Queen of /v/ 2024

Queen of /v/ 2024
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Host	Unknown
Date	TBD (most likely November 2024)

Queen of /v/ 2024 will be the sixth edition of the annual King of /v/ tournament. It will likely occur in early November of 2024.

Rules

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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 girl is already nominated

Character / series eligibility

• FOTM Clause: Characters who first appeared at the month before the start of this contest (October 01 and later) are banned.
• Visual novels / eroge games / galgames are allowed (e.g. Fate, Steins;Gate, Hunie Pop)
• Characters debuting in non-vidya media that is part of an established vidya franchise are accepted. (e.g. Miss Pauling first appeared in WAR! Comic, a tie-in webcomic to Team Fortress 2's WAR! Update. Fate/Apocrypha is originally a light novel, but Jeanne d'Arc also appears in the gacha game Fate/Grand Order; furthermore, the Fate franchise began as a visual novel. Uma Musume was first announced as a mobile gacha game, but it was delayed to the point that the anime came out first; regardless, both the game and the anime are equally popular among fans.)
• Characters debuting in a game that is part of a non-vidya / multimedia franchise are accepted (e.g. Android 21 from Dragon Ball FighterZ is a game-original fighter despite being part of the wider Dragon Ball manga series. Iroha Tamaki is the protagonist of Magia Record, a mobile gacha game spinoff of Puella Magi Madoka Magica, which began as a 2011 anime.)
• Characters that do not debut in a video game may be accepted if they are deemed to have a sufficiently strong presence in /v/ board culture, or are better known for their video game appearance. (e.g. Geralt @ The Witcher, AM @ I Have no Mouth)
• 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. (e.g. Leona @ King of Fighters, Joker @ Persona, Sora @ Kingdom Hearts, Master Hand @ Super Smash Bros., Wario @ Wario 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 fan-made characters, including memes, OCs and custom characters (e.g. Anonymous Guy, Coomer, Coldsteel the Hedgeheg, Create-A-Player from NBA 2K )
• No inanimate objects (e.g. L-Block, Ebony & Ivory)
• No grandfather clause: a contestant that appears here may not be allowed for future editions (e.g. Ebony & Ivory after 2021)

Excluded Characters

Elite Eight Rule

Characters appearing in the quarter-finals round and onwards of the previous contest are not allowed to compete in this edition. They will be eligible for nomination next contest.

2023 Elite Eight (Will be eligible next contest)
2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th
Amaterasu (x2)	Roll (x3)	Bayonetta	Malon	Fio Germi (x3)	Ashley Graham	Taokaka
Okami	Mega Man	Bayonetta	The Legend of Zelda	Metal Slug	Resident Evil 4	BlazBlue

Tournament champions, on the other hand, are permanently retired and will be barred for future editions. Winners' series are now also reduced to two slots in a respective tournament.

Queens of /v/alhalla (PERMANENTLY RETIRED)
2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Samus Aran	Reimu Hakurei	Recette Lemongrass	Midna	Curly Brace
Metroid	Touhou Project	Recettear	The Legend of Zelda	Cave Story

Whitelist

Starting with King of /v/ 2022, the concept of a whitelist was introduced to allow certain characters to circumvent the usual rules of entry if they were deemed to have significant enough /v/idya history and got voted through by anons. If this concept remains for Queen of /v/ 2024, the following characters were both voted to be whitelisted:

• Hatsune Miku from the Project DIVA video games
• Roll Caskett from Mega Man Legends (as a separate entity from classic Roll)

Qualifying round

Live nomination list: TBD

Qualifier Results: TBD

A maximum of 3 girls per series can enter the bracket, with the exception of extra restrictions applied to the series of the previous year's Elite Eight and former Champions.

Advanced

Bold text indicates character who appears in the bracket for the first time.
Okami, Mega Man, Bayonetta, Metal Slug, Resident Evil, and BlazBlue will only be allowed 2 girls in the bracket instead of 3.

Due to the current restriction for former champions' series, Metroid, Touhou Project, Recettear, The Legend of Zelda, and Cave Story are only allowed 2 girls in future tournaments.

Bracket

128 characters, double elimination. The bracket is seeded according to qualifier votes; if multiple characters have the same amount of qualifier votes, the higher seed goes to whoever is nominated properly first. If a match ends in a tie, both characters will advance to the next round, resulting in some matches having 3-4 characters. However, if the tied match is a final, then the higher seed wins the title.

All rounds begin and end at Eastern Time evening hours (UTC-04:00, around 20:00~22:00).

• Bracket Link: TBD
• Voter Turnout: TBD

Thread Links

• New Booru: Booruplus
• Google Polls Results: TBD

Arch.b4k.co
Archived thread links: Nominations: Qualifiers: Round 1: Round 2: Round 3: Round 4: Quarter-finals: Semi-finals: Final: Losers' Final: Grand Final: Post-Tournament:

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