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<\/p>\nThe annual mammal battle tournament will be starting after the February break. This year, two March Mammal Madness Minions and I will be managing the process. Thanks Julia and Hannah for your commitment!<\/p>\n
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What is March Mammal Madness?<\/p>\n
This year 65 animals species (not all are mammals) are pitted against each other in a series of paired competition with a final battle at the end of March to crown a champion. Note, these are not actual fights but competitions arranged by researchers at the University of Arizona.<\/p>\n
Here is a video<\/a> that explains the process.<\/p>\n Participants earn points for their correct predictions on their tournament brackets. We will be passing those out in the first week of March. Here is a link<\/a> that will let you make your choice for the wildcard round.<\/p>\n For rounds 1-3 the \u201cbattle\u201d occurs in the better seeded species home ecology- they have home court advantage. Rounds 4-6, the battle takes place in a randomized location announced at the start of the battle. In 2021 the randomized locations are (1) <\/span>Dwarf\/Elfin Forest<\/a><\/span> (2) <\/span>Seagrass Meadow<\/a><\/span> (3) Semi-Arid Desert or (4) <\/span>Freshwater Swamp Forest<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n We will be posted after the results of each round of battles is announced. Here are the dates.<\/p>\n MMM Round<\/span> <\/span>Date<\/span><\/p>\n Wild Card: <\/span> <\/span>Monday 8 March<\/span><\/p>\n Round 1: <\/span> <\/span>Wednesday 10 March<\/span><\/p>\n Round 1: <\/span> <\/span>Thursday 11 March<\/span><\/p>\n Round 1: <\/span> <\/span>Monday 15 March<\/span><\/p>\n Round 1: <\/span> <\/span>Wednesday 17 March<\/span><\/p>\n Round 2: <\/span> <\/span>Thursday 18 March<\/span><\/p>\n Round 2: <\/span> <\/span>Monday 22 March<\/span><\/p>\n Round 3 – Sweet 16: <\/span> <\/span>Wednesday 24 March<\/span><\/p>\n Round 4 – Elite Trait: <\/span> <\/span>Thursday 25 March<\/span><\/p>\n Round 5 – Final Roar: <\/span> <\/span>Monday 29 March<\/span><\/p>\n Round 6 – Championship: <\/span> <\/span>Wednesday 31 March<\/span><\/p>\n An Evening\u2019s Battles will begin at 8PM Eastern US Time (GMT – 4:00) of the designated nights:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n On March 1st, which Divisions which nights for Round 1 & Round 2 will be updated.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The annual mammal battle tournament will be starting after the February break. This year, two March Mammal Madness Minions and I will be managing the process. Thanks Julia and Hannah for your commitment! What is March Mammal Madness? This year 65 animals species (not all are mammals) are pitted against each other in a series […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":198861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,192,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dp","category-myp","category-grades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n