/tnt/ - Tournaments & Events

Here's a couple that I've noticed:
>Heavy Phenomenon: Beloved character gets no vocal support or OC and makes it to Elite Eight somehow
Most notably happened in King of /v/ 2021 with Kiryu and Heavy
>Kronk Phenomenon: Character appears for the first time in the tournament and manages to win the whole thing
Biggest examples of this happening are Kronk in Mr. /co/ 2019, Spinel in Ms. /co/ 2019, and Recette in Queen of /v/ 2021

>>11890
There's also the Dementia Syndrome where you lose to the same character two years in a row. From what I know, this is the only case I think.

>>11894
Eggman lost to Dante in King of /v/ 2019 and 2020

>>11890
>Montezuma’s revenge
A grudge rematch where a previous popular winner gets defeated by the same character they won against previously, named after chel made a remarkable victory against tyranne. This also occurred when megamind beat zuko after losing to him the previous tournament

>>11890
>The Anne Effect
Whenever Anne Boonchuy is posted in a tournament, she inevitably triggers a tidal wave of fatposting that lasts the rest of the tournament.

This has happened 3 times now

>>11899
Or Dan getting his revenge on Alastor last year.
Or Hank’s whole thing

>>11900
That’s just frogfags being frogfags.

>bejita theorem
>characters that are secondary/jobbers in their show/movie do better than most protagonist characters

>>11890
What about Eggman?
He's always finding a way to get into every tournament.
He even found a way to get into mother fucking mr /mlp/ somehow.
The only tournament he hasn't entered is the Miss /mlp/ tournament.
Any name for that phenomenon?

>>11904
clearly a flawed one since Bejita never wins

>>11914
Well, he doesn’t really have any weird phenomena around him. It’s just that he’s THE indie game that paved the way for every other indie game, and he had a very active and vocal cult following that grew more in the tourney. It does seem unexplained but rather natural, unlike everything else in this thread which is borderline paranormal.

>>11913
I’ll happily call that:
>Omnipresent Egg Paradox: A character that is eligible to join in every tournament and despite that, said character breaks no rules in doing so.

Named after eggman of course, but it also fits as a egg if it were a character would technically be able to fit in every tournament due it being widespread in media and being unambiguous in gender.

>>11904
Some examples of this
>Kronk compared to Kuzco
>Grievous compared to Ahsoka
>Jameson compared to Peter
>Dr. Girlfriend compared to her husband and Brock
>Roll and Tron Bonne compared to Rock
>Midna compared to Zelda and Link

>>11921
And of course, Eggman compared to Sonic. Tbh I see Metal Sonic getting into the Elite Eight before the actual one ever does.

>>11921
A couple other examples are
>Eggman compared to Sonic
>Luigi, Wario, and Waluigi compared to Mario
>Dracula compared to the Belmonts

>>11944
I remember Sonic made it in last year but jobbed immediately to Agent 47, so I'll be surprised if he makes the bracket again this year. Sonic Frontiers also looking like ass won't help his chances.

>>11892
>Heavy Phenomenom
That's not really a strange phenomenom, it's just how things went at first for a popularity contest, because obviously the most popular characters don't really need campaigning to reach the top. Right now OC has a much bigger role but at the end of the day you are still voting for the characters.

>>11955
>>11959
>>11991
Boom.
Meet the Sniper

>>12007
I like Pyro but the other four have better chances at getting in. I'll nominate Pyro for Queen of /v/ cause I think it'd be funny if he somehow made it to Elite Eight there.

>>12010
>he
she, anon. nobody else will believe it until you do.

>>12008
Go ahead, cum.

>Most of the mercs in King of /v/
>Miss Pauling and Pyro in Queen of /v/
>Saxton Hale in Mr. /co/
>Demoman in the horse tournament
TF2bros are gonna dominate this year

>>12021
anything that makes my dick hard is a woman

>>12021
Characters of ambiguous gender are allowed in either tournament, making Pyro eligible for Queen of /v/. The question is will they do well? The mercs are dominant in King of /v/ but Pyro would have to combat waifufagging to get far.

>>12024
Well, Fang won Ms. /co/

>>12034
Are you sure.
This is Orel Peterson we are talking about.

>>12035
I don't know who that is. Should it stay that way?

>>12032
Hey Orel you are taking line requests can you please add this one.

>Scout: "Oh Ezio? That guy was a panzy. Showed off dingy little knife and I was like, 'What are you going to do? Stab me?", and you want to know what happened after that?"
>Spy: "He got stabbed in the gonads by that cheap mockery of an assassin. He was crying for medic to heal him for three straight hours like a baby cries for his mother to feed off her tits. And yet, somehow, he still won that fight."
>Scout: "I kicked his ass is what I did."

>>12036
Nah he just makes up stuff on the fly and never really prepares or writes a script.

>>12037
Ah ok I'm fine with that then. I hope this tournament has some good TF2 OC like 2020 had with Scout.

>>12036
>>12039
He's made an AI episode before. It was good.
https://voca.ro/16PpMzyK4Mi7

>>11914
I have concluded he has actually had a phenomena behind him which is one of the main leading reasons why he won, and that's called:
>OC Snowballing

Basically, It's a rare event where a character doesn't start really strong. Actually almost not at all, usually being unqualified or a round 1 elimination in the previous years. But to the year where he is lucky he might have a few dedicated anons towards RPing and making a campaign for him which leads to the said character to have a consistently stronger and stronger presence in the tournament, eventually even winning the tournament itself.

Tho, I'd split this phenomena into two pieces because they always end in one way or another.
>Shattered Snowball
A character had hype and a big campaign for him but it was stopped when a powerhouse met it in early-mid tournament. Two examples I would bring would be Charles and recently John Silver. Charles unironically had it's own fucking arc in the tournaments, and had it not been for Heavy to step in he would've entered Elite eight easy, John Silver had a lot of RP and campaigning for him he sadly was up against a /co/ classic. I think had it not been for Squidward eliminating him early round, Silver would've seen a snowball effect.
>The Avalanche
Basically the snowball becomes so big it manages to go to go to elite eight or even win the game. Two most obvious examples are Batter and Recette, but one example where people don't bring is usually Dr. Eggman. Guy is also a fucking Avalanche in every meaning of the word, the motherfucker was against powerhouse after powerhouse and he beat them thus creating a Avalanche which was only beaten by the one created by Batter,

>>12464
seems more like a curse than anything.

bumping