Preferred Character Round Robin: General Discussion

[alwaysbebatman]

Going back a ways there has been discussion of doing a few more matchups building off of the Favorite Character single-elimination Tournament. Advantages and drawbacks of different formats have been discussed. The format I eventually decided on was a round robin tournament of the six characters who had the best showing in the single-elimination tourney.

These six characters had the best showing based on two different criteria:

• They include the four characters who made it to the semi-finals as well as the two who were eliminated in close matches in the quarterfinals by the two characters who went on all the way to the finals.
• Also, these six are the characters with an overall positive vote margin. In other words, over the course of the tournament they received more total votes than the votes their opponents received add up to.

The six characters are:

1. Redcloak
2. Belkar Bitterleaf
3. O-Chul
4. Vaarsuvius
5. Elan
6. Roy Greenhilt

Here is the schedule I have worked out for the round robin. It includes matches from the original tournament and the one loser bracket match already completed. Those matches will also count towards this tournament.

Round	Open Voting	Declare Winner	Matchups	WINNER	Votes for Winner	Votes for Opponent	Margin
Quarter	2-Sep	9-Sep	Redcloak v Elan	REDCLOAK	24	22	2
Quarter	5-Sep	12-Sep	Belkar v Roy	BELKAR	26	25	1
Semi	9-Sep	16-Sep	Redcloak v O-Chul	REDCLOAK	34	33	1
Semi	12-Sep	19-Sep	Belkar v Vaarsuvius	BELKAR	38	36	2
Final	19-Sep	26-Sep	Redcloak v Belkar	REDCLOAK	41	40	1
Bronze	20-Sep	26-Sep	O-Chul v Vaarsuvius	O-CHUL	26	23	3
RR1	30-Sep	7-Oct	O-Chul v Elan	O-CHUL	16	11	5
RR1	30-Sep	7-Oct	Vaarsuvius v Roy	VAARSUVIUS	22	16	6
RR2	3-Oct	10-Oct	Redcloak v Roy	REDCLOAK	18	13	5
RR2	3-Oct	10-Oct	Belkar v Elan	ELAN	17	14	3
RR3	7-Oct	14-Oct	O-Chul v Roy	O-CHUL	18	11	7
RR3	7-Oct	14-Oct	Vaarsuvius v Elan	VAARSUVIUS	18	14	4
RR4	10-Oct	17-Oct	Roy v Elan	ROY	16	15	1
RR4	10-Oct	17-Oct	Belkar v O-Chul	BELKAR	20	17	3
RR4	10-Oct	17-Oct	Redcloak v Vaarsuvius	VAARSUVIUS	19	15	4

As you can see, I am already behind schedule to post the first two matches. Unless you are on the West Coast, then I'm fine. I'll get those up ASAP.

[alwaysbebatman]

A Round Robin cries out for a matrix. Here you go:

	ROUND ROBIN MATRIX
	1st number is Votes For, 2nd is margin, Red is a Loss
Redcloak		41,1	34,1	15,-4	24,2	18,5
Belkar Bitterleaf	40,-1		20,3	38,2	14,-3	26,1
O-Chul	33,-1	17,-3		26,3	16,5	18,7
Vaarsuvius	19,4	36,-2	23,-3		18,4	22,6
Elan	22,-2	17,3	11,-5	14,-4		15,-1
Roy Greenhilt	13,-5	25,-1	11,-7	16,-6	16,1

[alwaysbebatman]

I have updated the matrix above.

Take aways: I predicted that these would all be close-- I have been proven wrong.

Roy's loss to V is the most lopsided so far among these six, but nothing like the drubbing Haley took from V in the quarterfinals.

Elan vs O-Chul got unusually few votes, not sure why. But Roy vs Vaarsuvius was pretty comparable to the quarterfinal rounds in total votes.

There have been no upsets based on how each character already did in the single elimination tournament. But Elan vs Belkar has been neck and neck, we'll see if that changes.

If there's an upset, it'll be very easy to see. If you see red in the top-right half of the matrix, that'd be an upset.

[Potatomade]

So that's it, then? Round Robin's over?

[martianmister]

Who won? Redcloak?

[alwaysbebatman]

Yes, everything above is now updated. And that's it for the round robin.

There are many ways to slice it, but since one character has the highest number of wins, yes:

Redcloak is Round Robin Champion!!

[Potatomade]

Well, poopy.

Thanks for running the thing, alwaysbebatman! That was fun and enlightening. I never knew how much I hated Redcloak until this tournament/Round Robin

[martianmister]

Yep, that's the tie-breaker.

VOTING IS CLOSED

REDCLOAK IS CHAMPION!!!

Yes, everything above is now updated. And that's it for the round robin.

There are many ways to slice it, but since one character has the highest number of wins, yes:

Redcloak is Round Robin Champion!!

Well, Redcloak is surely popular.

[alwaysbebatman]

Redcloak got the most wins both in a single-elimination tournament of 16, and in a round robin of 6. And that IS impressive. I'm not trying to take anything away from him by saying there are many ways to slice it.

Name	Total Wins	Total Votes	Total Margin
Redcloak	4	132	5
Belkar	3	138	2
Vaarsuvius	3	118	9
O-Chul	3	110	11
Roy	1	81	-18
Elan	1	79	-8

Here's a sortable table, so you can rank by whichever stat you like!

Highest vote total is Belkar, highest sum of margins is O-Chul.

[martianmister]

I'm still shocked at how unpopular Haley become.

[Laurana]

I'm still shocked at how unpopular Haley become.

Agreed. She's still my favourite.

[Kaytara]

I mean, I myself love Haley but I probably wouldn't vote for her over Belkar, Redcloak or V, or even Roy. I would pick her over O-Chul, and probably Elan. But writing-wise, she didn't really get explored on the same level as the other characters on that list (one of whom has an entire origin book, and a heap of her early-to-mid writing suffered from teething pains and Token Girl Character stuff. So I don't think it's that she's unpopular, but rather that the characterisations of her competitors stand out that much more on account of being excellent and not just good.