Alright guys, so we are doing a TV bracket. This poast/thread will cover the official rules regarding format, selection of shows, seeding, and other measures of protocol. So, let's do this.
THE REGIONS
SELECTING SHOWS
If you have any questions, feel free to ask, my plan is to poast the first "nominations" thread on Sunday to give everyone a chance to look at this thread and pose any questions that I hadn't thought of yet. This thread could also serve as the overall thread for discussing the tournament if we wanted to get it pinned, but I know a mod has to do that.
THE REGIONS
- Drama: The Drama region will include 16 hour-long scripted television series and will be made to include any miniseries (ex: Band of Brothers) or anthology series (ex: Fargo) that meets that criteria.
- Comedy: The Comedy region will include 16 half hour live action television series, but they have to be shows with a plot that covers the whole episode, not a sketch show, which will be included in region 4.
- Animation: The Animation region will include 16 animated television series of any length, either hand-drawn, computer animated, or stop-motion (ex: Robot Chicken).
- Miscellaneous: The Miscellaneous region will include 16 television series that will be drawn from variety (ex: SNL, The Daily Show, Key & Peele), game shows, educational, or reality. This region will be a bit of a hodgepodge, but it seemed the most fair way to include any other form of television that exists. Also, if you nominate a talk show such as The Tonight Show, you are nominating the show in it's entirety, so there won't be a separate "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson" or "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," it's the whole thing.
SELECTING SHOWS
- There will be a thread to nominate shows for each region. There will be a 48 hour period to nominate shows in that given category.
- The 16 shows that receive the most nominations will be chosen to participate as the representatives for that region.
- In the event of a tie in the nomination process, the shows that advance will do so following the seeding procedures I'm listing in the next section.
- The first determining factor for seeds will be based on the popular vote during the nomination process.
- If two or more shows are tied in votes, we will proceed to a tie breaking formula which weighs the shows based on Emmy awards/nominations and IMDB rating.
- If they were to still be tied after that, the show's longevity would be the deciding factor.
- There will be a thread for each region round by round. There will be a 48 hour period in which you vote for all the matchups in that region for that round. The winners will advance, the losers are eliminated. We will proceed in this matter until one show is ultimately declared the champion of the inaugural OOTB TV Tournament.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask, my plan is to poast the first "nominations" thread on Sunday to give everyone a chance to look at this thread and pose any questions that I hadn't thought of yet. This thread could also serve as the overall thread for discussing the tournament if we wanted to get it pinned, but I know a mod has to do that.
