Cooper Flagg #2 of the Duke Blue Devils strikes the ball in opposition to the Baylor Bears throughout the second spherical of the 2025 NCAA Males’s Basketball Event held at Lenovo Middle on March 23, 2025 in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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For the primary time in almost 10 years, a Berkshire Hathaway worker claimed Warren Buffett’s $1 million grand prize for his firm’s NCAA bracket contest.
An nameless worker from aviation coaching firm FlightSafety Worldwide, a subsidiary of Buffett’s Berkshire, received the annual inner bracket contest after accurately calling 31 of the 32 video games within the first spherical of the lads’s basketball event dubbed March Insanity, in keeping with a press release.
The 94-year-old Oracle of Omaha was lastly capable of give out the massive prize after enjoyable the principles a number of occasions for the reason that competitors’s inception in 2016. Initially, Buffett, a Creighton basketball fan, got down to award anybody who might completely predict the Candy 16.
Then, in 2024, after the $1 million jackpot remained unclaimed, contributors got the benefit of waiving the outcomes of the eight video games among the many No.1 and No. 2 seeds. Nonetheless, no one cracked the code.
This yr, the principles had been modified once more so anybody who picks the winners of a minimum of 30 of the event’s 32 first-round video games can be eligible to win the prize.
Actually, 12 Berkshire workers guessed 31 of the 32 first-round video games accurately. The $1 million prize went to the individual from that group that picked 29 video games consecutively earlier than a loss. That winner went on to select 44 of the 45 video games accurately.
The opposite 11 contestants are getting $100,000 every.
