This is our favorite month of the year for one simple reason: March Madness, well, and booze-soaked St. Patrick’s Day. While we love filling out brackets for the NCAA Tournament and throwing our paychecks into more pools than there are in the state of Florida we still crave more competition; specifically we want a bracket tournament that is more our style. With this in mind, we created the 2014 Inked Tattoo Madness Tournament.
We took 64 tattoo artists and threw them into a bracket divided by four different styles of tattooing: Japanese Style, Black & Grey, Realism and The Field. The Field consists of a grab bag of tattoo styles including Traditional, New School, Watercolor and many more. There is no seeding in the tournament as we entered the names in at random. When picking a tattoo to enter in the tournament we went through each artist’s online portfolio and picked the first tattoo that made us drop our jaws in awe.
Throughout the month of March we will put up posts with a series of matchups pitting two artists against each other so you can vote for a favorite. The winner moves on to the next round in the bracket while the loser goes home. On April 7 we will announce the winner of the 2014 Inked Tattoo Madness Tournament as chosen by your votes.
In the last two weeks we have whittled the field of 64 artists down to 16. In other words, things are about to get serious. Today we give you the Sweet Sixteen. Check out all 8 contests down below and vote for your favorites.
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Tattoo by Jess Yen
Tattoo by Horitoshi 1
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Tattoo by Corey Miller
Tattoo by Tye Harris
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Tattoo by Nikko Hurtado
Tattoo by Teneile Napoli
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Tattoo by Mike Cole
Tattoo by Rose Hardy
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Tattoo by Aaron Bell
Tattoo by Luke Stewart
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Tattoo by Antonio Todisco
Tattoo by Jun Cha
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Tattoo by Khan
Tattoo by Victor Portugal
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Tattoo by Chaim Machlev
Tattoo by Justin Nordine
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