Terminology

This article contains a list of terms and concepts commonly used by anons specifically within tournament threads. Official rules and terms such as the Elite Eight, Series Limit, etc will not be listed and can instead be found in the official tournament rules pastebins.

Asterisk (*)
An Asterisk (*) is something unofficially given to a character denoting a win or deep character run that is controversial. Any character run that can be called invalid either because of rigging, off-site brigading, or general strictly illicit methods are sometimes given an * by anon's. Examples would include Spinel's controversial Ms. /co/ 2019 win, who was revealed a year later to have been brigaded by a facebook group, and Shirley's final's run in Ms. /co/ 2022, who was known to have been rigged earlier in the tournament.

Campaigning
Campaigning is a major tournament concept, in which anons create posts to bolster a character's thread presence and convince others to vote for their character, often in the forms of OC, discussion about their character, and roleplay. Campaigning is seen as a major factor in a character's success, with less traditionally popular characters able to make it big due to strong campaigning.

Falseflagging
Falseflagging is a term referring to a shitposter posing as a supporter of a certain character while creating posts that paint said character or its supporters in a negative light, either to attempt to get said character to lose or simply for the sake of trolling. Examples of common tactics used by falseflaggers include spamming fat or otherwise unpleasant art, "campaigning" with AI art, attempting to frame the character as being trans, and generally being a nuisance in the threads in the name of their targeted character.

Metagaming
Metagaming, also known as Strategic Voting is a concept in which anons will vote to manipulate the bracket rather than for who they actually prefer, typically in the hopes of eliminating perceived strong characters in their main's bracket in favor of weaker picks for a better chance of their main's success. This can also be done to try and force a "fitting" match-up. A commonly referred to example of metagaming is Ms. /co/ 2021, in which many anons found the Elite Eight of that tournament to be underwhelming due to their favorites having been strategically voted out by rampant metagaming.

Pityvoting
Pityvoting is a concept of a character receiving votes from anons specifically due to an unfortunate and recent meta event related to him or her, usually the cancelation of a series or the death of a voice actor. This is often a point of contention for these characters, as arguments break out over whether or not their success is founded primarily on sympathy for the character's series/VA rather than the character's actual merit.

Silent Majority
The Silent Majority is a general "group" of anons from Brazil who vote without participating in the tournament threads. Silent Majority picks are defined by having massive success despite having no thread presence; while this is an indication of a character's innate popularity among the board, the Silent Majority is viewed unfavorably by some and can cause an associated character to be seen as an uninteresting pick. Recent tournaments have had official measures by the hosts to discourage Silent Majority voting, with the voting forms moved to the OC anchor rather than the top of the thread to encourage anons to interact with the thread rather than simply voting from the catalogue and never visiting the thread itself.

Spitevoting
Spitevoting refers to voting for a character for no other reason than to vote against the other character in the matchup. Reasons for spitevoting tend to either be a case of metagaming, hatred of a specific character/series, or an anon seething over his main losing to that character in a previous round.

Team F.A.R.T.S.
"FARTS" is an acronym used in Ms. /co/ to refer to the characters Frankie Foster, Azula, Raven, Toph, and Shego, grouping them together under the reasoning of these characters being the most prevalent heavy hitters that consistently seed and perform well due to their high popularity, and having all returned in the year 2021 when the term first gained widespread use. The term is frequently used within the Ms. /co/ tournaments, with some criticizing the acronym as ruining the chances of these characters of actually winning due to creating a stigma of being seen as boring anti-underdog picks. The term has also been used in comparison to refer to characters other than the girls named in F.A.R.T.S who share the same qualities of being perceived heavy hitters.

DTVA/(L)MAO
Characters of animated series produced by Disney Television Animation. In tournaments, it only refers to The Ghost and Molly McGee, Amphibia and The Owl House. They are the main victims of spitevoting because of the hatred against nu-Disney. Recently, DTVA signed a cooperation agreement with The Loud House, a Nicktoon that, despite being more successful in real life, also suffers hatred Internet-wise, but for different reasons. Because it doesn't include other DTVA series, a new acronym was proposed: (L)MAO.