/tnt/ - Tournaments & Events

>>246417
What percentage of the Queens and Kings have (official) marketable plushies?

>>246422
Klonoa is just too powerful.

>>246422
Something is wrong with the way the site is caching the index pages. I've seen it happen before, no idea so far what is causing it.

>>246419
King
>Batter
>Shadow
>Scout (discontinued 2012 NECA plushie)
>Dante
That's about it for the men.

>>246419
Do fumos count for Reimu?

>>246428
It looks like a bootleg tbh.

>>246551
Yeah

>>246551
Hitler II is alright, but Fuhrer II? That's a winner right there!

>>246417
How many king of /v/ contestants have official marketable plushies?

>>246772
I AM-A FUCKING PLUMBER

>>246772
I this an AI-generated homunculus of Mario?

>>246736
>Makes sense why Hat Kid always seeds well, but she's had years to get a good run going. Never happens.
I don't think anyone wants to vote for a character from a troon game.

>>246785
Then why does she keep seeding in the top 10? Clearly she has something going for her. Is it just the boost from being part of the Team?

>>246787
Hat kid is just well liked but hated because of a trans flag graffiti in a DLC nobody has to buy.

>>246787
I think she gets high seeds because she appears near the top of the Qualifications poll.

>>246787
>Then why does she keep seeding in the top 10?
A-boost in qualifiers like Maya Fey

>>246788
She's really not all that

>>246791
Yeah it's been debunked numerous times. I'm not sure why both tournaments insist there's some sort of letter boost.

>>246792
>numerous times
name one (1)

>>246793
Kiryu and Majima (2). By the logic of the alphabet boost, they shouldn't even qualify, yet they can get top seeds, especially Kiryu.

>>246791
>and he hasn't gotten in the main bracket since 2019.
Which is really shocking since he had a pretty great run during his single year

>>246791
>>246797
It's fair to point out that 2019 ran off of a "first-come, first-served" basis, so a bunch of niche or otherwise overlooked characters got in and then never again. Before last year, Arthas' only appearance was 2019. And, as far as I know, he's the only 2019 one-off to make another appearance.

>>246799
>Appears in the "first come first serve" tournament and gets bodied by Travis Touchdown in round 2
>Never qualifies again
>Until suddenly 7 years later he enters the bracket again out of nowhere and casually makes Elite Eight
What a chad

So that YIIK finale truly is gone and non existent.

>>246803
What happened?

>>246804
Ding dong and Julian hate chris now also made a call-out video and stream in him.

>>246929
Madotsuki and Batter.

>>246931
Same

>>246929
The only characters I'd be lukewarm on going far are Recette, Tron, and Shadow. There's no winner I actually hate. My top picks to win it all are Curly and Dante. Could see King getting competition if there's an excellent winner, but unlikely to change my mind on Queen.

>>246938
Tron shouldn't even be allowed

>>246931
>>246937
Honestly better than some of the choices people have suggested.
>>246938
Case in point.

>>246944
>heh, CASE IN POINT (talking about curly and dante)
NOT subtle, BatterSISSY...

Tron is a great queen and reimu will job

>>246944
Dawg,
>>246944
Could've suggested a $20 bill and a leftover hot dog win /v/ all stars and Mado and Batter wouldn't be better choices

>>246953
She'll job unless someone finds a way to kill the CP spammer.

>>246944
I'd still be very happy with Mado and Batter winning. I supported both back in 2021, even if I did vote Eggman over Batter that year.

What's wrong with Dante and Curly aside from being slightly boring?

>>246938
I could see Armstrong taking it.

>>246929
Eggman winning this year and then going on to win M/v/p to take revenge on Batter, Grimm, and Shadow would've been the perfect outcome.
But we don't live in a perfect world.

>>247013
Let's be real if he was in mvp he would've gotten second against Batter or Grimm

>>247028
Pretty sure they'd get swept out by the heavy hitters

>>247045
Not if Eggman was there to lose at the finals.

>>247050
There's no fucking way they'd let Dante or Armstrong lose for a stale joke at this point.

Who would Eggman replace in this scenario anyways?

>>247051
Why not? All-stars isn't a "real" tournament, it's metafag central. You just know those people would love to rub it in.

>>247053
Wouldn't metafags go more with heavyweights like Dante and Armstrong if it’s that much of a circlejerk? Plus it’s getting kind of clear /v/ is sick of the Eggman routine.

>an anon wishes for a hypothetical scenario where Eggman
>even in a made up scenario motherfuckers have to jump saying how he'll job, downright insisting on it
I'm seriously proposing Eggman Derangement Syndrome be a thing.

>>247054
>Plus it’s getting kind of clear /v/ is sick of the Eggman routine.
you're discussing a scenario where he already won king btw

>>247055
People just want Eggman to job in every scenario. I think the obsession with Eggman jobbing is the most detrimental and toxic thing it has compared to schizos,get posting and the power of friendship.

>>247070
That would be one sign the routine is over with

Personally I'm glad Eggman didn't win last year's King, especially when it was the year after Shadow won. How he got to the E8 is beyond me.

>>247077
Same way everyone else makes E8; he has more genuine supporters than haters or ironic fans.

>>247077
He should have been the Sonic pick instead of Shadow tbh

>>247077
Sonic the Hedgehog…

No pick has broken the same series curse yet.
I wonder if it'll happen this year. Otherwise, it'll remain unbroken for the first "season" of both pairs of main tournaments.

>>247084
Maybe it will be Raiden

>>247087
I guess people liked old WoW that much.

>>247088
>liked Warcraft 3 that much"
Fixed that for you, anon

>>247089
It really saddens me that a lot of people nowadays probably haven't played WC3 and may only see the entire franchise as WoW. That game was the shit back in the day with a lot of really fun custom maps. I’ll just list some here.
>Evolution Tag
>Elemental TD
>Fortress Survival
>Troll & Elves
>X Hero Siege

>Silksong's lead dev trooned out
The Hornet suffering just continues even further

>>247093
Why does it happen with indie games in particular?

>>247093
Hollow Knight characters in general seem to have very bad luck in tournaments.
>Hornet becomes a round 1 jobber two years after reaching to the E8
>The Knight got destroyed by Mario twice
>Hollow Knight himself not only jobbed to Tony Hawk and Geralt, but he also couldn't get qualified in 2024, and he would've gotten in last year's bracket if some unfunny retarded faggots didn't vote for Grand Dad

>>247093
Not the lead dev, just the codemonkey the two actual leads hired.

>>247095
>Hornet makes elite 8 in Playgirl
>She gets spited hard for beating a campaign-fueled Tomoko and also potentially ruining a queen run, where people actually wanted her to shine
Can't catch a break

>>247101
Tomoko seems to have caught her bad luck if loli was anything to go by.

>>247106
That felt more like a spitevote than simple bad luck TBH.

>>247101
You guys put too much importance into the porn tourneys.

>>247095
>Hornet becomes a round 1 jobber two years after reaching to the E8
That’s an understatement. She was a finalist that was like a percent off from winning nearly the biggest turnout tourney ever vs. Midna. She’s had arguably the biggest performance whiplash of any character.

>>247122
The worst part is her return year wasn't even a round 1 loss to some other major powerhouse threat like Roll or GLaDOS or something; t was the SMT Pixie of all characters, a character who up until that point was basically just a jobber joke, yet ended up defeating the finalist who very nearly won 2022
The decline and fall of Hornet needs to be studied because it is genuinely fascinating

>>247123
I had almost forgotten that she had a round 1 loss before the 2B debacle.

Hoping deltarune wins just to spite the jannies at this point

>>247127
>dogshit characters must win to spite the hecking jannies!
Based retard.

>>247127
Okay but which Deltarune character could theoretically even win?
Most of the female Deltarune characters are furries and furries are basically spitevote on sight for at least half of the voterbase
King of /v/ shows a little more promise but it's still not great; Spamton is well past his prime, Kris/Soul bombed last year despite the rape meme hype, and everyone else can't even qualify. Tenna got series limit'd so we don't know what he's capable of in the bracket, maybe he has potential if you want to rely on the /dbg/ vote, but considering /dbg/ couldn't even get their pet pick Kratos past the first round, pretty doubtful they'd do any better with this.

>>247123
>The decline and fall of Hornet needs to be studied because it is genuinely fascinating
Better rig next time!

>>247129
/dbg/ is the wrong way to go about it. You need stinky fujos and Aidens to get Tenna to the top.

>>247131
This. BTW, Tenna just won one of those Tumblr character tournaments.

>>247130
This, don't you DARE piss me—I mean, the tournament community—off!

I think rigging is great and more people should do it.

>>247135
Yep yep yep. All my heroes are rigging

>>247135
No no no. All my villains play fair and square.

>>247135
GrimmSISSY who was too AFRAID to fight Battler...

>>247135
Shut the fuck up Shadow

>>247123
Even weirder that Hornet's bracket was insanely stacked.
Didn't she have to beat 2B, Malon, Glados to get where she did?

>>247129
I think Flowery or Tenna might do well if they're able to edge out the soul, which I'd hope for. Flowery is kind of built for a power of friendship campaign

>>247142
I dunno why there seemingly are so many DTfags who think Flowery and Tenna can do well, especially the latter in consideration of how badly received Chapter 5 was.

>>247141
Also Etna and Fio. That tourney had probably the most unbalanced randomizing yet.

>>247129
Kris is literally a they/them. That faggot will never win.

>>247135
Eggman...

>>247149
But he's explicitly a victim of rigging and spitevoting

>>247153
Eggman deserved the spite his most recent run that campaign was bad

>>247156
You really shouldn't fall for falseflagging that obvious

>>247156
>>247159
Most of /v/ didn't want Eggman to be in the E8, yet he somehow kept winning rounds until he lost to Snake, who ironically was silent for the most part that year.
Demi-fiend should have won round 4.

>>247159
You should take your own advice.
>>247161
Reminder that there was an anon in quarterfinals who said he voted for Eggman 50 times just to cuck him out of next year. This is of course (((allegedly))), but it wouldn't surprise me with how close the match was.

I think people are putting too much into vocal tourney autism meta and forgetting Eggman is simply fucking popular to the general voterbase, apparent by the fact he made finals twice before last year.

People just like rigging Eggman out.

>>247166
>People

>>247165
What that's impossible, I was told that making runner up actually makes him a KWAB.

>>247164
I genuinely wonder how Eggman legit broke some people ala Kratos

>>247174
/dbg/...

>>247173
Runner up is respectable
Losing finals twice then a pick from the same series actually winning the next year is hilarious

>>247178
Batkek bros…

>>247178
Shadow winning was actually a miserable experience,

>>247176
Actually it was /v/ after that one beautiful masculinity video.

I like shadow but Grimm winning against Eggman was bullshit especially when he traced Batter's finale against him.

>>247186
The Batter callback was only like 10% of the Grimmfags during the finale though; like 60% was callbacks to BS2's finale and the other 30% was people blogposting their playthroughs
Granted I am also of the opinion Eggman should have won in 2021
>>247184
I wouldn't say it was miserable but JC Denton was clearly the better winner, even as fun as Shadow was that year. I really have to wonder if Eggman could've won 2025 if he didn't get his series win sniped the year before, I feel like that kind of took the wind out of the sails of what was supposed to be the big comeback.

Eggman should’ve won 2021 IMO. Tourneyfaggotry history in general would’ve been better for it too.

>>247185
Are you telling me /v/ isn't allowed to make fun of stupid YouTube videos like that?

>>247192
It didn't really make fun of the video after a while with how better man posting mutated.

>>247184
Revisionism, despite Shadow being controversial people like King 2024

If we killed the Eggman jobber memes he would've won three times by now.

>>247194
>Revisionism
That would imply I was talking about the actual tournaments versus what came after.

>>247194
NTA but "people liked the tournament overall" and "the part of the event about Shadow winning was disliked" aren't really contraductory statements.

>>247194
Most of the people.ad about shadow winning are Eggmanfags,Dentonfags or just hate sonic in general.

>>247207
It was mostly metaheads wanting to retire a powerhouse E8/break the hype fotm wank trend.

Metafags ruin everything.

>>247217
>>247236
There's a reason why 2025 was a step down from 2024 for me.

Conventional meta is counter-meta to the underdog wackadoodle result meta. Like anti-smarks in wrestling.

>>247241
2025 was conventional meta and fucking sucked dick.

>>247242
Yeah Scout really hasn't aged well after his win.

>>247243
Only groomers care about TF2 these days.

>>247243
He aged decently but batter aged the worse.

>>247242
You could say Kingw as and I don't think it had any problems. In a getrape retard hype sense maybe it wasn't peak but it spared all the arguing over the winner set reaching critical mass.

>>247251
We could always roll who gets to rape the winner/runner up.

>>247242
This. King 2025's E8 was total garbage. The only characters I cared about in it were Wario, King Dedede, Doomguy, and maybe Arthas, and they all lost. Also, Doomguy was fucking silent.

>Arthasfags once again complaining about their lost

I get maybe not personally caring much for Scout, Solid Snake, or Phoenix (Eggman was a special case) but calling them total garbage is contrarian faggotry.

>>247261
Not garbage but their campaigns were either lacking or nonexistent, making it harder to get behind them.

The campoon is simply not that important tbh fam. It's only Kingtards that ever put THAT much weight behind them.

>>247259
They were rightfully pissed because some fag was "campaigning" for him with AI art, and that made him lose some votes.

>>247249
Rape gets are funny when the character associated with the rape deserves it. Like Rance or Yugi or Battler and Maria(Umineko)

>>247269
Out of the E8, who deserves it the most?

>>247269
Sure but, y'know, there's a limit.

>>247272
Wario and Arthas.

>>247268
Blaming the AI spammer (he did have a hand, but still) is blatantly admitting he was a campaign character first and not the fact that he narrowly lost by 14 votes to an already popular top seed.

>>247268
>>247277
Scout was hit with better men posting and still won.

>>247272
Snake and Phoenix

I'm glad nobody actually gives a fuck about opinions of this board during the tournament.

>>247310
As in the opinions the board has or opinions towards the board?

>>247310
Because our opinions during the tournament and usually after are pretty shit.

>>247317
>>247318
Things why I can't take opinions on 2025 seriously.

>>247321
2025 was objectively a downgrade due to the vibes and overall mentality of voters compared to 2024 this isn't even an opinion.

>>247332
I mean that's what I've been saying but for some reason people here keep defending it.

>>247332
There's nothing 'objective' about it. There's only whining because it's either too campoony or not enough.

>>247243
Scout is my fuarking hero, don't bad mouth him like that.

>>247217
That's just deflection from the real answer "Batter Garland Grimm and Shadow are total ass give me someone good again" but nobody wants to be honest so here we are.

>>247360
Don't worry, he'll sweep shota god and get another crown.

>>247364
Nigga, let him rest before King.

>>247364
>wanting Klonoa to be an even bigger /tnt/ darling

>>247366
We should have had a rest after co-op and yet, we keep getting tournaments shoved down our throats.

>>247366
>>247367
I don't think he'd do that well for king or shake off the darling status to be quite honest.

>>247367
>>247369
He can't be a /tnt/ darling because he defeated Mao Mao and /co/ hates that. I swear to god, retards are purposely trying to destroy his chances outside of /trash/.

>>247371
What chances lol.

>>247371
>he can't be a /tnt/ darling because he beat a fellow /tnt/ darling!
lol
lmao

>>247371
>He can't be a /tnt/ darling because he defeated Mao Mao and /co/ hates that.
1. /co/ does not care about Mao Mao wtf?
2. That's not how the darling status works

>>247368
i was fine up until we started heading into july even though 3 player was fun in its own right

>>247374
If Klonoa is supposedly a "darling," then why would /tnt/ spitevote him to death?

>>247381
Setting aside the fact that /tnt/ spitevotes literally everything, even characters they like, when was he spitevoted?

>>247382
Co-op 2026.

>>247383
>this autist is still at it with his victim complex
Oh my god, he didn't do that well in one tournament, that doesn't mean he was being spitevoted.

>>247379
That one was kind of a nothing tournament tbh.

>>247384
Alright, I admit it. Maybe I'm sounding very retarded right now. I don't want to cause some drama. I just don't want one of my favorite characters of all time to have a bad name. I apologize if I acted like a victim and made Klonoa look stupid.

>>247388
For what it's worth, I don’t think the shota tourney will have any effects on the characters, good or bad. It just exists to feed Gabe's fragile ego.

>>247395
I don't think there will be much if any campaigning this time around. The fatigue is real.

>>247398
>The fatigue is real.
That is true. Gabe just seems to be a Neo adjacent host.

>>247400
at least neo knew when to fucking STOP

>>247402
Yeah, because that abortion made everyone turn against him.
We're probably never going to have /tv/ tourneys ever again because of his faggotry. And it really sucks too, because I was considering campaigning for Ghostface from Scream along with his Scary Movie counterpart for next Star.

>>247404
Best bet is if we somehow had an equivalent tourney here like with heroes and villains.

>>247404
>>247405
true, but i'm honestly surprised the /tv/ jannies were so hard on the tourney threads of all things

There was another /tv: attempt 6 months prior that had the opposite problem. The Jannie’s ignored it, but a ton of anons shat on the thread for the rules that ignored /tv/ culture and some guys thought it was a spam raid and then several people who apparently knew about tournaments exclusively from /v/ said they thought /v/ was raiding them and it was a clusterfuck.

I guess rhey went and complained to the Jannie’s

I want to share an idea for a side-tournament that I would like to host this year. Retroactive Bottom 128 and Next 128 tournaments for the years when these did not yet exist. I have almost everything ready, but I would like to know what you think of this idea.

>>247415
I do recall some anons thinking Starlet was a /v/ raid, now that you mention that.

>>247518
It was way worse with the attempt in late 2025

>>247639
It died with Wario.

>>247639
I meant this one!
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZvE_ZMgmYpVuak26cCIA2vJEDXuefdGF&si=cK1BpnbG1VOokNh8

>Wario archieves nirvana and trascends all logical dualities, escaping his death loop (the fucking playlist is gone)
>and then a fucking vsbattle blog featuring batter vs grimm Batter won by alot, btw
Meme magic is...STRONG
https://versusblogsofcancer.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-batter-vs-grimm-off-vs-black-souls.html?zx=f80acbd8355f0dae&m=1

>>247714
>Batter got sick of Grimm's tracing

>>247714
Batter was TEACHING Grimm

>>247757
He truly was the batter man

I'm worried if Wario broke free from his death loop what is Etna planning then?

>>247757
to be a worse man.

>>247759
Putting Miku in the death loop.

Can't believe winning Co-op 2026 made Wario above GER level, he's getting dangerous

I just realized that October First guy didn't post a video for Aug 1st.

>>247803
We got a stop wario he's getting too strong.

I hope the real Kiryu campaigner comes back this year. IC can go eat a bowl of shit.

>>247961
IIRC the one roleplayer Kiryu had in 2023 called it quits because he was getting bored.

>>247961
Vince…

I didn't think the BBC spam was an IC thing
>>247962
Damn

>>247966
>I didn't think the BBC spam was an IC thing
Was it?

>>248021
I'm going to take a giant leap of faith and say no. Tifa was also getting shit on so I think there's just a general silent vs campaign sentiment.

>>247966
>>248022
Going after silent popular picks with low effort false flag spam is common (Kiryu, Tifa, 2B, Chel, Hank, Kim). Also ICuck trolling seems to have always taken the side of campaigner king /v/-esque meta. I’m like 80% sure it’s the same fag doing it.

>>248046
Campaigning isn't a meta thing. This is just stretching to blame a side you don't like as being ICuck.

Wasn't Kiryu the result of one (and only one) unhinged Isaac going after him right when the silent claims reached their peak? It ended up happening to CJ and Snake too.

>>248047
I didn’t say campaigning, I said campaigner king /v/-esque meta.

>>248049
That's basically the same thing. There is nothing meta about king /v/ campaigners.

>>248050
No, it’s the attitude about campaigning and thread antics being the main voting purpose of the tourney and all subversions and underdogs being justified for the sake of it and then getting angry if the normally popular picks win. Campooning perhaps.

>>248051
>Campooning
This is a /co/ term and like duck match, it will never catch on with /v/.

>>248032
My beautiful queen is a hag?

>>248053
I lowkey do think gamefaqs might have influenced the vote for samus.

>>248052
And /v/‘s King attitude will never catch on with the rest of the tourneys despite all the complooning.

>>248054
I lowkey think you’re homosexual.

>>248053
'friad so.
>>248054
I highkey think you're homosexual.

I think a lowkey, sorta glossed over but high potential Queen winner and same series breaker this year is Malon.

>>248032
Stupid sexy hag!

>>248082
She's not going to win. She's probably going to be in the elite 8.

>>248109
I don't know, think about it.
>Strong recent history, made 5th then narrowly missed E8 in R4 to Roll
>vocally supported
>inoffensive, hasn't made enemies, quite universally liked while not being "boring" or the mainstream pick
>very conventionally attractive but not a stigmatized coompick
After Tron it definitely feels like someone like Malon's got a decent shot.

>>248118
If this turns into Game of Thrones like ms. 2021 did, she could end up sniping the win while everyone else is down.

>>248046
Since when Hank Hill was a silent pick? Didn't he had a campaigner that wasn't the better man spammer last year?

>>248186
And the year before that?

>>248051
So a strawman of a King /v/ voter?

>>248186
You mean the Hex tier asshole who was trying to start shit with /v/?

>>248221
Yeah, that guy.

>>248226
I like Hank but if he has a campaigner like that, he's going to keep losing for a while.

>>248228
Maybe you should consider campaigning for him in Mr. /co/ 2027, just saying.

>>248236
I can't draw and /co/ would hate my ideas :(

>>248048
CJ and Snake was obviously just smearing/funposting. Arguably the original Kiryu thing was that too.

>>248340
I fucking hated Hexfag playing into that shit

>>248118
She is kind of plain. If she ever reaches SF you bet people are going to make a stink about her being "boring".

>>248340
CJ losing by one vote makes it less funny tbh since it might've actually cucked him out of E8.

>>248400
I don’t get why people are getting so butthurt over tourney jokes

>>248400
It was hilarious, the outrage felt fake. Bring back the days when they actually threw punches and insults to each other. Now everyone's skin is paper-thin, too busy tiptoeing around backlash.

>>248400
>>248405
>>248407
You guys are fags.

>>248407
The outrage felt especially fake considering everyone found it hilarious the first couple of years but suddenly turned against it. Either /v/ somehow got paper thin skin in the span of a year or some fuckery is about.

I like how /v/ is "let's go back to the era of throwing punches, we're not pussies" until it's a character they like, then it becomes "wtf this is just shitting on the characters with no punchline".

>>248411
Nobody likes Kiryu the character, people vote for Kiryu the dame da ne meme.

>>248415
/tnt/ honestly believes this kind of shit

Genuinely the worst thing about eggman losing to snake wasn't the loss. It was the fact that people were metafagging the loss in the first place just so he wouldn't have a run next year.

>>248419
No, people were metafagging not wanting him to reach finals amd have a third Sonic the hedgehog finale in a row, plus le hexfag meme. It only finally caught up ot him against Snake. If you want to metawhine at least don't lie about it.

>>248420
It was then pivoted to having eggman lose to snake. I'm not really lying about it.

Demifiend got cucked out of E8 for the same joke meaning two characters were unfairly screwed over.

"Voting for Eggman into the Elite Eight so he can eat shit there and we don't have to worry about him participating next year" was a real strategy. I believe some even gloated about it. In any case, I can tell most Eggmanfags didn't want to go all in last year.

>>248425
People were actively floating and saying that was the plan. Overall we should kill metafags.