It has been two days since the first elimination round of the 2026 Manchester Pizza Madness Tournament began and now it’s time to give an update on who’s winning.

The top pizza places in each of these matchups 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.

We are also looking for your pizza pictures – if you have any you would like to appear in these updates, please e-mail them to andy@manchesterinklink.com

We’ll have another update in the next few days, so stay tuned!

Pepperoni Bracket

Matchup #1