Apparatus and method of playing a board game simulating teams playing in a tournament

A board game comprising,

• a board having markings thereon including,
• a group of bracket team lines at opposite ends of the board, the groups being opposed to each other, and each group including an outer tier representing individual ROUND #1 team lines, and tapering progressively inwardly toward each other toward the center of the board additional tiers of successively lesser numbers of team lines representing victor teams, to a center position representing the single champion team,
• a plurality of chips each representing a team, for placement on the marks in the ROUND #1 tier of team lines,
• certain of the team lines in the ROUND #1 tiers having seed numbers thereon,
• dice adapted to be rolled by each board player of the game to indicate score points attributed to each team, and
• the dice including first dice corresponding to seeded teams having greater odds of indicating high score points, and second dice corresponding to unseeded teams having lower odds of indicating high score points.

A method of playing a game on a game board, comprising,

• a) providing a plurality of opposed team pieces arranged in opposed groups, pairing each team piece with another team piece wherein each said opposed group comprises a plurality of paired team pieces;
• b) providing dice, said dice including different sets of dice, each set of dice having a plurality of sides bearing playing indicia, said playing indicia representing high scores and low scores, the number of sides bearing playing indicia in any one set of dice being different from any of said other sets of dice, and said sets of dice having a greater number of sides bearing more playing indicia representing high scores than said sets of dice having fewer number of sides, wherein if two different sets of dice are rolled, the set of dice having the greater number of sides bearing more playing indicia have a greater probability of producing a higher score than the set of dice having the fewer number of sides bearing less playing indicia,
• c) assigning a set of dice to each team piece wherein each set of dice has at least one team piece assigned to it,
• d) rolling said sets of dice wherein each team piece is given a score;
• e) comparing the scores of each pair of team pieces wherein the team piece having the higher score wins;
• f) pairing each winning team piece with another winning team piece and repeating steps