Picture of Sara Jean Underwood 2012

Gentlemen, meet your Ladies' Tournament champion. Because, really, Sara Underwood couldn't have done it without you.

Like Brooklyn Decker, the inaugural winner of Esquire.com's not-at-all-objectifying search for the hottest woman of the year, she was the best sport in our bracket hysteria. Like 30 Rock's Katrina Bowden — from whom she inherits March's other tournament crown — she is, in fact, hot. But in 2012, a 28-year-old's Twitter offense can work faster than Kentucky's, and in a voting competition on the Internet, a strong nerd fanbase is king.

The most recent of distracting co-hosts on G4 TV's Attack of the Show, Underwood was nice enough to celebrate a finals victory over Kate Middleton on her home court, following in the footsteps of her Attack predecessor Alison Haislip: She immediately invited over our photographer to her apartment for a bonus round of his Me in My Place series with us. Two million votes and one day later, here is the acceptance speech. With pictures. And her cat. And maybe some glasses. —The Editors

(Music: "You're the Kind of Girl," by Lee Fields & the Expressions, from the album Faithful Man, on sale now)