• Prior to the announcement of the 2012 field of 68 teams on Selection Sunday (March 11th, 2012), you may play with this software (start new pools, etc.) against the 2011 bracket (last year's bracket) FOR FREE. You'll love it! Just click the Madness button to the left, and have fun!
• The 2012 brackets will be posted and the Madness system will be LIVE about three hours after the field of 68 teams is announced on Selection Sunday (March 11th, 2012). Just before Madness goes LIVE with the 2012 brackets, all test pools (started against last year's bracket) will be deleted.
• There is a $29.95 per pool fee to use the software for the 2012 tournament.
• There is no limit on the number of players that can participate in your pool. $29.95 buys you one unlimited pool for 2012.
• You pay by credit card. Our server is a secured server, using 128-bit SSL encryption, and we do NOT retain credit card information.
• You don't see the credit card payment form, because it's not up yet. About three hours after the field of teams is announced on Sunday, March 11th, the credit card payment form will start showing up. It will appear just after you click New Pool.
• If you played with us last year, your 2011 pool is still there, in case you want to check your rules, send a broadcast to last year's players, or just look around, but you will need to remember your pool name. Your 2011 pool will stay there until the 2012 brackets are up, at which point it will be deleted (really just made unavailable).
• Until that point (Sunday evening), you can start pools for free and play with the system as much as you like, but the pools are demo pools. All pools that you start before the 2012 brackets are up will be DELETED. So, anything you start now is just for demonstration purposes. Your live pool needs to be started AFTER the 2012 brackets are up.