You will be able to keep track of all the brackets throughout the entire CMZ Tourney Madness schedule day by day on this page. Here is the schedule for the tournament with one game being played each day until we have crowned a new champion!
1/30 – Tournament Brackets Announced
1/31-3/2 : First Round Games
3/3-3/18 : Second Round Games
3/19-3/26 : Sweet Sixteen Round Games
3/27-3/30 : Elite Eight Round Games
3/31-4/1 : Final Four Round Games
4/2-4/4 Championship Game!
Elite Eight
East Bracket
South Bracket
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This is gonna be an interesting tournament!
there is no reason Skillet should have beat such a talented artist as Aaron Gillespie.
except popularity?
ouch man, sorry if my comment was rude toward the skillet guys, I appreciate what they do, taking the message of Christ to a particular music market, even though it is one I’m not a fan of… I completely realize its a popularity contest,(cool idea with the brackets by the way) but why shouldn’t Aaron be as popular as skillet? He is incredibly experienced, multi-talented, good at composition, his new album is even more mainstream, he has an avid following, granted some may have dropped off a bit on the praise album… but still. He has appealed to a wide genre of music fans christian and secular, wheras I feel Skillet caters to one particular audience, but all in all this bracket idea is pretty cool, and CMZ is just a pretty awesome thing, so keep up the good work.
haha no offense was taken, at least by me
the reason why Aaron isn’t as popular as Skillet is simple: name recognition. remember that Aaron was in an incredibly popular band by the name of Underoath, so his talent is not unknown, but when he transitioned to The Almost not everyone knew about it and when he came out with solo stuff not everyone made the connection (or wanted to make the transition from metalcore to alt rock to pop worship). plus I believe Aaron is a bit of a weekend warrior these days, flying out for one offs on the weekend while serving at a home church in Florida during the week (not sure if this is still true, but he mentioned it at one point in time) and it is important to go on the road to let people know you’re still doing stuff because not everyone is as super awesome as our readers who follow this stuff super closely like we do 
thanks for reading man! I appreciate it!
Skillet has a lot of experience too… They’ve been around since 96 and John’s been in music even before that. I don’t know as much about Aaron. I love his music though.
too bad 95% of their fans didnt know that they came out with music before Comatose :-/
It’s because alien youth and invincible don’t even come close to comatose
Do Relient K and Family Force 5 really have to meet in the second round?!
fraid so
Thats going to be a tough one.
gonna be close but FF5 will win however TFK will win West RED will win North and Switchfoot will win East but fm static wil give em a run for their money.And it will be between tmac and owl city for south
Gah! The East bracket is horrible! All of those four bands are awesome!! While I’m hoping for Stellar Kart or Skillet, just cause out of those they’re my favs, I’m guessing Switchfoot will win that one.
Hoping for Hawk Nelson to win the entire thing, but if they can win at least their bracket I’ll be happy!
NO DEAS VAIL!?!?!? Replace Jamie Grace with them at least!
they were in the wild card round to make the tourney and did not garner enough votes…i do personally love their music though
I’m so sad now.
But this is an awesome bracket and I enjoy it.
How many ppl think FM static will go all the way?
I don’t believe the Stellar Kart beat out Switchfoot. XD lol Oh well. I really like this tourny though. Cool idea.
thanks!
I agree with Matt, that’s the biggest surprise so far.
Just a question why isn’t ashes remain in this tourney????
Five Iron Frenzy should have been on this…with their Kickstarter following, they would have been a shoe-in to the Final 4.
Wait they are on their…and lost to Fireflight…give me a break.
kinda blew your final four theory, sorry Justin, I thought they would do better too, thats why they got such a high seed, they must have had an injury
I want to know why there is not Wolves at the gate?!?!
sorry, not everyone can make it in the tourney!
ya I understand. plus they are not a very well know band…
I really wish Thousand Foot Krutch would win. I think they totally deserve it.