#bracket 1 round 3

[the-ultimate-tournament]

Bracket 1 tags held here

[gayest-classiclit]

Classic Literature Sexyperson Tournament; Round 1

propaganda:

Mercutio:

has an article

watch the baz lurhman movie. that's the propaganda.

He is absolutely full of Gender and chaos and frightening narrative awareness for a guy who seems to think (hope?) he’s in a comedy until the minute he dies. I love a guy who can prophesy the deaths of his friends while consistently being comic relief.

i mean come on.

I feel like Mercutio fits exactly into the sexy person category. He’s a prince, he’s a fighter, he may ambiguously be in love with his besties, hes a silly guy, he dies tragically.

Carmilla:

Um. Vampire. Seductress. Sapphic

[holmesillustrations]

Dogs Bracket is here! It turns out a lot of these dogs are horses, but there was exactly 32, which is perfect for our purposes 🐶🐴🦁

Currently on Semifinals

Most of us are i think familiar enough with the stories that this wont be a surprise, but just in case i do want to warn that a few of these illustrations feature violence against or by the animals in question, i'll tag those specifically when we get to their polls as 'animal violence'

Full list of competitors under cut:

(Illustrations in blue were already out, those in green have been newly eliminated)

[Colliers Cover Illustration] Missing Three-quarter, FD Steele

"On the ledge of rock above this strange couple stood three noble buzzards" Study in Scarlet, Charles Doyle

"He laid his hand upon the glossy neck." Silver Blaze, Sidney Paget

"Close to the door of the cage lay Mrs. Ronder, with the creature squatting and snarling above her." Veiled Lodger, FD Steele

"Silver Blaze" Silver Blaze, Sidney Paget

"Phosphorous!" I said. Hound of the Baskervilles, Sidney Paget

"THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES." Hound of the Baskervilles, Sidney Paget

"There's our man, Watson! Come along." Hound of the Baskervilles, Sidney Paget

"The carriage rattled past." Missing Three-quarter, Sidney Paget

"There in the centre lay the unhappy maid where she had fallen" Hound of the Baskervilles, Sidney Paget

"THE DRIVER POINTED WITH HIS WHIP—'BASKERVILLE HALL,' SAID HE" Hound of the Baskervilles, Sidney Paget

"I SAW HIS EYES FIX THEMSELVES OVER MY SHOULDER." Hound of the Baskervilles, Sidney Paget

"Holmes crouched behind the bush with the dog as the carriage approached." Shoscombe Old Place, FD Steele

"Running up, I blew its brains out." Copper Beeches, Sidney Paget

"Holmes gazed at it and then passed on." Abbey Grange, Sidney Paget

[Mycroft's brougham] Final Problem, Harry C. Edwards

[Woman with horse] Shoscombe Old Place, FD Steele

"As I slipped the bars it bounded out, and was on me in an instant." Veiled Lodger, FD Steele

"The dog sniffed round for an instant, and then with a shrill whine of excitement started off down the street." Missing Three-quarter, Sidney Paget

"Dog and man were rolling on the ground together, the one roaring in rage, the other screaming in a strange shrill falsetto of terror." Creeping Man, HK Elcock

"Holmes darted forward and barred their way." Lady Frances Carfax, Alec Ball

"They bundled him into a cab that was beside the kerb" Red Circle, HM Brock

[The professor and his dog] Creeping Man, FD Steele

"Holmes emptied five barrels of his revolver into the creature's flank." Hound of the Baskervilles, Sidney Paget

"We got off, paid our fare." Speckled Band, Sidney Paget

"We were to go to the theatre… suddenly he darted away into the fog." Bruce-Partington Plans, FD Steele

[MacPherson's Dog on the beach] Lion's Mane, FD Steele

"THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES." [Frontispiece] Hound of the Baskervilles, Sidney Paget

"How far to Wallington?" Cardboard Box, Sidney Paget

""Too late, Watson; too late!" cried Holmes" Solitary Cyclist, Sidney Paget

[Lion] Veiled Lodger, FD Steele

"At the same moment Holmes stepped out and released the spaniel." Shoscombe Old Place, Frank Wiles

Full graphic with nothing greyed out:

And finally, i wanted to include every animal illustration, but i did leave out the two from Blue Carbuncle with dead geese, those are not dogs they are ingredience.

Edit: I realised i completely messed up the order of polls in the original bracket, all fine for round 1's results but would have caused problems for round 2. The current one is correct, but obviously had to be shuffled around a lot, so the numbers by each one show their order from round 1 for future reference, sorry bout that!

[bl-bracket]

Most Whipped in a BL Season 2

[xkcd-bracket]

xkcd bracket

I'm staring at the "doctor" section, and I can't help but feel like I've forgotten someone.

Welcome to the xkcd bracket! Based off of comic 1529, this bracket contains many people† with confusingly similar names (at least to Randall).

† not all items are people.

Rounds will be posted at 5 PM MST daily for rounds 1 and 2, and every other day after that.

Round breakdown:

Round 1a is the matches from the upper left branch.

Round 1b is the matches from the lower left branch.

Round 1c is the matches from the upper right branch.

Round 1d is the matches from the lower right branch.

Round 2a will be what remains of the left side.

Round 2b will be what remains of the right side.

Rounds 3-7 will not be further subdivided.

Results:

(This is the image I used for re-counting the bracket, and realizing there really should just be 7 rounds. Yes, it was made in paint.)

[thecrackshipawards]

Isako Toriumi from Persona 3 x Sadayo Kawakami from Persona 5 vs Elias Bouchard x Peter Lukas from The Magnus Archives

Propaganda for Isako x Sadayo:

there's a comic about them where Sadayo is a sexy maid for hire and Isako is figuring out that she's gay and just have you seen the comic aaaah fail teacher yuri

Propaganda for Elias x Peter:

Take one glance at the big boy man audio, they literally talk like a divorced couple. we all know peter is elias’s sugar daddy, whats more to love in the eye guy x lonely guy

[its-to-the-death]

Villain Song Showdown Bracket H Round 1

Bear With Me (Splatoon 3) - Villain: Mr. Grizz

There's a Platypus Controlling Me (Phineas and Ferb) - Villain: Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz

[paladin-tourney]

Round 1, Side B - Dame Aylin (Baldur's Gate 3) vs. Link (The Legend of Zelda)

Propaganda:

Dame Aylin (Baldur's Gate 3)

brutally kills a power hungry asshole trying to enslave her -Extremely devoted to her gf - i want her to throw me like a football

Link (The Legend of Zelda)

He's literally a royal knight on a quest to save the princess. I don't know how you get any more paladin than that. Just ignore the fact that he canonically ate a rock once and spends a good portion of his time swimming in dirty pond water.

[teamthunderdome]

ROUND 1

QUARTER 3 - FIGHT #6

TWO TEAMS ENTER. ONLY ONE CAN LEAVE.

YOU DECIDE.

(Please reblog for a larger sample size, or to spread your team's propaganda)

[animalshowdown]

Phylum Round 1

Annelida: Segmented Worms. This group includes earthworms, leeches, and many classes under the umbrella of "polychaete". This diverse phylum encompasses deposit feeders (eating dirt), detritivores, scavengers, deadly ambush predators, filter feeders, parasites, herbivores, and more. They are broadly defined by their repeating body segments and parapodia, which are nubby appendages used for both movement and breathing. Some have curved jaws for catching prey or scraping detritus off of rocks, while others have wide, elaborate feather-like fans for filter feeding. While able to crawl freely, a majority of marine Annelids spend most of their time in self-built tubes or burrows. Among their many important functions, they play a key role in mixing soil/sediment, breaking down decaying organic matter, and providing a key food source to countless other animals.

Nematoda: Roundworms. Split between free-living and parasitic, terrestrial and aquatic, Nematodes inhabit just about every environment on Earth. Nematologist Nathan Cobb once said (paraphrased) that if all matter on Earth disappeared besides Nematodes, we would still be able to identify where everything used to be, simply by the thin layer of nematodes left behind. In the harsh environment of Antarctica's Dry Valleys, these worms dominate the relatively barren ecosystem. The roundworm C. elegans is a widely-studied model organism in science and medicine. Nematodes are also known to parasitize humans, due to their ability to enter a dormant larval state within the muscle of a carrier animal. This is part of why we fully cook pork; to kill any parasites in the meat.

[the-ultimate-tournament]

Knuckles (sonic) V.S The good place (T.V show)

[lokiinmediasideblog]

Tournament of Lokis 2025: Round 1 Winners

Loki (TBI) will go against pre-siege Loki (Marvel comics)

Loki (Apsulov: End of Gods) will go against Loki (Kamigami no Asobi)

Loki ( Agent of Asgard) will go against Loki (SMITE)

Winners Loki (Norse Mythology) and Loki (Thistil Mistil Kistil) will go against each other

Loki (MCU) will go against Loki (Valhalla comics)

Loki (TOTG) will go against Marvel!Loki from Thor & Loki: Blood Brothers. This one is going to be especially painful to me because I love both of these for different reasons...

Loki (Royal Danish Ballet) will go against Loki from "Odin and Friends" (I have no freaking idea what this media is. so I will need propaganda or someone pointing it out).

Loki (Persona series) will go against Loki (Marvel Rivals)

[blackhair-redeyes-tournament]

Bracket 1 Round 3

[bl-bracket]

Deserved Better Round 1: Tang Yi (HIStory 3: Trapped) vs Gaipa (Moonlight Chicken)

[Submitted Reasons Under Cut]

Tang Yi: "Odd choice? Maybe, but my baby had just gone through the wringer, had legalised all his businesses and somehow he was still send to prison. Like, who cares if he shot that dude? (We don't care about the law, Shao Fei.) But mainly I'm just pissed that that's where it ended. Gimme my goddamn reunion wedding."

"He's done his time. Free our man"

Gaipa: "He got a sorta happy ending with the possibility of starting something with Alan and I am happy for that but if we go back this poor boy 1) got rejected by the man he loved and 2) lost his mom the only parent alive he had in such a tragic way like he witnessed her down crowded by people and had to rush to the hospital and bear her death and knew she kept that she was sick secret from him yes he had friends helping but his mother was his rock, why Aof did you do that? just yo make Khao and us cry?"

[splatoonpolls]

SPLATOON OC TOURNEY

ROUND 1 BATTLE 3

OC PROPAGANDA!

Charlotte by https://brisskwinds.tumblr.com/ @brisskwinds

Former human, Alterna resident who survived the rocket incident by a hair by sheltering in an emergency cryo-pod that accidentally turned on, forcing her into comatose. Her pod fell into the water below as the majority of Alterna was destroyed, the falling crystals from the fake sky eventually penetrating her pod and mutating her over the course of 12,000 years. Woke up to the New Squidbeak Splatoon finding her pod after the events of S3 story mode. Woke up scared and alone, not knowing who these weird humanoids were, why she looked like them all of a sudden, and where her friends and family were. Was later housed after recovery in a small Splatsville apartment with an aloof roommate who doesn't know why she's so clueless about the basic facts of inkling life. Trying her best to adapt to this new world, but the road's a bumpy one.

btw, she has a toyhou

Static & Specter by @princess--bongwater

Static and Specter are a frankenstein monster/scientist idol duo. Specter is really a zombie, and really was brought back to life by Static with the power of the big zapfish. It caused a power outage. Specter came from the Deep Sea Metro and was actually one of Tartar's subjects, and would've passed, but she was such an asshole he just decided to cut her up into little tiny pieces and throw her out a chute instead into the streets because he worried if he actually got her in there she'd make everyone else assholes too. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/10Zd33Rdz9J1g36O8GyOqq?si=NtTsWDvkQuWH0sYnaim3Ww that's their Spotify playlist for you

[thecrackshipawards]

Dr. Doofenshmirtz x Perry the Platypus from Phineas and Ferb vs The Onceler from The Lorax x The Warden from Superjail

Propaganda for Doofenshmirtz x Perry:

There would be so much yaoi if they were both human and it haunts me...