It's Called Madness For A Reason: Will Scale's Mann Defend His 2022 Title?
The 2023 Channel Madness bracket: Championship Round.

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

Image that reads: Channel Madness Championship 2023: Who Will Take Home The Crown?, featuring the Channel Madness logo and headshots of the final competitors, Scale Computing's Scott Mann (left) and VMware's Ricky Cooper; the bottom of the image reads: Vote Now At CRN.com/madness, and features the official Channel Madness hashtag, #CRNChannelMadness.
It's Scale Computing's Scott Mann (left) vs. VMware's Ricky Cooper in the 2023 Channel Madness Championship.

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

The 2023 Channel Madness bracket: Championship Round. The same graphic is featured as this edition's cover image.
The 2023 Channel Madness bracket: Championship Round.

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

The 2023 CRN Channel Madness logo.

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

Image containing the headshots of all 32 channel chiefs who participated in the 2023 Channel Madness Tournament of Chiefs.
The Channel Madness class of 2023 channel chiefs.

To the following channel chiefs who participated in this year's Channel Madness tournament, thank you!

?? Dan Tomaszewski ( Dan T. ), Kaseya

?? Christian Goffi , Nutanix , Nutanix Partners

?? 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 Mann , Scale Computing

?? Rola Dagher, C.M. , Dell Technologies , Dell Technologies Partner

?? Scott Lannum , HP

?? Kimberly King , Hitachi Vantara

?? Donna Grothjan , HPE Aruba Networking

?? Jason Kimrey , 英特尔

?? James Robbins , Dynabook Americas

?? Rob Cato , 联想 , Lenovo Partners – North America

?? Ruba Borno , Amazon Web Services (AWS) , AWS Partners

?? Kevin Rooney , Veeam Software

?? Kevin Ichhpurani , Google Cloud , Google Cloud Partners

?? Stefanie Chiras , 红帽 , Red Hat Partners

?? Jonathan McCormick , Intermedia Cloud Communications

?? Nina Harding , 微软 , Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program

?? Kate Woolley , IBM

?? Ricky Cooper , VMware , VMware Partners

?? Michael Rogers , CrowdStrike

?? Bob Skelley , Arctic Wolf

?? Frank Rauch , Cato Networks

?? Michelle Welch , WatchGuard Technologies

?? Lori Cornmesser , Deepwatch

?? Ken Marks , SentinelOne

?? Tom Evans , Palo Alto Networks , NextWave Channel Partners

?? Kendra Krause , Sophos , Sophos Partners


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