# ESPN Tournament Challenge

> Follow the 2025 Men's and Women's NCAA Tournament with ESPN Tournament Challenge

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.espn.droid.bracket\_bound](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.espn.droid.bracket_bound)

## Overview

- **ID:** `com.espn.droid.bracket_bound`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Disney
- **Category:** SPORTS
- **Downloads:** 3,739,239
- **Rating:** 3.27 / 5 (23,079 ratings)
- **Version:** 14.0.3
- **Last updated:** 2026-03-10
- **First published:** 2011-03-03
- **Publisher country:** US
- **Size:** 52 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-23
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.espn.droid.bracket_bound)
- **Website:** [http://m.espn.go.com](http://m.espn.go.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://disneyprivacycenter.com/](https://disneyprivacycenter.com/)

## Description

The #1 bracket app returns for the 2026 NCAA Men’s and Women’s tournaments. It’s free to play with over $370K in prizes across four bracket games. Create up to 25 brackets per game and enter each in up to 10 groups to compete against friends, ESPN personalities, and fans nationwide. Use ESPN Bracket Predictor, Bracket Analyzer, and Quick Bracket to gain an edge.

Finish My Bracket auto-completes brackets with smart defaults. Play with Matchup Preview stats, watch live updates in Bracketcast, and track your perfect brackets with the Perfect Bracket Tracker. Note: the app includes ads and Nielsen measurement; opt-out options are available in Settings.

## Rankings

- #29,858 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_TOPICS`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE`
- `android.permission.HIGH_SAMPLING_RATE_SENSORS`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS`
- `android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE`
- `android.permission.REORDER_TASKS`
- `android.permission.USE_BIOMETRIC`
- `android.permission.USE_FINGERPRINT`
- `android.permission.WAKE_LOCK`
- `com.android.vending.BILLING`
- `com.espn.droid.bracket_bound.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION`
- `com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE`
- `com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID`

## Review summary

Many reviews praise the app for group brackets, automated brackets, and staying on top of games, but Android reliability is the top pain point. Users report frequent crashes, login issues, and navigation/UI problems after updates, plus noisy or hard-to-control notifications and some display glitches like missing team logos. The core features—group brackets, automation, game updates, and analysis—are valued, but stability and usability on Android need significant improvement.

### Pros

- Easy to set up and manage group brackets.
- Automated bracket feature.
- Keeps you updated with games and scores.
- Bracket analysis tools to help with making picks.
- Widely used and overall useful during March Madness.

### Cons

- Android app is buggy and slow to start, with frequent crashes and cases where it won’t open.
- Login/connection issues—won't sign in, gets stuck, or gets logged out during/after use.
- Poor navigation and overall UI/UX; updates sometimes break navigation or visuals.
- Notifications are noisy or cannot be turned off as desired.
- Missing content/visual glitches (e.g., team logos not showing; broken region picks).

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.espn.droid.bracket_bound)