This is maybe my favorite and/or the most aggressively nerdy thing on ScienceBlogs so far: it's smoking hot, one-on-one, science competition in the abstract, with brackets and everything. Way more interesting than stupid college sports.
Obviously, I'm most interested in the life sciences bracket, but other flavors of geek should have a look at the other brackets.
Defense! Or whatever.
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