GUTS ‘N GRIT

Hello, slayers and savers, our beloved audience! As the competitors from our most recent competition know, we have been using a Smaller Artist Bracket in our organization, to follow the lead of our dear sister competition Slay the Tourney, in the hopes of making a more enjoyable and fair competition.

Joining this bracket allowed artists who didn't feel comfortable going up against whom they consider "popular" in the community to first be put against fellow "smaller" artists who agreed to be part of the same bracket. It should, in theory, allow fresher or lesser-known competitors to not be hindered from their chance at victory by mutual or follower bias

But we haven't exactly heard enough significant satisfaction or complaint with this new system, so we're not exactly sure if you all would want us to move forward with this organization style for future competitions.

Is it really fair? Is it really more enjoyable like this? Has this been a great decision or only given more grievances? We would like to know if we want this competition to stay fun!

Plus, for the Voice of the Sexy Hunted competition, we want to do a tag team system, but the Smaller Artist Bracket could face significant technical difficulty in this particular kind of race, making it practically useless.

So that's where you come in! Would you want us to:

1. Keep the Smaller Artist Bracket

The popularity system will remain even after the Hunted Tournament concludes. Changes to the system may be made based off of feedback.

Should the popularity system be used for the Hunted Tournament, the current plan would be to pair one big artist with one smaller artists.

However, there is the chance for a domineering majority of "popular" teams. Our options for fixing the issue would be reaching out to individuals asking them to swap groups or making a judgement call among staff. The latter we would wish to avoid imposing our ideas of what makes an artist big/small.

2. Drop the Smaller Artist Bracket for the Hunted Competition ONLY

This would mean anyone could be matched with anyone regardless of artist size/popularity for the Hunted tournament, but the popularity system remains in future tournaments, taking into account any feedback given.

For the Hunted Tournament, the staff only has to worry about an even number of participants instead of the two groups being even, while accepting the possibility of two big and/or two small artists being paired up.

3. Drop the Smaller Artist Bracket

The Smaller Artist Bracket is replaced with the Wheel for both the Hunted Tournament and future tournaments.

The wheel is entirely random and anyone can be matched with anyone regardless of artist size/popularity.

And feel free to elaborate on your thoughts in the comments of this post! It would help a lot to hear your reasonings!

Thank you in advance and please share this post around for our full audience to be able to let themselves be heard! ^^

Note: Whichever system is used beyond the Hunted Tournament is NOT PERMANENT, as we will gauge community response and feedback should we need to reconsider the system in use.

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