To celebrate the annual NCAA College Basketball tournament, also known as March Madness, I decided it would be fun to do a Challenge Madness bracket of match-ups where you all decide who is the best of the best.

Instead of 64 teams, we will have 32 individuals, split into four divisions, two women’s divisions, and two men’s divisions. The two men and women divisions will be split into “Heavyweights” and “Champions”. What is the difference? Think of the Heavyweights as being the bigger more physical players, while the Champions as the more strategic, agile, and skilled players. Obviously, there will be Champions who can qualify as Heavyweights, and Heavyweights who could qualify as Champions, I attempted to make the groupings as fair possible. It was far more difficult categorizing the women as many of the best players fit better into the “Heavyweight” role by nature.

The most difficult part about all of this is making a list where you know that you are wrong from the start. However, let’s fucking go. I apologize if I left out one of your favorites or I ranked someone too high or too low, at the end of the day, these are all great players who can be re-arranged in any way. I also tended to avoid players who stopped competing before the Gauntlet 2 as it is difficult for them to stand a chance with more modern players when it comes to popularity as they are not fresh in people’s memory. I also chose to avoid most new generation players in order to avoid this same recency bias.

Men’s Champion Division

(1) Johnny Bananas vs (8) Frank Sweeney