{"id":16858,"date":"2020-02-18T13:57:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T18:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/?p=16858"},"modified":"2020-02-18T13:57:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T18:57:06","slug":"5-dimes-sportsbook-announces-revolutionary-march-madness-bracket-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/5-dimes-sportsbook-announces-revolutionary-march-madness-bracket-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Dimes Sportsbook Announces Revolutionary March Madness Bracket Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There will be more ways to win in the NCAA Tournament in 2020 thanks to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/affiliates.5dimes.eu\/tracking\/Affiliate.aspx?idBook=1&amp;mediaTypeID=220&amp;AffUrlID=411\">5 Dimes<\/a>.\u00a0They have a March Madness Brackets Contest that will weigh the later rounds more heavily.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>The March Madness Brackets App will be available March 1st<\/em><\/strong><em>,&nbsp;<strong>and the day after Selection Sunday (March 15th)<\/strong>&nbsp;you will be able to start filling out and editing your brackets right until the first game of&nbsp;<strong>Round of 64 starts (March 19th)<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>You can also create brackets for the&nbsp;<strong>Second Round, Round of 32 (March 21st)<\/strong>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<strong>Sweet 16 Round (March 26th)<\/strong>. These bracket selections will be available once the previous round is completed until the tip-off of the first game of the round.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>IMPORTANT!<\/em><\/strong><em>&nbsp;All stats are not updated in real time and they are intended to be used as a reference only. If need to, please verify all stats before submitting your bracket.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>You can buy as many brackets as you like. Once a bracket is purchased,&nbsp;<strong>it can NOT be deleted and is NOT refundable.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Bracket pool options are\u00a0<strong>$1, $5, $10 or $25<\/strong>\u00a0and will only compete with brackets within the same amount and round.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each round the points go up by one point: one for first round, five for fifth. But then, the sixth round doubles to 10 points. <a href=\"https:\/\/affiliates.5dimes.eu\/tracking\/Affiliate.aspx?idBook=1&amp;mediaTypeID=220&amp;AffUrlID=411\">5 Dimes<\/a> has all the details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course for winners in the Big Dance, it\u2019s Lord of the Big Dance Joe Duffy, who will be Mr. March again at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\">OffshoreInsiders.com<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There will be more ways to win in the NCAA Tournament in 2020 thanks to\u00a05 Dimes.\u00a0They have a March Madness Brackets Contest that will weigh the later rounds more heavily.\u00a0 The March Madness Brackets App will be available March 1st,&nbsp;and the day after Selection Sunday (March 15th)&nbsp;you will be able to start filling out and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/5-dimes-sportsbook-announces-revolutionary-march-madness-bracket-contest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">5 Dimes Sportsbook Announces Revolutionary March Madness Bracket Contest<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16859,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16858\/revisions\/16859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}