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Best Rivals/Adversaries Tournament: Post-Mortem

I could see series based tournaments working, but I would prefer something less subjective than best storytelling since everyone has a different set of things they look for in a show. A similar but more targeted idea that could would Most Well Written. I know Key and a few of the more literary minded people would eat this up. I also think this would be slightly less subjective since you are looking at the technical merits of the writing than something obtuse like best storytelling even though they essentially mean similar things.

Other series based ideas I could see working would be Most Realistic, Most Thought Provoking, or even Most Original, although I could see how that last one could lead to very divided results. Now that I think about it even more we could even hold tournament about which series most adhered to a certain archetype, Biggest Tearjerker, Biggest Mindf***( Most Confusing if you want keep it G rated), or Most Dystopian.

That being said, I still think we have a few solid character based options, such as Biggest Loser, Best Leader, or Biggest Jerk. I would also stay away from ideas that limit the tournament to analyzing only one episode unless you wanted to expand it to Best First Impression since some of us would naturally look beyond just the first episode in our head. Plus one episode is very restrictive and gives very little content to work with.

First impression could work well too, as long as we set down strict guidelines as to what counts as a "first impression" (my best suggestion would be a certain % of the show, so 13 episode series would be judged on less than 52 episode series, which I think would be pretty fair since 13 episoders have to get into the plot faster and so would probably have more meaty material in episode 4 than the longer ones might). As I said, the idea definitely has some logistics to figure out but I do think it's one that's worth further investigation.

The problem with Best First Impression, as defined so far, is that basing the first impression on a certain % of the series penalizes long-running series. Besides, once you get past the first couple of episodes of any series then you're beyond the "first impression" stage anyway.

Besides, once you get past the first couple of episodes of any series then you're beyond the "first impression" stage anyway.

If we're gonna go into the realm of mentions for areas of anime genres and first episodes, how about we try out Most Historically Significant Anime as in anime titles that brought about something significant to the anime medium and still memorable to this day for such contributions such as the first work of an animation studio or a title that helped bring about a new genre or aspect to the world of anime?

I'd be in favor of using a %, but having a cap to limit the number of episodes at say a max of 5 eps.