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The idea to use NCAA-style brackets to compare the merits of different songs, books, places, etc. has been around for a while; here's an Edutopia talking about the general setup: https://www.edutopia.org/blog/march-madness-meets-ap-lit-brian-sztabnik. Here's another approach, from the New York Times, that uses brackets to debate academic questions: https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/march-madness-using-tournament-brackets-to-debate-academic-questions/ 

Many language teachers have their students vote for their favorite of two songs; the class favorite moves on to the next bracket. See some of this year's song selections for Spanish in these blog posts:

http://misclaseslocas.blogspot.com/2018/02/mania-musical-de-mujeres-march-music.html
http://www.senorashby.com/locura-de-marzo-2018.html
https://spanishplans.org/2018/01/30/march-music-madness-2018/

Selection Saturday for the NCAA basketball tournament is on March 11 this year. If you want to time your brackets with the real event, you can keep up-to-date on this site: https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/bracket-beat/march-madness-dates-tournament-schedule