Anyone hoping to parlay a perfect NCAA Tournament bracket into a billion dollars this year is out of luck. Hate to be one to break it to you, but there will be no Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge in 2015.
To win the billion dollars, one simply needed to accurately predict the winners of all 63 games in the college men’s basketball tournament and beat the listed odds of 9,223,372,036,854,775,808:1- that’s more than 9 quintillion to one, by the way.
Given those astronomical odds, it wasn’t exactly surprising that no one won the billion.
And now with another iteration of the NCAA Tournament nigh upon us, millions of bracketeers will be Googling “billion dollar bracket” this week, but they won’t find their ticket to the luxurious life anywhere on the interwebs.
Instead, they’ll see reports that the billion dollar bracket challenge is dead.
The cause of death? Lawyers.