Streetsblog USA, a site which aims to connect people with information about sustainable transportation and livable communities, is getting in on the March Madness madness by focusing on terrible parking lots.

In this month’s third annual “Parking Madness” competition, the blog has invited readers to seed the bracket by sending in photos “of the sorriest wastes of urban space you can find.” The winner will have the dubious glory of winning what they’re calling the “Golden Crater” award, and the Concourse in downtown Waterville was among the contestants until it was bested earlier this week by the much larger urban community of Tampa, Florida.

Blog authors said that they were looking for expanses of downtown parking craters — spaces where there’s no more space for people, just a “sea of car storage.”

A Streetsblog reader named Bill Basford nominated Waterville’s Concourse, which he said has more than 600 parking spaces on roughly six acres of land in the heart of the small city — population just 15,800.

“This crater dates from about 1970, when Urban Removal came to Waterville,” Basford wrote. “Which means the economic damage from this crater has continued for about 45 years.”

He said that the Concourse is “unusually large” for a city of Waterville’s size, and that it is wholly city-owned, meaning that Waterville receives no tax revenue for the giant parking lot.

But Waterville was in a tough bracket, vying against a massive, pedestrian-unfriendly parking area in downtown Tampa to advance to the next level of parking purgatory.  The reader who entered Tampa into the contest called the so-called crater a “pedestrian wasteland.”

“What say you, readers — can Waterville make up for its size disadvantage with those epic policy blunders?” wondered the folks of Streetsblog USA.

In the end, it couldn’t. 59 percent of voters decided that Tampa has it worse than Waterville, so that southern city advanced to the elite eight where it will next compete against either Boise, Idaho or Fort Worth, Texas.