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congrats threedelgado for winning the bracket!!! i hope this inspires you all to go write more threegado fic and fill the tag!

[ID: A collage of threedelgado images with the words "congrats!!! three/delgado on the win" in the middle over the TARDIS]

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This is genuinely a little mean. You're running a meaningless shipping poll blog. It's really not that deep and certainly not deep enough to slap fans of a ship in the face after they won your stupid ass poll. When a ship wins, you get butthurt and tell all the people voting for it you wish you hadn't included it? Not even a winner post first, just straight up spitting in fan's faces for no reason. It's not like it was a Thoschei sweep either lol there were several Thoschei variants in the poll that all lost except for threegado, which you also put in a tie break DESPITE it (incredibly narrowly) winning the vote. So which is it? It's too popular to be paired against other ships or so narrowly winning it deserves a tie break? If you can't take people not voting for what you want them to vote for or at least respect them enough to not be rude about it, don't run a voting blog like?? What did you expect?

I'm sorry it was mean, I shouldn't've phrased it that way and I should have been much more considerate of how it would make Thoschei votes feel. To clarify: I made that post because of how many rude comments I have gotten about Thoschei specifically being in this poll, because of how I feel about the way I've been treated.

But speaking of being mean, I need you to understand that you have no idea how much shit I've gotten for Thoschei and Threegado being in this poll. I don't post it. I don't screenshot tags and say, "hey, this really hurt my feelings". Anytime I call something out, I am very careful to keep it anonymous and be clear I am not attacking the people who said it.

I'm seventeen years old, guys. I'm currently concerned about college and my math grade. When I made this ship tourney I wanted to have fun, which I did with the first tournament. But the rarepair one just hasn't been fun for me.

You guys have critiqued these ships, critiqued my choices, critiqued my criteria. You won't go to the effort of giving me propaganda on polls, only saying that the other ship is a stupid choice. What I wanted was community, a chance to spread rarepairs, add to ao3 tags, maybe make a few tags. Instead, it was hard to run this poll because I felt so attacked. That's what's been with the sporadic updates, by the way.

I'm sorry I put Threedago in a tiebreak. I don't remember that. At the time, I probably had a good reason, or it fit something I had decided, like .1 percent wasn't enough to go on.

Like you said, this is a supid ass poll. It's my stupid ass poll, and if I feel attacked, I might retaliate, because I'm a teenager who started this poll to have fun and spread ships and get ideas (and maybe ruthlessly root for my ot3). Why are you sending a seventeen year old hate anons for a stupid ass poll?

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Ok I'm gonna be honest if I could redo this I wouldn't include Thoschei except in polyships

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And Three/Delgado!Master wins the rarepair bracket!! I will make an official post later!

Rarepair Bracket Finals!

Which Doctor Who rarepair do you prefer?

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WHO SUFFERED MORE

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As you should! The main purpose I had going into this tournament was to get everyone to write more for rarepairs and fill the ao3 tags more!

Rarepair Bracket Finals!

Which Doctor Who rarepair do you prefer?

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Because they both fit the given rarepair criteria for the tournament, which is under 1k fics on ao3, and because all the rarer rarepairs got voted out before the finals, due to the fact that this is a popularity contest

Rarepair Bracket Finals!

Which Doctor Who rarepair do you prefer?

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tyssa all the way but its absolutely not a rarepair

neither is threedago, how did you get here?

Okay, so I'm nearly at the end of my rope with this, like then more tags and one more ask away from starting to block. So let's go over it again.

My criteria for rarepair was under 1000 fics on ao3. Some of the ships in tournament had zero fics on ao3. Some had a lot more. But none exceeded 1000. In fact, you may be surprised, but they don't have even that much!

[ID: Two ao3 screenshots, reading "1-20 of 256 Works in Third Doctor/The Master (Delgado)" and "1-20 of 242 Works in Tegan Jovanka/Nyssa of Traken"]

Some of the pairs included in this tournament only have one page on ao3. Some are really pushing the 1000 fics limit. But this is inherently a popularity contest, because it's focusing on which rarepairs people prefer vs which pairs are more rare.

I'm a rarepair fan! This bracket gave me a lot of ideas, as I hope it did you all. But I'm not required to justify why these pairings are included again and again.

If you want to make sure Tyssa and Threegado aren't considered rarepairs here, add more works to their ao3 tag. I don't mean to be bitter, but I've really enjoyed this bracket. It feels like my pride and joy. I don't want to be nasty, it just gets tiring. We had 256 competitors. (ha! same number as works in the threegado tag). If you wanted less rarepairs to win, well, you should have voted for some of the rarer ones.

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We all know that had tentooriverrose been included in the ship bracket per my submission, it would have swept so hard that no one else would have stood a chance

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Friendly reminder that rarepair in this context means "under 1000 fics on ao3" and that while, yes, these very much are popular rarepair, any tournament with over 200 ships competing is going to have popular ones win

Rarepair Bracket Finals!

Which Doctor Who rarepair do you prefer?

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Rarepair Bracket Finals!

Which Doctor Who rarepair do you prefer?

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Rarepair Bracket Finals!

Which Doctor Who rarepair do you prefer?

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Congrats on getting into college!

thank you!!

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sorry about taking so long i had college stress

just got into my top choice school tho (rolling admission) so the final should be out tmrw

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[ID: bracket going up to the finals, which are the names listed below]

FINALS:

Tegan Jovanka/Nyssa of Traken vs Three/Delgado!Master

[ID: A bracket containing the pairings listed below]

Final Rarepair Bracket Round 1 Pairings:

Rose Tyler/Gwenyth vs Rani Chandra/Clyde Langer

Bel/Inston-Vee Vinder vs Missy!Master/River Song

Twelve/Jack Harkness vs Bill Potts/Jenny (The Doctor’s Daughter)

Ace McShane/Tegan Jovanka vs Thirteen/Kate Stewart

Thirteen/Jack Harkness/Rose Tyler/Yasmin Khan/River Song vs Tegan Jovanka/Nyssa of Traken

Bill Potts/Yasmin Khan vs River Song/Rose Tyler 

Theta Sigma/Koschei vs Barbara Wright/Ian Chesterton

Missy!Master/Clara Oswald vs Ace McShane/Mel Bush

Donna Noble/Lee McAvoy vs Gwen Cooper/Jack Harkness/Owen Harper/Ianto Jones/Toshiko Sato

Jo Grant/Sarah Jane Smith vs Two/Jamie McCrimmon

Ten/Jack Harkness/Rose Tyler vs Nine/Jack Harkness/Rose Tyler

Eight/Jacobi!Master vs Thirteen/Missy!Master

Leela/Romana II vs Jack Harkness/Rose Tyler

Liv Chenka/Helen Sinclair vs Twelve/Missy!Master/River Song/Clara Oswald

Three/Delgado!Master vs Twelve/Missy!Master/River Song

Clara Oswald/Jane Austen vs Valeyard/Master

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PROPAGANDA UNDER THE CUT: [SPOILERS AND POSSIBLE TRIGGERS AHEAD]

JACK HARKNESS:

ACHILLES:

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