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We absolutely love the poll result grabber you posted. We use it to keep track of who is winning without having to cast a vote and potentially mess up a couple of the closer polls we have had. And it also makes it easier to calculate how many votes separate the options so we don't have to do the calculations

If you made it: Thanks!

If you didn't but know who did: could you thank them for us?

And if you don't know, then maybe they'll see this when you have a moment to come back and get the message...

@rolluptheclouds did you make https://glittering.world/poll-grabber? You've been thanked!

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Do you know of any tournaments about teenagers unreasonably hated by the fandom? I found out about yall-hate-kids-tourney and immediately thought of Wesley Crusher but he's too old for that one ofc

I don’t know anon, maybe someone else does? Or check @tournamentdirectory!

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No worries about the hiatus, take care of yourself. Thanks for all you do!

thank you!!!! :)

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hey, I'm on indefinite hiatus for a bit. I've been on it for a while, really, I just didn't announce it.

I'm feeling pretty tired just doing my daily activities, and tournamentdirectory isn't in the same sort of hyperfocused-effortlessness that it was when I started. I just don't have the energy to spare.

I can still publish #tournament ideas, and will, or respond to some asks. the actual entries will likely not be posted for quite some time.

sorry. thanks for understanding.

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another tournament idea. you may have heard of "blue hair and pronouns" or "white hair and trauma" (anime boy trope I think) but consider. "blue eyes and trauma" bracket. you know the type. the really vivid aqua blue eyes with no shines that's a little dead inside.

please someone make this i don't have the time. or alternately if this already exists please link me in the notes so i can be abnormal about the characters. thank you

@ me if you make it!

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Tournament ideas I have

Mamas boy bracket: aka a bracket for people who would do the most insane stuff for their parents, it is just to see who loves their parent the most (think Percy Jackson, Eleanor Lamb from bioshock)

Awful haircut showdown: for all fictional characters who’s hair is just AWFUL

Cheese battle: it is just to see which cheese is the best cheese

I can probably think of some more but my creative juices are non existent ATM

@ me if you make it!

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some tournament ideas that i have been clinging to but don't think I'll ever have the time to run:

"echo" tourney, for characters that only/mostly speak using snippets of things they've heard/seen before (ex. Lapis from Steven Universe, Bumblebee from Transformers (in some iterations at least), relevant to me as an autistic person who regularly loses speech

conceited loserguy tourney, for characters that act like they think they are hot shit but are secretly really pathetic and/or sad (NOT derogatory. this is said with love), need a hug, and/or have deep-set self loathing (ex. shintaro kisaragi from the kagerou project, leon fou bartfort from the anime "trapped in a dating sim: the world of otome games is hard for mobs", natsuki subaru from re:zero)

the unpredictable tourney, in which submitters submit pairs of characters that they want to see matched up with one another, along with the topic they want their matchup to be for (ex. a submission could be "hoshino ai (oshi no ko) versus pinkie pie (my little pony) for the title of Most Depressed"); a preliminary round would be run with as many of these matchups as desired, and then the victors would go against a randomized opponent for a randomized matchup topic (so you could get something like "pinkie pie versus entrapta: who is the most morally reprehensible?"); rinse and repeat as many times as interested or until only one victor remains! the way I'm picturing this one, the first preliminary round could have duplicate characters which would then be removed for the second and future rounds

@ me if you make them!

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I was thinking of starting a tournament but don't want to copy somebody else's on accident. Is there a tournament for characters with numbered names, like C3P0?

Followers?

But don't be afraid to duplicate! the more the merrier :D

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Is there a tournament for canonically confirmed lgbtq+ characters?

Followers?

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do you (or any of ur followers) know if there is/was a siblings tournament of any kind? Like best sibling pair, tragic siblings, rlly anything?

yeah there are some. followers feel free to share more the @titular-twins-tournament (entry here)

@tragicsibsshowdown (entry here)

@twinshowdown (entry here)

@oc-siblings-bracket (entry here)

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I was thinking of starting a tournament but realized two other folks had already started it (ie got submissions) but hadn't run the polls yet (it's been some months since both updated). Do you think it would be okay for me to still start up the tournament (I don't want to steal their idea)?

Yeah, I think so! My view, at least, is the more tournaments the better. just @ me when you make them!

if anyone disagrees/agrees, feel free to state your reasoning in reblogs or replies :)

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Give me a v! an o! a t! and an e! What does that spell? VOTE for the best cheerleader in fiction in @cheerleader-contention!!!

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Hey, I'm running a tournament right now but I've gotten a couple submissions that are in a language I don't speak. What should I do? I want this to be accessible and fun for everybody and don't want to exclude anyone.

Anyone have any ideas?

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not sure if this is the right place to ask, but any guides/whatever on how to run a character tournament thingy? i assume it's all pretty straightforward stuff, but if people have tips i'd like to hear them

I don’t have tips if you want people to submit characters because I have never used that, but the tips I do have are:

Decide on the size of your bracket early on and keep it realistic. I’ve run a bracket of size 128 and that was a bit much, now I’m running a bracket of size 64 and it’s way easier to handle

I prefer to not have too many polls per day to give people the chance to think about it and avoid clogging people’s dash. However I’ve only run music tournaments so I also take into account that people may want to listen to the songs and that’s hard if I post all 128 songs in a few days. Also I found that if I didn’t get time to prepare in advance I could easily make 4 polls a day, but much more would take a significant time

Do try to prepare things in advance though! The queue and drafts are your friends!

Try to find a way to seed your bracket, for music I used Spotify streams, for characters you could use ao3 stats or your own personal guess of who would be most popular. I’ve found it annoying in the past when two of my predicted top 5 would face off in the first round already

I also like to have a bunch of cross links between posts so followers can easily find all polls. It has also turned out really handy for me to quickly find out how polls are doing. However this is also more work so it’s a personal preference

If you include images try to include descriptions or alt-text to stay accessible

That’s what I could come up with, everyone feel free to disagree with me or add to this!

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Don’t think anyone has. @ me if you make it!

im thinking abt doing a cheerleader tournament since it looks like nobody has done it yet. but just to be sure i wanted to ask u if you know of any first :0c

I don’t know of any, but check out @tournamentdirectory because they have a better overview than I do!

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They wear glasses!! @meganelympics finds the best of these characters.

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He's an anime boy - with white hair! @whitehairedanimeboybracket finds the best of them.