It’s that time of year again, teams and tournaments and watch parties. Are you a fan of watching sports? Are you in it more for the game, or the food? Today I’ve got a free bracket printable for you. It’s perfect having fun at your next big game get together! This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are completely my own.
getting “into” sports
I grew up in a household with three sisters and I do feel like there are some things I missed out on from having grown up with a strongly female household. One of those areas where I feel like I’m lacking is my sports knowledge. I mean, I ran track and cross country in junior high and the rules are pretty simple. You run until you get to the end and stop. Then I swam in high school and again the rules are pretty simple; you swim to the end and stop. Lastly, I rowed on the Crew team in college; the rules to that are also fairly straightforward—row to the end and stop.
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I’ve never really followed sports all that closely and a lot of the rules and terminology are over my head. Now that I have a little man of my own (and a sports-loving husband) I decided that I had to change things and expand my sports knowledge. With the help of my husband I had a little primer lesson in sports brackets. I’m excited to share my new knowledge with you and a fun bracket printable!
what is a bracket?
We went to the store to pick up various flavors of OREO cookies and Coke Zero. The hard part was trying to narrow it down to just eight flavors of OREO cookies–there were probably at least double that available! Once we got home from the store the bracket education started. I wasn’t sure how we should decide on the flavor match-ups so my sweet husband taught me all about seeding.
Seed–how well a competitor is expected to perform.
We talked about the different flavors of OREO cookies and various drink mix-ins we had gotten and decided how we thought they would place. Of course there was some contention over this because my husband doesn’t share the same love of chocolate soda that I do… apparently there isn’t really a scientific method to a sweet treats bracket. Eventually we came up with our order and Mike showed me the proper places for your first seed, second seed, etc.
Then, all that was left was the very arduous task of picking the winner of each round. First up for Team OREO was Golden OREO and Red Velvet OREO. For Team Coke Zero it was a match-up between cherry and chocolate. Then we continued through all the rounds until it was down to our final competitors–Red Velvet OREO against Mint OREO, and Coke Zero with Cherry mix-in against Coke Zero with Raspberry mix-in.
free bracket printable
Well, we definitely had some upsets along the way that made it a fun and interesting learning experience. It was also a delicious one.
Upset–when the competitor highly expected to win loses to an underdog.
In case you are curious about our chosen flavors for our sweet treats bracket, here they are in order of seeding:
- Team OREO: Red Velvet, Mint, Filled Cupcake, Peanut Butter, Original, Lemon, Cinnamon Bun, and Golden.
- Mix-Ins for Team Coke Zero: Cherry, Vanilla, Lemon, Original (no mix-in flavor), Lime, Raspberry, Coconut, and Chocolate.
Do you enjoy tournaments and seeing who will come out on top? What will you use this fun bracket printable for?
