/tnt/ - Tournaments & Events

>>1595
Well we can all agree a true ms. /a/ would be the biggest shitfest of any boards. It'll probably never happen cause of /a/ and /a/ mods rampant paranoia and xenophobia.
I've got a hypothetical ms. /a/ ranking I've been thinking of a while though:
>1. Rei/Asuka
>3. Yostuba
>4. Haruhi
>5. Saber
>6. C.C.
>7. Taiga
>8. Makise Kurisu
Sweet 16's/wildcards: Usagi Tsukino, Ryuko Matoi, Sakura Kinomoto, Lum, Lain, Kagome, Dorothy, any Madoka girl (especially Homura).
I'm considering /a/'s particular taste, old-fag nature, and favor for the classics (much like /co/ but more so as they were the 'original board'). I don't see a girl from the last 5 years having a chance. Recent waifu's like Senko, Chika, Nagatoro would get spited early. Even the most popular newer girls like Megumin probably wouldn't get past round 4. The only exception is KLK cause that shows seems to have energy with oldfags, being a trigger-gainax connected Imaishi classic now and all.

>>1597
>It'll probably never happen cause of /a/ and /a/ mods rampant paranoia and xenophobia.
should it fail in 4chan, the tourney can always be held here, if enough users show interest that is

>Dorothy
there's multiple dorothy's in anime, which one? from MAR?

>>1599
>from MAR?
Yeah.
>>1600
I’ve heard of the saimoe stuff before. Doesn’t seem like a true ms./mr. cause the badass stipulation. Ironically though I still think Guts and Kamina would be a very likely finale two mr. Them or Lelouch.
>spite-voted out
kek, of course. TTGL was fotm and it was the 2nd year (when meta-gaming starts to really creep in). It’s popularity has endured though.

also, i think there's more things to consider regarding rules of an /a/ character tournament:
>Either allow only characters within a certain timeframe, usually one year before the contest (like the original saimoe), or
>Allow all anime characters, but a "FOTM rule" has to be present.
>Should the contest include unadapted series? (i.e. Fire Punch, Onani Master, Punpun). Allowing them might come into conflict with the FOTM rule especially if more recent manga gets anime adaptations (like CSM, or Oshi no ko in the near future), which gives them a massive advantage
>Yotsuba might not be allowed because she's the 4chan mascot; and she'll probably win it anyway if she was allowed
>The "Elite 8" rule will probably not work in /a/ because metagaming is stronger there

>>1628
and that's before deciding what format to use:
>either use 2channel's saimoe and /a/'s saigar format: single elim but the first few rounds are "triple threat" matches (pick 1 out of 3, only one advances), which allows more contestants in the same number of rounds.
>Or just use a 1v1 single elim bracket, pure and simple. Might have to expand to 256 or 512 players because 128 feels so few given the sheer quantity of anime characters out there

Lastly, where will the people vote:
>Google Forms like the /co/mpetitions, but it might be easily exploited, idk how it works tho
>Or someone codes a new, dedicated voting website, which is highly unlikely. And the maker has to think of every possible way to prevent rigging/vote stuffing and the like.

Well since there appears to be little interest at the moment, I'm going to attempt to understand the history of 2channel's saimoe and expand its wiki pages. it's a part of /a/ history after all, and it's serious fucking business. If anyone's interested feel free to suggest or edit the wiki pages.
https://saimoe.fandom.com/wiki/Anime_Saimoe_Tournament

>https://saimoe.fandom.com/wiki/Saimoe_Wiki_Tier_List
Wow this taste is fucking garbage. It's like comparing the rest of the net's cartoon voting to /co/. I highly doubt anything 'saimoe' would reflect /a/.

>>4053
>https://saimoe.fandom.com/wiki/Saimoe_Wiki_Tier_List
Incredible, I dislike almost every single one of these characters. What a horrid list.
>Rem for Greatest Waifu of All Time
They seriously couldn't have picked a worse token yandere as their absolute favorite huh.

what we'd ought to do is try and make a thread telling anons to come here, doubt we'll even get a thread to last that long honestly though

Do they even have these thread over there? I've always assume their mods are cuck who doesn't allow any kind of these events

>>6097
They don't and never will, which is why it's all speculation.

>>19554
>fotm

>>19554
>jobbed to Roblox Face Man
I doubt it.

>>19549
>Serious answer
Reinhard von Lohengramm and Yang Wenli
>Joke answer
Eggman and Battler to see how the board would react to them getting in

Shonenshitters would be more schizo than waifufags

>>19567
You'd be getting both and in their most undiluted form.

>>1628
>Yotsuba might not be allowed because she's the 4chan mascot; and she'll probably win it anyway if she was allowed
I know this is not the same level, but actual board icons rarely win it all. I could see Yotsuba getting Toph'd.

I want Ms. /a/ to happen, it would be a warzone and I'd love every second. Imagine Silent Majority posting with the autists over at /a/ contributing, imagine any OC really, imagine the utter BTFO and screaming every round, imagine the inevitable Eva match up.

>>20466
I want to know how a Mr. /a/ would go. /dbs/posting everywhere with every non-/dbs/ voter trying to mimick them, all the non-shonen males losing before elite eight causing anons to seethe that nobody reads or watches anything but shonen when in reality its because they only care about the waifus, the inevitable Goku and/or Vegeta spitevote out that causes people to go ballistic, all the OC just being characters murdering each other, and the finale because of everything being something completely random but funny (looking at whats posted in the thread, Yujiro vs. Minoru would be utterly out of the blue and be beautiful).

>>19588
Yeah, Buggy D. Clown gets my vote guaranteed

>>20483
I wonder who will be the biggest jobber of the tournament. Excluding Eggman and Battler, I could see it being either Edward Elric or Eren Yeager.

>>19597
>raped Joe William edit for every single guy he beats

>>20483
So, who would be the 3 DB characters to make it in?

>>20483
What would cause more seething, Guts jobbing out to Kirito or to Jiren?

>>20842
Guts shouldn’t even be allowed to participate because he already won SaiGAR.

>>20848
That was more than a decade ago and Sai isn't connected to the modern tournaments.

>>20851
This. I don't like the relation that gets pushed to those older tournaments. A new /a/ tournament should be its own thing, basically in the sort of contemporary "league" of the /co/ and /v/ programs. Plus the names saimoe and saigar carry connotations when tournaments should just be a best male/female of the board thing.

>>20840
Goku and Vegeta would be two. I feel like third place would be either given to Jiren, Piccolo, or Frieza.

isn't this a good time to start an /a/ contest?
Regarding "FOTM restrictions", if the contest decides to have a one-year ban period, then all new anime from the entirety of previous year is affected, which should be easy to understand.

>>20976
At this point I will agree with this. I'm sick of "saimoe" and its derivative tournaments. Their voters don't feel as "enthusiastic" as anons do. Almost no fan art and little engagement (or if they do, i do not understand their language). At least in 4chan I get to see actual proof of support and anons fucking dissing at each other, blades against their throats, which is part of the fun.
The definition of "Saimoe" does not indicate that it should be female (and likewise for "saigar" and male), which is why girls like Nanoha and Kino appeared in the original saigar. On the other hand, it would make traps eligible on what is supposed to be a female-only contest.

>>21860
>isn't this a good time to start an /a/ contest?
/a/ tournaments are banned indefinitely, unless you're talking about a /tnt/ anime/manga tournament, which wouldn't be representative of /a/. But if we're never getting a pure /a/ tournament, might as well start one here.

>>21891
>might as well start one here.
no, I want /a/ to host it and only /a/ which I know will never happen

>>22285
tell the /a/ mods it'll act as containment for dbstards for like a week

>>22285
I remember you.
Please stop avatarfagging. CSM sucks and you look like an especially faggy bias sperg when you're trying to host a character tournament.

>>22290
Who the fuck are you talking about? I’ve never avatarfagged as anything, I just used that gif because of its cheekiness.

>>22291
You're not the anon few months back that went on about wanting to try an /a/ tourney and kept posting as Makima?

>>22295
No?
I am the guy who made a thread in /a/ on weather or not everyone was contend on making a tournament akin to those on /co/ and /v/ which a huge majority agreed.

>>22304
By which I mean this thread https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/237700739/

Nominating Battler if King of /a/ happens and he WILL job in Round 1.

>>22695
>he goes up against Shonen protagonists every round and Johannas his way to finals

>>22776
I’m going to rape that cat.

I want an /a/ tournament just to see if I can meme Battler and Eggman to Elite Eight

>>22787
Don't worry, he's a bakifan.

Imagine if mods allowed /a/ tournaments and we had 6 months of tournaments per year...

>>22853
Only visual novel fans get upset over shitty visual novel anime. The rest either eat it up or don't understand anything.

>>23611
You literally can't because of the tranny mods.

>>23612
Did anyone ever get in contact with the jannies or are we just assuming from deleted threads?

>>23617
>Jiren gets excluded due to the 3-character limit

>>23619
>WAKU WAKU JIREN WHAT DO YOU MEAN BROKE EVERY SINGLE BONE EXCEPT YOUR SKULL, LOOKS LIKE I WILL HAVE TO FIX THAT ISN'T THAT EXCITING?!

>>23633
A /lit/ tournament would be amazing

>>23640
Would they nominate characters or books? It might be hard to do the former

>>23611
it's not that we can't contact the mods/jannies and convince them it's that /a/ is so volatile just seeing how fast the mods delete threads and knowing how chaotic anons will be over waifu's trying to convince them it'll be fine might prove difficult

>>23631
/tv/ is like jester since that batemananon abandoned both

>>23640
I would do OC of Napoleon from Animal Farm posing with his opponents, only to update the photo later on to have them removed from it

>>23611
/a/ mods are maximum no-fun and delete anything meta or somewhat trollish or "off-topic" on sight. If /co/ and/v/ have problems then /a/ certainly wouldn't allow it./

>>23647
>it's not that we can't contact the mods/jannies and convince them
Going by the tag-team situation, we probably can't.

>>23663
/lit/ is a mostly literary elitists. They won't make much of an impact. LoTR will probably be the biggest fantasy entity.

>>23657
well yeah now we can't, not until NSA does 2 weeks before hand in September and even if we get back on their good side we'll probably only get /a/ tournaments in 2024 unless it happens in between another tournament or alongside

>>23643
I think it should be both authors and characters.

>>23672
Can't wait for H. P. Lovecraft VS Christopher Robin

I think I might have an idea on how it MIGHT be able to preform a King of /a/ on the actual site
>Make proposition thread to gauge interest.
>Make Nominations thread. If it stays up then continue but if it's deleted then move to /b/ with stealth posts in other /a/ threads to notify others that it's going on

>>23783
>move to /b/
No, that is worse than it being deleted.

>>23783
No, main tournaments should happen on their own board, otherwise it's simply not mr/king [board]. /b/ is terrible too and /a/ would never follow.

>>23633
Time to nominate Jesus

>>23818
King of Faith when?

>>23633
Raskolnikov for king /lit/

Legitimate question: Why are the /a/ mods so against this? They've done it before as picrel shows, and the tourneys on other boards are really successful. But now whenever it's so much as suggested, they delete the thread.

>>24638
They want you to stop liking what they don't like.

>>24638
/a/ mods have always been notoriously draconian. I think they compensate hard to be the "pure" board on the site so make a lot of arbitrary restrictions on anything whiffing of off-site or cross-boarding rule breaking. But sometimes they just up and ban their own traditions too (like the Sakura fish anon).

>>1597
A year and a half later, is this elite 8 prediction still accurate, or would you make changes?

>>24720
/a/'s gotten progressively more newfag/shit so eh. Yotsuba getting E8 is the only sure bet, I think. Even Rei/Asuka run a high risk of purposeful early elimination. Konata and the Azumanga girls could probably be added to high potentials. But who knows; even recent waifu's can probably make good performances now. I suspect the winner would either be Yotsuba (cause it's obligatory) or a decent mid-carder everyone mildly agrees on (like Konata or Tomoko).

>>24722
>even recent waifu's can probably make good performances now
yeah
>bocchi

>>24722
>Konata or Tomoko
>decent mid-carder everyone mildly agrees on
wtf? they're both classics for a reason. shocking that anyone would object to either of their wins.

>>24786
I don't think they're obvious speculative high-cards, like Eva girls or Lain. They got sort of classic dark horse Jenny energy though.
Also Tomoko's manga went to shit so I'd object to her win.

>>24791
> Tomoko's manga went to shit
wuh happen

>>24792
She became a normalfag and got a yuri harem.

>>24793
>lesbian
Funny to think her of all characters on 4chan would be doomed early round fodder.

>>24812
I don't think /a/'s got the same hang-up about that. It'd probably be much more of a problem if she canonically got a bf and got fucked.

>>24643
Kinda ironic considering these tournaments technically originate from /a/.

>>23665
>Alice could be Queen on 3 separate boards
Imagine

>>31292
If you're talking about saimoe I don't really think they're connected. To my memory ms. /co/ was independently conceived. I don't remember saimoe being brought up. There's a chance it was but it's certainly far removed from the canon or whatever these tournaments have been on.

>>31314
Kino.

>>31291
Is that Wu Wang Warriors?

>>31351
No, that's Thunderbolt Fantasy, written by the same guy who did Madoka
Thunderbolt Fantasy Sword Seekers2 - Opening | His/Story

>>31291
Going off of what is allowed on /a/ sounds like the best way to go. Not like they'd get in.

>>32095
By that logic RWBY would be eligible.
>inb4 RWBY gets into an /a/ tournament because it does into a /co/ one

>>32100
Maybe some basic rules like
>the media must be written by a Japanese person
>characters must originate from that media (e.g RWBY would be canned, but Cyberpunk would get most of its cast)
That way you could get the puppets too.

>>32107
Godzilla for King /a/.

>>32108
Well technically, you could have Godzilla Earth

>>32110
or Fillius

>>32107
Cyberpunk is in the same page a Warhammer 40k in this matter, they're more so settings that a show or game can be based upon much like DnD.

If a character originates from the source material then it isn't allowed and is whitelisted while a new character that is written within the setting is allowed.
>I.e Rebecca and Lucy are allowed while Adam Smasher and Rogue aren't.

>>32100
Well not like the RWBY threads on /a/ are that welcomed

>>32132
decent common-sense rules would get rid of anything that isn't from the Ice Queendom anime or the manga originally either way.

>>32109
Godzillabros this is our year.

bringing this one back since tourney season has ended

>>74978
I had a dream yesterday that an /a/ tournament actually happened, maybe it is a sign

>>74993
We can only hope it was a precognitive dream

Since they don't "preapprove" threads, making a nominations thread then contacting the mods when it gets deleted seems to be the only course of action.

>>75179
I still think we need someone from the current host team involved if there's gonna be any hope of it not getting instantly deleted. We need the board and the jannies to think we know what we're doing. I also think it'd be a bad idea to just start the tournament out of nowhere. It would cause a lot of confusion on the board and the turmoil might get it targeted by the jannies. We ought to make a thread announcing the event like the week before. Therefor I think our plan should be like this
>Step 1:Get at least one of the current host interested in helping host an /a/ tournament
>Step 2:Make a SINGLE thread announcing the tournament and when the start date will be. If the announcement thread doesn't get deleted by the mods move onto step 3
>Step 3: Make the nominations thread at the starting date and keep rolling unless it gets deleted.

>>78174
I think Evangelion still has a lot weight, if for sheer icon status. Any oldfag knows it's significance to the site and weebdom. Plus zoomers know a lot about from netflix and memes. But you're right it's not a certain stomp anymore. Now I feel like they're total wildcards. They could steamroll or flop or anything in between. I'd be most interested in seeing how they'd do of all the shows and characters.

/a/ Tag Team/co-op and Heroes/Villains of /a/ when?

>>78180
Calling it now: Asuka and Rei get eaten up in earlier rounds, but Shinji gets into the first male Elite Eight.

>>88615
lolnope. Most people hate him.

>>88612
never ever

>>88615
Shinji is early fodder and would be the Battler of /a/ if not for the existence of Eren.

>>88615
People shit on Shinji here but I can him doing well if he's the only /m/ rep left kek

>>88636
>voting a character just because he represents a board instead of people actually liking the character
Not my fault that board doesn't have any good characters.

>>88637
Are you joking or just pretending to be retarded? Shinji is literally a good character, miles better than fucking Eren lmao. Also /m/ characters literally dominated the old tourney with Master Asia, Domon, Guy.

>>88640
NTA /m/ was much bigger back in the day than now.

>>88640
Who said anything good about Eren? Eren is absolutely shit lmao.

>>88641
It was, doesn't mean it died off though. Ryoma actually beaten Goku, Guts, Char in a random tournament on Twitter months earlier so I can see /m/ upset happening again here.

>>88642
Someone compared him to Eren, that much should be obvious. Saying Shinji is a bad character is very retarded though. Not my winner but I would rather take him over Isekai characters and other modern shounenshit anytime.

>>88643
>Twitter

>>88644
I compared him in the sense they're both like Battler, in that they're board punching bags that get trashed on for being pussy's (justified or not). Of course Shinji is miles better than fagren as a character but that's besides the point. /a/ still generally dislikes Shinji.

>All this talk for /a/ tournaments spring up again
>Still zero steps closer to actually making it happen, same with /tv/

>>89034
Would you spend the effort to set this house of cards up only to see it burn down in autistic chaos fire? I would love to see it but would not want to manage it.

>>89027
>>I have no idea how you would include non adapted manga characters to compete
Just let them compete? Self-explanatory.

>>89038
A full-on /a/ tourney is almost certainly never happening cause /a/ mods and /a/nons themselves are the strictest on the site.

>>89047
they're so believably unfun, holy shit

>>89054
>/a/ are no-fun fags
>/dbs/ is the most funposting filled thread on the entire site
How did they do it?

>>89076
It really depends on the thread.

>>89047
How strict? Do they tend to immediately take down threads?

>>89076
Not to mention all the daily old good new bad threads that get made constantly, like it’s almost as if that board WANTS to be cynical as much as possible, the only thing being allowed are small traditions like r/a/dio

We should just have /a/ side tournaments if we're never getting the main ones.

>>89099
CH/a/D of /dbs/ goes first btw

>>88615
>first

>>89774
Bananya

>>89780
We can't have Bananya enter he would sweep every round 98%-2% and everybody would just leave out of boredom

>>89774
Battler.
>b-but
Battler.

>>89774
I've said it before but Lelouch is legendary and very /a/-core.
But no really Guts is the best.

>>89820
Yotsuba will get in and job at finals every other year like Eggman.

>>89827
Eggman isn't literally the face of the entire website so try again.

>>89829
Yotsuba being the site's mascot is why she's always getting spited at finals. Trust the plan. It's actually retarded to not let her compete since tournament outcomes can be surprising. If she sweeps first year, she sweeps first year. I could still see her job near the end if not have a surprisingly rough start that takes her out early if brackets are randomized. She could stand in the way of an extremely hyped matchup or stop one, then be in the way of another and people don't risk it that time.

>>89832
>"It's actually retarded to not let her compete since tournament outcomes c-"
Not it absolutely is. She's literally the host of all mainline tournaments. Unless your name is Nightshift you can't be a host and also participate.
but knowing my luck with this place whenever discussing tournament matters I'll apparently be the unpopular opinion

>>89838
>you can't be a host and also participate
Nightshift nominated himself in a tournament?

>>89774
Kenshiro and Goku.

>>89838
She's a judge, not a host and Yotsuba will then not be a judge of the /a/ tournament just like how Sam and Max aren't judges of Mr. /co/. Problem solved.

Gonna vote against Yotsuba btw.

>>89849
Fangbro btw

>>89861
Which one?

>>89866
The bad ugly one.

>>89870
Which one?