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Anybody want to do March Mammal Madness this year? The gist is the bracketed animals have simulated combat to move on while sustaining injuries and in random biomes. I'll post the rules and whatnot itt.
You can either fill out the bracket here (and I'll add you manually) or make an account with a throwaway email and join my league: https://www.poolsmmm.org/l.aspx?oi=kM4bcModcZGeGrGj+V5+Bw==
Thinking I'll buy the winner a plushie of whatever animal wins the overall bracket and ship it to an amazon locker of their choice or something. idk yet
Fun AND educational, what's not to love!
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>>5104801
Starts next week friday. here's the cal & rules
>Combatants are arranged in a four division, single elimination tournament.
>Combatants have assigned seeds 1-16, with “1” being the best-ranked combatant within the Division and “16” typically the worst-ranked combatant. Same & Different Division is special in 2025, pay close attention to subDivision.
>A single individual at peak “combat” condition represents their species as combatant- for some species this may be a male or female, depending on the natural history of the species.
>Keep season in mind- March is spring in the Northern hemisphere & Autumn in the Southern hemisphere. Combatant physical condition & priorities may vary with season, depending on the natural history.
>The combatants are considered as encountering each other on a field of battle:
>5a. Rounds 1, 2, & 3 the better/lower seeded combatant has Home Habitat Advantage. The worse-seeded combatant is the visitor, unless the combatants live in the same habitat.
>5b. Rounds 4, 5, & 6 (the Elite Trait, the Final Roar, & the Championship), the field of battle is randomized among 4 possible habitats:
>OCEAN REEF: a ridge of material at or near the surface of the ocean, natural reefs are typically coral.
>SWAMP: an area of land permanently saturated, or filled, with water with lots of trees.
>DESERT: an area that receives very little precipitation.
>EUCALYPT FOREST: Forests dominated by ~800 species in the three genera Angophora, Corymbia and Eucalyptus. Eucalypts evolved from rainforest ancestors, adapting to an environment in which drought, nutrient-poor soils and fire were increasingly common.
>To “win” a battle, a combatant has to be holding the field of battle at the end of the encounter. Withdrawing from the encounter, fleeing, hiding, or total knock out (carnage) count as a defeat.
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They have info on all the animals on their website. but it's very annoying to navigate.
https://libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalMadness
Make your picks, post about it here, shit talk the dumbass plants that are gonna get mogged while the hippo sweeps, etc