Channel Madness Semifinals: Scale’s Mann, Check Point’s Rauch Starting Off Strong

The 2022 CRN Channal Madness Field of Four are fighting for a spot in the championship round.

The semifinal round of the 2022 CRN Channel Madness Tournament of Chiefs is in full swing as the Field of Four fight to make it to the championship round.

Here’s a look at how Round 4 is shaping up.

Hardware regional champion Scott Mann of Scale Computing came roaring out at tipoff and has built a large lead over Infrastructure regional winner Shannon Sbar of Schneider Electric. Mann is ahead with 94 percent of the vote to Sbar’s 6 percent.

Meanwhile, Security regional champion Frank Rauch of Check Point Software Technologies is also out to a fast start over Cloud regional winner Kevin Rooney of Veeam Software as the two meet in the semifinal round for the third year in a row. Rauch is ahead with 69 percent of the vote to Rooney’s 31 percent.

Voting in the semifinal round continues through the weekend and closes on Monday, April 4 at noon ET. Visit CRN.com/madness to cast your votes and choose your chief!