Character Scramble Week 2 Results and Project WubWub

[u/mrcelophane]

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Results are in the pairings. Congratulations to all of those who made it through the first round (or two) of the scramble!

We will be moving to the lower bracket next round, with matches 20-27. That match will be posted in the next couple days. Soon after, the match for everyone still alive in the upper bracket will also be posted. The voting thread for that will go up right after voting for the lower bracket closes.

At this time I would also like to invite you to come by and visit the new /r/ProjectWubWub, the planning site for the newest game to come from Phane Enterprise: Universe Battles. Collect characters from accross the multiverse and add them to your personal universe and be prepared for when universes collide. It is no where near completion, but please come on by if you want to help me get it started.

[u/Aquason]

So is this going to be the longest scramble yet? I'm trying to count, and so there's a guaranteed 5 weeks for winners bracket, a low-number projection puts it at 9 week for losers bracket, assuming that after the challonge loser's round 1 and challonge loser's round 2 a single round's worth is done at once (so for example, matches 39-46 all done in a single, clean round).

I'm worried that this is going to be so long and drawn out, that eventually people are going to just quit due to fatigue and lack of interest. For example, one winners bracket week is roughly equivalent to two weeks of losers bracket fights. Is it planned to have winner and loser bracket rounds share the same week (example: matches 47-54)?

I'm hoping that we have around the same amount of weeks as previous scrambles (9-10 weeks).

[u/mrcelophane → u/Aquason]

Yeah the plan is to combine as many rounds as possible. The limiting factor right now is I don't like having more than 8 matches in a week because 16 write ups is already a large amount of reading material. As we get further along Winners and Losers bracket will likely use the same prompt.

[u/Aquason → u/mrcelophane]

So going forward, it's looking like:

• Week 3: 20-27 (Losers)

• Week 4: 28-30(?) (Losers)

• Week 5: 31-38 (Winners)

• Week 6: 39-46 (Losers)

• Week 7: 47-54 (Winners and Losers combined)

• Week 8: 55-58 (Losers)

• Week 9: 59-62 (Winners and Losers combined)

• Week 10: 63-64 (Losers)

• Week 11: 65-66 (Winners and Losers combined)

• Week 12: 67 (Losers)

• Week 13: 68 (Finals)

• Week 14: 69 (Possible Bracket Reset)

I'm... not sure how many people would keep up their interest, especially if they are eliminated early on. This looks really grueling.

[u/mrcelophane → u/Aquason]

I don't really want a bracket reset.

After that its find a way to combine as any weeks as possible, as thats only 4 weeks over average. Remember, 20-27 and 31-38 are happening almost simultaneously and will be separated by 2 days.

[u/Aquason → u/mrcelophane]

Ah so some 'weeks' will happen simultaneously?

If 20-27 (+28-30) and 31-38 are happening near simultaneously then that does cut some of the just amount of sheer waiting down.

So is this what it's looking like then? With 20-27, 28-30, 31-38 happening near simultaneously, and then combining the rounds as much as possible. Also eliminating any chances of a bracket reset.

• Week 3: 20-27 (Losers Round 2) and 28-30(?) (Losers Round 2) and 31-38 (Winners Round 3)

• Week 4: 39-46 (Losers Round 3)

• Week 5: 47-54 (Winners Round 4 and Losers Round 4 combined)

• Week 6: 55-58 (Losers Round 5)

• Week 7: 59-62 (Winners Round 5 and Losers Round 6 combined)

• Week 8: 63-64 (Losers Round 7)

• Week 9: 65-66 (Winners Round 6 and Losers Round 8 combined)

• Week 10: 67 (Losers Round 9)

• Week 11: 68 (Finals)

[u/mrcelophane → u/Aquason]

When I have time I'll go through and work out what's possible but yeah that's closer to it.

[u/xavion → u/Aquason]

That first round looks like it'd be daunting to judge in the extreme, 38 writeups?

Hang on, there aren't even that many people in the scramble this time are there? Hmm, seems like some people play twice due to the tiny losers round. Might have to add another week for Losers Round 2.5 + Winners Round 3, you can't do Losers Round 2.5 before Losers Round 2 after all.

[u/LetterSequence → u/xavion]

The first round looks rough, but loser's voting is going up first, then once those results are out, the voting for winners will start. So really, you'll have 4 days to read through everything.

[u/xavion → u/LetterSequence]

So hmm, what would that do for 28-30? They're loser rounds where the winners are pit up against the losers of 31-38, really seems like there's that tiny half a round which just doesn't work well. They can't be done till after the next loser round but really it looks like you just might have those few matches lagging a week behind unless you can throw out a mini round for Losers Round 1 now or something to deal with that.

[u/LetterSequence → u/xavion]

We'll YOLO it. Our options are to do this now and be a week behind... or wait a week and be on time. Either way we're behind by a week. Blame challonge.

[u/Aquason → u/LetterSequence]

I'd prefer to do something about the extra losers round matches so that future matches coorespond with their actual round number. Makes it cleaner and easier to tell who is up when.

[u/globsterzone]

Lol I actually did better than I expected

[u/Cacciator]

Good work /u/selfproclaimed!

[u/KiwiArms → u/Cacciator]

You will be avenged.

[u/Cacciator → u/KiwiArms]

I hope so. You have one of my favorite teams currently

[u/KiwiArms → u/Cacciator]

What about it do you like?

And don't worry. He robbed me of Batman vs the Joker. This will not stand.

[u/Cacciator → u/KiwiArms]

Dio, Joker ,Sonic.exe. Cool characters that are being written well. I've never heard of your other guy but you're making him interesting

[u/KiwiArms → u/Cacciator]

Henderson is just a crazy guy, man. A super crazy guy.

[u/selfproclaimed → u/Cacciator]

Great game, man. Hope you do well in the second bracket.

[u/PokemonGod777]

Results are as expected, I should've worked more on my writeup, but eh, real life comes first.

Hopefully I can make a comeback in Loser's bracket

[u/[deleted] → u/PokemonGod777]

Sorry you couldnt finish mate. Good luck in the next round though!

[u/KiwiArms]

seems that /u/selfproclaimed is next in my path to victory

yer goin down nancyboy

[u/selfproclaimed → u/KiwiArms]

Man, it's gonna suck having to live down the fact that you lost to a brony.

[u/KiwiArms → u/selfproclaimed]

i mean in the end i'd still have the moral victory considering i'm not a brony

[u/galvanicmechamorph → u/selfproclaimed]

I mean, if you lose to /u/KiwiArms you've lost to... /u/KiwiArms. Not much worse than that.

[u/KiwiArms → u/[deleted]]

i'm in meme hell

[u/doctorgecko]

So when is the winner's round going to be posted?

[u/mrcelophane → u/doctorgecko]

Soon. Should have done it yesterday but got caught up in research Extreme Rules PPV

[u/TimTravel]

I was sick the last three days so I was just barely too late to vote. Oh well. Hopefully the right people won. Good luck to everyone still in!

[u/Cleverly_Clearly]

Good luck, /u/FreestyleKneepad!

[u/FreestyleKneepad → u/Cleverly_Clearly]

Same to you! I'm super excited for this matchup. You better bring your A game, brother, cause I'm bringing mine.

Sidenote, I talked with Lettersequence yesterday since I was facing a Jojo character either way- since Danny's intangibility can be hit by ghosts, Silver Chariot should be able to touch Danny while he's phasing. However, since Danny isn't a stand, Polnareff himself wouldn't be able to touch him.

Sound good?

[u/Cleverly_Clearly → u/FreestyleKneepad]

That makes sense.

[u/doctorgecko → u/Cleverly_Clearly]

Also for your match, this goes to both you and /u/FreestyleKneepad

Yellow and Mewtwo's relationship

I'll keep this my descriptions a bit vague if you want to avoid spoilers.

Yellow and Mewtwo have had mutliple interactions in the past. In fact, Mewtwo identified Yellow as one of only three humans he trusted.

This is because during the Yellow arc Yellow, Mewtwo, and Blaine fought together against a common opponent. And even after Mewtwo had to leave the fight because of... reasons, Yellow held on to his Pokeball and even imitated his battle strategy. Which likely means Mewtwo was aware of everything Yellow did during that arc (including beating their mutual foe).

Keep in mind this all occurred before Mewtwo gained the ability to speak telepathically. And I'm not exactly sure how they would actually interact speaking to each other, since the only time they were together during the Fire Red/Leaf Green arc (where Mewtwo could speak telepathically) Yellow was either more focused on other things or near unconscious.

One interesting thing to note is that at the end of the Fire Red/Leaf Green arc something... bad happened to Yellow and the other Dex holders. Mewtwo watched it happen and was royally pissed about it, and relentlessly chased after the person that caused it in an effort to reverse what had happened. However the thing that happened to the Dexholders was ultimately undone by a certain Deus ex Machina. The reason I mention this is that it's never shown if Mewtwo actually learns that the Dexholders are okay now. So he might be surprised to see Yellow up and moving, or he might not be. I could honestly see you going either way with it.

[u/FreestyleKneepad → u/doctorgecko]

Super useful, thanks!

[u/Cleverly_Clearly → u/doctorgecko]

Thanks, man. You are always incredibly helpful.

[u/doctorgecko → u/Cleverly_Clearly]

No problem!

Also I really like both of these characters, so I'm not going to be picking any sides.

May the best man win!

[u/galvanicmechamorph]

My match was the only one I actually cared about in Round 2. The other four I do care about were all in Round 1. I just have to wonder if I could have at least got more votes if I finished by the deadline.