For a bit of closure on the 2014 Mascot Madness - Mascot battles to the death accurately predicted 2 of 4 final 4 teams (Gator and Badgers), which was good enough to land at the 72.9 percentile of ESPN brackets. That was a drastic improvement driven by the higher score in the later rounds as it was actually sitting in the single digit percentages after the opening weekend due to this years tremendous number of upsets. Goes to show you that figuratively arbitrarily composing a bracket based on any general non scientific related premise works about as good or better than most of the C- and below brackets that people put effort into.
As a matter of reflection and learning, it seems that perhaps an airplane can kill a tree and survive - I wasn't sure about that to start with and went the wrong way on Dayton v Ohio State. It is also time to revisit the philosophy on colors as mascots as the Orange (Syracuse), Crimson (Harvard) and Cardinal (Stanford) all won in the first round. Perhaps next year all colors get a first round win regardless. Don't know how to justify that, so we will see.
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