With the SpoilerTV Awards introduced, it’s time to start out the 2023 Character Cup. Woooo hooo! That is my favourite a part of the summer season hiatus and I hope you’ll be a part of me, cheering in your favourite characters and speaking TV. Properly-written, well-acted characters can transport us to new worlds, encourage us with new experiences, and assist us perceive new views, coming alive till we care about them virtually like actual folks. The Character Cup highlights and honors all these characters. So mirror again on these characters you simply can’t overlook, from these whose reveals have lengthy ended to these nonetheless on the air. It’s nomination time!
Word – I can not stress sufficient how essential the nomination section is to your favourite characters to get into the Cup. Some years it takes as few as 3-5 nominations to get in, so speak the nomination stage as much as others and, after all, tell us who your nominations and honorable mentions are within the feedback beneath. Don’t overlook to learn the nominating guidelines so all yours depend. Greatest needs to your whole favorites and let the competition start!
The Character Cup works equally to the Episode and Sequence Competitions. 64 characters compete head-to-head, with the winner advancing to the following spherical till just one is left. If you have not participated earlier than, it is merely a strategy to present your favourite characters some love and cross the time till the autumn season begins. There’s nothing critical about it, so please, take pleasure in.
What’s Completely different:
To incorporate extra fandoms, every present can solely be represented by 1 character and just one character per actor. Additionally, as soon as a personality wins the Character Cup, they’re retired and can’t be part of future Cups. This ensures a brand new victor annually.
The Character Cup additionally has 3 added elective options. There’s a prediction contest the place you may predict the winners. A mini-contest runs concurrent with the Cup on the finish so extra folks can keep concerned. Earlier mini-contests included Favourite Opening Credit, Pilot, Automobile, Villain, Theme Track, One-Season Present, Finale, and TV Animal. Solutions for different mini-contest subjects are drastically appreciated!
My favourite addition although is TV Speak. Every day there’s a new TV subject to debate so even when you do not have anybody to vote for that day, you may nonetheless be a part of the dialog. If in case you have any subject strategies, please nominate them. I am unable to wait to speak TV with you.
1. Only one submission per individual. Should you submit a number of nomination kinds, ALL of your submissions can be eliminated. Solely nominations with each the character AND the TV present can be counted. Please use the character’s first and final identify when you can (not the actor’s identify). If a personality is all the time known as by their nickname, that works too.
2. It’s a must to nominate 3-4 TV characters on the identical nomination type. Any kind of will invalidate ALL of your nominations. They are often reveals at present airing, these lengthy ended, and the whole lot in between. Solely TV characters from scripted, English-language reveals or non-English language reveals coated by SpoilerTV are eligible.
3. Nominating greater than 1 character from the identical present or greater than 1 character per actor will invalidate ALL of your nominations.
4. Please do NOT nominate Jack Shephard (LOST), Dean Winchester or Castiel (Supernatural), Root or Sameen Shaw (Particular person of Curiosity), Alex Danvers (Supergirl), Lucifer Morningstar (Lucifer), Lexa (The 100), Malcolm Vibrant (Prodigal Son), Scylla Ramshorn (Motherland: Fort Salem) or Temo Lopez (Mi marido tiene más familia). These characters are already previous winners and due to this fact are ineligible.
5. Nominations will shut round midday CST on June 15.
6. Questions? Ask within the feedback beneath.
Tentative Schedule:
Nominations – shut round midday CST on June 15
Nominating/rating polls – June 15 or 16 for lower than 24 hours
Prediction contest – begins June 16 and ends June 18
Character Cup – begins June 18 or 19 and ends earlier than July 1
