It's Called Madness For A Reason: Will Scale's Mann Defend His 2022 Title?
Hello, and welcome back to CRN Weekly. In this special edition, we take a look at this year's Channel Madness Tournament's final matchup and everything you need to know before the Championship Round ends.
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Channel Madness: Scale's Mann, VMware's Cooper Face Off In Championship Round
In the 2023 Channel Madness Semifinals, Palo Alto Networks' Tom Evans started off strong against VMware 's Ricky Cooper , but Cooper ultimately pulled ahead, with 51 percent of the vote to Evans' 49 percent.
On the other side of the bracket, defending champion Scale Computing 's Scott Mann won with 79 percent of the vote to Nutanix's Christian Goffi's 21 percent.
That landed Mann in the championship round for the second year in a row with a chance to defend his title, where he's now facing off against Cooper.
Here's what else you should know with the Championship underway.
Channel Madness Bracket Contest
None of the participants in this year's Channel Madness bracket contest guessed both sides of the Semifinals correctly, but Round 3 leader?Bommer, along with?pbrennan?and?bobble-head?were among those that added 8 points to their totals with one correct pick each. The Championship will determine who wins! Find out how the other participants have been doing.
The bracket contest winner will receive a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga laptop courtesy of 联想 .
Catch Up On Channel Madness 2023 News
In case you missed any of the latest news from this year's tournament, here's what you should know:
?? Round 3 Results: Newcomers Cooper, Evans Forge Ahead (Read)
?? Round 2 Results: Arctic Wolf's Skelley, Veeam's Rooney Advance (Read)
?? Round 1 Results: Nutanix Beats Kaseya, Veeam Ousts AWS (Read)
?? Don't forget: The Championship Round ends today at 10 AM ET!
??? Vote for your favorite chief at CRN.com/madness now.
?? The 2023 Channel Madness Champion will be announced tomorrow, Thursday, April 6.
Thank You To The 2023 Channel Madness Class Of Channel Chiefs
To the following channel chiefs who participated in this year's Channel Madness tournament, thank you!
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?? Oliver Tuszik , 思科 , Cisco Partners
?? Shannon Sbar , 施耐德电气
?? David Weeks , N-able
?? Jenni Flinders , NetApp , NetApp Partners
?? Steven Loeb , 伊顿
?? Phil Soper , 惠普企业服务 , HPE Partners
?? Scott Lannum , HP
?? Jason Kimrey , 英特尔
?? Stefanie Chiras , 红帽 , Red Hat Partners
?? Kate Woolley , IBM
?? Ricky Cooper , VMware , VMware Partners
?? Bob Skelley , Arctic Wolf
?? Frank Rauch , Cato Networks
?? Lori Cornmesser , Deepwatch
?? Ken Marks , SentinelOne
?? Kendra Krause , Sophos , Sophos Partners
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