King of /v/ 2022
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Co-Op | 2023 • 2024 | ||
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King of /v/ 2022 was the fourth edition of the annual King of /v/ tournament held in the anonymous imageboard 4chan. The tournament was hosted by NightShiftAnon !!9A2duD1C25+, BallsAnon !th0DR5qBxs, and Ghost !!eh0Fgi0FQSV. Featuring 1373 nominees and a 128-player randomized single elimination bracket, the tournament concluded with the 5th seeded knight Jack Garland from Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Originwinning the championship over the icy demon
Jack Frost from Shin Megami Tensei. Third place went to the augmented
JC Denton from Deus Ex, defeating the computer
AM from I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream in the consolation match. In quite the coincidence, Garland won exactly on the 35th anniversary of both the Final Fantasy series and the original incarnation of the character.
Rules
How to nominate
- Character must appear in a video game (vidya)
- You must post the image, type the character name AND the correct series name (e.g. [I nominate] Link from Legend of Zelda)
- 12 replies / (You)s are needed in a single thread to qualify as a nominee.
- One nominee per post only
- Check the nomination list (Ctrl+F, click the "three vertical dots" icon, and enter character name) to see if your guy is already nominated
Character / series eligibility
- FOTM Clause: Characters who first appeared at the month before the start of this contest (November 01 and later) are banned.
- Visual novels / eroge games / galgames are allowed
- Characters debuting in a game that is part of a non-vidya / multimedia franchise are accepted
- Characters debuting in non-vidya media that is part of an established vidya franchise are accepted. Limited to 3 characters only in the bracket.
- Characters who are not male/female or whose gender is unknown are eligible for both Queen and King tournaments, but if they appear in the main bracket in the Queen contest, they will be ineligible for nomination in King (and vice versa).
- Spinoffs and crossovers are counted as separate series. This rule mainly applies to characters debuting and/or are better known from said series.
- However, if a given character has previously appeared in another game prior to being featured in a spinoff/crossover/guest appearance, they will be entered under their original series whenever the host deems it convenient.
- No real-life people allowed
- No fan-made characters, including memes, OCs and custom characters
- No inanimate objects (e.g. L-Block, Ebony & Ivory)
- No grandfather clause: a contestant that appears here may not be allowed for future editions.
Whitelist
This is a list of characters who break at least one of the above rules, but are approved by anons and/or the host anyways. They can still be excluded for future editions if enough people desire so through a survey held during the final round.
- All Winnie the Pooh's Home Run Derby characters
- All Vocaloid characters
- AM AM from I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
- Template:Tony hawk Tony Hawk from Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
- Template:Mike tyson Mike Tyson from Punch-Out!!
- Sam (Sam & Max) from Sam & Max
- Max (Sam & Max from Sam & Max
Excluded Characters
Elite Eight Clause
Characters who reached the Elite Eight of the previous tournament are temporarily ineligible this year; they will be eligible for nomination next contest.
2021 Elite Eight (Will be eligible next contest) | |||||||||||||||||||
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2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | |||||||||||||
Dr. Eggman | Kazuma Kiryu | Morshu | Wario | Leon Kennedy | Heavy | "Fuhrer" | |||||||||||||
Sonic the Hedgehog | Yakuza | The Legend of Zelda | Wario | Resident Evil | Team Fortress 2 | Persona |
Tournament champions, on the other hand, are permanently retired and will be banned for future editions.
King of /v/alhalla (PERMANENTLY RETIRED) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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2019 | 2020 | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
Senator Armstrong | Dante | The Batter | ||||||||||||||||||
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance | Devil May Cry | OFF |
No Double Duty Clause |
Characters who are eligible for both tournaments cannot be nominated here if they previously appeared in Queen of /v/ 2022's bracket: |
Voting policy
All rounds last 24 hours starting from the first relevant thread posted. Countdowns via the its.almo.st website will be provided by the host.
Starting from the qualifiers, all polls and results will be held in Google Polls. A Gmail account is needed to access the voting form. Emails will not be visible to the host and other users. Before voting, a user must answer a question related to 4chan board culture and tournament history, and must fulfill a CAPTCHA test before they can submit their votes. A user can change their choices at any time before the round ends; this is to allow campaigns like fan arts, voice recordings, video edits, songs, and poetry to convince someone to change their mind.
In the main bracket rounds, you must vote for all matches.
Qualifying round
Live nomination list by NightShiftAnon: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x9oxZFKDrSWqtzOytHiJ0609YxoqiqkL1g8Qj1c28vQ/edit#gid=0
Qualifier Results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K5Hra01e0p-yWQKUv1IgbowM_QEeZ2Qkg1yEIqF879s/edit#gid=0
1341 successful nominees will be consolidated into a single massive group where voters select the guys that they want to advance. There is no restriction on how many guys they can select. This format is called Approval voting. After the round ends, 128 guys with the most votes will advance into the bracket. Ties are broken by whoever gets properly nominated earlier.
A maximum of 3 guys per series can enter the bracket. However, if a series makes it into last year's Elite Eight, including the champion, their limit will be reduced to 2 guys for this edition.
Advanced
Bold text indicates character who appears in the bracket for the first time.
OFF, Sonic, Yakuza, Legend of Zelda, Wario, Resident Evil, Team Fortress, and Persona were only eligible for 2 guys in the bracket instead of 3.
Advanced to Main Bracket (128) | |||
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# | Character Name | Franchise / Series | Votes |
01 | Doomguy | Doom | 277 |
02 | Vergil | Devil May Cry | 271 |
03 | Phoenix Wright | Ace Attorney | 260 |
04 | Spamton | Undertale/Deltarune | 255 |
05 | Jack Garland | Final Fantasy | 249 |
06 | Miles Edgeworth | Ace Attorney | |
07 | JC Denton | Deus Ex | 244 |
08 | Kirby | Kirby | 243 |
09 | Sonic the Hedgehog | Sonic the Hedgehog | 242 |
10 | Luigi | Mario | 237 |
11 | Coach | Left 4 Dead | 233 |
12 | Mario | Mario | 231 |
13 | Grimm | Black Souls | 230 |
14 | Agent 47 | Hitman | 229 |
15 | G-Man | Half-Life | 226 |
16 | Solid Snake | Metal Gear | 224 |
17 | AM | I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream | 223 |
18 | Scout | Team Fortress 2 | |
19 | Jetstream Sam | Metal Gear | 222 |
20 | Engineer | Team Fortress 2 | 218 |
21 | Battler Ushiromiya | Umineko (When the Seagulls Cry) | 216 |
22 | Dracula | Castlevania | 214 |
23 | Brad Armstrong | Lisa | 213 |
24 | Gordon Freeman | Half-life | 211 |
25 | King Dedede | Kirby | |
26 | Giygas | Mother | 198 |
27 | Neo Cortex | Crash Bandicoot | 194 |
28 | Dick Gumshoe | Ace Attorney | |
29 | Meta Knight | Kirby | 193 |
30 | Bowser | Mario | 192 |
31 | Jevil | Undertale/Deltarune | |
32 | Rance | Rance | 191 |
33 | Simon Belmont | Castlevania | |
34 | Alucard | Castlevania | 190 |
35 | Duke Nukem | Duke Nukem | 186 |
36 | Harry Du Bois | Disco Elysium | 184 |
37 | Postal Dude | Postal | |
38 | Goro Majima | Like a Dragon | |
39 | Pepsiman | Pepsiman | 183 |
40 | Dung Eater | Elden Ring | 182 |
41 | Albert Wesker | Resident Evil | |
42 | Ridley | Metroid | 181 |
43 | Solaire | Dark Souls | 180 |
44 | Travis Touchdown | No More Heroes | 179 |
45 | Red Crewmate | Among Us | 178 |
46 | Cave Johnson | Portal | |
47 | Roland | LobCorp/Library of Ruina | 176 |
48 | ??? | The Binding of Isaac | 175 |
49 | Hollow Knight | Hollow Knight | 173 |
50 | Donkey Kong | Donkey Kong | 172 |
51 | Jacket | Hotline Miami | |
52 | Alex Eggleston | YIIK: A Postmodern RPG | |
53 | Metal Sonic | Sonic the Hedgehog | 170 |
54 | Nero | Devil May Cry | 167 |
55 | Isaac Clarke | Dead Space | 166 |
56 | Crash Bandicoot | Crash Bandicoot | |
57 | Ness | Mother | 164 |
58 | Christopher Robin | Winnie the Pooh's Home Run Derby | 163 |
59 | Jack Frost | Shin Megami Tensei/Persona | 161 |
60 | Captain Falcon | F-Zero | |
61 | Chris Redfield | Resident Evil | |
62 | Rando Armstrong | Lisa | 160 |
63 | Link | The Legend of Zelda | |
64 | Mega Man | Mega Man | 158 |
65 | Frank West | Dead Rising | 156 |
66 | V1 | Ultrakill | |
67 | Ellis | Left 4 Dead | 155 |
68 | Bill | Left 4 Dead | |
69 | The Hunter | Bloodborne | 154 |
70 | King K Rool | Donkey Kong | |
71 | Asura | Asura's Wrath | 153 |
72 | Banjo | Banjo-Kazooie | |
73 | Chief | Halo | |
74 | Gene | God Hand | 152 |
75 | Steve | Minecraft | 150 |
76 | Quote | Cave Story | 149 |
77 | Sans | Undertale/Deltarune | |
78 | Groose | The Legend of Zelda | |
79 | Mike Tyson | Punch-Out!! | 148 |
80 | N | Pokemon | 147 |
81 | Big Daddy | BioShock | 146 |
82 | Funky Kong | Donkey Kong | |
83 | Not Important | Hatred | 145 |
84 | Emperor of Mankind | Warhammer 40,000 | 144 |
85 | Wheatley | Portal | |
86 | Zero | Mega Man | |
87 | Patches | Dark Souls | |
88 | Isaac Kleiner | Half-Life | 143 |
89 | Pac-Man | Pac-Man | 141 |
90 | Starscourge Radahn | Elden Ring | 140 |
91 | Joshua Graham | Fallout | |
92 | Gabriel | Ultrakill | 138 |
93 | Father Garcia | Faith | 137 |
94 | Kim Kitsuragi | Disco Elysium | |
95 | Demi-fiend | Shin Megami Tensei/Persona | |
96 | Mr House | Fallout | |
97 | Keke | Baba is You | |
98 | Adam Jensen | Deus Ex | |
99 | Tony Hawk | Tony Hawk | |
100 | Frog | Chrono Trigger | 136 |
101 | Cuphead | Cuphead | |
102 | King Of All Cosmos | Katamari Damacy | |
103 | Earthworm Jim | Earthworm Jim | 135 |
104 | Regigigas | Pokemon | 134 |
105 | Niko Bellic | Grand Theft Auto | |
106 | Ayin | LobCorp/Library of Ruina | 133 |
107 | Companion Cube | Portal | |
108 | CJ | Grand Theft Auto | 132 |
109 | The Knight | Hollow Knight | |
110 | Max | Sam & Max | 131 |
111 | Sam | Sam & Max | |
112 | Luka | Monster Girl Quest | |
113 | Lucas | Mother | |
114 | Arbiter | Halo | 130 |
115 | King Dice | Cuphead | 129 |
116 | Zagreus | Hades | 128 |
117 | Tom Nook | Animal Crossing | |
118 | Hades (Kid Icarus) | Kid Icarus | 127 |
119 | Dwarf | Dwarf Fortress | 126 |
120 | Bomberman | Bomberman | 125 |
121 | Charles | Mafia City | |
122 | Parappa | Parappa the Rapper | |
123 | Mr. Game & Watch | Mr Game and Watch handhelds | |
124 | Pit | Kid Icarus | |
125 | Henry Stickmin | Henry Stickmin | 124 |
126 | Helltaker | Helltaker | 123 |
127 | John Ward | Faith | 122 |
128 | Tohru Adachi | Shin Megami Tensei/Persona |
Excluded due to series limit | |||
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# | Character Name | Franchise / Series | Votes |
20 | Raiden | Metal Gear | 220 |
20 | Revolver Ocelot | Metal Gear | 219 |
20 | Big Boss | Metal Gear | 218 |
49 | Sundowner | Metal Gear | 173 |
65 | Template:Liquid Snake | Metal Gear | 156 |
65 | Template:Otacon | Metal Gear | 156 |
93 | Template:Venom Snake | Metal Gear | 137 |
120 | Template:Hideo | Metal Gear | 124 |
139 | Template:Solidus Snake | Metal Gear | 119 |
146 | Template:Kazuhira Miller | Metal Gear | 117 |
146 | Template:Monsoon (Metal Gear) | Metal Gear | 117 |
24 | Soldier | Team Fortress 2 | 211 |
26 | Template:Medic (TF2) | Team Fortress 2 | 209 |
29 | Template:Demoman (TF2) | Team Fortress 2 | 193 |
32 | Template:Sniper (TF2) | Team Fortress 2 | 191 |
45 | Template:Saxton Hale | Team Fortress 2 | 178 |
54 | Template:Sneed (Mario) | Mario | 168 |
57 | Waluigi | Mario | 164 |
89 | Template:Merchant (Resident Evil) | Resident Evil | 142 |
119 | HUNK | Resident Evil | 126 |
81 | Template:King Harkinian (TLOZ) | The Legend of Zelda | 146 |
93 | Ganon | The Legend of Zelda | 137 |
57 | Shadow The Hedgehog | Sonic the Hedgehog | 164 |
110 | Template:Mecha Sonic | Sonic the Hedgehog | 131 |
110 | Template:Berdley | Undertale/Deltarune | 131 |
115 | Template:Papyrus | Undertale/Deltarune | 129 |
120 | Template:Kris Dreemur | Undertale/Deltarune | 125 |
127 | Starwalker | Undertale/Deltarune | 122 |
81 | Isaac | The Binding of Isaac | 146 |
127 | Lanky Kong | Donkey Kong | 122 |
75 | Template:Pot of Greed | Yu-Gi-Oh | 150 |
Did not qualify | |||
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# | Character Name | Franchise / Series | Votes |
129 | Rayman | Rayman | 122 |
130 | Havel the Rock | Dark Souls | |
131 | Ludwig | Bloodborne | |
132 | Oersted | Live A Live | 121 |
133 | Lorde | Black Souls | |
134 | The Judge | OFF | |
135 | Proto Man | Mega Man | |
136 | Ancestor | Darkest Dungeon | 120 |
137 | The Pale King | Hollow Knight | |
138 | Shovel Knight | Shovel Knight |
Tournament Format
To see what the bracket would have looked like if no series limit was enforced, click here. Format: Same format as before: 128 characters, single-elimination bracket. 7 rounds, 7 days. Characters are seeded based on their rankings in the qualifying poll.
- Which means that in the first round, top seed plays the lowest seed, second-highest seed plays the second-lowest seed, and so on. The bracket is designed so that the top 2 seeds will only meet in the final, top 4 in semi-final, etc.
- Each round lasts 24 hours after the link to the poll was posted. Countdowns are provided by the its.almo.st website.
- If a match is tied in votes, the better-seeded contestant advances. If a tie occurs in the final, an extra runoff vote is held instead.
- All guys who reach at least quarter-finals will be granted Elite Eight status, making them temporarily ineligible for King of /v/ 2022.
- Losers of the quarter-finals will play a 4-way consolation match in order to rank from 5th-8th. This will take place during the semi-finals.
- Semi-final losers will play each other at the final round to decide 3rd place.
- Lastly, the winner of the final match will ascend into /v/alhalla as the 2021 King of /v/, and will permanently retire from the tournament.
Voting policy:
- You must log-in to a Gmail account in order to vote. All emails will be anonymous to the organizer and other voters.
- You must answer one or more questions related to 4chan and /v/ culture before you can access the voting form.
- You must vote on all match-ups. In other words, no abstaining.
You cannot change your votes for the entire bracketYou can change your votes at any time.- You must answer one or more Captchas before you can submit your votes.
Tournament Bracket
Google Polls Results: Round 1 - Round 2 - Round 3 - Round 4 - Quarters - Semis - Final
Responses per Round: 1159 > 1207 > 1138 > 1456 > 1348 > 1221 > 1418
Challonge Link: https://challonge.com/gjlkx98j
Elite Eight
5th to 8th
5th-8th Match Result | |||||||||||||||||||
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Name | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | Total | ||||||||||||||
Travis Touchdown | 792.75 | 1154 | |||||||||||||||||
Phoenix Wright | 746.5 | ||||||||||||||||||
Albert Wesker | 691.25 | ||||||||||||||||||
Luigi | 632 |
External links
4chan archived threads
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4chan Tournaments | |||
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/co/mics & cartoons | Ms. /co/ | 2018 • 2019 • 2020 • 2021 • 2022 • 2023 | |
Mr. /co/ | 2018 • 2019 • 2020 • 2021 • 2022 • 2023 | ||
/v/idya | Queen | 2019 • 2020 • 2021 • 2022 • 2023 | |
King | 2019 • 2020 • 2021 • 2022 • 2023 |