Upsets Abound In Sweet 16

The match ups were fierce throughout the the round of 32 in the Most Influential American Tournament.  With quality opponents and stiff competition, the need for a quality infographic was the key to success for this round of the tournament.  The round of 32 saw several upsets as #1 overall seed Abraham Lincoln was ousted by the compassionate conservative Ronald Reagan.  This is the second year in a row that Reagan has taken down #1 seed Lincoln.  Reagan will do battle with Teddy Roosevelt in the sweet 16.  TR spoke softly but carried a big stick and whacked it all over the head of Franklin Roosevelt in a thorough thumping of the New Deal president.  Two old rivals will meet in the other presidential match up as Thomas Jefferson knocked off James Madison providing sweet justice for the states' rights advocates and strict constructionists.  Jefferson will square off against his former boss George Washington in the sweet 16.

The social activists bracket saw two big upsets as #7 seed Jackie Robinson broke the heart of the great emancipator Frederick Douglass.  Robinson will do battle with the lone surviving woman in the field Susan B. Anthony who defeated the honorable Earl Warren in the round of 32.  While Douglass was ousted, John Brown (of Harper's Ferry fame) was able to keep his magical Cinderalla run alive by defeating #4 seed Eleanor Roosevelt.  The ladies of the bracket need to stay away from Brown as he has taken out Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Eleanor Roosevelt in the first two rounds.  Brown next matches up with Martin Luther King in the sweet 16.

The people went with the convenience of the modern world in the innovators bracket.  Thomas Edison was electric in his defeat of the Wright Brothers.  Henry Ford knocked off Albert Einstein as more voters could associate with the automobile than with E=MC2.  In a bit of a surprise, Bill Gates knocked off Ben Franklin as voters connected with the personal computer more than with all of Franklin's ingenuity.  Finally, Alexander Graham Bell dropped a bomb on Robert Oppenheimer and knocked him out of the competition.  In the sweet 16 Edison will do battle with Ford and Gates will tangle with Bell.

Finally in the wild card bracket, Lewis and Clark declared they were the greatest of all time as they knocked out Muhammad Ali and earned the highest total votes of any single person.  They will match up with the father of modern banking Alexander Hamilton who defeated Babe Ruth.  Walt Disney defeated Sam Walton in the second round and the father of the Iphone Steve Jobs wiped out Mark Twain to move to the Sweet 16.