/tnt/ - Tournaments & Events

>>34928
buzz off, baldi mcnosehair
we're going unga bunga style and using cavemen

>cannabis
>peyote
>ayahuasca
>kratom
>shrooms
>datura
>coca
>opium poppy
Team /drugs/.

Time to rig another tournament

>the general lack of interest both here and on the actual board
fuuuuck I'm starting get cold feet.

>>35027
/an/ is a slow board, plus the tourney isn't started yet.

>>35027
>>35033
/an/ bros hold the line
but seriously it might not be the biggest thing ever but it should be good practice for hosting

We've been so focused on the heroes and villains stuff that we completely forgot this takes place in like two days lmfao

>>35378
>We've been so focused on the heroes and villains stuff
/v/ has at least.

>>35378
should be 38 hours to go now from this post, hope everyone's ready
will be on /an/ of course, I'm still iffy about the thread speed even with 24 hours between rounds but if say round 3 part 1 is still up I'll just have to use it rather than make another thread and spam the catalog

>>35423
Balls, be sure to rig it for my favorite animal or else you're banned from poker night until July.

>>35423
Yeah, you should only make new threads when the current one dies.

>>35423
I've seen people make a new "general" for Rabbits almost immediately after hitting the image limit in their thread. I think we could just do like one thread per round.

>>35427
I'll do what you say just don't ban me, daddy needs a new pair of shoes
>>35428
>>35429
okie doke, stick to one thread per round unless somehow it archives early enough to warrant another

>>35423
I'd double or even triple that time if I were you, /an/ is a really fucking slow board

>>35449
we'll have to see, 2-3 days for each round would be a ball ache but I've also thought about lowering the time limit so the lower engagement isn't a problem, we'll just have to see come Saturday

>>34915
What the fuck is that?

>>35455
why, my peenus weanus of course :)

hahah! :D

it's my weeeeeenus peanus! :) hahah

What the fuck is that? - my answer is, of course, my peanus weenus :D

hahaha!

>>35455
controversial pick for sure, will get into the E8 and will get branded with a *

>>35455
Picture of my Garloid!
His name is Goomer

Damn, only a few hours remain.

>>125359
Damn, the E8 was really stacked last year, all really good picks for a winner. I wonder how many will return next year.

I have no idea who to main this year though

>>125359
>gorillas and orangutans
you mean those niggers who admit they rigged?

>>125365
>all really good picks for a winner
I wasn't much a fan of the Mantis Shrimp.

>>125372
I think it would have been too niche to be an inaugural winner, but it would seem fine as year three or later (if we ever get to that point).

Mantis Shrimp > Crows

>>125424
Okay but unironically I hope they do better this time round

So when does this tourney begin?

>>125480
Now

Where's the thread?

Tribute to anomalocaris

>>125483
I was debating on making one but decided against it since it felt a little premature.
You guys want one anyway?

>>125483
how to get banned 101

So when is this happened again?

>>125556
Unless we suddenly decide to move it to this month or something, Around the exact same date last year's /an/lympics were

>>125424
I liked the watermelon campaign if it was you, you should bring them back this time

>>125822
Isn't he E8

>125822
>>125892
Nobody tell him

Is this the next tournament?

>>126066
if you're not counting the color tournament, then yesah

Not set in stone but May 19th sounds like a good start date since it'll have been the 1 year anniversary
Thoughts? too soon after color tournament?

>>126687
I don't expect the Colour tournament to be very "serious", so I think it's fine.

>>126687
>>126694
Yeah it’s fine, being one year later makes sense

Prehistoric bros who will be our champion this year?

>>127006
Nigersaurus

>non-existent animals
lol
lmao

>>127239
Plants are living things but do they dream?

What's the stance on fictional animals? Like not the actual characters, like fictional species. I know someone asked if yokai were okay too.

>>127966
they belong more so on a /x/-style tournaments rather than an /an/ one. They mostly stem from folklore and cryptozoology, so they don't really belong on /an/. And I mean it because if we're allowing fictional animals, that may as well include furries. So, this is one of those questions that has very serious unintended consequences.

I’ll be spitevoting mammals

When does this start again

>shitjak
Voting for spitefags now.

Spitevoting humans specifically

>>126687
Oh shit whoops I just realized 19th isn't on a Friday.
Moving the date to the 17th, unless you guys want more recovery time then I'll move it to the 24th

>>128049
I'm fine with either or

>>128049
Hey Bill. Me and the other hosts have been meaning to get in contact with you for a minute. You mind if you post me an email?

>>128049
Fine with me

>>128049
The sooner, the better.

>>128049
Sooner is better

>>128123
They're looking for more people to help out with the main tournaments, and they're wondering if you're interested in helping out.

I main T. rex but they’re out this year because of E8, who should I main this year?

should we apply the elite 8 to this tournament? I feel like its better to allow them back in since it's now no longer a one off and more people will be there to vote etc

>>128131
>wanting anons to rig for Gorilla and Pongo again for another thematic match

>>128131
We should.

>>128131
>t. rexfag

>>128135
Lol t rexfag

So when is this starting? We don’t have a definitive date yet

>>128208
May 17th, 7pm est

>>125360
oh god is that the weird deer creature with eyetongues that're used to smell?

Armadillo Chads Rise Up!!!
Megaman X - Armored Armadillo Stage

>>128265
Why does our KING hate owls so much?

>>128265
Why is our KING hated by corvids so much?

One day.

>>128308
I don’t know why

>>128333
/an/ is quite laidback, I wouldn't worry about it too much. By the way, how will the nominations work this time? The first /an/lympics was a bit rough, I'm wondering if you decided to keep it like that or make the entry more strict.

>>128333
question.

>>128341
Yeah?

>>128349
I teleported birdseed

>>128337
>By the way, how will the nominations work this time? The first /an/lympics was a bit rough, I'm wondering if you decided to keep it like that or make the entry more strict.
-Submission must be /an/-related or or have appeared in a /an/ tournament prior to this rule (Grandfather Clause)
-Organism must at least be somewhat autonomous to be eligible. (Needs to grow and reproduce, need food, water, and air, move and respond or adapt to their environment)
-The previous winner (Crow) and previous year E8 members are ineligible
-All organisms must be known to exist for at least one month (FOTM rule)
-Organisms cannot be Board-Tan, OC Donut Steels or anything fictional like Pokémon or Audrey II
-It is not required, but it is recommended that you nominate general species instead of specific members (People are more likely to vote for "Crocodiles" instead of "Black Caiman")
-In the event of several human or human-like organisms are flooding the qualifiers, only the 3 with the most votes will be allowed in.

Bit of a WIP but seems pretty alright

>>128375
looks good to me

>>128375
>-Organism must at least be somewhat autonomous to be eligible. (Needs to grow and reproduce, need food, water, and air, move and respond or adapt to their environment)
Wouldn't it be easier to just say "Organism must be a living thing or virus (including extinct ones)"?

>>128375
T-rex bros.... We jobbed to Elite 8 rules....

>>128384
>runner up is bad now
b8

>>128384
>T. false flagging faggot

>>128375
Hold up, /an/ tourney doesn’t possess such strict rules. The entire reason why /an/ was held in the first place was due to the fact it was so easy to host.
Aside from the winner and E8 being ineligible, and cryptids being /x/ focused, anything’s living or extinct is fair game.

>>128485
>"anything’s living or extinct is fair game"
...yeah? I never said you're not allowed to nominate extinct species. As long as it has motor functions and isn't like the Mariana Trench or anything then it's fine

I guess we're starting 7 pm EST

I wonder which animals are gonna be notable enough to get a wiki article

>>128562
y'know hypothetically speaking you could just cut out the middle man and nominate Vince himself

If you vote for humans in the /an/ tournament you should be banned from participating in any future tournament.

What were the seeds last year anyways? I remember T. rex was 14th and managed to upset a bunch of the top 5 but I don’t remember anything else

>>128574
Or you could nominate dung beetle's dung ball, since according to >>128573 that would be allowed as a thing created by animals?

>>128585
No?

>>128574
I guess I could but I wasn't really planning on participating in this and just wanted to do some funposting, besides Vince (or any human really) would just be weird to see in /an/.

>>128583
https://challonge.com/5291svl8

>>128595
>all those memes in super high seeds
>humans top seed
I’m so glad all the memes jobbed in Rounds 1 and 2 because they sucked

15 minutes left.

Alright so just a little heads up beforehand, I'm gonna be using my challonge username here instead of Bill
not that big but just putting this out there to prevent any fear mongering about a hostile takeover or whatever

Tournament theme
Disney's Amazing Animals Begining - (1996).wmv

Gonna spitevote primates after that forced Gorilla vs. Pongo match-up that their mains rigged

>>128611
>Gonna spitevote primates after that [schizo babble]

>>128613
>Posting a screenshot of his own falseflag
You're sad

>>128611
Please don't hold that against the lemurs. That's purely ape nonsense.

1 minute left.

It is time! The zoo is loose!

Alright, here we go.
Hope we don't crash and burn the amazon forest. It's /an/ 2024!
https://boards.4chan.org/an/thread/4799223

>>128618
>Mr. Sir The Guymanbro
Lol
Lmao

Should I nominate nanotyrannus?

>>128627
The answer is in the name.

>>128628
I kinda wanted to see how long it would take before someone pointed out that it’s thought to be the same as T. rex

>>128618
Did you forget to include sharks in E8 or did you not want to open the can of worms of whether it's all sharks or just the great white that are banned for the year? Well too bad because I'm opening it now

>one of my nominations is the first to be entered in

>>128651
oh bloody oath! Was afraid I would miss something.
Yes, sharks are indeed banned.

>>128654
Fuk u

>>128654
Bruh, you just can't ban sharks like that.

>>128654
That’s the dumbest thing you could have done, bravo

>>128655
>>128656
>>128657
???
Sharks were in the elite 8. So they're not allowed like Gorillas, Tyrannosaurus Rexi and every other elite 8 member. I'm not seeing the problem you guys are seeing.
I guess you could make an argument for different variations like the mackerel sharks but that feels kind of like Smurfing to get around the Elite 8 ban.
If the people want just the great white restricted then I can budge but I thought everyone sorta knew this going in.

>>128665
If Shark and Whale Shark can appear on the same bracket, I'm pretty sure they count as separate entrants. Shark the category is banned, but specific sharks aren't.

>>128665
I mean I think it's sensible, it'd be retarded if someone could go
>Crow is banned due to winning? Then I nominate... le American Crow

>>128665
for more clarification on my reasoning: The Tyrannosaurus Rex ban doesn't mean all Dinosaurs are disqualified because they all have major differences.
Gorillas, Orangutans and Mantis Shimp sitting out doesn't mean that Chimpanzees and Regular Shrimp that you can buy fried in the supermarket are sitting out too
Granted that I may be missing something, but are there really any noticeable enough differences within Sharks and The Giant Pacific Octopus to justify giving clearance?
>>128668
Yeah this is basically the mindset I've been running with. However I'm willing to give the Whale Shark a slip since >>128667 does bring up a decent point. This could fall under the Grandfathered net.

>>128668
>>128673
There's no end to the variations of different species. If someone wants to give the hammerhead specifically some love, I don't think that should be blocked by the broad category of "sharks" being in the Elite 8, and I think if a particular species of crow had won instead, the subsequent entry of a different species of crow would be virtually the same as entering a particular species of crow now.

Ultimately I think what you're trying to prevent, the remote possibility of a similar entrant doing about as well consecutively, isn't worth discarding entire categories that contain animals (or plants) that are still distinct and whose participation people would still enjoy. If you choose to do that, it should be at least be a lot more precise, but good luck trying to manage that when crows and ravens share a genus but everything classified as a shark doesn't even share an order. Your options here are either too broad or too precise, but there's no indication that either option is even worth the trouble.

Personally I think there should be some major, imminent, and credible threat before we start rulefagging against valid entries, rather than preemptively try to rigidly apply rules from other types of tournaments that may not even make sense here. The rules of tournaments don't handle categories of characters winning because that's not a thing that can actually happen in them. In the /an/lympics, we'd have to have been specific to the species from the very beginning to apply those rules without adjustment. Some consideration has to be taken here in regard to the nature (heh) of this specific tournament and what the participants want out of it.

TL;DR there's no real benefit to overregulating entrants and it actively makes things less fun.

>>128690
I take back what I said that's a good point desu

So does /an/ just not allow anons to just mass reply to give out a ton of yous or is it an incognito thing?

>>128690
Honestly. Yeah, that's pretty reasonable actually.
All you Goblinshark fan in the audience can rest easy

damn this sure slowed down fast

>>128727
How did it go from so fast to so slow?

I think you should've made people give a name and a scientific name for nominations. That way you can easily separate two animals that are called "sharks" and whatnot.

>>128754
Should just go with what's on display.

>>128727
>>128751
I think everyone got what they wanted to nominate in this tournament

>>128727
Pretty sure this happened last year too. /an/ is not a fast board.

Aw shit I forgot to ask Psyanon if he was interested in doing something for this
Probably would've been declined but I imagine the banter could be creative

>>128799
I mean he might have time for all you know, /an/ is also not high intensity so he could take his time and get noticed anyway

Qualls are up
https://boards.4chan.org/an/thread/4800070

Place your predictions now. Who's going to be the biggest jobber?

>>128849
Humans

>>128851
Hopefully

>that one confused anon in the thread
Hey Bill anon, if I were you I'd include a small basic description in the OP that this is an annual tournament to decide /an/'s favoite animal and also perhaps that the last year's winners were crows. So that maybe actual anons from /an/ passing by can have a clue wtf this is and not just our circlejerk.

>>128893
makes sense

>>128893
to decide /an/'s favourite Plant*

>>128863
Nigga, this is one of the smallest tournaments to be actually held. It is even smaller than /tnt/ tourneys.
The only thing that it has of any importance is the fact that it is the first main site tourney and it is easy as fuck to host.

>>128923
the first main site tourney of the year*

>>128927
100% fair.
It was however weird by how much the humans fell. They were the number 1 seed.

>>128927
Could argue whether it should be over the honey bee or vice versa, but it's a great top seed in general. Don't think anyone would be mad if it happened to win the whole tournament, which is the baseline for a good top seed pick.

>>128923
>It is even smaller than /tnt/ tourneys.
Somehow, I doubt that.

Here's the results
https://rentry.org/jesusfuckitsdone

And here are the brackets
https://challonge.com/WELCUM2THEJUNGLE

>Koala is the King Boo of /an/lympics

>>128940
The Carnotaurus just ate the Koala and took it's place

We're getting a new thread in about 20-30 minutes...finally.

>>128977
ouch...

>voterbase is less than HALF of 2023’s
Holy shit what happened

Jesus, the first round was a fucking bloodbath.

Plants blown the fuck out

>>129228
But watermelon and sunflower still remain mighty

Who are the autist who keep seething about /tnt/?

>>129228
I forgot to nominate peaches, oops
A damn shame, I picked a good 15 or so today and there's still about another 25 left on the tree. That thing is awesome.

>>129228
>plants fucking annihilated
>pig still in
Bejita won

>>129232
It’s funny

>>129233
Oolong won*

>>129232
>Host doesn't break ties via seeding and just does 3 way matches next time
Since when were 3 ways bad?
>this shit
Idk, I think it was funny.

>>129237
Watermelon is still in the game, Bejita.

Goku won btw

>>129240
>Nobody nominated carrots
Lol
Lmao

>>129230
Don’t know for sure but the way he said “our tournament and not their’s” reminded me of that one anon from last year’s ms or mr /co/ that was seething over the hosts and tried to DDOS /tnt/. Obviously this guys is different but no matter what they’ll always be some kind of drama from at least ONE GUY

>>129287
>DDOSing plus4chan over schizo assumptions
Some people unironically need to take their meds

>We're going to see the first 4-way in 4chan tourney history
holy fucking shit

>humans got raped
Lmao
>prehistoric animals made it through this round with no losses, and multiple 70+%’s
Nice

>>129287
isn't /an/ literally "our" tournament? as in, it was conceived and first organized here?

Who do we think is going to win at this point?

>>129501
Here's my list of animals I think could be winners
>Megalodon
>Bumblebee
>Anomalocaris
>Rat
>Watermelon
>Tiger

>>129515
>rwby

>>129507
I do wonder if they'll be push back against the prehistoric animals because it seems like people don't want T.Rex getting screwed over.

>>129517
I’m the guy who brought that up originally. I remember people saying T. rex winning would be bad because Fang won. I know the people saying it were most likely being disingenuous but it stands that it probably made some sort of impact.

And given how autistic people get because of this shit I know for a fact that if any of the prehistoric entries win T Rex’s naysayers will use it.

I'm tired of hearing about T. rex. Fuck T. rex.

>>129350
That’s technically true, /an/ seems to like it anyway

>>129521
>t. mcraensis

In a perfect world, Raven would've won Ms. /co/ and T-Rex would've won /an/lympics.

>>129527
There's always a chance for Raven to win one of these tournaments.

>>129519
The whole entire idea that if a prehistoric animals winning would screw over T.Rex is dumb
It's like saying all Birds are fucked because Crows won last year.

>>129538
I mean, they are. If a bird ends up in this year's finals it's guaranteed to have backlash.
We don't know how long tourneys will last and that goes double for /an/, which is largely a side thing being kept alive by a given host's enthusiasm. It seems like a waste to have animals of a same class or a thematic group like prehistorics win two years at this point. Maybe if /an/lympics actually proves its longevity and lasts for as long as the main tourneys have, then repeated winners from the same thematic group will be seen as more okay.

>>129538
>>129539
/an/ is a minor tourney and should have no effect on a major tourney. Major tourneys however can have some effect on minor one's. Most /an/ voters are probably tourneyfags but few major tourney voters will have participated in /an/ or see it as anything significant.