hello and welcome to the queer books tournament
Here is the goodreads with all of the books that have been in the tournaments we've run over the years. icon is by requiemofkings
Previous winners of the queer book character tournament:
Eric "Bitty" Bittle from Check, Please by Ngozi Ukazu
Wei Wuxian from Mo Dao Zu Shi/Grand Master of Demonic Cultivation by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
Andrew Minyard and Neil Josten from All for The Game by Nora Sakavic
Gideon Nav- The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir
Jean Moreau- All for the Game
Adam Parrish- The Raven Cycle
Previous winners of the queer book ship tournament:
Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji from Mo Dao Zu Shi/Grand Master of Demonic Cultivation by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
Gideon Nav/Harrowhark Nonagesimus- The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir (and a second time in 2025)
Also since I'll be pinning this post:
i do want to remind everyone to be respectful in these polls. even if you don’t personally like one of the books listed, or your favorite is losing, someone else still submitted that book because they like it and you’re being rude to them and everyone else who enjoys that book when you’re complaining about it.
propaganda is always welcome and encouraged. i consider these tournaments to be book recommendations first and a tournament second, so i love propaganda and try to reblog as much of it as i can. but propaganda should be about why your book/ship/character is good, not why the other one is bad. that kind of behavior will get people blocked, which is really not something i want to have to do so lets all have fun instead
How the game works:
These tournaments are submission based. I post a form, leave it open for a few days, sort through the answers, and then post a list I half jokingly call quality control for you guys: the viewers at home.
The quality control is because I can’t reasonably have read every book these submissions come from. So I post a list for you guys to let me know any mistakes: characters/ships that don’t meet the requirements, repeats on the list, misspellings (I copy paste from the submissions, so if they’re misspelled and I don’t know the character I’m not going to know to fix it), or anything like that. Quality control is open until the polls actually go up, at which point tumblr doesn’t let polls be edited.
Matchups are randomly generated. This is to keep things fair.
Round one is groups of four and lasts a week to let everyone have a chance to realize the tournament has started and promote their favs.
After that rounds are 1v1 and last for three days (if the number is odd there will be one three way poll).
The final round will last one week.
winners of the previous year's tournaments will take a break the following year
List of participants in past tournaments starting with most recent:
