Meat Madness: The Final Results

by Eick · April 27th, 2009 · 11 Comments

A little less than six weeks ago, So Good kicked off what I thought would be a relatively fun contest that ended up being a smashing success, leading to impassioned readers voracisiously defending their meat of choice. I’m talking, of course, about Meat Madness. When we began, we had 32 humble meats and a bevy of interesting first round match-ups. We even had some copycats and controversy along the way. When we concluded, we were left with just one meat champion, Bacon, powered to victory in no small part by the strong support of a legion of pro-Bacon bloggers.

For those of you in Meat Madness office pools or just following along at home, I’d like to provide you with a bracket showing the final results of this heated 6-week battle. Click on the bracket below to see a full size version of it. This final bracket includes not only the winners in each match-up, but the final percentage breakdown in votes for each and every match-up. Enjoy!

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11 responses so far ↓

1 Bear Silber // Apr 27, 2009 at 1:36 pm

Awesome! I was telling my brothers about this and couldn’t get all the info easily. This is exactly what I needed!
2 Youppi // Apr 27, 2009 at 5:16 pm

If only the tournament lasted longer, maybe the Swine Flu would have influenced some voters to swing the other way and Steak would have gotten the love it deserves…
3 Anon // Apr 28, 2009 at 1:05 pm

Youppi,

I think you may have just won the award for best comment on this post.
4 News and links « The Brûlée Blog // Apr 28, 2009 at 2:30 pm

[...] won So Good’s Meat Madness (click on the link to see the completed bracket chart and percentage breakdown). I wonder if bacon [...]
5 Bear Silber // Apr 28, 2009 at 2:41 pm

@Anon – I agree, that was hysterical
6 tim // Apr 29, 2009 at 12:16 pm

brackets are getting their own book, plus accompanying website:
http://www.amazon.com/Final-Four-Everything-Mark-Reiter/dp/1439126089/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240923581&sr=8-1

http://www.bracketsmackdown.com/#/HOME/

h/t: http://pictureyear.blogspot.com/2009/04/why-am-i-showing-this-picture.html
7 Bacon Madness - Time to Vote! - The Bacon Nation // Apr 29, 2009 at 4:10 pm

[...] defending Bacon’s title of the Best Meat Ever! Bacon has prevailed as the Best Meat Ever in the So Good Blog’s Meat Madness Bracket. Thank you Bacon Nation, Bacon couldn’t have done it without you! Sincerely, Nina Secretary of [...]
8 Mike // Apr 29, 2009 at 4:38 pm

crab, it shoulda been you.
9 Bear Silber // Apr 29, 2009 at 5:26 pm

There should have been a faux meat category, I love me some imitation crab meat (I think it’s mostly rufi) and Tofurkey is awesome, as is tofu!!
10 So Good Presents: The Fast Food Bracket | So Good // Mar 16, 2010 at 1:57 pm

[...] Madness tournament. One full month of debates, arguments and voting, leading to some interesting final results, and ultimately, bacon defeating steak to be crowned the greatest meat in the land. We even had [...]
11 Fast Food Bracket: McDonald's vs. Little Caesar's, Quizno's vs. Dairy Queen | So Good // Mar 18, 2010 at 12:21 pm

[...] up on the success of last years Meat Madness, on Tuesday So Good unveiled The Fast Food Bracket, a 32-chain tournament to determine who is the [...]