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Teryx from Dinosaucers

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you missed my url name change and assumed this was still the pterosaur tournament, however that tournament ended several months ago and this character is an archeopteryx which is NOT a pterosaur so would not have been eligible anyway, sorry!

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Hi everyone:

I have decided (at the last possible minute) that submissions will (probably) open up around the beginning of July, when I'm back home and hopefully not miserable.

The length, structure, and format of the tournament will have to depend on the distribution of the submissions, so we will have to see how that turns out.

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Hi everyone! Sorry for my radio silence the past couple weeks; everything everywhere is terrible, you see.

Anyway, I'm still not sure exactly when submissions will open up, but until then, I figured I would get out the ruleset I'm thinking of so we can all get on the same page, as "marine reptile" isn't a specific taxon or anything.

So the gist of my concept is that the candidate must be clearly reptilian, and either based off a real marine reptile, or be a reptile that isn't necessarily aquatic in real life, but is in the work it comes from.

For clarity's sake, we will consider "real marine reptile" to refer to: turtles (not tortoises!), sea snakes, marine iguanas, crocodilians, ichthyosaurs, sauropterygians, mosasaurs, and thalattosaurs. There may be others I'm missing but this should cover most of them.

In addition, mythical creatures like sea serpents and dragons WILL be allowed, and reptiles that are marine or aquatic in their fiction WILL also be allowed even if not from the above groups. Please read the detailed rules below, though!

I've spent quite some time figuring this out so, I'm pretty happy with these, but feel free to leave feedback and if I'm convinced I will make adjustments!

Detailed rules:

If the candidate is based off of the listed groups, they ARE eligible, UNLESS the candidate is specifically terrestrial or averse to water. This includes characters based off of animals in the listed groups, but are not aquatic in their fiction. Examples of eligible candidates based on this rule: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Vector the Crocodile, Lapras, etc. Examples of characters NOT eligible from this rule: Torkoal, the FF15 Adamantoise, Krookodile.

If the candidate is kinda sorta based off of one of the listed groups (like a hybrid or something), they WILL be allowed so long as the overall intent still reads as a marine reptile. Example: The Driblee from Kirby more or less resemble small plesiosaurish things, so they count even if they're not really based on an actual animal. The Turtle Tiger from Yu-Gi-Oh, meanwhile, is not really a marine reptile as much as it is a tiger in a shell, so it will not count.

Candidates not based at all on the above groups CAN still be eligible, INCLUDING dragons, sea serpents, random lizards, and tortoises, IF and ONLY if they meet BOTH following criteria: a) They are clearly reptilian (based on design, not lore), and not fish/eels, too humanoid, or an amalgam of too many different things that renders them no longer really reptilian (like some Asian dragons). b) They are creatures that actually live in an aquatic environment, and are not just "Water type", or a water deity that presides over a body of water without actually living in or being adapted for it. Examples of allowed candidates: Sobble, Seadramon, Mercury from Dragalia Lost, the Water Dragon from Yu-Gi-Oh Examples of ineligible candidates: Kingdra, the Unagi from Avatar, Peng Lai from Dragalia Lost, Milotic

This time, documentary animals are ONLY allowed if the animal was entirely CGI generated. Which is to say, probably only extinct documentary characters. On the other hand, animal characters portrayed by real animals in fiction ARE eligible.

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We conquered the land with the Best Fictional (non-avian) Dinosaur, the skies with the Best Fictional Pterosaur, so that leaves us with one final (earthly) frontier to conquer! So, I introduce you all our next, massive tournament...

The Best Fictional Marine Reptile Tournament, also known as the Mariment!

Yes, I know it's not my best name, but when you start with Saurnament you can only go downhill.

Anyway, this tournament is a bit more complicated than the past few! It will feature, of course, fictional marine reptiles! This is a fairly broad category though, and for the first time on this blog, will feature candidates based off of extant animals!

As for the brackets... I don't really know yet. There will probably be 2 or 3, but there's such a diverse pool (heh) of candidates that grouping them is probably going to get fairly arbitrary, especially since I envision there being 128 per bracket.

So when submissions open I will keep track of different classifications and then do my best to group them in an efficient way. Worst case scenario, we will just do brackets A B and C (and D? and E? idk), which are just arbitrarily divided.

Anyway, as with before, if you want to participate, don't do anything other than tell your friends! Submissions will open uh, eventually, and the polls will begin... well some time after that. Sorry, I have a forced family trip coming up and just need to determine how to place this tournament with regard to that. But yeah, stay tuned!

@tournament-announcer I didn't forget you this time!

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Not related even a little bit to this tournament or the next one, but if any of you happen to be Sonic fans, please give this blog a follow!

ROUND 1 - Pool #2

This Machine vs. No Pain, No Gain

Reblog to help expand this blog's visibility so that we have more voters!

Listen to them in the following links:

This Machine

No Pain, No Gain

Lyrics below!

This Machine

A shadow of myself, just who am I? Scan horizons A tragic mystery You could've left me here, sealed inside the pod No one would ever know The Chaos Control My true identity The power that is me We all danced in fire Trapped in this machine Don't know how long we've waited As the Eggman's watching We all danced in fire Looking through a screen Don't know how long we've waited As the Eggman watches With Rouge in the fight - electric vibes Change surroundings A jewel in history A treasure disappears - as she goes Miss her as we look away - and no one knows This power is a key This power changes me We all danced in fire Trapped in this machine Don't know how long we've waited As the Eggman's watching We all danced in fire Looking through the screen Don't know how long we've waited As the Eggman watches Chaos Control Chaos (4x) Chaos Control Chaos Control Chaos (4x) Chaos Control E-123 You didn't know - now I'm going to show you The power that is me You tried to take me down - stop the show Seems you've never tasted fear - or loss of control The power lives in me The power that is me We all danced in fire Trapped in this machine Don't know how long we've waited As the Eggman's watching We all danced in fire Looking through the screen Don't know how long we've waited As the Eggman watches

No Pain, No Gain

No pain No gain No pain No gain No pain No gain (7x) Keep running No pain No gain (4x) Keep running No pain No gain (10x)

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PETRIE IS THE BEST FICTIONAL PTEROSAUR!!!!!

Despite Swoop's absolutely legendary performance, Petrie has secured a decisive victory, and is thus crowned the Best Fictional Pterosaur! Petrie will join Mononykus in our hall of fame, from the Best Fictional Dinosaur tournament from last winter.

A huge thank you as usual to everyone who voted, especially those that reblogged polls and replied to posts! I wasn't around as much this time due to work related stress, but I still had a lot of fun, and I hope you did too!

We'll definitely be taking a short break, but this ptournament (rip that pun) did prove to be a very successful test of the automation I wrote to manage these tournaments for me, so rest assured, we have more to come!

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Petrie [The Land Before Time] vs. Swoop [Beanie Babies]

Propaganda (if any) under the cut! Please be civil, and feel free to reblog!

Propaganda for Petrie [The Land Before Time]:

"he's a silly little guy <3" "has a "snuggling stick" to keep him calm in scary situations has an imaginary friend who is a theropod dinosaur with no teeth sometimes bullied by his siblings for his clumsiness and anxiety :( vegetarian, only seen eating plants in the series despite pteranodons eating fish in reality"

Propaganda for Swoop [Beanie Babies]:

"Propaganda for Swoop (Beanie Babies): very soft, very friend. Please read the poem found on his tag to understand how sweet he is: "Gliding through the summer sky Looking low and looking high Now I think my quest can end Ive found you, my special friend!""

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Petrie [The Land Before Time] vs. Swoop [Beanie Babies]

Propaganda (if any) under the cut! Please be civil, and feel free to reblog!

Propaganda for Petrie [The Land Before Time]:

"he's a silly little guy <3" "has a "snuggling stick" to keep him calm in scary situations has an imaginary friend who is a theropod dinosaur with no teeth sometimes bullied by his siblings for his clumsiness and anxiety :( vegetarian, only seen eating plants in the series despite pteranodons eating fish in reality"

Propaganda for Swoop [Beanie Babies]:

"Propaganda for Swoop (Beanie Babies): very soft, very friend. Please read the poem found on his tag to understand how sweet he is: "Gliding through the summer sky Looking low and looking high Now I think my quest can end Ive found you, my special friend!""

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Petrie [The Land Before Time] vs. Swoop [Beanie Babies]

Propaganda (if any) under the cut! Please be civil, and feel free to reblog!

Propaganda for Petrie [The Land Before Time]:

"he's a silly little guy <3" "has a "snuggling stick" to keep him calm in scary situations has an imaginary friend who is a theropod dinosaur with no teeth sometimes bullied by his siblings for his clumsiness and anxiety :( vegetarian, only seen eating plants in the series despite pteranodons eating fish in reality"

Propaganda for Swoop [Beanie Babies]:

"Propaganda for Swoop (Beanie Babies): very soft, very friend. Please read the poem found on his tag to understand how sweet he is: "Gliding through the summer sky Looking low and looking high Now I think my quest can end Ive found you, my special friend!""

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Petrie [The Land Before Time] vs. Swoop [Beanie Babies]

Propaganda (if any) under the cut! Please be civil, and feel free to reblog!

Propaganda for Petrie [The Land Before Time]:

"he's a silly little guy <3" "has a "snuggling stick" to keep him calm in scary situations has an imaginary friend who is a theropod dinosaur with no teeth sometimes bullied by his siblings for his clumsiness and anxiety :( vegetarian, only seen eating plants in the series despite pteranodons eating fish in reality"

Propaganda for Swoop [Beanie Babies]:

"Propaganda for Swoop (Beanie Babies): very soft, very friend. Please read the poem found on his tag to understand how sweet he is: "Gliding through the summer sky Looking low and looking high Now I think my quest can end Ive found you, my special friend!""

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Petrie [The Land Before Time] vs. Swoop [Beanie Babies]

Propaganda (if any) under the cut! Please be civil, and feel free to reblog!

Propaganda for Petrie [The Land Before Time]:

"he's a silly little guy <3" "has a "snuggling stick" to keep him calm in scary situations has an imaginary friend who is a theropod dinosaur with no teeth sometimes bullied by his siblings for his clumsiness and anxiety :( vegetarian, only seen eating plants in the series despite pteranodons eating fish in reality"

Propaganda for Swoop [Beanie Babies]:

"Propaganda for Swoop (Beanie Babies): very soft, very friend. Please read the poem found on his tag to understand how sweet he is: "Gliding through the summer sky Looking low and looking high Now I think my quest can end Ive found you, my special friend!""

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Petrie [The Land Before Time] vs. Swoop [Beanie Babies]

Propaganda (if any) under the cut! Please be civil, and feel free to reblog!

Propaganda for Petrie [The Land Before Time]:

"he's a silly little guy <3" "has a "snuggling stick" to keep him calm in scary situations has an imaginary friend who is a theropod dinosaur with no teeth sometimes bullied by his siblings for his clumsiness and anxiety :( vegetarian, only seen eating plants in the series despite pteranodons eating fish in reality"

Propaganda for Swoop [Beanie Babies]:

"Propaganda for Swoop (Beanie Babies): very soft, very friend. Please read the poem found on his tag to understand how sweet he is: "Gliding through the summer sky Looking low and looking high Now I think my quest can end Ive found you, my special friend!""

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I heard about your tornament just in time to vote at least once for Petrie

Awesome, better late than never! And certainly no better ptime to make your vote count than the ptournament finals!

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Petrie [The Land Before Time] vs. Swoop [Beanie Babies]

Propaganda (if any) under the cut! Please be civil, and feel free to reblog!

Propaganda for Petrie [The Land Before Time]:

"he's a silly little guy <3" "has a "snuggling stick" to keep him calm in scary situations has an imaginary friend who is a theropod dinosaur with no teeth sometimes bullied by his siblings for his clumsiness and anxiety :( vegetarian, only seen eating plants in the series despite pteranodons eating fish in reality"

Propaganda for Swoop [Beanie Babies]:

"Propaganda for Swoop (Beanie Babies): very soft, very friend. Please read the poem found on his tag to understand how sweet he is: "Gliding through the summer sky Looking low and looking high Now I think my quest can end Ive found you, my special friend!""

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PTOURNAMENT FINALIST OVERVIEW

With the finals live (go vote!!!), let's take a quick look at our finalists and see how they match up against each other.

Petrie (Land Before Time)

I think most of us probably knew Petrie would make it this far, and he did not disappoint! Petrie has coasted to victory very smoothly, boasting the second highest score instance (87.15%), from all polls!

Additionally, Petrie has the second highest overall average score, at 73.848%. And in terms of raw vote numbers, Petrie performs very well, having the 10th highest average vote count at 114.

None of Petrie's matches were especially close either, with his minimum winning score being 67.05%.

These are incredible scores, and would normally indicate a secured win, however...

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Swoop (Beanie Babies)

Swoop's performance has been nothing short of spectacular. Remember how I said Petrie had the second highest vote instance among all polls? Well, not only does Swoop have the first highest individual poll score, at 88.69%, but in fact, while Petrie is in second place, Swoop also holds spots 3 and 4! This demonstrates Swoop's track record of routinely scoring huge wins.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Swoop also has the first highest overall score, at 75.244%, beating Petrie again by a small margin. In terms of average raw vote count though, Swoop swoops in at a whopping 405, securing second place by a huge margin.

Swoop did occasionally have a tougher time than Petrie though, with his smallest winning score being 57.14%.

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And there you have it! Our two finalists boast impressive track records, meaning it is very much anyone's game!

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Petrie [The Land Before Time] vs. Swoop [Beanie Babies]

Propaganda (if any) under the cut! Please be civil, and feel free to reblog!

Propaganda for Petrie [The Land Before Time]:

"he's a silly little guy <3" "has a "snuggling stick" to keep him calm in scary situations has an imaginary friend who is a theropod dinosaur with no teeth sometimes bullied by his siblings for his clumsiness and anxiety :( vegetarian, only seen eating plants in the series despite pteranodons eating fish in reality"

Propaganda for Swoop [Beanie Babies]:

"Propaganda for Swoop (Beanie Babies): very soft, very friend. Please read the poem found on his tag to understand how sweet he is: "Gliding through the summer sky Looking low and looking high Now I think my quest can end Ive found you, my special friend!""

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Swoop [Beanie Babies] vs. Aerodactyl [Pokemon]

Propaganda (if any) under the cut! Please be civil, and feel free to reblog!

Propaganda for Swoop [Beanie Babies]:

"Propaganda for Swoop (Beanie Babies): very soft, very friend. Please read the poem found on his tag to understand how sweet he is: "Gliding through the summer sky Looking low and looking high Now I think my quest can end Ive found you, my special friend!""

Propaganda for Aerodactyl [Pokemon]:

"As you may or may not know, there's a real life pterosaur that was named after Aerodactyl!: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerodactylus"