#discworld bracket tournament

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MOIST VON LIPWIG WOULD WANT YOU TO COMMIT VOTER FRAUD

[fictional-god-poll]

DEATH from DISCWORLD is the winner of the FICTIONAL REAPER POLL!

I honestly had no idea what discworld was when I started this poll, color me fucking shocked.

Thank you to all who participated!

The next poll will be for fictional Cupids/love spirits. This one’s a bit difficult so I’ll need your help on this one. Reply to this post with character suggestions! The Cupid poll should be up within 4 days.

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[school-of-all-time]

Round Four, Bracket 1

[monstrous-tournament]

+++Hello Roundworld!+++

I've seen my fair share of Discworld polls by now, and every character bracket that contains the Big Wukwuks like Sam Vimes, Death, Granny Weatherwax etc., always sees them win - so I'm proposing a different approach.

I'm going to offer, over the next months, brackets that will include a set of characters MINUS the Big Wukwuk you'd expect in that set of characters. Say, "Favorite Watch Character (minus Sam Vimes)" and so on. I'm going to roughly follow the character groupings that the L-Space wiki uses, but I'm also thinking of other groupings - feel free to suggest some!

Basically, if a character is the main protagonist of a series of stories, they count as a Big Wukwuk and will be banned from participating in a bracket. For main protagonists of just one story (such as Victor Tugelbend and Polly Perks), I'm going to use my own discretion as pertains to the bracket they're in. Basically, I want brackets in which the smaller wuks have a chance to win!

As of now, I'm thinking of the following brackets:

Favorite Watch Character (minus Sam Vimes and Captain Carrot)

Favorite Ankh-Morpork Character (minus Vetinari and Moist von Lipwig)

Favorite Unseen University Character (minus Mustrum Ridcully and Rincewind)

Favorite Witches Character (minus Esmeralda Weatherwax and Tiffany Aching)

Favorite Death's Domain and Other Supernatural Entities Character (minus Death and Susan Sto Helit)

Favorite Miscellaneous Character

Favorite Dwarf (minus Cheery Littlebottom)

Favorite Troll (minus Detritus)

Favorite Igor (minus Igor)

Favorite Non-Humanoid Character (minus the Librarian)

and perhaps even a bracket of bracket-winners!

Let me know what you think; submissions are open if you want to tell me about your favorite character and which bracket they should absolutely go into, or which bracket opportunity I'm totally missing, etc etc etc.

[fairytale-poll]

QUARTERFINAL ROUND, MATCH 4 OUT OF 4! FINALS FOR SET D!

Propaganda Under the Cut:

Cinders:

She spent decades searching every moon and planet trying to find her wife (Rose), who was kidnapped on their wedding day. Eventually, she found Rose, and they embraced, only for Rose to die in Cinder's arms. And so Cinder killed the king who had kidnapped Rose by punching through his chest and into his heart.

And then Cinder got a somewhat happy ending, in which she met Rose's clone who had Rose's memories.

What if Cinderella was a Sci-Fi lesbian? Well here she is. She has a whole love song about searching the stars for her girlfriend after their wedding was interrupted and she was taken away. She spends years searching only to when she finally finds and embraces her watch her be shot. Cinders is so devastated by this that she plunges her wedding ring into the heart of the man who shot her love killing him.

Lesbian space princess who elopes with the terrifying soldier who was previously conquering her planet and spends decades searching for her when they're separated. Listen to her song https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6w9V-gMgBF4

I think the way she punches the evil king through the heart as revenge for her wife is pretty neat.

She’s a revolutionary married to a woman, what’s not to love? From Cinders’ Song: “ When I was a little girl, my mother always told me / "Someday your prince will come, my love" / But as I grew, I knew it was a princess who would hold me”.

her girlfriend got cloned and most of said clones were brutally slaughtered in war and she searched for her girlfriend all throughout the galaxy and when they were finally reunited on the battlefield her girlfriend died. and a clone of her girlfriend who due to technical errors retained her memories, so does that count as the same girlfriend? theseus's girlfriend? anyway vote for cinders she's been through hell

Lesbian!! Has to search for her lost love Rose with her glass wedding ring that changes color when its near its partner!! Gets to embrace Rose once again for one final moment before the villain kills Rose right in front of her!! So Cinders kills him in return!! And she's left as (almost) the only surviving main character from her own album but!! She is eventually reunited with a clone of Rose, and while they cannot have a truly 'happy ever after' together they are the ones graced with the closest thing to it

SPACE LESBIANS (she's in love with Rose Red, who gets kidnapped on their wedding day and Cinders searches the galaxy to find her, waiting for her white ring to turn crimson, indicating that its twin was near) She took her name from the ashes of her burning planet <3 She also killed Old King Cole >:)

shes a tragic lesbian and killed a violent dictator shes literally the best

shes gay shes traumatized she dates both rose red and sleeping beauty. badass space wanderer looking for her wife

Her wife Rose gets kidnapped on their wedding day and Cinders spend the next thirty years looking for her. She finds her (:D) and then Rose dies (D:) and then Cinders kills the guy who killed Rose (girlboss).

shes a lesbian. she lost her wife, Rose (yes, as in sleeping beauty) the day they got married bc she was kidnapped. she spent 20 YEARS looking for her. as soon as she found her wife, Rose DIED IN HER ARMS. Cinders has gone through Too Much to lose this poll

(Her info from the wiki) the Princess of a planet burnt by King Cole's army, after it is ceded by her stepmother. She is imprisoned, meets Rose and plans to marry her. She is released by her godmother for the wedding, then flees when the attack happens, spending thirty years looking for Rose. Her half of the wedding ring will light up when she finds Rose.

"When I was a little girl, my mother always told me 'Someday your prince will come, my love' But as I grew, I knew it was a princess who would hold me I looked to the stars for you, my love" She's lesbian Cinderella IN SPACE. She fell in love with her wife in prison and they ran away to have a secret marriage but the empire kidnapped Rose on their wedding night and Cinders had to leave her behind. She searches for Rose for decades with the glass ring that guides her to its twin on her wife's finger. She finally reunites with her love after Rose rips three supersoldiers to pieces with her bare hands (hot) but then then the evil king kills Rose so Cinders fucking punches through his heart. And then a clone of Rose (who is also lesbian Sleeping Beauty IN SPACE) finds her cradling her wife's body and they have a happy reunion(?) and maybe they didn't have a happy ending BUT WHAT IF THEY HAD EACH OTHER? HUH? AAAAAH

she’s everything. she’s a princess from a long since conquered planet. she was imprisoned to make a statement of the brutal reign of old king cole. she met her wife while she was in prison, a beautiful brutal soldier covered in scars from battles. cinders and rose fell in love, so cinders’ godmother in white broke her out of jail so rose and cinders could be together. they were going to be married, except that OLD KING COLE intervened and kidnapped rose to make her the genetic base of his unholy army. so cinders spends THIRTY YEARS searching the galaxies for her love (and sings a really cool song about it called “Cinders’ Song”) until finally she arrives during the final battle just in time to see old king cole SHOOT ROSE DEAD. so cinders punches the king so hard (with her wedding ring) that he just Crumples Into Dust. the end! (no we do not talk about the fiction.)

lesbian, for one, and for two i don't really care i just think it'd be cool if she got in/if she made it past the first round

no one seems to have linked cinder’s song yet, so here [Link]

better yet, listen to the whole album too, for context and also what comes after. it slaps and also tragedy it's such a good album suhc a good band too

Someone already sent the song as propaganda, so I will provide SPOILER propaganda. [Click link to see spoilers.]

[Link]

Ella:

so this is a discworld story, and in discworld stories are sort of parasitic life forms that like to happen over and over. they can be harnessed, with enough magic. this is what’s happening to ella saturday, who is playing the parts of both cinderella and the frog princess. her evil fairy godmother (you get two, an evil one and a good one, though her evil one is under the impression that she’s the good one) has taken over the city, and is forcing everyone into fairytale roles under the threat of execution if they’re not quite archetypal enough. she thinks this will make people happy. ella, on account of being the dead  barons daughter, has gotten the role of princess. so she’s being kept in a house with two snakes who have been turned into human women, and is being forced to go to the ball, where she is expected to dance with the duc, who is a frog turned into a human, and kiss him to solidify the spell. she very much does not want to do any of this, but fortunately she’s got that other fairy godmother! who is brand new, on account of the last one died, and has no idea what she’s doing. but it all turns out ok in the end, and the stories stop (for a given value) and she’s the baroness now a they all live, if not happily or ever after, then normally, and for a time

[ultimate-rat-bracket]

The bRATcket

ROUND TWO!

Finally for today, we have the transforming robotic rat Rattrap VS. the tiniest grim reaper you ever did see, the Death of Rats!

[namedafterflowerstournament]

Botanic Tournament : Unspecific Flowers 1 Poll !

* With the four quarter-finalists of their bracket that didn't make it to the main bracket so far

Twoflower (Discworld book series)

Ianthe Tridentarius (The Locked Tomb series) - ianthe (from the Greek) means purple flower

Lúthien Tinúviel (The Silmarillion) - lúthien means "daughter of flowers" in Sindarin (fictional elfish language)

V-Flower (Vocaloid)

Only one will make it !

[relatableblorbopoll]

Round 1 of preliminaries, group 7

The first two places get a place on the bracket

Little reminder: there will be 2 more rounds of preliminaries, the losing blorbos of this poll still have 2 chances of getting in the official bracket

Propaganda under the cut

Rigby (Regular Show)

"i relate to him a lot because he started the show as an insufferable piece of shit (i used to be insufferable too) and then he starts dating Eileen and becomes a better person (i became a better person after i started dating my girlfriend) and his friendship with Mordecai just reminds me a whole lot of my dynamics with my best friend. he really is just like me fr"

Angua von Überwald (Discworld)

"Okay SO she's a werewolf who ran away from home because her parents are awful and then changed her name. Her parents ignore her existence and when they're confronted by her they use her old name that she Discarded because they are the worst. She's a vegetarian by day and doesn't eat people at full moon (one drop is one too many) but she Pays for all chickens she kills because that's not what an animal does. She is So angry and So hateful and So wrong about So many things but she Learns and Grows through the books. When she falls in love she fully believes she will be chased out of the town when the clock strikes midnight because nobody can accept her for who she truly is but THEN her lover finds OUT and he is shocked and confused at first but he loves her and LEARNS about her and puts aside his prejudice and they both grow as people over the course of several books and I love her so much your honor she is just like me fr fr"

Cao Weining (Word of Honor)

"ready to risk it all for a pretty girl who can and will beat his ass. just wants to eat a bunch of good food with his girlfriend"

Aang (Avatar: The Last Air Bender)

"12 years old, told you’re going to be the most powerful and important person in the world—and that you need to start like tomorrow. I’d runaway too."

Okuyasu Nijimura (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure)

"YES, he says he isn’t too smart but he tries his best, he yells a lot when he isn’t supposed to, he puts things bluntly, he is menacing with a heart of gold, AND HE MAKE THE FUNNY FACE"

Shin Tsukimi (Your Turn to Die)

"-He is extremely weak. A literal twelve year old boy is stronger than him. He struggled to open a sliding door cabinet. -He's a liar, but like.. some of it is super funny. He lies about just the most random shit. He claimed that he simply 'didn't know how to do a push-up', and that's why he didn't want to do one. When in reality, he's actually just too physically weak to do one. -He has major beef with, (and is jealous of), a random seventeen year old girl. He is twenty something. His number one worst enemy is some random teenage girl.... same, honestly. -He uses really... strange.. wording. I mean this very affectionately. But it's hard to defend him when he says stuff like 'riffraff' and 'casting pearls before swine'. -Terrible fashion. I mean, just look at him. -Autism. -He enjoys cute cat plushies."

[raddest-hat-showdown]

🎩RADDEST HAT LOSERS ROUND👒

Choose who will make it into the Loser's Bracket!

[numberednamestournament]

R2D2 no propaganda

Xion propaganda

N°1 propaganda

Twoflower no propaganda

Nuengdiao propaganda

[mostredactedbracket]

BIGGEST RISK TO NATIONAL SECURITY BRACKET ROUND 1

Jade Harley- just a normal girl living on her island with her radioactive god dog about to play a videogame that ends the universe

Moist Von Lipwig- "I'm gonna con the government so hard!" *accidentally fixes infrastructure*

[fictional-god-poll]

[discworldbooksbracket]

[school-of-all-time]

School of All Time Final!

Welcome to the final!!

Asks are open if you want to send in propaganda. May the best (most interesting, most awful, most iconic, whatever) school win!

This tournament began with 256 schools (technically more if you count the qualifying rounds). If you want to know how we got here, you can see all the brackets below the cut:

The final bracket:

The preliminary brackets:

[monstrous-tournament]

Ankh-Morpork City Watch Tournament!

(minus the Big Wukwuk His Grace Sir Samuel Vimes The Duke of Ankh, Commander)

(I know I said Lancre next, but this one is a bit easier to set up; Lancre will be next after this!)

Round 1 brackets:

Carrot Ironfoundersson vs. André, Cable Street Particulars

Detritus vs. Buggy Swires

Dorfl vs. Visit-The-Infidel-With-Explanatory-Pamphlets

Angua von Überwald vs. Wee Mad Arthur

Cheery Littlebottom vs. Sally von Humpeding

Nobby Nobbs vs. Cuddy

Reg Shoe vs. A.E. Pessimal

Errol the Swamp Dragon vs. Fred Colon