Say hello to the Omaha Pizza Bracket, a tournament to decide the city’s best pizza.
Sixty-four locally owned pizza joints (So much pizza, Omaha!) will go head-to-head for your vote in tandem with the NCAA basketball tournament.
On March 15, we’ll reveal the first-round matchups in our pizza bracket and open the voting. We’ve seeded each Omaha pizza, just like the basketball bracket, and you’ll have three days to help choose who moves on. There will be blowout victories and shocking upsets, and then we’ll do it all over again for the next round.
We’ll crown a citywide winner — a new champion in the divisive contest of Omaha’s Best Pizza — on April 5.Â
Oh, and we’re giving away a $50 gift card to the winning pizza place. Every time you vote for a matchup (up to 63 votes during the tournament!), we’ll add your name to the drawing.
We’ll be sharing content on social media daily, and we even invited some local celebrities to share their picks for the city’s best pizza during the tournament.
While you wait, make sure you’re signed up for my weekly newsletter and check out some of my recent #pizzacontent:
- Takeout Chronicles: Mootz Pizza
- Hot patio review: At Dante, the petite patio and excellent Italian are worth visiting
- Takeout chronicles Lincoln: MoMo Pizzeria & Ristorante
CONTEST DETAILS
- Voting dates
Round 1 voting: March 15-18
Round 2: March 19-22
Sweet 16: March 22-24
Elite 8: March 24-27
Final Four: March 27-March 31
Championship: March 31-April 5 - The bracket allows one vote per matchup per round. You can vote for each of the 32 matchups in the first round, for example, but you can’t vote 20 times in a row for your favorite pizza.
- You must share your name and a working email address to vote. I won’t give your contact info to anyone else, but I will sign you up for my weekly newsletter. If you enter a fake email address, we’ll delete your votes.
- This isn’t a sponsored contest. No one’s paying us to push votes their way. The people will decide!
Photo credit: Devon Devine, Unsplash