Ms. /co/ 2019

Ms. /co/ 2019 was the second edition of the annual Ms. /co/ntest held in 4chan's /co/ - Comics & Cartoons board. It ran from September 13 to 23, with 128 girls duking it out again in a single-elimination bracket to determine the board's new queen.

The competition was dominated by Steven Universe, a Cartoon Network show whose self-titled sequel movie premiered mere days before the contest started. Spinel, the poster girl and main antagonist, was a hot flavour of the month girl on /co/ at the time.

Spinel, the tournament's top seed, became the champion after defeating Raven from Teen Titans in the final match by a score of 976-790. Her presence in the contest generated copious amounts of controversy due to her "flavor of the month" status from debuting in the sequel film Steven Universe: The Movie, which premiered 11 days before the contest started. She was also the most prominent girl associated with Discord brigades because of several anons claiming to have linked the contest to multiple servers in order to solicit votes for her. For these reasons, some users believed that Spinel's victory should be put an asterisk (*) next to it, with the implication that her championship is illegitimate. However, the official bracket image states that:

How to nominate?

 * To nominate a character, a user must include their name, picture, and source. All three characteristics must be present or it will be ignored.
 * Each valid nomination must garner at least five (5) replies in order to qualify for the contest. These replies are only counted if they are all within a single thread, and do NOT carry over to other threads.

Eligibility Criteria

 * Must originate from /co/ media (Western cartoons and comics) or have a substantial amount of /co/ material
 * Puppets are allowed (ex. Sesame Street, Muppets)
 * If two or more separate versions of the same character are nominated, and they have enough qualifying votes to advance into the main bracket, only the version with the most number of votes will advance.

Restrictions

 * Characters that are clearly not /co/ are not allowed (ex. /a/nime, live-action /tv/ and films)
 * Franchise Limit: For franchises with many female characters, only the top 5 girls with the highest votes in the qualifier poll can advance into the main bracket. However, there is no restriction on how many girls one can nominate from a single franchise.
 * Note: Franchise limit DOES NOT apply to Marvel, DC, and Disney characters.

Excluded Characters
Elite Eight Rule: Characters who have appeared in the Elite Eight last year are not allowed to compete in this edition. They will be eligible for nomination in next year's contest.

Jenny Rule: Previous Ms. /co/ champions are permanently retired, and will be barred from entering in future Ms. /co/ntests.

Qualifying Results
All Nominees Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/xfCKYCky Results Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/g9u1cmBS A total of 356 girls were successfully nominated into the qualifier poll.

Qualified
Ties are broken through alphabetical order of series name, the character name. Only the names written on the Pastebin are considered.

Did not qualify
This list will only cover those ranked 129-200, including characters snubbed by franchise limit.

Did not Appear
Below is a list of characters who appeared in last year's bracket, but were not nominated (or didn't get enough replies) for this edition.

Tournament Bracket


All times and dates are in Eastern Standard Time (UTC-04:00) and use the 24-hour format.

128 girls will play in a single-elimination bracket. Each round lasts 24 hours after the voting link was posted. Countdown timer is provided by the itsalmo.st website.
 * Results will be posted shortly after the countdown timer ends. In most instances, the next round begins at the same time the previous round's votes are released. A voting link for the new round will also be provided.
 * If a match is tied in votes by the end of the round, the higher seeded contestant advances.

Rounds 1-4
Round 1 started around 10:00; rounds 2 until quarter-finals began around 12:00.

Elite Eight
After OP's meltdown in the semi-finals, Stats anon resumed the round around 20:00. This became the new start time for the tournament's remaining rounds.

The results of the final were revealed several minutes before the midnight of September 24.

For the consolation match, voters ranked the quarter-final losers from 5th-8th. Final rankings were determined using the rank with the highest votes from each girl.
 * Example: If Azula has "6th" with the highest votes, and 5th / 7th / 8th place have less votes, then she will be ranked 6th. Votes from other opponents are NOT counted in this scenario; only the preferred rank choices within each girl are compared

Useful links
Dropbox link for OC artwork Ms. /co/ Booru Gallery /co/ Tournament in Your World of Text (Warning: Very Large Grid)