2011 FANDOM STEEL CAGE MATCH MARCH MADNESS PRELIMS!
It's that time of year again, where I cruelly make you choose between beloved characters in a bloody, no holds barred, single elimination tournament. Tears will be shed, capslock will be abused, flists will be torn apart. Let's do this.
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Rules/Directions
1. Vote for your FAVORITE character in each poll.
2. NO BITCHASSNESS. I don't want to hear any complaints about how this game is being run wrong - why wasn't this show included? why isn't this character in the polls? There's no possible way I can include every single character from every single show to please every single person participating in this game, so SHUT IT DOWN.
3. NO FAKE JOURNALS. Any journals created during the dates of this or any previous game will not be counted in the results. Don't think I won't take the time to stop the game and count them all myself. I did it last year, I'll do it again. I'M BUYING ALL THE HOT DOGS AND GIVING THEM TO THE GOOD PEOPLE.
3a. I'm also not allowing anything that isn't Livejournal (Dreamwidth, Twitter, Facebook, etc.) because that's a slippery slope I don't even want to deal with. You can use them to participate in the comment sections but don't vote with them.
4. A schedule of the game can be found HERE.
BRACKET LIST
COMEDY
1. 30 Rock
2. Arrested Development
3. The Big Bang Theory
4. Community
5. Cougar Town
6. Friends
7. How I Met Your Mother
8. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
9. Miranda
10. Modern Family
11. The Office (US)
12. Parks and Recreation
13. Psych
14. Scrubs
15. Sports Night
16. Weeds
DRAMA
1. Alias
2. Bones
3. Castle
4. Dexter
5. The Good Wife
6. Hawaii Five-0
7. House
8. Justified
9. Leverage
10. Lost
11. Mad Men
12. Queer as Folk (US)
13. Sherlock
14. Southland vs. Downton Abbey (WILD CARD ROUND)
15. The West Wing
16. White Collar
SCIFI/FANTASY
1. Battlestar Galactica / Caprica
2. Being Human (UK)
3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Angel
4. Chuck
5. Doctor Who (New & Classic) / Torchwood / The Sarah Jane Adventures
6. Farscape
7. Firefly
8. Fringe
9. Merlin
10. Misfits
11. Star Trek: The Original Series / The Next Generation / Deep Space Nine / Voyager / Enterprise
12. Smallville
13. Stargate SG-1 / Atlantis / Universe
14. Supernatural
15. True Blood
16. The X-Files / The Lone Gunmen
TEEN
1. Dawson's Creek
2. Degrassi: The Next Generation
3. Freaks and Geeks
4. Friday Night Lights
5. Gilmore Girls
6. Glee
7. Gossip Girl
8. Greek
9. The O.C.
10. One Tree Hill
11. Popular
12. Pretty Little Liars
13. Roswell
14. Skins (UK)
15. The Vampire Diaries
16. Veronica Mars
PRELIMINARIES
(Polls closed as of Thursday, March 3, 1:01PM EST)
COMEDY
Poll COMEDY
STOP
If you're using a Livejournal created during the dates of this or any previous game OR any platform that isn't Livejournal (Dreamwidth, Twitter, Facebook, etc.), please don't vote. They will not be counted in the results in order to prevent the rampant cheating that happens every year.
DRAMA
Poll DRAMA
STOP
If you're using a Livejournal created during the dates of this or any previous game OR any platform that isn't Livejournal (Dreamwidth, Twitter, Facebook, etc.), please don't vote. They will not be counted in the results in order to prevent the rampant cheating that happens every year.
DRAMA: WILD CARD ROUND!
The prize for winning the Fandom Office Pool is a wild card round in next year's preliminaries: the winner chooses one fandom not in the game and challenges any other fandom (in the appropriate bracket) to a runoff vote. The character/fandom with the most votes will move onto the next round. Last year's winner, aurilly, chose Downton Abbey to challenge Southland!
Poll DRAMA: WILD CARD ROUND
STOP
If you're using a Livejournal created during the dates of this or any previous game OR any platform that isn't Livejournal (Dreamwidth, Twitter, Facebook, etc.), please don't vote. They will not be counted in the results in order to prevent the rampant cheating that happens every year.
SCI-FI / FANTASY
Poll SCI-FI / FANTASY
STOP
If you're using a Livejournal created during the dates of this or any previous game OR any platform that isn't Livejournal (Dreamwidth, Twitter, Facebook, etc.), please don't vote. They will not be counted in the results in order to prevent the rampant cheating that happens every year.
TEEN
Poll TEEN
STOP
If you're using a Livejournal created during the dates of this or any previous game OR any platform that isn't Livejournal (Dreamwidth, Twitter, Facebook, etc.), please don't vote. They will not be counted in the results in order to prevent the rampant cheating that happens every year.
ETA: It has come to my attention that I left out Tyra Collette from FNL and Michael Vaughn from Alias. I'M SORRY. Clearly I am the worst at this SO PLEASE DON'T POINT IT OUT TO ME ANYMORE. If there were some magical way I could redo this poll at this point I would, but I can't, SO I CAN'T.