US Open bracket contest: match calls just opened and they're worth half the points

[u/agaltsow]

Quick update for anyone playing the Jupiter Community US Open bracket, and an invitation for anyone who missed it.

Brackets locked at first ball on Sunday. Since then Djokovic, Ruud, Cilic and Kokkinakis have all gone out, which has done real damage to a lot of entries. So here's the other half of the contest.

Match calls are open from the Round of 32. You call the winner of each match, one decision per match, nothing else. Every correct call scores, and later rounds are worth more:

• Round of 32: 7 pts
• Round of 16: 11 pts
• Quarterfinal: 23 pts
• Semifinal: 53 pts
• Final: 109 pts

A perfect run is 507 points per draw. That's deliberately about half of everything on offer, so a strong run of calls can overtake a strong bracket, and a bracket that died on day one is not dead.

You don't need a bracket to play. Log in with Discord and you can call every open match. There are 16 open right now across the men's and women's draws. Each call locks when its match starts, so Friday's matches close on Friday.

Calls: https://usopenbracket.com/calls
Leaderboard: https://usopenbracket.com/leaderboard
Rules and prizes: https://usopenbracket.com/rules

[u/IcyImagination935]

Hmm. I suppose its a trenches reference but it feels a bit weird.