{"id":4811,"date":"2017-03-20T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging-pt-blog.liveservices.net\/paltalk-march-matchups-2017\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T07:09:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T07:09:38","slug":"paltalk-march-matchups-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/client.paltalkconnect.com\/blog\/paltalk-march-matchups-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Paltalk March Matchups 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/DDZYP5T\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"attr__format__media_original img__fid__53775 img__view_mode__media_original media-image\" src=\"\/f\/marchMad2017.png\" style=\"width:80%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6>1)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/DDZYP5T\">Submit a bracket<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6>2)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/paltalk\">Vote for your favorite characters<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6>3) Win sweet prizes along the way<\/h6>\n<p>Crazy days are upon us\u00a0and it&#8217;s time for the greatest competition of the year! It&#8217;s <strong>March Matchups<\/strong> time at Paltalk!<\/p>\n<p>Character vs character. Pal vs pal. The battle has never been more heated \u2014 but only one can emerge\u00a0victorious!\u00a0Winners\u00a0of each game will be chosen via\u00a0Twitter poll, where you can watch the action in real time and recruit your Pals to help your bracket dreams come true.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/paltalk\">Follow us on Twitter @paltalk<\/a> and turn on mobile notifications so you don&#8217;t miss a single game!<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/DDZYP5T\">submit your brackets via this link<\/a> before 11:45pm EDT\u00a0on March 22, 2017 for a <strong>chance to win a 1 Year VIP Subscription!<\/strong>\u00a0Need a refresher on who&#8217;s who? <a href=\"https:\/\/commerce.paltalk.com\/mpt\/mptsson.jsp?src=vgstk\">Visit our Virtual Gift Store<\/a> today\u00a0and take a tour of the\u00a0Stickers section for full coverage of all the players. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.paltalk.com\/f\/marchbracketGames.png\">Click here<\/a> for a visual aid to help make your bracket selections easier.)<\/p>\n<p>To cheer your favorite character to victory (and for a chance to win small prizes throughout the week), vote once on each of two daily games from Friday, March 23th through Thursday, March 30th (full schedule below).* The <strong>Final Faceoff<\/strong> will take place at <strong>12:00pm EDT\u00a0on Friday, March 31st<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Bracket winners will be announced the week of April 3, 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h6>Schedule:<\/h6>\n<p>Brackets accepted March 21, 2017 through March 22, 2017 at 11:45pm EDT.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Preliminaries-<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>March 23\u00a010:00am-3:59pm EDT\u2014 Game 1: <strong>Baby Blue<\/strong> vs Captain Martian<\/li>\n<li>March 23\u00a04:00pm-10:00pm EDT\u2014 Game 2: Skeleton Sam vs <strong>Boo the Monster<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>March 24\u00a010:00am-3:59pm EDT\u2014 Game 3: Mayor Meow vs <strong>Frog Fun<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>March 24\u00a04:00pm-10:00pm EDT\u2014 Game 4: <strong>Funky Bird<\/strong> vs Funky Dinosaur<\/li>\n<li>March 27\u00a010:00am-3:59pm EDT\u2014 Game 5: <strong>Hammy<\/strong> vs Uniquely Unicorn<\/li>\n<li>March 27\u00a04:00pm-10:00pm EDT\u2014 Game 6: <strong>Taco Tommy<\/strong> vs The Masked Pal<\/li>\n<li>March 28\u00a010:00am-3:59pm EDT\u2014 Game 7: <strong>Rad Banana<\/strong> vs Snappy the Snail<\/li>\n<li>March 28\u00a04:00pm-10:00pm EDT\u2014 Game 8: Lovely Otters vs <strong>Ally and Archie<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Quarters-<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>March 29\u00a010:00am-1:30pm EDT\u2014 Game 9 (Quarters Top Left): <strong>Baby Blue<\/strong> vs Boo the Monster<\/li>\n<li>March 29 1:31pm-5:00pm EDT\u2014 Game 10 (Quarters\u00a0Bottom Left): <strong>Hammy<\/strong>\u00a0vs Taco Tommy<\/li>\n<li>March 29 5:01pm-8:30pm EDT\u2014 Game 11 (Quarters Top Right): <strong>Frog Fun<\/strong> vs Funky Bird<\/li>\n<li>March 29 8:31pm-11:59pm EDT\u2014 Game 12 (Quarters Bottom Right): <strong>Rad Banana<\/strong> vs Ally and Archie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Semis-<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>March 30\u00a010:00am-3:59pm EDT\u2014 Game 13 (Semis\u00a0Left): <strong>Baby Blue<\/strong> vs Hammy<\/li>\n<li>March 30 4:00pm-10:00pm EDT\u2014 Game 14 (Semis Right): Frog Fun vs <strong>Rad Banana<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Finals-<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>March 31\u00a012:00pm-11:59pm EDT\u2014 Game 15 (FINALS): <strong>Baby Blue<\/strong> vs Rad Banana<\/li>\n<li>Week of April 3\u2014 Announcements and Awards:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Final Faceoff<\/strong>\u00a0WINNER \u2014 Baby Blue<\/li>\n<li>Bracket Winners:\n<ul>\n<li>Lianani<\/li>\n<li>Navi-<\/li>\n<li>sc0rpio _<\/li>\n<li>E L sa<\/li>\n<li>merula_5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Official Rules:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><small>Brackets accepted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/DDZYP5T\">via this link<\/a> until 11:45pm EDT\u00a0March 22, 2017. <\/small><\/li>\n<li><small>Participants may submit only one bracket, regardless of the number of nicknames that the participant owns. Each bracket submission must be accompanied by a verified email address corresponding to the nickname used in the submission.\u00a0<\/small><\/li>\n<li><small>Participants found to have submitted multiple or duplicate brackets will not be penalized. However, only the first bracket submitted by said participant will be counted toward the competition.<\/small><\/li>\n<li><small>Points will be awarded as follows: Correct Win Prediction in Preliminaries= 1\u00a0pts; Correct Win Prediction in Quarter Finals= 3\u00a0pts; Correct Win\u00a0Prediction in Semi Finals= 7 pts; Correct Win Prediction in Finals= 15 pts; no deductions will be made for incorrect predictions<\/small><\/li>\n<li><small>The brackets with the top five (5) point totals at the end of the competition will\u00a0win a 1 Year VIP\u00a0Subscription.<\/small><\/li>\n<li><small>Paltalk reserves the right to change the time or duration of any game, and to disqualify any bracket submissions or Twitter poll result (in cases of apparent gaming)\u00a0at our discretion.\u00a0<\/small><\/li>\n<li><small>Paltalk encourages healthy, friendly competition but will not tolerate hateful or otherwise abusive conduct or speech. Please refer to our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paltalk.com\/terms\">Terms of Service<\/a> for guidelines on behavior during this competition.<\/small><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*This page will be updated occasionally to reflect the current character standings.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1)\u00a0Submit a bracket2)\u00a0Vote for your favorite characters3) Win sweet prizes along the way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contest"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Paltalk March Matchups 2017 - Paltalk Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paltalk.com\/blog\/paltalk-march-matchups-2017\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Paltalk March Matchups 2017 - 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