2024 Official Rules & Prizes
Tournament Overview:
How does this work?
This is Site Battles on steroids! We have created a tournament inspired by the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Just like March Madness, our Site Battle Madness has 68 contestants. 8 of the 68 were randomly selected to battle in the "Last Four In" round, which is where they will battle to earn their spot in the 64 team bracket. We have four divisions (North, South, East, and West), 16 teams in each division. These divisions were all randomly generated as far as who is battling where. The goal is for each round to be five days long (120 hours), but we may adjust this as we see fit, when it comes to breaking tie breakers or other things like that. Once we have our 64 participants, we will cut that in half each round. From 64 to 32, 32 to 16, 16 to 8, 8 to 4, 4 to 2, and then we'll have our winner. When we have our division winners determined, The Final Four will be North vs. South and East vs. West.
What are the prizes?
Prizes are awarded accordingly to your placement, and how far your website goes into this tournament.
First Place
- $250 SEOClerks Gift Card
- $100 via PayPal/Venmo/Zelle/Cash App
- Official Forum Promotion T-Shirt
- Official Forum Promotion Mug
- SBM Profile Badge
- SBM Promotion Directory Prefix
- $150 SEOClerks Gift Card
- $50 via PayPal/Venmo/Zelle/Cash App
- Official Forum Promotion T-Shirt
- $100 SEOClerks Gift Card
- $25 via PayPal/Venmo/Zelle/Cash App
- Official Forum Promotion T-Shirt
- $100 SEOClerks Gift Card
- 500 FP$
- 250 FP$
- 100 FP$
- Members do not need to give a reason why they voted a particular way, nor do they need to publicly declare who they voted for. Both of these are optional, at voter's discretion.
- You MAY ask members of your community to vote for you; in fact, this is encouraged. While you can ask your members to vote, you cannot offer incentives to other individuals in order to obtain their votes, whether it's USD, a forum currency, a premium user group, etc.
- You may NOT create multiple accounts or pay another individual to create account(s). If you or your members create duplicate accounts to vote in SBM, they will face a disqualification from the tournament and further moderation action.
- All members MUST have ten posts within the last 30 days. Any votes that do not meet this requirement will be thrown out. If your website continuously refers members here who do not follow our Forum Guidelines, your forum will risk disqualification from the tournament.
- Disclaimer: Potential rule violations will be discussed within our staff team, and we'll look to take the best course of action going forward, in order to maintain fairness to all participants of this competition. We reserve the right to disqualify any contestant or deem any vote illegitimate when we feel we have cause.
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Thanks for your participation!
