Dissociation Swag Competition

What is Dissociation Swag Competition?

Dissociation Swag Competition is a Tumblr bracket-style tournament meant to pit fictional characters against each other who have (canonically or headcanon) dissociative disorders! These include, but are not limited to:

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

Depersonalization-Derealization Disorder (DPDR)

Otherwise Specified Dissociative Disorder (OSDD)

Unspecified Dissociative Disorder (UDD)

Dissociative Amnesia

Dissociation as symptoms of other disorders (including anxiety, depression, PTSD, BPD, OCD, and many others)

This is NOT meant to romanticize mental illness. Instead, this is to celebrate characters like us and push for more positive representation!

Round 1 was run back in February and March 2023, and now we're running a second round of it!

NOMINATIONS

You can nominate characters with this form! Just keep in mind the following rules:

Fictional characters only, no real people!

Characters do not need to canonically have a dissociative disorder, headcanons are accepted

Characters featured in round 1 can be nominated, except for Shallan Davar (Just to avoid having the same winner in round 2)

Submit one form per character, start a new form to nominate a new character!

Only submit one form per character, no spam nominations!

NOMINATIONS WILL CLOSE OCTOBER 1, 2023

Setting up the bracket will take some time, but please be patient in the interim! Our ask box is always open if anyone wants to chat or goof around~

The prelim match for Danganronpa will go up sometime this week! Stay tuned, we'll announce it closer to the scheduled time! It will likely be one match with the suggested contestants, one week in total, and the winner will go on to fight in the main bracket!

So to any of my followers who have, suspect they have, or are questioning if they have DID or even OSDD- sending you lots of love!!! 🧡🧡🧡

So let me leave some context before going into the poll itself

We have 128 submissions for our bracket which is awesome! During the first run, we left things entirely random as to who'd get put where. This time, we're not sure!

There's a lot of fandom overlap, and a majority of submissions were only submitted once... very few got more than 2 submissions so it's extremely difficult to seed for popularity too! So I'm leaving it to you guys to pick how seeding works!

Random: Every character is placed in the bracket entirely randomly

Group fandoms together: Characters from the same fandom (for example - Geminiman and Iceman are both from the Megaman franchise) are grouped together- this could prevent characters from the same fandom taking up the majority of the bracket and could possibly lead to more fandom diversity, but would also mean all-but-one character in a fandom would get eliminated early on

Seed by popularity: Purposely set up the bracket so that characters who received 2+ submissions (24 total) are purposely not placed next to each other on the bracket in round 1. Characters with 3+ submissions (6 total) will be placed as far apart as possible in the bracket to ensure they wouldn't match till later in the bracket if they win their first few rounds

Fandoms + Popularity: A combination of options 2 and 3: Characters in the same fandom are placed near each other, and those with 2+ submissions will try to be placed so they're not next to each other for round 1 matches. Might get finicky to set up if those rules clash but we're up for that challenge if youse want it!

For context, I can only select polls to be 1 day or 1 week, no other options :(

"Earlier rounds should be 1 day, later rounds 1 week" meaning for example round 1 (64 matchups) and round 2 (32 matchups) would have matches be 1 day each, while later rounds such as the sweet 16 (8 matches) and onward would be 1 week long per match.

Matches would still be posted in groups so it wouldn't be like one week per one match, just 1 week to get results for those matches

Collecting a poll over how long to make each poll/round (1 day/vs 1 week)

Collecting a poll over how to handle seeding the bracket (character from similar fandoms grouped together, totally random, more submissions = higher seed, etc)

A prelim match of some Danganronpa characters- we had "the entirety of the Danganronpa cast" submitted, but it went against the "only one character per submission" rule, BUT if we have some prelim matches, the winner of that can fit nicely into the main bracket, and we think that's the most fair way to do it :D

So we'd like to start by saying... oops.

So we accidentally vastly overestimated the amount of free time we'd have this October. By, like, a lot. With our brother's wedding and moving to our new house, we've had extremely little free time. Like- just getting an hour to chill is considered lucky, that's how little free time we're working with. So, yeah, haven't been able to focus on this blog as much...

But good news, we're finishing the move this weekend! So we're hoping (for real this time) to have things ready to go sometime in November!!!

Back to (slightly) bad news, all of the moving around has caused me to strain my dominant wrist a bit... which is not ideal for both moving and also trying to assemble a whole 128-size bracket. Don't worry, we think it's only a minor strain, but we have to take it easy on our wrist to avoid potentially doing some serious damage to it (doing a doodle was pushing our luck but yknow XD). So again, probably nothing till November, but November should be better!