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The final has begun!https://challonge.com/b9vf0sp2
Voting runs from March 16th-22nd 11:59PM EST
*NOTE: We pushed back the start/end date by a day due to issues with the voting for the sword semi-final.
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(1) Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
vs.
(2) Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Vote Here
Results from Round 3:View the full bracket: https://challonge.com/b9vf0sp2
NOTE: Due to the voting issues, the number of votes in the Sword semi-final are higher than is typical and therefore may be inaccurate, which of course skews some of the overall tournament statistics. However there isn't much I can do about it, so I'm using the numbers we got.
Tournament Statistics
Total Votes Cast: 3,417
Average Votes Cast: 263
Book With Most Votes: Legends & Lattes - (205 Votes) (Round 3)
Match-up With Most Votes: Legends & Lattes vs. The City of Brass (370 Votes) (Round 3)
Largest Win: The Grace of Kings - (82 Votes) (Round 1)
Smallest Win: Children of Time - (2 Votes) (Round 3)
Average Win: 33 votes
Round 3 Statistics
Total Votes Cast: 658
Average Votes Cast: 329
Book With Most Votes: Legends & Lattes - (205 Votes)
Match-up With Most Votes: Legends & Lattes vs. The City of Brass (370 Votes)
Largest Win: Legends & Lattes - (40 Votes)
Smallest Win: Children of Time - (2 Votes)
Average Win: 21 votes
Sword Bracket
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Match 1:
(1) Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree - 205 Votes
vs.
(12) The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty - 165 Votes
Winner: Legends & Lattes
Total Votes: 370
Margin of Victory: 40
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Laser Bracket
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Match 2:
(2) Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky - 145 Votes
vs.
(3) The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz - 143 Votes
Winner: Children of Time
Total Votes: 288
Margin of Victory: 2
It appears the votes for the Sword final were cleared. Please go and check that your vote was counted.Just to give everyone a chance to make sure their vote is counted, we are going to push the end date back a day until tomorrow at 12am ET.
https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...
It appears the votes for the Sword final were cleared. Please go and check that your vote was counted.Just to give everyone a chance to make sure their vote is counted, we are going to push the end date back a day until tomorrow at 12am ET.
https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...
Round 3 has begun!https://challonge.com/b9vf0sp2
Voting runs from March 8th-14th 11:59 PM EST
Sword Bracket
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Match 1:
(1) Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
vs.
(12) The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
Vote Here
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Laser Bracket
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Match 2:
(2) Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
vs.
(3) The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz
Vote Here
Well this round busted my bracket. I either underestimated the power of spiders or overestimated the popularity of Red Rising and MRK for that matter. My sword side of the bracket is still on track though.I don't think I can come back now. Especially since we still have 1 perfect bracket left, and 2 more who can finish with 31.
I also just noticed every prediction picked L&L, except Tamahome who picked the now eliminated Red Rising. I'm kind of surprised no one picked Children of Time for a bracket at all.
Results from Round 2:View the full bracket: https://challonge.com/b9vf0sp2
Tournament Statistics
Total Votes Cast: 2,759
Average Votes Cast: 230
Book With Most Votes: The Grace of Kings - (153 Votes)
Match-up With Most Votes: Legends & Lattes vs. Minimum Wage Magic (244 Votes) (Round 1)
Largest Win: The Grace of Kings - (82 Votes) (Round 1)
Smallest Win: Red Rising - (7 Votes) (Round 1)
Average Win: 39 votes
Round 2 Statistics
Total Votes Cast: 914
Average Votes Cast: 229
Book With Most Votes: Children of Time - (147 Votes)
Match-up With Most Votes: Children of Time vs. Red Rising (231 Votes)
Largest Win: Children of Time - (63 Votes)
Smallest Win: The Terraformers - (11 Votes)
Average Win: 39 votes
Sword Bracket
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Match 1:
(1) Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree - 133 Votes
vs.
(9) The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu - 93 Votes
Winner: Legends & Lattes
Total Votes: 226
Margin of Victory: 40
Match 2:
(13) Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko - 93 Votes
vs.
(12) The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty - 135 Votes
Winner: The City of Brass
Total Votes: 228
Margin of Victory: 42
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Laser Bracket
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Match 3:
(2) Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky - 147 Votes
vs.
(10) Red Rising by Pierce Brown - 84 Votes
Winner: Children of Time
Total Votes: 231
Margin of Victory: 63
Match 4:
(3) The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz - 120 Votes
vs.
(11) The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal - 109 Votes
Winner: The Terraformers
Total Votes: 229
Margin of Victory: 11
Reminder that voting ends in a little over 14 hours from now (12am ET)
Tassie Dave wrote: "Only those on Discord who saw the correction in time, got their predictions in."I did post it here in the round 1 thread too, but if you weren't following that thread/checking it, you wouldn't have seen it.
Yeah, I was considering nominating that series next year
Ruth (tilltab) Ashworth wrote: "I had recently read The Art of Prophecy by Chu, and am now very much wanting the sequel"Hopefully won't be much longer now: https://twitter.com/wes_chu/status/16...
Maybe later this year/early next year? I guess it depends on what his editor thinks.
For me it was an easy choice, because while I like MRK and will probably eventually read The Spare Man, we haven't read Annalee Newitz.I'm expecting MRK to win though..
Colin wrote: "Match 1 isn't showing up as a 'featured poll' if you click on the polls link for the group.(The direct link, above, works just fine.)"
fixed. Thanks for catching that.
Round 2 has begun!https://challonge.com/b9vf0sp2
Voting runs from March 1st-7th 11:59 PM EST
Sword Bracket
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Match 1:
(1) Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
vs.
(9) The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu
Vote Here
Match 2:
(13) Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko
vs.
(12) The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
Vote Here
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Laser Bracket
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Match 3:
(2) Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
vs.
(10) Red Rising by Pierce Brown
Vote Here
Match 4:
(3) The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz
vs.
(11) The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal
Vote Here
Trike wrote: "I didn’t have any feel at all about Steerswoman versus Vita Nostradamus, so I just flipped a coin.."Yeah, that was my only guess. All the others I was pretty confident with the outcome.
I was a bit surprised Red Rising won by such a narrow margin, but MRK is super popular so I feel like she got under-seeded and may make a deep run (I have her losing in the finals to Latte)
