It’s time for the final update for the 2026 Manchester Ink Link Pizza Madness Tournament’s first round!

The top pizza places in each of these match-ups will move onto the regional finals, which will begin on Tuesday, April 24. We also want to provide an apology to Luigi’s Bar and Grill and Hellenic Pizza, which had qualified but were not included in the bracket selection due to a technical error. Luigi’s and Hellenic will receive a bye to the finales in the Cheese and Mushroom brackets, respectively.

Polls are open until midnight on March 23, the links for each “regional” bracket can be found below…

Voters can vote as many times as they like, but each contestant can only have 50 “non-unique votes”, or a vote from someone that does not submit their name, doesn’t submit a reason for why they voted or submits a reason for why they voted that duplicates another voter’s reason.

Cheese Bracket

Matchup #1