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Web-Comic Tournie on ComicMix

Cass_

By Cass_,
Posted on: 2011-03-09 06:19 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture

 

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ComicMix website are doing a single-elimination tournament for 64 popular webcomics here

Mix March Madness Tournament

where you can vote for your favourites.

Been voting on the ones I know, some surprises there actually, looks like Penny Arcade may go down in the first round to Hark! A Vagrant! Also, Ctrl-Alt-Del is likely to win it's round against Ratfist.

I know people here like webcomics so thought it would interesting to see who wins it. They are adding different ones each days, so thought I'd post the relevant links for people to add their own votes.

Dinosaur Comics vs Sinfest

The Gutters vs saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Cyanide and Happiness vs Full Frontal Nerdity

Least I Could Do vs XKCD

MegaTokyo vs VG Cats

Kawaii Not vs Garfield Minus Garfield

Kindergoth vs FreakAngels

Virtual Shackles vs Duelling Analogs

Awkward Zombie vs Evil Inc

Ctrl+Alt+Del vs Ratfist

A Distant Soil vs Dresden Codak

Gronk vs Zeke Is Hungry

Girl Genius vs My Sister The Freak

Achewood vs Hyperbole and a Half

Amazing Super Powers vs Sheldon

The Adventures of Dr McNinja vs Alien Loves Predator

I'll post up the others as they get posted, but you can see what's coming in the first link

There's a few webcomics not in there as well, surprised not to see Order Of The Stick in the list somewhere?

We built this city on Rock and Roll!

 

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I went through his posts and placed my votes for everything that I've had some passing familiarity. And it looks like most of the stuff I like, ie that I read regularly, are losing.

Teams are the number one killer of soloists.

 

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Pretty neat!

I voted, and it looks like I'm disturbingly with the 'in' crowd. Most of my picks are winning.

Statesmonkey Sez: Lighten up! It's a game, for Lincoln's sake!
Also: Six years of casual play begins to look an awful lot like one year of hardcore play.

 

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Ok, Round 1 is done, some interesting results....

Round 1 winners and Round 2 pairings up

Pleased to see Penny Arcade get through, seemed wrong to have them go out first round!!

Torn by the LICD and XKCD pairing as I love them both, seems to pur geeks out there won as XKCD beat Rayne.......I'm sure he'd love that though

Biggest surprise for me is Garfield Without Garfield not going through, guess it's more cult than I thought it was.

New voting starts later today!

We built this city on Rock and Roll!

 

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My interest in this has just been eliminated by the need to register.

Looks like I won't be moving on.

Statesmonkey Sez: Lighten up! It's a game, for Lincoln's sake!
Also: Six years of casual play begins to look an awful lot like one year of hardcore play.

 

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Originally Posted by Father Xmas View Post
Girl Genius lost.
I'm sad about that one too, but on a brighter note Questionable Content won its slot, ya!

(But I wish Menage a 3 had been in the tourney, its most definitely NSFW but I've been following it for years)

"I used to make diddly squat, but I've been with the company for 16 years and have had plenty of great raises. Now I just make squat" -- Me

Pediatric brain tumors are the #1 cause of cancer related deaths in children.

 

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I just noticed that Schlock Mercenary isn't in this contest.

Teams are the number one killer of soloists.

 

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Originally Posted by Coin View Post
Round 2 has all the final voting options available here

Polling closes at 11:59 Eastern Standard Time on Saturday, March 19!

After this, it's down to the last 16.....my money atm is going on XKCD winning it
Best get some more people voting since right now it is going out.

 

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Originally Posted by Cass_ View Post
Best get some more people voting since right now it is going out.
Only because you voted against it......Come on.....ADMIT IT!!

We built this city on Rock and Roll!

 

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Round 3 voting starts Monday and ends Wednesday.

"I used to make diddly squat, but I've been with the company for 16 years and have had plenty of great raises. Now I just make squat" -- Me

Pediatric brain tumors are the #1 cause of cancer related deaths in children.

 

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Originally Posted by Father Xmas View Post
Girl Genius lost.
A Hugo-winning, Einser-nominated multi-volume series loses out to an all-ages upstart because the latter put a link on her site and the former didn't? This is why I hate online popularity contests.

 

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Originally Posted by TrueGentleman View Post
A Hugo-winning, Einser-nominated multi-volume series loses out to an all-ages upstart because the latter put a link on her site and the former didn't? This is why I hate online popularity contests.
Sounds more like clever and sound marketing, to me

We built this city on Rock and Roll!

 

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Wups, lost track of this thread.

Hum, I'll go back in and try voting again, but there was definitely some registration thing in round 2.

Still pulling for PA and Erfworld myself, and while I don't read A Distant Soil, it's a worthy competitor.

Statesmonkey Sez: Lighten up! It's a game, for Lincoln's sake!
Also: Six years of casual play begins to look an awful lot like one year of hardcore play.

 

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Originally Posted by Coin View Post
Sounds more like clever and sound marketing, to me
Meh. The marketing is on ComicMix's part to begin with. If that site pulled a tenth of the Alexa traffic rankings of, say, Newsarama or Bleedingcool, their little bracket event might have attracted the notice of the heavy-hitters that are in finals. (The fact that most of my personal favorites were eliminated after the second round is irrelevant.)