It's Musical March Madness! The sprawling bracket — both a parody and a tribute to the NCAA basketball tournament, masterminded by MTV News' James Montgomery — takes the 65 biggest names in rock, splits them up into four regions, assigns them seeds and puts them up against one another in a single-elimination series of match-ups in a winner-take-all contest. We're leaving it to you to decide an actual champ in this field of 65. Over the next few weeks, we will present a series of polls that will allow you to vote for the match-ups presented in MTV News' Band Bracketology. You vote for the winners, we'll keep advancing the seeds and, in the end, we'll have some sort of champion. What will the winner receive? Little more than our esteem (as well as that of the fans) and some Internet bragging rights.
The East bracket of the Sweet 16 is already in play, and now it's time to move on to the West. Any of the bands left in this section of the tournament could win the whole thing, but only one will win the section and advance to the Final Four.
(14) The Young Veins vs. (15) Panic! at the Disco
This was inevitable. The two splintered sides of Panic! at the Disco meet in the Sweet 16, though Ryan Ross' Young Veins had to stage a comeback against Weezer in order to get here. Panic! at the Disco have walked through the first two rounds, but will they be caught off-guard?
(5) My Chemical Romance vs. (9) 30 Seconds to Mars
30 Seconds to Mars dispatched of the last top-seeded group during the second round as they knocked off Blink-182. My Chemical Romance faced a tight race from Pearl Jam, but ultimately overcame the surge from the grunge veterans. Now only one can stand along and advance to the regional finals against the winner of the Panic! at the Disco tilt. Who moves on?