Round 4, Part II

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The following 'ships have already qualified to move on to the final showdown whether they win this round (tourney brackets) or not. This round is to determine the top dog of each individual bracket and maybe get an idea of how the voting will go come finals time. THIS IS FOR BRAGGING RIGHTS! Good Luck.

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Poll will be re-open at 10 AM EST tomorrow and remain open until 10 PM EST Thursday, October 8th.

Comments

[infiniteowl.livejournal.com]

Well, it was also quite a surprise to many people when America/England beat Ichigo/Rukia back in Round 2 (especially to those who had never heard of Hetalia before). A lot of us America/England fans even thought at first that we'd get curbstomped by Ichigo/Rukia until the votes started pouring in. So it's kind of the same thing here. XD

Really, these polls have surprised me in many other ways too. I was pleasantly surprised to see Haku/Chihiro make it all the way to Round 4, shocked at some popular slash pairings losing to het pairings (which does prove that slash isn't the be-all, end-all for many fans), and bowled over by Carmen/Waldo (is that even a legitimate pairing?) actually winning against two other ships.

And I'm still surprised at how Arnold/Helga made it all the way to here against other ships with definite popularity and support.

[eriu11.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean about Ichigo/Rukia. They're my OTP and they pretty much are the juggernaut ship of Bleach. I was sure they were just gonna walk through that round. It's funny that the only Bleach pairing that has really stood out in these polls is the Ulquiorra/Orihime ship and until six months ago that was mostly considered pure crack and barely even a real pairing. I guess you just never know with these polls

[kasumicc.livejournal.com]

Ulquiorra/Orihime has a large fandom...and anyways, sometimes things just don't work. I remember seeing at the IchiRuki community that time an entry asking for people to vote, but the answer was really small. Not to mention that there might have been Ichigo/Orihime shippers who might have voted against IchiRuki...
Bleach shipping wars scare me a little *shudders*

Other fandoms have surprised me as well. On the FMA fandom, Roy/Riza are still going strong. Ed/Winry was defeated a long time ago, and RoyEd (probably the most popular pairing) is losing this round. Sometimes I just don't know what's the people thinking xD

[infiniteowl.livejournal.com]

Come to think of it, is Ichigo/Orihime even among the contending ships? It's a bit odd when one major ship in a fandom is conspiciously absent when there are like seven other ships put up for that fandom. (How can there be all these Avatar: The Last Airbender ships and no Aang/Katara? Unless I missed it or it's coming up in a later round...)

I'm surprised that Roy/Ed is losing so badly too, but I think it might have to do with Haku/Chihiro being the kind of "classic" pairing that pretty much everybody knows and likes, as Haro once said before. I know that I voted for Haku/Chihiro because it was my first ever anime OTP. It'd also explain why so many of the classic Disney pairings are doing exceptionally well and how Simba/Nala is managing to give Zuko/Katara a very tough fight.

[kasumicc.livejournal.com]

No, Ichigo/Orihime isn't among them. And in Hetalia's case, it's hard to believe that Prussia/Hungary made it into the contest and Germany/Italy didn't xD

I agree that the "classic pairing" argument works well for Simba/Nala's case. Still, the Zuko/Katara fandom is a BIG one (as big as Sasuke/Naruto), so it's still surprising for me...

[eriu11.livejournal.com]

*shudder* You have no idea how scary Bleach shipping can get. The only place where I've seen worse ship wars was Avatar. I don't know, maybe it has something to do with fandoms that are majoritly het. I mean, you don't see bloody ship wars in slash bases fandoms, (well, maybe you do but I've never come across any).

There are a load of surprises in this thing. I mean, I never would have dreamed that Arnold/Helga would get this far or, for that matter, Elle/Emmet from Legally Blonde. It's all really interesting.

[obsessed-love.livejournal.com]

*shudder* You have no idea how scary Bleach shipping can get. The only place where I've seen worse ship wars was Avatar. I don't know, maybe it has something to do with fandoms that are majoritly het. I mean, you don't see bloody ship wars in slash bases fandoms, (well, maybe you do but I've never come across any).

Naruto. Those ship wars are bloody insane. (and I was in the Bleach and Avatar fandoms as well;; *has seen it all*)

[kasumicc.livejournal.com]

I'd have to say Avatar AND Harry Potter. And Macross Frontier.
Really scary, those ones >_<

You're right, apparently, the bloodiest shipping wars are between het shippers. That isn't to say that slash shippers can't make a war; in FMA, you'll find that most of Ed/Winry bashers were Roy/Ed or Ed/Al fans. I say were because nowadays Ed/Winry bashers are rare. But they were really common about 2 or 3 years ago.

As for slash based fandoms, I'm not sure. From what I've seen (only Hetalia), there isn't an explicit wars, but more like an underground hating. However, popular pairings tend to be really hated specially by minor pairings shippers. So it's not like we don't have problems at all; in fact, we have to be extremely careful with what we post and say >_