ESPN Tournament Challenge Reviews

by Arthurlafrance

The amount of lag in ESPNTournamentChallenge is unreal. I tried to log in and when I typed my email, the characters didn’t show up on screen until several seconds after I hit the buttons on the keyboard. Given that the login screen was already so bad, I gave up trying to use ESPNTournamentChallenge because I can’t imagine the rest of it is much better, and frankly I didn’t have the patience to try and find out.

It’s unfortunate because I was pretty excited to fill out a bracket this year, but trying to use ESPNTournamentChallenge just destroyed that excitement

by Kaykay3303

I’m a sighted person and use ESPNTournamentChallenge every year for March madness. I didn’t realize how inaccessible ESPNTournamentChallenge is until I organized a league for my coworkers this year. We have 4 or 5 blind coworkers participating and all of them needed some level of assistance filling out their brackets, which is a shame because ESPNTournamentChallenge should really be compatible with Voice Over. Most of the buttons don’t have labels, and the elements aren’t being selected as a group when picking a team, so you can’t even tell which team you’re selecting. I design our accessible mobile app for our company and baking in accessibility really isn’t that hard. Disappointed in ESPN and hope you make changes for next year, even if it’s using a promotion with Aira to provide on demand assistance for the BLV community.

by ClaireandTom

I want to preface this review with a statement about gambling. Don’t do it!

I wasn’t 45 minutes into the madness when my bracket busted. And then I realized that gambling my life savings on winning a college tournament challenge might not have been the smartest move this weekend.

After the men who collect debts for the gamblers association stopped by and picked up my furniture and a couple of pints of blood, I visited St. Mary’s. Not the college i bet it all on, but the hospital. They stitched me up and I was able to see out of my one remaining good eye - thank goodness.

It took another 45 minutes to remove the remnants of my phone from my neighbors dog. Who knew that dog would actually try and protect those debt collectors from my flailing and drunken “air punches”.

Word to the wise, people... when they say you have to settle debts immediately, they are serious. My app is busted. My brackets busted. My uncle is busted and headed to jail now... who knew it was a crime to try and protect your sole nephew with that rocket
launcher you brought back from the Iraq war...

Busted. ESPNTournamentChallenge is busted!

by Jthoms1149

ESPNTournamentChallenge is far inferior in comparison to the CBS Sports app. The reason is you can't look at the bracket as a whole you can only look at it on the left-hand side which makes it difficult to oversee the whole bracket. Also it is hard to really determine who is going to win a private pool because there's no ability to sort by the available points that you can still get which is very very frustrating. I wish ESPNTournamentChallenge and ESPN would really get it together because they are clearly the leaders and sports yet they don't put any effort toward something like this which is one of the most popular things in the nation

by Espanfan1753728

Destroying the traditional four quadrant view of the tournament bracket makes it hard to see how the games come together.
There are frequent issues with the real-time coding of winners & losers - the team names are right, but sometimes your eliminated picks show in crossed-out red type and sometimes just in crossed-out grey type. BEWARE: Your “correct” picks are only shown in green in the first round, so just when you get used to reading the bracket layout it changes. Why don’t your advancing teams keep displaying in green? 🤷‍♀️
Hey Disney - Hire some graphic/UI designers (maybe not just sports enthusiasts) and better coding QA personnel!
I have followed the tournament for 35 years, and have filled out many amateur “just for fun” brackets. ESPNTournamentChallenge is not intuitive, and the amount of study you have to undertake to understand what your own bracket is telling you is not worth it. Not to mention how the poor design makes it impossible to include more casual tournament fans… 🤦‍♀️

by Susiebrph

On a scale of 1-10, this would get a 5 at best. Very easy to fill out brackets but I lost mine twice before I was done- UGH! My women's bracket completely disappeared and I didn't know until it was too late. As everyone has said- SAVE button please! I find it very hard to see who I picked relative to who is playing. Hard to move bracket forward and backward to see who might match in the future and who won or loss if I miss a game. I have no idea how many I have right/wrong and I don't understand how percents are calculated or what the prp means. Overall, it works but could be better.

by NBA Live Baller

I have had a good experience with ESPNTournamentChallenge but some of my friends that are in the same pool as me have had trouble, some of them had a bracket filled out and when the tourney started theirs didn't show up and they didn't have a bracket in the pool, and their should be a "save and finish later" button so If I have some thing else to do on my phone or I'm not ready to pick some I can look at some things and come back and finish it

by DJ 7578537

Adding to a group is not easy. Several of us created our profiles and then the brackets became available a couple days later we attempted to build our brackets and they kept creating a new profile and then you couldn’t attach them easily into the gam adding to a group is not easy. Several of us created our profiles and then the brackets became available a couple days later we attempted to build our brackets and they kept creating a new profile and then you couldn’t attach them easily into the group. My bracket didn’t make it into the group when I thought it did.

by Bfidgekcisb

For real! Need to open chats up on here! What’s the point of making a group if we can’t talk smack or arrange a place to meet.

The whole not being able to view a whole bracket thing stinks too, would like to toggle between people to see theirs as well. Viewing in vertical columns isn’t ideal.

Other than that, love it! Oh would be neat if you could see which of your contacts also have ESPNTournamentChallenge then you could join more groups or make yours larger!

by Fly6387

I like ESPNTournamentChallenge but agree with a previous poster. I like women’s college basketball as much as the men’s. Women’s basketball is to far down the menu and when you do get to it, it looks like building the interface was an afterthought. NCAA women’s basketball should be right under (or above) men’s basketball in the menu and should be formatted exactly like the men’s. Women’s basketball is equally as important as men’s and should be reflected in this fun app. Looking forward to an updated, five-star app next year!

by Lisa In Dayton

ESPNTournamentChallenge is a lot of fun. I appreciate the opportunity to fill out lots of brackets (one in which my fave teams win, one in which I predict lots of upsets, etc.). I like the auto fill options as well. But I care as much about the women’s tournament as the men’s, and I’m surprised that the women’s tournament is still an afterthought. It is a hassle to have to dig for it (and dig even deeper to get the game times). What’s worse, after I dig down to game level within my bracket, there is no way to go back one screen to the bracket. The only option is to hit exit, which sends you back to “Play More Games” level, where you have to select “play” the women’s tournament. Come on! Maybe you should just create a separate app for the women’s tournament. But I’ll give you credit for including the women’s tournament in ESPNTournamentChallenge ; the NCAA’s own March Madness app doesn’t include anything about the women’s tournament! Crazy!

by MORE BRACKETS

I would say ESPNTournamentChallenge is perfect but…I was planning on doing a lot of brackets this year. But once I reached 25 brackets it wouldn’t let me do anymore. We should be allowed to have more then 25 brackets! Due to the fact that it’s pretty much impossible to get a prefect bracket there seems to be no reason for us to have a limit. Other then that ESPNTournamentChallenge is great.

by Singerjan

i agree with Lisa from Dayton regarding ESPNTournamentChallenge and the women's brackets - while the mens regular and second chance brackets were easy to maneuver to and manage it was difficult to get to to the women's bracket and never found the second chance bracket.
if you make it as easy as the mens bracket to use, more players would take the time to play, as there are a lot of fantasy sports players around the world

by Mattg519

I have loved ESPNTournamentChallenge for the past few years. The brackets are simple, easy to fill out, and fun (especially in groups/with friends). I have noticed one thing this year and that is that we can’t pick for the first four. I know the official March Madness app has that feature and I wish that could be carried over here.

by Dole B

I was excited for the tournament looking forward to filling out my bracket, but as I got going it became quite obvious that it will require more work and maneuvering around ESPNTournamentChallenge than it really should. Inviting friends and family to play along and join our private group was painful and way more complicated than expected. My hope that next year ESPN puts in a little bit more work on developing more user friendly features within the signing up process...go Zags!

by AK|TwistiTwik

I was so excited last year when MM was about to happen. Then.... yeah. This year is completely different, and yet we have our brackets. But there is one feature that has to be added, to make a custom bracket with custom teams with custom rankings, etc. And with that, we should be able to control that bracket until the real MM happens. A feature like this would make ESPNTournamentChallenge more popular, convenient, and unpredictable. If you devs can take this into view, that would be nice. Stay safe out there, and have a great 2021!

by $ilky$lim

We love ESPNTournamentChallenge and me and my family do a bracket tournament against each other, but we wish there was a way to send a text or a message some how, maybe have a point system that each round it goes up, so it gives the guy at the bottom a chance to come back, thanks

by Bobbbbbbbygjldyuo

I find ESPNTournamentChallenge easy to use, easy to navigate. Brackets were easy to complete. Now I'm wondering if I'm using it right. Save button would be helpful. If I could rename the bracket before I filled it out, I didn't figure it out. We used ESPNTournamentChallenge to track different groups, plus we put the entire family on one account for easy tracking and trash talking.

by Shaehawn

in bracket cast u can see what other people in your groups picked and see whose in the lead and see who has the best potential. u can even click on a certain game and see what everyone picked to win that and how far they have that team going. its the best place to make a bracket and i hav experience so i highly recommended. also u can read abt tournament news in ESPNTournamentChallenge ! GREAT tournament app.

by Tji77

I fill out a bracket every year from the paper & by the time it gets to the Final Four, it looks like a book report graded by a strict teacher with red circles & corrections all over it.

This was easy & I did multiple brackets. I can see my ranking compared to everyone else. I won't win any prizes; but, it is a fun activity.

I enjoy checking out the Celebrity picks as I am hanging in there with them as far as points earned. (In some brackets)

by Ryan.lippy

ESPNTournamentChallenge is amazing and works pretty smoothly. However, the thing that it needs desperately is for the owner of the bracket-pool to have the option to accept or decline other brackets from joining the pool. The password option is outdated and an accept or decline option would work tremendously better and would make my rating 5-stars!

by ZigzagCatcher

For years, I dreaded the filling out of paper brackets...not quite understanding the scoring involved as I picked teams based on favorite colors and underdogs (whether I’d heard of them or not). No judging...I’ve come a far way from there although I think I was somehow more successful back then in my clueless years. Anyways, thanks for creating an app that makes it easy to fill out and calculates my points so I can easily rub my predictions (that are still horridly off) in my friends faces. It has made March Madness fun instead of a yearly dread of watching friends lose their minds...now I can join the madness too. :)