X Offers Trip to Mars in March Madness Competition

So, that is one thing.

Right this moment, X has introduced a March Insanity “Bracket Problem”, in partnership with Uber Eats, with the grand prize for an ideal March Insanity bracket being a visit to Mars onboard one among Elon’s yet-to-be-built rocket ships.

Yep, a visit to Mars. That’s positively going to occur, positively someday within the subsequent decade.

As per X:

“Basketball followers can now compete for an opportunity to win a visit to Mars – sure that’s proper, a visit to Mars on SpaceX’s Starship automobile for the proper bracket, or a $100,000 money prize if there isn’t a excellent bracket.”

Mars. Yep.

I imply, I get why individuals are so excessive on Elon, primarily based on the varied initiatives that he’s been concerned with which have defied expectation, or expanded what’s attainable with sure applied sciences. Nevertheless it nonetheless amazes me that folks take all the things he says 100% significantly, and belief that his grand visions are literally going to return to fruition.

As a result of most of his initiatives are primarily based on his creativeness, and constructing on prime of conceptual concepts.

For instance, Elon’s been promising full self-driving automobiles “subsequent yr” for a decade now, but FSD doesn’t appear to be any nearer than it was three or 4 years in the past. However that hasn’t stopped Elon from constructing on that premise, as a result of if FSD is definitely rolled out, then Tesla can facilitate “robotaxis,” and ship passive revenue for Tesla homeowners. That then extends to self-driving buses, revolutionizing transport as we all know it, and pushing Tesla’s valuation to file ranges.

None of this stuff are anyplace near actuality, it’s a fictional premise constructed on prime of one other, however with out that preliminary basis being in place, not one of the relaxation issues. It’s simply concepts, which Tesla might be eager about, and will even be working in the direction of in some capability. However till it navigates the primary hurdle, it’s all irrelevant.

The identical with constructing a metropolis on Mars. SpaceX has barely achieved orbit, whereas its most up-to-date rocket launches have exploded spectacularly. But Musk is already speaking about common journey to Mars, and setting the scene for a futuristic metropolis on the purple planet. None of that’s near actuality both, although on the similar time, I assume somebody must be considering huge if we ever need to obtain it.

However the level is Elon’s visions usually are not fully grounded in actuality.

Which makes a ticket to Mars as a prize just about nugatory.

However in the event you do predict all of the winners for March Insanity, you don’t have to just accept a fictional Mars ticket, with X additionally providing an elective $250,000 money prize, together with a yr of free residential Starlink service.

Spoiler alert: The winner, if there may be one, shall be taking the money.

As X notes, if there isn’t a excellent bracket, the subsequent closest winner will get $100k, whereas 4 fantasy sport winners may even obtain $10k every.

So there are different prizes which can be actual, and that is an precise competitors, with precise prizes, not just a few fantasy sweepstakes for metaphorical magic beans.

However yeah, providing a ticket to Mars is actually a selection.

X customers might want to register beforehand, and enter their brackets within the app.

X says that folks can observe @Sports activities for updates on its Bracket Problem.