Round 3/Sweet 16 of the Geography competition between US and Canadian states, provinces, and territories. This is a 64-team/place tournament set up like the NCAA basketball tournament, with a seeded bracket based on population. The places will compete in a wide variety of categories, including economic, physical, and cultural geography. The 16 winners from Round 2 compete in this video.

Check out my website www.geographyking.com to print off a bracket, examine the rules of the tournament, and to view the categories used in the competition.

Please note that I have removed from consideration several categories that I had previously decided to use. After a practice run it was determined that several categories would be very difficult to use in the real competition. The categories removed are:

#19 - Percent of population in prison
#24 - Coolest thing manufactured there
#25 - Condition of interstate highways
#41 - Freshwater recreation
#57 - Highway fatality rate (a downer of a category for a fun video series)
#66 - Best invention made there
#68 - Best university mascot
#69 - Best movie based there
#70 - Liquor laws
#71 - Most significant historical event
#74 - Best/funniest county name


Source material:

www.city-data.com
www.worldpopulationreview.com
www.census.gov
www.statcan.gc.ca/eng
www.wikipedia.org