WOTC Creature Competition - Tournament Brackets 2010

Catman Jim · Post by **Catman Jim** » Sat May 08, 2010 6:12 am

It's down now to the Final Four:

The Realms witch-queen The Simbul vs 4th Edition deity The Raven Queen

The Realms assassin Artemis Entreri vs Tiamat, Queen of all evil dragons

ewancummins · Post by **ewancummins** » Sat May 08, 2010 3:07 pm

Catman Jim wrote:It's down now to the Final Four:

The Realms witch-queen The Simbul vs 4th Edition deity The Raven Queen

The Realms assassin Artemis Entreri vs Tiamat, Queen of all evil dragons

Two gods versus two uppity mortals? I'm betting on the gods. Even if Tiamat is 'just' a god-like monster...

NeoTiamat · Post by **NeoTiamat** » Sat May 08, 2010 3:54 pm

Hey. I'm a god!

*votes for Tiamat*

Zettaijin · Post by **Zettaijin** » Sat May 08, 2010 7:48 pm

Umm I find it a bit suspicious that a 4E god managed to get this far, especially considering the heavy Realms bias on display. Have 4E creations gathered that much popularity now? I mean, Soth isn't exactly a pushover.

If Raven Queen beats Simbul by too much of a margin, I'd get suspicious and think that this may be a ploy to drum up interest in new creations.

Nathan of the FoS · Post by **Nathan of the FoS** » Sat May 08, 2010 8:22 pm

I wouldn't be all that surprised. I am not exactly Super-4e Fan, and I had the Raven Queen winning it all.

Mostly because she reminds me of the Lady of Ravens.

alhoon · Post by **alhoon** » Sat May 08, 2010 11:50 pm

Well, I never understand what motivates people to vote.

As for 4E going well, remember that the generation that goes there and votes is biased towards 4E.

Why?
- Young people mostly. The old guys (exceptions exist, like our old men here)
- Many of the voters are people that are visiting WotC site often, so they're bombarded by the new product.

Zettaijin · Post by **Zettaijin** » Sun May 09, 2010 9:24 am

Hold on alhoon, if that were true, then the Realms bias wouldn't be so pronounced.

I'm not suggesting 4E is doing well or poorly, I'm simply curious as to how a relatively new character managed to gather such a following in such a short time span.

Mind you, it's just a game. I mean, I hope no one is losing sleep over Emrikol not winning or anything. Although I suspect someone out there is comparing the stats of the various characters and complaining about the results and how the voters are all "stupid kiddies" or some other equally silly notion.

This is little more than a distraction with a small market research potential value added on.

Jester of the FoS · Post by **Jester of the FoS** » Sun May 09, 2010 11:17 am

Keep in mind that the WotC D&D site is really 90% geared to DDI subscribers. If not for DDI there's no reason to visit the site on a regular basis. There's no real news, few free articles (except excerpts), and much of the main page is dominated by a giant banner ad.

People discovering the competition are going to overwhelmingly be 4e players who use DDI.

A G Thing · Post by **A G Thing** » Mon May 10, 2010 10:37 am

Plus if you are not signed in to anything you can still vote and thus it can be bombarded by those who wish to manipulate the odds by buffing their picks multiple times. I noticed this when I went to check each week and though I am unregistered it still asked me to buff every time.

Only did once each week however because I thought that was fair...

But yes I don't understand the sheer numbers behind the Raven Queen... I mean she has soundly dashed some of the greats and Vecna was the last even partially Ravenloft contender... Ah well... May have to read up on this Raven Queen because lets face it, she has half our campaign settings name in her name so she can't be all bad. Still I hope Artemis wins.

I think it would be great to have him trounce multiple gods with his whole I hate religion angle.

alhoon · Post by **alhoon** » Mon May 10, 2010 12:58 pm

Jester of the FoS wrote:Keep in mind that the WotC D&D site is really 90% geared to DDI subscribers. If not for DDI there's no reason to visit the site on a regular basis. There's no real news, few free articles (except excerpts), and much of the main page is dominated by a giant banner ad.

People discovering the competition are going to overwhelmingly be 4e players who use DDI.

alhoon wrote: - Many of the voters are people that are visiting WotC site often, so they're bombarded by the new product.

Jester put my thoughts in far better words than me. I'm thinking of hiring him (ala dominating him) and use him as a vessel for my thoughts.
I'll funnel my superior for you people thoughts through him, he will "dumb them down" to sub-illithid intellect levels and speak.

(Yes, I'm as off topic as it can be)

alhoon · Post by **alhoon** » Mon May 17, 2010 8:36 am

Down to Raven Queen vs Tiamat.

Support the Raven Queen. She's closer to Ravenloft after all.

Who knows, she may even make the Lady of Ravens her exarch.

DocBeard · Post by **DocBeard** » Mon May 17, 2010 11:25 am

Also we've, like, already had a few big adventures with Tiamat as the antagonist.

Catman Jim · Post by **Catman Jim** » Fri May 21, 2010 8:26 pm

The Raven Queen takes the title:

http://www.wizards.com/DnD/Article.aspx ... ws/may2010

Voting is still open on the Grudge Match between Meepo and Splug...

ewancummins · Post by **ewancummins** » Fri May 21, 2010 8:35 pm

DocBeard wrote:Also we've, like, already had a few big adventures with Tiamat as the antagonist.

What, no Venger?

ewancummins · Post by **ewancummins** » Fri May 21, 2010 8:41 pm

Lord Soth, is that really you?

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WOTC Creature Competition - Tournament Brackets 2010