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unusual facts about bracket



2002 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament

Due to fears over terrorism and travel security in the wake of the September 11 attacks, the Division I Baseball Committee, which selects the 64-team field and places the teams on the bracket, was ordered by the NCAA to keep regional pairings as localized as possible, in order to minimize the number of plane trips utilized.

2002 World Lacrosse Championship

Blue Division fourth place finisher Iroquois and Red Division winner Japan played a 1-game playoff to determine who would be the fourth and final semifinalist in the championship bracket.

2013 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup qualification

The USCS qualifying tournament consists of 2 groups with the top two finishers moving on to a single elimination bracket, with the winner qualifying for the 2013 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup play-in round.

Alexandru Bodnar

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Bodnar finished his ranking round with a total of 614 points, which gave him the 60th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Wan Khalmizam in the first round.

Ana Rendón

This gave her the 10th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced Elena Tonetta in the first round.

Baseball IQ

The show features 32 contestants (each of whom work for one of the 30 Major League Baseball teams as well as one from MLB.com and one from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum) in a bracket-style tournament for up to $45,000US for their teams' designated charities.

Bob Bemer

He also served, with Hugh McGregor Ross and others, on the separate committee which defined the ASCII character codeset in 1960, contributing several characters which had not previously been used by computers including the ESCape character, the backslash character, and the curly bracket characters.

Bowling pin shooting

"Bracket-style" is similar to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, in which shooters are paired against one another, with the round winner advancing to the next level, until an overall match winner is determined.

Butch Johnson

This gave him the 40th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Andrey Abramov in the first round.

Charlotte Burgess

This gave her the 40th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced 25th seed Guo Dan in the first round, beating the archer from China with 106-104.

Chen Ling

This gave her the 15th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced Evangelia Psarra in the first round, beating the archer from Greece with 110-101.

Christian Stubbe

At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney Stubbe finished his ranking round with a total of 596 points, which gave him the 54th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Lionel Torres in the first round.

Crispin Duenas

This gave him the 16th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Magnus Petersson in the first round.

Elena Tonetta

This gave her the 55th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced 10th seed Ana Rendón in the first round.

Episcopal Diocese of West Tennessee

The diocesan motto, Ubique Inter Flumina, means "everywhere between the rivers", referring to the Tennessee and Mississippi rivers, which bracket West Tennessee on two sides.

IBM 8000

The 8106 was to have been the principal processor in the 8000 line, designed to bracket the performance of the IBM 7090 system.

Ilario Di Buò

This gave him the 9th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Martin Bulíř in the first round, beating the Czech 111-100.

Im Dong-Hyun

This gave him the eighth seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Ali Salem in the first round, beating the Qatari 108–103.

Iyanya vs. Desire

The concert featured performances by D'banj, M.I, Wizkid, Tiwa Savage, Timaya, Flavour N'abania, Davido, Seyi Shay, May D, Bracket, Vector, Iceberg, and Lola Rae.

Izatha prasophyta

Larvae have been reared from an unidentified log on a beach, and another from a fruiting body of the bracket fungus Bjerkandera adusta growing on an unidentified rotting stump.

Jane Waller

This gave her the 28th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced Pranitha Vardhineni in the first round.

Jennifer Nichols

This gave her the 24th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced Ika Yuliana Rochmawati in the first round, beating the archer from Indonesia with 114-101.

Khatuna Lorig

This gave her the 26th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced Virginie Arnold in the first round, beating the archer from France with 107-105.

Kuo Cheng-wei

This gave him the 29th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Mark Javier in the first round, beating the Philippine 106-102.

La Cité collégiale

The first was the letter "C" formed with 18 angle brackets, each representing a smaller C. The text "La Cité collégiale" was written underneath it, using the Century Gothic typeface.

Lee Cormie

Cormie dialed down the intensity a few dozen notches (and connected with material more commonly associated with his age bracket) as the lead actor alongside Daniel Radcliffe in the evocative Aussie coming-of-age picture December Boys (2007).

Li Wenquan

This gave him the 46th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Jacek Proć in the first round.

Lie-* algebra

In mathematics, a Lie-* algebra is a D-module with a Lie* bracket.

Magnus Petersson

This gave him the 49th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Crispin Duenas in the first round.

Michael Naray

This gave him the 30th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Jean-Charles Valladont in the first round, beating the French archer 108-106.

Naomi Folkard

This gave her the 8th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced Soha Abed Elaal in the first round, beating the archer from Egypt with 107-95.

Natalia Valeeva

This gave her the 30th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced Anastassiya Bannova in the first round, beating the archer from Kazakhstan with 107–105.

Nemapogon picarella

Larvae have been recorded feeding on bracket fungus (including Piptoporus betulinus) and dead wood.

Oleksandr Serdyuk

This gave him the 20th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Jens Pieper in the first round, beating the German 107-105.

Orugoru no Chiisana Hakubutsukan

Musical clock:Musical Bracket Clock, ca.1790, England, Robt Hughs

Park Kyung-Mo

This gave him the fourth seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Luiz Trainini in the first round, beating the Brazilian 116-99.

Pia Lionetti

This gave her the 51st seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced 14th seed Bérengère Schuh in the first round.

Rafał Dobrowolski

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Dobrowolski finished his ranking round with a total of 667 points, which gave him the 13th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Nay Myo Aung in the first round, in which he beat the archer from Myanmar 110-106.

Rugby League Atlantic Cup

The origins of the Atlantic Cup go back to 2006, when the American National Rugby League (AMNRL) planned a tournament as part of an intended qualifying bracket for the 2008 Rugby League World Cup.

Ruth Ryon

The column was the first of what eventually became a small stable of regular celebrity real estate columns or features in newspapers and magazines across the country, including "Private Properties" in the Wall Street Journal, "Manhattan Transfers" in the New York Observer, "Upper Bracket" in the Chicago Tribune (from 1998 until 2004), "Gimme Shelter" in the New York Post and "On the Block" in People magazine.

Sayoko Kitabatake

This gave her the 46th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced Justyna Mospinek in the first round, beating the archer from Poland and 19th seed with 103-101.

Sophie Dodemont

This gave her the 32nd seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced Anja Hitzler in the first round.

Strida

Series 5 and Series 4 (Mini) machines have a freewheel mounted in the conventional position on the rear wheel (In Series 3 the freewheel, a commonly available Shimano 18t model, is part of the metal and plastic bottom bracket/crankset assembly) and a metal bottom bracket shell which incorporates an eccentric housing to adjust belt tension.

Takaharu Furukawa

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Furukawa finished his ranking round with a total of 663 points, which gave him the 17th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Maksim Kunda in the first round.

The Forgotten Man

Forgotten man, a term used to describe a bracket of people; with multiple interpretations

Torulosa

Fuscoporia torulosa, species of bracket fungus in the Fuscoporia genus, family Hymenochaetaceae

Virginie Arnold

This gave her the 39th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced Khatuna Lorig in the first round.

Xue Haifeng

This gave him the 18th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Jay Lyon in the first round.

Zhang Juanjuan

This gave her the 27th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced Tetyana Berezhna in the first round, beating the archer from Ukraine 109-97.


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