If a poll ends up tied, a tiebreaker poll will start which lasts a day.
If a poll ends up with less than 20 votes, then an extra poll will start which will last a day. The total votes from both polls will be added together to get the combined total.
Any bonus polls (those that are not voting for a character) will last a day.
Polls come out in batches. Batches can be posted on consecutive days, but only up to one batch will come out on any given day.
If a character finishes their poll and advances to the next round, and that round is in the next batch, that poll can start immediately.
Character 10 was submitted twice, so we switched off between descriptions each round.
Brackets:
Losers brackets:
(Note: as with the previous tournament, whenever you see a W, it means a winners bracket character will eventually go there after they lose. There are currently no W's left in these brackets, but they will appear in the final losers bracket.)
Tourney blog runners, how do you keep up the momentum and avoid burnout?
For me, starting the tourney is always the hardest part, and everything else is faster once it's set up. Just... it took so long to get everything set up.
So it's looking like this season will have 24 contestants, which brings me to a question I want to ask you all:
Should any round that introduces a new ship last one week?
Yes
No
Other (put in notes)
Voting ended onJan 20
At the moment, for a bracket of 24, 16 ships are in Round 1, which last for a week, and the winners of Round 1 face the remaining 8 ships in Round 2, which last for a day. With this proposal, however, Round 2 would last for one week instead.
For some reason the blog that posted 3 is deactivated now (21 hours after posting this!), so I guess I'll have to reblog from here.
Note on 4. Well not everyone is weird in the same way, more like the weirder you are, for some inexplicable reason, the more influence you have.
5. Censorship doesn't really exist over here, nor does tracking. It's a little strange getting untargeted ads, but that makes it much easier to avoid them.
Do you like enemies-to-lovers? Non-stereotypical queer rep? A cyberpunk setting with dragons in space about friendship, family, and the dangers of capitalism?
Well, this isn't any of those things! This is Guess That Rec, a tournament by the mod of @besttropeveershowdown where we'll be voting on media based entirely on bad, Booktok-style recommendations. Inspired by @guess-that-ship and this post, the rules of the tournament are simple: submit a recommendation for your favorite piece of media, and we'll vote on which ones we like best, BUT, here's the kicker: You may not mention anything about the actual plot of the story. Instead, we will be voting based on promo-post-style recommendations, which can include tropes, representation, setting, genre, very general theme, and anything else, as long as it doesn't describe anything that actually happens in the story!
Example:
Do you want a high school story about a neurodivergent protagonist working through their trauma by going on adventures in the big city? Queer-coded side characters? Male characters breaking through their toxic masculinity and expressing their feelings? Wholesome sibling relationships?
Then you'll love Catcher in the Rye!
The tournament will work similarly to the way @guess-that-ship does. Each rec will be assigned a number for the poll with the rec itself going in the body of the post, and each round, there will be a poll pitting 2 recs against each other. Vote for whichever piece of media sounds most appealing based on the rec alone. At the end of each round, I will reveal the identity of the loser. Guessing what work each rec is for in the comments is encouraged!
The submission form is here.
THE RULES:
Any type of media is permitted. Both fiction and nonfiction are allowed, but everything must be presented as if it's fiction.
You may NOT mention anything to do with the actual plot or premise of the story. You may, however, mention:
Tropes (ex. enemies-to-lovers, fake dating, unreliable narrator)
Representation (ex. disabled protagonist, gay side character)
Character dynamics and relationships (ex. dysfunctional siblings, grumpy x sunshine lesbians)
Setting (ex. in space, in the Old West)
Genre and subgenre (ex. historical fiction, whodunnit, workplace comedy)
Comparisons to other media (ex. if you liked Avengers you'll love this, it's Twilight meets Hunger Games)
General themes (ex. love, grief, family)
General elements (ex. murders, adventures, road trips)
Anything else that has NOTHING TO DO with what the story is actually about!
3. You may NOT make anything up: everything must be technically true, or at least up for interpretation. So, in my Catcher in the Rye example, I can't say that there are "canonically gay characters" because there aren't, but I CAN say that there are queer-coded characters. Similarly, if there's a character in your piece of media who exhibits autistic traits but has never been confirmed autistic, you can't call them "autistic", but you can call them "autistic-coded" or mention their specific traits. The use of weasel words (ex. describing a mentally ill serial killer stereotype as "neurodivergent", or a gay villain as a "major queer character") is allowed and encouraged.
4. Do not include any identifying details (ex. title, character names, identifying place names) in your rec.
5. Funnier submissions will be given higher priority. Submissions are funnier if A) they're of media that most people have heard of, and B) they are technically true while not at all capturing the vibe of the media.
5a. Additionally, remember that this is meant to be BAD recs: don't just use this as an excuse to recommend your favorite media! If a Booktok-style rec actually provides a good picture of what your media is, consider either rewriting or not submitting it.
6. Should the same media be submitted by two different people with different recs, priority will generally be given to the first submission, unless a later submission was significantly funnier by the guidelines stipulated in rule #5.
7. There is no banned media: go nuts!
Submissions will be open for at least 2 weeks, depending on how many I get, after which polls will begin! Happy recommending!
If you loved Mystery Character Bracket, you'll love this too! It's got badly represented submissions, identifiable only with numbers and descriptions! It's got characters from all media! The only significant rule changes are that you're describing the whole media rather than just one character, and that multiples of the same submission are treated differently. But other than that, it's basically the same thing!
Now that we've wrapped up our analysis on every vote in the canon Total Drama series, it's time to mix it up a little.
This will be something of a crossbreed between Total Drama, The Ridonculous Race, and the Tumblr tournaments that have been so popular recently. Here are the rules:
All 100 contestants from Total Drama and the Ridonculous Race will compete.
Because of this, there will be no submission phase. Instead, there will be a "team building" phase. Click on the form below to submit two to ten characters who you think should be on the same team. You can also submit a team name if you like. Once we've received enough submissions, I will put together the teams based on the information received.
The characters will initially be split into 10 teams with 10 players on each team.
I will call each player by their in game name. That means, for example, Mildred Stacey Andrews O'Halloran will be called Blaineley, and Valentina Escobar will be called MacArthur. While this rule applies to me, you can call the characters any name you want.
We will probably put each pair of Ridonculous Race partners on the same team, as well as Katie and Sadie, Amy and Samey, and Wayne and Raj.
A typical episode will be split into 3 polls, each of which will last a day:
On day 1, a challenge poll will pit all the teams against each other. Vote for the team you want to WIN the challenge.
On day 2, a campfire poll will pit the members of the LOSING team against each other. Vote for the player you want to ELIMINATE.
And on day 3, a final poll will pit the two players with the MOST votes against each other. Vote for the player you want to receive the FINAL MARSHMALLOW.
The player who loses that poll will be eliminated and have their total stats revealed, both for the canon series and for our game. The stats will include how many votes they received vs how many votes they mathematically could have received, how many elimination ceremonies they went to, how many times they won invincibility, and more.
Teams that won the challenge may or may not receive an extra vote or two in the next challenge.
(Obviously, since the polls last 24 hours each, and I need time in between polls to tally the results, and my schedule will not always align with the time the poll expires, each episode will last slightly longer than 3 days.)
Feel free to submit roleplay, propaganda for or against a certain player or team, or virtually anything else you wish.
Language: if it's allowed on the Canadian version of Total Drama, it's allowed here. (For those unfamiliar, they do allow words like crap, frickin, testicles, and suck, but they bleep out other swear words. For example, Lindsay's rant against Heather is entirely bleeped out in the Canadian version, whereas in the American version it is replaced with a load of PG insults.)
I may introduce game elements that happened or were mentioned in the real show, including but not limited to non-elimination / double elimination rounds, tiebreaker polls, returning players, immunity idols, team swaps, merging teams or eliminating an entire team if a certain team becomes too small, etc. Depends on how the game goes.
While I reserve the right to run the tournament however I want, here are the rules on tied polls:
If a challenge poll is tied for last, the tied teams will either battle it out in a tiebreaker poll, or have an elimination ceremony for each, or have a combined elimination ceremony, depending how I'm feeling that day and how many players are left on each team.
If a campfire poll is tied for first or second, the tied campers will all compete for the final marshmallows.
If a final marshmallow poll is tied, it is at my discretion whether to make it a double elimination, non-elimination, or tiebreaker.
With all that out of the way, the team building form is linked below:
This is how we will make the teams for TOTAL! DRAMA! TUMBLR!!!!!
Signal boosting all the tournament blogs I know below the cut!
Your Mystery Character Bracket Season 2 Champion is...
Character 19, aka...
Taissa Turner from Yellowjackets!
This is all of tier 14!
She’s a lesbian, a cannibal, a deadbeat dad, and the first openly queer woman of color to be elected New Jersey state senator. She has an evil alter ego that eats dirt and wants her to have an affair with her estranged butch ex. She’s the definition of girlfailure. She survived 18 months in the Canadian wilderness. She is haunted by visions. She’s surrounded by wolf and dog symbolism everywhere she goes. She helped her old best friend cover up a murder. She’s insanely ambitious but only because she’s trying to run away from her past and more importantly herself. She’s also a MILF if that helps.
In round 1, poll #7, she won with 31 votes out of 41, or 75.6%.
In round W2, poll #5, she received 23 votes out of 37, or 62.2%.
In round W3, poll #3, she received 45 votes out of 64, or 70.3%.
In round W4, poll #2, she received 30 votes out of 49, or 61.2%.
In the first winners semifinal, she received 30 votes out of 50, or 60%.
In the winners final, she received 35 votes out of 62, or 56.5%.
In the championship, she received 41 votes out of 71, or 57.7%.
And in the champion championship, she received 56 votes out of 121, or 46.3%.
In all the polls combined, she received 291 votes out of 495.
Character 81, aka Esra from Midnight at the Pera Palace!
This is all of tier 13!
Gotta love a time traveling girlie with no respect for continuity or preservation of the timeline! This one almost changes the entire course of Independence with her giant mouth! She also ends up sweeping her boyfriend off his feet years before they meet which makes his life quite difficult. And she got her sister killed by accident. Plus she almost kills her mentor by tearing apart his parent's marriage Marty McFly style! All of this to say, her life is a mystery she may never fully unravel.
In round 1, poll #27, she won with 12 votes out of 24, or 50%.
In round W1, poll #18, she received 11 votes out of 19, or 57.9%.
On day 8 of that poll, she received 22 votes out of 24, or 91.7%.
In round W2, poll #14, she received 19 votes out of 30, or 63.3%.
In round W3, poll #7, she received 48 votes out of 77, or 62.3%.
In round W4, poll #4, she received 34 votes out of 68, or 50%.
In the tiebreaker, she received 26 votes out of 46, or 56.5%.
In the second winners semifinal, she received 27 votes out of 50, or 54%.
In the winners final, she received 27 votes out of 62, or 43.5%.
In the losers final, she received 37 votes out of 68, or 54.4%.
And in the championship, she received 30 votes out of 71, or 42.3%.
Overall, she received 293 votes out of 529, or 54.4%.
We are now down to the Thrilling Three! This is all of tier 12!
3rd place goes to...
Character 43, aka Strega Nona from Strega Nona by Tommie DePaola!
A lovely little old Italian lady! She had a goat and a good garden. People come see her to solve their issues. Be it a plague of warts or love, she has answers!
In round 1, poll #15, she won with 12 votes out of 23, or 52.2%.
In round W1, poll #11, she received 17 votes out of 23, or 73.9%.
In round W2, poll #9, she received 18 votes out of 31, or 58.1%.
In round W3, poll #5, she received 57 votes out of 89, or 64%.
In round W4, poll #3, she received 30 votes out of 58, or 51.7%.
In the second winners semifinal, she received 23 votes out of 50, or 46%.
In the second losers quarterfinal, she received 25 votes out of 42, or 59.5%.
In the losers semifinal, she received 32 votes out of 62, or 51.6%.
And in the losers final, she received 31 votes out of 68, or 45.6%.
In total, she received 245 votes out of 446, or 54.9%.
This is the entirety of tier 11 as well as the start of the Final Four!
4th place goes to...
Character 61, aka Sister Monica Joan from Call the Midwife!
Everyone benefits from the kooky grandma! She has so many words of wisdom to share, even if it takes a bit of translation at times. This strange (endearing) woman has lived her life in the service of others and 100% deserves to roam around the community with her sweet tooth leading the way. And if anything happened to her, G-d Himself will punish the offenders.
In round 1, poll #21, she won with 16 votes out of 31, or 51.6%.
In the tiebreaker round, she received 5 votes out of 38 from 13 voters, or 13.2% of votes from 38.5% of voters.
In round W1, poll #8, she received 16 votes out of 23, or 69.6%.
In round W2, poll #6, she received 20 votes out of 39, or 51.3%.
In round W3, poll #3, she received 19 votes out of 64, or 29.7%.
In round L6, poll #3, she received 23 votes out of 37, or 62.2%.
In round L7, poll #2, she received 25 votes out of 49, or 51%.
In round L8, poll #2, she received 37 votes out of 57, or 64.9%.
In round L9, poll #1, she received 29 votes out of 49, or 59.2%.
In the first losers quarterfinal, she received 22 votes out of 35, or 62.9%.
And in the losers semifinal, she received 30 votes out of 62, or 48.4%.
In the 9 polls that count for this ranking, she received 237 votes out of 446, or 53.1%.
Character 47, aka Kathryn Janeway from Star Trek (Voyager)!
She is just everything. Without her all her people would be dead or have abandoned their posts (understandably). She is 100% the reason you don't mess with a mama bear trying to keep her cubs safe. She is keeps to the values which have given her life meaning and every time she makes that hard choice to stand by instead of take a short cut, she is rewarded for her struggles. It might be lonely at the top for her sometimes, but she knows her support structure would never let her go crashing down.
In round 1, poll #16, she won with 10 votes out of 23, or 43.5%.
In round W1, poll #4, she received 10 votes out of 20, or 50%.
In the tiebreaker, she received 9 votes out of 15, or 60%.
In round W2, poll #3, she received 20 votes out of 31, or 64.5%.
In round W3, poll #2, she received 32 votes out of 50, or 64%.
In round W4, poll #1, she received 22 votes out of 42, or 52.4%.
In the first winners semifinal, she received 20 votes out of 50, or 40%.
And in the first losers semifinal, she received 13 votes out of 35, or 37.1%.
In all, she received 136 votes out of 266, or 51.1%.
