UPDATE: Round 2 voting is closed! Round 3 voting is open right now!
128 webcomics are down to 64, and the battles continue!
The last round of voting was much more than we anticipated, with almost each of the contests getting more votes than last year’s final round. The server started to have problems, compounded with what we think might have been bot attacks to affect some voting. We took the weekend to try and get things right, and we think we’re ready for the next round. (And yes, we’re trying to figure out what remedy, if any, we should apply.)
Round starts right now, and ends this Wednesday at 11:59 PM, Eastern Daylight Time. We’re down to 32 contests, so go vote already!
Giraud Division
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Moldoff Division
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[poll id=”163″] |
[poll id=”164″] |
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[poll id=”168″] |
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Robinson Division
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[poll id=”171″] |
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[poll id=”176″] |
[poll id=”177″] |
Simon Division
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[poll id=”180″] |
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Hat tip: BracketMaker.com
Game 22’s poll has the wrong choices. (Currently: PVP vs. Sandra and Woo instead of PVP vs. Non-Adventures of Wonderella.)
Moldoff Division, that is.
By my count, in the first round, the comic listed first in each poll has won 55/64 times. Were the brackets arranged by some sort of popularity seeding which would explain this statistical improbability? If not, there may be an unintended bias in the poll layout.
The seeding appears to be based on ranking order of the initial nominations. MSPA (#1), QC (#4), Goblins (#2), and xkcd (#3) got the most so they’re in the #1 slots of their divisions, and the arrangement seems to be roughly in “first vs last” order (which is why the top four are in that arrangement, for example: if all of them won their respective divisions, #1 would face #4, and #2 would face #3, as per standard tournament procedure with the higher rank on top). Obviously, that doesn’t necessarily correlate to the first-listed winning EVERY time (Romantically Apocalyptic scored 10 times the votes in the first round vs. nominations, while half of MSPA’s fans seem to have not shown up for the actual tournament), but it does point to the first-listed being much more likely to win based on initial projections.
Exactly what Mr. Graves said.
Ah, well that makes sense then! Thanks!
Hm, i see no Drowtales to vote for…ah, maybe cause it´s a manga?
I think a lot of comics didn’t make it because, in order to preserve the tournament structure, adding one more to the original 128 would have meant finding another 127 to go with it and adding another round or four more divisions. Not that it’s anything about them, just the way the math works out.
Drowtales didn\’t get enough votes in the nomination period.
Some very tough choices in there.
Too many comics I like equally are getting put together. Also I think Dominic Deegan would’ve easily reached the next round if it hadn’t been matched against Cyanide & Happiness :P
I seem to be on the wrong side of most of these. Why do the shitty webcomics invariably have more fans?
Also, where the hell was Oglaf?
They used Oglaf as their example of “NSFW and thus ineligible” when they explained the rules for choosing comics. As for the quality thing… look at the vote numbers. It’s pretty obvious that the “shitty” comics aren’t getting anywhere near the prize, so who cares about lower rounds? At least the “better” comic got publicity, right?
We kept Oglaf off because of NSFW content.
ahahahaha The Oatmeal vs. Dresden Codak
wait
fuck
what?
It would seem fairer if you didn’t always list the one in the lead first in each pairing…
cant believe Guilded Age got knocked off! Oh man, that’s one of my favorites!
I’m glad Sinfest will make it to the next round. It saddens me that it will lose to OotS, though. They’re two of my favorites, but I believe OotS has a much, much larger fanbase.
I would’ve wanted Goblins to face OotS, though. They have roughly the same (initial) target audience (D&D players). Goblins has some established characters (the goblins), and is on its way to establish another group of characters (the adventurers). On the whole though, Goblins is much slower-moving than OotS. And the artwork is highly violent and bloody. It made sense when it was about the Goblins being slaughtered by uncaring adventurers, but in recent times less and less so. On the whole, OotS has a great world, very-developed characters and on a mission to play with any and all tropes pertaining to its genre or subject matter. So not only would OotS easily win, it would also easily deserve to win.
I also find it objectionable that sex is deemed “NSFW” but violence is not. Ptui, people, ptui.
Anyway, I will follow this contest with half an eye. I may even try some of the unknown ones. Good spirits, all.
duuuuude. putting power nap against penny arcade? that’s just cruel.
Well, this bracket is the first time two strips I read were up against each other. And it happened in two divisions, too. Hard to choose.
How do you vote?
Round 2 is done. But you can vote on Round 3.