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Behold... the ultimate contest, to determine the one true monologue to rule them all!

Over the next few weeks, I will be running 8 tournaments to determine the best/most popular monologue in the whole show.

There will be 8 bracket tournaments.

TOURNAMENT 1: MINOR CHARACTERS' MONOLOGUES

berringer, dufresne, blackbeard, featherstone, garrett, idelle, mr.mccoy, mrs. guthrie, muldoon, ned lowe, oglethorpe, thomas hamilton, morley

TOURNAMENT 2: SECONDARY CHARACTERS' MONOLOGUES

billy, gates, israel hands, julius, maroon queen, miranda, mr.scott, woodes rogers

TOURNAMENT 3: SECONDARY MAIN CHARACTERS' MONOLOGUES (2 WINNERS)

anne, vane, eleanor, jack

TOURNAMENT 4: SILVER'S MONOLOGUES

TOURNAMENT 5: MADI'S MONOLOGUES

TOURNAMENT 6 : MAX'S MONOLOGUES

TOURNAMENT 7: FLINT'S MONOLOGUES

TOURNAMENT 8:

winner of tournament 1, winner of tournament 2, 2 winners of tournament 3, silver's winning monologue, madi's winning monologue, max's winning monologue, flint's winning monologue

Attached below is the bracket setup for Tournament One, which will go live Friday, February 17th, at 5 PM EST. Each poll will contain the full text of both monologue options. Every successive poll will go live at approximately 5 PM EST.

LINK TO POLLS FOR MONOLOGUOLYMPICS 1.1

LINK TO ALL POLLS FOR MONOLOGUOLYMPICS

(All posts related to the monologuolympics will be tagged #bsm. Posts will also be tagged in accordance to their situation within the tournament: for example, bracket one round one posts will be tagged #bsm11, bracket five round two posts will be tagged #bsm52, etc.)

Monologuolympics Bracket One Round One Matches:

Idelle: "You killed my friend" (408) vs Morley: "The Barlow woman's agenda" (104)

Featherstone: "And with the stroke of a pen, it's all gone as if it never existed." (305) VS Blackbeard: "A man puts a dead thing in the ground, he expects it to stay there." (302)

Berringer: "The time calls for dark men to do dark things." (403) VS Ned Lowe: "I make the men feel better about themselves." (201)

Oglethorpe: "What's to be done with the unwanted ones?" (410) VS Mr.McCoy: "Hold onto this for as long as you can."  (409)

Garrett: "Part of what you built, it worked too well." (405) VS Dufresne: "Is it possible a man could do such a thing?" (203)

Mrs.Guthrie: "It's the wrong river and the wrong woman, but perhaps to get even this close to a fantasy is something." (408) VS Abigail: "It would seem these monsters are men." (208)

Blackbeard: "There is no forever." (301) VS Featherstone: "I remember what you did for me." (406)

1/2: Idelle vs. Oglethorpe

ldelle, to Anne, 408: "You killed a friend of mine. Her name was Charlotte... and you did it for reasons that had nothing to do with her. There were men knew that would've killed you for me. I wanted to ask them. Had the money. But Max refused. I couldn't tell then if it was... because she was afraid of you. Wouldn't have blamed her. I was. Or if it was something else. But I respected her wishes. Obeyed when she said we'd protect you despite what you'd done. Do you know why? Because despite the world reminding her every day of her life that she's undeserving of being given anything by it, that she was unworthy of what little she'd managed to take from it... despite all of that, she never believeda word of it. That woman has been fighting the whole goddamn world since the day she was born. She's a breath away from winning that fight. For whatever reason, she wants to share the spoils with you. And you'd walk away. You killed my friend. I wanted you to know that."

VS

Oglethorpe, in 410: "What's to be done with the unwanted ones? The men who do not fit, whom civilization must prune from the vine to protect its sense of itself. Every culture since earliest antiquity has survived this way, defining itself by the things it excludes. So long as there is progress, there will always be human debris in its wake, on the outside looking in. And sooner or later, one must answer the question... what becomes of them? In London, the solution is to call them criminals. To throw them in a deep, dark hole and hope it never runs over. I would argue that justice demands we do better than that. That a civilization is judged not by who it excludes, but by how it treats the excluded."

2/2: Abigail vs. Muldoon

Abigail, in 208: "From across an ocean, it is hard to know what the New World is. knew were the stories was told of monsters and valiant men sworn to slay them. But now that I've nearly traversed the ocean that separates New World from old, fear that the stories I've heard may have clouded the truth more than clarified it. It would seem these monsters are men-- Sons, brothers, fathers. And it would seem these men fear their own monsters-- An empire... a navy.. a king. My father. So much l've left behind me-- London, my youth, and comfortable stories. So much lies ahead in Charles Town-- A future and harder truths. I feel must face it honestly, bravely. I must face it as my father's daughter, and believe that in order to do that, have to tell these people that which I've kept from them. I have to tell them what I know."

VS

Muldoon, to Silver, in 303: "They say the worst of it don't last long. What the water does to you once it's got you. It makes you cold, makes you scared. It shows you things. Bad things. But then it warms you. It settles you. It shows you the places you've been. Like the people you've loved. They're all there waiting for you. It doesn't sound so bad."

idelle, abigail

ldelle, to Anne, 408: "You killed a friend of mine. Her name was Charlotte... and you did it for reasons that had nothing to do with her. There were men knew that would've killed you for me. I wanted to ask them. Had the money. But Max refused. I couldn't tell then if it was... because she was afraid of you. Wouldn't have blamed her. I was. Or if it was something else. But I respected her wishes. Obeyed when she said we'd protect you despite what you'd done. Do you know why? Because despite the world reminding her every day of her life that she's undeserving of being given anything by it, that she was unworthy of what little she'd managed to take from it... despite all of that, she never believeda word of it. That woman has been fighting the whole goddamn world since the day she was born. She's a breath away from winning that fight. For whatever reason, she wants to share the spoils with you. And you'd walk away. You killed my friend. I wanted you to know that."

VS

Abigail, in 208: "From across an ocean, it is hard to know what the New World is. knew were the stories was told of monsters and valiant men sworn to slay them. But now that I've nearly traversed the ocean that separates New World from old, fear that the stories I've heard may have clouded the truth more than clarified it. It would seem these monsters are men-- Sons, brothers, fathers. And it would seem these men fear their own monsters-- An empire... a navy.. a king. My father. So much l've left behind me-- London, my youth, and comfortable stories. So much lies ahead in Charles Town-- A future and harder truths. I feel must face it honestly, bravely. I must face it as my father's daughter, and believe that in order to do that, have to tell these people that which I've kept from them. I have to tell them what I know."

8/8: Thomas Hamilton vs. Muldoon

Thomas Hamilton, to the Lords, in 204: "Absolution. A clean slate for all those willing to accept it. A few hours ago, I informed my father that this was my intended solution for the pirate issue on New Providence Island. We've talked in this room, you and I, about reason. We've talked about justice. We've talked about virtue and the right. We've talked and talked. And now, perhaps, it is time to do that which we've only spoken about behind closed doors. I am committed to this end. But it is a long road and I will need your help to see it through."

Muldoon, to Silver, in 303: "They say the worst of it don't last long. What the water does to you once it's got you. It makes you cold, makes you scared. It shows you things. Bad things. But then it warms you. It settles you. It shows you the places you've been. Like the people you've loved. They're all there waiting for you. It doesn't sound so bad.”

1/8: Idelle vs Morley

Idelle, to Anne, 408: “You killed a friend of mine. Her name was Charlotte… and you did it for reasons that had nothing to do with her. There were men I knew that would've killed you for me. I wanted to ask them. Had the money. But Max refused. I couldn't tell then if it was… because she was afraid of you. Wouldn't have blamed her. I was. Or if it was something else. But I respected her wishes. Obeyed when she said we'd protect you despite what you'd done. Do you know why? Because despite the world reminding her every day of her life that she's undeserving of being given anything by it, that she was unworthy of what little she'd managed to take from it… despite all of that, she never believed a word of it. That woman has been fighting the whole goddamn world since the day she was born. She's a breath away from winning that fight. For whatever reason, she wants to share the spoils with you. And you'd walk away. You killed my friend. I wanted you to know that.”

VS

Morley, to Billy, 104: "Number of years back, before you crewed up with us, Flint had us hunting a merchant ship, the Maria Aleyne. Sephardic trade... gold, pearls, jewels. "More than we'd ever know what to do with," he said. But that's Flint's gift, isn't it? Always knows just what to say to push us harder, further, make us all pull together for the cause. We tracked that bitch for months without refitting or careening, till finally we spotted her. We lost good men taking her for a haul nowhere near what Flint had promised. While I was exploring the hold, I chanced upon a cabin and that's when I heard it. 'Twas a man and a woman begging for their lives. "Spare us, and our fortune's yours." For a moment, I thought all our shares were gonna be worth a whole lot more. But that's when the screams began. And when I watched the murderer leave, I saw him plain. Gates was unmoved, to say the least. "Just one rich bastard less in the world," he said. At the time, I'll admit, I took his point. But days later we come ashore. I see a lady waiting for Flint. The rest of the crew thought she's just some fancy bit of Puritan tail. But when Flint reaches her, two words escape his lips. "They're dead." Hunting the Maria Aleyne was never about money. It was an execution. All those men we lost taking her, they died so Flint could settle some personal vendetta for her. You watch. Good men will die for some hidden agenda. The Barlow woman's agenda. Mark my words, Billy. It's all happening again."

4/8: Oglethorpe vs. Mr. McCoy

Oglethorpe, in 410: “What's to be done with the unwanted ones? The men who do not fit, whom civilization must prune from the vine to protect its sense of itself. Every culture since earliest antiquity has survived this way, defining itself by the things it excludes. So long as there is progress, there will always be human debris in its wake, on the outside looking in. And sooner or later, one must answer the question… what becomes of them? In London, the solution is to call them criminals. To throw them in a deep, dark hole and hope it never runs over. I would argue that justice demands we do better than that. That a civilization is judged not by who it excludes, but by how it treats the excluded.”

Mr.McCoy, to Jack, in 409: “One day, you'll leave the account. Take a wife, father children. See less and less of the sea until she becomes like a painting hanging on the wall, static and irrelevant... to your daily existence. But she'll keep on calling you. And when she does, you'll step into that painting and feel the swell beneath your feet. It'll all come back as if it were like yesterday. […] I've watched you and yours handle the account since I and mine left it. Accomplish things that no one I ever sailed with could dream of. From what I've overheard, if you reach Skeleton Island, might mean the end of the governor. Maybe keep the account alive a little while longer. Is that so? […] Then I'll take you to it. Hold on to this for as long as you can, for all of us who once had it... and walked away.”

CONGRATULATIONS TO IDELLE FOR WINNING THE MONOLOGUOLYMPICS: BRACKET ONE: MINOR CHARACTERS, WITH HER MONOLOGUE "YOU KILLED MY FRIEND!"

idelle will return in tournament 8 to battle against one secondary character monologue, two secondary main character monologues, one max monologue, one flint monolouge, one silver monologue and one madi monologue.