User:MadMax/Best of the Worst Tournament

The Best of the Worst Tournament (a working title obviously) is a proposed writing competition held by Uncyclopedia. The event's purpose would be to introduce a new format, a single-elimination tournament, among Uncyclopedia's established contests. The first of these events would take place over a three-week period, depending on the size of the tournament, sometime during the next year or so.

Ideas for such events could include:

• A "standard" 8-person or 16-person open invitational tournament. Ideally, this could be open to writers from any humor website or foreign-lanuage Uncyclopedias.
• A 12-person tournament for NOTM or WOTM winners. This would be held annually after the last NOTM/WOTM was chosen for the year.
• A 6-person tournament for former WOTY winners. The second final round would have three participants instead of the normal two or postpone until 2012.
• An 8-team tournament featuring collaborative writing groups (e.g. UN:IC, Upsilon Sigma Sigma, etc.) represented by a limited number of its members. Any random group of editors could also participate as a team.
• A tournament to create Oscar Wilde-related only articles (e.g. "The Oscar Wilde Society proudly presents...") or based on another Uncyclopedia theme. Could also be used to create missing entries for incomplete article series such as Disney or Bloodbath.
• A two-block tournament of editors from Europe and North America. The winners of each face each other in a final match. If played in teams, it could be styled along the lines of an "Uncyclopedia World Series" or World Cup.
• An "Uncyclopedia Legends Reunion", intended to attract retired or otherwise inactive editors to return for a "one night only" appearance, pitting legendary editors (either collaboratively or alone) against current users.
• An annual writing event, patterned similarly to The Rumble in the Jungle or WrestleMania, which could run from a single day to a week. Editors, either single or in teams, would compete against each other in a series of special challenges. These could be announced weeks beforehand by the organizers or, perhaps by a forum vote, at the start of the event. Suggestions for prior writing contests (e.g. Lollipop's "Survivor"-style competition) could be incorporated into this event. See here for further examples.

Who can enter and what are the rules?

In theory, a tournament would operate much like any other contest on Uncyclopedia. All registered editors, with exception to judges, would be eligible to enter open invitational and non-specific tournaments. Others, however, may be restricted to particular editors. A tournament for NOTM or WOTM would logically allow only those who had won the award during that year.

The rules are the same for both types of tournaments. Submitted articles can be of any topic or namespace. Editors would have one week to submit an article, either in mainspace or their userpage, to a panel of judges or a special VFD page (similar to Dr. Skullthumper's Hourly Writing Contest) where regular editors choose the winning article.

Note: There would be three judges per block. In an 8-person tournament, this would mean each group of judges review a total of six articles (three matches). Judges would have approximately 24-hours to judge each week's entries (if it becomes too much a workload maybe judging could take place in a special VFD?). The final match could be judged by all six judges (a combination of both?), a new set of judges or allow regular editors for vote (see above).

When is the Best of the Worst Tournament going to be held?

Since this is just a working idea at the moment, there are no plan to start a tournament any time soon. Hopefully such a tournament could be run sometime this year. It could be possible to hold an experimental 4-person tournament in the next month or so to see how it works (providing there are no other events scheduled).

• First week of competition, opening rounds; entries will be locked and judged at the end of the week.
• Second week of competition, semi-finals; entries will be locked and judged at the end of the week.
• Third week of competition, final match; winners will be announced and articles will be moved into the mainspace.
• The morning after ? the end. Or is it?

(n.b.: all times are to be measured by UTC, and all phases of the contest end at midnight on the specified day; entries may be accepted late under certain conditions.)

Experimenal tournament

#	Results	Stipulations	Times
1	Zombiebaron (Canadian bacon) defeated Dexter111344 (Celebrity Impersonation Syndrome)	First Round Tournament match	May 8-14
2	Shabidoo (Mahjong) defeated Electrified mocha chinchilla (?)		May 8-14
3	Zombiebaron (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) defeated Shabidoo (Uncyclopedia made my life more different)	Final Tournament Match	May 22-June 4

The first experimental tournament took place between May 8 and June 4, 2011. The tournament brackets were:

	Semifinals					Final
		Zombiebaron	W
		Dexter111344
							Zombiebaron	W
							Shabidoo
		Shabidoo	W
		Electrified mocha chinchilla

Judges Thekillerfroggy Lyrithya Black flamingo11

Popcorn, Hot Dog, and Beer concessions Aleister Frosty

Witty commentary Dr. Skullthumper

Tournament bracket examples

8-man tournament

January 1, 2525 in The Middle of Nowhere (BENSON'S 3-D HOUSE OF PANCAKES)

#	Results	Stipulations	Times
1	Sockpuppet of an unregistered user defeated Nachlader	First Round Tournament match	Week 1
2	RabbiTechno defeated Kip the Dip		Week 1
3	Aleister in Chains defeated Dexter111344		Week 1
4	Romartus defeated The Woodburninator		Week 1
5	Sockpuppet of an unregistered defeated RabbiTechno	Semi-Final Tournament Match	Week 2
6	Aleister in Chains defeated Romartus		Week 2
10	Aleister in Chains defeated Sockpuppet of an unregistered	Final Tournament match	Week 3

Tournament bracket

	Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Finals
		Socky	3.2
		Nachlader	2.9
							Socky	3.6
							RabbiTechno	3.4
		Kip the Dip	3.3
		RabbiTechno	3.6
												Socky	3.6
												Aleister	5,342,239.1
		Aleister	98.7
		Dexter111344	3.2
							Aleister	968.6
							Romartus	3.1
		Woodburninator	3.0
		Romartus	3.2

12-man tournament

January 1, 2525 in The Middle of Nowhere (BENSON'S 3-D HOUSE OF PANCAKES)

#	Results	Stipulations	Times
1	Tagstit defeated Guildensternenstein	First Round Tournament match	Week 1
2	Sonje and YouKnowWhatTheMusicMeans fought to a time-limit draw. [1]		Week 1
3	Clemens177 defeated Staircase		Week 1
4	PuppyOnTheRadio defeated Sequence		Week 1
5	Why do I need to provide this? defeated BlueSpiritGuy		Week 1
6	Puffskein defeated Aleister in Chains		Week 1
7	Tagstit received a bye	Semi-Final Tournament Match	Week 2
8	PuppyOnTheRadio defeated Clemens177		Week 2
9	Why do I need to provide this? defeated Puffskein		Week 2
10	PuppyOnTheRadio defeated Tagstit and Why do I need to provide this?	Final Tournament match	Week 3

1. ^  Both participants failed to submit their entries on time.

Tournament brackets

	First round					Semifinals
		Tagstit	W
		Guildensternenstein
							Tagstit
							BYE
		Sonje
		YouKnowWhatTheMusicMeans	DDQ

	First round					Semifinals
		Clemens177	W
		Staircase
							Clemens177	W
							PuppyOnTheRadio
		PuppyOnTheRadio	W
		Sequence

	First round					Semifinals
		Why do I need to provide this?	W
		BlueSpiritGuy
							Why do I need to provide this?	W
							Puffskein
		Puffskein	W
		Aleister in Chains

Finals

	Semi-Finals					Finals
	1	Tagstit
	6	BYE
						1	Tagstit
	2	Clemens177	W
						2	PuppyOnTheRadio	W
	5	PuppyOnTheRadio
						3	Why do I need to provide this?
	3	Why do I need to provide this?	W
	4	Puffskein

16-man tournament

January 1, 2525 in The Middle of Nowhere (BENSON'S 3-D HOUSE OF PANCAKES)

#	Results	Stipulations	Times
1	Savethemooses defeated Rangeley	First Round Tournament match	Week 1
2	Braydie and Tompkins fought to a time-limit draw. [2]		Week 1
3	The Thinker defeated Cajek		Week 1
4	Tom mayfair defeated One-eyed Jack		Week 1
5	Cap'n Ben defeated Gwax		Week 1
6	Todd Lyons defeated Bradaphraser		Week 1
7	Rcmurphy defeated David Gerard		Week 1
8	So So defeated Ljlego		Week 1
9	Savethemooses received a bye	Quarter Final Tournament Match	Week 2
10	Tom mayfair defeated The Thinker		Week 2
11	Todd Lyons defeated Cap'n Ben		Week 2
12	So So defeated Rcmurphy		Week 2
13	Tom mayfair defeated Savethemooses	Semi Final Tournament match	Week 3
14	So So defeated Todd Lyons	Semi Final Tournament match	Week 3
15	Tom mayfair defeated So So	Tournament Finals match	Week 4

1. ^  Both participants failed to submit their entries on time.

Tournament bracket

First round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

Savethemooses

Rangeley

Savethemooses

BYE

Braydie

Tompkins

DDQ

Savethemooses

Tom mayfair

The Thinker

Cajek

Tom mayfair

The Thinker

Tom mayfair

One-eyed Jack

Tom mayfair

So So

Cap'n Ben

Gwax

Cap'n Ben

Todd Lyons

Todd Lyons

Bradaphraser

Todd Lyons

So So

Rcmurphy

David Gerard

Rcmurphy

So So

So So

Ljlego

8-team tournament (collaborative)

Teams

• Der Unwehr (Guildensternenstein, PuppyOnTheRadio, CheddarBBQ and Sonje)
• The Grue Army (High Gen. Grue, Meganew, Fudgemobile and Magic man)
• Imperial Colonization (Rangley, Mhaille, Aleister in Chains and Sockpuppet of an unregistered user)
• Uncyclopedia Worker's Party (Jocke Pirat, Tom mayfair, TheLedBalloon and Thekillerfroggy)
• The Merree Men (Col.swordman, Squiggle, Maniac1075 and DJ Irreverent)
• The NOOB Squad (Mimo&maxus, Putthatknifedown, Omnifluff and Rpm)
• Team Illogicopedia (Hindleyite, Carlb, PeregrineFalcon999 and Lyrithya)
• Upsilon Sigma Sigma (Skinfan13, Paizuri, Matfen and HELPME)

Tournament bracket

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

Der Unwehr

Upsilon Sigma Sigma

Der Unwehr

Team Illogicopedia

The Merree Men

Team Illogicopedia

Der Unwehr

Imperial Colonisation

Imperial Colonisation

The NOOB Squad

Imperial Colonisation

The Grue Army

Uncyclopedia Worker's Party

The Grue Army

Non-tournament "Supercard" event

January 1, 2525 in The Middle of Nowhere (BENSON'S 3-D HOUSE OF PANCAKES)

#	Results	Stipulations	Times
1	Aleister in Chains defeated DJ Mixerr	Single match	n/a
2	Why do I need to provide this? and YouKnowWhatTheMusicMeans defeated Optimuschris and An Ape that Only Exists on Thursdays	Team match	n/a
3	Dr. Skullthumper won a 1-hour writing contest defeating 25 other editors.	1-hour writing contest	n/a
4	Guildensternenstein defeated Black flamingo11	Singles match for best Cinema-related article	n/a
5	The Woodburninator defeated PuppyOnTheRadio	Singles match for best Alt. Namespace article (HowTo, Why?, etc.)	n/a
6	Imperial Cononization (Rangley, Mhaille, SysRq and Thekillerfroggy) defeated Upsilon Sigma Sigma (Skinfan13, Paizuri, Matfen and HELPME)	Collaborative team match for best rewrite or new article	n/a
7	Zana Dark, Prettiestpretty and Lyrithya (with Keitei) defeated Romartus, Magic man and Dexter111344 (with BENSON)	Male vs. "Female" 6-person team match	n/a
8	ChiefjusticeDS defeated RabbiTechno and Sycamore	3-way singles match	n/a
9	Thatdamnedfollowspot defeated Tragicbooty, English peasant, MsuCarencro, John Lydon, NonchalantCaterpillar, Lordarcadian, Tonillero Mimo&maxus, Putthatknifedown and Cat the Colourful	NOTM Survivor match	n/a
10	Under user defeated Sockpuppet of an unregistered user	UOTY vs. UOTY "grudge" match	n/a
11	RadicalX versus ???	Open challenge to face the original POTY. Played similar to War, participants will have one chance to submit an original photo against RadicalX. Contest will go on until RadicalX submits or there are no more challengers...	n/a
12	??? versus ???	Opponents are chosen by a Forum vote.	n/a