Firstly thanks to @Demonland for accepting our invitation to be a co-presenting partner of the eighth edition of Demonbracket. Those of you who have played before won't need any further instructions, but for everyone else the Bracket can be summed up as your opportunity to make an arbitrary choice about which Melbourne player you prefer based on whatever criteria you like.

It's a knockout tournament with some byes due to seeding and seniority (more intricate preview post here), where we work down to the one most preferred player on the list. Previous finals:

2012 - James Frawley d. Nathan Jones
2013 - Tom McDonald d. Mitch Clark
2014 - Nathan Jones d. Jack Watts
2015 - Nathan Jones d. Dom Tyson
2016 - Jack Viney d. Nathan Jones
2017 - Max Gawn d. Jack Viney
2018 - Neville Jetta d. Clayton Oliver 

The draw will be conducted live on Twitter @demonblog from 19:00 on Friday 25 January, with matches commencing 07:00 Monday 28 January. After that the tournament tree will be updated in this post, and daily matches posted for your voting enjoyment. You can either cast your vote in this thread, via Twitter, Facebook, email ([email protected]) or in the interests of bringing all the people together the BigFooty Demonbracket thread. Only one vote per person per matchup please.

Other important rules for first time players:

• The voting criteria for each match-up is your personal business. It need not have anything to do with football if you don't want it to, but if does then the best of British luck to you. We won't ask questions, and nor should anyone else. Vote shamers will be denounced.
• Voting will be conducted between 0700 and 1900 AEDST unless otherwise noted
• You must cast a valid vote for every match that day or none of your votes on that day's matches will count (I'll try and remind you where possible by there are no guarantees).
• You must pick a winner in every match up. No half votes, no "I can't split them". Yes you can, and you must.
• In the event of a tie both players will advance to the next round, except in the case of the Grand Final where a replay will be held the following day.
• If a match features three or more players and two or more tie for the most votes they will advance with all other players eliminated.
• We reserve the right to refuse an excessive number of multiple votes from the same person using multiple accounts

This thread will be updated with the list of preliminary and first Round matches on Friday night, and the first match-ups to vote on will be posted Sunday night.

Until then, have at your speculation about potential winners. With five former champions on the list and at least five other realistic championship contenders this promises to be the biggest Bracket yet, and we're thrilled to have the Demonland community join in.

Terrific move to have this included on the Demonland agenda during the pre-season, especially since the club has been unfairly prevented from defending its AFLX crown from 2018 by the Marvel Comix comp which we can all ignore in favour of this initiative (Andy, this deserves a podcast on its own).

Interested to know if Sportsbet is running a market on this and surprised that TMac has been in the wilderness since his shock victory over Mitch Clark in 2013.

Could we see Max Gawn and Braydon Preuss pitted against each other early in the piece?

10 hours ago, Whispering_Jack said:

Could we see Max Gawn and Braydon Preuss pitted against each other early in the piece?

Amazed at just how much attention and early respect Preuss is gathering from Demon fans ... if someone regularly going to training sessions has the inclination, could we please have a sustained  and very well considered report on his strengths and weaknesses as these are interpreted from observations and other sources, and write a post to these effects on DL across the next few weeks? It would be very interesting for all, taking an individual player in for some scrutiny.

17 hours ago, Chelly said:

Terrific move to have this included on the Demonland agenda during the pre-season, especially since the club has been unfairly prevented from defending its AFLX crown from 2018 by the Marvel Comix comp which we can all ignore in favour of this initiative (Andy, this deserves a podcast on its own).

Interested to know if Sportsbet is running a market on this and surprised that TMac has been in the wilderness since his shock victory over Mitch Clark in 2013.

I'm happy to do a podcast about this if @Supermercado has the time.

18 hours ago, Demonland said:

I'm happy to do a podcast about this if @Supermercado has the time.

Let's get past some of the sludgy prelim round games and into the big stuff then go for it.

Friends, a reminder that the draw will be conducted live on Twitter @demonblog from 18:00 tonight. The full schedule will be on demonblog.com at 19:00, and posted on here shortly after. The organising committee will then determine what Monday's opening games will be.

3 hours ago, Supermercado said:

Let's get past some of the sludgy prelim round games and into the big stuff then go for it.

Friends, a reminder that the draw will be conducted live on Twitter @demonblog from 18:00 tonight. The full schedule will be on demonblog.com at 19:00, and posted on here shortly after. The organising committee will then determine what Monday's opening games will be.

I was thinking of having an election night style full coverage of the entire event.

Tell me when I can finally vote these lame duck rookies out of contention.

The draw has been completed. No votes will be accepted until the post goes up Sunday night offering forum exclusive early voting on the first day of games.

The tournament

Monday 28 January - Preliminary Round/Round 1, part 1
Tuesday 29 January - Preliminary Round/Round 1, part 2
Wednesday 30 January - Round 1, part 3
Thursday 31 January - Round 2, part 1
Friday 1 February - Round 2, part 2
Monday 4 February - Round 2, part 3
Tuesday 5 February - Round 2, part 4
Wednesday 6 February - Round 3, part 1
Thursday 7 February - Round 3, part 2
Friday 8 February - Quarter Final day
Monday 11 February - Semi Final day
Tuesday 12 February - Grand Final day

Preliminary Round

James Jordon vs Kade Chandler
Toby Bedford vs Aaron Nietschke
Corey Wagner vs Austin Bradtke
Tom Sparrow vs Marty Hore vs Guy Walker

Round 1

James Jordon/Kade Chandler vs Tim Smith
Corey Maynard vs Joel Smith
Josh Wagner vs Harrison Petty
Bayley Fritsch vs Oskar Baker
Mitch Hannan vs Jay Kennedy-Harris

Aaron vandenBerg vs Kade Kolodjashnij
Braydon Preuss vs Tom Sparrow/Marty Hore/Guy Walker
Charlie Spargo vs Declan Keilty
Corey Wagner/Austin Bradtke vs Sam Weideman
Toby Bedford/Aaron Nietschke vs Jake Lever

Round 2

James Jordon/Kade Chandler/Tim Smith vs Jordan Lewis
Oscar McDonald vs Alex Neal-Bullen
Christian Petracca vs 8. Jake Melksham
6. Tom McDonald vs Hannan/Kennedy-Harris

Jeff Garlett vs Billy Stretch
Braydon Preuss/Tom Sparrow/Marty Hore/Guy Walker vs Hunt
Toby Bradford/Aaron Nietschke vs 4. James Harmes
Bayley Fritsch/Oskar Baker vs Aaron vandenberg/Kade Kolodjashnij

Sam Frost vs Spargo/Keilty
Jack Viney vs 5. Nathan Jones
Michael Hibberd vs Josh Wagner/Harrison Petty
Corey Maynard/Joel. Smith vs Christian Salem
Corey Wagner/Austin Bradtke/Sam Weideman vs 7. Angus Brayshaw

Round 3

1. Neville Jetta vs Jordon/Chandler/T. Smith/Lewis
O. McDonald/Neal-Bullen vs Petracca/Melksham
T. McDonald/Hannan/Kennedy-Harris vs Garlett/Stretch
Preuss/Sparrow/Hore/Walker/Hunt vs Bradford/Nietschke/Harmes

3. Clayton Oliver vs Fritsch/Baker/vandenberg/Kolodjashnij
Frost/Spargo/Keilty vs Viney/Jones
2. Max Gawn vs Hibberd/J.Wagner/Petty
Maynard/J.Smith/Salem vs C. Wagner/Bradtke/Weideman/Brayshaw

@Supermercado Would the vote counting be easier for you if I can create a poll? *

* not sure I can do that many separate polls in one. I know you can have multiple polls just but sure if there is a limit. 

If possible would that help?

 

8 minutes ago, Demonland said:

@Supermercado Would the vote counting be easier for you if I can create a poll? *

* not sure I can do that many separate polls in one. I know you can have multiple polls just but sure if there is a limit. 

If possible would that help?

 

No need, I enjoy manual tabulation. Also like counting votes.

So we kick off with Jordon v Chandler.

Decisions, decisions...

Congratulations, your Day 1 #demonbracket matches have arrived. Vote by 19:00 AEDT Monday 28 January on who you prefer out of:

Corey Maynard vs Joel Smith
Bayley Fritsch vs Oskar Baker
Josh Wagner vs Harrison Petty
Tom Sparrow vs Marty Hore vs Guy Walker

Winners of the first three games advance to Round 2, and the triple threat preliminary round match will feed into a later Round 1 game.

Happy voting sports fans.

How do I vote?
What do I do?
Just tell me how I can ensure that Tom McDonald wins as he should.

J Smith

Fritta

Petty

Hore

Corey Maynard vs Joel Smith
Bayley Fritsch vs Oskar Baker
Josh Wagner vs Harrison Petty
Tom Sparrow vs Marty Hore vs Guy Walker

Edited January 27, 20196 yr by Dee Zephyr

28 minutes ago, Chook said:

How do I vote?
What do I do?
Just tell me how I can ensure that Tom McDonald wins as he should.

Write the name of your preferred candidate and/or copy + paste then bold their name.

McSizzle will be entering the tournament later in the week.

Corey Maynard vs Joel Smith
Bayley Fritsch vs Oskar Baker
Josh Wagner vs Harrison Petty
Tom Sparrow vs Marty Hore vs Guy Walker

Corey Maynard vs Joel Smith
Bayley Fritsch vs Oskar Baker
Josh Wagner vs Harrison Petty
Tom Sparrow vs Marty Hore vs Guy Walker

SCorey Maynard vs Joel Smith
Bayley Fritsch vs Oskar Baker
Josh Wagner vs Harrison Petty
Tom Sparrow vs Marty Hore vs Guy Walker

Maynard

Baker

Petty

Walker

Corey Maynard vs Joel Smith
Bayley Fritsch vs Oskar Baker
Josh Wagner vs Harrison Petty
Tom Sparrow vs Marty Hore vs Guy Walker

Joel Smith
Bayley Fritsch
Josh Wagner
Tom Sparrow

Corey Maynard vs Joel Smith
Bayley Fritsch vs Oskar Baker
Josh Wagner vs Harrison Petty
Tom Sparrow vs Marty Hore vs Guy Walker

Corey Maynard vs Joel Smith
Bayley Fritsch vs Oskar Baker
Josh Wagner vs Harrison Petty
Tom Sparrow vs Marty Hore vs Guy Walker