The 'Shroom:Issue 103/Ultimate Character Tournament

Welcome to the Ultimate Character Tournament 2015!

WARNING: THERE HAS BEEN A TIE! VOTE IN ROUND 2: SUDDEN DEATH!

Click here to view last month's winners and losers!

Click here to jump straight to this month's round of voting!

Morton Koopa and Peach tied in last month's round of voting. The winner of that bracket was supposed to face off against Diddy Kong this month. We will resolve the issue by having a one week Sudden Death round between the two tied contenders, and then placing the winner of that battle against Diddy Kong. The voting for the Sudden Death winner and Diddy Kong will be extended by a week.

Introduction

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Back in September 2009, Ralphfan (talk) posted the idea of doing the Ultimate Character Tournament — a series of polls in a bracket-style "tournament" to determine the best character from several video game series. Originally, it was supposed to coincide with the anniversary festivities in 2010, but due to skepticism from the committee, the project was supported by The 'Shroom instead and became more closely affiliated with the publication. Planning meetings were held throughout the last few months of 2009, and the event ran from January 2010 through August 2010. It was considered one of the first major events that The 'Shroom had ever sponsored and was widely successful, pulling in hundreds of votes for each poll that was posted. Five years later, The 'Shroom staff has decided to host a second Ultimate Character Tournament to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the event and the 100th edition of the newsletter! Several major changes have been made, though, in order to make it a truly ultimate character tournament: Planning meetings were scrapped in order to set the event up quickly and efficiently. Instead, Super Mario Bros. (talk) created the bracket with advice from the Core Staff, and will be the manager. The list of "tournament participants" (characters) has been streamlined from 234 participants to 72 participants in order to maintain focus. Whereas the focus of the original tournament was mostly on the Mario series, the event has been expanded to include major characters from 30 different franchises.

How It Works

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The tournament will feature characters from various video game franchises going head-to-head in a series of polls. The participants specifically featured in the bracket are: All playable characters in the Super Smash Bros. series, including alternative costumes, with the exception of the Pokémon Trainer character from Super Smash Bros. Brawl; instead, Ivysaur and Squirtle (who were components of the aforementioned scrapped character) were individually included in the bracket Tabuu, who is the central boss character in Super Smash Bros. Brawl Four characters total from the Rare franchises Banjo and Conker, in honor of the last tournament and Rare's 30th anniversary Two participants will be listed in every poll, and the voters will decide who wins and moves on to the next bracket. There will be one round of voting held every month, including a preliminary round to be held this month. The participants in the preliminary round were specifically chosen due to either being third-party franchises or being alternative costumes in Super Smash Bros. for 3DS / Wii U, though the match-ups themselves are randomized. The match-ups for Round 1 have also been randomized.

Schedule

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Round # Voting Period Results Announced Participants Advancements Preliminary Round Start: July 18th, 2015 August 15th, 2015 16 participants 8 place in tournament Finish: August 8th, 2015 Round 1 Start: August 22nd, 2015 September 19th, 2015 64 participants 32 advance to next round Finish: September 12th, 2015 Round 2 Start: September 19th, 2015 October 24th, 2015 32 participants 16 advance to next round Finish: October 10th, 2015 Round 2: Sudden Death Start: October 24th, 2015 October 31st, 2015 2 participants 1 advances to Round 3 Finish: October 31st, 2015 Round 3 Start: October 24th, 2015 * November 21st, 2015 16 participants 8 advance to next round Finish: November 14th, 2015 * Round 4 Start: November 21st, 2015 December 19th, 2015 8 participants 4 advance to next round Finish: December 12th, 2015 Round 5 Start: December 19th, 2015 January 16th, 2016 4 participants 2 advance to next round Finish: January 9th, 2016 Round 6 Start: January 16th, 2016 February 20th, 2016 2 participants Winner is announced Finish: February 6th, 2016 * — Voting for Round 3: Bracket 4 will start and finish one week after both listed dates.

Information

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Links Notes UCT 2015 - Characters (by series) UCT 2015 - Characters (total) green denotes addition from last tournament. red denotes removal from last year. UCT 2015 - Bracket green denotes participant has advanced to the next round. red denotes participant has been defeated. blue denotes participants have tied.

Previous Round

The winners from last month!

Mewtwo	VS.	King Dedede
	Mewtwo advances to the next round!
green green		red red

Falco	VS.	Ludwig von Koopa
	Ludwig von Koopa advances to the next round!
red red		green green

Pit	VS.	Sonic
	Sonic advances to the next round!
red red		green green

Toon Link	VS.	Donkey Kong
	Donkey Kong advances to the next round!
red red		green green

Pac-Man	VS.	Wario
	Pac-Man advances to the next round!
green green		red red

Bowser	VS.	Luigi
	Luigi advances to the next round!
red red		green green

Ness	VS.	Diddy Kong
	Diddy Kong advances to the next round!
red red		green green

Morton Koopa	VS.	Peach
	Morton Koopa and Peach have tied!
blue blue		blue blue

Kirby	VS.	Bowser Jr.
	Kirby advances to the next round!
green green		red red

Lemmy Koopa	VS.	Pikachu
	Pikachu advances to the next round!
red red		green green

Lucario	VS.	Mario
	Mario advances to the next round!
red red		green green

Samus	VS.	Dark Pit
	Samus advances to the next round!
green green		red red

Robin	VS.	Captain Falcon
	Captain Falcon advances to the next round!
red red		green green

Wolf	VS.	Meta Knight
	Meta Knight advances to the next round!
red red		green green

Young Link	VS.	Yoshi
	Yoshi advances to the next round!
red red		green green

Rosalina	VS.	Charizard
	Rosalina advances to the next round!
green green		red red

Round 2: Sudden Death

Morton Koopa and Princess Peach tied in Round 2! Vote for who you want to advance in the tournament!

Morton Koopa	VS.	Peach

Round 3

Vote for who you want to advance in the tournament!

Mewtwo	VS.	Ludwig von Koopa

Sonic	VS.	Donkey Kong

Pac-Man	VS.	Luigi

Diddy Kong	VS.	Peach

Kirby	VS.	Pikachu

Mario	VS.	Samus

Captain Falcon	VS.	Meta Knight

Yoshi	VS.	Rosalina

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