Busted Brackets: Just 45 Entrants Remain Perfect after Day One in Million-Pizza Bracket Challenge from Papa John's.LOUISVILLE Louisville (l  `ēvĭl), city (1990 pop. 269,063), seat of Jefferson co., NW Ky., at the Falls of the Ohio; inc. 1780. , Ky. -- Less than 1 percent survive first 16 games with
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in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :PZZA) Perfect Bracket Challenge at sportingnews.com provides the answer: --Nearly 90,000 people entered the Papa John's Perfect Bracket Challenge online at SportingNews.com. The challenge was simple - if anyone fills out a perfect bracket, correctly choosing the winner in all 63 games, Papa John's will provide 1,000,000 pizzas for all the entrants to split, and the contestant with the most correct games will receive free pizza for a year, along with a lifetime subscription to Sporting News magazine. --The first 16 games were played on Thursday Thursday: see week. , with several mildly surprising results but no shocking upsets. But still... --Of nearly 90,000 people who entered the Papa John's Perfect Bracket Challenge, ONLY 45 PEOPLE correctly picked the winners in all 16 games yesterday! THAT MEANS LESS THAN ONE PERCENT OF THE ENTRANTS ARE STILL ALIVE IN THE PAPA JOHN'S PERFECT BRACKET CHALLENGE! "What makes day one results even more amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. is pizza lovers and visitors to SportingNews.com are among the most informed sports fans around," said Bill Van Epps, Papa's John's chief operations officer. "Obviously, all attention today is upon our 45 ace prognosticators to keep hope alive while we keep the ovens on at Papa John's, ready to bake 1,000,000 pizzas in the event of a perfect bracket. We still believe!" |
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