5th Annual Book Tournament Winner
The polls are closed. The votes are in. The final fight was long and uncertain. It came down to the wire. It got five times the votes of the most-voted on round up to that point, and 10 times the number of more average rounds. The lead changed hands several times, with Seanan McGuire and An [...]
5th Annual Book Tournament Consolation Winner
The 5th Annual BSC Book Tournament begins to draw to a close today, with the exit polls on the penultimate match–Consolation round–yielding the third best book of 2010 as selected by BSCreview readers. I have to acknowledge that the consolation match wasn’t much of a contest, in any sense…very low voting numbers, and very high [...]
5th Annual Book Tournament Finals: An Artificial Night VS The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack
At last, at last, a thousand times at last! Okay, really just about 15 or so, but isn’t that enough? This tournament has been long, and hard-fought, but now we are here at the end, with only two undefeated books left to vie for the honor of being the best of 2010. We had steampunk [...]
5th Annual Book Tournament: Consolation Round
The results are in; the finals are set; and we’re here today to give the defeated bracket champions their shot at redemption in the Consolation round of the best of 2010 book tournament here at BSCreview. Today we have Middle Earth champion 8. Jade Man’s Skin by Daniel Fox against Malazan Empire champion 8. The Hundred [...]
5th Annual Book Tournament Round 5 Results; Finals Set
This is just a quick word to announce the final match-up for our 5th Annual Book Tournament. In round 5 we had Middle Earth champion, 8. Jade Man’s Skin by Daniel Fox, against the Forgotten Realms champion, 14. The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder, and Malazan Empire champion, 8. The Hundred [...]
5th Annual Book Tournament – Round 5 – Semi-finals
We’ve made it. We’re down to the end on this tournament, with only two more rounds to go, and two matches opening today to determine who is right, and who is dead who is in the finals, and who is just an almost-made-it. The four champions of the four brackets square off against one another for the first time. If [...]
5th Annual Book Tournament – Round 4 Results
And then, there were 4. That’s right, our 5th Annual Book tournament has reached the Final Four, with only two rounds left to go in the voting! We have crowned bracket champions who, having emerged victorious from the slaughter field of their own land, must now rise up and face the best of what the [...]
5th Annual Book Tournament – Round 4 – Malazan Empire and Westeros Brackets
If you have not been keeping up with the tournament thus far, you can check out the results for round 3 to see who the Elite 8 beat out to reach the quarterfinals. Also, don’t forget to stop by the other half of round 4 and cast your votes for the Middle Earth and Forgotten Realms [...]
5th Annual Book Tournament – Round 4 – Middle Earth and Forgotten Realms Brackets
If you missed it, I just announced the winners for all round 3 matches, so go check out who the current champions smashed past in order to end up here, fighting to be their brackets’ over-all champions. In the lists today are the following two matches: VS 8. Jade Man’s Skin by Daniel Fox against [...]
5th Annual Book Tournament Results – Round 3
Round 3 has officially closed for the 5th Annual BSCreview Book Tournament. Since I didn’t have time yesterday morning to do more than shut down the polls for Middle Earth and Forgotten Realms brackets, I decided to just roll the results for all four brackets for round 3 into one post. Round 4–for control of [...]
5th Annual Book Tournament – Round 3 – Malazan Empire and Westeros Brackets
First, if you didn’t see round 2 you can check out who these competitors clawed past in order to reach this point in the tournament here. Second, round 3 is already in play for Middle Earth and Forgotten Realms brackets, so if you haven’t voted on those make sure you do that, too. On the board [...]
5th Annual Book Tournament Results – Round 2, Malazan Empire and Westeros Brackets
Round 2 of the 5th Annual BSCreview Book Tournament has now officially drawn to a close, as we tally in the final votes for the Malazan Empire and Weteros brackets today. Round 3 is already in play for Middle Earth and Forgotten Realms, so hope on over there to vote if you haven’t already. Malazan [...]
