Semifinal time! Elite Eight eliminations now leaves us with the Comicmix April Armageddon 2016 Webcomic Tournament’s Final Four. Left to battle it out in this free for all frenzy is Erfworld, The Whiteboard, Girl Genius, and Unsounded. Which one of these fabulous competitors will be joining the ranks of previous winners likeShotgun Shuffle (2015), Paranatural (2014), Bittersweet Candy Bowl (2013), and Gunnerkrigg Court (2012)? Will Erfworld become the first repeat winner in our history?
To insure your web-horse wins, in addition to your votes, we also take donation bribes. Donations to the Hero Initiative in Round 5 from people like you brought in $270 (!) We appreciate your passion for your favorites, and your desire to help comic creators!
Yes, it’s that time of year again, the time where bracketology reigns supreme and the cry around the nation is “Win or Go Home!” Last year’s Mix March Madness Webcomics Tournament was incredibly popular, and so we’re doing it all over again– and raising money for the Hero Initiative in the process! Find out how…
Looking at out server logs, we see that thousands of people have looked at the hundreds of nominated comics– we’ve counted over eighty thousand outgoing clicks over the last month, which we hope have turned into hundreds of new readers for each strip. We’ve gotten reports of lots of people discovering new webcomics, and creators have been telling us of traffic spikes as people do archive runs.
Then there’s the big winner of the contest, the Hero Initiative. Thanks to you, you’ve raised almost $4000 dollars for the organization. To give you an idea of the voting, here are the not quite complete funds raised for each webcomic:
A Redtail’s Dream Total $243.25
Ava’s Demon Total $525.00
Badnik Total $26.00
Bird Boy Total $25.00
Bittersweet Candy Bowl Total $1,075.00
Boumeries Total $3.00
Commander Kitty Total $171.00
Dominic Deegan Total $20.00
Earthsong Total $20.00
El Goonish Shive $2.50
Girls with Slingshots Total $11.00
Grrl Power Total $154.00
Homestuck Total $7.40
In His Likeness Total $20.00
Inhuman Total $7.00
LaSalle’s Legacy Total $17.00
Little Guardians Total $10.00
Modest Medusa Total $23.00
Namesake Total $3.00
Nerdoid Picture Diart Total $6.00
NIMONA! Total $0.50
Not a villain Total $21.00
Paranatural Total $11.10
Quantum Vibe $2.50
Questionable Content Total $51.00
Rusty & Company Total $10.00
Sakana Total $0.56
Sandra and Woo Total $416.50
Scary Go Round Total $1.00
Selkie Total $10.00
Shadowbinders Total $10.00
Simone and Ajax Total $100.00
Snow by Night Total $100.00
Table Titans Total $1.00
Twokinds Total $20.00
Unsounded Total $118.00
Unsounded and Paranatural – divide it equally Total $5.00
Weregeek Total $30.00
Widdershins Total $10.00
Will Save World for Gold Total $26.00
XKCD $50.00
Again, we thank all of the fans who voted and donated.
But the final winner of the contest, the last strip standing… making up a huge deficit at the end with $648 to $105.50 in paid votes, making the final score 2238-1018… the winner of the 2013 Mix March Madness Webcomics Tournament is Bittersweet Candy Bowl!
Congratulations to everyone who played along, thank you all for voting, and don’t forget to check back in a few weeks when we start to take nominations for May Mayhem— the 2013 NSFW Webcomics Tournament, benefiting the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund!
