Mix March Madness Webcomics Tournament: Round 1 Play By Play!

As you’ve seen if you’ve been following the site at all this week, we’ve taken sixty-four popular webcomics and are putting them head to head in a single-elimination tournament. As a result, it’s been a very busy week here at ComicMix, and we have less than 40 hours of voting in the first round, so we wanted to point to some of the highlights.

The contest getting the highest vote totals right now is Gronk vs. Zeke Is Hungry, which is seeing a lot of love from their respective Twitter followers. The most one-sided blowout so far has to be Maakies vs. Erfworld, where Rob Balder is beating the heck out of Tony Millionaire.

At this point, there are a couple of upsets in the works, with young upstarts beating out long established strips. While one or two people pointed out that some of the match-ups are a little odd, we couldn’t find any better way to select matches than a random selection process. Is it fair that either Penny Arcade or Hark! A Vagrant! will be knocked out in the first round? Maybe not, but one was going to be knocked out by the end of the tournament no matter what happened. It’s a testament to the strength of the entire webcomics community that there are so many good strips out there that I personally have been tearing my hair out over many of the choices (who can choose between some of these, both are just so gooooood… but of course, that’s what makes this exciting) and that there are so many good strips that we didn’t include that we may have to do another one of these next month. How does April Armageddon sound to you?

But wait– we aren’t even done with the first round of this month’s contest. So if you haven’t voted, your chance is right below!

The polls are right below the contender brackets:

Dinosaur Comics Game 1 Sinfest

Axe Cop Game 17 Diesel Sweeties

Winner, 1 Game 33 Winner, 2

Winner, 17 Game 41 Winner, 18

Winner, 33 Game 49 Winner, 34

Winner, 41 Game 53 Winner, 42

Penny Arcade Game 2 Hark! A Vagrant!

Dr. McNinja Game 18 Alien Loves Predator

The Gutters Game 3 Sat. Morn. Breakfast Cereal

PvP Game 19 Let’s Be Friends Again

Winner, 3 Game 34 Winner, 4

Winner, 19 Game 42 Winner, 20

Cyanide and Happiness Game 4 Full Frontal Nerdity

Maakies Game 20 Erfworld

Winner, 49 Game 57 Winner, 50

Winner, 53 Game 59 Winner, 54

Least I Could Do Game 5 xkcd

Nedroid Picture Diary Game 21 Overcompensating

Winner, 5 Game 35 Winner, 6

Winner, 21 Game 43 Winner, 22

Winner, 35 Game 50 Winner, 36

Winner, 43 Game 54 Winner, 44

Kawaii Not Game 6 Garfield Minus Garfield

Pictures for Sad Children Game 22 Wondermark

Kindergoth Game 7 Freak Angels

Max Overacts Game 23 Gunnerkrigg Court

Winner, 7 Game 36 Winner, 8

Winner, 23 Game 44 Winner, 24

MegaTokyo Game 8 VG Cats

The Dreamer Game 24 Flipside

Winner, 57 Game 61 Winner, 58

Winner, 61 Game 63 Winner, 62

Winner, 59 Game 62 Winner, 60

Virtual Shackles Game 9 Dueling Analogs

The Dreamland Chronicles Game 25 Girls With Slingshots

Winner, 9 Game 37 Winner, 10

Winner, 25 Game 45 Winner, 26

Winner, 37 Game 51 Winner, 38

Winner, 45 Game 55 Winner, 46

Awkward Zombie Game 10 Evil Inc

The K Chronicles Game 26 Medium Large

Ctrl-Alt-Del Game 11 Ratfist

Savage Chickens Game 27 Unshelved

Winner, 11 Game 38 Winner, 12

Winner, 27 Game 46 Winner, 28

A Distant Soil Game 12 Dresden Codak

American Elf Game 28 Dork Tower

Winner, 51 Game 58 Winner, 52

Winner, 55 Game 60 Winner, 56

Girl Genius Game 13 My Sister the FREAK

Multiplex Game 29 Kevin & Kell

Winner, 13 Game 39 Winner, 14

Winner, 29 Game 47 Winner, 30

Winner, 39 Game 52 Winner, 40

Winner, 47 Game 56 Winner, 48

Gronk Game 14 Zeke Is Hungry

Lackadaisy Game 30 Questionable Content

Achewood Game 15 Hyperbole and a Half

Shortpacked Game 31 Goats

Winner, 15 Game 40 Winner, 16

Winner, 31 Game 48 Winner, 32

Amazing Super Powers Game 16 Sheldon

Pibgorn Game 32 Theater Hopper

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Polling closes at 11:59 Eastern Standard Time on Saturday, March 12!