Forum 7's Factbook Contest!

[Valentine Z]

With an 8-3, I take the win. Mew! A great effort from Khoronzon nonetheless, it's been an honour!

Next up, we have:

Synne Industries – [RSI] S.A.B.E.R.
Khoronzon – Lord of the Red Throne - Prologue

Good luck! ♥

[Valentine Z]

And with a 5-1, Synne Industries takes the win! Congratulations!

And next up, we have:

Cybus1 – The Drakul: Vampires
Cosmic Unity Church – Life under the Church

Good luck, and all the best! ♥

[Valentine Z]

With a 5-3, Cybus takes the win! Congratulations, and great effort from Cosmic Unity Church as well!

Next up, we have:

Zitravgrad – Zitravgradian Culture: Eastern Slavic, Pseudo-Vintage and Trans-Postmodernist
Wexas – Marshers

Good luck! ♥

[Voxija]

My factbook is up next bracket, and I'm apprehensive.

[Kiu Ghesik]

I consider Zitravgrad's to be a more cohesive view of the culture it describes' practices as opposed to primarily focusing on more esoteric details, thanks to its by-far more complete form, though honestly I'm just too enamored with the tiled images thing at the moment to deliver an unbiased, objective judgement, and I think they're both stellar, creative factbooks. Zitrav just seems to have a bit more graphic design put in, and the image distribution is just more to my fancy. But Alexis Jonas is based, I've got to say.

[Valentine Z]

With a close shave of 6-5, Zitravgrad takes the win! And now, we move to the second last bracket for this round as a whole!

Zitravgrad – Zitravgrad's Economy, Imports/Exports and Major Industries
Voxija – Voxijan Stereotypes and Perceptions

All the best, and good luck! ♥

[Voxija]

Well, at least I know I won.

[Valentine Z]

With a 2-5, Voxija wins! Congratulations, and still a great effort from Zitravgrad!

And thus, we move on to the final bracket of the round!

Surrealist Patagonia – Death of the Patron - The Breakaway States of Patagonia (1976)
Godular – Society and Culture

Good luck! ♥️

[Valentine Z]

With a 7-1, Patagonia takes the win! Still a great effort from Godular nonetheless, considering that you have made it into the second round!

And thus this concludes the second round! Let me do the random shuffling and hopefully soon enough I will be ready with new brackets after a day or less of intermission.

[Valentine Z]

Round 3 is up! Well, just the bracket announcement. I am not running it just yet, give me a few more hours! ^^

Some of them are nearing victory, some of them still has a bit of a leg to run on. Here they are!

Overview Category - 7 / 7

Zitravgrad – Bureau of the Premier & Office of the Prime Minister | Custom Overview - Policy - NS Stats
Diarcesia – Overview

Montevento – OVERVIEW | Most Serene Republic of Montevento
Bloodshade – The Inception of Bloodshade

Coryanhafflaruda – Species Info Data; Coryans, Dragons, and more!
Fallen Albali – Wiki factbook (Albali overview)
The Restored Danelaw / Twithe Gilakish Republic – Gilan >> Overview

History Category - 3 / 3

Synne Industries – Sun Never Sets [ACT 1]
Wuchu / Shtet – We Are Here | אונז זענען דא

Synne Industries – Sun Never Sets [ACT 2]
Wuchu / Shtet – We Are Here | אונז זענען דא

(If you guys have better feedback on how to run this, please do let me know! ♥)

Geography and Cartography Category - 2 / 2

Khoronzon – The World
Zitravgrad – Zitravgradian Wastelands: Testament of The Near-End of the World

Military Category - 4 / 4

The Restored Danelaw / Sildorian Empire – The Sildorian Armed Forces (Sildorian Empire)
Synne Industries – Providence

Bloodshade – Bloodshade Difesameija
Synne Industries – Ozymandias 2, Return of the Ghost Plane

Leaders and Characters Category - 10 / 10

Kiu Ghesik – Ari, Daughter of Oloughin, Caller on the Council of Nations
Zitravgrad / Dozdcheny – The Spokesperson of the Kramashka Savet

Godular – Kal'Shazzar, High Executor of the Godulan Control Framework
Socialist Communist States – Kokichi Oma: The Ultimate Supreme Leader

Wuchu – profile.html
Khoronzon – The Emperor

Surrealist Patagonia – Konrad "Maestro" Svoboda, The Patron of Surrealist Patagonia
Western Fardelshufflestein – King Alastair Laertes Amadeus Ludwig Kehrer IV

Zitravgrad – Kremlin's Dispatch #01 (Part 1/2) - Premier Kazimir I. Miroslavsky
The Krirken Swarm – World Queen Ki'Kik

Misc. Category - 10 / 10

Surrealist Patagonia – Death of the Patron - The Breakaway States of Patagonia (1976)
Wuchu – void1.html

Voxija – Voxijan Stereotypes and Perceptions
Synne Industries – [RSI] S.A.B.E.R.

Montevento – TOURISM | Most Serene Republic of Montevento
Zitravgrad – Zitravgradian Culture: Eastern Slavic, Pseudo-Vintage and Trans-Postmodernist

Valentine Z – The Wonderful World.
Cybus1 – The Drakul: Vampires

Montevento – GOVERNMENT | Most Serene Republic of Montevento
Kyoki Chudoku – Aozoratarianism

If you won and you are missing, or you are not supposed to be there, or if there are other disputes, please do let me know ASAP before I start rolling! ♥

[Voxija]

Round 3 is up! Well, just the bracket announcement. I am not running it just yet, give me a few more hours! ^^

Some of them are nearing victory, some of them still has a bit of a leg to run on. Here they are!

...

If you won and you are missing, or you are not supposed to be there, or if there are other disputes, please do let me know ASAP before I start rolling! ♥

I won a miscellaneous bracket, yet I am not on this round. Please fix.

The contest entries have been fixed, so I removed them.

[Valentine Z]

Shoot, I knew there was an entry missing. Ahh, fixed. Thanks, and sorry about that!

Also please snip out the contest entries from your reply. ^^;

[Western Fardelshufflestein]

*Looks at opponent*
Oh f--

'Twill be a valiant duel.

[Valentine Z]

All right, that is enough of a buffer. Back to our program! First Round, First Category, First Bracket!

Zitravgrad – Bureau of the Premier & Office of the Prime Minister | Custom Overview - Policy - NS Stats
Diarcesia – Overview

Good luck! ♥

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Reminder for the current and next 3 brackets to no longer edit. The next 3 brackets include:

Montevento – OVERVIEW | Most Serene Republic of Montevento
Bloodshade – The Inception of Bloodshade

Coryanhafflaruda – Species Info Data; Coryans, Dragons, and more!
Fallen Albali – Wiki factbook (Albali overview)
The Restored Danelaw / Twithe Gilakish Republic – Gilan >> Overview

Synne Industries – Sun Never Sets [ACT 1]
Wuchu / Shtet – We Are Here

[Valentine Z]

With an absolute 8-1, Zitravgrad takes the win. Congratulations! :3

Next up, we have:

Montevento – OVERVIEW | Most Serene Republic of Montevento
Bloodshade – The Inception of Bloodshade

Good luck! ♥ And again, so sorry for the relatively late update. Today's been... long.

[Kiu Ghesik]

I'm biased since I think Inception was one of the first factbooks I ever reviewed and thus I've got a bit of nostalgia for it. However, looking past that from a more objective perspective, it's actually a really hard choice. While Bloodshade's is more engaging by virtue of the setting being more removed from our own, Montevento is presently the more complete one imo, and makes slightly better use of color in my opinion. It fills out the role of "Inevitable Wiki Factbook" better as well, I think, since it's written less as a narrative (A thing I do love, though) and more of an actual objective wiki article. But, as I said, despite how shiny Montevento's is I've consistently found Inception to be more memorable, and it left a sharper impression on me as to Bloodshade as a nation as opposed to Montevento. It was, despite being OOCly far less colorful, a far more colorful narration of the story Bloodshade tries to tell. Thus my bias overcomes my love for Montevento's specific shade of green in this specific scenario.

Both really great factbooks imo, but Bloodshade's shines just a little bit more when you get down into it.

[Valentine Z]

With a turn of events of 8-6, Montevento takes the victory. Congratulations to Monte for the win, and for Bloodshade on making it this far! Don't worry, there are going to be honourable mentions soon enough! ^^

And with that, we move on to the last bracket of the Overviews!

Coryanhafflaruda – Species Info Data; Coryans, Dragons, and more!
Fallen Albali – Wiki factbook (Albali overview)
The Restored Danelaw / Twithe Gilakish Republic – Gilan >> Overview

Good luck! ♥

[Bloodshade]

Congrats to Montavento for the win! That was a very close one.

Good luck to the three contestants in this current matchup!

[Valentine Z]

With a very close 7-6-2, Cory takes the win! Congratulations, and good luck on the last round that should be coming soon!

And with that, we move on to history, whereby there will be two brackets that will determine the more popular vote between Synne and Wuchu!

First up, we have:

Synne Industries – Sun Never Sets [ACT 1]
Wuchu / Shtet – We Are Here | אונז זענען דא

Good luck! ♥

[Voxija]

Although Synne's is objectively the better factbook, I am still obligated to vote for Wuchu, due to matters of race and religion.

[Valentine Z]

For the first round, Synne takes the win with a 6-5! So Wuchu still has one more chance to compete against Synne! If Synne wins this round again, he wins! If Wuchu wins this round, ACT I and Wuchu will compete in a bonus round.

As a result, next one, we have:

Synne Industries – Sun Never Sets [ACT 2]
Wuchu / Shtet – We Are Here | אונז זענען דא

Good luck! ♥

[Continental X]

In terms of content both are absolutely stunning factbooks and I think in this aspect it is really hard to find a "winner", but nevertheless I personally give my vote to Synne as in my opinion their factbook is designed in the most engaging way and with a special attention to details in the aesthetic formatting that make the experience better at least in my eyes.

[Valentine Z]

All right, with a 5-3, Synne takes the win! Congratulations! So now you have two victories on yourself, that is pretty nice! The prizes will be sent at the end of the entire contest.

As a bonus round before we move on to the next one, we still need a clear winner, so without further ado... here it is.

Synne Industries – Sun Never Sets [ACT 1]
Synne Industries – Sun Never Sets [ACT 2]

Which ACT wins? Yours to decide!

[Zitravgrad]

This battle will be legendary. A wise man once said that one's own greatest enemy is oneself!

[Kiu Ghesik]

act 1 involves quite a good deal of based violence; act 2 has more.