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137beth
2015-01-19, 12:13 PM
Greetings all tagonists, both of the 'pro' and 'an' variety, and welcome to

The Ultimate Linear Guild Tournament

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

The Contestants:
1. :nale: Nale (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0043.html)
2. :sabine: Sabine (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0043.html)
3. :thog: Thog (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0043.html)
4. http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h87/osiris32/drizzle.png Zz'dtri (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0043.html)
5. http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/7486/hilgya.png Hilgya Firehelm (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0043.html)
6. http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g68/Cats_Are_Aliens/Banners/Yikyik.png Yikyik (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0043.html)
7. http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i294/trytoguess/Leeky.png Leeky Windstaff (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0344.html)
8. http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g68/Cats_Are_Aliens/Banners/Pompey.png Pompey (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0254.html)
9. http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g68/Cats_Are_Aliens/Banners/Yokyok.png Yokyok (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0348.html)
10. http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g68/Cats_Are_Aliens/Banners/Yukyuk.png Yukyuk (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0790.html)


The Process
Each week, 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 matches against other remaining Linear Guilders. The score of the remaining characters will be recomputed, and the cycle continues until only three remain. At that point, the Final Three will each play rematches against each other to determine the Ultimate Rival!
If, during the Elimination Phase, there is a tie for last place, the tied contestants will enter a Tiebreaking Round. The Tiebreaking Round includes everyone who is tied for last place, along with the wildcard partial Linear Guilders Yakyak (what kind of a stupid name is 'Yakyak' anyways?) and Ysometimesykysometimesyk (who is actually the MitD polymorphed into the form of a kobold). However, Yakyak and Ysometimesykysometimesyk are not actually eligible for advancement, due to not being True Linear Guilders. They are just there to shake up the Tiebreaking Round.
The true inner workings of the Tiebreaking Round are a far more interesting game than the other rou--
:thog: game?
No, no, not a literal game, it's just a--
:thog: that's okay, thog too hungry for sprinkles to play game

Well, I was going to monologue the rest of the evil tournament procedure right here, but I have to go to get sprinkles before anyone accuses me of mixing different strips together.


Previous Matches
1. Nale vs. Yukyuk: 14-5
2. Sabine vs Yokyok: 16-3
3. Leeky Windstaff vs Pompey: 15-4
Zz'dtri vs Yikyik 23-0
Sabine vs Thog 13-10
Hilgya Firehelm vs Leeky Windstaff 9-14

In a surprising upset last week, Sabine defeated the normally popular Thog. Moving on to...


The Current Match
7. :nale: Nale vs http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h87/osiris32/drizzle.png Zz'dtri
8. :thog: Thog vs http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g68/Cats_Are_Aliens/Banners/Yokyok.png Yokyok (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0348.html)
9. http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/7486/hilgya.png Hilgya Firehelm vs http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g68/Cats_Are_Aliens/Banners/Yukyuk.png Yukyuk (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0790.html)

Voting for these matches will end Monday, January 26, at which point we will move on to three new random matches!

Jasdoif
2015-01-19, 12:24 PM
Nale
Yokyok
Hilgya

Livius
2015-01-19, 12:25 PM
Zz'dtri
Thog
Yukyuk

zinycor
2015-01-19, 01:00 PM
Zzditri
Thog
Hilgya

Bird
2015-01-19, 02:32 PM
1. Nale (who has grown on me a little, since he's dead)
2. Thog
3. Hilgya

AGD
2015-01-19, 03:17 PM
Nale
Thog
Hilgya

ti'esar
2015-01-19, 03:23 PM
Nale
Thog
Hilgya

I feel bad for the kobolds, but they're just such non-characters it's impossible to vote for them. (Incidentally, you seem to be using Yokyok's head for all three).

oppyu
2015-01-19, 03:49 PM
Nale
Thog
Hilgya

Sylian
2015-01-19, 04:02 PM
Zz'dtri
Thog
Hilgya

ranagrande
2015-01-19, 04:05 PM
Name
Thog
Hilgya

ti'esar
2015-01-19, 04:10 PM
Name

Um, is this is a typo or a creative method of abstaining?

Peelee
2015-01-19, 04:56 PM
Zz'dtri
Yokyok
Yukyuk

Give the little guys some love after that complete shutout.

Procyonpi
2015-01-19, 05:08 PM
Z
Thog
Hilgya

AsteronIronhoof
2015-01-19, 05:09 PM
Zz'dtri
Yokyok
Hylgya

Jaxzan Proditor
2015-01-19, 05:13 PM
Nale
Thog
Hilgya

137beth
2015-01-19, 05:27 PM
Oh, right, forgot to answer a question from the previous thread:

And just out of curiosity: How does the elimination stage work out? One guild member goes out, which means that up to three are missing one match (in later stages, some might have fought others more than once). I don't understand how playing a round-robin among the survivors is helpful, as this will give them four matches each, and not three.

So example
A has fought D E F
B has fought C E F
C has fought B D E
D has fought A C F
E has fought A B C
F has fought A B D

Once F is eliminated, it's A B and D who need one extra fight, but how are you going to satisfy that? You'll always have that problem: An odd-sized group cannot each have an odd number of fights in between them, as a fight always counts for two sides.
You are correct: after the first elimination, three more matches will take place. As a result, three remaining contestants will have played four matches, while the others will have played three.

ranagrande
2015-01-19, 05:54 PM
Um, is this is a typo or a creative method of abstaining?
That was my phone's annoying autocorrect. I am voting for Nale.

ti'esar
2015-01-19, 06:09 PM
137ben, I want to point out again that you're using Yokyok's smiley to represent all three kobolds. You can tell because it's got his little mustache and goatee.

137beth
2015-01-19, 06:53 PM
137ben, I want to point out again that you're using Yokyok's smiley to represent all three kobolds. You can tell because it's got his little mustache and goatee.

Yea, but I don't know of a smiley for the other kobolds. I guess I could do what the C&LG has done and use :smalleek: for Yikyik and :smallyuk: for Yukyuk. Or I could just leave out smilies for the other two kobolds.

ti'esar
2015-01-19, 07:20 PM
Yea, but I don't know of a smiley for the other kobolds. I guess I could do what the C&LG has done and use :smalleek: for Yikyik and :smallyuk: for Yukyuk. Or I could just leave out smilies for the other two kobolds.

I have a link to the OOTS Smilies thread in my signature (or here (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?96672-Order-of-the-Stick-Smilies) if it's not visible for some reason). Look under "Linear Guild".

Tiktik Ironclaw
2015-01-19, 08:01 PM
Zz'dtri-again, one of my three favorite characters.
Yokyok-my favorite race, and Iņigo Montoya. Sorry, thug.
Yukyuk-if the little animal-abusing cretin weren't a kobold, I'd abstain from this matchup.

Peelee
2015-01-19, 09:48 PM
Yokyok-my favorite race, and Iņigo Montoya. Sorry, thug.

Inigo. He has no diacritical marks in his name.

Timy
2015-01-20, 07:49 AM
Nale
Thog
Hilgya

Rakoa
2015-01-20, 11:08 AM
Zz'dtri
Thog
Hilgya

bguy
2015-01-20, 11:45 AM
Zz'dtri
Thog
Hilgya

Gift Jeraff
2015-01-20, 01:50 PM
Z
thog
Hilgya

martianmister
2015-01-20, 03:58 PM
Zz'dtri
Yokyok
Hilgya

MKV
2015-01-20, 10:47 PM
Nale
Yokyok
Hilgya

Siding with the Banana. :smallcool:
Yes that deserves a smile because yes

Killer Angel
2015-01-21, 07:22 AM
I'd say

Nale
Thog
Yukyuk (this last one was not so great, but he doesn't deserve to be curbstomped)

littlebum2002
2015-01-21, 10:34 AM
7. :nale: Nale
8. :thog: Thog
9. abstain. I don't like either of them, really.

declinator
2015-01-22, 04:51 PM
Nale
Thog
Hilgya

thisisnotspam
2015-01-23, 04:05 PM
Zz'dtri
Thog
Yuk Yuk

Mike Havran
2015-01-26, 06:01 PM
Z, Thog and Yukyuk.

137beth
2015-01-26, 08:10 PM
And the results are in!
7. Nale vs Zz'dtri: 12-13
8. Thog vs Yokyok: 19-6
9. Hilgya Firehelm vs Yukyuk: 18-6
The next round has begun (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?395065-The-Ultimate-Linear-Guild-Tournament-matches-10-12)!

Jaxzan Proditor
2015-01-26, 09:23 PM
I'm counting 12-13 for Nale vs. Zz'dtri. Am I missing something?

Sylian
2015-01-27, 01:34 AM
I'm counting 12-13 for Nale vs. Zz'dtri. Am I missing something?So am I. I guess 137ben counted a Zz'dtri vote as a Nale vote.

Jasdoif
2015-01-27, 12:21 PM
I'm counting 12-13 for Nale vs. Zz'dtri.
So am I.As am I....I'm not sure it matters, since Zz'dtri still prevailed, but I'm also not sure if the particular algorithm being used here is influenced by the margin of victory.

Well, let's see.



Vote #
Nale Voter
Zz'dtri Voter


1
Jasdoif
Livius


2
Bird
zinycor


3
AGD
Sylian


4
ti'esar
Peelee


5
oppyu
Procyonpi


6
Jaxzan Proditor
AsteronIronhoof


7
ranagrande
Tiktik Ironclaw


8
Timy
Rakoa


9
MKV
bguy


10
Killer Angel
Gift Jeraff


11
littlebum2002
martianmister


12
declinator
thisisnotspam


13
:smallfrown:
Mike Havran

137beth
2015-01-27, 05:40 PM
Oops:smallredface:
I fixed it now.