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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"what are you going to do, kill kristoff again? embarrassing."
"I think Justice is dangerous because you can’t really approach him like a normal opponent. He’s new to the physical world, which makes him awkward socially, but in combat it also means he isn’t carrying the same assumptions a person would. Pain, fear, self-preservation, shame, hesitation - he has to learn half of that by being around mortals. Until then, good luck intimidating the spirit currently borrowing a dead Warden."
vs. Swiftrunner
"fast, strong, claws, teeth, and no need to worry about weapons being disarmed"
"She’s an archer and rogue, so she already has stealth, traps, poisons, and range. Then you add Orlesian bard training, where performance and charm are part of espionage, plus years of running intelligence for the Divine and the Inquisition. If she knows the fight is coming, the opponent is probably compromised before they even see her."
"She’s one of the few characters who can credibly beat people stronger than her without it feeling like a stretch. Raw power is not her lane. Setup, distance, pressure, secrets, and timing are."
"Orlesian bards are trained to perform, seduce, spy, steal, and kill, and Leliana was good enough at that world to survive Marjolaine before she ever met the Warden. Then she spends the next decade becoming even better at secrets."
vs. The Formless One
"Come on! He's the Formless One, he's a Forgotten One, he's even a Forbidden One. He has three titles and no body. He's one of the most powerful entities in Thedas and older than most countries. He's feared by the Evanuris and almost definitely helped create blood magic. He's picky about his form so he has high standards, and even the best Rook can do is just send him back to the Void for one thousand years. Plus he canonically sends you capslock hate mail, so he'll beat his opponents physically in the arena and mentally with his mind games. Formless One all the way!"
"what are you going to do, kill kristoff again? embarrassing."
"I think Justice is dangerous because you can’t really approach him like a normal opponent. He’s new to the physical world, which makes him awkward socially, but in combat it also means he isn’t carrying the same assumptions a person would. Pain, fear, self-preservation, shame, hesitation - he has to learn half of that by being around mortals. Until then, good luck intimidating the spirit currently borrowing a dead Warden."
vs. The Formless One
"Come on! He's the Formless One, he's a Forgotten One, he's even a Forbidden One. He has three titles and no body. He's one of the most powerful entities in Thedas and older than most countries. He's feared by the Evanuris and almost definitely helped create blood magic. He's picky about his form so he has high standards, and even the best Rook can do is just send him back to the Void for one thousand years. Plus he canonically sends you capslock hate mail, so he'll beat his opponents physically in the arena and mentally with his mind games. Formless One all the way!"
"She’s an archer and rogue, so she already has stealth, traps, poisons, and range. Then you add Orlesian bard training, where performance and charm are part of espionage, plus years of running intelligence for the Divine and the Inquisition. If she knows the fight is coming, the opponent is probably compromised before they even see her."
"She’s one of the few characters who can credibly beat people stronger than her without it feeling like a stretch. Raw power is not her lane. Setup, distance, pressure, secrets, and timing are."
"Orlesian bards are trained to perform, seduce, spy, steal, and kill, and Leliana was good enough at that world to survive Marjolaine before she ever met the Warden. Then she spends the next decade becoming even better at secrets."
vs. Swiftrunner
"fast, strong, claws, teeth, and no need to worry about weapons being disarmed"
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"She actually uses blood sacrifice to make herself stronger right before the confrontation. So if the question is “what would she do in a fight,” the answer is apparently “use the nearest helpless person as a battery.”"
"i do think people undersell how scary post-origins zevran is. because sure, in origins he gets beaten and recruited, but if he survives? he starts hunting crows. not random bandits. crows. the people who trained him. the people who know his methods. the people who should be hardest for him to catch off guard. and he is still enough of a problem that they’re whispering about the black shadow years later. that is extremely funny and also kind of insane."
"i do think people undersell how scary post-origins zevran is. because sure, in origins he gets beaten and recruited, but if he survives? he starts hunting crows. not random bandits. crows. the people who trained him. the people who know his methods. the people who should be hardest for him to catch off guard. and he is still enough of a problem that they’re whispering about the black shadow years later. that is extremely funny and also kind of insane."
"He would cheat."
vs. Hadriana
"She actually uses blood sacrifice to make herself stronger right before the confrontation. So if the question is “what would she do in a fight,” the answer is apparently “use the nearest helpless person as a battery.”"
"i do think people undersell how scary post-origins zevran is. because sure, in origins he gets beaten and recruited, but if he survives? he starts hunting crows. not random bandits. crows. the people who trained him. the people who know his methods. the people who should be hardest for him to catch off guard. and he is still enough of a problem that they’re whispering about the black shadow years later. that is extremely funny and also kind of insane."
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"She actually uses blood sacrifice to make herself stronger right before the confrontation. So if the question is “what would she do in a fight,” the answer is apparently “use the nearest helpless person as a battery.”"
"half the problem is noticing there’s a fight. people forget him while he’s standing there. he can slip into places he shouldn’t be, read what hurts, know exactly where someone is vulnerable, and then suddenly there’s a knife involved. you can’t block an attack you didn’t realise was coming from a person your brain keeps editing out."
"I feel like people underrate how terrifying it is that Cole can make himself forgettable. Not invisible exactly, which might almost be easier to plan around, but forgettable. You see him and then he slips out of your mind."
"Before you consider not voting for Cole, please remember the scene in Asunder where he uses his power to kill three Templars singlehandedly without them even noticing until the moment they were bleeding out. Leliana was there and she was terrified of him. And this is BEFORE he learned how to better be a spirit."
"half the problem is noticing there’s a fight. people forget him while he’s standing there. he can slip into places he shouldn’t be, read what hurts, know exactly where someone is vulnerable, and then suddenly there’s a knife involved. you can’t block an attack you didn’t realise was coming from a person your brain keeps editing out."
"I feel like people underrate how terrifying it is that Cole can make himself forgettable. Not invisible exactly, which might almost be easier to plan around, but forgettable. You see him and then he slips out of your mind."
"Before you consider not voting for Cole, please remember the scene in Asunder where he uses his power to kill three Templars singlehandedly without them even noticing until the moment they were bleeding out. Leliana was there and she was terrified of him. And this is BEFORE he learned how to better be a spirit."
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just wanna say i'm really enjoying this tournament, chaos and all!!!! thanks so much for putting it together!!!!
I'm so glad! I've been a little nervous about this one because it's so different and longer than the others, so I'm happy people seem to be having fun with it :')
