Pandora's Tale Wiki:Pandora's Tale Volume 1 Character Tournament

In 2021 and 2022, readers voted for their favorite character in Volume 1 of Pandora's Tale. All named non-metafictional characters were eligible. The tournament was divided into 13 matches, from 2021 November 24 to 2022 March 9. Noor Shah ultimately won the tournament.

Eligible Characters

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The tournament included all named non-metafictional characters. To qualify as a named character, a character had to satisfy all of the following conditions:

• The character must visually appear in some way on-panel in the comic.
• The character's name must be spoken or written somewhere in the comic.
• It must be possible to determine, using only information in the comic itself, that the name given in the comic corresponds to the visual appearance of the comic.
  • For an example of a character that doesn't meet this condition, the names "Cyprian" and "Yorba Linda" are mentioned in the episode description shown in the background of Chapter 6, Page 17. One of those names might refer to the metafictional human shown two pages later. However, it is not possible to determine from the comic itself whether that character is Cyprian, Yorba, or someone else, so that character isn't included on the named character list.

Only chapters one through seven were available at the time the tournament ran, and hence only characters named and appearing in those chapters were eligible. In particular, Kyndley was not included: even though she appeared in Chapter One, she was not named until Chapter Eight.

The inclusion criteria for this tournament formed the basis for the first table on the list of characters.

In total, there were 20 eligible characters.

Eligible Characters

Character	First appearance	First named
Pandora	1:0	2:7
Zero Angiers	1:15	1:16
Isabelle Monday	1:15	1:17
Veronica Fortuna	1:15	2:2
Con Yung	1:15	2:2
Noor Shah	2:10	2:10
Zufolene	3:4	3:9
Tallulah Zaragoza	3:4	3:9
Lyra Lujic	3:7	3:7
Natalya Ustrashkina	3:10	3:10
Hemmel	3:10	3:10
Gabriel Glenholm	4:18	4:18
Maple	4:18	4:19
Petrichor	5:9	5:4
Eric Michael Fishguard	6:5	6:5
Hamilton Smith-Rawnsley	6:9	6:5
Adrastea	6:10	7:12
Andromeda	6:15	6:16
Cassiopeia	6:15	6:16
Leo	6:15	6:16

Tournament Format

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At the start of each round, the characters were divided into $\lfloor {\sqrt {\text{Total number of remaining characters}}}\rfloor$ matches, as evenly as possible. Since there were 20 characters in total, the first round consisted of four matches, each with five characters. In each match, each reader could vote for up to $\lceil {\frac {\text{Number of characters in the match}}{2}}\rceil$, and the top $\lceil {\frac {\text{Number of characters in the match}}{2}}\rceil$ advanced to the next round. Prior to the semifinals, matches were determined pseudo-randomly using the round's start date as a seed. Once five or fewer characters remained, matches were decided using the semi-finalists' performance in previous rounds.

Tiebreakers

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Semifinal Placement

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Motivation for the Rules

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Detailed Results

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Aftermath

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