Sneaker News March Madness Non-OG Air Jordan Tournament
March 12th, 2012 by Aaron Kr. | 41 comments
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Thanks to your help, an overwhelming crop of worthy candidates has been narrowed down to the final 32 and we are now ready to kick off our Sneaker News March Madness Non-OG Air Jordan Tournament. If you haven’t been following, this year, our annual march sneaker tourney will feature a battle of the all-time greatest non-original Air Jordan colorways, and as you can see, there is some serious competition here and plenty of room for upsets and Cinderella runs along the way. We’re sure that not everyone will agree with the seedings, but you will have plenty of opportunity to prove us wrong in the voting. Also, you might have noticed the omission of the Air Jordan XI ‘Space Jam’, which was no accident. Due to the dominance of the Air Jordan XI winning our first two march madness tournaments, we sent the Space Jams straight to the sneaker Hall of Fame and let them sit this one out to open up the field for some new blood. (Feel free to spread the word when countless ‘Where’s the Space Jams?‘ comments come forth despite the clarification) You can get a closer look at the brackets over on Sneaker News HD, and stay tuned later tonight for the tip-off of Round 1 voting.
Raging Bull 5's vs. Doernbecher 4's
i really want the laneys to win it all but i have a feelings the undftd 4s are going to remain undefeated lol
I predict the final 4 to be: AJ XI Cool Grey Vs. AJ VI Olympic AND AJ II Eminem Vs. AJ VI DMP
UNDFTD IV is taking this, no surprise here. Side note; I wish they didn't put the DMP VI's up against the Eminem IV's. Not a fan of those IV's but I'm sure some of you sickos will vote those over the DMP's.
ahh, this mocha III laney matchup in the quarters is gonna be a tough pick. two of my favorite js
altitudes dont stand a chance lol
Em 4's gonna pull off a cinderella story
wonder is there any specific criteria that went into the seeding....not beefing just curious
This is a tough bracket. All of the Jordan's here are great colorways.
Cool Grey 11s vs Thunder 4s vs Laney 5s vs UNDFTD 4s/Eminem 4s
It should end up Juan Miro 7's vs DMP 6's
Where the hell is the quai 54's friends n family!!??!!?
if we leave out the limited aspect and assume everything was a general release just checking out the pics posted in the bracket the Laser IVs and Doernbecher IIIs jump of the page to me. they are the 2 out of 5 that I have in my collection in this bracket.
Final Four: Lightning IV vs Oly VI Oreo IV vs UNDFTD IV Im a little biased if you cant tell. LOL
Yo where the Spacejams at? They werent an OG color way...
DIP SHIIIITTTT
im happy they were excluded. they would have won and there would be no reason for this tourney.
Just like the black Quai 54's is not on there
black Quais didn't make it past the play-in round
reading is... Fundamental
WOW EM 4s are a 7 seed ........................
Tough bracket
South Beach Lebrons...?
Are you serious lmao !
"Non-og JORDAN" tournament.
cool grey 11s vs mochas
11s ARE GOING TO WIN because people are so unoriginal the 11s are super hyped and there are shoes here that are better than them.............it's really a shame
if it's any consolation, i'm one of these "younger" sneaker heads and i'd take just about any 3, 6, and some 7's over any eleven. Not cool grey 3's, i don't care for those. I did get a pair of cool grey 11's and they were great quality i thought. But in this bracket, they wouldn't make it passed the miro's, olympic 6's, DB or Mocha 3's.
Agree'd The hype alone will carry either pair.......... sad day
I have the 11's losing 1st rnd. Both times. LOL
Miro7s.....most slept on 7s.......quality is outstanding on those shoes
agree, i just posted them today lol. however, it was hard to "sleep on them" because they were so exclusive; only came out in barcelona and less than 1000 pairs were made.
It's bout to get good now
Harder to pick than march madness
I'm surprised that the nugget 2s made it and not the mist blue 4s. Also nice to see the miros up there. There's some great competition.
The Melo 2 was one of the first limited Air Jordan releases and also one of the first 'PE'-type Air Jordan Retro. The Mist Blue IV was a re-done colorway on a model that featured about 10 better colorways than the Mist Blue. Easy exclusion.
i understand what you're saying, but technically the 2 was a re-done cw on a already existing model as well. I prefer the 4s over the 2s, and they are one of the better non og cws imo. i respect yours as well.
How is the lightning 4 a 2 seed and the thunder an 8 seed? Thunder is worth like twice as much. Hate hate hate
So its all about which ones worth the most?? Nah u idiot.
Y'all idiots probly think the cool grey 3 is heat- do your homework fools. Look at these comments - lebron preheat are non og jordans - they shouldn't let the dumbass new hypebeasts who learned abt kicks thru 2k video games vote. Control this blastphemy. the motorsports are left off the beijings are on? All of these brackets have sucked donkey dick from the jump. Let mj make the bracket hisself
AINT THAT THE TRUTH( Dont be a menace)