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Dorcas_Aurelia
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That works as long as there's no problem with having billing and shipping addresses from different countries, which is the primary problem I've run into in the past. Retailers are understandably suspicious of such transactions, and so don't allow purchases like that. The problem arises if it seems like the purchase won't be a problem, and then we get to the ordering and the site decides it's a no-no, and I don't want to look like I'm changing the rules on the winner. As of this edit, I have received 5 entries: ~~Epic~~ skylark Ggultra2764 (you were the third to enter last time, too, heh) Sea Lion Beltane 70 |
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marie-antoinette
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Finally submitted my entry, yay. Should be interesting to see what comes of this one, since I am unfamiliar with a lot of contestants (yet again).
Also I'm sad to see a lot of the contestants I do know up against each other in the first round. Nobu vs Streseman? WHY??? 
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Beltane70
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I'm actually a bit impressed that I was one of the first people to submit their entry. I was expecting a lot more people to have finished their brackets long before I did.
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Olliff
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Just sent off my bracket. I suppose only time will tell if I do well or not. However, I am not at all expecting to have a repeat of the last tournament. Even though it's a fun idea, best supporting character is very broad compared to the other tournaments we have said since we are not measuring a characteristic. Presence, rememberability, contribution to the show, and overall influence were the chief set of criteria that I used. A show's popularity did play a role, but I did advance one character from an older show made in 90's into the final four. Other factors such as relative difficulty of competition faced were also considered when I constructed my bracket.
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mow123
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Preparation for this tournament has proved to be more difficult than the previous ones. I am a heck of lot less confident, and I happened to forget to copy and paste a running tally of the nominations. If anyone were to pm me these, I would be forever thankful. Probably won't have my brackets in until Monday at the earliest, mainly because I want to shoot for the top 3 again.
 Hopefully, my predictions will be quality this time around and I won't vote against my picks like a fool because I forgot to save a copy of my bracket. I think I pretty much loss second place due to the this, but heck third is still solid.
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Dorcas_Aurelia
Posts: 5344 Location: Philly |
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Entrants so far (8):
~~Epic~~ skylark Ggultra2764 Sea Lion Beltane70 marie-antoinette JesuOtaku Olliff |
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TatsuGero23
 Posts: 1277 Location: Sniper Island, USA (It's in your heart!) |
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Wah... some of these later rounds are hard to guess. Hopefully have something by tonight.
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Analog_Now
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I would love to vote on the best nomination but I'm not sure how to do it sadly, I personally nominated Sakae Jinnoouchi from Summer Wars. Can someone tell me what to do?
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dtm42
Posts: 14084 Location: currently stalking my waifu |
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Voting on nominations has finished, and the tournament proper hasn't started yet. When it does you'll quickly know, because usually the thread is "stickied" near the top. It should be up in a week or two, so relax. |
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Analog_Now
Posts: 211 Location: Montréal, Québec |
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Alright thanks and I am relaxed don't worry about that. |
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Olliff
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Dorcas_Aurelia, are you noticing any trends with the brackets you have seen thus far? When the criteria is subjected to such a high level of subjectivity, it is inevitable that predictions for this tournament will be very varied. I would be surprised if there were many blowouts in the predictions in the later rounds.
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TatsuGero23
Posts: 1277 Location: Sniper Island, USA (It's in your heart!) |
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I'm betting up until rounds 2 or 3, there would a consensus on the winners for a couple of them. It's the later rounds where things like popularity, roles, person preference etc can go in any direction. For the last couple I basically just flipped a coin.
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Dorcas_Aurelia
Posts: 5344 Location: Philly |
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The mini-game is up to 10 participants:
~~Epic~~ skylark Ggultra2764 Sea Lion Beltane70 marie-antoinette JesuOtaku Olliff TG23 mow123
So far, the mini-game predictions show that people do seem to agree on what they think qualifies as a good character, and unless there are some drastic changes in thinking once the actual tournament starts, there probably won't be any big surprises in the later rounds. The harder predictions are probably the mid-level match-ups in the first and second rounds more than anything else. Trends? There's enough variety in the characters and series that it's tough to pick anything out. The only trend I can see is that Key didn't really try to hide the number 1 seed in each quarter. Although disappointingly, Kuu doesn't seem to be fairing as well as I'd hoped. Among the 10 submissions I've received so far, there are 6 different selections for ultimate winner. Of those, 3 are fairly obvious choices, 2 are still possible but somewhat less likely, and the last I think is a little questionable. The biggest surprise, I think, is how one-sided the predictions for C-16 are, given how few people have seen either series. No, I take that back, the biggest surprise is another character from the same series as one of those two being predicted heavily over a character from a much more popular series (who has the most nominations of the three characters from that more popular series). |
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egoist
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I'm surprised at who my winner turned out to be. If we'll still use "it's a main character" as an excuse during the tournament then I'll most likely do as bad as I did in the last minigame(which pretty much involved 0 research and popularity before anything else). And during a quick glance at wiki, I realized so many characters that would be considered part of the main cast, strictly speaking.
One single thing I'll definitely regret later is picking Balalaika instead of November 11. Oh, I'll definitely support November 11 when the time comes. |
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abunai
Old Regular
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I was not at all surprised to see who I wound up picking as the likely champion. It was a bit depressing to see that all the characters I had nominated wound up facing strong opposition in the very first round, with few likely to survive. Still, them's the breaks.
- abunai |
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