2022, at 9:00 a.m., Pacific Time.  The first game of the Men’s Tournament begins Thursday, March 17, 2022 at 9:00 a.m., Pacific Time.  Once those games begin, our Contest Groups WILL BE CLOSED, entries will be locked, and no more entries will be allowed in (or out).  So---get your entry in RIGHT AWAY!

P.S.  Please e-mail us if you have any questions:  bracket-contest@newsbf.com