from the tournament-time dept
It’s that point of yr — March Insanity — when tons of individuals have crammed out brackets and are watching school basketball. Manner again in 2020 I had jokingly urged on Twitter that we should always arrange a bracket for essentially the most steadily misunderstood authorized ideas, and folks appeared to actually like the concept. After all, then I received busy and did nothing with it… till now. Introducing the inaugural Techdirt March Insanity to find out what’s the most misunderstood authorized idea.
If you wish to fill out your personal bracket, you possibly can get the spreadsheet right here — you simply have to make a duplicate and reserve it your personal Google drive, after which fill out your bracket, take a screenshot and share it on Twitter (and tag @techdirt).
Every day that that is operating, we’ll be posting Twitter polls of the competing authorized ideas to see which one is extra misunderstood. The winner will advance to the following spherical, finally crowning the most misunderstood authorized idea for 2022.
Just a few notes on how this preliminary bracket got here collectively. Again in 2020 after I urged this concept (jokingly, I swear), individuals despatched in heaps and plenty of strategies. Initially it was simply alleged to be misunderstood legal guidelines, however that was too limiting to get to a 64-entry bracket (or not less than an fascinating one), so I expanded it to authorized ideas. That does imply that there are some overlapping ideas (e.g. “free speech” and “1st Modification”), however I don’t a lot care. We’ll see the way it goes.
As for the seeding, I loaded all these ideas into an AI system to see what it stated after which ranked them accordingly… or, truly, I simply form of made up the seeding with just a few apparent ones nearer to the highest after which plenty of simply randomly throwing collectively ones within the center. You’ll be able to disagree with the seeding, and we’ll see how the eventual voting seems.
That’s principally it. Fill out your brackets and tweet them at us within the subsequent day or so, as a result of we’ll begin operating the Twitter polls tomorrow morning…
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