Welcome to March Madness Empires and Puzzles style!
Under the guidance and supervision of our Chief Bracketologist, @RakeJay, we have created a bracket full of 128 heroes to face off with each other in…
2019 Hero Madness!
Here are your 2019 Hero Madness Brackets:
March Madness? Brackets? What’s this all about?
For those unfamiliar, this contest will follow a similar format to the US NCAA men’s college basketball tournament that happens in March every year.
Here’s How It Works
There will be 7 rounds where two heroes from the game will face off against each other head-to-head in a fan vote.
You decide what’s important to you in voting, like:
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How much you like each hero
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Which hero you think looks cooler or has better art design
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Which hero is stronger or has the best special
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Which hero you’d most like to see @Petri cosplay as for the next SGG Christmas Party
…who you cast your vote for and why is completely up to you!!
The hero with more votes in each matchup will move on to the next round.
At the end, there will be one hero remaining, and they will be crowned the 2019 Hero Madness Champion.
The Voting Process
We’ll be making 4 separate Forum threads, one for each “region” of the bracket matchups. All voting will happen on the Forum.
Each thread will have a poll for each matchup — simply vote for your favorites, and stay tuned to see which heroes make it through!
Influencing Votes
To have some fun, see if you can convince other people to switch their votes to your favorites!
We’re looking forward to seeing those Aife hype train threads (looking at you @Kayo), and the Danzaburo to the Final 4 upset threads on the Forum and Reddit.
Convince your peers to vote for who you think should be the favorite and try to meme them to victory!!
Schedule
Hero Madness 2019 will follow the same schedule as the actual basketball tournament through March and early April.
Voting will start at 16:00 GMT on day one of each round, and end at 23:59 GMT on the second day of the round.
Round 
— March 19th-March 20th (128 heroes 
64 heroes)
Round 
— March 21st-March 22nd (64 heroes 32 heroes)
Round 
—March 23rd-March 24th (32 heroes 16 heroes)
Then we’ll consolidate down to one bracket and one thread for the Semi-Finals onward!
Round 
— March 28th-March 29th — 16 heroes 8 heroes
Round 
— March 30th-March 31st — 8 heroes 4 heroes
Round 
— The Final Four
April 5th-April 6th — 4 heroes 2 heroes
Round 
— The Finals
April 7th-April 8th — 2 heroes 1 Champion
Fabulous Prizes for Lucky Winners! 
Special Raffle for Hero Madness 2019 Participants!
Here’s how to enter:
COMMENT (not just vote) and discuss which heroes you’re voting for and why!
Winners will be chosen at random, so be sure to discuss on each Round and Bracket for more chances to win!
SGG Staff will randomly pick winners from all of the entries and reward them with a small in-game gift (600 gems plus an Energy Pack)!
Check Out the Lucky Winners List!
Good luck everyone and have fun!!
Let’s see who earns this year’s crown and cuts down the nets as the community’s favorite hero!!
