Tournament: Favorite Landmark - WINNER: GREAT WALL OF CHINA!!!

THE RULES!

Please remember that this tournament is for you to vote using your opinion? not that of anyone else.

This tournament is for your favourite landmark. The ONLY voting criteria should be that it is your favourite.

If you have never heard of one of the options PLEASE take 30 seconds to click on the link (it will take you to wikipedia) where you can find some sort of description.

This tournament will have a new vote APPROXIMATELY every 24 hours (except for the final rounds which will be extended additional days for maximum votes). You will be alerted that a new group is up to vote because the title will change. For example, on a Tuesday the title might be "Tournament: Favourite Landmark ? Effect Region Round 1" and then on Wednesday it would be "Tournament: Favourite Landmark ? Scientific Region Round 1". You cannot vote for a pair after the vote has been closed. I do forget and/or get detained occasionally, though, so be patient if there is some gaps in the updating.

To begin with, 4 pairs of figures will be voted on for each round. This is done for time reasons. The later rounds will feature only one pair. Images will accompany voting pairs once we get past the initial rounds of 8 pairs.

To vote, all you need to do is look at the most recent vote announcement (one of my posts, and it will have a coloured bar each new round for easy visual recognition) and pick one figure from each pair. If you want to vote for one of the pairs but not the other, feel free to do so! But if you vote for anything other than what is up for the vote, your post will be ignored.

Please feel free to engage in some discussion, especially comments as to why you voted for what. This makes tournaments so much more interesting!

If at any time you'd like to see who has been eliminated and who is still in the running, please check the 2nd post of this thread, where I will be highlighting in red all eliminated historical figures. Please note that the region names listed in this post and used throughout the tournament have no meaning behind them whatsoever. They are an identifier only.

As always, all the normal rules apply. If you are found to be breaking the JC rules in this thread you will receive a warning, and may be forbidden from participating in the tournament after that. No voting with socks! This has happened before. If you get caught, you will not be allowed to participate in the rest of the tournament. If you have any questions PLEASE PM me!

Discussion on the nominations list has been ongoing over the past few days, but everybody seems satisfied with it. No changes will now be made, and you missed your chance to complain.

And that is all! Enjoy.

 

Effect Region

Allianz Arena
El Morro
Great Lakes
Himeji Castle
Lincoln Memorial
Milwaukee Mile
Nile River
Pantheon: region winner


Monument Region

St. Peter?s Basilica
Uluru (Ayres Rock)
White Sea-Baltic Canal
Big Ben: region winner
Cristo Redentor
Fernsehturm
Guinness Factory
Itsukushima Shrine


Explosion Region

Melbourne Cricket Ground
Mount Olympus
Parthenon
Sacre Coeur
Taj Mahal: region winner -- third place
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Yellowstone National Park
Amazon River


Memorial Region

Casa Loma
Death Valley
Emil Bach House
Great Pyramid of Cholula
Hanging Gardens of Babylon: region winner
Madame Tussaud?s Wax Museum
Hoover Dam
Panama Canal


Peace Region

Pearl Harbor Base
Sistine Chapel: region winner
Hearst Castle
Mississippi River
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Times Square
10 Downing Street
Gateway Arch


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Tournament begins now!



Effect Region

Allianz Arena
vs
El Morro

Great Lakes
vs
Himeji Castle

Lincoln Memorial
vs
Milwaukee Mile

Nile River
vs
Pantheon

 

Abstain

Great Lakes

Lincoln Memorial

Abstain

 

El Morro

Great Lakes

Lincoln Memorial

Pantheon

 

El Morro
Abstain
Lincoln Memorial
Pantheon

 

El Morro -- Allianz Arena looks awesome at night (I've driven past a few times), but gotta go with El Morro

Great Lakes

Lincoln Memorial

Pantheon

 

El Morro

Himeji Castle

Lincoln Memorial

Pantheon

 

Abstain

Hijime Castle: Yeah, I am from Ohio and have Erie bordering me, but this castle is amazing and gorgeous on a good day...meaning no rain!

Lincoln Memorial

Pantheon

 

El Morro

Himeji Castle

Lincoln Memorial

Nile

 

Abstain

Great Lakes

Lincoln Memorial

Pantheon

 

El Morro

Great Lakes

Lincoln Memorial

Nile

 

What an uninspiring round

Abstain

Abstain

Abstain

Pantheon

 

Allianz Arena - the only stadium I will probably vote for.

Great Lakes

Lincoln Memorial

Nile - not even fair for the Pantheon.

 

El Morro

Great Lakes

Lincoln Memorial

Pantheon

 

El Morro

Great Lakes

Lincoln Memorial

Nile

 

Allianz Arena
Great Lakes
Lincoln Memorial
Pantheon

 

El Morro

Great Lakes

Lincoln Memorial

Pantheon

 

El Morro

Great Lakes
? The castle is impressive. But I can't vote against these lakes. Right in the middle of them all is Michigan; my mother's state.

Lincoln Memorial
? Looks awesome, really.

Pantheon
? Ooh, harsh: voting against the Nile so early.

 

El Morro- I love this Puerto Rican fortress.

Great Lakes- Living near Lake Erie and having been to all the rest, I definitely have to vote for this.

Lincoln Memorial

Abstain

 

El Morro
Himeji Castle (with apologies to the Great Lakes)
Milwaukee Mile (I can't let this one go without getting a single vote)
Pantheon

 

El Morro

Himeji Castle

Lincoln Memorial

Pantheon

 

El Morro -- I don't care for sports


Himeji Castle -- though I live near the lakes, I castles


Milwaukee Mile -- Though I don't like sports, I like Lincoln even less


Pantheon -- gotta love those ancients

 

Effect Region results

Allianz Arena: 2
vs
El Morro: 14 -- Winner!!

Great Lakes
vs: 12 -- Winner!!
Himeji Castle: 6

Lincoln Memorial: 17 -- Winner!!
vs
Milwaukee Mile: 2

Nile River
vs: 4
Pantheon: 14 -- Winner!!

 

Monument Region

St. Peter?s Basilica
vs
Uluru (Ayres Rock)

White Sea-Baltic Canal
vs
Big Ben

Cristo Redentor
vs
Fernsehturm

Guinness Factory
vs
Itsukushima Shrine