{"id":100534,"date":"2016-03-19T20:10:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T01:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=100534"},"modified":"2016-03-19T20:55:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T01:55:39","slug":"middle-earth-march-madness-round-1-bracket-vote-now-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2016\/03\/19\/100534-middle-earth-march-madness-round-1-bracket-vote-now-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle-earth March Madness \u2013 Round 1 Bracket \u2013 Vote Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2015-middleearthmadness-bracket-rd1\"<\/a>The 2016 edition of Middle-earth Madness<\/em>\u00a0officially starts today! We\u2019ve split our field of 64 characters and objects into four divisions: Brains<\/b>, Beauties, Brawn <\/b>and Baddies<\/b>.<\/p>\n

This is another new format for the competition this year \u2013 a la a certain reality show – Survivor if you don’t watch it; and what better show to emulate for our annual March Madness competition! This year, a few past winners are missing -notably Sam and Thranduil. But, as you can imagine, with hundreds of wonderful Tolkien characters to choose from, every character can’t make it into the competition every year.<\/p>\n

A note on how the bracket combatants were determined. TheOneRing.net created a document containing all combatants, sub divided into divisions. We asked staff to cast sixteen votes per division, with the votes having a weight of 1-4. Each staffer cast four 4 votes, four 3 votes, four 2 votes and four 1 votes in each division. We then totaled all the votes from each division to determine their rank, and ultimately placed those into our bracket for seeding.<\/p>\n

As you can imagine, our staff is diverse and the results were very interesting! Not only are there some great match-ups in this first round, the final four will be an amazing round to see with the top brain, beauty, brawn and baddie going up against each other.<\/p>\n

Voting in Round 1 will remain open until March 21st<\/span> at 10pm ET. At that point, we\u2019ll calculate the winners and post the next round on March 22nd<\/span>. Follow after the break for a complete bracket image (download it<\/a>), and to vote on all of our Round 1 match-ups! [Round 1 Bracket<\/a>]<\/p>\n

 
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Beauties – Round 1<\/strong>
\nMarch 19th – March 21st 2016<\/em><\/p>\n

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