March Madness 2023: WWIII Movies Tournament: Round One, Gold Bracket

First Round Gold Bracket 1 The Wargame 8 One Night Stand This is your typical 1Seed v 8 Seed matchup. The Wargame was a historic docudrama that proved to be so horrifying to the BBC and British government that it was withdrawn before its first provisional screening in 1965 and not televised for twenty years. …

March Madness 2023: WWIII Movies Tournament: Round One, Red Bracket

Apologies for not having the bracket graphic up yet. I am trying to carve out some time to get it done. Eventually it’ll be up. First Round: Red Bracket 1. The Day After 8.  World War Four Not much of a battle between these two titles. The Day After is a well-produced movie about how …

WWIII Movies Tournament Regions and Seeding

Here are the regions and seeds for the WWIII Movies Tournament. I have not set up the brackets yet but will have those available by tomorrow night or Thursday. The software I used for previous tournaments is no longer available. This leaves me with the choice of either finding a new tourney program or learning …

March Madness 2023: World War III Movies Tournament List

Okay, this is the official list of titles for the 2023 March Madness: World War III Movies Tournament. Thirty-six titles to start off with, but after the Play-In games on Wednesday there will only be thirty-two left standing when the first round kicks off. Same basic template as the NCAA tournament, just with half the …

The Week Ahead March 12-17 2023

March Madness is almost upon us both literally and figuratively. Selection Sunday is over, the brackets are set and on Thursday the NCAA Men’s College Basketball Tournament will officially kick off. Congrats to everyone whose favorite team or alma mater made it in. Princeton is going dancing so I’m happy. And then there is World …

March Madness WWIII Movies List/Tourney Update

I have started putting together the list of films for the tournament next week. The list is below. Ideally, I’d like to throw in with 32 or 36 films. Right now that does not seem to be an elusive goal considering I’m already up to 28 titles already. The films are a diverse mixture of …

Ideas For A March Madness 2023 World War III-Themed Tournament. Movies or Flight Sims?

I missed out on presenting a WWIII-themed tournament over the 2022 holiday season, much to my disappointment. The early December Atlantic crossing really set the tone for the month and the free time was just not there. However, now we are approaching March and tournament season. As most of the old head readers of this …

2022 WWIII Video Game Tournament: Quarterfinals

Here we are at the quarterfinals. Eight titles remain in the field including all four #1 seeds. Surprisingly, this tournament has failed to produce any very memorable upsets so far. Nor have there been any deep tournament runs by a #7 or #8 seed. The favorites have dominated the rounds so far and if this …

2021 WWIII Holiday Tournament Update #1

With the marathon that was D+18 now entirely in the books, I thought this would be a good time to bring everyone up to speed on plans and progress regarding the 2021 World War III Holiday Tournament. Before we get to that, however, I want to thank everyone who shared their views and opinions on …

Coming In December 2021: World War III Games Holiday Tournament

I wanted to step away from D+18 briefly to talk about my plan for the blog in December, 2021. I really enjoyed setting up and running the March Madness tournament for WWIII genre novels last spring. It was interesting to see how the relative newcomer titles stacked up against the classics of the genre like …