Tokyo Lift Bracket!

A bracket for your favorite Lift players! Formerly tokyoliftficexchange.

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Welcome to Tokyo Lift Bracket!

This is a bracket to vote for Tokyo Lift players. Your favorite? Most iconic? Name you think is funniest? All fair game. 64 will enter... 64 will leave but only 1 will be the winner!

For the most recent bracket, check #bracket update or the bracket spreadsheet.

For detailed rules and info, check #rules.

The bracket schedule is as follows:

Round 1 (Round of 64): Apr 21-28

Round 2 (Round of 32): Apr 29-May 2

Round 3 (Sweet 16): May 3-4

Round 4 (Quarterfinals): May 5

Round 5 (Semifinals): May 6

Round 6 (Championship): May 7

Have fun, and let's lift together!

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Yusef Fenestrate has won the Tokyo Lift Player Bracket!

Congrats, Yusef! They were the Lift's leadoff batter from the Season 10 elections until the season 24 midseason, and an anchor of the team until they Fell to the Baltimore Crabs in the Coronation Era.

Congratulations as well to runner-up Coolname Galvanic, an iconic team pitcher (and often an iconic meme pitcher), and our semifinalists Stijn Strongbody and Silvaire Semiquaver!

I'll be back with at least one more numbers/stats post soon, and maybe for another Lift-centric event after that. Until then, I have been @waveridden, your humble bracketmaster. If you want to talk brackets, seeding, or Lift, please drop me a line.

Heart and Swole! Lift together!

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Tokyo Lift Player Bracket: CHAMPIONSHIP!

Yusef Fenestrate

Coolname Galvanic

Voting ended onMay 8, 2025

Yusef Fenestrate [wiki page]

Original player for the Lift

Played for the Lift s11-s24

The Lift’s leadoff batter from their introduction until a reverb in s24

Coolname Galvanic [wiki page]

Original player for the Lift

Played in every Beta Lift season

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Tokyo Lift Player Bracket: Semifinal Match 2

Silvaire Semiquaver

Coolname Galvanic

Voting ended onMay 7, 2025

Silvaire Semiquaver [wiki page]

Original Shadows player for the Lift

Joined active play in s12

First new player to be added to the Lift’s roster

Played for the Lift s13-19 and s21-23

Coolname Galvanic [wiki page]

Original player for the Lift

Played in every Beta Lift season

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Tokyo Lift Player Bracket: Semifinal Match 1

Stijn Strongbody

Yusef Fenestrate

Voting ended onMay 7, 2025

Stijn Strongbody [wiki page]

Original player for the Lift

Incinerated in s17

Received the Lift’s first blessing

First Lift player to be incinerated

Yusef Fenestrate [wiki page]

Original player for the Lift

Played for the Lift s11-s24

The Lift’s leadoff batter from their introduction until a reverb in s24

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Tokyo Lift Player Bracket: Quarterfinals, Match 2

Val Hitherto

Silvaire Semiquaver

Voting ended onMay 6, 2025

Val Hitherto [wiki page]

Original player for the Lift

Played for the Lift s12-14 and s24

Only Lift player to be added to the active roster via Night Shift

Silvaire Semiquaver [wiki page]

Original Shadows player for the Lift

Joined active play in s12

First new player to be added to the Lift’s roster

Played for the Lift s13-19 and s21-23

[leonstamatis]

you can literally vote however you want on this one. there is no right answer. however, some considerations:

val ruined silvaire's life for a little while by betraying her and leaving her behind

val is, generally speaking, more beloved and appreciated than silvaire in the fandom

it would be so funny if silvaire kicked val's ass in this poll. it's what she deserves.

i love val, so i'm a traitor and voted for him. he inspires this in people.

i'm very attached to them both and their whole situation so either way, i can't lose. if you wanna, you can read a tokyo adrift (team-wide pirate au) fic i wrote that has a lot of their general "i hate you and need you in equal measure" situation.

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Lift fans, grab your beefwings: we're down to the final 8. Quarterfinals voting is open now!

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Tokyo Lift Player Bracket: Quarterfinals, Match 4

Coolname Galvanic

Evelton McBlase II

Voting ended onMay 6, 2025

Coolname Galvanic [wiki page]

Original player for the Lift

Played in every Beta Lift season

Evelton McBlase II [wiki page]

Joined the Spies in Discipline Era

Played for the Lift in s20

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Tokyo Lift Player Bracket: Quarterfinals, Match 3

Yusef Fenestrate

Grollis Zephyr

Voting ended onMay 6, 2025

Yusef Fenestrate [wiki page]

Original player for the Lift

Played for the Lift s11-s24

The Lift’s leadoff batter from their introduction until a reverb in s24

Grollis Zephyr [wiki page]

Original player for the Lift

Played for the Lift s11-s24

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Tokyo Lift Player Bracket: Quarterfinals, Match 2

Val Hitherto

Silvaire Semiquaver

Voting ended onMay 6, 2025

Val Hitherto [wiki page]

Original player for the Lift

Played for the Lift s12-14 and s24

Only Lift player to be added to the active roster via Night Shift

Silvaire Semiquaver [wiki page]

Original Shadows player for the Lift

Joined active play in s12

First new player to be added to the Lift’s roster

Played for the Lift s13-19 and s21-23

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Tokyo Lift Player Brackets: Quarterfinals, Match 1

Jessica Telephone

Stijn Strongbody

Voting ended onMay 6, 2025

Jessica Telephone [wiki page]

Original player for the Steaks

Played for the Lift s17-19

Was Alternated while on the Lift

Shelled a player while on the Lift

Stijn Strongbody [wiki page]

Original player for the Lift

Incinerated in s17

Received the Lift’s first blessing

First Lift player to be incinerated

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Tokyo Lift Player Bracket: Sweet 16, Match 8

Evelton McBlase II

Tiana Takahashi

Voting ended onMay 5, 2025

Evelton McBlase II [wiki page]

Joined the Spies in Discipline Era

Played for the Lift in s20

Tiana Takahashi [wiki page]

Original Shadows player for the Pies

Joined active play in s16

Fell to the Lift in Fall Ball

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Tokyo Lift Player Bracket: Sweet 16, Match 7

Coolname Galvanic

Domino Bootleg

Voting ended onMay 5, 2025

Coolname Galvanic [wiki page]

Original player for the Lift

Played in every Beta Lift season

Domino Bootleg [wiki page]

Postseason birth for the Lift

Joined active play for the Lift from s21-s24

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Tokyo Lift Player Bracket: Sweet 16, Match 6

Engine Eberhardt

Grollis Zephyr

Voting ended onMay 5, 2025

Engine Eberhardt [wiki page]

Original Shadows player for the Lift

Joined active play in s14

Was traded back and forth with the Steaks several times

Grollis Zephyr [wiki page]

Original player for the Lift

Played for the Lift s11-s24

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Tokyo Lift Player Bracket: Sweet 16, Match 5

Lotus Mango

Yusef Fenestrate

Voting ended onMay 5, 2025

Lotus Mango [wiki page]

Original player for the Lift

Played for the Lift s11-13

First Lift player to be traded to another team

Yusef Fenestrate [wiki page]

Original player for the Lift

Played for the Lift s11-s24

The Lift’s leadoff batter from their introduction until a reverb in s24

[tokyoliftbracket]

Looks like I forgot to queue up polls for today - oops! Sorry about the mishap. I’ll aim to have those out by 1pm (half an hour from now) but I’m on my phone right now so it might be a little funky looking. Thanks for your patience!

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Round 2 Stats

Bracket update will come later today. If you'd like to see it before then, the link to the spreadsheet bracket is in the pinned post.

Round 2 had 16 polls total, with a median number of 32.5 votes per poll and an average number of 32.4. This brings the overall bracket median to 33 and the overall bracket average to 35.8.

The most votes in a Round 2 poll was 49: Grollis Zephyr vs. Gerund Pantheocide. The least votes in a Round 2 poll, and the overall bracket, was 19: Kit Honey vs. Rylan O'Lantern.

For Round 2, the average winning percentage was 71.8%, and the median was 68.8%. The average number of votes for a winner was 23.1, and the median was 21.5.

The highest win percentage was Stijn Strongbody (93.9% of their poll); the lowest win percentage was Domino Bootleg (51.4% of their poll, a one-vote difference).

The winner with the highest number of votes was Yusef Fenestrate (36); the winner with the lowest number of votes was Rylan O'Lantern (15), a new bracket record.

The loser with the highest number of votes was Gerund Pantheocide with a new bracket record (22); the loser with the lowest number of votes was a tie between Rush Valenzuela and Herb Swamp, tying the existing bracket record (2).

At this point, bracket seeding is more of a suggestion than a prediction of victory. Of the Sweet 16, only 5 remaining players were seeded between 1 and 16. The lowest seeded player remaining is Rylan O'Lanter (50).