The 2022 Goose Jam of the Year Bracket
THE TIME HAS COME
WELCOME one and all to the 2022 Goose Jam of the Year bracket!! Always Almost There is extremely excited to bring you another incredible tournament full of amazing jams, surprising upsets, and a healthy amount of good-natured (sometimes witty) banter. Read on to find out how this whole thing is going to work, and how YOU can get involved!
Unlike last year, when just the five of us at AAT seeded the bracket, we asked you (the community) to crowd-seed this year’s bracket by submitting your own rankings of the top jams of the year. We are grateful to have received 56 submissions that included 200 unique jams from 72 different shows - what a diverse pool!
Listen to us break down every first-round matchup of the bracket on a new episode of Always Almost There, available now wherever you get your podcasts!
Without further ado, here is the 2022 JOTY bracket! (See the bottom of this post for a full list of the overall seedings.) Click here to download PDF and Excel versions to print and fill out on your own.
For a Nugs.net playlist of the whole bracket IN ORDER OF MATCHUP, click here.
When Does the Party Start?
Beginning Tuesday, January 17th at 12pm ET, and continuing every day until the champion is crowned, there will be a poll posted on the Always Almost There Twitter account (@AATGoosePod) for you to cast your vote. Every poll will be open for 24 hours and this year, in an effort to shorten the competition, we will be doing TWO polls per day for the first round of matchups, and then one poll per day from the round of 32 onward. Don’t already have a Twitter account? No problem! It’s super easy to create one - you don’t need to fill out a profile or send tweets if you don’t want to…just vote!
In addition to the daily voting, we are also very stoked to be bringing back the JOTY Bracket Challenge! Similar to a March Madness pool, everyone will have an opportunity to fill out a complete bracket before the matchups begin. You will earn points for each winner you accurately predict - matchups in the first round are worth one point each, second round are worth two, Sweet 16 are worth four, Elite Eight are worth five, Final Four are worth six, semi finals are worth eight, and guessing the champion will earn ten points. Along with priceless bragging rights, the top points scorers will receive some awesome prizes which will be announced soon! The deadline to submit your Bracket Challenge picks is 11:59pm ET on Monday, January 16th! Sign up and enter yours here!
“But AAT,” you may be asking, “my favourite jam isn’t on the list!”
Thanks to the wide-ranging and diverse pool of submissions from all corners of the Goose community, we were able to capture a more accurate consensus of the 64 most popular, most listened to, most respected, and most loved jams. So, if one of yours didn’t make the cut, it’s simply due to the fact that Goose gave us such a long list of amazing candidates! We were truly spoiled in 2022.
Goose Jam of the Year Hall of Fame:
2020 - 9/16 Madhuvan - Morris, CT
2021 - 6/15 A Western Sun - Perry, NY
2022 Jam of the Year Overall Seeds 1-64:
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