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X Launches X Bracket Challenge with a Trip to Mars on the Line
X is launching its X Bracket Challenge with the ultimate grand prize on the line. Basketball fans can now compete for a chance to win a trip to Mars —yes that’s right, a trip to Mars on @SpaceX
's Starship vehicle for the perfect bracket or a $100,000 cash prize if there is no perfect bracket. Uber Eats is proud to be the title sponsor of the Bracket Challenge.
For the 2025 NCAA Basketball Tournament, fans can fill out brackets directly on X, share them with the world, and dive into fantasy games at various rounds and real-time conversations—all on X! X users who fill out a bracket will also be eligible for one month of @Starlink
service for free.*
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Beginning at 3:00 pm PST on Sunday March 16, 2025 and until 8:00 am PST on Thursday March 20, 2025, fans can submit their tournament brackets and track their progress as the NCAA Tournament unfolds. Live leaderboards will keep the excitement buzzing all month long, showing who’s dominating in real time.
This isn’t just about picking winners—X is adding fantasy games for extra thrills on top of sharing predictions and sparking conversations with fellow fans.
What’s at stake**
Grand Prize: The perfect bracket wins a trip to Mars on SpaceX’s Starship vehicle
Or, alternatively, SpaceX will offer the perfect bracket winner:
$250,000
1 year of free residential Starlink service
The chance to train like a SpaceX astronaut for a day
Send your personal item of choice to space on a Falcon 9 launch
VIP viewing of a Starship launch
1st Runner-up Prize (if there is no perfect bracket): $100,000
4 Fantasy Game Prizes: $10,000 awarded to each of the tournament’s four fantasy game winners, keeping the stakes high from start to finish.
Official Rules apply.
X is the global epicenter of fandom and the clear home to college basketball buzz, netting more than eight billion impressions during the 2024 tournament. The Bracket Challenge builds on X’s position as the go-to platform for real-time sports updates and fan-driven energy. It builds on the success of its NFL Portal, and its recently renewed multiyear partnership with the NBA, to enhance the fan experience across all sports. X is teaming up with @UberEats
as the title sponsor to bring additional excitement to the tournament.
“We’re not just hosting a bracket challenge; we’re redefining how fans connect, compete, and dream big, all on a platform that’s already the heartbeat of real-time sports culture,” said @AndrewMusk
, Lead Product Engineer. “With live leaderboards, fantasy games and a trip to Mars on the line, this is the ultimate playground for our global community.”
Follow @Sports
for more updates as the X Bracket Challenge tips off in 2025.
*Purchase of kit required. Only valid in the United States. Learn more here
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**Bracket open to anyone, but only legal residents of the 50 U.S. & D.C., who are 18+ as of date of entry can enter the X Bracket Challenge presented by Uber Eats. No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited. Begins 3:00 p.m. PST on 3/16/25 and ends 8:00 am PST on 3/20/25. Sponsor: Uber Eats.
I think we shouldn't gloss over the fact that it took a private business without government involvement to get them.
Calif. AG issues stark warning to 15 million 23andMe users as bankruptcy looms: ‘Delete your data’
https://nypost.com/2025/03/23/us-news/calif-ag-issues-stark-warning-to-15-million-23andme-users/
All that USAID money they funneled to it in order to get everyone's DNA info for the gov't dried up.
Val Kilmer, a homegrown Hollywood actor who tasted leading-man stardom as Jim Morrison and Batman, but whose protean gifts and elusive personality also made him a high-profile supporting player, died on Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 65.
The cause was pneumonia, said his daughter, Mercedes Kilmer. Mr. Kilmer was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014 and later recovered, she said.
Tall and handsome in a rock-star sort of way, Mr. Kilmer was in fact cast as a rocker a handful of times early in his career, when he seemed destined for blockbuster success. He made his feature debut in a slapstick Cold War spy-movie spoof, "Top Secret!" (1984), in which he starred as a crowd-pleasing, hip-shaking American singer in Berlin unwittingly involved in an East German plot to reunify the country.
He gave a vividly stylized performance as Morrison, the emblem of psychedelic sensuality, in Oliver Stone's "The Doors" (1991), and he played the cameo role of Mentor an advice-giving Elvis as imagined by the film's antiheroic protagonist, played by Christian Slater in "True Romance" (1993), a violent drug-chase caper written by Quentin Tarantino and directed by Tony Scott.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/movies/val-kilmer-dead.html
The cause was pneumonia, said his daughter, Mercedes Kilmer. Mr. Kilmer was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014 and later recovered, she said.
Tall and handsome in a rock-star sort of way, Mr. Kilmer was in fact cast as a rocker a handful of times early in his career, when he seemed destined for blockbuster success. He made his feature debut in a slapstick Cold War spy-movie spoof, "Top Secret!" (1984), in which he starred as a crowd-pleasing, hip-shaking American singer in Berlin unwittingly involved in an East German plot to reunify the country.
He gave a vividly stylized performance as Morrison, the emblem of psychedelic sensuality, in Oliver Stone's "The Doors" (1991), and he played the cameo role of Mentor an advice-giving Elvis as imagined by the film's antiheroic protagonist, played by Christian Slater in "True Romance" (1993), a violent drug-chase caper written by Quentin Tarantino and directed by Tony Scott.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/movies/val-kilmer-dead.html
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His Doc Holliday is perhaps the best film performance ever, as far as I'm concerned. RIP, Mr. Kilmer!