you can't always get what you want

a tournament blog for house md

[bestofhouse]

welcome to the house md tournament

wherein we will collectively decide which house episode is the best, the cream of the vicodin crop. my overriding philosophy for this tournament is to provide entertainment, even where that might conflict with collecting the "most accurate" data. this is tumblr, not a peer-reviewed study. we can't always get what we want, but i try sometimes to get you what you need

tournament status:

preliminary polls and bracket are being designed. keep an eye out for polls that will help me design the brackets and polls in a way that makes most people happy

polls:

polls will last 1 week and the winner will move onto the next round. any poll that registers a 50/50 tie will be broken by me at my own discretion, because i deserve a little treat once in a while

live polls and results will be linked in this post while the tournament is ongoing

propaganda:

submit propaganda for any episode, any time, through this form right here. to keep posts succinct, i may trim or omit submissions at my discretion, especially if many people have submitted propaganda for an episode. depending on the amount of work involved, for episodes with a lot of propaganda, i may rotate out what's included with each poll that episode survives, or omit it altogether in certain polls to keep things as neutral as possible. i'm making this shit up as i go

i will not rb propaganda -- personally when i'm following polls, i don't want to see it. this might change towards the end of the tournament, but for now i don't want to clutter dashes too much.

be civil to the other human beings around you in my notes. criticizing an episode you don't like is fine, but keep it classy

tagging system:

i will do my absolute best to keep non-poll nonsense to a minimum. you're welcome to send in comments, questions, etc, but know that i may not answer them all (if anonymous) to avoid clogging dashboards.

polls will be tagged with:

#poll

#round [x]

the episode in the format of "season.episode - episode title"

i don't want to clog the main house tag so i will not tag every poll with #house md, though i may sporadically main tag one or two polls per round, especially toward the end

#housetournament

i don't see myself creating any posts on this blog that are not strictly related to the running of this poll, but if i do i'll use #not tournament related. every post that isn't specifically a tournament poll will be tagged #admin. i will tag non-anon published asks with the sender's url (dashes converted to spaces).

this post will be updated as i continue to get my shit together. please be patient while i do this

[bestofhouse]

should have the brackets ready to go on friday & aiming to have the first poll go up saturday if all goes well!

if there’s any episode(s) you feel strongly about, remember to submit propaganda for them

[bestofhouse]

when there's an uneven amount of episodes in a round ...

make a 3-episode poll, with the top 2 moving to the next round

automatically move the episode with the most total votes* onto the next round

automatically move the IMDB highest-rated episode onto the next round

automatically move a random episode onto the next round

other (tell me in the notes) / see results

Voting ended onNov 23, 2023

*calculated as the total number of votes on the poll containing that episode in the prior round times the percentage of votes received. for rounds late in the tournament i may decide to use all of the votes received from all prior rounds, we’ll see. for first rounds where there are no prior votes to go off of, i’d give a bye to IMDB highest-rated

[bestofhouse]

if each season comprises its own bracket, how should episodes within a season be seeded?

seeded based on IMDB rating (highest-ranked against lowest-ranked)

seeded based on IMDB rating (highest-ranked against highest-ranked, and so on)

episodes are seeded randomly

other (explain in notes) / see results

Voting ended onNov 12, 2023

for the tournament i'm hosting in which we attempt to decide which house md episode gave us not what we want, but what we need.

the original poll to decide how brackets should be created is still active, please vote here as well! this is just a sub-poll as the most popular option in that poll is currently that each season should be its own bracket, and the top episode of each season will form the top 8 quarterfinal matchup

[bestofhouse]

how should brackets be seeded?

each season is its own bracket, winners form the quarter final showdown

seeded based on IMDB rating (highest-ranked against lowest-ranked)

seeded based on IMDB rating (highest-ranked against highest-ranked, and so on)

episodes are seeded randomly

other (explain in notes) / see results

Voting ended onNov 11, 2023

depending on how difficult it is and if people are interested, i may structure things so episodes need double-elimination before theyre well and truly out (especially if episodes are seeded randomly or high rated are against low rated) so that each episode gets a fair chance to compete

edit: because option 1 is currently winning, please also vote here to determine how episodes within a season should be seeded!

[bestofhouse]

Should 2-part episodes like House's Head & Wilson's heart be grouped, or separated in the polls?

they should count as one episode

they should be separated

depends on the specific two-parter (tell me which)

i'm indifferent/see results

Voting ended onNov 11, 2023

the results of this poll would apply to:

Euphoria Pts 1 & 2 (episodes 2.20 and 2.21)

House's Head and Wilson's Heart (episodes 4.15 and 4.16)

Broken (episodes 6.01 and 6.02)