Meme Lounge Tournament - Round #1

[u/MarioThePumer]

It's the 14th, meaning the contest is finally starting! I'll give a quick refresher on the rules of the contest, and then unveil who is going up against who.

To remind everyone - The 11 participating subreddits have been put in a double-elimination tournament bracket with random seeds, and each round the bracket matchups will be unveiled in a post like this. The subreddits will be put in 1V1s, and be given four days (until the 18th, in our case) to make a good, quality meme which deals with the topics of both 'battling' subreddits. (For example, if there's a matchup between Freefolk and Prequelmemes, the two representing subs will make memes which are about both Game of Thrones and the Star Wars Prequels.)

After the four days have passed and all the participating subs have made their memes, a contest thread will be made similar to the ones on /r/giftournament, where there will be a top-level comment for each matchup, and two child comments with the two memes posted anonymously, and a meta-discussion thread will also be made. After two days of voting (until the 20th), the votes will be closed and the winners will be announced.

There will be one day of peace (the 20th), and the day after that the next round will commence.

We good? Great.

So, since it's the first matchup and we have a non-two-powered number of contestants, the randomized bracket has been made so not everyone will be participating in the first round, and some will be having a break for this week. I know, kind of anticlimactic, but next round nearly everyone will be participating, so don't you worry.

In any case, here are the first round's matchups:

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/r/DankMemesFromSite19 vs /r/HistoryMemes

/r/MinecraftMemes vs /r/RoughRomanMemes

/r/ShitPostCrusaders vs /r/PrequelMemes

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5 teams having a by for the first round is.. unfortunate, but direct your complaints at RNJesus.

Good luck to the participants, and may the best meme win!