Tournament of Books discussion

Ok friends, bracket competition is live!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

I had to tinker a little since they changed the play-in seeding, so hopefully everything still works. Please let me know if you see anything that doesn't work!

I'm super impressed with whoever originated the document, it's robust!

You rock, Bretnie. I inherited the spreadsheet a couple of years back from Amy, so to my knowledge all of the credit for the intricate workings of it go to her.

Thank you Bertnie, Phyllis and Amy! Need to read a few more before I fill this in....

Yes, thank you for creating this new one, and cheers to all who were part of making it happen!

Thanks everyone who made the bracket possible! Working through a few more titles before getting my bracket in!

I'm in!

I may be banking on the one book I plan to read - and have not yet read - going pretty far, so here's hoping.

Yep thanks for doing this!

Question Bretnie, on my column (T), the second opening round didn't have a drop down for me, I manually typed in Buffalo Hunter Hunter. Will that effect how it is read if BHH wins?

Fixed it Bob, not sure what happened but it looks like everything else is working now. Thanks for flagging it!

am i doing something wrong or are the links not accessible on a phone? I've tried on both threads where it's posted and it says the link is invalid

Thanks for setting this up!

Heather: I just opened it on my phone, so I’m not sure what’s blocking it for you. :/

Heather you might not be able to fill it out on your phone without the google sheets app, but you should be able to access the link. I tried it a couple ways and it worked.

Last week to get your brackets in! I'll lock the fields on Thursday night.

Joy - it looks like you have duplicates in the last rounds - zombies are the same as the once you have advancing.

Bob don't forget to finish filling yours out (I think I corrected the issue you had before but maybe that blanked out the other entries?)

Thanks Bretnie! I'm furiously finishing my last few. Finishing What We Can Know today, then will start The Buffalo Hunter Hunter tonight. I'm hoping to get that and The Director done by Thursday. Here comes 1.5 audio speed! ;)

Amazing Excel work on adding the logic so that each round we can only choose from the books we voted for in the previous round - thank you so much!

ok I'm just going to throw darts in the dark.

I still have 2 1/2 to finish myself! With one being Katabasis, the longest one. But I'm going to assume no matter what I pick I'll be wrong, so that removes some stress of picking. :)

Just a reminder to enter/finish your bracket guesses by Thursday night!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Bob & Erica: don't forget to finish your entries!

Joy D, Audra, Chiara: Your zombie round has duplicate entries as the advancing round.

ok I think I fixed it

Thanks for that, Bretnie! I tried to fix it.
Could you please check if it is ok now?

Chiara wrote: "Thanks for that, Bretnie! I tried to fix it.
Could you please check if it is ok now?"

It still looks a little off - you have Endling both advancing to the semis and being picked as a zombie, and it could only be both. Probably doesn't break anything to keep it that way, so I'm not too worried about it. :)

Bretnie wrote: "Bob & Erica: don't forget to finish your entries!"

Oh, shoot!

Bob wrote: "Bretnie wrote: "Bob & Erica: don't forget to finish your entries!"

Oh, shoot!"

You both finished in time! :)

Four people are 3 for 3 so far! Mark, Tara, Chiara, and Alison.

I'm going to be traveling tomorrow through Monday and won't be able to make daily bracket updates, but if someone else would like to, I think anyone can do it. Just go to the "Bracket" tab and use the drop down to select that day's winner. Everything else should automatically update. I can always make the updates when I get back Monday, too.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Awesome, thank you, Bretnie!

Thank you, Bretnie, and have a great trip!

Updated today, Bob I am excited to see how far you can take this.

Kip wrote: "Bob I am excited to see how far you can take this."

Do you mean me going 0-5?! lol I hope I get tomorrow's right as I have Burning Heart winning the whole thing. Oy.

Well that would just be the cherry on top!

Ok. If you want to know who will win the tournament, take a look at my bracket and pick the book opposite of what I picked. The only one I got right thus far is Endling... And because I picked Endling as the winner, it will most certainly not be that.

Kat, if it gives you any hope, Bob is still solidly in the lead for worst picks, and he didn't pick Endling to win, ha.

I just checked today's pick and I guessed correctly! 🤪 Because, of course. I didn't read either book and don't really want to....

Mark is the only one who guessed Passenger Seat for today's matchup, taking the lead in the competition!

Bob, you're solidly holding on to your spot in last with a 1/10 record, ha.

Yasss. Let’s go Metallic Realms!
Oh, wait.

Welp. Buffalo is officially out so there goes half my finalists. Burning Heart is still in with a shout but who knows if it'll outlast the remaining zombies. My only correct answer, Flesh, I have losing in the next round so I'm running out of any more potential points. Oof. Rough year.

Ha, Bob, you're so close to clinching last place!

A dubious distinction to be sure. What's the prize for worst guesser? What's the opposite of a Rooster? A chicken? The Ig Rooster?

you should get an egg

Chiara takes the lead with The Catch and Flesh predictions!

It looks like several people have good shots at the zombie guesses.

Bob has another guess right with Flesh advancing! But don't worry, you're still holding on to last place.

Zero people had Passenger Seat advancing this far.

No one predicted Passenger Seat would make it to the final! But several people had either Endling or Flesh making it, so still some chances for the rankings to change! Except for Bob lol.

Oh, dear. So that's last place secured. I don't recall a worse bracket performance.

Way to go, Bob! I knew I liked your reading preferences.

Looks like Tara is our winner this year! Congrats on being least wrong in a year of many upsets. :) We used to be able to message directly to be able to send the winner some books, but with that feature gone, I'm open to alternative suggestions.

Hey! Tara!! Over here!!!

Congrats, Tara!

Tara! In this year of unpredictability, winning the bracket competition is no mean feat. Congratulations!!! If you want to provide to me some (any) method of communicating with you directly, I would love to send you the book of your choice. You can reach me at phyllis dot mann at gmail

Congratulations, Tara! I'd also love to send you a book!

Would it be feasible to give us an email address? You could open a gmail account just for this, if you don't want to post your email address publicly here.

A Tara did just appear in the Discord, if we get no response here.

I'm bored now. I got used to having a judgment to read every weekday morning.