Mix March Madness 2015 Webcomics Tournament Championship!
This is it– a battle two months in the making!
The Final Four fought the good fight, and there are only two left standing. In another context they may be a Dynamic Duo, but as the Scots say, there can be only one. Voting was hot and feverish but knocked out in the Semi-Finals were Not A Villain and Girl Genius, who move on into a contest for the bronze. The stakes are high and the prize is grand. No other web comic will be able to claim bragging rights to winning the ComicMix March Madness 2015. Over 500 were considered, 128 were chosen and one will remain champion. Who will it be… Stand Still. Stay Silent or Shotgun Shuffle?
All will be known after polls close this Friday, May 8, 2015– vote now!
First, the donations– holy cow, you guys are amazing. In this round alone, you raised $408 to help Frumph get his computer back up and running, and $902 for the Hero Initiative, for a whopping $1310.
One last time, here are the brackets…
As always, we’re letting you support your favorite strips by paying for additional votes, simply click on the Donate button, and during checkout, click on “Which comic are you donating for?” and tell us who you’re voting for. The price is 25¢ a vote this round, with a minimum of four votes purchased at a time, split any way you want. All proceeds from paid votes will go to the Hero Initiative, an organization that helps comic book creators in need. At the close of the round, we’ll add the paid votes to the totals and announce the winner.
Voting ends at midnight Eastern Time on Friday night! Good luck to everyone!
C’mon Shufflers, we can do this!
This final round brought to you by the letter S and the number 6.
Good luck everyone, and may the best comic win!
Some one left the Orange Julius machine on overnight while going through FedEx. Stand Still. Stay Silent and Shotgun Shuffle got smershed in transit. Oh the humanity, who will think of the children?
Where’s Helen Lovejoy? That was her cue. Never mind, she’s fired. She’ll never work in comment threads again.
Midnight on Friday? I mean, that has been the typical ending time, but when something is left open, and people are plying bribes for votes an ending time would be considerate.
I’m doing the math on the votes listed as bought, and I’m not coming up with $1310 (1044/4=$261, 3824/4=$956, $261+$956=$1217). Were there donations to the charities not credited to a comic?
Outside of that one question, congratulations on almost making more for the Hero Initiative in the last round than you had hoped to make for the entire tournament, and being able to aid another worthy cause as well!
Let me double check what was listed here.
Thanks!
@Ash – It’s at least somewhat wrong, but not regarding someone donating a decent amount to be assigned to no comic.
In the last round I donated $113 with the request that $13 (52 votes) go to Shotgun Shuffle and $100 (400 votes) be not assigned to any comic because I didn’t think things would go this far and I thought that kind of vote would distort things a bit much. The vote was to Comic Press author, because I’ve definitely received a lot more value than $100 in entertainment by artists who’ve used Comic Press (and I was going to do 52 donation votes for Rusche anyway), and I correctly guessed that might not be an option again in the final.
Granted, when I looked at the almost four thousand votes Rusche got last round, I thought perhaps I shouldn’t have worried, but oh well. If there’s an accounting of which comic brought how much to donations, I figure that would make it obvious to tally that to Shotgun Shuffle even if I didn’t want to make it appear to distort the vote to that degree.
(I DID donate near enough the deadline to make sure that we were close enough that we’d either have plenty of donation votes to carry us through from others or that GG would’ve blown us out of the water regardless.)
I’ve been tracking how much has been donated to the charity in total and by each comic out of curiosity since near the beginning. When the numbers he reported didn’t add up to the total donation, I was curious if money had been donated in another comic’s name- I had one of my regulars threatening to donate in A Distant Soil’s name for all that they didn’t even make the seeding round this year, and I’ll admit I was curious if he had gone through with it or not.
It sounds like Jake didn’t if you donated $100 and they have only $93 unassigned to a comic.
Hi Glenn.
Well, this is unrelated to “Ash Blackwell” post 🙂
Recently in a forum someone raised a valid question so I want to ask about the money to Hero Initiative.
Sometimes donations have legally valid discounts due the processing through the collecting organization. In this case, how share of the money for paid votes actually gets to HI hands?
I don’t want to be rude, it’s just to know.
Thank you.
Sorry “how share” should be “how much”.
or “what share” as you wish 🙂
I don’t know offhand if PayPal charges a processing fee for Hero or not. Hero is a publicly supported not-for-profit corporation under section 501 (c) (3), so if Paypal gives those orgs a pass, then I’m sure it all goes to them.
Thank you very much!
Forgot to define which comic i was voting for in my donation, please advise?
Dont want to miss the boat and leave money unclaimed, so in the chance the vote finishes during my night:
Receipt Number: ***************-7324
Shotgun Shuffle
@Bluarachnia – Your receipt number looks a lot like a credit card number. You might want to check that and edit your post.
No that was definitely the receipt number lol, I’ll re space it
Receipt Number: 5101 – 5778 – 1123 – 7324
Thats the paypal receipt number that I got in the email
Glenn, just donated. Confirmation code 1CD02255MY573850S
$100 The whole Amount to Shotgun Shuffle please.
I also donated. Confirmation code – 8PW47120AN6293645
For Shotgun Shuffle.
Well, I followed one comic here, in order to vote for it, and got hooked on another great comic.
Thanks a lot. No seriously. Thank you.
Well whichever one I am, happy to have you 🙂
Not seeing a Confirmation code, this is copy pase from the paypal email
Donation Details
Donation amount: $200.00 USD
From Amount: $262.16 AUD
To Amount: $200.00 USD
Exchange Rate: 1 Australian Dollar = 0.762892 US Dollars
Purpose: Hero Initiative
Reference: MixMarchMadness
Contributor: (My Name)
Recipient information
Donations coordinator: The Hero Initiative
Contact email: Heroauctions@aol.com
Your Unconfirmed Address
Shipping information: (My Address)
Australia
Receipt Number: 5101 -5778 -1123 -7324 (Remove Spaces)
For Shogun Shuffle, khnx