If exactly one Berkshire employee reaches the sweet 16 in the contest, that employee will receive $1 million a year for life.

This promise depends on a condition: exactly one Berkshire employee reaching the sweet 16 in the 2017 contest. True: exactly one employee reached the sweet 16 in the 2017 contest, and Berkshire awarded and began paying that person $1 million a year for life. Mostly true: the award was made on those terms, but a secondary detail differs, such as when or how payment began. Mostly false: exactly one employee qualified but received only a reduced or different prize (such as a lump sum or a fixed number of years) instead of $1 million a year for life. False: exactly one employee qualified and was not given the lifetime award. If dated reports of the 2017 contest show that no employee, or more than one, reached the sweet 16, the condition was not met and the claim cannot be resolved as true or false. Record it as untested, not as a delivery.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 Warren Buffett's March Madness Offer: $1M A Year For Life For Perfect Bracket CBS News Los Angeles (republishing CNN Money) · 12 March 2018

   “Last year, a West Virginia factory worker won $100,000 for picking 31 of the tournament's first 32 games.”

2. E2 2019 March Madness Bracket Contest Prize: $1 Million A Year For Life From Warren Buffett Forbes · 14 March 2019

   “Buffett says one employee picked 31 of the 32 first-round games correctly the previous year.”

3. E3 Warren Buffett Has Millions at Stake on March Madness, but Doesn't Support Sports Betting Casino.org · 15 March 2017

   “Anyone who also has a perfect bracket up to the Sweet 16 will win $1 million a year for life.”

4. E4 2019 March Madness Bracket Contest Prize: $1 Million A Year For Life From Warren Buffett Forbes · 14 March 2019

   “Buffett says one employee picked 31 of the 32 first-round games correctly the previous year.”

5. E5 2019 March Madness Bracket Contest Prize: $1 Million A Year For Life From Warren Buffett Forbes · 14 March 2019

   “Last year, no Berkshire employees made it out of the first round alive.”

6. E6 Berkshire Hathaway employee's almost-perfect first round nets $100,000 ESPN · 21 March 2017

   “Berkshire chairman Warren Buffett told ESPN on Tuesday that the winner, who received $100,000 for going the furthest among the 96,108 brackets entered, missed one game out of the first 32.”

7. E7 Why Warren Buffett's $1M March Madness contest is a lesson for employers Fox Business · 9 March 2018

   “The company told employees in an internal memo this year that one entrant in the 2017 contest fell just one game short of the $1 million prize.”

8. E8 Warren Buffett's 2017 March Madness Bracket Contest: $1 Million A Year For Life Forbes · 28 February 2017

   “Any Berkshire Hathaway employee that can pick the Sweet 16 correctly will win $1 million a year for life.”

This promise only applied if exactly one Berkshire employee correctly picked the Sweet 16 in the 2017 contest. ESPN reported on 2017-03-21 that the best of the 96,108 brackets got one of the first 32 games wrong, and that its entrant received $100,000 (E6). Later reports agree that the top 2017 entrant fell one game short of the $1 million prize (E1, E7). No employee reached the Sweet 16, so the condition was never met and the promise was not tested. It cannot be resolved as true or false.