It’s tournament time.

March embodies everything brackets, from the little mid-major losers who steal NCAA spots from hard working teams at schools with decent sports teams, to the one week where we’re actually thankful Joe Lunardi has a job.

Oh, and he didn’t qualify for The Daily Illini’s tournament extravaganza this year. Last year, The Daily Illini had March Movie Madness, where it was firmly and forever established that “Remember the Titans” is the best sports movie of all time. This year, we’re unveiling the Twittournament.

Journalists, athletes, websites, talking heads and fans all crowd the Twitterverse and spew story after statistic after witty quip after Instagram photo after story onto our timelines in 140 characters or less (which should be “or fewer,” for the record). Yet none of them ever have to face the music — that their accounts, while followable, are weak.

Athletes? Terrible at Twitter, by and large.

Journalists? Informative and boring, mostly.

Websites? Thanks for your propaganda.

Skip Bayless? I’d rather master self-immolation.

So yeah, we’ve constructed a bracket to determine the king of Twitter in the sports world, at Illinois and outside — all Twitters considered.

The Daily Illini sports staff then voted for a winner. But, that vote was garbage, so we’re getting your opinion on things.

At 64 entrants, this year’s tournament is double the size of last year’s effort, but in the time it takes you to scroll through an hour’s worth of a UNLV game, you can fill out a bracket. Give us your feedback. We’ll get through the first two rounds over the weekend, then break it down by each round from there out.

Unfortunately, this can’t be a comprehensive list of top Twitter accounts. I follow 727 people. Some of whom are very funny but utterly inappropriate (@robdelaney, @JennyJohnsonHi5), some are supposedly necessary follows that don’t really give me a whole lot (@ESPN, any professional football player), and I don’t have it in me to go through and unfollow the boring accounts, much less to determine via a tournament of more than 700 entrants which one I like best.

In comparison, 64 is pretty manageable.

We decided the field by compiling a reasonable list of accounts from journalists we like, or that have a popular Twitter following, and athletes that have a large presence on Twitter, and I guess Daryl Morey, Houston Rockets general manager. We also included a contingent of accounts that deal solely with Illinois sports.

We included Brandon Paul, whose Twitter hashtag #JoeTales is the most we’ve seen of Joseph Bertrand in the last couple months, and Sam McLaurin, whose infamous commitment to Illinois via Twitter still reigns as the best commitment ever. Unless you count Cliff Alexander, who is also entered in the bracket.

We seeded them, more or less, by the number of Twitter followers they have. Accordingly, all the Illinois-centric accounts are seeded low (I myself, am the second lowest 16 seed, ahead of only Sean Hammond, our senior writer).

So please, do involve yourself. You more than likely follow a good portion of these accounts on Twitter. You definitely should be following most of them. Tweet at us, or comment on our Facebook page who you want to advance.

Twitter is a wonderful place, where anyone can freely express their more personal side. You can be quirky in an off-the-clock sort of way. I often am. You should be.

But let’s be real, in the world of tweeting about sports, we’ve gone too long without declaring a winner. The point of sports is to win, as anyone who has ever watched a sport could tell you.

So let’s choose. Who’s the king (or queen!) of Twitter?

Only time, and the wayward havoc of the Twittournament, will tell.

Eliot is a senior in Media. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @EliotTweet.