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Greatest Science Fiction Television Tournament starts Nov. 8

Our next 42 week tournament starts on November 8. The eligible titles can be found on this list. If anything is missing, you can email me here and it will go on the list of possible wild card entries. Round one of the tournament will be 24 weeks of 8 titles per week, which can be voted as “average,” “above average,” “below average” or “haven’t seen it.” At the end of those 24 weeks, we’ll start round 2, with the top 120 performers from this list and the 8 wild card entries, which then go head-to-head style in 8 weeks. The surviving 64 move on to round 3 for 4 weeks, then 32 in round 4 for 2 weeks, and then 16, 8, 4 and 2 titles move on to rounds 5, 6, 7 and 8 respectively. The winner will then be announced on August 29, 2014. Specific voting dates are listed in that original document. Our next tournament will start approximately 10 weeks later.

You chose our TV tournament’s format

The format of the Greatest Science Fiction Film Tournament has been chosen by you guys, the readers. The results can be seen in detail here. We will not break the tournament down by season or episode, looking only at whole series. As before, Bureau 42 authors will come up with a starter list of shows, and wildcards can be submitted by the voters. The tournament will still be 42 weeks. The only real difference between this and the movie tournaments are in scale (half as many titles to start with, so that “round one” will have 8 movies per week instead of 16) and the use of mandatory unique identifiers to provide more statistical analysis. (Those identifiers can be anything provided it won’t be duplicated, and they won’t be seen publicly. They’ll be used solely to correlate votes from a single voter across multiple weeks. With sufficient statistics, we may turn it into a recommendations engine, so that we’ll have a sidebar that lets you say “I like A, B and C, what else should I check out?” and get useful answers.) Once we assemble the starting list of titles, we’ll post a start date for the tournament and get the ball rolling.