by Christina

Update: Comments now moderated. Have fun. BE NICE. Discussions on how to streamline the Bracket or cancel next year currently ongoing. If you know of any other polling companies besides CrowdSignal, please let us know.

It's time!  Please find the champion and third place polls for the Ship Bracket below.  Polls close on May 3rd at 12:00PM.  As always, results will be hidden for the final 24 hours and the winner will be announced on the podcast.  The results will be unhidden a week after the podcast is posted.

Some admin news at the top: tomorrow the final championship round of the Ship Bracket begins at 5PM PST!  The third place poll will be running alongside.

In other news, I saw Endgame on Friday.  I've been having some difficulties working through my opinions and emotions concerning THAT ending.  Whenever I try to put together a spoiler free review of the movie, I'm unable to do so.  I'll have a bigger article addressing the whole movie this week once I figure out how I feel.  I hope you all get a chance to go and see the movie in the meantime.  No matter how you feel about the movie when you leave, I think we can all agree it's a cultural moment we're unlikely to experience again.  I was definitely riveted the entire three hours. 

​See you all tomorrow!

by Christina

Polls close at 12 PM PT on Friday. Comments are now moderated.

First, congratulations to our Final Four! I’m very curious how this round turns out. And a special shout out to my beloved Stucky (see website header), for getting the second most votes of any ship in any round!

​Due to the fact that I know there are a lot of people taking part in fandom related activities the next few weeks, please see the schedules of the next two rounds below:

Final Four: April 16 5:00PM PST to April 19 12:00PM PST
Championship: April 30 5:00PM PST to May 3 12:00PM PST

by Christina

UPDATE: Hi everyone!  Thanks for letting me know the issues with voting multiple times right now, which is appearing across all four polls.  I'm working to get it fixed right now, but to make it up to everyone the polls will be extended to 12PM PST on Friday.

UPDATE: Comments now being moderated and those with inappropriate language being deleted.  Comments will be moderated in all future rounds.

It’s time for the Elite Eight everyone! Polls run through 12PM PST on Thursday. As always, we will alert you to any technical difficulties. Comments are not moderated for now, but that will change if people begin to attack each other. Stay clean and HAVE FUN!

by Christina

Congratulations to all the ships who have made it to the Sweet Sixteen and thus qualified for next year’s bracket! Please find all polls behind the “Read More.”

UPDATE: Comments now being moderated. If there are truly any glitches in the polls that the system notifies us of, I will let you know in this space. Feel free to still post constructive feedback or to fan out. Remember, this is supposed to be FUN.

UPDATE: We never saw any issues with polls freezing on our end. Please remember the system does remember your previous votes even if you take breaks between sets of 25. It could lock you out without warning for hours and not include a message saying your vote has already been counted. It will also recognize your internet connection if you switch devices. I did extend the polling time nearly an hour as several people appeared to have this problem, but please please remember I will always post about the problem with a solution if the poll does freeze on our end.

Happy Monday everyone! No April Fools jokes here. Just wanted to let you know early that it’s looking like a long work day for me today, so the next round of the ship bracket will begin tomorrow at 5PM PST and run through Friday at 12PM PST.

Also, a little side note, we love your enthusiasm and passion for this bracket. But it’s not super fun for us to receive hate mail because of it, so please keep it clean and fun (like most of you already do)! Thanks!