#SGGShowdown Preliminaries | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

sciencegeniusgirlshowdown · 1 year ago

Text

SGGShowdown PRELIMINARY: DC (+ additional questions/specifications!)

Abigail "Abby" Arcane | Swamp Thing (2019 Television Series) VS Felicity Smoak | Arrow (2012 Television Series) VS Lena Luthor | Supergirl (2015 Television Series) VS Barbara Gordon/Batgirl | Unspecified VS Karen Beecher/Bumblebee | Unspecified VS Natasha Irons/Steel | Unspecified VS Harlivy/Harley Quinn + Poison Ivy/Harleen Quinzel + Pamela Isley | Unspecified

Finally started working on the bracket, but realized that there's quite a few characters from the DC extended universe! Due to the nature of this fandom, I feel as though it'd be fair to fudge the numbers a bit for the fandom cap, so I'll be allowing four participants from DC into the bracket! Even with the increased cap, there's still a couple excess girls! While I could take the easy out and axe the girls who didn't have any sort of iteration specified, I feel as though that'd be rather unfair, so! It's preliminary time!

I condensed Harlivy into a pair due to the number of submissions I received for them, both individually and as a couple! Though there wasn't ever a consensus on which continuity to take them from. Since I would like to focus on a singular iteration of an SGG, I'd like to request those more familiar with these characters to suggest an iteration to take Batgirl, Bumblebee, Steel, and Harlivy from in the replies or in my askbox!

15 notes · View notes

sciencegeniusgirlshowdown · 1 year ago

Text

Welcome to Science Genius Girl Showdown, where your favorite she/her scientists go head to head to see who is the smartest* of them all!

*=SGGShowdown is not an accurate assessment of character intelligence.

Submit your Science Genius Girls here! Submissions will remain open until July 30th! Due to the high number of submissions received shortly upon making the blog, submissions will now be closing on July 20th! Submissions are now officially closed! Preliminaries are planned to be held over the next couple days, and the bracket itself is planned to be announced on July 22nd or 23rd!

Some rules, guidelines, and disclaimers before getting started!

The bracket is aimed to be announced on August 1st or 2nd! Due to the high number of submissions received shortly upon making the blog, the projected date for the bracket reveal is now July 22nd or 23rd!

Depending on how many unique submissions are made, this bracket may have 16, 32, or 64 participants! If more scientists are submitted past that, there's the potential that a second bracket may be held, though that's not guaranteed. Due to the high number of submissions received shortly upon making the blog, the bracket will now contain 128 participants! Rounds 1 and 2 will be split into 1A/1B and 2A/2B respectively. Starting with round 3 there will no longer be a split. This is to avoid mod getting overwhelmed with sorting through 64 polls worth of propaganda all at once, but I'm sorry for the inconvenience!

This bracket will generally work off of a weekly format, though exceptions may be made for special outliers.

While SGGShowdown understands that trashtalking is part of the bracket experience, please try to keep it respectful! Mod reserves the right to block voters for being too rowdy or disqualify participants if their supporters cause too much of a ruckus. This is mainly intended to be a celebration of girl scientists in media, so aim to keep the mood light!

Real people and OCs will not be accepted, and while no fandoms will be banned outright, mod reserves the right to exclude characters that they believe may cause unnecessary drama or they personally take issue with.

In order to have as much fandom diversity as possible, mod will be limiting the number of participants from a fandom to one (or two if there's enough submissions for the bracket to feature 64 participants.) Due to the high influx of submissions received shortly upon making the blog, this bracket will now feature a fandom cap of 3! If you'd like to submit multiple characters from a piece of media, you might have a better time getting the girls into the bracket if you submit them as a single participant! As an example, if you'd like to submit multiple girls from the same property that are all part of their school's science club, you could submit them as [School]'s Science Club rather than submitting them as five individuals. If multiple girls are submitted from the same property, 1 day preliminaries may be held to determine which will make it into the bracket proper.

While genius is right there in the name, science is far more the focus of this poll! As long as your girl's interest in science is one of her main character traits, she may be implemented even if she's not the brightest! Mod is an avid fan of failgirls, so there's no need to worry about your character being smart enough to be accepted!

In a similar vein, while mod supports smart girls from all walks of life, this is a poll about scientists first and foremost. Authors and literaries are fantastic, but we're specifically shooting for women in STEM here!

That being said, the science your girl specializes in does not necessarily have to be one that exists in the real world! If your girl is in a setting where magical or otherwise fantastical setting and her field of study centers around something unique to the setting, she may also be accepted! As long as they have the science girl vibe, they may be accepted!

SGGShowdown is the first tournament that mod has hosted, so I'd like to ask for your understanding if any missteps or mistakes are made along the way.

The askbox is open if you have any questions you'd like to ask me, though I will note that questions such as "How many submissions do you have for [character]?" or "Will [character] be making it into the bracket?" will be deleted. "How many submissions do you have for [fandom]?" will be permitted due to the cap, but please search to see if that question has already been addressed.

Here's some specific tags this blog intends to make use of!

"#SGGShowdown Polls" - A general tag used on every poll across the bracket's rounds.

"#SGGShowdown Round [Number]" - Used to indicate what round of the bracket a poll is a part of.

"#SGGShowdown [Participant] Propaganda" - Used so all the propaganda for a participant may be found in the same place.

"#SGGShowdown Fanart" - Used as a general tag for fanart that is either submitted or directly mentions the blog upon being posted. "#SGGShowdown [Participant] Fanart" will also be used so all the fanart for a participant may be found in the same place.

"#SGGShowdown Speaks" - A general tag used for all mod posts.

"#SGGShowdown Announcements" - Used for mod posts that are related to the state of the bracket itself, such as if the bracket will take a short hiatus or any future rule updates. This tag will also be used to give a warning if mod believes that any participant's supporters are flying a bit too close to the sun with their type of propaganda, so try to keep a close eye on it if you can!

"#SGGShowdown Off Topic" - Used for mod posts that aren't important announcements related to the bracket itself, such as jokes regarding submissions or answers to questions that aren't directly related to how the bracket is being ran.

#SGGShowdown Signal Boost" - Used for mod reblogs that are promoting other tournament blogs.

Finally, some tagging and inspirations in the hopes of spreading the word around! Don't feel like you have to reblog, of course!

@tournamentdirectory, @battle-couple-battle, @moon-swag-tourney, @meanpurplepoll, @obscuremilfoff/@obscuredilfoff, @toxic-mothers-tourney

#Tournament Bracket #Tumblr Polls #Tournament Blog #Tournament Info #Tournaments #Bracket #SGGShowdown #SGGShowdown Speaks #SGGShowdown Announcements

77 notes · View notes

sciencegeniusgirlshowdown · 1 year ago

Note

Can we submit Genderfluid Science Geniuses?

I'd say my stance is that, if a character wouldn't mind being referred to as a girl at least part of the time, they're definitely permitted! Speaking from the perspective of a nonbinary person (though not specifically a genderfluid person) I know I wouldn't be the most comfortable if I myself was submitted to an explicitly gendered poll like this, but I know that that take won't be the same for everyone! So if a character is generally comfortable with being lumped in with women then I wouldn't have an issue with it at all! If their preference when it comes to how they're acknowledged is vague, I may open up a preliminary asking for voters familiar with them their thoughts on whether it'd be respectful to the character for them to be included.

I will add that, with the current number of unique submissions already nearing the 128 limit with the submission period still having a ways to go, there's a chance that they may be one of the characters that doesn't make the cut in the end. If they don't, please know that it's not because of any phobic sentiments on mod's part! While I'd love to include every character sent to me, at the end of the day some will be facing the chopping block. If I do decide to run another SGGShowdown bracket sometime after this one ends, I'm like, 99% sure that I'll make it so characters that were solely rejected from the first bracket due to being at capacity would take up the first however many slots of the second bracket.

With all that being said, I'd definitely submit them if you think they wouldn't mind being a part of something like this! I'm worried it may sound like I'm already planning on rejecting them, but I promise that's not the case! I haven't decided exactly how I'll be picking which valid submissions get to be in the limited number of slots and which don't yet, so I just wanted to get that little disclaimer out of the way!

#SGGShowdown Speaks #SGGShowdown Announcements #The current plan is to have the format of every poll mention Science Genius Girl somewhere within the post.#Not exactly sure how yet but like #I wouldn't feel great about having the post say smth like “Who should be Tumblr's Science Genius Girl?”#only for one of the characters to not be comfortable with being called a girl you know?#Also for a certain set of characters (I am thinking about one in particular here but I won't say a name to avoid showing bias)#where there's like different possibilities for them but they're still distinctly the same character #and in one or more possibilities they're not a woman #I personally will be avoiding using images of them from the possibility where they're not a woman #and I'd generally recommend not propagandizing using information from the possibilities where they're not a woman #but they're still totally fine to be submitted!#If it's a case like a character starting the series off as a woman but later on transitions to a man or something like that #with absolutely no substantial (canon) examples of alternate timelines where that's not the case #the character will be rejected.#I know some media has situations like multiple endings where no one ending is considered the “canon” one where this can get messy #but just generally I'd like for winning SGGShowdown to be something fans of a character can be proud of instead of smth to feel awkward abt #Tags ended up running a bit long but the words just kept tumbling out lmao.#I hope this all makes sense! I just don't want to end up offending anyone accidentally or anything like that.

2 notes · View notes

sciencegeniusgirlshowdown · 1 year ago

Text

Olivia, Shuri, Lunella, and Jemma will be entering the bracket proper!

SGGShowdown PRELIMINARY: Marvel

#SGGShowdown Polls #SGGShowdown Preliminaries #SGGShowdown Results

22 notes · View notes

sciencegeniusgirlshowdown · 1 year ago

Text

Harlivy, Lena, Barbara, and Felicity will be entering the bracket proper! After receiving a few suggestions, Barbara will be taken from her DC Super Hero Girls (2019) iteration, while Harlivy will be taken from their Harley Quinn (2019) iteration!

SGGShowdown PRELIMINARY: DC (+ additional questions/specifications!)

#SGGShowdown Polls #SGGShowdown Preliminaries #SGGShowdown Results

15 notes · View notes