PC36: BLOG TAKE 3 | selcouth in demeanor and preference

if you've seen siivagunner's "king for a day" and "king for another day" tournaments, the tl;dr is that they're like that, but Different in some ways

mashup tournaments (or just tourneys for short if you're an active community member) are a media genre in which you create mashups for various characters and have them compete in a tournament

these characters are almost always from other pieces of media. or real people who are musicians or internet personalities or whatever. you'll occasionally get original characters made specifically for a tournament or self-inserts of community members but it's mostly the first two things

these characters will usually have a "sourcelist", which is a list of what music they can use (or will mostly be using) in their mashups. these sources are usually like "songs by this musician/band" "songs from this media" "songs from this music genre" "songs from this genre of games/tv/whatever" "songs about/related to this concept"

multiple characters can share a mashup (we call these "dual tracks"). this is the really fun part especially if you like crossover media

most mashup tournaments are, well, tournaments. they have the characters compete in matches (usually in a bracket format) with audience voting deciding the victor. these matches also involve mashups, with each character getting a solo track (their "hype track"), and then both characters getting one or more dual tracks together

there's also often original art made for tournaments, usually in the form of renders and "stocks". stocks are usually art of a character's face or similar and intended to be used as a small icon to represent them either as an emote or on a bracket image or whatever

some mashup tournaments also have writing. this is less common than art, especially for writing that's more than just like one quote per character for a match

basically all mashup tournaments are hosted on soundcloud, youtube, or both

some caveats to the above:

some projects don't have a competition/tournament aspect at all, and just make character-based mashups for fun. despite this, they are still often called "tourneys". lol

some projects have little to no art. we call them "pngtourneys" and there was a big wave of them last year that still hasn't fully stopped. they're like all on soundcloud

some projects don't have a sourcelist, and will pull whatever they want, perhaps without a listed reason. we call these "anarchy" projects

here's a list of tracks i recommend you listen to! let me convince you to get into Thing I Like

ttkt - 414901

ttkt - (Un)Ethical Theoretical Technological Scenario Yaouriposting Google Can U Turing Test My Pussy Google quesitons (Or: How i learned to stop worrying and write robotfucker fanfiction on ao3)

Light's Abyss - I think i'm gonna die in this...

Conceptsproject000 - outer.zone

my cool tournament - New Friends, Old Woes, and No Regrets!

all eyes on me. - Fire Code Violation

all eyes on me. - Welcome To Your Paranoia

Uncle Grandpa For A Day - This Part Of Me, Shattered And Whole Again

Uncle Grandpa For A Day - Missing Halloween

Mashup Week: Megamix - Glowsquid Galaxy

Mashup Week: Megamix - Mile High Club

there is no tournament name - where do you think you are.