Mix March Madness Webcomics Tournament: Round 2 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 35 hours of voting in the first round, so we wanted to point to some of the highlights.
The contests getting the highest vote totals right now are Gronk vs.My Sister the FREAK, followed closely by PvP vs. Erfworld, which is not quite as bad a blowout as last time, but Erfworld is still looking pretty strong.
But at this point, nobody has an insurmountable lead– anybody can make a call out to their followers and retake the lead, and after two days of hand-to-hand electioneering at C2E2, the scores can really change. Every match is still too close to call.
So get your votes in– if you haven’t voted, your chance is right below! You get to determine who makes it to the Sweet 16!
The polls are right below the contender brackets:
And here are the ballots!
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Our own logs are also showing respectable traffic going out to all the participating strips, and we’re getting reports of people doing entire runs at a shot– which has got to be spiking numbers for everybody, which was part of the idea.
Polling closes at 11:59 Eastern Standard Time on Saturday, March 19!
I know these started out as random matches, but some of these are extremely unbalanced. There’s no way Ctrl-Alt-Del could ever stack up against A Distant Soil, for example, or PVP versus Erfwold.
By that argument, the Patriots should have made it to the Super Bowl this year.
Not really because real March Madness initial match ups aren’t random, and a lot of thought and debate goes into matching up comparable teams. I’m just saying some of the initial match ups could have been better balanced.
I feel personally upset that Game 36 is going to be better than the future Game 50 or Game 57. The xkcd/kawaii not match up is awesome, and wasted on the fact that it’s in round 2.
I meant Game 35. You understand.