#robot bracket

[robotskissingrobots]

V2 X MIRAGE STATUS : FANON

PROPAGANDA : "Mirage is what I'd classify as a human-coded machine, her characteristics are nigh indistinguishable from a human's beyond her appearance. V2 is... just a machine. marketed as a sentient swiss army knife as a desperate effort to make money.

this shows through their stories, which are strongly themed around the concepts of mind and body respectively: M almost entirely dismissing the physical world around her in favor of obsessing over her mind, and V2 thinking of nothing but the theft of their body.

on the more poetic front: despite all odds toward the contrary, Mirage is alive, and V2 is dead.

despite this, or perhaps inevitably due to the single-rail nature of their storylines, M begins to intentionally care about her physical world and self, and V2 starts to think about the nature of itself and its role, thus subverting themselves and crossing over one another.

neither will make the same mistakes the other happened to make, because they have the other to guide them.

conversely both will appreciate watching the other's growth, and see themself in the other. they appreciate each other's company on a general basis of "you won't kill me, and I like to talk to you" but also on the deeper basis of "we're both willing to learn from each other"

on the actual relationship note it's kind of a grey area between friends/lovers situation, really no point in defining a relationship when you're the only two beings in existence.

general physicality is an inevitability (see latter part of previous statement, plus they're both engineered to connect with others), but I'd imagine anything they do romantically or sexually begins more as a calculated experiment than pure instinct. they also just like each other! they both want to make the other feel good!" -recursivetransformarray

V1 X GABRIEL STATUS : FANON

PROPAGANDA : N/A

[the-robot-bracket]

Semi Finals

Hatsune Miku propaganda

GLaDOS propaganda

Yes, Miku is considered a robot for this tournament, so don't complain about it like with Janet or Hal9000

[the-ghost-bracket]

Operetta propaganda:

"She has a southern accent and her existence raises so many questions I love her"

[the-puppet-bracket]

Hello and welcome to the Puppet Bracket, the place for fictional puppets, muppets and dolls!

They can be kid friendly, possessed or anything else really, the only catch is they have to be a fictional character from a movie, video game or book etc. Characters portrayed by muppets/puppets are welcome to.

Human possession doesn't count though, sorry

@tournament-announcer

[sexiestpodcastcharacter]

*clanking pots and pans* New bracket! I'm running a new bracket! Submit entries to the new bracket here!

Is your character:

Real?

Organic?

Capable of fitting through a doorway?

From a text-, video-, toy-, or musical-based medium?

If you answered "No" to all four questions, then your character may be eligible for the Best Fiction Podcast AI Bracket coming soon* to sexiestpodcastcharacter.tumblr.com!

There will be preliminaries for any podcast with more than two AIs submitted! Plus any other adjustments necessary** for us to start with a nice even power of two.

*By "soon" I mean May because I'm supposed to be getting ready for a trip now, going on said trip at the beginning of April, and working overtime at the end of April. But we will see where my self-control takes me.

**Usually characters that are from primarily video streaming mediums, such as Critical Role or Dimension 20, are not allowed in my brackets, but if it will make the number of submissions a natural power of two I may allow them, just this once.

No pressure to reblog, but these tournaments inspired this one! @tournament-announcer (okay this one isn't a tournament), @cpu-gpu-smackdown, @killerrobot-killingmatch, @mattapparentlystumbltourneys, @sapient-locations-bracket, @the-robot-bracket, @best-bot-tournament-2023, @roboswagbracket, @robo-swag, @robot-swag-competition, @fuckablerobotbracket, and honestly probably some other ones. What can I say? I love robots!***

***Robots that are more likely to be classified as "robots" than "AI", such as my beloveds AuDy, Thisbe, LEO(h), and even precious Boots who can probably not fit through doorways, are not currently eligible.

Generative AI fans and advocates do not interact! This poll is for fictional characters written and performed with intent only!

[sexiest-objects-tournament]

Please share propaganda in the notes!

[bestest-brackets]

Happy Holidays! Here’s a present for you:

A New Bracket Announcement!!

If it looks interesting, give it a reblog and don’t forget to vote!

The first round should be up the day after Christmas. Nothing is going to be posted on Christmas.

The competitors are listed below.

Best Stressed Blonde Man Bracket

Raidiese F. Branstein (Super Robot Wars)

Loid Forger/Twilight (Spy x Family)

Ishido Shuuji (Inazuma Eleven GO)

Vinsmoke Sanji (One Piece)

Nanami Kento (Jujutsu Kaisen)

Xander (Fire Emblem: Fates)

Shirogane Miyuki (Kaguya-sama: Love is War)

Hoshino Aquamarine (Oshi no Ko)

Sissel (Ghost Trick)

Howard Link (D.Gray Man)

Soowon (Yona of the Dawn)

Leonidas (Dragalia Lost)

Kunikida Doppo (Bungo Stray Dogs)

Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)

Tyler Osgood (LBX)

Natori Shuuichi (Natsume’s Book of Friends)

[best-female-villain-tournament]

Bracket B

Round 1b

[sapphiccharacterstournament]

Canon Sapphic Characters Tournament Round One (Bracket 8)

[teslasuccession]

The Grimes daughter vs the daughter who speaks out for us.

ARGUMENTS

EXA DARK SIDRAEL

She stays out of the spotlight which is her right. She soundly beat her brother. Can she beat her half sister?

- MG

VIVIAN

EVERYONE GIVE IT UP FOR VIV ! The eldest daughter. The world class favourite, we love her so much. Once again, fun trans icon against her father, who vocally makes fun of him online.

Quote: ”He’s a pathetic man-child. Why would I feel scared of him?… I don’t give a f**k. why should I be scared of this man? Because he’s rich? Oh, no, I’m trembling. Ooh, shivering in my boots here. I don’t give a f**k how much money anyone has.”

A neon genesis evangelion enjoyer, and a hater of her dads actions - thus changing her last name to Wilson after her mother. She's great.

- MB

[its-to-the-death]

Villain Song Showdown Bracket B Round 1

Robot Hell (Futurama) - Villain: The Robot Devil

Yodel-Aadle-Eedle-Idle-Oo (Home on the Range) - Villain: Alameda Slim

[robotskissingrobots]

V2 X MIRAGE STATUS : FANON

PROPAGANDA : "Mirage is what I'd classify as a human-coded machine, her characteristics are nigh indistinguishable from a human's beyond her appearance. V2 is... just a machine. marketed as a sentient swiss army knife as a desperate effort to make money.

this shows through their stories, which are strongly themed around the concepts of mind and body respectively; M almost entirely dismissing the physical world around her in favor of obsessing over her mind, and V2 thinking of nothing but the theft of their body.

on the more poetic front; despite all odds toward the contrary, Mirage is alive, and V2 is dead.

despite this, or perhaps inevitably due to the single-rail nature of their storylines, M begins to intentionally care about her physical world and self, and V2 starts to think about the nature of itself and its role, thus subverting themselves and crossing over one another.

neither will make the same mistakes the other happened to make, because they have the other to guide them.

conversely both will appreciate watching the other's growth, and see themself in the other. they appreciate each other's company on a general basis of "you won't kill me, and I like to talk to you" but also on the deeper basis of "we're both willing to learn from each other"

on the actual relationship note it's kind of a grey area between friends/lovers situation, really no point in defining a relationship when you're the only two beings in existence.

general physicality is an inevitability (see latter part of previous statement, plus they're both engineered to connect with others), but I'd imagine anything they do romantically or sexually begins more as a calculated experiment than pure instinct. they also just like each other! they both want to make the other feel good!" -recursivetransformarray

V1 X GABRIEL STATUS : DUBIOUSLY CANON?

PROPAGANDA : N/A

WALL E X EVE STATUS : CANON

PROPAGANDA : "I love Wall-E and Eve so much. That movie was my childhood, and they are THE robot couple. Their romance is so good they don't even need to speak! Define dancing is one of the best scenes from anything ever, and Wall-E x Eve is one of the best romances from anything ever" - guy who submitted them

if theres another tie wall-e and eve will be added to the group because i think thatd be funny

[the-robot-bracket]

Finale

Iron Giant propaganda and Soundwave propaganda

Hatsune Miku propaganda

[the-ghost-bracket]

wait so is everyone on the most submitted list definitely in?? like would it be unnecessary to submit any of them again to make sure theyre def in?? im a lil confused lol

They are definitely in the poll, but you can still submit new entries, especially for new propaganda in the main poll!

If you want to see how that works (I don't know if you've seen my original poll, I'm just assuming you didn't), look at my other poll @the-robot-bracket

I link propaganda to the main polls, so it's easier to decide which one to choose even if you don't know either character

[the-puppet-bracket]

Hoping to start the first polls in a week.

First Week

Second Week

Third Week

Fourth Week

Fifth Week

Sixth Week

Seventh Week

Eighth Week

[robot-riot]

You think you're gonna take us down? Well Mechanical Man you just try it! You're gonna ride that rail out of town cause it's a

ROBOT RIOT!!

Welcome one and all, organical and mechanical alike to the Robot Riot! Here we're going to pit robots and their meatbag pals against one another to see who is the truly superior team!

What exactly does that mean? Up to you! Are they playing Monopoly? Are they fighting to the death? Who knows! Either way it's a Robot Riot! Maybe they're having a joke competition, then it's a Robot Laugh Riot. Vote using whatever criteria you want; I will not judge you. Publicly. Probably.

So before we get to that little submission form, a couple rules.

Each team must consist of 1 robot + 1 organic buddy pal partner colleague etc. AI count, so duos like Master Chef + Cortana or Epsilon + Carolina qualify, and pets count, so duos like Data and Spot or Jimmy and Goddard count.

The only qualifiers are that the relationship must have received some kind of attention from the narrative (ex Boyd and Huey but not Boyd and Dewey), and the relationship must be positive (ex Data and Geordi, Data and Riker) or neutral (ex PotatOS and Chell, Norm and Doofenshmirtz). If you're unsure or the canon is unclear, it'll go to the judges.

I am still on the fence about trios; tentative ruling is if the relationship is strong on all three sides feel free to submit it, but specify which two you'd prefer to submit as a duo just in case I decide not to do trios.

Don't spam submissions! Numbers aren't even going to be the only factor in choosing who gets in anyway so it's not even guaranteed to help, but if I suspect you're spamming one duo I may disqualify them. One submission per duo per person.

One duo per submission! If you have more than one duo, submit them separately, please.

No ocs (sorry), no characters from Harry Potter or Critical Role, no real people.

Submissions will remain open till Sunday, August 13, 2o23, which will give you plenty of time and me a chance to get through my current tournament.

And here's the submission form:

Obligatory tagging some other polls for visibility under the cut:

@crossovershipstournament @obscurecharactershowdown @retirement-home-rumble @blue-character-brawl @orangecharactersmackdown @steve-smackdown @bugcrimesbracket