JCM Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 That's right, I'm doing another one of these. If you weren't here for the tournament challenge last year, this is basically an event I made up based on the NCAA men's basketball tournament, but instead of pitting college teams against one another, I'm having episodes of SpongeBob square off in a visually-appealing battle for supremacy. I'll be doing things a little differently this time, however, to make the tournament a little more realistic and a little more wacky. Instead of using episodes from the TV Tropes Best Episode Crowner again, I decided to use every episode that got a rating higher than 9 on IMDb.com. I then shuffled those episodes, and because there ended up being more than 64, I removed the episodes that got the fewest votes (three of the newer pairings only had around 30 votes each, so they were easy to drop). That still left me with 65, though, so I'm putting the lowest vote-getters, Cuddle E. Hugs/Pat the Horse, into a play-in game, meaning you'll have one more episode to choose from this year. Though most of the bracket is randomized, I did make sure the top eight seeds from last year got those same seeds this year to maintain some consistency, and even though Wet Painters and Sailor Mouth were part of the episodes that got randomized, they ended up getting 3 seeds again, so overall, I'm happy with this bracket. New blood (super new blood, in fact) to go along with the old guard. Without further ado, here are the episodes and their seedings: Spoiler 1 seeds Band Geeks Krusty Krab Training Video Chocolate with Nuts Pizza Delivery 2 seeds The Camping Episode Graveyard Shift SB-129 Shanghaied 3 seeds Life Insurance Sailor Mouth There's a Sponge in My Soup Wet Painters 4 seeds Sportz? Mermaidman and Barnacleboy V My Pretty Seahorse Burst Your Bubble 5 seeds Krusty Love Stuck on the Roof Gary Takes a Bath Feral Friends 6 seeds Idiot Box Arrgh! Squid Noir Karate Choppers 7 seeds Teacher's Pests Nasty Patty The Clam Whisperer Krabby Land 8 seeds Welcome to the Chum Bucket SpongeBob's Place Rock Bottom Frankendoodle 9 seeds Plankton Gets the Boot Scavenger Pants Trident Trouble Artist Unknown 10 seeds The Incredible Shrinking Sponge Krabby Patty Creature Feature Unreal Estate No Weenies Allowed 11 seeds Man Ray Returns Squilliam Returns Imitation Krabs No Pictures Please 12 seeds Cave Dwelling Sponge The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom Home Sweet Pineapple Spot Returns 13 seeds The Bully Just One Bite Code Yellow Lost and Found 14 seeds Don't Wake Patrick Dying for Pie One Krabs Trash Plankton Retires 15 seeds The Getaway Spin the Bottle Larry the Floor Manager Club SpongeBob 16 seeds The Check-Up Snowball Effect The Secret Box Cuddle E. Hugs* Pat the Horse* *will play for last seed Also, instead of just having the top teams in each seed line play each other, I'll have the highest-ranked 1 seed play the lowest ranked 16 seed, then the lowest ranked 8 seed, and so on, since logically, the best team should have the easiest path to the final game. (Though that isn't how the tournament works in real life, of course.) Now for the fun stuff. Just like last year, you'll be predicting which 16 episodes advance to the third round (or technically the fourth round, since there's a play-in game now). The point system is the same as before. You get one point for each episode you guess that reaches the third round You get two points for each episode you guess that reaches the fourth round You get three points for each episode you guess that reaches the semifinals You get four points for each episode you guess that reaches the finals And again, if you correctly predict the winner of the tournament on a separate line, I'll double your points. If you decide to be chalky and simply have the first 16 seeds advance and have Band Geeks win it all, this is what it would look like: Band Geeks Krusty Krab Training Video Chocolate with Nuts Pizza Delivery The Camping Episode Graveyard Shift SB-129 Shanghaied Life Insurance Sailor Mouth There's a Sponge in My Soup Wet Painters Sportz? Mermaidman and Barnacleboy V My Pretty Seahorse Burst Your Bubble Winner: Band Geeks Here are the matchups for each region. Make sure to look at these carefully, because if you have two teams in the Sweet Sixteen that would meet each other in the Round of 32, you've effectively wasted a spot. While the point system is the same as last year, I'll be doubling the rewards, so whoever has the most points by the end of the tournament will win 20,000 doubloons, whoever has the second-most points will win 10,000 doubloons, and whoever has the third-most points will win 5,000 doubloons. That's a lot of money, so make sure to submit your choices in this thread by Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at 7 PM EST. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinjo Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Krusty Krab Training Video Chocolate with Nuts Band Geeks Pizza Delivery The Camping Episode Graveyard Shift Squid Noir Shanghaied Welcome to the Chum Bucket Sailor Mouth Dying for Pie Wet Painters Burst Your Bubble SB-129 Snowball Effect The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom Winner: Krusty Krab Training Video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess Peach Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 Chocolate with Nuts Krusty Krab Training Video Pizza Delivery Band Geeks The Camping Episode Graveyard Shift Squid Noir Shanghaied Welcome to the Chum Bucket Sailor Mouth Dying for Pie Wet Painters SB-129 Burst Your Bubble Snowball Effect The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom Winner: Chocolate with Nuts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crushingmayhem Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 Shanghaied Chocolate with Nuts Krusty Krab Training Video Band Geeks Pizza Delivery The Camping Episode Graveyard Shift Squid Noir Welcome to the Chum Bucket Sailor Mouth Dying for Pie Wet Painters Burst Your Bubble SB-129 Snowball Effect The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom Winner: Shanghaied Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCM Posted March 21, 2018 Author Share Posted March 21, 2018 Thanks for the submissions! I'll go ahead and extend the tournament deadline until Friday at 9 PM EST. After that, we'll hit the ground running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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