Your nominations are in and the teams have been seeded, all that’s left to do is vote! Without further ado, the Official WCIA Committee would like to present… The 2009 Worst Company In America bracket!
The companies were nominated by you, the readers, and we did our best to seed them according to the number of nominations.
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I would’ve put Peanut Corp and AIG on opposite sides of the bracket because you have to give the “best” teams the best chance at winning. Plus, Peanut Corp should be a #1 seed without question. Then it would probably be AIG vs Peanut Corp in the finals with AIG winning it all.
Hey consumerist guys, you know what would be fun? You know how big name websites like ESPN have a bracket buster challenge, where you get you submit a bracket, and then the person with the most points wins some sort of prize? You know how you guys have a big name backer for your website that constantly gets to test products, I assume for free? You know how I’ve always wanted a 50″ Samsung? Do you know that lots of people would visit your site just to take part in this contest?
…Do you guys get where I’m going with this?
I would say AIG but GM is tempting with the same attitude – we’re too big to fail so give us millions more than we said 2 months ago. And you think that number won’t keep rising like a nasty drug habit.
The pitchforks and rakes say AIG. But the Peanut People deserve some serious consideration just on style points.
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Seriously, how can you have Circuit City when they aren’t in business anymore??
I think AIG wins by default, no? We should just hold a runner-up contest this year.
As tempting as it is to vote for the Peanut folks, what’s the point? They’re already out of business and done, gone, kaput.
I want the Golden Turd to go to a company still in business, not awarded to a defunct entity. Seems like wasting the message of the Golden Turd, you know?
I like the bracket contest I idea. I’d get in on that.
It is going to be Peanut Corp, Ticketmaster, GM and CC in the finals.
Does the company still have to exist at the final? If yes, GM might be a poor bet.
Can I bet on Apple and take the 2,812,736,239:1 odds? Actually, now that Consumerist is no longer a Gawker property, those odds may have come down a bit. The same people who nonsensically nominated Diebold last year will probably focus their disdain on bete-noire AIG this time around, so that’s gotta be even, easy money.
Wait! Can we put Congress in there too? They do own a lot of some of the companies.
screw AIG, where in the world is Monster?
@SpruceStreetPhil: Which one?
Monster Cables?
Monster.com?
Monster MiniGolf?
Monsters, Inc.?
The Green Monster seats at Fenway Park?
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Hurrah! It’s my favorite time of year!
Circuit City can be eliminated.
Substitute Gordon Brothers into the CC slot.
I might point out that AIG has changed its name to AIU. I am sure it was because it was to wiggle out of this contest. AIU could care less what AIG does.
Why are we even bothering with the brackets and voting bullshit? AIG versus the rest of the list is like pitting the Super Bowl Champion Pittsburgh Steelers against Special Olympics football teams.
Next year, my vote is to change the Golden Poo award to an Oscars-style competition: Worst Retailer. Worst Communications Company. Worst Financial Company. Worst Corporate Scandal. One winner from each catagory will then advance to the ultimate Worst Company in America.
Why is Circuit City in the bracket? They failed to make the playoffs.
I disagree with the idea that going out of business somehow absolves a company of the wrongdoing they did in the past year or that it’s a “waste” to acknowledge that they did the most harm.
They shouldn’t get a pass just because they’d rather put thousands of people out of work rather than fix their problems.
Can we have a separate – dignified yet subdued – Awards Ceremony for Technical Achievements?
Hell, it doesn’t even have to be a competition, companies like Bealls, AT&T and Whole Foods are all winners!
We can set up a sweet meeting facility at the nearest HoJos.
The criteria was nominations. For some reason there’s a lot of haterade towards Apple. (Like that whole nonsensical blow-up over “DRM” in the iPod shuffle’s earphones that hasn’t died-out yet.)
It always baffles me that people will put Ticketmaster and other entertainment companies ahead of companies that either: 1. kill people 2. destroy the economy 3. ruin people’s lives.
I realize it’s a little late, but why Apple and not Microsoft?
@superberg:
Because Apple likes to be sneaking about screwing you, Microsoft at least makes it obvious and is up front about it. Vista isn’t as bad as people make it sound, but frankly Apple pulls some serious crap (DRM, new control chips, etc).
Some of you people are whacked. No other company matches the shenanigans of Peanut Corp. of America. They knowingly shipped peanut butter w/ salmonella and caused illness and death. What is worse that that? Hey, that hidden bank charge might be a bitch but at least you and your kids get to live another day.
my elite 8: AIG, walmart, ticketmaster, citibank, comcast, chase, ebay/pp, and BoA (edging out CC in 3OT!!)
Too bad AIG and Peanut corp will square off so early. They are clearly the most evil companies in America. Ticket Master is the third most evil company because they are nothing but a parasite. They greatly inflate ticket prices to concerts and charge ridiculous fees on top of those prices but bring nothing of value to the consumer.
I had a problem at Best Buy, e-mailed corporate and they not only apologized but they gave me a full refund (despite that being more than what I asked for). They were very nice about it.
Is it too late to add SlingMedia to this?
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dudes – i can’t believe you didn’t include Sony in this. They would go much deeper than companies like American Express, Sears, Dell and Home Depot. Come on now…
Also – Ticketmaster vs. Time Warner in round 1 was brutal. Real shame to eliminate one of those powerhouses so early.