Game over for this year! Prizes are being mailed out to winners at the end of April.
Thank you to everyone that is playing in this years milkweed seed and plant giveaway. I am really excited to say that registration numbers are higher then last year. With over 100 registrations this is a great event. A friend of the monarch will be shipping an asclepias physocarpus plant to the winner.
Note to contestants: Email subject was "Entry confirmation milkweed madness 2017" in case you want to go search for the email your received on March 17th.
The Elite Eight has been set! All eight who are in the Elite Eight are winners. Native milkweed seeds will be sent to you in April. Check your email for details. If you progress toward the championship round then your prizes will be compounded. That means even more native milkweed seeds in your mailbox. The champion will be eligible to receive a live milkweed plant.
Third Round*
The Sweet Sixteen have been set. Contestants whose milkweeds advance from the Sweet Sixteen to the Elite Eight will win native milkweed seeds. Elite Eight milkweeds will be updated at the end of the day on March 24th.
Second Round*
First Round*
Bracket progress will refresh on March 17, 19, 24, & on April 4
Winners to be contacted via email by April 7th 2017
Winners announced on this site April 14th 2017
Winners milkweed ships on April 17th 2017
*Bracket last updated 17:00 on April 21, 2017 (subject to corrections)
Milkweed Madness 2017 will track the popular NCAA March Madness tournament. Milkweeds will progress through the brackets according to the teams they are mirroring in the real life tournament. Please keep in mind that the bracket presented on this site is in no way affiliated with the NCAA or any intellectual property associated with March Madness.
Game details and disclaimers (the fine print): The game is modeled after and tracks the popular NCAA basketball tournament. Milkweed Madness, it's creator Brad Grimm and the company hosting the online event Grow Milkweed Plants are in no way affiliated with the NCAA. Any similarities between Milkweed Madness and any other popular basketball tournament such as March Madness are just that, similarities. Any and all confusion that Grow Milkweed Plants and the Milkweed Madness brackets are in any way related to anything beyond what is represented on my informational website is conjecture and should be ignored immediately. Milkweed Madness is created as a fun way to give away milkweed seeds to as many as eight (8) lucky individuals and/or organizations. In addition to the altruistic goal of monarch butterfly habitat restoration the intake form will be used to collect your email. Email addresses that are collected will be used according to the Privacy Policy of growimlkweedplants.com Additionally your email will be used to contact you if you win. Web host "Weebly" automatically collects the computers IP Address when submitting the registration form. Your IP address will not be made public at any time. An email will be one (1) Entry into the tournament. Registration in tourneyment is OPEN between February 15 and March 13, 2017. Tournament enrollment/registration CLOSES March 12, 2017 at 00:01 Winners will be announced between April 4th and before April 17h. Winners can reasonably expect their seeds to arrive via USPS on or before April 30th 2017. Previous GIVEAWAY winners are encouraged to participate! Complete address will be required before I can send winners the seeds in the mail. Tournament is only open to United States residents or residents of foreign countries who have a valid U.S. postal address. Additional postage may be required if you are a resident of an outlying U.S. territory or reside in Hawaii, Alaska or Puerto Rico. Tournament can and will close when entries reach five hundred and twelve (512). If 512 entries are received before March 14, 2016 then the tournament will close to new contestants. If more then 512 contestants are registered by March 14th 2017 they may have a chance to win only if additional seeds become available. Site owner and tournament administrator, Brad Grimm will have one (1) milkweed entry. His entry will not reduce your odds of winning nor will it subtract from the total number of contestants listed above. ODDS OF WINNING: 1/64 One in sixty four chance of winning. Odds of winning are the same for each contestant. Contestants will be assigned their preference of "milkweed region" on a first-come first-served basis. Regional preference is not guaranteed. Once 64 contestants are entered the additional contestants will be assigned duplicate milkweeds. A maximum of 8 contestants can be assigned to one milkweed.
