“Okay But Hear Me Out-“

I made this on a whim. Do you have a pairing literally no one but you and like three other friends understand? Yes? Submit them into this tourney and we can watch them fight to the death against other ppls random blorbos. Or maybe make them kiss idk

[weirdass-shiptournament]

WELCOME TO THE (UN)OFFICIAL WEIRDASS SHIP TOURNAMENT‼️

DO YOU:

- Have a rare pair so rare they never interact in canon? Or even exist in the same canon?

- Is literally only known by a small circle of friends and is completely incomprehensible to the average onlooker?

THEN THIS IS THE POLL FOR YOU‼️

THE SUBMISSION RULES ARE:

- CANNOT interact in canon! We are talking the obscurest of obscure. I need to have to hunt these character down and edit them into a photo in order for them to be valid. If I google their names together and can easily find official pictures of them hanging out it’s invalid(exceptions can be made depending on circumstances)

- CAN be from different source material. Literally anything goes!! Anime character and Spongebob? OKAY!!! Two characters from the same show who’ve never interacted?? YES!! I’m looking for ships you need to explain the development of. There needs to be a lore.

- CANNOT have a mass following. Once again, I’m looking for ships that can only be comprehended by a group of friends with insider knowledge. So things like BBC Sherlock’s mormor, despite being a ship wjere one of the characters technically doesn’t exist, doesn’t count on account of being immensely popular and having several hundreds of fics made for them. WE’RE TALKING WEIRD. RANDOM. OBSCURE. There’s gotta be like 5 fics of them MAXIMUM(exceptions can be made if they’re all by the same one or two very dedicated ppl)

- ALL SUBMISSIONS WILL BE JUDGED BY DEDICATION NOT NUMBERS!!! I want you FIGHTING for your LIFE to justify why your blorbos are not only weird but extremely valid to ship. I want to see essays with the same passion and effort youd put into your English paper worth 50% of your grade.

AND THE POLL RULES ARE:

- NO REAL LIFE PEOPLE. streamers count.

- I have full control of who gets in or not. Once again, we are going by dedication, not numbers. Please don’t be upset if your blorbos do not make it in. I f things go well, I’ll probably do this again, so you’ll likely have more chances to see them submitted.

- I DO NOT HAVE ENCYCLOPEDIC KNOWLEDGE OF EVERY MEDIA EVER. while i will go out of my way to do background checks of any character I don’t recognize, I’m not very smart. If a ship gets in that’s in some way notably problematic, I assure you I did not know!! Please just DM me about it if it happens!!!

- I don’t want to see any trash talking towards other opponents. This is a for fun poll! Please have fun. Discover new weird ships to have. Form weird ship polycules with the opponents and kiss or smth. If I see any vile behavior in the polls you will be blocked.

- unfortunately I am a human bound by feelings and bias. This was originally just going to be a ‘weird a3 ships’ thing before I decided to branch out since I doubt I’d get many submissions sticking to one fandom. If you see a lot of a3! Specific ships thats because I have a lot of friends who are all individually buckwild about certain weird ships.

- ALL PROPAGANDAIS NOT ONLY BELOVED AND ADORED BUT ENCOURAGED!!! GO APE!!!

THE SUBMISSIONS WILL LAST UNTIL MAY 15TH GMT -4‼️ (<- linked here)

(Should a date be needed I will specify later down the line. I will give more than enough time with a heads up for when I close submissions, so you do not have to worry about being too late to submit your blorbos.)

I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE SPECIAL SHOUTOUTS TO @pinkandbluebracket @redandyellowbracket @a3outfitstournament AND @greenhairandpronouns-tournament FOR MAKING POLLS SEEM FUN AND SILLY AND THUS MY ENCOURAGEMENT TO MAKE MY OWN!!! ALSO BECAUSE TAGGING SEEMS CUSTOMARY

[weirdass-shiptournament]

Should I add the Superboss Bracket?

yea sure

sounds lame

other (comment)

Voting ended onJul 7, 2023

sorry for the lack in updates! This feels sudden, but ive been thinking about it for a while so ill ask it while im finishing going through submissions. ive gotten a few submissions here and there that, while not popular on the main web in their own right, feel too popular to add to this poll as a regular contestant, so i was wondering

should i make them superbosses?

Now. You might be asking. What is a superboss?

Superbosses are going to be a set of characters that will show up at the very end of the tourney. our champion and full winner of the bracket will go against each of them, from what i deem least to most popular. Now Note:

superbosses will have no affect on the the actual tournament, or its winners. this is all for fun, and to give some of the less likely to qualify ships a chance to shine

the list of superbosses will not be revealed until we finish the tournament, however-

certain ships in the preliminary/qualifier polls will have the option to either be regular competitors, or superbosses. the choice is yours

a superboss beating the current bracket champion will not change their status, and the superboss will not be dubbed the tournament winner. think of them as postgame content.

i will not be taking suggestions for extra superbosses. all sbs will be coming directly from my submissions box

[weirdass-shiptournament]

(The "popular-rareship" anon from a while back who never saw your response despite following you. Not sure how that happened?)

Notable rarepairs is probably my favourite suggestion for a new name, I'll think about it! :D

Also, ironically the soap opera I used as an example in my last ask would probably not get in after all! Did a few more google searches and it turns out that it actually has a pretty active fic community, it just wasn't on ao3.

The main reason I haven't made the tournament yet (besides being busy) is I can't decide how many fics a fandom should have before it's "disqualified"... Due to personal experience* I'm tempted to put the limit at 25 available fics in total, but maybe 50 would be more fair to submitters in other countries with a larger population? Of course I'd care less about the exact numbers if it turns out that the same person wrote every single fic.

*relatively small population in my home country + many other youngsters here suffering from a bit of "cultural cringe" (<- that's the actual academic term!) + ??? = even the most popular works from here only get 15 fics by 5 authors at most :')

( Tumblr notifications is a fuck, for example: I didn’t get this ask until just now. I’m so so sorry )

It feels hard to quantify how much fics a ship needs to count (the fic limit I mentioned wasn’t a hard rule, more than just a general basis to go off of.) it’s one of those case-by-case things to me, considering a notable ship could have 20 fics, but they could all be by one dedicated shipper. 25 sounds pretty good to be honest, but if use it as a guideline rather than a hard rule. If worst comes to worst you can always put ships you aren’t sure abt into a pre-bracket poll!

[friends-to-lovers-tournament]

♡ FRIENDS TO LOVERS TOURNAMENT ♡

Are you a fan of the classic friends-to-lovers trope? Do you live for the moment of “Oh. Oh.” in fics? Do you scream at every instance of pining? If so, then this is the tournament for you! This tournament is brought to you by two mods, Mod Deli (she/her; 18+) and Mod Soba (she/they; 18+) , and we hope you enjoy your time here! ♡

Rules & Guidelines:

As the name implies, they have to be FRIENDS to lovers. The ship does NOT have to be canon; headcanons are perfectly fine. Edit: You can submit OCs, but there's no guarantee they will be shortlisted. It will be tough competing with canon characters so you'll want to make your propaganda super convincing to increase their chances of being shortlisted

“How about enemies to friends to lovers?” That’s a fantastic trope which deserves a tournament of its own. As such, we won’t be allowing any enemies to friends to lovers ships (same with rivals to friends to lovers). However, strangers to friends to lovers are acceptable. If your ship has any unique variations of this ‘friends to lovers’ pipeline, please send an ask and we’ll use our best discretion to determine if your ship meets the criteria

Polycules are welcome!

Be respectful at ALL times, to us and to others. If we see any hate or ship bashing, we’ll block you on sight, no questions asked. TERFs, racists, sexists, ableists, and other breeds of bigots stay the fuck away. Our tournament, our rules.

No Harry Potter or Youtubers/Vtubers/other real-life public figures who are still alive. We’ll only consider real-life sources if they are funny enough

Please keep to an appropriate age difference between your blorbos. As a rule of thumb, no one under 18 with anyone over 18 (though if your blorbos are very close to 18 by +/- 1–2 years we would consider them)

You’re allowed to submit multiple ships from the same fandom; just start a new form if you want to submit a different ship. However, please only submit ONE ship each time

Propaganda and info-dumping is welcome and encouraged!

Shortlisting criteria: We’re looking for at least 3 submissions for a ship and/or very convincing propaganda, so show your passion for your lovebirds! That said, we’re also humans with our own blorbos so we may give ships from fandoms we’re in favourable consideration, but we’ll also try to be as fair as possible to everyone

Between the two of us we know a fair number of fandoms but we don’t know EVERY piece of media out there. We’ll do our best to do background checks, but things might still slip by us. As such, if you see any ship you think is problematic, please politely let us know and explain your reasoning in an ask (no DMs because this is a shared sideblog, but you can request for us to answer your ask privately as long as you turn off anon)

Friends to Lovers Tournament Form!!

Submit your friends-to-lovers ships HERE! A reminder of the submission guidelines: As the name implies, they have to be FRIENDS to lovers. T

Submissions will be closed on 30 June 2023, 6am PST or when we have enough submissions (we're looking at maybe 64 right now but that's subject to change)

Tagging other tournament blogs that inspired this one @obscuremilfoff @greenhairandpronouns-tournament @weirdass-shiptournament @a3playshipbattleroyale @pinkhairswagtourney @retirement-home-rumble

Reblogs are appreciated! ♡

[weirdass-shiptournament]

If you don’t mind me asking, as a fellow Ninjago fan, what ships were eliminated? If only to fill my morbid curiosity

I don’t want to specify any ships that fall under the ‘rarepair’ category since the ppl submitting them were probs just excited and the infodumps were cute but unfortunately ppl who either interact notably/are popular can’t rlly count.

And now I know this ones on me since I didn’t mention it, but no fuckin Harry Potter. With how against HP all the other blogs were I thought ppl would’ve just started assuming by now and not try submitting it. Once again though, kinda on me with not mentioning it.

This one I mentioned though: no real people. I’ve had someone try to submit some YouTubers to me and I do understand that it’s like a persona or something and not ‘technically the guy’, but the line rides too close for me to be willing to accept it. YouTubers count as people. Colonel Sanders is up for debate tho.

I get this is more of just a specification of the rules than an actual list of ships like you probably wanted! But I’d feel bad putting out a list of stuff not getting accepted since I don’t want to put ppl on blast, and for the stuff I don’t mind saying like hp, I just do not remember off the top of my head and do not care abt the ships enough to check them </3

[weirdass-shiptournament]

So your saying you would like me to DM a you a 2-page essay that has been floating around in my mind for the past 3 months and explaining why I submit the ship I did? HMMM.

I truly do hate when I’m not notified of asks being sent to me. Anyways the answer is a wholehearted and definitive yes, please do I adore reading them 🤲

[weirdass-shiptournament]

Maybe doing everything on paper wasnt a good idea

[weirdass-shiptournament]

I will admit, I am very scared about you finding my submissions (they are the Ninjago ones) since they are incredibly weird. Not sure if they actually make sense, but I apologize for the fact that you will have to read them.

Not to worry! I’m actually a ninjago fan so seeing characters I recognized was a pleasant surprise!

[weirdass-shiptournament]

How are you planning on doing the polls? Just putting the ship, summarizing the essay, putting the whole essay, etc?

I plan on doing a few 32-or so brackets, and then having the winners of each of those brackets competing with eachother! It’ll be easier for me to digest/go through, and it’ll make the names on each bracket picture readable!

As for essays, I’ll be heavily encouraging propaganda of all sorts, but I don’t feel comfortable with using submissions essays as propaganda for each bracket, since I never asked if the submitters were okay with me posting those publicly. I’ll likely do my own rewrite/summary of reasons why ppl ship them, though, so ppl understand why they were submitted!

[weirdass-shiptournament]

aw DAMN i missed submissions :( my bestie and i have like the perfect ship for this. we've been fixated on it and we are literally the ONLY people in the world who seem to ship it. they don't even have an ao3 tag, and the fandom has like 3k-ish fics so it's not like it's a super small fandom. granted tho they may have been disqualified by actually having canon interactions

So sorry you didn’t make it in time! Depending on how much they interact, I might’ve been able to make an exception, but if you’re still looking for a place to put your ship I’ve been seeing a small wave of other weirdship-adjacent polls popping up! In fact I just reblogged one that might be perfect for your blorbos! Gl out there!

[howdidiendupshippingthispoll]

Have you known that a ship exists, but you have never thought of it that much until one day you realize you ship it and you don't know how it happened? Or have you thought that a ship wouldn't work but then somehow were convinced otherwise? Or you didn't know about a ship and suddenly said ship is everywhere and you can't help but fall in love with it? Well, then this contest is for you!

Shipping is a very funny part of any media! There are ships and ships, some cannon you love or hate, some no-cannon that you wish they had ended up together... and ships you don't know how you ended up shipping.

Really, there are ships you don't know how you ended up shipping! One day you are chill, happy with your life, and the next you are obsessing with a ship you might not even have known that it existed. In fact, that has happened to me twice just this year, so I decided to create a contest for those ships!

Rules:

Please, be respectful to everyone. Don't be rude to someone just because you don't like the ship or be mean in the tags or reblogs. Let everyone enjoy what they enjoy.

Propaganda is allowed and encouraged as long as you follow the first rule!

You can submit any ship you want, however, because I am not very familiar with a lot of media, I will ask you to please refrain from submitting any ship that you think might cause controversy or if they come from a very controversial media (like Harry Potter or South Park). You will be helping me a lot if you do this!

There are three exceptions to the above rule is that you CAN'T submit an illegal ship, nothing that features an adult with an underage. These ships will be instantly banned.

Also, for this contest, I will not accept OC's as part of the ship.

And last but not least, nothing that features real people. Singers, actors, youtubers, streamers, NO-ONE of flesh and meat.

The ship doesn't have to be cannon, they might not even interact in cannon, who cares? As long as you don't know how you ended up shipping them, then you can submit it! You can even submit characters from different media!

You can submit as many ships as you want but don't submit the same ship twice. Number of entries will not have that much of an influence in deciding if a ship enters or not.

Instead, I added a question for you to tell how you realized you shipped this. It can be anything! You didn't know about the ship but one day you saw a cute fanart of them and OMG they are adorable together; you didn't think of them as a couple but someone convinced you that they are pretty cute together and know you are ready to sink with the ship; or you know that the ship isn't that good in the story they are from, but my god, how could you not ship them?

This is not mandatory, of course, but the funniest and most interesting stories will have a better chance of entering the tournament.

Most important rule... have fun!

Here is the submission link for anyone interested:

I didn't think I would ship this... BUT I DO

HOW DID I END UP SHIPPING THIS?!

They will close on Sunday June 4 at ECT time/GMT-5. If there are too many submission I will close earlier.

Some blogs that have inspired me are @controversial-blorbo-bracket, @weirdass-shiptournament, @guess-that-ship, @found-family-tournament, @died-but-not-dead-tournament and many more! Thank you for bringing joy with your polls!

[weirdass-shiptournament]

Hi there! I'd like to make a bracket that's KIND OF similar to yours and would like some feedback on the name.

I'm thinking of calling it "popular-rareship-bracket". Take a moment to guess what this could mean. Then let me explain:

Sometimes a piece of media has a lot of casual fans, but barely anyone is creating fanworks about it. For example, my parents have been watching reruns of a soap opera with over 1000 episodes together - it's undoubtedly popular! I got curious about whether there was fic of it, and found only 11 fics in total (on ao3). What's more, only 1 of these fics was dedicated to a specific ship: two best friends in the show, one who has been in over 800 episodes and counting, one who was around for over 100 episodes (before dying suddenly :( )

It is this kind of ship I'm looking for! They have interacted a lot in canon and have a bog audience, yet the existing audience just isn't that ship-happy... Aside from like two people, who would hopefully find the submission form in time and send me a loving rant about how underappreciated the ship is.

So with that in mind, is the suggested tournament name suitable? I'm worried that it might be a bit confusing since rarepairs are the opposite of popular by definition... But can't think of anything better either ^^;

oooo neat!! i like the concept alot, and love to see more ppl taking on polls with more obscure concepts/underdog-leaning.

sorry it took so long to respond! i actually wasnt sure myself what feedback i could give, so i took to speaking with a few friends about the idea. someone suggested notable-rareships, and rare-rarepairs? I thought mayb smth like underdog-ships? but its a hard idea to pin down in a few words, so your title works just as well as anything we tried to come up with. good luck on the polls!!!

[weirdass-shiptournament]

there are a good number of ships with one of the members having shown up in others' pairings, i was wondering if i should do anything about it? or if im thinking too hard

Add Doubles No Whammies

add doubles, but they have to face eachother first round

Voting ended onMay 19, 2023

[wizard-showdown]

WELCOME TO THE WIZARD SHOWDOWN!

Do you have a blorbo who is a wizard? Then you should totally submit them to the EPIC WIZARD SHOWDOWN run by tumblr user @qfliporiana !!!

WHAT ARE THE RULES?

1. NO HARRY POTTER CHARACTERS. Period. Turn around. Pack up. Go home <3

2. The character doesn’t have to be a ‘wizard’ but they DO have to do MAGIC OF SOME KIND. It’s up to you how to interpret this but I will do some research on all the characters

3. If you have any questions about what counts as a wizard then I will have my inbox open :]

4. I don’t know when I’ll close submissions, but there are 32 slots

5. MAY THE BEST WIZARD WIN!!

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN!!! Submit your wizards HERE!!

Partly inspired by @irlcats-bracket @weirdass-shiptournament @polls-showdowns and more but YEAH I hope that’s everything lol I’ve never done this

[weirdass-shiptournament]

Ngl seeing this just gave me inspiration to write about my weird ass ships despite never writing anything ever. They don't exist in the same world but I'm deadass ready to make an au just for this to work.

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DO IT!!! I’m so glad my poll could encourage poll to have some more fun w ships and shipping concepts!! Hopefully this has inspired other ppl too to post abt their weird little ships!!

[weirdass-shiptournament]

I submitted a ship between a dragon ball character and a mysme character and i cant remember if i put this in the clarification but i submitted it twice. my phone crashed halfway through my original essay erasing it so i wanted to make sure my new essay got through so if it does show up twice i apologize. thank you for your time and i hope the tournament goes well!

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Will keep that in mind!! Though I will say multiple submissions wouldn’t have gotten anyone disqualified- I just kind of assumed that if it happened, it was just a small group of friends all wanting to talk abt a ship they concocted lol

[weirdass-shiptournament]

SUBMISSIONS HAVE BEEN CLOSED!! At a flat 180 too!!I’ll be going through submissions for I’d say the next week? I’ll be getting a couple days off in a row soon, so I’ll be starting going through submissions then! Keep you updated!