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And the winner of the first ever [community profile] fictional_fans fandom tournament is:

*insert row of fireworks gifs here*

YULETIDE



It's really damn poetic that we have collectively decided that the winner is a bunch of little tiny fandoms that couldn't do it on their own coming together in a group. Really understanding the spirit of this community! :D Good job!

Second place is Star Trek.

Third place, winning in the runner-ups round against Doctor Who - although interestingly, winning with exactly the same number of votes as Star Trek's second place finish - is Star Wars. So we've successfully not solved that long-standing rivalry either.

Thanks for playing along, everyone! It was a good way to spend a week and a half in a hot July!
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And it's time for the final showdown! I have no idea who's gonna win here, folks. I'm going to leave it up for two days, so you have until 48 hours from now to vote.

Poll #27304 Fandom Brackets: Final
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One of the most popular fandoms on Dreamwidth, this made it into the first Fandom Brackets final.

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Star Trek
75 (49.0%)

Yuletide
78 (51.0%)




And competing for third place, the loser of the semifinals:

Poll #27305 Fandom Brackets: Third-Place Match
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If you meet a mysterious old man with a British accent on a desert planet, run.

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Star Wars
77 (51.0%)

Doctor Who
74 (49.0%)

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Down to the last four fandoms in the SEMIFINALS! A very classic batch of fandoms that made it through.

This will run 24 hours, and then the actual final I will probably leave up at least 48 hours. There will also be a third place contest running at the same time.

Poll #27301 Fandom Brackets: Semifinals
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Explore the galaxy in this groundbreaking science fiction fandom about adventure in the stars!

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Star Wars
51 (34.2%)

Star Trek
98 (65.8%)

Any story, any setting, and genre, any time period - you can find it here!

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Doctor Who
58 (38.7%)

Yuletide
92 (61.3%)

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I closed the polls on the hour exactly because several of the races were still very close. Avatar: The Last Airbender has defeated Good Omens by 1 vote exactly, and Original Work beats OFMD by 3.

I guess all polls going forward will close at 12 PM EDT exactly to remove the temptation for me to close them at an auspicious moment.

So here is Round 3, the last sixteen fandoms, the Octo-Finals! You can tell I'm getting a little punchy with the descriptions!

Poll #27290 Fandom Brackets: Round 3
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Actually I think DC is the only major comics publisher that's never had the Star Wars license. Huh.

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DC Universes
34 (26.8%)

Star Wars
93 (73.2%)

Anyone can become the greatest bard in a generation, with the right inspiration.

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The Witcher
59 (49.6%)

Original Work
60 (50.4%)

It's not a Christ allegory, I swear

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The X-Files
28 (21.9%)

Lord of the Rings
100 (78.1%)

Professor Moriarty may only appear once or twice in canon, but he makes a big impression!

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Star Trek
94 (69.6%)

Sherlock Holmes
41 (30.4%)

Sail the air currents on your glider.

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Avatar: The Last Airbender
85 (73.3%)

Legend of Zelda
31 (26.7%)

It's a small world, after all

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Doctor Who
93 (71.0%)

Disney/Pixar
38 (29.0%)

Have some 80s pop culture nostalgia!

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Stranger Things
33 (29.5%)

She-Ra
79 (70.5%)

So many beloved old stories appear here.

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Yuletide
114 (87.0%)

Once Upon A Time
17 (13.0%)

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And Group B of the hexadecifinals! All rounds from here on will be one poll per round.

Speak up for your favorites while you have a chance!

Poll #27282 Fandom Brackets: Round 2b
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A carefree young boy who is the avatar of vast power and his ragtag group of friends must determine the fate of the world.

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Avatar: The Last Airbender Universe
71 (50.4%)

Good Omens
70 (49.6%)

(Now I just want a League of Zelda video game.)

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League of Legends
17 (18.1%)

Legend of Zelda
77 (81.9%)

This is what happens when you put a bunch of smart, powerful, driven kids into a high-pressure boarding school at an impressionable age.

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Doctor Who
117 (85.4%)

Boku no Hero Academia
20 (14.6%)

You may have first met some of these characters in the famous Kingdom Hearts games based on this fandom.

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Final Fantasy
49 (40.2%)

Disney/Pixar
73 (59.8%)

A group of teens, and their hapless parents, make contact with another universe - one where things are very different from their own.

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Homestuck
39 (36.1%)

Stranger Things
69 (63.9%)

Come together to fight in a revolution to free the world from tyranny!

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She-Ra
68 (54.4%)

Les Miserables
57 (45.6%)

Made up of thousands of smaller fandoms covering every imaginable setting and plot, there's something here for everyone.

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Yuletide
103 (71.5%)

Marvel
41 (28.5%)

In this fandom, the action in the story alternates between two main settings.

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Once Upon A Time
73 (62.4%)

Law & Order
44 (37.6%)

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Group A of the hexadecifinals are here! Group B will be following immediately after - no cool-down this time - and both polls will be open for about twenty-four hours, after which the octofinals will go up immediately.

Some tough choices on this one!

Poll #27281 Fandom Brackets: Round 2a
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A vast set of universes of really intense classic geek stuff.

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DC Universes
80 (69.6%)

Critical Role
35 (30.4%)

Into every generation a Chosen One is born...

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Star Wars
82 (57.3%)

Buffyverse
61 (42.7%)

A popular video game series set in a pseudo-medieval-Europe; face amnesia, monsters, special powers, and dangerous rips in reality.

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Dragon Age
37 (33.0%)

The Witcher
75 (67.0%)

Sometimes you just want a really specific gay pirate idfic about your OCs to exist. (Sometimes you're Taika Waititi).

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Our Flag Means Death
63 (48.8%)

Original Work
66 (51.2%)

Our protagonists face down monsters, ghosts, their own demons, a vast government conspiracy, and unbelievable levels of UST.

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The X-Files
80 (63.5%)

Modao Zushi
46 (36.5%)

A group of various species wanders an apparently-idyllic pastoral landscape facing down its hidden evils and, sometimes, its ancient mythological beings.

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Lord of the Rings
107 (79.3%)

Pokemon
28 (20.7%)

A fable about what happens when you unleash ordinary Earth humans onto an unsuspecting galaxy.

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Star Trek
113 (84.3%)

Steven Universe
21 (15.7%)

This fandom is popularized as a modern-day retelling of famous public-domain stories.

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Sherlock Holmes
105 (76.1%)

Percy Jackson
33 (23.9%)

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Fourth group of Round 1! Vote below. Okay, I know I've been saying I'll close posts after 24 hours, but post 1 is still getting a trickle of votes, so I guess I will keep them all open until tomorrow evening. Last round had our first real nailbiter: SPN vs MDZS, and it's still anyone's game there! I will be extremely tempted to time the poll closing so my fave wins, but maybe by then it won't be that close anymore.

The criteria you should use for voting is which fandom in each pair you would rather see advance. If you have particularly good and/or bad reasoning as to why, you should share it in the comments!

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They're chosen to be the very best at what they do, and they're going to break new ground doing it.

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Yuri!!! on ICE
26 (19.0%)

Star Trek
111 (81.0%)

Beautiful seaside towns, sinister mines, intense found family, a fight to defeat a tyrannical overlord, what more can you ask in a fandom?

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Minecraft Youtube
24 (23.1%)

Steven Universe
80 (76.9%)

A unique genius creates a whole new career for himself in a Victorianesque empire.

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Fullmetal Alchemist
55 (42.0%)

Sherlock Holmes (including BBC)
76 (58.0%)

Use themed powers derived from the Gods to have adventures, find your siblings, and fulfill your mission.

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Genshin Impact
15 (16.1%)

Percy Jackson
78 (83.9%)

Christmas can't be over until somebody brings the party a tale of adventure to share.

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King Arthur (including BBC Merlin)
52 (39.1%)

Yuletide
81 (60.9%)

"If it is death you want, it is death you shall have"

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Marvel Universes
81 (68.1%)

Hannibal Lecter
38 (31.9%)

A community is haunted by old secrets and older lies.

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Ace Attorney
54 (49.1%)

Once Upon A Time
56 (50.9%)

Just because it's formulaic doesn't mean it's not good!

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Haikyu!!
41 (40.2%)

Law & Order
61 (59.8%)

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Third group of Round 1! Vote below. Round 1a will be closing soon, so get your last-minute votes in now; this round will close in approximately 24 hours.

The criteria you should use for voting is which fandom in each pair you would rather see advance. If you have particularly good and/or bad reasoning as to why, you should share it in the comments!

Poll #27266 Which fandom should advance to the next round?
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The Truth is Outside

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Dangan Ronpa
18 (13.0%)

The X-Files
120 (87.0%)

A very close pair of ghost-hunting brothers are tragically divided; then one of them falls for the grumpy, poorly-socialized man from above the clouds who tries to rescue him from Hell.

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Mo Dao Zu Shi & Related Fandoms
75 (52.4%)

Supernatural
68 (47.6%)

This is a collection of source documents preserving the history of some people who tried to protect the world from some dangerous artifacts and entities. Beware the Eye.

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The Magnus Archives
37 (24.5%)

Lord of the Rings and Middle-Earth
114 (75.5%)

Gotta catch them all.

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Pokemon
87 (62.6%)

Criminal Minds
52 (37.4%)

This started as an unconventional webcomic and grew a massive and controversial fandom in the early 2010s. So many cosplay photos.

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Homestuck
63 (59.4%)

Hetalia
43 (40.6%)

Deft characterization and nostalgic settings built a large and vibrant fandom community.

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Fire Emblem
54 (47.4%)

Stranger Things
60 (52.6%)

Dedicated to intense training from a young age, they must learn to work as a team despite coming from very different nations and backgrounds.

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She-Ra
115 (82.7%)

Men's Hockey RPF
24 (17.3%)

A group of queer emo kids sing their way to freedom, possibly also the afterlife.

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Les Miserables
99 (70.7%)

Bandom
41 (29.3%)

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Second group of the first round! This poll will close when I post Round 1d, more or less.

The first group is going well! Please keep voting. Only a couple of the matches have been nail-biters - but that's your cue to go recruit all your friends to stuff the poll for your favorites.

The criteria you should use for voting is still which fandom in each pair you would rather see advance. If you have particularly good and/or bad reasoning as to why, you should share it in the comments!

Poll #27265 Which fandom would you rather see advance?
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A carefully assembled group of unbelievably attractive people change the world (and also date each other, possibly?)

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Dragon Age
78 (60.5%)

K-Pop
51 (39.5%)

The child prophesied to save the world is adopted by their dad's weird wolf friends.

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Harry Potter
56 (36.8%)

Wiedzmin/The Witcher
96 (63.2%)

A child of privilege flees home, and rescues themself by bonding with a legendary monster.

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Our Flag Means Death
106 (73.1%)

Game of Thrones and related fandoms
39 (26.9%)

May or may not be about furries.

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Original Work
106 (74.6%)

Voltron
36 (25.4%)

Neither time, space, nor death can deter our heroes from travelling the galaxy, saving societies from tyranny, ignorance, and the ultimate enemy: strange sluglike creatures that can't survive independently.

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Stargate
52 (32.7%)

Doctor Who
107 (67.3%)

Bright young people must learn to use their new powers while navigating the problems left them by their parents' generation.

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Jojo's Bizarre Adventures
38 (35.8%)

Boku no Hero Academia
68 (64.2%)

The real enemy in this game probably isn't who you thought it was.

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Final Fantasy
81 (68.6%)

Undertale
37 (31.4%)

A sprawling collection of animated stories of love, family, friendship, good and evil and everything in between,

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Transformers
50 (34.7%)

Disney/Pixar Animation
94 (65.3%)

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First round of the double hexadecifinals! Vote below. This poll will close when I post Round 1c, sometime tomorrow.

The criteria you should use for voting is which fandom in each pair you would rather see advance. If you have particularly good and/or bad reasoning as to why, you should share it in the comments!

Poll #27262 Which fandom would you rather see advance?
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In a world full of people with special powers, our protagonists choose to use theirs to fight crime, solve mysteries and save the world.

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DC universes
108 (74.5%)

Bungou Stray Dogs
37 (25.5%)

A group of theater kids with good voices form a club, create epic drama.

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Critical Role
102 (71.8%)

Glee
40 (28.2%)

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

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Star Wars
124 (72.1%)

No Fandom
48 (27.9%)

Don't underestimate our hero just because they're young, naive, spunky, and have a name that rhymes with 'fluffy'! They have powers you never expected and enough determination to do anything.

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One Piece
27 (17.3%)

Buffyverse
129 (82.7%)

Teens must learn to use their powers and juggle their identites in order to defeat a friend's evil rich dad.

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Miraculous Ladybug
27 (17.6%)

Avatar: The Last Airbender universe
126 (82.4%)

A lifetime spent as agents in secret magic wars doesn't always prepare you well for being a person.

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Naruto
25 (15.2%)

Good Omens
140 (84.8%)

In this immensely popular, long-running fandom, champions engage in intense battles in intricate settings among fortifications and dystopian cityscapes.

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Shingeki no Kojin/Attack on Titan
51 (44.3%)

League of Legends
64 (55.7%)

If you don't know this fandom well, the main character may not be who you think it is!

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Legend of Zelda
92 (62.2%)

Teen Wolf
56 (37.8%)



n.b. I am not sure I'll be able to keep the descriptions up for all 32 matches, especially as we get to more fandoms I don't know at all, so if you have any ideas for upcoming match descriptions feel free to drop them in a comment!
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Thank you for taking part in the poll, everybody! We ended up with just under 200 votes. To get a final list of 64 I took that voting data, plus total works on AO3 for each fandom, plus total works on AO3 in just the past six months, and then fiddled with, like, logarithms and normalizing and statistics and stuff for each of those three things until I got a result I liked (that's how science works, right?)

I ended up adding in five fandoms that weren't on the poll list - Yuletide, which I missed because it didn't have a fandom tag; X-Files, which I someone missed in the first round even though it was well over the 20000 limit. Then I added Hamilton because it got mentioned in comments and it was the top in the Theater category that wasn't a big umbrella fandom, and IT because it was the top in the movie category that wasn't a big umbrella fandom. And The Old Guard just because so many people mentioned it in comments. Even with a really generous fudge factor for what-the-poll-results-might-have-been, though, I couldn't get IT, Old Guard or Hamilton into the top 64. There was also a little bit of renaming for clarity and I consolidated the Kpop category.

So here's the final list of 64!

Our Competitors )

The numbers I did on the works and poll results actually generated a really good set of seeds, but I think it would have led to a very boring tournament, because all of the really interesting, less-talked-about fandoms would have been handily eliminated in the early rounds, when there will be so many matches there won't be much chance for discussion, and the rest of the tournament would be the same old familiar faces. (Although the Harry Potter vs. Magnus Archives might have been an upset, who knows!) But the goal here is not to come up with the True Fair Winner, it's a) to get people talking about some popular fandoms that maybe aren't talked about as much on DW, and b) to create chaos.

So. Random seed it is! The tournament is going to start with four sets of eight matchups each in the triple-octo-finals. I'll post them two sets a day starting Thursday, and then we'll roll right into the later elimination rounds.

Here are the first round of matchups, as generated by random.org:
DC vs Bungou Stray DogsDragon Age vs K-PopDangan Ronpa vs. The X-FilesYuri!!! On Ice vs. Star Trek
Critical Role vs. GleeHarry Potter vs. The WitcherMo Dao Zu Shi & related fandoms vs. SupernaturalMinecraft Youtube vs. Steven Universe
Star Wars vs. No FandomOur Flag Means Death vs Game of Thrones and related fandomsThe Magnus Archives vs. Lord of the Rings and Middle-EarthFullmetal Alchemist vs
Sherlock BBC and Holmesiana
One Piece vs. BuffyverseOriginal Work vs VoltronPokemon vs. Criminal MindsGenshin Impact vs. Percy Jackson
Miraculous Ladybug vs Avatar: the Last AirbenderStargate vs Doctor WhoHomestuck vs HetaliaMerlin BBC and Arthuriana vs Yuletide
Naruto vs Good OmensJojo's Bizarre Adventure vs Boku no Hero AcademiaFire Emblem vs Stranger ThingsMarvel vs Hannibal Lecter
Shingeki no Kojin (Attack on Titan) vs League of LegendsFinal Fantasy vs UndertaleShe-Ra vs Men's Hockey RPFOnce Upon a Time vs Ace Attorney
Legend of Zelda vs Teen WolfTransformers vs Disney/Pixar AnimationLes Miserables vs BandomHaikyuu! vs Law & Order


Here's a fillable PDF of the whole tournament to download! Follow along! (I will probably do HTML of that once we're down to the octo finals but. it is too much.)

This is your post to pre-promote your fandoms at risk of early elimination. And make bets. :D

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