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Best World-Building Tournament: Minigame.

I think Gold Crown Town has an okay chance of making it to the final though I did not select it, but I think Madoka's world is a long shot. I picked The Twelve Kingdoms for A/B and I'm going to keep quiet on the far less predictable C/D group winner prediction.

Animegomaniac wrote:

Tris8 wrote: mostly because I leaned a lot toward what I think should progress I considered that approach and I considered the popular route but I went with the same criteria I used to nominate: "Does it all fit together?" only now with something to compare it.

Ya, there were a couple match-ups where a strong but lesser-known candidate was against a decent but highly popular candidate and I had a difficult time predicting those ones. For the most part I tried to do what you did and judge on the overall impression and internal consistency of the show. What Group was the easiest/hardest for you to predict?

B bracket was the easiest as it was filled with many of my own nominations though I fully admit I'm fully biased against Moribito which will do better than, honestly, it should.

My final matchup was Amestris versus Daikuuriku {I fully admit these were shows I nominated}, both shows with full historical backstories and developed cultures {and clashes there of!} in what is clearly not the "Earth" as we accept it. If you're going to have a war, have a reason for it, if you're going to have racial and class prejudice, explore it. If you're just going to "copy and paste" history and famous stories in a new medium, you better have a good reason for taken the road well travelled.

The GiTS and Spice and Wolf match will probably wreck tons of people's brackets regardless of how it turns out. Spice and Wolf was a top 8 seed, and GITS was nominated very late and did not get enough nominations for seed status. Against average strength opponents I believe each could win at least three matches.