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How to Play Nevada Knockout
How to Play Nevada Knockout
Nevada Knockout is a fun way to encourage people and students to learn more about Nevada’s Wildlife!
Thirty-three animals who call Nevada home have been chosen to compete in a single-elimination tournament. Kind of like March Madness, but with animals! The idea is to have your students research each match-up and decide whose adaptations would reign supreme and advance them to the next round in the bracket. We've created animal information pages (2024's coming soon!) to get your students started. Adaptations such as agility, intelligence, and different defensive and offensive behaviors should be taken into consideration when you pick which animal you think would be dominant! We've created a worksheet to help your students during their research with these adaptations. You can access that here.
A traditional tournament bracket is completely filled out prior to the tournament starting. This is how we run the competition as well.
Students work through the bracket matchup by matchup until their bracket is entirely filled it out. Brackets must be completed fully prior to the first week of battles being released on October 30th. Besides the Classroom Bracket Competition described below, you can have your students work independently, in small groups, or as an entire class.
Classroom Bracket Competition
Classroom Bracket Competition
Submit your completed classroom bracket to compete in our Classroom Bracket Competition! The brackets with the highest scores from each of our three regions wins a prize and all the glory of being the 2022 Nevada Knockout Champion!
Classrooms can submit one bracket by October 28th , the Friday before the first battles are released on Monday, October 28th. If you're a teacher that has multiple classrooms you can submit multiple brackets, one per classroom. Click the button below to submit your bracket:
Battle Results
Battle Results
The last part of Nevada Knockout is reading the results! We'll post the results on the Battles! page of the site every Monday!
A couple of things to note about the battles:
Battles aren’t always battles to the death.
Location won't play a part in the outcome of a battle, but the elements in the environment might.
Winners are determined based on four categories: Intelligence, Agility, Attack mechanisms, and Defense adaptations. (Injuries and upsets can also affect battle outcomes.)
All animals competing are adults and will compete alone.
If there is a battle over an item (such as food or nesting space) the animal that succeeds in securing the food or nesting space is the victor. The animal that retreats empty-handed does not advance.
The battles are written as short narrative stories, and they are meant to be fun. We recognize first and foremost that a lot of our animal match ups would NEVER happen in the wild. Some of these stories may seem far fetched and that's because they kinda are. We want your students to think above and beyond and use critical thinking and reasoning to make their decisions. The stories are meant to feature as many real life adaptations that these animals may display when threatened or defensive. Hopefully your students will recognize some of these adaptations through their research prior to filling out their brackets. To get a better idea of what the battle stories look like you can head to our past website to read past battles here.
We appreciate you and your classrooms playing along with us to learn more about Nevada's wildlife! If you have more questions head to our FAQ here.
We appreciate you and your classrooms playing along with us to learn more about Nevada's wildlife! If you have more questions head to our FAQ here.
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