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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"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"
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. Josephine Montilyet
"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"
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"fenris has spent years preparing to kill danarius and still brings hawke and three other people when the opportunity finally comes. he knows exactly what his former master can do and apparently “I’ll handle it myself” never enters the conversation"
"Creating Fenris required more than throwing lyrium into a spell and hoping. The markings cover nearly his entire body, remain functional for years, and give him abilities that even Fenris doesn’t fully understand. Danarius successfully combined lyrium, flesh, and magic without killing the subject or turning him into an immobile lump of crystal. Horrific achievement, but absolutely an achievement."
"people are going to vote against him because fenris kills him, which is fair emotionally but not a great measure of the fight. danarius has already been beaten by the whole party when fenris grabs him. the famous heart-rip is the execution, not fenris casually winning a clean one-on-one"
vs. The Grand Oak
"GRAND OAK COMEBACKKKKK his acorn is the size of a human skull. i don’t know the exact mathematical implications of that but i do know i would not wanna be smacked by the branch it falls from"
"a warrior approached with his sword in the air
and cried “i shall chop you!” with confidence rare
i started a rhyme about courage and - sorry
no. roots. you’re being strangled. don’t worry.
he shouted “that’s cheating!”, i said “is it so?”
then pulled him face-first through a shrubbery row
so vote for the oak, who is mighty and grand
oh, those are your ankles. i thought they were land."
"briala killed lady mantillon when she was 20. mantillon was the woman who taught celene the game, trained assassins and had already arranged the deaths of briala’s parents. she managed to cut briala with a poisoned knife during the attack and briala STILL finished the job. people treating her as if she’s purely a political character are forgetting that her political career began with successfully assassinating one of the most dangerous bards in orlais."
"Her ability to notice tiny details is repeatedly described as better than Celene’s, and Celene was trained from childhood to survive the Grand Game."
"briala killed lady mantillon when she was 20. mantillon was the woman who taught celene the game, trained assassins and had already arranged the deaths of briala’s parents. she managed to cut briala with a poisoned knife during the attack and briala STILL finished the job. people treating her as if she’s purely a political character are forgetting that her political career began with successfully assassinating one of the most dangerous bards in orlais."
"Her ability to notice tiny details is repeatedly described as better than Celene’s, and Celene was trained from childhood to survive the Grand Game."
vs. Danarius
"fenris has spent years preparing to kill danarius and still brings hawke and three other people when the opportunity finally comes. he knows exactly what his former master can do and apparently “I’ll handle it myself” never enters the conversation"
"Creating Fenris required more than throwing lyrium into a spell and hoping. The markings cover nearly his entire body, remain functional for years, and give him abilities that even Fenris doesn’t fully understand. Danarius successfully combined lyrium, flesh, and magic without killing the subject or turning him into an immobile lump of crystal. Horrific achievement, but absolutely an achievement."
"people are going to vote against him because fenris kills him, which is fair emotionally but not a great measure of the fight. danarius has already been beaten by the whole party when fenris grabs him. the famous heart-rip is the execution, not fenris casually winning a clean one-on-one"
"GRAND OAK COMEBACKKKKK his acorn is the size of a human skull. i don’t know the exact mathematical implications of that but i do know i would not wanna be smacked by the branch it falls from"
"a warrior approached with his sword in the air
and cried “i shall chop you!” with confidence rare
i started a rhyme about courage and - sorry
no. roots. you’re being strangled. don’t worry.
he shouted “that’s cheating!”, i said “is it so?”
then pulled him face-first through a shrubbery row
so vote for the oak, who is mighty and grand
oh, those are your ankles. i thought they were land."
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"briala killed lady mantillon when she was 20. mantillon was the woman who taught celene the game, trained assassins and had already arranged the deaths of briala’s parents. she managed to cut briala with a poisoned knife during the attack and briala STILL finished the job. people treating her as if she’s purely a political character are forgetting that her political career began with successfully assassinating one of the most dangerous bards in orlais."
"Her ability to notice tiny details is repeatedly described as better than Celene’s, and Celene was trained from childhood to survive the Grand Game."
vs. The Grand Oak
"GRAND OAK COMEBACKKKKK his acorn is the size of a human skull. i don’t know the exact mathematical implications of that but i do know i would not wanna be smacked by the branch it falls from"
"a warrior approached with his sword in the air
and cried “i shall chop you!” with confidence rare
i started a rhyme about courage and - sorry
no. roots. you’re being strangled. don’t worry.
he shouted “that’s cheating!”, i said “is it so?”
then pulled him face-first through a shrubbery row
so vote for the oak, who is mighty and grand
oh, those are your ankles. i thought they were land."
"fenris has spent years preparing to kill danarius and still brings hawke and three other people when the opportunity finally comes. he knows exactly what his former master can do and apparently “I’ll handle it myself” never enters the conversation"
"Creating Fenris required more than throwing lyrium into a spell and hoping. The markings cover nearly his entire body, remain functional for years, and give him abilities that even Fenris doesn’t fully understand. Danarius successfully combined lyrium, flesh, and magic without killing the subject or turning him into an immobile lump of crystal. Horrific achievement, but absolutely an achievement."
"people are going to vote against him because fenris kills him, which is fair emotionally but not a great measure of the fight. danarius has already been beaten by the whole party when fenris grabs him. the famous heart-rip is the execution, not fenris casually winning a clean one-on-one"
"Quentin managed to reanimate a body assembled from several different corpses and preserve enough of Leandra’s consciousness for her to recognise Hawke and speak to them. It’s absolutely horrific, but magically speaking, that’s far beyond raising a skeleton and pointing it at somebody. Also, Orsino was apparently interested enough in Quentin’s research to send him prohibited books in secret. Whatever techniques Quentin developed were new enough to attract the attention of one of the city’s most educated mages."
"Bartrand has absolutely no business hitting as hard as he does. This is a middle-aged merchant prince who spends most of Act 1 complaining about costs, and then his boss fight starts and he can come out of stealth and delete Aveline with one backstab."
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"Bartrand has absolutely no business hitting as hard as he does. This is a middle-aged merchant prince who spends most of Act 1 complaining about costs, and then his boss fight starts and he can come out of stealth and delete Aveline with one backstab."
vs. Quentin
"Quentin managed to reanimate a body assembled from several different corpses and preserve enough of Leandra’s consciousness for her to recognise Hawke and speak to them. It’s absolutely horrific, but magically speaking, that’s far beyond raising a skeleton and pointing it at somebody. Also, Orsino was apparently interested enough in Quentin’s research to send him prohibited books in secret. Whatever techniques Quentin developed were new enough to attract the attention of one of the city’s most educated mages."
"Quentin managed to reanimate a body assembled from several different corpses and preserve enough of Leandra’s consciousness for her to recognise Hawke and speak to them. It’s absolutely horrific, but magically speaking, that’s far beyond raising a skeleton and pointing it at somebody. Also, Orsino was apparently interested enough in Quentin’s research to send him prohibited books in secret. Whatever techniques Quentin developed were new enough to attract the attention of one of the city’s most educated mages."
