The Tournament of Doom

One of the great joys I have is being on the Council for the Tournament of Doom.

What is the Tournament of Doom, you ask.

Each summer for the past five years, Jason Stonerook has created a 64-person battle to the death (set up on the same brackets as you find in the NCAA basketball play-offs.) The people are a variety of movie heroes, comic characters, wild animals, video game creations, historical people and celebrities, and so forth.

We have the bracketed foes battle each other (in our minds), and then our students vote on who wins. We all have to do research and discuss. There a re 5 members on the Council, and if the Council is unanimous, the winner is announced. If we are not unanimous (which happens a lot), we draw randomly from the brackets.

Some incredible fights are imagined here. In the very first round of the first Tournament of Doom, we some incredible battles, such as Wolverine vs Luke Skywalker (does a lightsaber cut through adamantium?) and Batman vs Aragorn.

There are times when the 'popular vote' makes the highly improbable happen - such as Beastman of the Masters of the Universe defeating Worf of Star Trek, or Tarzan defeating Aquaman (I still get grumpy about that one.)

The winners from the previous Tournament of Doom:

I: Darth Vader
II: Mace Windu
III: Storm
IV: The Power Puff Girls
V: the team of V (from V for Vendetta) and Mary Poppins

We do have a webpage - http://www.geocities.com/tofdoom/index.htm. It has current commentary as well as articles from the various summers, the brackets from the different years, and the Tournament of Doom Hall of Fame.

I hope you enjoy it.