{"id":100627,"date":"2016-04-07T20:52:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T01:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=100627"},"modified":"2016-04-07T20:52:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T01:52:11","slug":"middle-earth-march-madness-final-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2016\/04\/07\/100627-middle-earth-march-madness-final-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"The Champion of Middle-earth March Madness 2016 is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/memadness2016-champion.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/memadness2016-champion-300x152.jpg\" alt=\"memadness2016-champion\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-100629 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/memadness2016-champion-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/memadness2016-champion-600x303.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/memadness2016-champion.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The mightiest and fairest of all the Elves that remained in Middle-earth &#8211; <strong>Galadriel<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Over 2000 votes were cast in our final event, and Galadriel took 66% of the vote &#8211; a significant victory. <\/p>\n<p>We hope you enjoyed our unique twist on Middle-earth March Madness this year, and as always, we&#8217;d love to hear your comments and suggestions below. Do you have a unique way to run this event? Let us hear about it!<\/p>\n<p>Your final brackets: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2016-middleearthmadness-bracket-rd7.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"no-lazyload\">Final<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2016-middleearthmadness-bracket-rd6.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"no-lazyload\">Finals Bracket<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2016-middleearthmadness-bracket-rd5.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"no-lazyload\">Final Four Bracket<\/a>]  [<a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-middleearthmadness-bracket-rd4.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"no-lazyload\">Elite Eight Bracket<\/a>]  [<a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-middleearthmadness-bracket-rd3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"no-lazyload\">Sweet Sixteen Bracket<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-middleearthmadness-bracket-rd2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"no-lazyload\">Round 2 Bracket<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-middleearthmadness-bracket-rd1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"no-lazyload\">Round 1 Bracket<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><br \/>\n<em>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.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mightiest and fairest of all the Elves that remained in Middle-earth &#8211; Galadriel. Over 2000 votes were&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":100629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,197,107,22,6,148,149,156,159,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-fans","category-gaming","category-headlines","category-tolkbooks","category-hobbit","category-lotr","category-torn-announcements","category-torn-community","category-tolkien"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/memadness2016-champion.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-qb1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100630,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100627\/revisions\/100630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}