The five of us put our heads together at the Leaping Peacock last night (it was the only way to get ‘Puter involved) and conducted our Selection Sunday for our own take on the meaningful brackets. For those of you who are newer to the site, last year we did a full 64-entry bracket that pitted topics, people and beliefs against each other. This year, we’re easing back on it a bit. Well, truth be told, we were at the Leaping Peacock, so you know what state ‘Puter was in. The Czar started screaming at the waiter, which has become an all too frequent pastime of his. The Mandarin was handing out boots to guts in droves and GorT got an urgent call from the year 5087. The Volgi….well, you put some port in front of him and he becomes a madman. We had to send Sleestak down to the Peacock this morning to clean up…he’s still not back.

Anyway, this year, we each submitted four nominees that were seeded so our picks are facing off against each other in the first round. That’s 20 entries. This makes the bracket a bit odd as you’ll see later this week. As the bracket is completed, there are two opportunities for you, the dear reader, to participate. Two lucky (or unlucky) entries who are previously eliminated, will be resurrected by the votes of our readers to fight again. It’s almost a “Choose Your Own Ending” scenario, except we’re the ones running the world, so sit back down, sparky. We hope you enjoy the new format.  If you’re lucky, maybe you’ll win some free tickets to Gormogonicon 2010.

GorT

GorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ Century who routinely time-travels to steal expensive technology from the future and return it to the past for retroinvention. The profits from this pay all the Gormogons’ bills, including subsidizing this website. Some of the products he has introduced from the future include oven mitts, the Guinness widget, Oxy-Clean, and Dr. Pepper. Due to his immense cybernetic brain, GorT is able to produce a post in 0.023 seconds and research it in even less time. Only ’Puter spends less time on research. GorT speaks entirely in zeros and ones, but occasionally throws in a ڭ to annoy the Volgi. He is a massive proponent of science, technology, and energy development, and enjoys nothing more than taking the Czar’s more interesting scientific theories, going into the past, publishing them as his own, and then returning to take credit for them. He is the only Gormogon who is capable of doing math. Possessed of incredible strength, he understands the awesome responsibility that follows and only uses it to hurt people.