Favorite Colour Tournament 2016 (Cerulean Wins!)

[Kublai Khan]

It's been a couple of years since mith has run this, so I asked for (and recieved) his permission to do this. If you haven't been around for one of these before, check the links to see what this is about...

Favorite Movie (2007) - The Shawshank Redemption
Favorite Fictional Character (2008) - Han Solo
Favorite Song (2009) - Stairway to Heaven
Favorite Book (2009) - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Favorite Person (2010) - Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
Favorite Game (2010) - Texas Hold'em Poker
Favorite Game (2012) - Chess
Favorite Band (2012) - Queen
Favorite Video Game (2013) - Pokémon RGBY
Favorite TV Show (2013) - The Wire
Favorite Villain (2014) - The Joker
Favorite Collective Noun (2014) - Memory
Favorite Comedian (2014) - Tina Fey
Favorite Book (2016) - The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Favorite Meme (2016) - Navy Seal Copypasta
Favorite Color (2016) - Cerulean

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Part 1: Nominate Topics

Nominate up to three topics which you would like to see run. The top 3(ish) will join

Food

,

Colour

, and

Song

(last time's runners-up) in a vote to determine the two/three topics run. (Topics not suitable for GD and topics pertaining to mafiascum users will be ignored/removed.)

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Part 2: Rank Topics

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Part 3: Nominations - Book, Meme, Color

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Bracket

Round 1: Matches 1-8, Matches 9-16, Matches 17-24, Matches 25-32
Round 2: Matches 33-40, Matches 41-48
Round 3: Matches 49-52, Matches 53-56
Semi-Finals: Matches 61 & 62
Finals: Match 63 & Bronze
Final Results

[Kublai Khan]

Nominate your (up to) 25 Favorite Colors. Order does not matter. You must nominate in the following format:

Color Name (hextriplet)
Color Name (hextriplet)
Color Name (hextriplet)

Note: Due to the difficult nature of this category, I think I must insist on people listing the hextriplet along with the color name to help reduce confusion. If anyone has a better system/idea, I'm certainly willing to consider it.

For my sanity, please post your nominations as just a straight list with no numbers, bullets, or comments. It saves me a lot of time if I can just copy/paste into my spreadsheet rather than having to remove things first.

If you feel the need to comment on your nominations, do so before or after the entire list. Feel free to edit your list as much as you like, but post in the thread when you do so - I might have already started compiling my list and could miss your edit. I reserve the right to ignore nominations from anyone not following these guidelines.

Colors are not guaranteed a place in the bracket from a single nomination. Nominate your top 25 regardless of others' selections

(ideally, don't look at other people's lists at all until you've posted yours, but you may want to look to make sure you're not missing something that belongs). Colors above some number of nominations will be in the bracket, and there may be a runoff of some sort to determine remaining spots. See previous tournaments for details.

[Axxle]

Can I nominate colors that are either outside the visible spectrum and/or fictional?

[Brandi]

Hot Pink (#FF0080)
Black (#000000)
Royal Purple (#663399)

[Brandi]

(reference: http://www.colorcombos.com/popular-colors)

[Quilford]

Coral (#FF614D)

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Gold (#FBB829)

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Salmon (#FF9999)

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Champagne (#F9CDAD)

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Jade (#128775)

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Orange (#FF9642)

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I feel like we need some sort of way to actually display the exact colours we're talking about lol.

[Cheery Dog]

You can do the color of the text in the colour. I don't know if that really helps though

[wgeurts]

Maybe do something like this:

Red (#ff0000)

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Code: Select all

Name (#) [size=200][color=#]███[/color][/size]

[Kmd4390]

Damn. Was hoping to participate but I don't know what a hextriplet is.

[Kublai Khan]

Damn. Was hoping to participate but I don't know what a hextriplet is.

The hextriplet code is a 6 hexadecimal code that gives the red/blue/green levels. It helps identify what a color is meant to be as opposed to how it's displayed on individual screens with individual settings.

The following links should be a big help:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c ... %E2%80%93F
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c ... %E2%80%93M
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c ... %E2%80%93Z

You can see the colour as well as the code. wgeurts has a great idea to post a color block along with it.

[zakk]

Red (#ff0000)

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[Kublai Khan]

Old Burgundy (#43302E)

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Otter Brown (#654321)

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Periwinkle (#CCCCFF)

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Quartz (#51484F)

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Red (#FF0000)

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Xanadu (#738678)

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Battleship gray (#848482)

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Black (#000000)

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Outer Space (#414A4C)

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Eerie black (#1B1B1B)

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Dark moss green (#4A5D23)

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Dark green (X11) (#006400)

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Will work on this more later...

[animorpherv1]

Cyan (#00CCFF)

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Orange (#FFA500)

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Red (#FF0000)

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[SnowStorm]

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Electric Lime (#CCFF00)

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Coquelicot (#FF3800)

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Indigo (#4B0082)

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Persian Green (#00A693)

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Dark Wine (#4B1927)

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Space Cadet (#1D2951)

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Gray 14 (#242424)

[Plotinus]

Green-grey (#77AA77)

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Green (#119922)

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Green (#337744)

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Jade (#229977)

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Blue (#00AAFF)

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Blue (#4488FF)

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Blue (#116688)

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Ocean (#227799)

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Cyan (#00CCFF)

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Old Blue (#335577)

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Purple (#8822FF)

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Blue (#222277)

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Purple (#553377)

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Purple-grey (#7777AA)

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Blue (#4400FF)

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Tired purple (#553377)

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Plum (#AA44AA)

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Magenta (#771155)

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Red (#991122)

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Brick (#773311)

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Pink-grey (#AA7777)

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Brown (#443300)

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Peach (#FFBB66)

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Gold (#AAAA77)

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Blueblack (#111122)

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Mafia black changes the colours a bit; when voting time comes it's best to switch site scheme. I just put hextriplets that i liked but i don't know what they're called so i made up my own names.

[BROseidon]

Mauve (#E0B0FF)
Cyan (#00CCFF)
Midnight (#702670)
Chartreuse (Traditional) (#DFFF00)
Cerulean (#007BA7)
Dark Olive Green (#556B2F)

[animorpherv1]

Apparently I had the cyan code wrong. Oops.

[Plotinus]

i think

#00FFFF

is also cyan, i just happen to like

#00CCFF

better and it's not a different enough colour to call it something else.

[Faraday]

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Electric Lime (#CCFF00)

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Coquelicot (#FF3800)

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Lime (#00FF00)

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Hot Pink (#FF0080)

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Yellow (#FFFF00)

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Green (#00e600)

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Fuschia(ish) (#e600e6)

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Bright yellow (#ffff1a)

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A purple of sorts! (#ca1cca)

[animorpherv1]

I am fine with any shade of cyan, so I'll join your cause!

[Kublai Khan]

Okay. Closing nominations in about 36 hours-ish. (Thu night EST)

[Cephrir]

Blue Violet (#8A2BE2)

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This looks so horribly wrong on black.

[Kublai Khan]

Round 1A

Match 1:

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Red (#FF0000)

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Tomato (#FF614D)

Match 2:

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Blue Smoke (#738678)

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Amulet (#77AA77)

Match 3:

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Allports (#116688)

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Psychedelic Purple(#E600E6)

Match 4:

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Deep Magenta(#CA1CCA)

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Midnight Blue(#222277)

Match 5:

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Persian Green(#00A693)

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Sunshade(#FF9642)

Match 6:

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Lemon(#FFFF1A)

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Dark Olive Green(#556B2F)

Match 7:

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Bordeaux(#4B1927)

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Han Purple(#4400FF)

Match 8:

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Lochmora(#227799)

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Nero(#242424)

BTW - I strongly recommend you check out the links to get a true look at the colors.

[Quilford]

Tomato
Amulet
Allports
Midnight Blue
Sunshade
Lemon
Bordeaux
Lochmora

[Cheery Dog]

Red
Amulet
Allports
Midnight Blue
Sunshade
Dark Olive Green
Han Purple
Lochmora