UW-Madison students can crown their university America's Top Party School"" for the second consecutive year by voting on a Chicago-based newspaper website.
The Chicago Tribune's RedEye newspaper is sponsoring the 2nd annual online competition, which Wisconsin won last year, as an imitation of the Princeton Review's ""Top 20 Party Schools"" list.
In the first round of the March Madness-like tournament, UW-Madison will face the University of Illinois. The school that receives the most online votes will move to the second round, with the chance to continue head-to-head match-ups against other universities in subsequent rounds.
Voting for the first round will end at 2 p.m. on Sept. 12, with the second round immediately after.
RedEye web editor Jimmy Greenfield said competitors were chosen through a point system from the last five years of Princeton Review's party school list. Although Wisconsin was not on the Princeton Review's list for the past two years, Greenfield said UW-Madison made the RedEye tournament because of it's point total from other years.
""We had to have the defending champs in there,"" he added.
Greenfield said there will be five rounds total, and the winner is expected to be announced in late September.
To vote for UW-Madison go to redeyechicago.com/partyschools.
