The Official 2016 Not Frat Bracket: Final Four
The Official 2016 Not Frat Bracket is here.
Earlier this year, your votes determined that Natural Light is 2016’s frattest thing. Now, it’s time to find out what reigns supreme at the opposite end of the spectrum — what is 2016’s most NF (not frat) thing? That’s up to you to decide.
Final. Four. It’s the last round before the Natty, so you know the competition is stiff as can be. The Elite Eight saw three chalk results (though two were extremely tight contests) as well as one WHOMPING of a 1 seed by a 2 seed to determine the regional champs. Here’s how things went down in the round of 8.
•*UPSET* #1 Socialism fell to #2 Hillary Clinton 38%-62%
•#1 Cargos NARROWLY defeated #2 Safe spaces 50%-50% (177 votes)
•#1 North Korea NARROWLY defeated #4 Vaping 50%-50% (175 votes)
•#3 Feminism defeated #8 Gun control 74%-26%
To see how the bracket played out from the round of 64 down to the Elite Eight, click here.
It’s time to find out what will be facing off in the National Championship. Let’s do this.
Polls will be closed Tuesday, July 19
#1 Cargos vs. #2 Hillary Clinton
#1 Cargos
Victories over: #16 Premature ejaculation, #9 Steve Holt, #13 Skintight jeans, #2 Safe spaces
Nothing can really be said about cargos that hasn’t been said before. Provoking the ire of fraternity men everywhere ever since they transitioned from early 2000s frat to NF (along with the rest of Abercrombie & Fitch’s catalog), cargo shorts are the least frat article of clothing in the world.
Can I explain to you exactly why cargo shorts are so NF? While I can put forth some valid reasons that support that thesis, no, I can’t give you be-all, end-all reasons as to why they lack frat. That’s part of the beauty of it — like Scientologists defending their sham of a religion by calling it “faith,” all I need to justify my belief that cargos are NF is to say an assertion with no evidence backing it and then go all in on it.
“They just are.”
Cargos. NF.
Required reading: A Response To BroBible’s Defense of Cargo Shorts
#2 Hillary Clinton
Victories over: #15 Piercings, #7 TOMS, #14 Hot Topic, #1 Socialism
You find me any person ever whose actions led to the deaths of innocent people and I’ll show you someone who’s about as NF as it gets. Pair that with the fact that Hillary is the Democratic nominee (yuck!) and she’s an NF powerhouse in a pantsuit. Furthermore, her choice in phone, the Blackberry, is NF. It’s all about that iPhone life.
With all that going against her, Hillary is a strong contender to pull a minor upset here in the Final Four. Then you go back and look at NF stalwart cargos and think, “Forget it, there’s no way they can lose!” Or is there? This is a truly sickening matchup, and it’s one that I predict will come down to the wire.
Hillary Clinton. NF.
Required viewing: Watch Hillary Clinton Lie For 14 Straight Minutes, Because Politics Are Honestly Hilarious
#1 North Korea vs. #3 Feminism
#1 North Korea
Victories over: #16 Dry handjobs, #8 Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute, #4 Vaping, #2 Trigger warnings
The country that nobody is really scared of. The country that’s on a power trip even though it doesn’t have any real authority. The country that sentenced a UVA Theta Chi to 15 years hard labor for petty theft. North Korea is the campus PD of Earth, becoming a bigger joke at their own hand with each passing day. Sad!
North Korea stands for everything we stand against which is why they’ve been in the shitter the entirety of their existence. It’s only a matter of time before this un-American garbage country kicks the dust.
North Korea. NF.
Required reading: Here’s The Video Of The Heinous Crime That Got UVA Theta Chi Otto Warmbier 15 Years Hard Labor In North Korea
#3 Feminism
Victories over: #14 Flat-brim hats, #6 Hoverboards, #2 Bernie Sanders, #8 Gun control
A movement that started with humble, noble roots has since gone rogue, creating a generation of entitled, armpit hair-having social justice warriors. Feminists went from Suffragettes to insufferable, and we’re all worse off because of it. Women’s soccer players should get paid the same amount as their male counterparts? Maybe if women actually watched the games instead of going on the internet and complaining about how there’s no money coming into women’s soccer (because nobody watches the games), that problem could come a little closer to being solved.
Feminism didn’t used to suck, but feminists changed all that.
Feminism. NF.
Required reading: Where Feminism Has Gone Wrong
The Final Four will be announced Wednesday, July 20.
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Hillary Clinton and Feminism to the ship
10 years ago at 3:18 pmThen huff post and the like will use it as proof of “misogyny” and “systemic sexism.”
10 years ago at 3:59 pmWhich will only further prove our point. Your move, feminazis.
10 years ago at 5:43 pmFeminism is important in third world shit holes like Saudi Arabia and India. Not to mention the Kurds have a feminist army fighting Isis, and killing Isis is undoubtedly FaF.
10 years ago at 4:05 pmBy his definition of NF in regards to Hillary, he technically says that Dubya is also NF (lacing up my running shoes for these laps but its true)
10 years ago at 3:22 pmYou shut your whore mouth
10 years ago at 3:44 pmDubya was actually in a recognized fraternity at an Ivy League school…
10 years ago at 4:11 pmDubya is honestly too FAF. Like there’s a safe limit of FAFness and Dubya passed it by like miles.
10 years ago at 5:24 pmWe get it. You’re a cock sucking liberal that believes he’s on a moral high ground but doesn’t realize everyone around him despises his existence because he has his head so far up his asshole he is able to watch his little intestine produce kale speckled shit.
10 years ago at 4:24 pmCargos vs Feminism with Feminism pulling the upset.
10 years ago at 3:28 pmCargo shorts will POCKET a victory! Ha ha I’m going to put that on Facebook!
10 years ago at 3:29 pmCargos have to go all the way. It’s about our tradition.
Let us be not swayed by the here today, don’t care tomorrow trends of NF. For our many differences cargos are the thing we as Greek men can agree upon.
Brotherhood is about coming together under a common understanding and the understanding that cargos are NF is one that spans the entirety of this website if not the male Greek experience.
10 years ago at 8:45 pmI would still much rather drink a warm craft IPA snuck in a geeds cargo short pocket during a football game and share the his vape than agree with someone who was born with a penis but goes psychotic someone doesn’t call it a “she”
10 years ago at 11:34 pmSo agree with a cranky trans person about ANYTHING? You’d rather geed out that hard than simply say,
10 years ago at 7:37 am“Yeah, same”
if a cranky trans person says
“I don’t think Hillary should be president”
You might have some issues, slugger.
Safe spaces are definitely worse than cargos. Geeds need cargos to survive, but the type of creature that’s needs a safe space to survive is far beyond a geed.
10 years ago at 3:33 pmThe Clintons governed Arkansas for years why isn’t she in the South bracket?
10 years ago at 3:34 pmMaybe because she was a New York Senator?
10 years ago at 3:52 pmHe clearly says the regions don’t mean anything
10 years ago at 4:39 pmLiterally every single installment of this series has had a disclaimer at the top stating that the regions are only ceremonial and have no ties to the items/people in them…
10 years ago at 4:45 pmOl’ Ulysses beat me to it. But judging from some of these comments, it’s probably better that it was said twice.
10 years ago at 4:47 pmI can’t believe Crooked Hillary isn’t in prison. Sad!
10 years ago at 3:43 pmAs of 3:52 CST cargos is behind by 150 votes in a 58/42% matchup. Hopefully that changes.
10 years ago at 3:53 pmHillary vs. Feminism, then a gunshot to my dome
10 years ago at 4:09 pmJesus christ socialism lost to hilary and shes close to being our next president what the fuck
10 years ago at 4:27 pm