March Mammal Madness 2022

March Mammal Madness 2022

By Darlene Seifert

What is it?

The tournament features 65ish species (lichen, lichen, lichen you are making things complicated)... but there is only one champion. This means that 64 species AREN’T going to win. Prepare your students for the possibility of heartbreak. Sometimes, rarely, a much less-likely combatant triumphs as we have built in some randomization into the tournament. This is why we write battles with unexpected but evidence-grounded plot twists, and other narrative techniques such as 3rd party interventions. This is part of the suspense, surprise, and collective experience of March Mammal Madness.​

FOLLOWING THE ACTION

​Folks can direct their students to follow @2022MMMletsgo- this is the "educator" safe account that only has official tournament tweets and is classroom appropriate. All bets are off on the tournament hashtag #2022MMM in which the fandom can get very exuberant.

Following the Action

​Just like 2020 & 2021, each evening of the tournament we will upload the a pdf of the twitter play-by-play and a “sports-style summary” of the evidence-based battles that’s ~1 paragraph explanation for each battle at the ASU LibGuide. MC Marmot & the Rodent Roundtable will be back with school-safe videos summarizing the battle outcomes that drop the morning after the battles- but watch out for their strong rodent combatant favoritism. These will post directly to YouTube and you should follow their channel.

​MMM Music

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Come to Room 1303 to enter (digitally)

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​Good Luck!!