There’s been 331 ties in this tourney - well by my shonky maths AND when we get through finals week it’ll be 333. What a set of stunning battles it's been. The thing is there are countless draws that we will never see. Match-ups there could have been. Thrills went out too early; thrills smuggled themselves through to later round. There was a world of infinite possibility we’ve not seen… well no there isn't, there’s some maths I can’t be arsed to do to get to the VERY big number of possibilities we’ll never see…
At least ‘til now…
I’ve had so much fun with this tourney I’m not quite ready to let go (and could maybbbbbeeee do with a week or two more to get the next thing ready. Hell I’m out of shape when it comes to getting these tourney’s organised!). So I’m proposing we look back and dip into the multiverse and pull out ties that we’d have loved to have seen that never came up.
Maybe there’s a derby match you’d love to see, Invasion vs Savage, Aquila vs Blackhawk; heck we could add more proof to the now proven idea that Ant Wars is the best GFD thrill by matching it up with Rogue Trooper.
Should the thrills that fell too soon get the chance to meet opponents from later rounds. If Anderson hadn’t fallen to Zenith could she have been a match for Halo Jones. Heck could Zenith have taken on any of the Quarter Finalists if it hadn’t met Nemesis in Round 6? Devlin Waugh and Zombo are the two thrills that fell criminally early, which thrills that got to Round 5, 6 or even later do you think they could have beaten.
Who knows maybe there was just a tie that you think would have been fascinating. I’d love to have seen Thistlebone vs Cradlegrave and so many more.
So here’s your chance. Just use this thread to nominate as many ties that did not happen as you’d like to see, or back up someone elses vote. I’ll pick the 16 most popular or interesting sounding ties (I’ll try to make the thrills in each unique but we’ll see) and dive into the multiverse and we’ll have two weeks of What if ties just for the heck of it.
Pop nominations anything over the next week and I’ll do the rest…
If you need a reminder of what’s already happened here’s the
spreadsheet I’ve tracked all this on, so you can see what we have seen and therefore what we didn’t. Enjoy
