This. Is. March. You know what March means? It’s that time of year at Coaster101 where we typically fill out a college basketball bracket, find ourselves rooting for the Florida Gators on a random Monday and shift our focus to what some (no one) call “The most important bracket in March.”
This year, we’ve brought back our annual bracket event called Park Mania! (cleverly named in an effort not to get a cease and desist letter!) with a few twists.
Just like the “real” bracket, we’ve created a 64-park bracket with some “play-in” games to make the final field. While we have crammed in a few extra parks for the vote-in region (to include more parks overall), the process is still largely the same. It’s important to note, when creating the brackets, there are no rankings and no geographic regions. With the exception of the “vote-in” rounds, the parks were randomly selected for their match-ups. This year, we’ve named the region after several attractions with “Timbers” in the name.
Instead of the parks facing off against each other on the hardwood, we’re going to let you, the readers of Coaster101.com, decide your pick for your favorite park in North America!
We have updated our voting process slightly and are closely monitoring spikes in votes. Voting percentages will be periodically checked, and we reserve the right to make future rounds “blind” votes where results are not shown. We also reserve the right to remove any potentially fraudulent votes from the results, which kind of defeats the purpose of this being fun. Bottom Line: Don’t cheat and ruin this for your favorite park and everyone else who are voting legitimately – us included, because we have to deal with it!
Each voting round will take place over several days, and the schedule will be as follows. We’ll create a post each day with new polls for voting. All voting will be done right here on Coaster101.com, and will end at approximately 8:00pm Eastern time on the specified date.
Vote In Round Voting: Monday, March 17 – Wednesday, March 19
Round One Voting: Thursday, March 20 – Sunday, March 23
Round Two Voting: Monday, March 24 – Wednesday, March 26
Regional Semi-Final Voting: Thursday, March 27 – Sunday, March 30
Regional Final Voting: Monday, March 31 – Wednesday, April 2
National Semi-Final Voting: Thursday, April 3 – Saturday, April 5
Championship Voting: Sunday, April 6-Tuesday, April 8
Winner Announced: Wednesday, April 9
The Results Are In! Tune In Wednesday To Find Out Who Won!
Polls close at 8:00pm Eastern on Tuesday!
Be sure to join the conversation on social media by using the hashtag #C101ParkMania!
King’s Island is my favorite place to eat and ride with your family and friends
Kings island is my favorite place to go in the summer time. Love the rides food and games great place for fun
Kings Island Deserved to win it is my home park and I have gone to Cedar Point, and it just doesn’t do it. Cedar Point may have better rides but I think Kings Island has the edge because the lines are shorter.