#discworld bracket

Which is the best Discworld novel?

We all have our opinions. We all know in our hearts which one is REALLY the best. Well now it's time to find out who among us is right, and who among us is right but with the numbers to back us up.

But! Since this is a poll with a very limited number of possible entrants, we're going to get a little bit creative with how we pare down the list from 41 to 32:

Tell me which Discworld you DON'T want to make it into the bracket.

Submission form is below. Please use it to tell me which Discworld is your LEAST favorite. The nine books with the most submissions will be removed from the bracket, and the remaining 32 will be used for the actual tournament.

Submissions will close Thursday, May 25, and the bracket will be announced some time following.

Rules:

You can submit your pick for ANY REASON. Do you think it should be Color of Magic because it doesn't fit into the spirit of Discworld as it became? Do you think it should be one (or even all) of the Tiffany Aching books because you just can't stand that kid? Do you think it should be Soul Music because you never really cared for it much and don't really like Susan, but everyone likes it and her and that kind of annoys you? Are you making your pick based on problematic elements, like a white savior or And Then The Racism Was Solved And Everyone Clapped (Interesting Times, Snuff)? Are you submitting one of the later books because you feel like the quality dropped? Are you submitting your choice because you just didn't enjoy that one that much? Are you making your choice based on what you think everyone else likes, in the hopes to potentially get it disqualified so your fave doesn't have to compete against it? Whatever your reasons, though at least try to lie convincingly about the last one, too many open sabotage submissions and I may start throwing them out.

The submissions are limited to the 41 books in the main Discworld series. Any submission for a book outside of that list will be automatically thrown out.

You can submit as many times as you like, but only submit one book per submission and one submission per book.

For the love of any god you choose, when you submit submit in PROPER TITLE FORMAT. Spell everything the way it's spelled on the cover and put the capital letters in. This will help the form keep things consistent enough to organize them for me later, which will make it a lot easier on me in counting.

Submission form:

Obligatory tagging a bunch of other polls below the cut:

(minus the Big Wukwuk His Grace Sir Samuel Vimes The Duke of Ankh, Commander)

Round 2 brackets:

Carrot Ironfoundersson vs. Detritus

Dorfl vs. Angua von Überwald

Cheery Littlebottom vs. Nobby Nobbs

(minus the Big Wukwuk His Grace Sir Samuel Vimes The Duke of Ankh, Commander)

(I know I said Lancre next, but this one is a bit easier to set up; Lancre will be next after this!)

Round 1 brackets:

Carrot Ironfoundersson vs. André, Cable Street Particulars

Detritus vs. Buggy Swires

Dorfl vs. Visit-The-Infidel-With-Explanatory-Pamphlets

Angua von Überwald vs. Wee Mad Arthur

Cheery Littlebottom vs. Sally von Humpeding

Nobby Nobbs vs. Cuddy

Reg Shoe vs. A.E. Pessimal

Hear ye, hear ye!

The next tournament will be the

Lancre and the Chalk Characters Tournament!!

This tournament will feature side characters from all Witches and Tiffany Aching books EXCEPT any witches (because we already had that tournament!)

We're going to add a few characters that aren't from Lancre or the Chalk but do feature as side characters in Witches books, such as Ella Saturday and Walter Plinge, as "honorary Lancrastrians/Chalk inhabitants".

I'll post the current list under the readmore; please let me know who else to put in there - we have too many for a 16 character bracket, but not enough yet for a 32 character one. It's in alphabetical order, not any kind of seed order. Put the characters that you think should be in here too in the replies, send me an ask, whatever works for you!

I've seen my fair share of Discworld polls by now, and every character bracket that contains the Big Wukwuks like Sam Vimes, Death, Granny Weatherwax etc., always sees them win - so I'm proposing a different approach.

I'm going to offer, over the next months, brackets that will include a set of characters MINUS the Big Wukwuk you'd expect in that set of characters. Say, "Favorite Watch Character (minus Sam Vimes)" and so on. I'm going to roughly follow the character groupings that the L-Space wiki uses, but I'm also thinking of other groupings - feel free to suggest some!

Basically, if a character is the main protagonist of a series of stories, they count as a Big Wukwuk and will be banned from participating in a bracket. For main protagonists of just one story (such as Victor Tugelbend and Polly Perks), I'm going to use my own discretion as pertains to the bracket they're in. Basically, I want brackets in which the smaller wuks have a chance to win!

As of now, I'm thinking of the following brackets:

Favorite Watch Character (minus Sam Vimes and Captain Carrot)

Favorite Ankh-Morpork Character (minus Vetinari and Moist von Lipwig)

Favorite Unseen University Character (minus Mustrum Ridcully and Rincewind)

Favorite Witches Character (minus Esmeralda Weatherwax and Tiffany Aching)

Favorite Death's Domain and Other Supernatural Entities Character (minus Death and Susan Sto Helit)

Favorite Miscellaneous Character

Favorite Dwarf (minus Cheery Littlebottom)

Favorite Troll (minus Detritus)

Favorite Igor (minus Igor)

Favorite Non-Humanoid Character (minus the Librarian)

and perhaps even a bracket of bracket-winners!