Z is for Zombies

Very Appreciative:
First off I would like to thank everyone who filled out a bracket, without your responses I would have had a much tougher time in completing the Zombie Royal Rumble. To be honest I had my own personal favorites but it was really helpful to see what the rest of you thought in assessing the fighting prowess of the many characters we have seen along the way this semester. But enough with the pleasantries, because if you are reading this blog post you are doing it for one simple reason, to see who came out on top and won the first, and most likely last, Zombie Royal Rumble.

The Results:

We had a number of good contestants, I know because I made the bracket and because of that fact every single pairing had at least one victory. I found this kind of suprising due to some of the heavy favorites they were competing against. It is important to note moving forward that there were 24 completely filled out brackets. Enjoy!

1^st round Results “Quarter Finals”

Baron Samedi & Ted (7)

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Lizzy Bennett and Zombie Ninja (17)

*This was one of the better first round match ups with Lizzy Bennett and her Zombie Ninja defeating the Baron and “Ted” 17-7. While in the grand scheme of the Zombie Royal Rumble this advanced the characters from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, those who voted for Baron Samedi and Ted tended to think so highly of this pairing that 7 out of 7 times they went on to the finals and out of those, 3 times they went on to win the whole shebang.

Julie and R (14)

V.

Sloane and Lily (9)

*This was the closest of all the match ups with Julie and R prevailing in this match up 14-9. Important tidbits to this match up were the fact that both pairings were deemed so abysmal by one bracket maker that they simply put “Neither”. If you notice there were only 23 that counted for this particular face-off. Of those 23 brackets only 1 had either pairing making it out of the 2nd round. This person, who chose Julie and R, felt so strongly in their abilities that they had them winning it all. Based on all the information I collected it could be argued that Sloane and Lily were the worst team in the competition. While later results may prove that another pairing was statistically less successful, they most certainly had a more worthy adversary than Julie and R.

 

Carl and Zombie Girl (23)

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Mark Spitz and HR Lady (1)

Carl, the murderous murder that he is and his zombie “aid” just absolutely killed it in this match up. It wasn't even close. If I were plotting this for a statistics project the one loss would be thrown out most likely on account of it being an outlier. He's a class favorite and it shows here as Mark Spitz and his HR lady didn't really stand a chance. I expected this, heck I even changed around the format of the bracket so I not to allow Carl to demolish anyone I liked. 

 

 

 

Shaun and Ed (18)

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Okie and Sumatra (6)

I love Shaun of the Dead and it appears some other people in the class do too. This was a pretty comfortable victory for the two buddies from the U.K. I would imagine the ease to which Sumatra is distracted by little wieners had something to do with their lack of victories here.

2^nd Round Results 
“Semi-Finals”

(Scores are no longer out of 24 due to the fact that not all people voted for these pairings in the previous round, never the less I was able to determine a victor)

Lizzy Bennett and Zombie Ninja (15)

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Julie and R (1)

I basically already explained these results earlier, when I said that only one person felt compelled to vote for anyone who was in our closest match up. Clearly the people of Z is For Zombies feel much more confident in a boot wearing killing machine and a ninja zombie rather than two 20 something kids fueled by love. From the beginning this had all the makings of a Carl-type matchup.

Carl and Zombie Girl (17)

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Shaun and Ed (5)

While it wasn't as much of a blowout as his first round knockout, Carl and his Zombie partner still had a relatively easy time with Queen loving chaps form across the pond. I wasn't happy to see them go, but what can you do when facing such a powerful foe. Although they lost in the match up, 3 brackets had Shaun and Ed winning the championship.

Final Round “Championship”

(Again the scores have decreased due to how the votes from the previous round played out)

Lizzy Bennett and Zombie Ninja (7)

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Carl and Zombie Girl (8)

This was kind of exciting as I totaled these up. I knew it was going to be close but I never would have expected just how close. The finish was even tighter than the score dictates due to the fact that I had to break a tie of 7-7. I wanted to refrain from biasing the vote but when I tallied everything up you guys had produced a tie so I had to do something. So I voted, and I went with my gut and Carl and the Zombie girl won. I think their victory is a testament to just how crazy we deem that cowboy hat wearing deranged youth.

Again I'd like to thank everyone that voted. You helped make this a more fun process and gave me a lot to think about as I wrote up the actual sequence of events. 

-Thundergun Out!