March Madness is an event that most sports fans look forward to each year. Whether you’re a hardcore hockey, soccer, baseball, or football fan, you can expect yourself to go on NCAA’s website to print your own bracket.

I know people who don’t even like basketball and fill out their own brackets. That’s the power of March Madness. Over Easter, my uncle asked me why other sports don’t have something like this. I responded back that it’s strictly a college basketball thing. “That’s the power of March Madness,” I said.

However, March Madness isn’t all sunshine and roses. It causes heartbreak. I mean, you had the “Sisters in Woodwinds,” who cried when their teams lost. Who could ever forget the crying piccolo player from Villanova last year and this year’s University of Kentucky crying saxophone girl? Also crying this year? Fans who had Michigan State winning the whole tournament. I feel your pain. I had them going to the Final Four.

March Madness is a beautiful thing when it comes to upsets like that. It’s also very aggravating and makes you want to throw your TV out the window. I experienced that early this year when Kentucky, who I had winning the whole tournament, lost to Indiana by a final of 73-67. I experience heartbreak early on in the tournament, and it just went all downhill from there.

March Madness is also a deal breaker when it comes to people that love their upset games. I’m one of those people. I love seeing a No. 16 team take down a No. 1 or 2 team. However this year, I, and I don’t think anyone else, ever thought that Middle Tennessee (again, who?) could take down Michigan State. Then there was Baylor being taken down by Yale. Just recently, in the Elite Eight, Syracuse took down No. 1 ranked Virginia to make it to the Final Four.

Brackets are where the heartbreak mainly occurs. You’ve got the people who are super close to having the perfect bracket. Then there’s the others, and sadly this was me this year, who are ready to burn their brackets after the Round of 32, but still have hope that a miracle can happen. Let’s just say that miracles certainly didn’t happen for me this year. Thanks a lot, Kentucky and Maryland.

All in all, March Madness is a good way to have good, friendly competition. Or maybe not, and you can rub it in people’s faces that your bracket is better than theirs. Get ready for a fight though, because people get serious over their March Madness brackets.

Next year, I encourage you all to fill out a bracket. I do a bracket every single year, and it really is a lot of fun. It might not seem like fun, or a big deal, but it really is. There’s a certain excitement when it comes to March Madness. I’m a huge soccer fan, and I love the World Cups, Olympics, Copa America tournaments, and so on. But when it comes to March Madness, I get a different kind of excitement. Something that the U.S. Women’s National Team winning the 2015 FIFA World Cup didn’t even give me.

I guess that’s just the power of March Madness. Fill out a bracket next year! You won’t be disappointed. Or maybe you will, depending on who wins and who loses.