It's that time again: that time when the air is sweet, the daffodils are blooming, and a young girl's fancy turns to thoughts of BLOODY INTERNET SMACKDOWNS. Specifically, it's time once again for the BSC Review Book Tournament, wherein books published during the last year BEAT THE HOLY CRAP OUT OF EACH OTHER for your amusement. See how much we love you?
It's fun to speculate which books have authors behind them. The first match (with An Artificial Night) already has 14 votes to 8 (with the next highest). Match 3 in the Middle Earth bracket is also like that (170 votes when most of the other matches in that bracket have 50-90).
(I voted in all the ones where I'd read one book. So far, no match pairs two books I've read.)
It's fun, and also occasionally distressing. Last year, a friend of mine got knocked out by a book where the pattern would go:
1. Other book is in the lead. 2. Friend appeals to her social media. 3. Friend's book leaps to the lead! 4. Other book suddenly has that number of votes +1, with no other votes cast by those individuals.
They've changed how voting works this year, and I'm hoping that's to avoid this sort of thing.
quixotic
March 22 2011, 14:49:41 UTC 6 years ago
(I voted in all the ones where I'd read one book. So far, no match pairs two books I've read.)
March 22 2011, 15:00:42 UTC 6 years ago
1. Other book is in the lead.
2. Friend appeals to her social media.
3. Friend's book leaps to the lead!
4. Other book suddenly has that number of votes +1, with no other votes cast by those individuals.
They've changed how voting works this year, and I'm hoping that's to avoid this sort of thing.