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.
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!
1st round Results
“Quarter Finals”
Baron Samedi & Ted (7)
V.
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)
V.
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)
V.
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.
2nd
Round Results
“Semi-Finals”
“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)
V.
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)
V.
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)
V.
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!
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