We’re back to what started it all.
License plates.
In July of 2019, looking for content, I decided to rank the license plates. It was fun. It got us clicks. It continued to give us clicks. I made a bracket of them, seeded by my rankings, but nobody filled it out and sent it to me, so I kind of let it go.
Then, there was a pandemic. Without sports, we were looking at months on end of me filling this site with various spewings of idiocy. So in addition to those, we decided to let you vote on the license plates. In what turned out to be a protracted manner. We enjoyed that. You seemed to enjoy that. We decided to do more protracted brackets about silly things. A new line of content was born.
In honor of what license plates have done in our lives, we’re running the bracket for a second year. This year’s bracket is not seeded on my personal rankings, but rather on The People’s Rankings from last year. It promises to be a doozy.
The big question coming in is whether anyone can unseat Wyoming. Wyoming was rather dominant last year, entering as the top overall seed and exiting as the champion. It’s a good license plate. You can see it (and the rest) here. Other questions? Well, since you asked:
Can New Jersey get a vote after getting exactly zero last year?
Can Arizona break through after strong runs by both its flag and its plate last year ended without any trophies?
Will the powerful Wisconsin/dairy coalition spring a quarterfinal upset?
Why don’t people like license plates about potatoes as much as I do?
There are other questions, I’m sure, but those were the first I thought of. Wow. I’m excited. We’ll start with the first half of the first round tomorrow. Here, again, are all the plates (along with image credits). Here’s the bracket:
