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What They Could Have Been

What’s a prince without his manners? 

A little Kaudia as a late birthday gift for @annagriffinart <3 <3

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Welcome back to Rarepair Rumble! We are now in Round 4 and that means we are exactly halfway into the tournament. We have 16 ships left in the competition (or 8 competing pairs of ships).

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Announcements and participants under cut c:

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Welcome back to Rarepair Rumble! We have finally entered round 3 out of 7! We’re down to 32 ships (out of the original 128).

Here are some new things:

I made a smaller tournament table, which is way easier to follow. I will update it starting with round 3 and will include a link in every new post. I will continue to update the full table as well.

I also made a tournament table with ship pictures! It also starts from round 3. I made it, cos it looks fun c”:

(bigger version)

There’s also an extra question in the voting form - I’m curious to know which social media platforms people see the link to the form most often and least often. And how different platforms vote. The question is voluntary and I’m only asking it for more fandom statistics.

And finally - those of you who want to play around and make your own predictions for the tournament can download the google spreadsheet file from my google drive. It’s basically the same file as the new tournament table.

If you have any questions - don’t hesitate to contact me! ^u^

The voting will close on Monday, 13 July, 2020 at:

03:00 (3AM) PDT

06:00  (6AM) EDT

12:00 (12PM) CEST

17:00 (5PM) ICT

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As usual, the pictures of participating ships are under cut:

Results for Favorite Ships · Results for Total Ships · Discussion Part 1 · Discussion Part 3 · Ship list

CW: This discussion contains mentions of three ships which some people might not be comfortable with (sibling incest and adult/teen relationships). Only their shipnames are mentioned - the nature of these relationships is not discussed in any way. 

Some terminology:

I will refer to the Total Ships as TS and Favorite Ships as FS.

The method I decided to use

So here’s a method, which, albeit less intuitive, is still more accurate.

My boyfriend suggested normalizing the ranks, i.e. making the ranks of both lists proportionally equivalent.

This means that there is no need to manually group anything together and it doesn’t matter if we have two lists of 14 vs 40 ranks or 14 vs 40 000 ranks.

This method still has issues of its own:

not as straightforward to interpret;

ships appear to have fallen in rank even though they didn’t (esp. for Janaya and Ruthari).

This is the formula that we used:

where

r_n is normalized rank;

r is the current rank of a given ship;

R is the lowest possible rank of a list.

So, for example, if we normalize Gremaya’s rank in the FS list, it’ll be:

where

5 is Gremaya’s current rank in the FS table;

14 is the lowest possible rank for FS.

Just like with a regular rank, the normalized rank is highest when its numerical value is lowest.

This is what we got:

bigger table, comparing different stats

You can see that the very first place (Rayllum) remains the same for both lists, as well as the very last place (everything ranked 100). My boyfriend also suggested adding a color scale - the darker the color, the higher the ship’s rank.

I also colored some of the ships:

light blue means the relative rank of the ship has not changed;

green means the ship has risen in rank;

white means the ship has dropped in rank;

yellow means the ship has massively dropped in rank (by at least 40 points).

I felt that it was important to point out the very huge falls, because many of them nicely correspond with some of my conclusions from the TS results (I’ll get to that in a sec).

I wouldn’t be myself if I hadn’t made a graph :D

bigger version (interactive)

I think this is the most intuitive visual representation of how different ships changed in rank:

the red dots are the ranks the ships had on the TS list;

the blue dots are the ranks they have on the FS list.

So that means:

red done above blue? - The ship fell in rank;

red dot only - the rank hasn’t changed;

red dot below blue? - The ship climbed up in rank.

Interestingly enough, only two ships actually improved their position!

Ships that haven’t changed rank and those that went up in rank

It is no surprise that Rayllum remained at rank #1 considering how much this ship is loved by the fans. Janaya and Ruthari didn’t move their position either, but the "weight” of their ranks slightly reduced in a smaller list of options.

Virex, Aarathari and Aaravum are the other ships that retained their position, but I think it’s more of a coincidence than something systematic.

Because the FS list is so much shorter than the TS list, most ships appear to have dropped in position, even if they didn’t (such as Janaya and Ruthari). And that makes the two ships that went up even more interesting!

Sordia went up by 17.8 points and Raydium - by 2.5. Both are small ships with not many voters:

Sordia - 10 TS votes, 6 FS votes;

Raydium - 3 TS votes, 2 FS votes,

yet the voters are pretty consistent - the majority of people who voted for these ships in TS chose them as their favorite ships. Sordia is particularly impressive in this regard, seeing how incredibly loyal its shippers are!

Ships which fell in rank the most

I chose the ships that fell by at least 40 points. The list is arranged from the biggest fall to the smallest:

Sabos fell by 84 points

Harrai fell by 76 points

Laidrin fell by 74 points

Grenvus fell by 51 points

Corpeli fell by 48 points

Kaudia fell by 48 points

Kasren fell by 41 points

We can immediately see that the top three ships were in the top 10 on the Total Ships list and they fell the most. It makes sense when you think about why these ships got so high in the first place. In addition to my vague word choice in the original questionnaire, these ships are either canon (Harrai, Laidrin) or include side characters that are not part of any popular ships (Sabos, Corpeli).

Sabos is especially fascinating, as it’s not only a non-canon ship, it’s a ship involving characters that got their names from fans! They do have a scene together that could be seen as “shippy”, which explains why so many people jumped on that wagon as opposed to, say, Sorcos.

The same goes for Corpeli. Gren and Corvus are canonically friends, but they don’t have any significant scenes together, while Corvus literally holds Opeli’s hand.

Speaking of Grenvus (and also - Kaudia and Kasren), they weren’t as high on the Total Ships list as the aforementioned ships, but all of them seem to have fallen from roughly the middle to the bottom of the list. I guess they just don’t have large fanbases.

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Welcome back to Rarepair Rumble! We are finally entering round 2, which means 64 ships out of our initial 128 have left the competition.

Round 2 will be divided into two parts: 2AB and 2CD (the letters stand for different blocks of the tournament table).

The voting will go as usual with one alteration - I added a third voting option - “I don’t want to vote for either of these ships. A friend on on Discord pointed out that although you can skip the pairs you don’t care about or don’t like, the power of the binary choice makes it hard to skip them, getting the person stuck on making a choice. And it does make sense - I definitely feel that I want to make a choice whenever I’m presented with it, even if I don’t have an opinion on the subject matter.

The extra option also gives me some statistics on which ship pairs people don’t want to vote for.

Here’s an example of a ship pair with three possible answers:

Everything else will be done as usual.

This week, the voting will close on Monday, 22 June, 2020 at:

03:00 (3AM) PDT

06:00 (6AM) EDT

12:00 (12PM) CEST

17:00 (5PM) ICT

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You can see this round’s competing ships under cut. This time, there aren’t any ships I would consider problematic, however some of the ships have been the subject of heated debates.

The ships in question are Ruren (Runaan x Soren) and Calren (Callum x Soren). I don’t see these ships as problematic, but I respect people’s decision not to interact with them.