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The Superhero Tournament- Group Stage (Part One)

After 350+ nominations, we officially begin our tournament with a field of 192 characters. 190 characters deemed *eligible for the tournament reached a minimum threshold of a nomination + 5 Upvotes.  To give us the more convenient 192 total, 2 Characters were randomly picked from those who received 4 Upvotes.

The format for this portion of the tournament will be a bit experimental, as rather than going straight to a tournament bracket, we will begin with a World Cup style Group Stage. I will explain this set-up as follows:

  • The 192 Characters have been sorted into 16 Groups of 12 Characters. Upvotes from the nomination phase were used as guide to spread the more popular characters across the groups.
  • You can of course Upvote as many characters as you like (downvotes don’t count), but within each group only the Top 8 characters will advance.
  • 128 characters will remain after this stage, who will be the field for our tournament bracket.
  • Upvotes from this stage will also determine how characters are seeded for the Tournament Stage. 

This set-up should A) Make the seeding for the tournament more fair, since characters should have equal-ish visibility & time to be voted unlike the nominating stage, B) Give the obscure characters you nerds are rooting for a shot at a “win” before they’re crushed by a cultural icon in the tournament, and C) Create some interesting early races,  as I think in most groups it’ll be pretty close between the characters aiming for that 8th spot.

I will be posting the first 4 groups- made up by 48 Characters total- below. I will post the remaining 12 groups over the next few days- meaning this stage of the tournament will be running all this week. You will have 24 Hours following the posting of this thread to vote on the characters below.

I will not be posting photos for every single characters in this stage, but you of course may reply with photos if you think it’ll help a character’s case.

If this whole thing sounds confusing to you… just Upvote characters you like and everything should be fine! Or ask for clarification  below.

*Blue Lantern Obama and the Avocado Superhero were deemed ineligible, as I ruled that a character had to exist in some form beyond drawings of them to be a legitimate nominee. Express your heated complaints below.