#retirement ramblings

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Are you tired of all these young whippersnappers dominating every poll?

Well, get ready for the Retirement Home Rumble!

This is your chance to submit your most beloved (or hated, who am I to judge?) elderly characters and see them fight to the death against their fellow old people!

Rules:

Character must be considered old in their canon (no set age limit since this can vary based on species and the like)

To try to keep it more fair, I will only be including one character per source material. HOWEVER if they are part of a pair of old people that must not be separated at all costs, I will allow them to compete together as a team.

Keeping with the previous point, you may submit real people, but since I think it would be funny, I am counting real life as a source material, so only a single irl old person will be able to compete.

No HP characters, but everything else is free game

Have fun!

Submissions will be open until June 10th

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Fun fact I think y'all might find amusing: While going through the submissions right now to get propaganda to put with the polls, I found that submissions 69 and 420 are both for the same person - Philza Minecraft

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To all the MCYT fans that have been apologizing to me this entire tournament and trying to assure me that these are not the real people and thanking me for allowing them while desperately trying to explain everything to me...

Now that the tournament is over, I have a picture to share with y'all (featuring a bonus Dixie):

Surprise? I am one of you already lmao

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Y'all are fighting hard for these two tiesweeps. It's so entertaining watching them both teeter on the edge of ties

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I should have added a section in the submission form for a link to art. Oh well. Live and learn

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To the person who submitted a literal baby fresh out of the womb: I think you may have misunderstood the assignment a bit

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Since we decided the losers lose their rights to be old, I have been gathering young pictures for a very important art project. Any help with this would be appreciated. I still need young (bonus points if they've been de-aged) pictures for the following characters:

Gehrman

Wendy Oldbag

Watari

Emet-Selch

Chetney Pock O'Pea

Golden Girls

Old Man Earl

Michael

Kureha

Boomer

Razz

Miss Marple

Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg

SDV Grandpa

Grandmother Fa

Note that I am aware that many of these do not have canon young appearances. This is fine. I am willing to get creative. I just need a picture that will work for them and be close enough.

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This is taking quite a while. My tentative Saturday prediction was way too optimistic. Let's try to shoot for polls going live on Monday

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It is so hilarious to me that Grandmother Fa is miraculously keeping up with the insanely overpowered team of Gandalf and the Pines. Good for her. Lucky cricket working overtime

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I will now be taking a break from checking Tumblr so that I can actually spend time with my family during this reunion. Good luck to everyone. Sorry if I missed your propaganda, I instantly had 500+ notes and I am only human

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Just a small update to let y'all know that the underdog bracket will still happen! It's just gonna be postponed for a while because the fall semester just started up. This is the first time I've had any schooling in 7 years so I'm a bit anxious. I'll need some time to get into the swing of things and make sure I can keep up with my classes before starting another tournament. So just know I haven't forgotten 💕

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I have the bracket, everyone get ready!

Disclaimer: Match ups have been decided randomly because it was simply not possible to seed due to several factors I will not be getting into.

There will be weird match ups, this is okay because this is just a silly little Tumblr tournament. I do not want to see anyone complaining or being toxic about this.

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Can someone that knows Five Nights at Freddy's please let me know if Springtrap, Purple Guy, William Afton, and/or "Peepaw Willy" are all the same guy? I am very confused

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Since I love tiesweeps so much, and also so many of these matchups have been neck and neck this whole time, I think I'll probably end up counting any poll that ends with a less than 1% difference as a tie. In that case, they will move on as a team

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Okay, I think I have made a decision. I know I said I am not immune to propaganda (I'm not) and that I could be easily persuaded if you are convincing enough in your submissions.

The problem I'm facing, is that I am too easily persuaded, but I can't possibly let all of these people in, as much as I would love to.

SO, what will most likely end up happening is this: Those with enough nominations will make it in as normal (along with any needed preliminary polls that have already been discussed).

Then, afterwards, I will do another bracket made up solely of people that didn't get enough nominations for the main one, but has really convincing submissions.

Let me know if you have any questions about this, but I think this will probably be the best solution?

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To the person who submitted "this old man" from the nursery rhyme: You are a genius, but also now it's stuck on loop in my head. Thank you for this