the march xMAS bracket

The 2026 march xmas Bracket is live!

Here is the tournament bracket as a fillable Google Sheet (if you use the Google Sheet, you must make a copy before filling it out). You can also download it as an Excel file. Fill out your bracket (all you have to do is make your predictions for the winner of each game using whatever criteria you want), name the file with your last name first, and email it to marchxness@thediagram.com no later than 9am 11/27/26.

bracket Methodology

The bracket and seeding is determined roughly based on chart positions, commercial success, and other measures of popularity, NOT perceived quality. So a 1 seed is a song everyone knows. A 16 seed is typically far more obscure.