Run the Chaos™. Experience Project64™.
Simulate an expanded 128-team tournament
Discover how a college basketball champion should be crowned.
Before March Madness, Can Your Team Survive Campus Chaos?
Team ratings via Pomeroy College Basketball Ratings
What is Run the Chaos™?
A simulation engine built under Project64™ that models a 128-team expanded field in its purest analytical form. Before conference favoritism, committee bias, or analyst hot takes shape the narrative.
Algorithmic Baseline
It starts with today's real rankings as the foundational baseline, expands the field systematically to 128 teams, and applies structured seeding logic and matchup rules defined by Project64™.
Probability Modeling
From there, it executes a complete tournament simulation from opening round pods to the national title game using performance-based probabilities blended with controlled randomness.
Stress-Test Volatility
The goal isn't simply to predict a champion. It's to stress-test what an expanded postseason actually produces. How does expansion alter a team's progression? How do mid-majors perform with more access? Where do Cinderellas emerge?
Run the Chaos™ is both a visualization and a live simulation engine for Project64™'s 128-team expansion. Showing how a March Madness champion should be crowned.
Upsets happen and brackets bust. Welcome the Chaos.
128 teams. Same bracket.
Campus Chaos is the qualifying event that decides who plays in the traditional 64-team field. Nothing about March Madness changes — you just have to survive to reach it first.
Qualify
Win your conference's regular season or its tournament and you're in automatically. Every remaining at-large spot is filled by Chaos Index ranking — no committee, no debate.
Pod Draw
Live, World Cup-style draw show. All 128 teams are dropped into 32 campus-hosted pods of four — one Host and three teams pulled from ranked buckets.
Campus Chaos
Each pod plays a 3-game weekend on the Host's home floor. Two teams survive. Two go home. It happens 32 times, simultaneously, across the country.
Bracket Draw
The 64 survivors split into a Premier pool and a Challenger pool, then get drawn — bucket by bucket — into seed lines 1–16 of every region.
Round of 64
The bracket fans already know, completely untouched. Same format, same stakes — just a field that had to survive Campus Chaos to get there.
Anatomy of a Pod
4 Teams · 3 Games · 2 PathsProtected Host
Double champion, or highest available at-large
Contenders
Highest-rated non-host qualifier drawn into the pod
Dark Horses
Mid-tier qualifier drawn into the pod
Underdogs
Lowest-rated qualifier drawn into the pod
Game 1
A vs B — winner exits to Premier Draw
Game 2
C vs D — loser eliminated
Game 3 · Final
Loser G1 vs Winner G2 — winner exits to Challenger Draw
Premier Path — Game 1 winner lands in Round of 64 seeds 1–8
Challenger Path — Game 3 winner lands in Round of 64 seeds 9–16
The Second Draw
Once Campus Chaos ends, the 32 Premier survivors and 32 Challenger survivors are re-ranked and drawn — bucket by bucket — into the Round of 64 seed lines.
Two live draws. Ninety-six elimination games. Thirty-two campus hosts. All before the bracket America already knows even tips off.
Before the Madness, survive Campus Chaos.
Why Project64™?
Tradition
Keep the historic 64-team bracket entirely intact.
Reward
Auto-bids for regular-season and conference tournament champions.
Expand
Broaden entry while safeguarding elite field status.
Atmosphere
Trade sterile neutral sites for hostile, authentic campus environments.
Transparency
Eliminate the human committee with clean analytical selections.
Inventory
Generate premium, high-stakes elimination games without expanding the season.