Rak Madness Basketball 2025
WELCOME to the 2025 Rak Madness Basketball tournament. This is the 32nd running (minus covid) of the Madness and last years Champion, Gerry 'Boston Breakers' Angers welcomes ALL challengers. Could it be YOU who takes home the Crown this year? The only way to find out is to play and it only costs $25 per entry... so whatta you say, "YOU WANNA PLAY ?"
CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE MADNESS
PASSWORD IF PROMPTED – 2025
No Pay No Play – ALL Payments in by Thursday, March 20th
No doubt there might be some growing pains going into the 2nd year of doing the pool ONE hundo percent online only because I do not have any control of your picks. For instance if you want to change your bracket name I cannot do that for you and the only instructions I found online were as follows.
How do I change the names of my brackets? From the Lobby, click the appropriate pool under My Pools. Click on the settings icon (the sprocket) on the right side of the page. Click Edit Pool Settings, and a pop up window will appear. Make the desired changes to the pool’s name.
2025 NCAA Tournament Tips
- 100% of ALL Entries will be done online at CBS Sports
- 100% of ALL the Scoring will be done online CBS Sports including Total Pts tie-breaker
- Scoring - see round by round scoring explanation below
- Entry Fee - $25 per entry (Venmo & PayPal links below)
- CBS Sports will list Final Standings and that will be the Madness Standings for Payout purposes
- All Entries must be completed by Thursday March 20th at 12 noon est.
- IF prompted for a password to enter your picks use 2024
- IF you do not have a CBS Sports login you'll need to create one
PAYMENT DETAILS - $25 per Entry
When paying entry via Venmo or PayPal PLEASE be very clear on the NAME of the Entry you are paying because you will not be able to change it.
SCORING
First Round – 1 Point + (Seed)
FIRST ROUND ONLY – If a #12 seed wins over a #5 seed you get 1 pt for the win and 12 more pts for the seed upset for a total of 13pts. On the contrary, if you pick a #5 seed over #12 seed and #5 seed wins, then you would get 1pt for the win and 5 more pts for seed victory for a total of 6 pts. I call this ‘The Rak Madness Twist’. You’re Welcome!
2nd Round – 5 Points
Sweet 16 – 7 Points
Elite 8 – 9 Points
Final 2 – 11 Points
Champion – 15 Points
PAY OUT - DETERMINED
Since I am unaware of the total number of entries, payouts will be in percentages depending on the number of entries.Greater than 40 Entries, 5 Place Payout
- 1st Place – 55% Purse
- 2nd Place – 20% Purse
- 3rd Place – 15% Purse
- 4th Place – 10% Purse
- 5th Place – $25 Entry Fee Returned
40 Entries or Less, 4 Place Payout
- 1st Place – 60% Purse
- 2nd Place – 25% Purse
- 3rd Place – 15% Purse
- 4th Place – $25 Entry Fee Returned
Tie-breakers will be decided by how CBS SPORTS posts the final standings. Since this is the 1st time I’m using CBS Sports and there was no way to test I will rely solely on CBS Final Standings for the payout.
NOTE – $0.75 from every entry will be taken out of the overall purse to help cover the annual Host Gator Website Costs. ALL other monies collected will go to the Purse