March Madness

[Wild Thyme]

Its that time of year again for the Webcomic March Madness. Hopefully, this year, it won't be as emotionally charged. Though, I'm not holding my breath when it comes to how fandoms on Facebook can be. I'm surprised they are allowing comments again this year.

Looks like I can't remove this post, so, I'll at least quote SeesAMoose from the March Madness comments regarding us not voting for Goblins:

I ask my fellow Goblins fans to honor ThuntÔÇÖs wishes and not vote for Goblins in the nomination round. If you still want to show your support for the community, one of our longtime forum regulars (LoneStarNorth) has a terrific D&D 4e comic called Will Save World for Gold that could use your support. And of course be sure to read some of the other terrific comics that are sure to appear.
In the event that Goblins remains in the contest, I ask only that all visitors to our forum try to be polite.
Best,
SeeAMoose

[M0rtimer]

Yeaaaah, Thunt isn't participating. He asked to be removed from the contest.

That being said, guess there's nothing wrong with discussing the other comics.

[Wild Thyme]

Interesting. I saw Goblins on the list of comics. Sorry, Thunt. If you want, I can remove my post on the March Madness.

[M0rtimer]

Yeah, it appears comicmix hasn't yet complied with his request- I'm guessing they will remove him as soon as the contest actually starts, because they don't want to risk losing votes while the votes are staring to be counted? Seems like the most likely explanation.

[M0rtimer]

I'll remove it if you want since I think I can, but I don't think there's anything really bad about this. Unless Thunt would request of us not to talk about the contest in general, I think it's just fine if we have a place to discuss the other comics we like/don't like. Also, with the quote you have just pasted in your first post, it'll only serve to help alert people Thunt does not wish to join the contest.

[SeeAMoose]

Hopefully I am not completely imagining Thunt saying that on UStream

[Wolfie]

Hopefully I am not completely imagining Thunt saying that on UStream

I thought he Tweeted about it as well?

Edit: He did

I've sent a request to have Goblins taken out of the March Madness contest. Please do not vote for Goblins over there.
10:43pm - 4 Mär 13

[gamecreator]

I think there will be some animosity from fans in response to Thunt's removal request.

[Wild Thyme]

If its cool to keep the post, then best to keep. I did want some warning on here, at the very least, that Goblins isn't participating so we know not to vote. As for Upstream, your guess is as good as mine. I'm up this early as a fluke. Normally, I'm awake when the sun goes down and go to sleep when the sun rises. Third shift work, yay. I haven't seen a Thunt Upstream in aaaaaages.

[Wolfie]

I think there will be some animosity from fans in response to Thunt's removal request.

It's THunt's decision to remove himself, and after the fiasco of last year, I don't really blame him. And if his fan base is true to him (as I believe they are), they'll keep the vitriol to a minimum and vote for other comics they like as well.

[Wild Thyme]

Yeah, I don't blame him at all for bowing out. Many hugs and nommy Girl Scout cookies to Thunt. What hit the fan wasn't pretty and is likely still on the ceiling.

[thinkslogically]

Oh god, remember it last year? I wish we'd had this guy back then to respond with:

[stevedj]

Furthermore, I suppose if somehow Goblins still ends up in a bracket (despite removal requests), then we can solve that little problem with a single round of mass-of-Goblins-fans-voting-for-the-opponent

[RocketScientist]

I'm glad Thunt isn't going to participate. Last year was awful.

I'm not sure if they'll honor his request. Didn't Rich Burlew (Order of the Stick) try to opt out unsuccessfully last year? Or did I imagine that?

[M0rtimer]

I think it was more of a case that he didn't specifically ask to be removed, but rather said that he had no real interest in winning- That he believed himself to be more then successful enough and that he'd rather lose and give some of the glory to comics that deserved/needed it more. I also believe something similar happened with homestuck, who "gave" the win to Gunnerkrig court. I think their fandom was torn between "helping out the other awesome comic" and "We are even better it should be us that wins!"

[RocketScientist]

Is anybody else getting "this account has been suspended" over at ComicMix? And why am I getting it? I was going to vote for LSN.

[SeeAMoose]

Yep, I'm getting the same thing. They've also done a crappy job of implementing the donations for votes part, I donated $5 so that I could get 50 votes for WSWFG... and they never prompted me for who I wanted the votes to be for.

[LoneStarNorth]

Site's back up now. GO VOTE GUYS GO GO GO.

I donated $5 so that I could get 50 votes for WSWFG.

Awesome, thanks!

... and they never prompted me for who I wanted the votes to be for.

Someone in the comments (other than you) had this problem and was told to check his email. I don't know if it automatically sends you an email or if someone had to do it manually to correct an error, but maybe you should look at your junk folder just in case.

[Alecat]

Most Paypal pages require you to stay in the page that you paid with and then have a hook page that you land on once you've gone through Paypal. If you close the tab/window before Paypal's all done with you, the payment authorisation never gets picked up by the site you've paid. The same can happen with connectivity issues. I've made this mistake before! This is assuming the website does have that all automated - it may be that it is actually all a manual process (ick).

Regardless, they should be able to verify that you've paid, and you can allocate your votes accordingly

I wonder how the paid votes are going to affect all this. Seems well-intentioned (yay charity and all that) but like it could be really borked if they continue it through the single-elim voting.

[RocketScientist]

Site's back up now. GO VOTE GUYS GO GO GO.

Done. And I didn't vote for anyone else.

[SeeAMoose]

Yeah, there was no redirect or any instructions. Thankfully they sent me an email in response to my email and LSN has 50 more votes!

[LoneStarNorth]

Well, thanks to you guys I made it into the tournament! My first round is against the comic that got the most votes in the seeding, Ava's Demon. So I'm pretty much boned! But thanks anyway!

[M0rtimer]

Hah, oh wow, speaking of terrible luck!

It got me checking out Ava's demon though. Seems pretty cool.

[SamWiser]

That doesn't seem fair. They should plan that out a little better.

[Alecat]

I think that's what the seeding is for. In tennis tournaments and the like - you like up the best seed against the worst seed, and so on so you get best TV viewing for the finals. Pro competitors for that kind of contest will complain sourly if the 1st and 2nd best competitors meet each other early and the second place player ends up getting a 100-someth place ranking as a result. In this context it works out a little weirdly.

At the end of the day, this is just an exercise. Congratulations on getting into the tournament. Hopefully since you're matched up against someone that supposedly everyone has already read, a few voters will take time to click through to your comic.
[edit] Oh, ew. The early rounds are a big mess. No direct links to websites in the voting panels (also facebook... yeah, no thanks)