TV Tourney?

[CopperTom]

i imagine the pool that spawned this thread. i am filling it with rocks.

I will nominate The West Wing in honor of that thread.

[Malloy]

i imagine the pool that spawned this thread. i am filling it with rocks.

I will nominate The West Wing in honor of that thread.

one hopes for the best. one perseveres. one reevaluates constantly. one is an asshole if one doesn't

[Mickey]

i imagine the pool that spawned this thread. i am filling it with rocks.

Think of it as an opportunity to have the bad shows publicly executed.

[epilogue]

If we're doing this tournament Twin Peaks has to be included.

[epilogue]

Some others that I don't think we mentioned (though maybe they were, sorry if any are reposts):
The X-Files
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Six Feet Under
Battlestar Galactica
Friday Night Lights
The Twilight Zone
The Leftovers
My So-Called Life
The Fall


And if we're including limited series:
Angels in America
Watchmen
American Crime Story: The People Vs OJ Simpson
The Queen's Gambit

[VinylGuy]

If we're doing this tournament Twin Peaks has to be included.

fuck yeah

Also

Atlanta
The Bear
Dave

[Anders]

Babylon 5
Rome

[washing machine]

Murphy Brown has got to be on this too.

[Malloy]

is there love other than my own for Lodge 49?

[The Argonaut]

is there love other than my own for Lodge 49?

died too soon. I loved it

[epilogue]

I think we should do this tournament. My suggestion is to take 64 shows and put them into four conferences of 16 teams each. Then we run each a tournament for each conference until we have a winner. But the final four from each conference will face off against each other for the Championship Title.

As an example I took 64 shows (I included some top min-series but I did not include anything that is typically listened as "comedy") and broke them into North, South, East, and West Conferences. The conferences as listed below are not seeded.

Spoiler: show

NORTH
Dark
Fargo
Downton Abbey
Sherlock
The Bear
Battlestar Galactica
Star Trek: The Next Generation
The Fall
Babylon 5
Rome
Dr. Who
E.R.
The Twilight Zone
The Pacific
Band of Brothers
Chernobyl

SOUTH
Breaking Bad
Better Call Saul
Justified
Ozark
True Detective
Dexter
Stranger Things
Narcos
Half and Catch Fire
Friday Night Lights
Atlanta
The Leftovers
Gunsmoke
The Walking Dead
The Queen’s Gambit
Roots

EAST
The Wire
The Sopranos
The Americans
Mad Men
Orange is the New Black
Handmaid’s Tale
Boardwalk Empire
Severance
Homicide: Life on the Streets
Succession
Mr. Robot
The West Wing
My So-Called LIfe
Oz
Homeland
Angels in America

WEST
Deadwood
Game of Thrones
The Shield
Sons of Anarchy
Yellowstone
The X-Files
LOST
Twin Peaks
Six Feet Under
Columbo
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Watchmen
Lonesome Dove
American Crime Story: The People v OJ Simpson
Barry
GLOW

What do you think?

[Mickey]

I think your brackets suck

[Jorge]

I have seen 8 of those shows. I don't feel prepared to vote in this tournament

[Mickey]

Voting is mandatory.

[epilogue]

I think your brackets suck

It was literally just a for instance (based almost entirely on where the show is set and nothing more).

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[epilogue]

If this is what it takes to finally get me to try The Shield then it might all be worth it

[Malloy]

Mad Men, Wire and Sopranos cannibalize each other, and Deadwood strolls into final four

[epilogue]

Mad Men, Wire and Sopranos cannibalize each other, and Deadwood strolls into final four

There's probably an argument for putting each of those as the 1 seed in different brackets.

[Mickey]

What about the West Wing.