colors_tcg | Colorseum 21-5

Last week's results:

Luciel Choi [8] - [16] Gou Matsuoka
Reno [8] - [16] Mikoto Mikoshiba

Congrats to Miro for winning the bonus crayon lottery!

Good day, Colors players. My name is Elizabeth. I am here to host the most amazing battle tournament in existence - the Colorseum!
Don't worry, no one will get hurt, at least as long as I don't want them to... The battles will not be decided by strength or strategy, but rather by the ability to win the crowd's hearts! And the judges... will be you!

Want more details? My pleasure!
- Each 'round' will consist of 5 'sub-rounds', posted weekly. They will be First Round A, First Round B, Quarter-finals, Semi-finals and the Final!
- Each round will have a theme - they work in a similar way to the Scrapbook things you use here.
- Each round will have 16 characters from various series fighting in one-on-one battles, in a form of a knockout tournament.
- You decide who will advance to the next round by casting your votes.
- The votes are unscreened, and every player participating will get the same prizes, regardless of the final results! That means you can always vote for the characters YOU like the most!
- Feel free to try to convince other players to vote for your favourites! Bribery, threats - anything goes!
- I will always vote last, just before closing the round. If two characters are tied after that, the one with the higher seed advances to the next round.
- During the final battle of each round, you will be able to suggest who you want to participate in the next one!

Now, let's see today's battles!

The 21th round's theme is... RED HAIR! It's this year's hair color round, this time a one that will make your kokoros burning hot, or something like that.

TOURNAMENT FORMAT CHANGE WARNING!
Unfortunately, we've been getting less votes lately, and for the first time we didn't get 16 eligible nominations. I'll be changing the rules a bit starting from this round. We'll have 8 nominated characters (the N-seeds) and 8 popular characters (not neccessarily my faves) picked by the host (the H-seeds). The ladder should explain the format a bit. Also, whenever a N-seed battles a H-seed, the N-seed holds the tiebreaker.

Let's look at the tournament (step)ladder, then:

So, are the participants ready? Here are today's battles:

THE FINAL

(seed H2) Gou Matsuoka (Free!) versus (N2) Mikoto Mikoshiba (Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun)

ROUND 22 NOMINATIONS

During the final week of this round, you can nominate characters for the next one! Here's how it works:
- you can nominate up to 4 characters, each fitting the theme stated below
- if you try to nominate more than 4 characters, I will only count the first 4
- the order of nominations doesn't matter
- if you want your nominations to be valid, you MUST include the characters' full names and series
- it doesn't matter if you nominate 1,2,3 or 4, the prize is still the same
- your characters must come from East Asian media (same as for characters you can donate)
- there is no additional limit on characters from the same series in your nomination
- this is only a suggestion, but try to nominate characters who aren't very obscure, so that they stand some chance in the tournament
- once a character has taken part in any of the tournaments, they may not be nominated to another one until the nearest special round (which will happen after each 8 rounds)
- ~~you cannot nominate a character from a series that already had a winner in this season.~~
- ~~if you nominate a character from a series that has a participant in the final and they happen to win, the nomination for that character will not count.~~

After this week, 16 characters competing in the next round will be selected
- I will first choose 8 characters who receive the most nominations - the Nomination Seeds
- However, there will be a limit of 1 character per canon (and 2 characters per multi-universe franchise, like Tales or Final Fantasy)
- I can disqualify a character if I believe they don't fit the requirements or theme of the round
- The characters will receive seed numbers (1-8) based on the number of nominations they got. This will decide their places on the tournament ladder.
- In case of ties, I will decide the participants and/or their seeds myself
- The other 8 characters - the Host Seeds will be decided by the host. They'll be usually some rather popular characters that weren't nominated by the players.

Now, let's get to the topic of the next round...
It's 2016 special! It may have been a bad year irl, but not in fandom! Give me all your favourite characters that were introduced in 2016. To be more precise I will accept characters from following sources:
- manga that debuted in 2016
- anime that first aired in 2016 (even if there was a manga before)
- games that were first released in English in 2016 (or weren't released in English yet but came out in 2016)
NOTE: because it's a special theme only available this time, I'm allowing you to nominate characters from franchises that already had winners this year. That means fan favourites like Juzo Sakakura from Dangan Ronpa or Lillie from Pokemon are allowed!

You can vote using this from, though it is not mandatory.

For voting, you will get four random cards. For nominating any number of characters, you will get four more cards, making it a total of eight random cards.
You can totally vote without nominating anyone for the next round (or the other way around).
Remember, the prizes are the same for everyone, no matter who wins the battles! So vote for your favourites, not the characters you 'expect' to win.
There will also be a bonus prize of two random crayons for one random, lucky participant.

You can look at results of all the battles so far below!
SEASON ONE
Round 1 - Royalty | Round 2 - Scientists | Round 3 - Green hair | Round 4 - Androids and robots | Round 5 - Sports | Round 6 - Student Council | Round 7 - Musicians | Round 8 - Gunners | Round 9 - Season One finale
SEASON TWO
Round 10 - Deities | Round 11 - Mecha pilots | Round 12 - White hair | Round 13 - Old characters | Round 14 - Best of 2015 | Round 15 - Villains | Round 16 - Buff Guys | Round 17 - Busty Girls | Round 18 - Season Two finale
SEIYUU SPECIAL
East-F | East-M | West-F | West-M | Finals
SEASON THREE
Round 19 - Detectives and Police | Round 20 - Rich characters

This round will close on ~~7th January~~ CLOSED!, Central European time!

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