The 2nd Annual SECRant Best Poster Tournament: Nomination Stage

The College World Series is over. We have finally hit the offseason. Two full months without SEC sports. As promised, we will be getting right into it.

Here is last year's bracket:



Reminder of how the seeding works:

Similar to golf, depending on how well someone performs in the previous bracket, they earn exemptions for brackets in years to come. Those who finished in the sweet 16 last year will receive auto-bids this year

Sweet 16: 1 year exemption
Elite 8: 2 year exemption
Final 4: 3 year exemption
Runner-up: 5 year exemption
Winner: Lifetime exemption

Note: Anyone who has gone 4 months or longer without posting loses their exemption.


BoarEd and KSGamecock both fall into this category, and lose their exemption. Therefore we will only have 14 auto-bids. They can still be nominated, which I will get to later.


One of the major complaints from last year's bracket was how we had a lot of really good posters face each other early on due to randomized seeding. So we are doing it different this year.

WilliamTaylor21 won last year, so he is the #1 overall seed. MomentOfTruth87 was runner-up, so he will be the #2 overall seed. Ted2010 and SummerOfGeorge will either get the 3 or 4 seed based on randomization. The elite 8 posters will be randomized 5-8, and the Sweet 16, 9-16.

This was done to avoid the possibility of having a championship rematch in the first round.

After randomization, here are the Top 14 seeds:

#1- WilliamTaylor21
#2- momentoftruth87
#3- SummerOfGeorge
#4- Ted2010
#5- Hailstate15
#6- LewDawg
#7- diddlydawg7
#8- 1BigTigerFan
#9- EKG
#10- CNB
#11- RebelTheBear
#12- DownSouthJukin
#13- Harry Rex Vonner
#14- Sun God

The remaining 50 seeds will be determined by an anonymous survey on SurveyMonkey. List no more than 4 posters you think should be in the bracket. The poster with the most nominations will be the #15 seed, the 2nd most will be the #16, and so forth down the line. Any ties will be determined by randomization.

SurveyMonkey nomination link

I'm gonna give the nomination phase a little extra time. Voting ends at midnight Friday night. Good luck