For the first time in the tournament’s 12-year history, a matchup is headed into overtime to determine who will move on to Round 2.
Channel Madness history was made Wednesday as the matchup between Schneider Electric’s Gordon Lord and CrowdStrike’s Michael Rogers ended in a tie, sending a Round 1 match into overtime for the first time in the tournament’s 12-year history.
Lord and Rogers had been tied yesterday in their Acceleration region matchup and traded shots all morning as the polls came to a close today at 12 PM ET.
As a result, voting for the matchup will be open today from 1 PM ET to 4 PM ET, giving the fierce competitors a three-hour window to bring home a win.
After the close of the polls, winners were determined in the other 15 Round 1 matchups.
In the Evolution region, where Corero’s Michelle Ragusa-McBain and Fortinet’s Landon Scott were locked in a dead heat, Scott emerged as the victor with 52 percent of the vote to Ragusa-McBain’s 48 percent.
Meanwhile, in the Innovation region, 1Password’s Larissa Crandall stayed strong to fend off a valiant effort from Exabeam’s Craig Patterson, ending with 54 percent of the vote to Patterson’s 46 percent.
Here’s a look at the full results:
Transformation
Christine McElduff, Cloudflare, 74 percent vs. Nick Tidd, Zoom Communications, 27 percent
Scott Lannum, HP Inc., 54 percent vs. Michelle Welch, WatchGuard, 46 percent
Bob Skelley, Arctic Wolf, 55 percent vs. Nicole Dezen, Microsoft, 45 percent
Tara Fine, Broadcom, 41 percent vs. Jennifer Heard, Red Hat, 59 percent
Acceleration
Michael DePalma, OpenText, 63 percent vs. Craig Weinstein, Nvidia, 37 percent
Gordon Lord, Schneider Electric, 50 percent vs. Michael Rogers, CrowdStrike, 50 percent (Overtime in process)
Dan Tomaszewski, Kaseya, 53 percent vs. Tim Coogan, Cisco Systems, 47 percent
Lisa Citron, F5, 70 percent vs. Jeremiah Jenson, HPE, 30 percent
Innovation
Christian Goffi, Nutanix, 59 percent vs. Michael Park, ServiceNow, 41 percent
Gordon Mackintosh, Equinix, 31 percent vs. Denise Millard, Dell Technologies, 69 percent
Larissa Crandall, 1Password, 54 percent vs. Craig Patterson, Exabeam, 46 percent
Wade McFarland, Lenovo, 58 percent vs. Steve Loeb, Eaton, 42 percent
Evolution
Kevin Rooney, Veeam Software, 57 percent vs. Kendra Krause, ThreatDown, 43 percent
Michelle Ragusa-McBain, Corero, 48 percent vs. Landon Scott, Fortinet, 52 percent
Scott Barlow, Sophos, 78 percent vs. Hope Galley, Everpure, 22 percent
Brian Lanigan, SentinelOne, 56 percent vs. David Guzzi, Intel, 44 percent
That means for Round 2 our matchups will be:
Transformation
Christine McElduff, Cloudflare vs. Scott Lannum, HP Inc.
Bob Skelley, Arctic Wolf vs. Jennifer Heard, Red Hat
Acceleration
Michael DePalma, OpenText vs. TBD
Dan Tomaszewski, Kaseya vs. Lisa Citron, F5
Innovation
Christian Goffi, Nutanix vs. Denise Millard, Dell Technologies
Larissa Crandall, 1Password vs. Wade McFarland, Lenovo
Evolution
Kevin Rooney, Veeam Software vs. Landon Scott, Fortinet
Scott Barlow, Sophos vs. Brian Lanigan, SentinelOne
Voting in Round 2 opens at 10 AM ET on Thursday, March 19. Cast your votes at CRN.com/madness to choose your chief!
