Fictional Species Nominations! Opening Round Starts Feb.

[jesternl]

Ahh.. of course, the Green Fairy!

[dethwing]

Klingon
Vulcan
Borg
Ferengi
Betazoid
Protoss
Zerg
Wookie

That's all I feel like nominating.

[Zag]

Since I believe you said that the number of mentions a race gets matters, I'd like to add mentions to these which some others have already posted.

Vulcans (and Romulans, which are the same species)
Ferengi
Borg
Ents

[Lepton*]

Sandworm (Dune)
The Borg (Star Trek)
Ent (Lord of the Rings)
Iridonian, Darth Maul's race (Star Wars)
House Elf (Harry Potter)
Marsh-wiggle (Chronicles of Narnia)
Succubus (medieval legend)
The Soft Ones (Asimov's The Gods Themselves)
The Luggage (Discworld)
And...
Tribbles (Star Trek)

[lexprod]

We're at over 100 species
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[The Great Crep'er]

Darn, no one's said Decapodians yet or Nibblonians for that matter.

>_>

Or...

Brain Slugs
Omicronians
Trisolians
Venusians
Buggalo
Space Alligators
Neptunians
Grunka Lunkas
Cygnoids
Amphibiosans
Amazonians
Parameciums
Native Martians
Brain Spawn
Neutral People
Spheroids
Yarn People
or Slurm Worms!
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[JDTAY]

That list seriously lacks Hypnotoad.

[lexprod]

All hail hypno toad....
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[lexprod]

Alright, closing entries in 10 days. Get your nominations in!
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I'll have a P please...

[The Great Crep'er]

Yeh but according to my experience watching Futurama: Omicronians > Hypnotoad
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[redsneetch]

Time Lords
Ood
Judoon
Smurfs
Nessie
Gossamer (Looney Toons)
Sweetums (Muppets)
Reavers
Siren
Nibbler (Futurama)

[lexprod]

[mole*]

[TGC*]

[lexprod]

Nominations closed. Oddly enough there are 128 unique entries, so instead of doing a 64 bracket as planned, I'm going to do a modified 128 bracket, where 4 at a time we'll put the species against each other, two winners per poll. That will give us the 32 and from then on it'll be mano a whatever-o.

The nominees that got multiple nods will be seeded, randomly by number of nods. Most of it will be a bloody free-for-all, I expect many "upsets" as it were.

I will have to re-do my little google spreadsheet bracket, so I plan on not starting until Feb. 1st. I think 8 polls at a time is about the max I'd like to do, so with one poll a week, that's the entire first round in Feb, then I'll slow to 4 polls a week in round two which will take up March, and then stick to 4 polls a week to get through the sweet sixteen, elite eight, and final four all in April, and crown our champion when May begins.

Is this too slow? I felt like opening ALL polls for a round simultaneously may be a bit hectic and make people lose track of if they've voted yet.
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I'll have a P please...

[Zag]

[lexprod]

[Duke Gnome]

[Lex*]

Here's the list http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=taWEE9oPNd4WOHWT1rtjCSw&single=true&gid=0&output=html

If anyone wants to double check. There are some that are similar, like the many bigfoot-like species, but different regions and base species differentiates them in my eyes. Plus the four-species at a time first round should weed out any "weak" entries efficiently.

[Zag]

You have only Amb mentioning hobbits, but I did also. I don't know if that matters to your seeding.

[lexprod]

[lex*]

[Undercover Monk]

Well isnt aboniable snowmen and yetis the same. I suggest adding those two together and putting Yeerks (from Animorphs) in. I couldnt believe I forgot those evil slugs.
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[lex*]

[groza528]

I'm glad somebody else said Basilisk-- I wanted to get some nominations in and this was definitely one of them.