Ship Bracket 2018 Intro Post

by Christina

Polls open at 4:00 PM PST on Friday March 2nd. Check out the rules below:

• HAVE FUN! Vote, leave a comment about why you ship who you ship, share the links with your friends, and just enjoy the competition! No bashing or insulting your fellow participants.
• The system will be set to allow multiple votes. Too many votes in a row will cause the system to independently lock you out. We have no control over that because we are too cheap to get a higher level PollDaddy account. Running test polls shows us the limit is around 25 votes in an hour.
• Once polls close, results will be immediately viewable there. A recap post will follow shortly after. The next round of voting will be made available a later that day. You can view the schedule post for further information.
• The results of the final round will be hidden temporarily and revealed on the following episode of the podcast.
• All ship bracket related posts can be found under the Ship Bracket category tag
• Any comments, questions, or concerns can be noted in the comments section or you can e-mail us at alnmpodcast@gmail.com

Now, for what you've all been waiting for! The 64 ships to make the bracket were chosen from a combination of last year's Sweet Sixteen, the post popular ships on Tumblr and A03, the top ships of the most popular fandoms, and your nominations here on the site. I'm sorry we couldn't include everyone's OTP, but if your's didn't make it, be sure to nominate them again next year! The order below isn't any indication of seeding or matchups:

• Klance (Voltron: Legendary Defender)
• McHanzo (Overwatch)
• Destiel (Supernatural)
• Bellarke (The 100)
• Drarry (Harry Potter)
• Stydia (Teen Wolf)
• Sterek (Teen Wolf)
• Marrish (Teen Wolf)
• Newtmas (The Maze Runner)
• Nakia x T’Challa (Black Panther)
• Elio x Oliver (Call Me By Your Name)
• Rickyl (The Walking Dead)
• Cophine (Orphan Black)
• Han x Lando (Solo: A Star Wars Story)
• Olicity (Arrow)
• Mulder x Krycek (The X-Files)
• Malec (Shadowhunters)
• Otayuri (Yuri!!! On Ice)
• Sheith (Voltron: Legendary Defender)
• Jonerys (Game of Thrones)
• Stucky (Marvel)
• Clexa (The 100)
• Clintasha (Marvel)
• Stormpilot (Star Wars)
• WestAllen (The Flash)
• WonderTrev (Wonder Woman)
• Evak (Skam)
• Emison (Pretty Little Liars)
• Charlie x Matteusz (Class)
• Snowbarry (The Flash)
• Merthur (Merlin)
• Science Boyfriends (Marvel)
• Victuuri (Yuri!!! On Ice)
• Sanvers (Supergirl)
• Bughead (Riverdale)
• SasuSaku (Naruto)
• Reaper76 (Overwatch)
• Hamliza (Hamilton)
• Sansaery (Game of Thrones)
• Lams (Hamilton)
• AvaLance (Legends of Tomorrow)
• RebelCaptain (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story)
• Nomanita (Sense 8)
• SwanQueen (Once Upon A Time)
• Korrasami (The Legend of Korra)
• Jack x Davey (Newsies)
• Culmets (Star Trek: Discovery)
• 00Q (James Bond)
• Supercorp (Supergirl)
• Wayhaught (Wynonna Earp)
• Johnlock (Sherlock)
• Reylo (Star Wars)
• Tododeku (Boku No Hero Academia)
• Doctor/Rose (Doctor Who)
• Benslie (Parks and Recreation)
• Hollstein (Carmilla)
• Karamel (Supergirl)
• Spideypool (Deadpool)
• Peraltiago (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
• Jamie x Claire (Outlander)
• Ladynoir (Miraculous Ladybug)
• E x R (Les Miserables)
• Fyodor x Anatole (Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812)
• Clex (Smallville)