Sports bracket card game

Abstract

A sports tournament bracket card game that may be played in conjunction with an actual sports tournament. The sports bracket card game may include playing cards with values calculated based upon historical tournament data. The sports tournament bracket card game may also include an additional bonus card deck to provide additional playing excitement as well as a forecasting element using a sheet of integrity on which players may predict the outcome of elements of the games of the tournament.

1 . A sport tournament bracket card game comprising:
 a plurality of sport tournament seed card decks corresponding to a plurality of teams playing in a sport tournament;   a bonus card deck;   a game board with a playing surface including a plurality of designated card positions to receive at least one playing card of the plurality of tournament seed card decks and at least one bonus card; and   a sheet of integrity;
 wherein the cards of the plurality of tournament seed card decks include printing on one side of the cards scoring outcomes based at least in part upon predetermined data; 
 wherein the cards of the bonus card deck include printing on one side of the bonus cards a plurality of game events; 
 wherein the sheet of integrity includes a sport tournament bracket corresponding to the sport tournament, including a plurality of elimination rounds and a championship round; 
 wherein the sheet of integrity includes positions for recording the results of the card game and also positions for predictive results recorded before the start of card game, 
 wherein the results of the card game and predictive results are recorded on positions on the sheet of integrity and indicate a winner of the game. 
   
     
     
         2 . The sport tournament bracket card game of  claim 1 , wherein the predetermined data is based at least in part on historical data including bracket seed information corresponding to the sport tournament. 
     
     
         3 . The sport tournament bracket card game of  claim 1 , wherein the predetermined data is based at least in part on random data. 
     
     
         4 . The sport tournament bracket card game of  claim 1 , wherein the plurality of game events of the bonus card deck includes at least one of scoring events, penalties, fouls, turnovers, and injuries. 
     
     
         5 . The sport tournament bracket card game of  claim 1 , wherein the playing surface of the game board is a representation of the playing surface of the sport tournament. 
     
     
         6 . The sport tournament bracket card game of  claim 1 , wherein the designated card positions of the game board correspond to the sport bracket of the sport tournament. 
     
     
         7 . The sport tournament bracket card game of  claim 1 , wherein the sheet of integrity includes
 a plurality of positions for recording the number of games accurately predicted for each round of the sports tournament;   a plurality of value multipliers for each round of the sports tournament;   a plurality of positions for recording the results of each round of the number of games accurately predicted multiplied by the value multipliers; and   a position for recording a sum of the results to determine a winner of the card game.   
     
     
         8 . A sports tournament bracket card game comprising:
 a game mat, wherein the game mat includes a plurality of positions to store a plurality of playing cards;   a plurality of card decks, wherein the plurality of the card decks correspond to a plurality of the participants in the sports tournament and are stored on at least some of the plurality of positions on the game mat;   a bonus card deck, wherein the bonus card deck includes a plurality of game events corresponding to the sports tournament and are stored on at least some of the plurality of positions on the game mat;   a sheet of integrity, wherein the sheet of integrity includes a bracket of the sports tournament, positions to record predictive winners of each round of the tournament made at the start of the card game, positions to record card game winners in each round of the tournament, positions to record multipliers, positions to total each round of the tournament, and the champion.   
     
     
         9 . The sports tournament bracket card game of  claim 8 , wherein the game mat is configured with a number of positions corresponding to the number of participants in the sports tournament. 
     
     
         10 . The sports tournament bracket card game of  claim 8 , wherein the game mat is configured with at least two bonus card positions. 
     
     
         11 . The sports tournament bracket card game of  claim 8 , wherein the plurality of card decks includes printed scoring outcomes based at least in part on historical data corresponding to sports tournament. 
     
     
         12 . The sports tournament bracket card game of  claim 8 , wherein the sheet of integrity includes positions to record the actual winners of the sports tournament. 
     
     
         13 . A method of playing a sports tournament card game comprising:
 completing, by each game player, a sheet of integrity wherein each sheet of integrity includes a predictive winner of each round of the tournament as chosen by each game player;   selecting, by each game player, participants in the sports tournament from a pool of participants;   selecting, by each game player, respective game card decks corresponding to each participant's tournament position or seed;   selecting, by each game player in turn, a card from each of their respective game card decks including a scoring outcome and placing the card on a game mat according to a predetermined number of selections;   determining, based on the game card selections, the winner of each game in each round of the sports tournament based on the scoring outcomes;   recording, by each game player, the results of each game on the sheet of integrity;   determining, based on the winners of each round and the predictive winners, the overall winner of the card game.   
     
     
         14 . The method of  claim 13 , further comprising drawing, by each player in turn, a bonus card in each game in each round of the sports tournament. 
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 13 , wherein the selecting, by each game player, or participants in the sports tournament is done by a random selection device. 
     
     
         16 . The method of  claim 13 , wherein the scoring of each predictive winner is weighted for each round of the sports tournament. 
     
     
         17 . The method of  claim 13 , wherein the determining of the overall winner of the card game includes a tiebreaker. 
     
     
         18 . The method of  claim 13 , wherein the determining of the winner of each game in each round of the sports tournament based on the scoring outcomes includes at least one of historical sports tournament data and random data. 
     
     
         19 . The method of  claim 13 , wherein the determining of the overall winner of the game includes playing a sudden death game based on the winner of the card game tournament and the predictive winner of the tournament. 
     
     
         20 . The method of  claim 19 , wherein the playing of the sudden death game includes using a pair of predetermined game card decks and playing a final game to determine the overall winner.