I've received a couple of asks from newer followers who weren't around for earlier tournaments, so I figured it might be helpful to pin a list with ones we've done and their winners!
So far:
Best Character - Morrigan (runner-up: Isabela)
Best Romance - Zevran (runner-up: Fenris)
Best Non-PC Ship - Isabela/Merrill (runner-up: Josephine/Leliana)
If you're here for/interested in the results of the Dragon Age fandom census survey I ran through July, you can find all of the posts here!
FAQ below the cut!
Where is [x entry] this round? / How do you deal with uneven numbers?
Answered here!
How do you decide the match-up order?
It's all completely randomised! Each tournament, I take the list of entries and shuffle them via random.org.
Can I suggest a tournament idea?
Absolutely! I'm always open to suggestions. After each tournament ends, I run a poll with a shortlist of themes for the next one, and the one we go with is decided by the vote. If a theme you suggested doesn't win, it'll likely be included again in the next poll.
This propaganda sucks!
Oh no! Send in some of your own then.
Can I send propaganda in even though the tournament is ongoing?
Of course! Propaganda is always accepted. Just send it in via the askbox and it will be posted along with a link to the poll, and if the entry in question goes through to the next round your propaganda will be added to the post going forward (provided it's text-only - I can't add images to the poll posts).
You made a mistake in this post!
Aw, man. This happens a lot. I don't tend to answer these asks just to avoid clogging the dash, but please know I'm incredibly grateful whenever anyone lets me know and I'll fix it ASAP once informed. :)
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"He became the youngest First Enchanter in the history of Kirkwall’s Circle. And this is the Gallows, where the senior mages are being watched by Meredith and her templars every second of the day. Whatever else you think of Orsino, nobody promoted the elven troublemaker to the highest magical office because he was just Adequate."
vs. Mad Hermit
"he lives alone in a forest full of werewolves, sylvans, ogres, darkspawn and trees that deliberately send travellers in circles. the dalish know he’s there and hate him. the chantry wants blood mages dead. somehow the hermit remains alive, unarrested and extremely busy with his acorn feud"
"Steal from his stump and two greater rage demons immediately come out to fight beside him. This raises several questions, chiefly whether the demons live in the stump too and how many other things are currently in there. His entire tower may or may not be in there. Stop putting your hand in the stump."
"The Qunari sent one person to retrieve a saarebas who had escaped prison, massacred a village and was planning to tear open the Veil. Cairn points out that it’s strange they only sent one agent. Tallis’s answer is just, “I’m enough.” Considering she does eventually finish the mission, fair enough."
"she was told to break into an Orlesian nobleman’s home, steal an artefact and leave no trace. she found four enslaved children, freed them, completed the mission anyway and left the nobleman in enough pieces that some were never found. I feel like that covers stealth, improvisation and damage output quite nicely"
vs. Corypheus
"corypheus has the deeply unfair ability to lose a fight and then continue the argument from inside somebody else"
"The Grey Wardens built a fortress specifically to imprison one man, sealed it with blood magic and kept generations of Wardens there to watch him. Corypheus still reached through the taint, influenced his jailers and eventually convinced one of their senior officers that releasing him was a clever idea she had come up with herself."
"people make fun of him for repeatedly having his plans ruined, but look at what it takes to ruin them. an international military organisation has to uncover his agents, survive his assault on haven, stop his control of the wardens, chase him to the temple of mythal, learn the secret of his dragon, and then kill that dragon before corypheus becomes mortal enough to finish. he is Not losing to one unusually determined person with a sword."
"only 50 people out of 1000 survived white river, and bryce was one of them"
"The Cousland children didn't acquire their combat training from nowhere! Fergus is trusted with command of Highever's army, the younger Cousland is impressive enough for Duncan to invoke the Right of Conscription, and Bryce is the rebellion veteran who raised both of them. He's been training warriors for longer than some people in this tournament have been alive. There's a reason Bryce commands one of only two teyrnirs in Ferelden and can bring enough soldiers south to meaningfully reinforce the king’s army. Highever is a military power, and Bryce fought to liberate Ferelden, inherited command after the rebellion, and remained capable enough that Cailan expected him at Ostagar decades later."
vs. Xenon the Antiquarian
"you know that between the Golem and whatever he has hidden below the floor boards that anyone who seriously tried to attack him would get wrecked. Never mind whatever hidden magic he himself has"
"He can conduct a blood ritual powerful enough to put another mage directly into Connor’s dream in the Fade. Obviously this is not his opening move in a fistfight, but it does establish that Jowan’s blood magic goes a bit further than making his fireball red and upsetting the Chantry"
vs. Maryden Halewell
"The opponent expects a harmless musician, which is fair because she is a harmless musician. Unfortunately, they are now close enough to be hit in the face with a lute. Those things are mostly solid wood and Maryden has been carrying one around for years. I’m counting the arm strength."
"imagine trying to concentrate while maryden narrates the fight in real time. "ser robert advanced with his sword held up high then tripped on a bucket and started to cry-" he hasn’t even tripped yet. the pressure is enormous"
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"The opponent expects a harmless musician, which is fair because she is a harmless musician. Unfortunately, they are now close enough to be hit in the face with a lute. Those things are mostly solid wood and Maryden has been carrying one around for years. I’m counting the arm strength."
"imagine trying to concentrate while maryden narrates the fight in real time. "ser robert advanced with his sword held up high then tripped on a bucket and started to cry-" he hasn’t even tripped yet. the pressure is enormous"
vs. Xenon the Antiquarian
"you know that between the Golem and whatever he has hidden below the floor boards that anyone who seriously tried to attack him would get wrecked. Never mind whatever hidden magic he himself has"
"He can conduct a blood ritual powerful enough to put another mage directly into Connor’s dream in the Fade. Obviously this is not his opening move in a fistfight, but it does establish that Jowan’s blood magic goes a bit further than making his fireball red and upsetting the Chantry"
vs. Bryce Cousland
"only 50 people out of 1000 survived white river, and bryce was one of them"
"The Cousland children didn't acquire their combat training from nowhere! Fergus is trusted with command of Highever's army, the younger Cousland is impressive enough for Duncan to invoke the Right of Conscription, and Bryce is the rebellion veteran who raised both of them. He's been training warriors for longer than some people in this tournament have been alive. There's a reason Bryce commands one of only two teyrnirs in Ferelden and can bring enough soldiers south to meaningfully reinforce the king’s army. Highever is a military power, and Bryce fought to liberate Ferelden, inherited command after the rebellion, and remained capable enough that Cailan expected him at Ostagar decades later."
"The opponent expects a harmless musician, which is fair because she is a harmless musician. Unfortunately, they are now close enough to be hit in the face with a lute. Those things are mostly solid wood and Maryden has been carrying one around for years. I’m counting the arm strength."
"imagine trying to concentrate while maryden narrates the fight in real time. "ser robert advanced with his sword held up high then tripped on a bucket and started to cry-" he hasn’t even tripped yet. the pressure is enormous"
vs. Bryce Cousland
"only 50 people out of 1000 survived white river, and bryce was one of them"
"The Cousland children didn't acquire their combat training from nowhere! Fergus is trusted with command of Highever's army, the younger Cousland is impressive enough for Duncan to invoke the Right of Conscription, and Bryce is the rebellion veteran who raised both of them. He's been training warriors for longer than some people in this tournament have been alive. There's a reason Bryce commands one of only two teyrnirs in Ferelden and can bring enough soldiers south to meaningfully reinforce the king’s army. Highever is a military power, and Bryce fought to liberate Ferelden, inherited command after the rebellion, and remained capable enough that Cailan expected him at Ostagar decades later."
"He can conduct a blood ritual powerful enough to put another mage directly into Connor’s dream in the Fade. Obviously this is not his opening move in a fistfight, but it does establish that Jowan’s blood magic goes a bit further than making his fireball red and upsetting the Chantry"
vs. Xenon the Antiquarian
"you know that between the Golem and whatever he has hidden below the floor boards that anyone who seriously tried to attack him would get wrecked. Never mind whatever hidden magic he himself has"
"Branka has been living in the Deep Roads for two years by the time the Warden finds her. Not travelling with regular supply runs or holding a fortified Legion outpost - living past the Dead Trenches, surrounded by darkspawn, while working out how to breach a defence system built by another Paragon. The fact that she’s still alive and immediately ready to fight is already ridiculous."
"branka gets to half health and starts making copies of herself out of lyrium. you have finally worn down the heavily resistant dwarf with the shield, and now there are several heavily resistant dwarves with shields"
vs. Feynriel
"Three separate demons are fighting over who gets to possess him in Night Terrors. Not because he’s an easy target, but because putting a demon behind the wheel of a Dreamer would be catastrophic. Marethari asks Hawke to kill him rather than allow that to happen and describes the potential destruction as unimaginable. That is a LOTTA concern over one frightened teenager who hasn’t even been properly trained yet."
"he's the first dreamer known in two ages. tevinter used to treat somniari as exceptionally powerful and valuable mages, and then the talent became so rare that it was thought extinct. feynriel develops it naturally while hiding in kirkwall with no formal training and survives demons specifically attempting to claim it."
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"Branka has been living in the Deep Roads for two years by the time the Warden finds her. Not travelling with regular supply runs or holding a fortified Legion outpost - living past the Dead Trenches, surrounded by darkspawn, while working out how to breach a defence system built by another Paragon. The fact that she’s still alive and immediately ready to fight is already ridiculous."
"branka gets to half health and starts making copies of herself out of lyrium. you have finally worn down the heavily resistant dwarf with the shield, and now there are several heavily resistant dwarves with shields"
"Three separate demons are fighting over who gets to possess him in Night Terrors. Not because he’s an easy target, but because putting a demon behind the wheel of a Dreamer would be catastrophic. Marethari asks Hawke to kill him rather than allow that to happen and describes the potential destruction as unimaginable. That is a LOTTA concern over one frightened teenager who hasn’t even been properly trained yet."
"he's the first dreamer known in two ages. tevinter used to treat somniari as exceptionally powerful and valuable mages, and then the talent became so rare that it was thought extinct. feynriel develops it naturally while hiding in kirkwall with no formal training and survives demons specifically attempting to claim it."
"Three separate demons are fighting over who gets to possess him in Night Terrors. Not because he’s an easy target, but because putting a demon behind the wheel of a Dreamer would be catastrophic. Marethari asks Hawke to kill him rather than allow that to happen and describes the potential destruction as unimaginable. That is a LOTTA concern over one frightened teenager who hasn’t even been properly trained yet."
"he's the first dreamer known in two ages. tevinter used to treat somniari as exceptionally powerful and valuable mages, and then the talent became so rare that it was thought extinct. feynriel develops it naturally while hiding in kirkwall with no formal training and survives demons specifically attempting to claim it."
"Branka has been living in the Deep Roads for two years by the time the Warden finds her. Not travelling with regular supply runs or holding a fortified Legion outpost - living past the Dead Trenches, surrounded by darkspawn, while working out how to breach a defence system built by another Paragon. The fact that she’s still alive and immediately ready to fight is already ridiculous."
"branka gets to half health and starts making copies of herself out of lyrium. you have finally worn down the heavily resistant dwarf with the shield, and now there are several heavily resistant dwarves with shields"
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"Josephine's one confirmed fight is against a professional spy who pulls a knife on her. She's frightened, unarmed as far as we know, and still manages to send him down an entire flight of stairs. It wasn't elegant, but the assassin died and Josephine's patron didn’t."
"josephine once defeated a murder contract more than a century old by finding the dead family's surviving descendants, having them elevated back into the nobility, and giving them the legal authority to cancel it. this isn't especially useful in an empty arena, admittedly, but give her 20mins and she might discover that her opponent's sword has been repossessed over an inheritance dispute"
vs. Allure
"A swordfighter can train against swords. A mage can prepare wards against spells. How exactly do you prepare for the opponent making you see the person you most want to see, hear the offer you most want to accept, or mistake the basement full of demons for the life you think you deserve?"
"You don’t get one health bar. You get Imshael, then a fear demon, then a rage demon, then a pride demon. Most people specialise in one type of horrible."
"michel freed imshael by mistake and then dedicated himself to hunting it down. when he finally finds it, he still asks the inquisitor to do the actual killing. he's already seen what imshael can do up close and has very sensibly decided this should be four people's problem"
"The early Tevinter magisters went deep into the Fade looking for power and found four particular beings important enough to become known as the Forbidden Ones. Imshael is one of those four, has survived into the modern age, understands ancient elven magic, can possess people, and can switch between three major demon forms in combat."
vs. Bhelen Aeducan
"you have defeated him in honourable single combat. congratulations! unfortunately the body was vartag wearing a wig and bhelen has just had you declared casteless"
