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A bit late but. Happy 1 year anniversary to this tournament, which started on the ides of March.

Congratulations to Anthy/Utena for the most iconic homoerotic betrayal!

Scroll to the bottom of this post for info on the Revival Match of all the contestants eliminated on round 1 and 2, happening today Evening.

Initial Match-ups

House Rules:

If you've voted for a winner, take that as a sign to check out the media of the losers of the same round.

Campaigns in the ask will not be published. Put it in the reblogs.

Round 1: Ides of March (Mar 15, 7AM EST)

A full list of nominations can be found here. First round brackets were seeded to group overlapping fandoms/genres together. You can read more about my bracketing methodology & rationale if you're curious.

Anakin/Obi-Wan vs. Macaque/Sun Wukong (Lego Monkie Kid)

Shouichi/Byakuran vs. Sasuke/Naruto

Griffith/Guts vs. Soowon/Hak

Anthy/Utena vs. Andrey/Goncharov

Komaeda/Hinata vs. Akechi/Joker

John Silver/James Flint (Black Sails/Treasure Island) vs. Curt/Owen (Spies are Forever)

Sasha/Anne (Amphibia) vs. Bill Cipher/Ford Pines

Homura/Madoka (PMMM: Rebellion) vs. Ryo/Akira (Devilman)

Judas/Jesus vs. GLaDOS/Chell

Nagi/Reo (Blue Lock) vs. Geto/Gojo

Lelouche/Suzaku vs. Seishiro/Subaru

Erik/Charles (X-Men) vs. The Master/The Doctor

Brutus/Caesar vs. Ennis/Jack (Brokeback Mountain)

Josh/Neku vs. He Xuan/Shi Qingxuan

Hannibal/Will vs. Louis/Lestat

Adora/Catra vs. Terezi/Vriska

Round 2: Mar 17, 8PM EST

Context submissions list

Anakin/Obi-Wan vs. Sasuke/Naruto

Griffith/Guts vs. Anthy/Utena

Akechi/Joker vs. John Silver/James Flint

Bill Cipher/Ford Pines vs. Homura/Madoka

Judas/Jesus vs. Geto/Gojo

Lelouche/Suzaku vs. Erik/Charles

Brutus/Caesar vs. Joshua/Neku

Hannibal/Will vs. Terezi/Vriska

Round 3: March 18, 11:30PM EST

Sasuke/Naruto vs. Anthy/Utena

Akechi/Joker vs. Homura/Madoka

Judas/Jesus vs. Lelouche/Suzaku

Brutus/Caesar vs. Hannibal/Will

Semifinals: March 20, 6AM EST

Anthy/Utena vs. Homura/Madoka

Judas/Jesus vs. Hannibal/Will

Finals: March 21, 8AM EST

Matching "I voted" PFPs for the you and your beloved!

Finals: Anthy/Utena vs. Judas/Jesus Third Place: Homura/Madoka vs. Hannibal/Will

Revival Match: March 22nd, 9PM EST

The revival match will feature pairings which were eliminated on round 1 and 2, and will only have one round. Matches here are completely random. This is your compensation prize for my "evil" bracketing in this tournament.

The Master/The Doctor vs. Terezi/Vriska vs. John Silver/James Flint

Ryo/Akira vs. He Xuan/Shi Qingxuan vs. Geto/Gojo

Griffith/Guts vs. Seishiro/Subaru vs. Nagi/Reo

Louis/Lestat vs. Ennis/Jack vs. GLaDOS/Chell

Andrey/Goncharov vs. Sasha/Anne (Amphibia) vs. Soowon/Hak

Shouichi/Byakuran vs. Josh/Neku vs. Komaeda/Hinata

Erik/Charles vs. Anakin/Obi-Wan vs. Bill Cipher/Ford Pines

Macaque/Sun Wukong vs. Curt/Owen vs. Adora/Catra

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Best Adaptation Tournament: Submission Open

Adapting a work from one medium to another is hard, and fans are impossible to please, but occasionally, you get the adaptation that do the OG justice, perhaps even elevates it. We voted for what we hate at @book-was-better and @booktomoviebrawl, now we find the adaptions we love.

What Qualifies?

For the purpose of this tournament an adaptation is...

A work which transfers a piece of art from one medium to another.

Any medium counts as long as it's different from the OG (Stageplay to movie, yes! A new production of an existing stageplay, no!)

An adaptation must have the same protagonist(s) and share major plot points with the OG. There can be changes from the original but it should not be a spin-off. (Eg. Inteview With The Vampire TV series is still an adaptation but The Clone Wars is a spin-off.)

Examples

Book to TV, book to video game, light novel to anime, video game to anime, musical to movie, book to musical, book to radio drama (when it makes changes in content)

Note: Since there are so many manga to anime adaptions that are basically 1:1, please only submit manga to anime adaptions if there's significant changes in content/style. Making up new endings would count as significant changes.

Exclusions:

LOTR

Harry Potter

Marvel/DC

Shakespeare

Fairytales

There are so many adaptions for some of these that they could have their own tournament.

Submission will open until 10PM August 30th, or when I have 100+ entries, whichever happens earlier.

@tournamentdirectory @fantasybooktournament @bestanimatedmovie @lastlinetournament @bookfirstlinetourney @chapter-title-tournament

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In the kindest way possible, because almost everyone who's left tags has been like, enthusiastic/nice/only playfully mean, I've been thinking about making a list of etiquette for interacting with these brackets. Because when you have enough people in one space, IRL or online, you'll inevitably have at least a few people who say some of the most hurtful, out of pocket shit possible, and I don't want things to get ruined for anyone else you know?

Like, things you SHOULD do (unless a poll runner specifically says they don't want it):

Uplift your favs

PLAYFULLY slander the competition

Make fun memes about the polls

Things you SHOULDN'T do:

Post multi-paragraph rants about how much you hate a character

Ask the poll runner to include characters well into the voting phase of the bracket

Demand they run second, third, etc brackets because Your favorite character didn't get submitted

Things you ABSOLUTELY do NOT do:

Compare the poll results to real-life politics ("Which robot would you fuck" != Brexit, 2016 POTUS, etc)

Tell people to kill themselves if they dont vote for your favorite character

Send death threats/doxx people running the Tumblr poll (!?)

I don't have an end to this post. I have to go to class. But I can't be the only poll runner tired of suicide jokes/death threats/doxxing in the fucking Tumblr Poll Community or whatever.

#putting this on here since poll is over now #cosigning all of this #you guys were all champs but #i actually have seen all the behaviors listed #sadly

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BEST PLAY WORLD CUP; GRAND OPENING !!!

Modded by @dreary-giraffe (he/him)

Obviously, there are a lot of very similar competitions that have inspired this bracket, but I made this specific one in lieu of the wrapping up of the @bestmusicalworldcup and was personally inspired by @homoeroticbetrayal, @goverment-agency-bracket, and @uspresidentsexyman :]

SUBMISSION RULES:

PLEASE do not submit musicals, I will start crying if I have to sort through the submissions that are just entirely musicals

Only submit a play ONCE! You can submit as many as you'd like, however.

Shakespeare plays (and any other old ass plays) are allowed!

In the case of a play that has been turned into a movie, only the play will be considered. Take that into account when you submit!

The bracket will be of 64 plays, and submissions will end April 15nd!

The submissions form is here! GO CRAZY !!

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romantic friendship tournament!

is YOUR blorbo, despite the author’s efforts to include a straight love interest, wildly in queer love w their best friend? do you have a homoerotic loser you want to see get absolutely fucking obliterated when theyre put up against like. sasuke from naruto idk ive never watched it ?

romantic friendship: describes a very close relationship between people of the same sex during a period of history when there wasn’t a social category of homosexuality as there is today.

criteria: submit whoever i do not care. “does [x] count?” fucking sure. whoever it is should probably not have been intended to be a queer but sure did fucking end up as one. but im not picky w it. 

submissions will close whenever i feel like ive gotten enough. so in a week maybe (april 7). contestants will be picked as i see fit. im more likely to put in some niche guy than sasuke naruto. inspired by the likes of: @noncanongayestbitchestournament @ot3showdown @cringefaillosersummit @homoeroticbetrayal whatever that one blog was where achilles n patroclus lost to lumity you get the idea. thats all have fun

https://forms.gle/1HQx56pSCnoUDV1s5

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Guess That Ship Tournament

So, using a similar concept to @mysterytournament and @mysterycharactercontest, I want to do one focused on relationships instead of characters.

The basic concept is this, you describe your ship* to me, I pick 32 pairs which I find compelling without revealing who they are, people vote on them, and when they get eliminated I reveal who they are.

Submission Guidelines

*Relationships does not have to be romantic in nature. I'm sometimes going to use "ship" as a shorthand, just know I mean "relationships" in general.

In fact, please describe the nature of the relationship as they're presented in canon. You don't have to clarify if they're romantic or not if the canon is deliberately vague on it, but if they call each other "old friends" don't summarize them as lovers.

Relationship can be between any number of characters.

Real people are accepted if 1) they've been dead for more than 200 years and 2) they have at least one published biographical fiction based on them. *Role-play characters are accepted only if they have a distinct presence separate from their roleplayers.

OCs are accepted. I'll have at most 50% OCs in the bracket.

Selection Process

I'm going to read through the list of descriptions submitted starting with the shortest ones, and pick the most compelling entries...

without looking at the names.

If I can immediately guess who they are without relying on first-hand canon knowledge, they're out.

So basically, being concise helps, but you want it to convey enough information to be compelling. If your ship is from a very popular & distinct canon, you're gonna have to be more vague with your description. (Saying "they're ninjas" would really narrow things down, for example.)

Notes

I will not vet the ships/pairings for problematic content.

If you participate in this tournament, know that you run the risk of unintentionally voting for your nOTP. The mod does not take any responsibility for any distress that may cause you.

Submission will open until I have at least 64 entries, from which I will select 32.

Submit your ship here:

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It is time for Arthur to come back from his nap!

And since monarchy is overated anyway I propose we democratically elect the new True King (gender neutral) of England!

Inspired by @autismswagsummit @epicdivorcemantournament @fashiondisastertournament @flagwars @homoeroticbetrayal @patheticmenscuffle

A few rules for submissions:

No real people, this is all for fun not for politics

No Harry Potter character

I will accept any adaptation of the arthurian legend as well as

Places, brands, objects, animals... real or fictional as long as they fit the theme.

Character of any gender who fit the arthurian lore in some way (possess an object named Excalibur, a close friend named Merlin, Lancelot... fictional ruler of England/British inspired fictional country and so on) Be creative!

I might not get the reference tho, please specify in the form, there's a section for this.

Submit you candidates here!

I will pick the candidates based on number of submission + if you make me lose it by reading the form. I reserve the right to veto a character if necessary.

And as always: be nice to each other! We are here to have fun! This poll will have zero (0) consequences on Great Britain's politic so no need for discourse.

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hey hey i am curious about if @losersbracketofficial's poll on tournament runner demographics is influenced by tumblr demographics as a whole (because i swear there was at some point a poll that revealed 80% or something like that of people here were nd) so

#polls #i am fairly certain that the majority of tumblr are queer and neurodivergent at this point

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hi guys i swear i'll post some more polls today but this is something that ive been rlly curious abt!

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hey soz just wondering if u don't find it at all problematic to call anakin and obi wan "homoerotic" when they met at ages 9 and 25

Okay. I have gotten questions in similar vein so I will answer it only once now that the tournament is over.

Yes. It's problematic. However...

This is a tournament for iconic homoerotic betrayals, not appropriate ones. If I am to only feature ships which are unproblematic, Judas/Jesus wouldn't be featured either. (I know a lot of you are atheists but Jesus is a deity people actually worship.)

A relationship does not actually have to be romantic to have homoeroticism. Regardless of how you read obi-wan and Anakin's relationship, it is a fairly large and influential ship (at least when it comes to eastern SW fandoms) with a fair bit of fandom history. So clearly a lot of people saw the homoeroticism between them.

In my call for submission, I included Seishiro/Subaru, another ship with inappropriate age gap, because they had such a big influence on BL in mangas. Therefore it would have been hypocritical of me to vet for age gaps in submissions. Obikin got quite a few submissions, and had a verifiable canonical betrayal, which means they automatically qualify.

Again this is the homoerotic betrayal poll not the healthy queer representation poll. Half these people stabbed each other idk what else to say.

Not what OP is asking but I also had similar comments regarding some of the contestants that are actually underage, like Vrisrezi or homumado, who were all 13. Well. Okay. A lot of the time homoerotic and homoromantic are used interchangeably when it comes to media analysis. Let's not split hairs here.

That's all! Reblogs will be turned off. If I get too many inflammatory replies on this post it will be deleted. No more questions in this line!

Cheers.

#discourse #fandom discourse #betrayal chat #answers

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This has been my favorite tournament so far (and I've followed pretty much every one I could find lol.) Thanks so much for hosting <3

That's a high praise! It's been an honor ❤️

#betrayal chat

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Well, as they say, no party last forever. As the revival polls draw to a close, I want to thank everyone once more for participating. It's been so much fun and now I have to find other things to occupy my time.

A special congratulations to the joshneku fans both for sweeping their respective revival round and once again running the hardest campaign. Truly this tournament was made for you.

I'll continue to signal boost for other tournaments that tags me here, if I manage to see them. And all polls will stay here for as long as tumblr lives, of course.

Cheers!

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another mystery character tournament!

after i saw @mysterycharactercontest (who came up with this idea!) and @masqueradetourney (who has an extremely cool theme!), i thought: what if an anonymous character tournament was even more mysterious, as in had even more possible sources and was even less based on popularity? so i decided to host a mystery character tournament of an even more chaotic variety, allowing original characters and picking participants entirely based on description with no concern for the number of nominations.

so, is your favorite character underappreciated? unknown? are you obsessed with a character that only exists in your head? do you have a character idea you're not sure is interesting? do you wonder if your favorite character only wins on name recognition? do you want to submit your blorbo to as many anonymous tournaments as possible?

then i have just the tournament for you!

how does this tournament work?

you submit the characters you like; it can be a character from any media, for example, a character from an epic poem or a song or a game you think you're the only fan of or a popular tv show, your oc or a character you just made up while filling in the form; however, please don't submit real people!

i pick the characters whose descriptions i find interesting (mod tyranny?) and include them in the bracket (i'll try to include as many as possible!); characters that receive one nomination with an interesting description are way more likely to get into the tournament than characters submitted many times but with descriptions like "i just like him"

i post the characters' introduction posts (with the descriptions you provided for them) without revealing their name or source so that everyone may meet our participants

i post the polls, including short descriptions of the characters and links to their intros; you vote for the characters you find more interesting or the characters you like more

after every round, the losers' identities are revealed while the winners move on, still anonymous. i humbly request you DON'T reveal the characters' identities until they lose or win the whole tournament to keep it interesting!

ready? submit your characters HERE! the form will be open at least until april 1st :)

other tournaments i'm a fan of are @the-nobody-tournament @who-do-i-know-this-man @titular-twins-tournament @homoeroticbetrayal and many others :)

#other tournaments #this sounds fun

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i guess theyre having fun

#fanart #fhsofieihfwjek i'm glad they're having fun #related works

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I’m I don’t mean anything bad but did you mean to put the Katekiyo hitman reborn twice in the revival polls?

There was only suppose to be one round of revival poll.

But listen. Curtwen, 10051, and nagireo got sweeped twice. I felt bad.

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Also it's funny how half of this tournament is like "such tragic circumstances" or "oh the misunderstandings!!" And the other half is just competing for the worst most unhinged partner imaginable, romance on nightmare mode.

Anyway someone should make a tournament called "worst boyfriend imaginable" and half the male contestants here will automatically qualify.

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CATS

we all love to have them in our lives!

and to show them to people to. and see them. here is your chance! make your cat (or not) compete with others and look at other people's cats

CATS THAT ARE ACCEPTED:

- your cat

-your mum's cat

- anyone's cat really

- meme cats if they are real

- actor cats

- any other cat that have lived at any point of time

CATS THAT ARE NOT ACCEPTED

-fictional. there is a bracket for them already

EDIT: - imaginary cats. sorry guys not real enough

the final number of cats depends on the number of submissions. you can submit a cat several times but seeing as this bracket will have many cats with just one sub from their owner I decided to choose them based only on me liking them. don't worry I like a lot of cats.

CATS THAT ARE AUTOMATICALLY INCLUDED because I am biased

- miette

- a stray I befriended (once I manage to choose just one of them)

submit your cat here!

forms will be open until 7th of April 16:00 (4 pm) UTC

EDIT 2 gogdammit I am forgetful: multiple submissions are allowed. you can also submit your cats as a duo/trio/etc if they truly are a duo/trio/etc or For A Bit but only if it's a really funny one

I am not banning cheating because honestly cheating over a silly cat bracket made to see more kitties is insanely funny

BUT. don't harass other people. this is unacceptable behavior. we are all here to have fun and be silly

and remember! every cat is a good cat :)

tagging for exposure and also because they inspired me: @best-fictional-cat (!!) @aroaceswagcompetition @artificialkids-2k23-official @orangecharactersmackdown @macbeth-murder-match @heterochromiasmackdown @bunnyrabbitbracket @divine-swag-summit @homoeroticbetrayal (!!) @blorbopoll (miette is here sweeping guys)

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