Are we going to get the full breakdown of the tortie tournament from your POV? Biggest surprises? Your personal top 10?
The biggest surprise definitely was the final winner. Don't get me wrong, Hayley is a beautiful cat, but her special beauty is more about the overposition of the red ghost rosettes on the tortie pattern, not the latter itself, you know? Same with Aura, who is currently winning the second place poll. Once again, her attractiveness lies in the combination of the admittedly very nice blotched and the tortie patterns.
Statistics
I wasted a lot of times in this so at least i want show it to you I made some diagrams about the phenotype distributions of the originally submitted cats!
Not labelled: chocolate, cinnamon, phoenix and red on the base color, van on the white spotting, mocha on the color restriction plots.
My personal top 10
prepare that my own submissions are overrepresented here, which is... probably not very surprising
10. Cat with a hole in it. I can appreciate a good meme.
9. Lyca (submitted by @mixit-exists). She went up until the fifth round, and yeah, that was deserved. She's one of the most unique-looking cats i've ever seen
8. Konfetti vom Alpenwichtel. She's wearing a tiara
7. Sushi (submitted by @the-golden-paw). I like high white cats, and she has little spots on her muzzle and that nice round patch on her back
6. Occhi di Gatto ChloΓ©. I'm a huge fan of her red paw.
5. Tortietail (submitted by @sweetcreatortimetravel). Yeah, that's iconic.
4. Maria av Karotrollhus. Yet another unappreciated submission of my own (she lost the first round), but i really like the arrow on her forehead.
3. Pepita (submitted by @pyrca). The horizontal split does it.
2. Ismoya des Iles Lofoten. What can I say. That sharp, bright red cut against the pure black is nothing short of perfect.
1. A tie between Trapiti & Tinna. Because the best cat is always your own cat π
