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Mix March Madness Webcomics Tournament: Round 3 – Sweet 16!

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March 20, 2011

Round 3! We’ve taken sixty-four popular webcomics, put them head to head in a single-elimination tournament, and are now down to sixteen!

We had a couple of upsets in this round: XKCD losing to Kawaii Not, Questionable Content pulled ahead of Multiplex (thereby wrecking my hoped for battle between them and Theater Hopper) and in a battle that went down to the wire, Penny Arcade beat Sinfest by one vote.

We’re going to start stepping up the pace of voting: Round 3 (Sweet 16) will start tomorrow and last until Wednesday, Round 4 (the Elite 8) will start Thursday and end Saturday, Round 5 (Final Four) will start Monday the 28th and run till Tuesday the 29th, and the Championship battle will start Wednesday the 30th and end on the 31st.

The updated contender brackets:

Dinosaur Comics
Game 1
Sinfest

Axe Cop
Game 17
Diesel Sweeties

Sinfest
Game 33
Penny Arcade

Axe Cop
Game 41
Dr. McNinja

Penny Arcade
Game 49
Cyanide and Happiness

Axe Cop
Game 53
Erfworld

Penny Arcade
Game 2
Hark! A Vagrant!

Dr. McNinja
Game 18
Alien Loves Predator

The Gutters
Game 3
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

PvP
Game 19
Let’s Be Friends Again

The Gutters
Game 34
Cyanide and Happiness

PvP
Game 42
Erfworld

Cyanide and Happiness
Game 4
Full Frontal Nerdity

Maakies
Game 20
Erfworld

Winner of 49
Game 57
Winner of 50

Winner of 53
Game 59
Winner of 54

Least I Could Do
Game 5
xkcd

Nedroid Picture Diary
Game 21
Overcompensating

xkcd
Game 35
Kawaii Not

Nedroid Picture Diary
Game 43
Wondermark

Kawaii Not
Game 50
VG Cats

Wondermark
Game 54
The Dreamer

Kawaii Not
Game 6
Garfield Minus Garfield

Pictures for Sad Children
Game 22
Wondermark

Kindergoth
Game 7
FreakAngels

Max Overacts
Game 23
Gunnerkrigg Court

Kindergoth
Game 36
VG Cats

Gunnerkrigg Court
Game 44
The Dreamer

MegaTokyo
Game 8
VG Cats

The Dreamer
Game 24
Flipside

Winner of 57
Game 61
Winner of 58

Winner of 61
Game 63
Winner of 62

Winner of 59
Game 62
Winner of 60

Virtual Shackles
Game 9
Dueling Analogs

The Dreamland Chronicles
Game 25
Girls With Slingshots

Dueling Analogs
Game 37
Evil Inc.

Girls With Slingshots
Game 45
The K Chronicles

Evil Inc.
Game 51
A Distant Soil

Girls With Slingshots
Game 55
Dork Tower

Awkward Zombie
Game 10
Evil Inc.

The K Chronicles
Game 26
Medium Large

Ctrl-Alt-Del
Game 11
Ratfist

Savage Chickens
Game 27
Unshelved

Ctrl-Alt-Del
Game 38
A Distant Soil

Savage Chickens
Game 46
Dork Tower

A Distant Soil
Game 12
Dresden Codak

American Elf
Game 28
Dork Tower

Winner of 51
Game 58
Winner of 52

Winner of 55
Game 60
Winner of 56

Girl Genius
Game 13
My Sister the FREAK

Multiplex
Game 29
Kevin & Kell

My Sister the FREAK
Game 39
Gronk

Multiplex
Game 47
Questionable Content

Gronk
Game 52
Hyperbole and a Half

Questionable Content
Game 56
Theater Hopper

Gronk
Game 14
Zeke Is Hungry

Lackadaisy
Game 30
Questionable Content

Achewood
Game 15
Hyperbole and a Half

Shortpacked
Game 31
Goats

Hyperbole and a Half
Game 40
Sheldon

Shortpacked
Game 48
Theater Hopper

Amazing Super Powers
Game 16
Sheldon

Pibgorn
Game 32
Theater Hopper

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!

Mix March Madness Webcomics Tournament: Round 2 Play By Play!

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March 18, 2011

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!

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

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March 11, 2011

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!

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Announcing Mix March Madness!

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March 7, 2011

It’s that time of year, where bracketology reigns supreme and the cry around the nation is “Win or Go Home!” And we here at ComicMix are not immune to that siren call– although we’re putting our own spin on it.

We’ve taken sixty-four popular webcomics and are putting them head to head in a single-elimination tournament. The winners of each matchup will be determined by your votes and move on to the next round. Vote for your favorites– or use this as an excuse to discover great new webcomics!

The contenders are: