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round 5 bracket (text version under the cut)

And thus it begins!!

If you're new, welcome to the MCYT QPR Ships tournament!! Starting tomorrow, June first, 3PM CST, I will start posting the polls for the most loved QPR ship in the MCYT sphere!

For the first day there will be four (4) polls posted, but every day after that it will be six (6) until we complete the first round. Each poll will last a week.

The bracket is shown below. The characters and fandom of each ship are not listed here, but they will be mentioned in the polls so no one is confused!

Please note!

I will be discouraging voter fraud during this tournament. If I find out a ship won due to voter fraud I will not rerun the poll, I will simply disqualify it. What do I mean by voter fraud? I mean creating or using multiple accounts to the vote for one nomination. Encouraging others to vote the same as you, and offering bribes (ex: offering art or written works in exchange for votes) are acceptable and encouraged!! I will give a reminder of this on each poll.

Also, this is about QPR ships! I won't tell anyone how to vote but I would keep in mind that this is not about who your favorite romantic ship, or platonic duo/trio/group is. If you think a nomination is better as only a platonic or romantic relationship, maybe consider the other option <3

If your nomination did not make into the bracket I sincerely apologize, but know It was completely randomized and if I run this again in the future, your ship will have a secured spot.

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I should also say;

if you have any propaganda for any of the included ships please please please send it in, because many of them are lacking any propaganda at all, and I feel the event is more fun when people can read the reasoning behind a submission and might be swayed to vote for them!

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The Finals!

Camilla Hect and Palamades Sextus (Campal) from The Locked Tomb vs. Jessie and James from Pokémon!

Propaganda for Campal:

They're two people who have spent their whole lives together and are hopelessly devoted and loyal to each other. While some people do read their relationship as strictly romantic or platonic, it has way more going for it through a QP lense! They've been lifelong friends, and in their culture are essentially non-romantic life partners as a necromantic wizard and his bodyguard/champion. It's actually strictly taboo for them to engage in a romantic relationship because of this. But nonetheless they remain close to and devoted to each other, going so far as to use necromancy to keep each other close after one of them dies, and then going on to share a body until it becomes physically impossible to do so any longer. So they burn both of their souls to merge together into one new entity, creating a walking metaphor for queerplatonic partnership. They endlessly support and encourage each other, they're a perfect team when it comes to both peaceful study and combat. They know each other inside and out, long before they had to share a body, they were inseperable. They're two halves of one whole, literally, and nothing about that intense closeness and partnership is written to be romantic! Especially because other, similar characters in the series ARE written to read as romantic, and there's a distinct tonal difference to those relationships! Basically, they're two peas in a pod, two halves of a whole, clearly not quite platonic with it, but certainly not romantic either.

The author of The Locked Tomb has a long term queerplatonic partner! She even dedicates the books to him and signs those dedications with a <> (which is a Homestuck reference, denoting a non-romantic partnership that a number of fans associate with QPPs!). You can feel the influence of her own experience with queerplatonic attraction in a lot of the series, but it really comes through especially in Cam and Pal!!

Propaganda for Jessie and James:

Have you seen them

Which is the ultimate queerplatonic ship?

Campal

Jessie and James

Voting ended onMar 13, 2024

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Come vote in the finals of my other tournament!

#lmao #the victor of our tournament vs jessie and james!!#not to be biased or anything. but also team rocket has been a part of my childhood and ive never read tlt.#so ROCKET SWEEP!!!#mod cycad

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get aspec beamed idiot *queerplatonics your ship*

#qprs #mod zazie

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welcome to the catboy competition!

is your blorbo a wet cat? do they meow or go nya? were they born in a wet cardboard box? this is the tournament for them! submit your blorbo to see them face off against catboys from across tumblr in the ultimate catboy showdown!

Submissions will close on December 31!

additional information

can i submit real people? yes but it has to be funny

is mcyt real people? no theyre roleplay characters asshole. dont fucking debate me i will block on sight. real people are allowed anyways so submit whoever you want

are ocs allowed? go wild. write me essays about blorbo from your brain is the most pathetic sopping wet cat ever i will read it

can i submit [x] as propaganda? is it yours? then yes. did someone else create it? then no. it is that simple.

there's no canon art of my catboy!! what should i do? fanart IS accepted, however it must either be yours or you must prove you have express permission to use it.

about the mods! we're mod gil (it/splash/tide), mod gumy (she/her) and mod felix (xe/xem). gil and felix are in a qpr of over 1 year!! 🎉 we were previously mods on @qprsmackdown.

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