Today, the Tournament of the Worst begins. It’s no License Plate Bracket (what could match that in terms of sheer exhilaration?) but it is a bracket of things that piss us off. Things that are bad. Things that some, depending on the context, might even call “the worst.”
We didn’t include the really bad stuff. We thought about it. We started making that bracket. Sometime between “COVID-19” and “The Inevitable Heat Death of the Universe,” that bracket really messed up our heads, so we pivoted. We drew the line at Cable News, and we asked some friends for help (thanks to all who made suggestions).
What’s left is a bracket of 64 things, ranging from the infuriating Identity Theft to the unsettling Watery Coffee to the disheartening Falling Over to the depressing College Tuition Bubble. We chose four things that we believe upset all of us (Cable News, the DMV, Mosquitos, and Stubbing Your Toe) to separate the regions, then filled in the rest of the bracket randomly, having chosen the first round matchups to, in some cases, match up similar competitors against one another for entertainment value. Here’s the full thing (sorry for the blur—tech issue; our Twitter account has a clearer picture):
Voting will begin today, with the first half of the first round, and continue until we have a champion.
As is always the case when we do voting brackets (we can say “always” now because this is the second time we’ve done a bracket), there are three ways to cast your ballot (and yes, you’re allowed to use all three, but be cool about it):
This Google Form:
https://forms.gle/aEb8CZb8ocCDcFz58
Our Instagram Stories:
www.instagram.com/thebarkingcrow
This Twitter Thread:
Today’s voting will end tomorrow morning at roughly 8:30 EDT. Tomorrow’s voting will be posted sometime in the middle of the day.
Enjoy.
