Schneider Electric’s Lord, CrowdStrike’s Rogers Head To Overtime In Channel Madness First

For the first time in the tournament’s 12-year history, a matchup is headed into overtime to determine who will move on to Round 2.

Channel Madness history was made Wednesday as the matchup between Schneider Electric’s Gordon Lord and CrowdStrike’s Michael Rogers ended in a tie, sending a Round 1 match into overtime for the first time in the tournament’s 12-year history.

Lord and Rogers had been tied yesterday in their Acceleration region matchup and traded shots all morning as the polls came to a close today at 12 PM ET.

As a result, voting for the matchup will be open today from 1 PM ET to 4 PM ET, giving the fierce competitors a three-hour window to bring home a win.

After the close of the polls, winners were determined in the other 15 Round 1 matchups.

In the Evolution region, where Corero’s Michelle Ragusa-McBain and Fortinet’s Landon Scott were locked in a dead heat, Scott emerged as the victor with 52 percent of the vote to Ragusa-McBain’s 48 percent.

Meanwhile, in the Innovation region, 1Password’s Larissa Crandall stayed strong to fend off a valiant effort from Exabeam’s Craig Patterson, ending with 54 percent of the vote to Patterson’s 46 percent.

Here’s a look at the full results:

Transformation

Christine McElduff, Cloudflare, 74 percent vs. Nick Tidd, Zoom Communications, 27 percent

Scott Lannum, HP Inc., 54 percent vs. Michelle Welch, WatchGuard, 46 percent

Bob Skelley, Arctic Wolf, 55 percent vs. Nicole Dezen, Microsoft, 45 percent

Tara Fine, Broadcom, 41 percent vs. Jennifer Heard, Red Hat, 59 percent

Acceleration

Michael DePalma, OpenText, 63 percent vs. Craig Weinstein, Nvidia, 37 percent

Gordon Lord, Schneider Electric, 50 percent vs. Michael Rogers, CrowdStrike, 50 percent (Overtime in process)

Dan Tomaszewski, Kaseya, 53 percent vs. Tim Coogan, Cisco Systems, 47 percent

Lisa Citron, F5, 70 percent vs. Jeremiah Jenson, HPE, 30 percent

Innovation

Christian Goffi, Nutanix, 59 percent vs. Michael Park, ServiceNow, 41 percent

Gordon Mackintosh, Equinix, 31 percent vs. Denise Millard, Dell Technologies, 69 percent

Larissa Crandall, 1Password, 54 percent vs. Craig Patterson, Exabeam, 46 percent

Wade McFarland, Lenovo, 58 percent vs. Steve Loeb, Eaton, 42 percent

Evolution

Kevin Rooney, Veeam Software, 57 percent vs. Kendra Krause, ThreatDown, 43 percent

Michelle Ragusa-McBain, Corero, 48 percent vs. Landon Scott, Fortinet, 52 percent

Scott Barlow, Sophos, 78 percent vs. Hope Galley, Everpure, 22 percent

Brian Lanigan, SentinelOne, 56 percent vs. David Guzzi, Intel, 44 percent

That means for Round 2 our matchups will be:

Transformation

Christine McElduff, Cloudflare vs. Scott Lannum, HP Inc.

Bob Skelley, Arctic Wolf vs. Jennifer Heard, Red Hat

Acceleration

Michael DePalma, OpenText vs. TBD

Dan Tomaszewski, Kaseya vs. Lisa Citron, F5

Innovation

Christian Goffi, Nutanix vs. Denise Millard, Dell Technologies

Larissa Crandall, 1Password vs. Wade McFarland, Lenovo

Evolution

Kevin Rooney, Veeam Software vs. Landon Scott, Fortinet

Scott Barlow, Sophos vs. Brian Lanigan, SentinelOne

Voting in Round 2 opens at 10 AM ET on Thursday, March 19. Cast your votes at CRN.com/madness to choose your chief!