Undertale NPCs Tournament

To celebrate the little guys!

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Undertale NPC Popularity Tumblr Tournament FAQ

Hello! This pinned message will be updated throughout the tournament while I realize things to put here. Also all of these questions except one aren't actually Frequently Asked, they haven't even been asked once! So I'm kinda lying about this being an FAQ heehee.

What is this?

This blog is a series of Tumblr posts, posted frequently, that feature polls to vote on pitting two characters from the game Undertale against each other in a popularity contest. The results of these polls are then used to instruct the results of a tournament bracket, which is posted after each tournament round, with the end goal of finding out who the most popular Undertale character is!

What characters are featured in this tournament?

Ideally, this tournament includes every character in the Undertale game that is "a minor NPC". Now that's kinda vague so my best approximation of a solid definition for this would be "Characters that are exclusively featured in the overworld", that mean no characters that appear in battle and no characters that are shopkeepers. For example, NPCs you fight that appear in the overworld after you complete an area are not included because they are featured in battles.

When are polls posted?

The posting schedule is 4 times a day. Every 2 hours between 2-8 PM EST.

How is this tournament set up?

This tournament features 96 characters in a double elimination format, meaning that the loser of each round is moved to a secondary bracket and must lose a second time before fully losing. 64 characters start placed in round 1, and 32 additional characters start placed in round 2, I have tried my best so that the most recognizable characters featured here are placed in this second round so that the more obscure characters are pitted against each other first.

How long is this tournament?

There will be 190 individual matches, 8 rounds in the winners bracket and 11 rounds in the losers bracket. This tournament is currently planned to last 2-3 months in total.

Is your broken finger doing okay?

Yeag.

I think you're awesome and epic?

Wow! Oh my goodness! That's not a question! But if you want more of me for whatever reason: @blargensnorf is my main account where I make my own homemade posts! I've recently finally started using frequently! @reblargensnorf is where I send my reblogs to, if you want something more frequent to fill your dashboard with. @undertale-encyclopedia is the blog I run that maintain a catalogue of in-game screenshots of every line of text in Undertale. Also is used as a place where I talk about Undertale and Deltarune in general.

Thank you for reading and participating!

[48-49-4d]

Hello! It's been a while...

To start! This is very much an Out Of Character post, not part of the story or anything.

It has been a very very long time since major development on this project happened, and I am sorry! I had slowly lost interest in working on this, and working on anything in general. I have made attempts to pick this back up only for it to feel like a slog. But recently I have found some awesome antidepressant that actually make me feel awesome! I feel back to my best self and I'm finding motivation and enthusiasm again! Now that may sound like good news for this project, but it has actually made it much clearer that I really don't have much interest in working on this further. So with that being said...

This project is now officially Canceled*

Shiiiit aughh I hate that I am saying this but I think it is better than just leaving it in limbo for the rest of time. Now what exactly does Canceled* mean? It means that I currently have no plans to continue to develop this story in the foreseeable future. That might change! Maybe one day I'll get that drive back, but I am making no promises! But... Just because I am not developing it anymore does not mean there will be no closure on this story... I am leaving a gift for the diehard fans of this messy story, and anybody else who is still clinging on to this!

I will be posting an outline of how the finale of this story was supposed to happen

This part is the scary part because "oooh but what if I wanna finish it!! everyone will already know what's gonna happen..." but I have decided that I'm just gonna put a cap on this story! I will finish it in a way I can actually achieve. The main hiccup in this project was that my ideas got too grand, if I want to do what I planned I would need to learn new tools completely from scratch, or at the very least pay someone else to do it! Too many moving parts, including the NPC Tournament side of things, the story itself was also kind of a mess, I started out not meaning to write a story and then i ended up writing a lot of it off the top of my head, not a good way to write! Not to mention this was my first time doing anything like this at all.

So! Over the next couple of days, maybe weeks, I want to be posting the step by step happenings of how the story was supposed to end. If for some reason you want to continue to hold out hope that I will finish this, I will be tagging these posts as "#the end of him" if you would like to block that tag to avoid spoilers for a thing you might never see otherwise. Hopefully I can format this into something akin to more normal fanfiction so that it isn't sterile and boring, I still wanna make it fun :)

Thank you everyone who liked what I've created here! Sorry for making you wait actual years <3

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Hi! I'm sure many of you were unaware that this blog was tied to a bigger separate project! That is why progress on this halted, there were many more cogs turning in the background that needed to happen before this continued. Itd probably be pretty easy to finish up this tournament with the bigger project canceled, but also I feel maybe its time has passed, it HAS been a good while since it was active.

We will see! I just figured i should also push this update to here as well, and if this is your first time hearing about any of this then maybe you'll give it a look :)

[48-49-4d]

Hello! It's been a while...

To start! This is very much an Out Of Character post, not part of the story or anything.

It has been a very very long time since major development on this project happened, and I am sorry! I had slowly lost interest in working on this, and working on anything in general. I have made attempts to pick this back up only for it to feel like a slog. But recently I have found some awesome antidepressant that actually make me feel awesome! I feel back to my best self and I'm finding motivation and enthusiasm again! Now that may sound like good news for this project, but it has actually made it much clearer that I really don't have much interest in working on this further. So with that being said...

This project is now officially Canceled*

Shiiiit aughh I hate that I am saying this but I think it is better than just leaving it in limbo for the rest of time. Now what exactly does Canceled* mean? It means that I currently have no plans to continue to develop this story in the foreseeable future. That might change! Maybe one day I'll get that drive back, but I am making no promises! But... Just because I am not developing it anymore does not mean there will be no closure on this story... I am leaving a gift for the diehard fans of this messy story, and anybody else who is still clinging on to this!

I will be posting an outline of how the finale of this story was supposed to happen

This part is the scary part because "oooh but what if I wanna finish it!! everyone will already know what's gonna happen..." but I have decided that I'm just gonna put a cap on this story! I will finish it in a way I can actually achieve. The main hiccup in this project was that my ideas got too grand, if I want to do what I planned I would need to learn new tools completely from scratch, or at the very least pay someone else to do it! Too many moving parts, including the NPC Tournament side of things, the story itself was also kind of a mess, I started out not meaning to write a story and then i ended up writing a lot of it off the top of my head, not a good way to write! Not to mention this was my first time doing anything like this at all.

So! Over the next couple of days, maybe weeks, I want to be posting the step by step happenings of how the story was supposed to end. If for some reason you want to continue to hold out hope that I will finish this, I will be tagging these posts as "#the end of him" if you would like to block that tag to avoid spoilers for a thing you might never see otherwise. Hopefully I can format this into something akin to more normal fanfiction so that it isn't sterile and boring, I still wanna make it fun :)

Thank you everyone who liked what I've created here! Sorry for making you wait actual years <3

[undertale-npcs]

Hi! I'm sure many of you were unaware that this blog was tied to a bigger separate project! That is why progress on this halted, there were many more cogs turning in the background that needed to happen before this continued. Itd probably be pretty easy to finish up this tournament with the bigger project canceled, but also I feel maybe its time has passed, it HAS been a good while since it was active.

We will see! I just figured i should also push this update to here as well, and if this is your first time hearing about any of this then maybe you'll give it a look :)

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[undertale-npcs]

The plan is to hopefully continue this after we are done being insane about Deltarune. I think we can do this. Sorry for the crazy long hiatus <3

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(Not especially! Hence the months long hiatus.)

[undertale-npcs]

(Have not forgotten about us, we will continue again in the future 💜)

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Can my OC, Kayla The Skeleton Join this tournament? She is a NPC!

yeah sure you get one shot at this

Kayla the Skeleton vs Grillby

Kayla the Skeleton

Grillby

Voting ended onDec 5, 2024

[undertale-npcs]

Hello :)

This is still very much going on, i have not forgotten! It's just been kinda difficult to, get myself to do things yknow? Im just kinda... waiting it out hoping it subsides.

Thank you for understanding 💜

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Undertale NPCs tournament Losers Round 2 summary

Alright let's check in on these losers!

All of the snails are gone, but the mice are going strong. Your priorities are in the right place. Let's look at what interesting stuff happened:

The most popular character this round was:

Wishing Siblings!

Wishing Siblings won against Library Lizard with 503 votes. You love faceless characters!

The least popular character this round was:

Kid Slime! (unhatted)

(unhatted) Kid Slime lost against Inn Kid with 69 votes! This was also the { Least Popular Match } with 481 total votes. Children are boring, but ones with eyes less so, apparently. Oh my god AND the { Most Agreed Upon Match }! 85.7% for the slime!! Okay!!!

The most even match of this round was:

Distant Guy vs Nacarat Jester!

With a vote percentage of 49.7% to 50.3%, the monster you can actually talk to wins by a measly .3%! This match was also the { Most Popular Match } with 795 votes! That's not as close as it has been before !

Thanks for participating!

Next summary will come, eventually. I have been slowing down a bit because I am burning myself out, sorry,, It will happen! Just a bit slower than it has in the past!

And as always, here's all the round stats for the nerds:

Match 1 | 532 votes Red Thundersnail 43.6% vs Library Loox 56.4%

Match 2 | 499 votes Business Snail 34.3% vs Cinnamon 65.7%

Match 3 | 795 votes Distant Guy 49.7% vs Nacarat Jester 50.3%

Match 4 | 523 votes Snowdrake's Dad 67.3% vs Oni 32.7%

Match 5 | 703 votes Wishing Siblings 71.6% vs Library Lizard 28.4%

Match 6 | 548 votes Fox Head 38.1% vs Hotland Mouse 61.9%

Match 7 | 543 votes Echo Flower Explainer 41.3% vs Shambling Mass 58.7%

Match 8 | 577 votes Box Lover 58.9% vs Unknown Hotland Shadow Guy 41.1%

Match 9 | 554 votes Ferry 62.6% vs Homeless Snail 37.4%

Match 10 | 553 votes Drunk Bun 69.1% vs Big Mouth 30.9%

Match 11 | 481 votes Inn Kid 85.7% vs Kid Slime (unhatted) 14.3%

Match 12 | 527 votes Hand Receptionist 37.4% vs Waterfall Mouse 62.6%

Match 13 | 539 votes Clam Girl 68.6% vs Scarf Lady 31.4%

Match 14 | 536 votes Ficus Licker 45.5% vs Charles 54.5%

Match 15 | 661 votes Faun 31.2% vs Snoring Guys 68.8%

Match 16 | 759 votes FOLLOWER 3 56.8% vs Business Manticore 43.2%

Nerd

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I vote you uncover Grillby and do the poll properly. Who else is going to compete with River Person?

We can just uncover river person

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One last undertale stream! We are finishing the game and looking at unused content and other fun things in the game's code today :)

Live right now! Come hang out!

Watch this video on Twitch Live

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Favorite Undertale NPCs Round 3

Rock vs Red Bird

Rock

Red Bird

Voting ended onSep 24, 2024

"Who even are these characters?":

Rock- 3 in 4 rocks like being pushed. This one doesn't. It takes a bit of convincing this Ruins rock to get you past a puzzle.

Red Bird- She translates for Grillby. Except not. She's just making it up.

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Favorite Undertale NPCs Round 3

River Person vs Ruins Bakesale Spiders

River Person

Ruins Bakesale Spiders

Voting ended onSep 23, 2024

"Who even are these characters?":

River Person- A very knowledgeable and wise(?) boatsperson.

Ruins Bakesale Spiders- These spiders sell donuts and cider (made of spiders) at a modest price.

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Favorite Undertale NPCs Round 3

Snowdin Mouse vs Hotland Bakesale Spiders

Snowdin Mouse

Hotland Bakesale Spiders

Voting ended onSep 23, 2024

"Who even are these characters?":

Snowdin Mouse- One of four mice that live throughout the underground. They squeak when interacted with! This mouse might one day heat up the nearby frozen spaghetti.

Hotland Bakesale Spiders- These spiders sell donuts and cider at a ridiculously high price.

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Saturday at 4pm EST, to celebrate Undertale's 9th birthday, I will be streaming Undertale (and maybe Deltarune) and going through the same route I did when I first played it over 8 years ago, infodumping about it the whole time! I'd love for you to join in this little event if you have some time :)

You can find my Twitch channel here!

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Live again right now! Finishing up Undertale :)

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Favorite Undertale NPCs Round 3

Thundersnail vs Fourth Froggit

Thundersnail

Fourth Froggit

Voting ended onSep 23, 2024

"Who even are these characters?":

Thundersnail- This is your snail that races in thundersnail. Encourage her, but not too much! She might catch fire.

Fourth Froggit- This tiny Froggit lives in the crack of the wall of a room with 3 other Froggits. Secret!