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So,

What a wild ride, everybody.

This tournament went live on July 13th, 3023, and concluded January 1st, 2024. For a long time before, I’d been wondering if I should try my hand at running one of these tournaments, and then I realized we hadn’t had a general tumblr-wide one for tragic characters. I knew that I didn’t know what I was getting myself into, but I decided to bite the bullet and take the URL. The rest is history.

I didn’t have a set plan, but I figured I could take 128 entries. And then in less than a week and a half, I had ~122. And honestly, I wasn’t happy continuing with just those I’d gotten so far, and thought it’d be unfair if it closed that quickly without warning, so I decided to up it to 256 with a max 2 characters per canon after preliminaries. Only after that did I go on a mad search to find brackets that were big enough for that, and I’d almost given up before I finally found these:

Those are all the characters that made it past prelims and into the competition. Some quite unexpected results came out of these matchups, round after round, and honestly I’d consider the first round to have had the most brutal competitions, because I had tried to do the best I could to match levels of popularity with each other, as far as I could tell. (Yeah, that’s why we had c!Tommy v Jon Sims and Primrose v Jinx.). But even eclipsing all of those, as the weeks went on, we were eventually met with Antigone versus Lloyd Garmadon. Ah, those crazy kids.

At some points it was stressful, in the early rounds when I had dozens of posts, each with edited images and alt text, to prepare for every round, but I never regretted starting this. As of posting, this blog has 2,020 followers and has made over 1,000 posts. This will be the last post on this blog—any future asks I receive I will answer privately back to the asker, or cannot be answered if they are anon—but it will always remain here for posterity. The link below is to the similarly-preserved google sheet compiling every word of every submission this tournament ever received.

I’d like to take this chance to say thank you to everyone who submitted characters, supplied photos, sent in propaganda, reblogged the polls, indoctrinated their teachers into greeklitsweep, and everyone who kept good sportsmanship when their blorbos proved so tragic they couldn’t even win. Thank you to the small group of URLs whom I’ve consistently recognized in my inbox from submissions all the way to finals, thank you for letting me know when a name was messed up, and thank you for your patience in-between rounds. (Shoutout to @elemom as well for having their tiktok on the original antigone/lloyd poll blow up.)

If you’ve stumbled upon this blog weeks, months, or even years after this was posted, I would direct your attention to the tag map in the pinned post to sift through the tumblr history you’ve just uncovered. And I would also be tempted to point at the big sign next to it reciting the nuclear zone warning poem. Lastly, if anyone here or there wishes to talk to me about anything regarding the tournament, you’re welcome to DM @twilight-skies.

There were times when I said to myself this was a one-and-done thing—I was NOT dealing with this again, but….keep a look on the horizon, ya never know.

But until next time, it’s been amazing.

Sayonara you weeaboo shits.

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Final Asks:

Congratulations, Doof 🎉

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About to sign off, but before we go, @pokeninjager-ghost-art has organized a discord server for Antigone fans/Greek lits and Ninjago/Lloyd fans to hang out and have watchparties! I’ll mostly just be lurking, but here it is if anyone would like to join. It’s about 95% complete; full membership will take a little time to grant for each person, but we wanted to post it here when we still had the chance. Go forth and conquer in the name of our queen and king!

#tagamemnon #Ninjago #antigone #lloyd garmadon #tragedyshipping

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I’ve had 0 spoons today so I’m gonna make the final post tomorrow BUT question in the meantime:

Now that the tournament’s over, would y’all be interested if I made the massive submissions sheet public for viewing? It’s a list of every submission I received and everything written in every field

And when I say massive I mean this x10

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Forget year of the dragon this is year of the doof

#lmfao #happy new year

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AND AFTER 256 CONTESTANTS, 24 WEEKS, AND WITH 21,549 VOTES,

WE HAVE A WINNER!

CONGRATULATIONS, DOCTOR DOOFENSHMIRTZ!

It is, if it wasn’t obvious, past midnight, but tomorrow I’ll answer any asks waiting and sign off this competition with a personal wrap-up message to all 2 thousand of you beautiful degenerates, and everyone else who’ve been here making this one of the craziest six months of my life. Until then, GGs all around.

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oh my god

​^ live-blogging my own tournament

#HAPPY NEW YEARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

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30 MINUTES REMAINING.

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jut wanna say this to the other asker,

ty basically-jay-walker for giving me that stats. i feel like that one meme with the martini lmao

-sincerly, tha nuerutal anon

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Okay update from my last ask Doof now has a 0.5% lead. Unexpected move from the door camp!!

Also has anyone shared this with Dan Povenmire? I feel like he should know. Hang on--

I’ve watched some of his shorts I’m pretty sure I would spontaneously combust (/pos) if he was made aware of this. Please do it he’d find it so funny

Also that moment when you’ve sworn yourself to neutrality but genuinely want antigone to win

#lmfao #dan povenmire #dr doofenshmirtz #antigone

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i swear you're going to reveal that the most tragic act was not even being able to win the tournament

We’ve already established that, anon. Common misconception, it seems—this is actually a LEAST tragic character tournament /j

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12 HOURS REMAINING.

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ok so i purposefully didn't vote for either door nor antigone bc i don't wna t to commit myself to anything, but can i ask what the staticstic are at/who's in the lead?

I am actually doing the same soooo

#I voted in the others to watch but a few that I chose won by very tiny margins #so I decided to keep neutrality in the final numbers and just watch peoples reactions #asks

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The utter jumpscare I got opening my Instagram feed to see if my favourite artists posted anything new and instead seeing your tournament pop up 😆

What a great way to start the end of the year (/pos)

ANOTHER TO JOIN TIMTOK!

#lmfao #instagram

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24 HOURS REMAINING.

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Woah :D

It appears tumblr isn’t doing individual year-end blog statistics though which is disappointing because I was VERY interested in what this blog’s would be

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AND WE’RE OFFICIALLY AT THE MOST VOTES YET!

#honestly never thought anythin could pass tragedyshipping but it’s still going! #15643 and counting #antigone #dr doofenshmirtz #most tragic tournament