The Ultimate Linear Guild Tournament: Elimination 2

[137beth]

Greetings all tagonists, both of the 'pro' and 'an' variety, and welcome to

The Ultimate Linear Guild Tournament
Elimination Edition!

In which all past members of the Linear Guild compete for the title of Ultimate Rival!

The Contestants:
The contestants have been divided into two categories: the main contestants and the tie-breaking contestant. The main contestants are those Nale personally recruited, and who were Evil Opposites of one of the six PCs. The tie-breaking contestants are those who forced there way in, or never formally joined at all. So without further ado, let me introduce:
The Main Contestants
1. Nale
2. Sabine
3. Thog
4. Zz'dtri
5. Hilgya Firehelm
6. Yikyik-- Eliminated in the second Tiebreaking Phase! He tastes good with tortilla chips.
7. Leeky Windstaff
8. Pompey
9. Yokyok
10. Yukyuk-- Eliminated in the first Tiebreaking Phase! While shielding Mr. Scruffy from acid!



And now,
The Tie-breaking Contestants
Introduced by me, the evil genius who concocted this elaborate scheme to begin with! Now remember, these Tiebreakers aren't real evil opposites. All you Linear Guild fans should be hoping that these second-string wannabes lose! They don't even get numbers, just letters.

A. General Tarquin--This fool is a complete coward who doesn't know what real power is! Also, he practices filicide!

B. Malack--A Snake, a leech, a parasite, and a pile of dust are the most generous ways to describe this monster!

C. Kilkil--An overattentive drone who follows my father around. He's even more worthless than Belkon. Or Belker, or whatever the halfling's name is.

D. Qarr--A simple pawn in my grand design...

E. Ysometimesykysometimesyk--What is that, a KOBOLD hiding under the umbrella? Something else polymorphed into a kobold? He's not even a Linear Guilder, how in the Nine Hells did he get in here?

F. Yakyak--Oh come on, he's not even a character! Whoever picked this terrible line-up of tie-breaking contestants is as dumb as my brother!
--Eliminated during the second Tiebreaking Phase! Everyone knows that they're no real threat to the six of us.

...
...
Phew, I'm glad that's over. I knew there was a reason I wouldn't let Nale introduce the Main Contestants!

The Process
Each week during the Initial Phase, I will post three head-to-head matches between competitors, and y'all will be able to vote once in each. Voting will last for one week, after which I will post another three matches. This will continue until all Linear Guilders have faced three other competitors. At this point, a score for each Linear Guilder will be computed. The score of a competitor depends on the scores of those they defeated, which in turn depends on the scores of who they defeated. It is a variation of the PageRank algorithm used by Google.
Subsequently, the tournament will enter the Elimination Phase. During the Elimination Phase, the Linear Guilder with the lowest score will be eliminated. The three remaining Linear Guilders who previously faced the eliminated contestant will each play each other. Thus, each remaining Linear Guilder will have played three or more matches against other remaining Linear Guilders. The score of the remaining characters will be recomputed, and the cycle continues until only three remain.
If, during the Elimination Phase, there is a tie for last place, the tied contestants will enter a Tiebreaking Phase. The Tiebreaking Phase will feature matches between the Main Contestants tied for last place, along with an equal number of Tiebreaking Contestants! The last place Main contestant and the last place contestant (if they are a Tiebreaking Contestant) at the end of each Tiebreaking Phase will be eliminated from the tournament! The winner of the Tiebreaking Phase (regardless of whether they are a Main or Tiebreaking contestant) will be inducted into the Hall of Tiebreaking Champions!

Each time there is a Tie for last place in the Elimination Phase, another Tiebreaking Phase will be run, knocking out another Main contestant and Another Tiebreaking Contestant, and adding another 'tagonist to the Hall of Tiebreaking Champions.

Now, at this point, you are probably wondering: what will happen if a Tiebreaking Phase ends in a tie? Well, in that case, we will go into a Tiebreaking Tiebreaking Phase! Hint: it involves puppets. Specifically the Linear Guild puppets from the introduction of No Cure for Paladin Blues. If that ends in a tie, then I will use a refined version of the PageRank algorithm that takes the number of votes for each Linear Guilder into account, and not just who won each match. In the highly unlikely event that a tie still persists, I will cast a tiebreaking vote.

Once only three Main Contestants remain, all Tiebreaking Contestants who have not made it into the Hall of Tiebreaking Champions will face off against each other in an Ultimate Tiebreaking Phase. The winner of that Phase will join the Hall of Tiebreaking Champions. Subsequently, the Hall of Tiebreaking Champions will be merged into the Main Contestants. The cycle of elimination will then continue until only three Linear Guilders, from either category, remain. At that point, the Final Three will each play rematches against each other to determine the Ultimate Rival!

Previous Matches
Initial Phase
1. Nale vs. Yukyuk: 14-5
2. Sabine vs Yokyok: 16-3
3. Leeky Windstaff vs Pompey: 15-4
4. Zz'dtri vs Yikyik 23-0
5. Sabine vs Thog 13-10
6. Hilgya Firehelm vs Leeky Windstaff 9-14
7. Nale vs Zz'dtri: 12-13
8. Thog vs Yokyok: 19-6
9. Hilgya Firehelm vs Yukyuk: 18-6
10. Nale vs Pompey: 19-3
11. Sabine vs Hilgya Firehelm: 18-4
12. Yikyik vs Leeky Windstaff: 1-21
13. Thog vs Yukyuk 21-1
14. Zz'dtri vs Yokyok 20-3
15. Yikyik vs Pompey 9-14

At the end of the Intitial Phase, the scores of each Main Contestant are:
1. Sabine: 1.79388
2. Zz'dtri: 1.77157
3. Leeky Windstaff: 1.3476
4. Nale: 1.03801
5. Thog: 0.889254
6-7. Hilgya Firehelm: 0.728431
6-7. Pompey: 0.728431
8-10: Yikyik: 0.567609
8-10: Yokyok: 0.567609
8-10: Yukyuk: 0.567609
Thog surprised many by failing not only to come in first during the Initial Phase, but to achieve a score that was below average.

Tiebreaking Phase 1
1. Yikyik vs Yokyok: 8-7
2. Yukyuk vs General Tarquin: 2-13
3. Malack vs Kilkil: 13-3
4. Yikyik vs Yukyuk: 5-2
5. Yokyok vs Malack: 0-9
6. General Tarquin vs Kilkil: 6-3
7. Yokyok vs Yukyuk: 3-1
8. Yikyik vs Kilkil: 1-5
9. General Tarquin vs Malack: 2-7

At the end of the Phase, the Tiebreaking Scores (which do not include matches from the Initial Phase) are:

1. Malack: 2.03711
2. Kilkil: 1.12035
3. Tarquin: 1.03901
4. Yikyik: 0.802074
5. Yokyok: 0.562859
6. Yukyuk: 0.438591

Despite defeating him in a direct match, Tarquin narrowly lost to his kobold assistant in the rankings. Yukyuk lost three matches in a row, bringing him to the bottom and making him the first Linear Guilder to be eliminated! Meanwhile, Malack went undefeated and entered the Hall of Tiebreaking Champions!

Elimination Phase 1
1. Nale vs Thog: 6-8
2. Nale vs Hilgya Firehelm: 8-6
3. Thog vs Hilgya Firehelm: 8-6

Thog makes a comeback from his poor showing in the Initial Phase. Nale drops below the average of the remaining Main Contestants. The Main Bracket scores at the end of the first Elimination Phase were:

1. Sabine: 1.90886
2. Zz'dtri:1.29813
3. Thog: 1.25839
4. Leeky Windstaff: 1.14523
5. Nale: 0.986266
6. Pompey: 0.720004
7-9. Hilgya Firehelm, Yikyik, and Yokyok: 0.561042

Leeky maintains his lead on Nale due to going undefeated in the Initial Phase, but likely only because he faced easy opponents.

Tiebreaking Phase 2

1. Hilgya Firehelm vs Yikyik: 12-1
2. Yokyok vs General Tarquin: 2-11
3. Qarr vs Yakyak: 12-1
4. Hilgya Firehelm vs Yokyok: 13-0
5. Yikyik vs Qarr: 0-13
6. General Tarquin vs Yakyak: 11-1
7. Yikyik vs Yokyok: 5-7
8. Hilgya Firehelm vs Yakyak: 12-0
9. General Tarquin vs Qarr: 10-2

The final scores for this Tiebreaking Phase are:
1. Tarquin: 1.8733
2. Hilgya: 1.25191
3. Qarr: 0.928624
4. Yokyok: 0.760682
5-6. Yikyik and Yakyak:0.592739

Tarquin sweeps the Tiebreaking Phase and enters the Hall of Tiebreaking Champions! There is a tie for last place, however, Yikyik is a Main Contestant while Yakyak is a Tiebreaking Contestant, so both are eliminated with no Tiebreaking Tiebreaking Phase needed. (A Tiebreaking Tiebreaking Phase only occurs if there is a tie for last place in a Tiebreaking Phase among tied contestants from the same division, or if any tie for first place in a Tiebreaking Phase occurs).

The Hall of Tiebreaking Champions
--Malack became the first member of the Hall, after trouncing Tarquin and a bunch of kobolds in the first Tiebreaking Phase.
-- General Tarquin became the second member of the Hall, after beating Qarr and a bunch of kobolds in the second Tiebreaking Phase.

The Current Phase
With Yikyik out of the Main Bracket, the three Contestants who faced him, Zz'dtri, Leeky, and Pompey, would each face each other in the Elimination Phase. But Leeky and Pompey already faced each other during the Initial Phase, so this Phase will be rounded out by a random match between Main Contestants. The random match is (*rolls*) Thog vs Zz'dtri!
This Phase is only one week long. After that, all three matches will be added to the Main Bracket, and either another Main Contestant will be eliminated, or, if needed, another Tiebreaking Phase will begin.
The Current Matches
Vote in each match once:
1. Thog vs Zz'dtri
2. Zz'dtri vs Leeky Windstaff
3. Zz'dtri vs Pompey

This round is probably make-or-break for Zz'dtri in the tournament. Voting will end Monday, April 13, at which point we will move on either to another Elimination Phase or to a Tiebreaking Phase!

[Jaxzan Proditor]

Thog
Leeky
Zz'dtri

[D.One]

1. Thog vs Zz'dtri: "Thog is the Champion, Thog's friends!"

2. Zz'dtri vs Leeky Windstaff: Zz'dtri

3. Zz'dtri vs Pompey: Zz'dtri

[LadyEowyn]

Thog
Zz'dtri
Zz'dtri

[Gift Jeraff]

thog
Leeky
Z

[martianmister]

Zz'dtri
Zz'dtri
Zz'dtri

[Xihirli]

T H O G
Z
Z

[ti'esar]

Zz'dtri
Zz'dtri
Zz'dtri

(Honestly, he's probably not a better character than Thog or even possibly Leeky, but I really wanted to vote the full slate).

[Bird]

Thog
Z
Z

(A Tiebreaking-Tiebreaker Phase only occurs if there is a tie for last place in a Tiebreaking Phase among tied contestants from the same division, or if any tie for first place in a Tiebreaking Phase occurs

I think that goes without saying. ^^

[ranagrande]

Thog
Leeky
Z

[Killer Angel]

Long story short:

Thog
Zz'dtri
Zz'dtri

[Rakoa]

Z
Z
Z

And that was too short. Of course.

[Apani]

Z
Leeky
Pompey

[Shining Wrath]

Thog wins due to elegant simplicity
Z
Z

[Jasdoif]

Zz'dtri
Zz'dtri
Zz'dtri

Tiebreaking Phase 1
1. Yikyik vs Yokyok: 8-7
....
Tiebreaking Phase 2
7. Yikyik vs Yokyok: 5-7

Wonder how Yikyik alienated three of his supporters....

[declinator]

Zz'dtri
Zz'dtri
Zz'dtri

...so both are eliminated with no Tiebreaking-Tiebreaker Phase needed.

Thank the gods (southern, western and northern)!

[thisisnotspam]

Zz'dtri in all 3

[Mike Havran]

Z, Leeky and Z again.

[Bubble181]

Thog
Leeky
Zz.

[Xihirli]

Also, Yokyok was the one with Tortilla chips. Yikiyik was worn as a hat.

[ti'esar]

Okay, I gotta ask: what is with the angry smileys?

[137beth]

Zz'dtri
Zz'dtri
Zz'dtri

Wonder how Yikyik alienated three of his supporters....

Maybe they met him in the afterlife, after getting out of Cedric's inbox, and found out he wasn't as cool in-person as in the panels.
Or maybe they just weren't paying attention to the forum enough to vote the second time.

Also, Yokyok was the one with Tortilla chips. Yikiyik was worn as a hat.

Try tasting a kobold, then taste his son. Notice the similarity? Kobold taste is heretitary. Clearly, Yokyok inherited the tortilla chip taste from his father, as it runs in the Montoya family of Yikyik.

[GM_3826]

Zz'dtri
Zz'dtri
Zz'dtri

This is not a coincidence. He's my favorite character, and I hate Thog.

[Milionac]

Zz'dtri
Zz'dtri
Leeky

[Xihirli]

Okay, I gotta ask: what is with the angry smileys?

The original concept of my character was an ancient evil who was reading the webcomic and critiquing the villains as he went, trying to teach the next generation.
But I'm too optimistic to stay in character, so I overcompensate with a whole bunch of red faces.

[Sylian]

Zz'dtri
Zz'dtri
Zz'dtri

[DemonRoach]

Thog
Leeky
Zzdtri

[137beth]

And this Phase is over!

1. Thog vs Zz'dtri: 11-11 tie! I'll break the tie in favor of Thog, the one who stayed around for all the Linear Guild appearances.
2. Zz'dtri vs Leeky Windstaff: 14-8
3. Zz'dtri vs Pompey: 21-1

The final scores for the Main Bracket at the end of this round are:

1. Sabine: 2.28503
2. Thog: 1.99705
3. Zz'dtri: 1.36448
4-5. Nale and Leeky Windstaff: 0.587541
6-8. Hilgya Firehelm, Pompey, and Yokyok: 0.392785

That means it's time for another TIEBREAKING PHASE!
The next round will begin shortly.

[Rakoa]

1. Thog vs Zz'dtri: 11-11 tie! I'll break the tie in favor of Thog, the one who stayed around for all the Linear Guild appearances.

That is...

[GM_3826]

Are you kidding me? Stop showing favoritism.