March Mammal Madness
The official location for March Mammal Madness tournament information and resources! If you're learning, you're winning!
Stoats
- Stoatally Awesome ConverterGet your #stoatistics here! Created by Marc Kissel
Busted Bracketeers
Sometimes our pick for Champion meets an unfortunate early exit from the tournament. Upsets happen, and they are called upsets not because people respond to them with cordial equanimity. BUT in 2024, in collaboration with MMM graphic design guru, Prof. Will Nickley, we present the Busted Bracketeers Bracket! While you can’t update any digital bracket submissions, you CAN print out this bracket starting with the Sweet Sixteen, pick a new champion to cheer & keep following the MMM action through to the end! Rally your fellow friends with busted brackets to form your own local club!
- 2024MMM Busted Bracketeer BracketPrint out this bracket starting with the Sweet Sixteen, pick a new champion to cheer & keep following the MMM action through to the end!
March Mammal Madness
2024MMM Bracket
- BRACKET GUIDEThis Tournament Guide provides key info about how to play March Mammal Madness with specific details for 2024.
- JUMBO Bracket in English (PDF)5 page pdf for those who need extra space
- 2024MMM Quiniela Español (pdf)Spanish Language version of the bracket
- 2024MMM Quiniela Español JUMBO (pdf)PDF de 5 páginas para aquellos que necesitan más espacio
- PNG Files of Brackets (Folder)If you need PNG files of any of the brackets, here they are.
2024MMM Tournament Schedule
The action starts at 8 PM Eastern / 5 PM Pacific on all game nights.
2024 March Mammal Madness CALENDAR
Game Time is 8 PM Eastern/5 PM Pacific for all tournament nights.
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| March 10 (SUN) | Wild Card Eve |
| March 11 (MON) | WILD CARD |
| March 13 (WED) | Round 1: Epic Animals |
| March 14 (THURS) | Round 1: Connoisseur Critters |
| March 18 (MON) | Round 1: Rainbow Collection |
| March 20 (WED) | Round 1: Take a Bow |
| March 21 (THURS) | Round 2: Epic Animals & Connoisseur Critters |
| March 25 (MON) | Round 2: Rainbow Collection & Take a Bow |
| March 27 (WED) | SWEET 16 |
| March 28 (THURS) | ELITE TRAIT |
| April 1 (MON) | FINAL ROAR |
| April 3 (WED) | CHAMPIONSHIP |
2024MMM Videos
- Key 2024MMM DetailsQuick Guide about the 2024 Divisions, Picking your Winner, Home Habitat Advantage in Rounds 1-3 & Random Habitats Info for the Elite Trait, the Final Roar, and the Championship, and introducing the the Busted Bracketeers.
- Inside the MMM TournamentVideo with a behind the scenes explanation about how winners are determined and the battle play-by-plays crafted.
Getting Started Resources
- 2024 MMM Combatant Information Slides in EnglishView-only Google presentation. (Educators - go to File>Make a Copy to create a version you can edit)
- Logos and Hype MaterialsGoogle Drive folder of 2024MMM logos and other graphics - PNG files.
- Robert Catt, Natick MA: Pro-Tips for Bracket Picks!Long-time MMM player, "Natick Bobcat" has great insights into the tournament mechanics and dynamics. Here he provides some guidance for the new MMM player on how to apply research on combatants to bracket picks.
Online Bracket Scoring
- Self-Scoring Tournament BracketThis will allow participants to have a digital MMM bracket of their picks that will automatically update and score their selections as the tournament goes on. If you are looking to run a MMM pool this will also give a convenient way for players to enter their bracket submissions and the pool manager can use the digital pool manager sheet to automatically score up to 40 entries and keep updated standings throughout the tournament.
- Contest ManagerThis template allows a Bracket Pool Manager to run a Pool using Google Sheets. The pool manager can use this sheet to automatically score up to 40 entries and keep updated standings throughout the tournament.
- Contest Manager Video DirectionsThis video goes over some of the common mistakes that are made importing contestant data. THREE CHEERS FOR Mr. Brunstrum!
IS YOUR MMM CONTEST IS BIGGER THAN JUST ONE CLASS?
- Large Contest ManagerIntended to be able to automatically score up to 400 entries and keep updated standings. This manager may get slow and laggy with large amounts of entries, but it should work.
Three cheers for Mr. Jeff Brunstrum for creating the online bracket managers for MMM!!!
- March Mammal Madness Pick'em Pool!New in 2024! After his grandkid showed him the 2023 bracket, Grandpa PoolsByRound expanded his website for the Mammal Madness. Check it out!
Research the Combatants
- Animal Diversity WebAnimal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan.
- Oxford University Press Special Issue CollectionThe Journal of Mammalogy and Mammalian Species are once again pleased to participate in March Mammal Madness (MMM) with the addition of other related Oxford University Press published journals, including American Entomologist, Annals of Botany, Behavioral Ecology, BioScience, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, ICES Journal of Marine Science, Journal of Molluscan Studies, Mutagenesis, Ornithology, and Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
- IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesIncludes details profiles of species, as well as links to other information sources.
- Encyclopedia of LifeProvides knowledge of the many life-forms on Earth - of animals, plants, fungi, protists and bacteria.
- Frontiers for Young MindsA collection of freely available scientific articles by distinguished scientists that are shaped for younger audiences by the input of their own young peers.
- Map of Life (MOL)The Map of Life assembles and integrates different sources of data describing species distributions worldwide.
Moar Tournament Learning Materials
- 2024MMM Collector Trading CardsFolder of 2024MMM Collector Trading Cards by Ian Hecht
- Guide for Playing with the Youngest LearnersMammals March Madness (MMM) for the Younger Crowd (K-5) Prepped by Jenna Kissel (MMM Education Engagement Coordinator)
- Compendium of the 11th annual March Mammal Madness Tournament 2023Overview of and data generated by the the 2023MMM Tournament
- March Mammal Madness in eLife"Education and Outreach: March Mammal Madness and the power of narrative in science outreach"
Illustration & Image Resources
- PhyloPicFree silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under a Public Domain or Creative Commons license.
- eMammalMammal is a tool for collecting, archiving, and sharing camera trapping images and datahouses the largest database of mammal detections in the world and includes open access favorite photos and data. Official participants in #2018MMM!
- Wikimedia CommonsDatabase of freely usable media files.
- Biodiversity Heritage LibraryThe BHL portal provides free access to hundreds of thousands of volumes, comprising over 57 million pages, from the 15th-21st centuries. In addition to public domain content, BHL works with rights holders to obtain permission to make in-copyright materials openly available under Creative Commons licenses.
- Learn to Draw the Animals YourselfStep-by-step animal drawing tutorials.
SPOTLIGHT Wild Animal Research
- Yellowstone EcosystemLearn about the vast Yellowstone ecosystem through field notes and stories.
- Kluane Red Squirrel ProjectThe Kluane Red Squirrel Project is an interdisciplinary, large-scale field experiment designed to test the importance of food abundance to the ecology and evolution of red squirrels.
- Kalahari Meerkat ProjectHighlighted in #2017MMM, this project focusing on meerkats is operated by the Kalahari Research Centre.
- Resident Orca Whale Puget Sound ResearchThis website provides pictures, research, a blog, and educational materials about Orca whales in the Puget Sound.
- North American Bat Monitoring ProgramThis collaborative bat monitoring program is made up of an extensive community of partners across the continent who use standardized protocols to gather data that allow us to assess population status and trends, inform responses to stressors, and sustain viable populations.
- St. Kilda Soay Sheep ProjectResearch about sheep, their ecology and their seasonal patterns.
- Amboseli Baboon ProjectThe Amboseli Baboon Project is one of the longest-running studies of wild primates in the world. Focused on the savannah baboon, Papio cynocephalus, ABRP is located in the Amboseli ecosystem of East Africa, north of Mt. Kilimanjaro.
- Ngorogoro Hyena ProjectWebsite curated by an international team of behavioural biologists based at the Leibniz-IZW in Berlin (Germany) who have been studying spotted hyenas in the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania for 26 years.
- Ngogo Chimpanzee ProjectThe Ngogo Chimpanzee Project Inc.’s mission is to conduct scientific research and maintain the long-term study of the Ngogo community of chimpanzees in Kibale National Park, Uganda, to conserve animal populations throughout the park, and to support the education of local people of all ages.
More Science Resources
- Ask A BiologistThis site has a large collection of biology learning materials that includes stories, games, activities, videos, and a podcast.
- Ask An AnthropologistThis site has an abundance of anthropology educational resources, games, and content.
- Strange ScienceThis site is NSF KidSites.com approved. It includes an eclectic collection of old illustrations and information about the history of paleontology and biology.
- BioInteractiveSearch award-winning multimedia apps, animations, videos, and more to bring scientific discovery into the classroom.
- PLOSable BiologyAsk A Biologist is intended to serve grades preK-12, and to be available as a resource for teachers and parents. Topics include animals, biomes, birds, and plants.
- National Science Digital LibraryThe National Science Digital Library provides high quality online educational resources for teaching and learning.
- Biodiversity Knowledge Integration CenterThis website provides access to our diverse resources and activities including BioKIC's natural history collections.
Other Animal Games We Love!
- METAZOAThe animal kingdom (Metazoa, in Greek) is full of our distant relatives... some more distant than others! Metazooa is a game that tests how well you know our extended family tree.
- ANIMORDLEWordle for Animals for the month of March! Animordle was created by friends of the MMM tournament JT Miller of St. Albans School and Sean Nolan of the Landon School.
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