And the winner is…

Winner: Team Commando – Triceratank, by Ashley Ruel and The Ranger by Christopher Pianka

Runner-up: The Breakfast Club – Brew Master, by Will Pottorff and Devil Donuts, by Aoi Suzuki

Team Commando wins 3-2

Ann Smith: The Breakfast Club VS. Commando- Commando wins!!!!!

Cutter Hutton: Commando wins.

Paolo Rivera: The Breakfast Club — coffee and donuts can’t be beat… especially when pulling all-nighters.

Scott Campbell: 1st place battle winner, The Breakfast Club. I think the Breakfast Club’s combined forces would really be pretty powerful and hard to deal with. Flying donut dude would be flapping around all crazy and distracting like. But those Commandos would be able to fight well as they are hiding in the brush. All quite like in the green shrubery. Taking shots from the shrubbery.

Willie Real: Commando!

Congratulations to all!

3rd Place: The Reigning Cats and Dogs – Crazy Cat Lady, by Megan Pepin and Macaroni Dog, by Waka Tokuno

4th Place: Bear To Honey – Queen Bee, by Mori Clark and Dead-e Thread Bear, by Laura Tarabolski

Team The Reigning Cats and Dogs wins 4-1

Ann Smith: The reigning cats and dogs win!!!

Cutter Hutton: Winners, “The Reigning Cats and Dogs”.

Paolo Rivera: Bear to Honey — they make a great team… but really, it comes down to Macaroni dog being too gross to ponder.

Scott Campbell: Winner, Reigning cats and dogs. That macaroni dog is nuts. Cheese just flowing everywhere. What is interesting though is that you would have two yellow substances all over the place with the cheese and honey. Bear looks like the thread and stuffing might be poisoned, but I feel Queen Bee would be providing all kinds of honey webs. And i love those cats of various sizes. They probably all do a lot of scheming while they are curled up in near the heater.

Willie Real: The Reigning Cats and Dogs win.

Votes are in for the Superlative Awards, rewarding individual characters in the 2011 King of the ILL tournament in 5 categories, Most Original, Most Aesthetic, Most Cute, Most Fierce and Most Humorous. Recipients are:

Most Original:

Winner: Macaroni Dog, by Waka Tokuno

Runner-up: Schwan Connery, by Harley Schwalbe

Honourable mention: Ugly Duck Crossing, by Peter Bergamo Jr., Jack in the Box, by Eamon Smyth and Merwolf, by Charlotte Levenson

Most Aesthetic:

Winner: Queen Bee, by Mori Clark

Runner-up: The Ranger, by Christopher Pianka

Honourable mention: Devil Donuts, by Aoi Suzuki

Most Cute:

Three way tie! Winners: Rambonctious Joe, by Val Toukatly, Sweet and Low, by Alison Yusov and Dead-e Thread Bear, by Laura Tarabolski

Runner-up: Boom Box, by Amanda Goodale

Most Fierce:

Winner: Triceratank, by Ashley Ruel

Runner-up: Brew Master, by Will Pottorff

Honourable mention: Piethulu, by Josh Melamed, Ice Cream Man O’ War (Sal), by Matt Tanzi and LARPING Lvl 48 Scott, by Taylor McNeil

Most Humorous:

Winner: Crazy Cat Lady, by Megan Pepin

Runner-up: Hipster Hamster, by Liz Nwaoshai

Honourable Mention: Schwan Connery, by Harley Schwalbe, Chalk Blocker, by Sarah Miller and Connie Traption, by Georgia Bolender

At long last, we have the finalists for the 2011 King of the Ill tournament. The final fight’s results will be given on Monday, December 12th.

Final: The Breakfast Club VS. Commando

Note: A fight for third place will be held between teams The Reigning Cats and Dogs and Bear to Honey.

Fight for Third Place

Semi-final 1: Commando WINS 3-2

AS: Commando wins!

CH: Macaroni Dog put its talents to use in a defensive gauntlet, laying down a slime that stuck the Triceratank in its tracks, all the while passing The Ranger’s arrows through its pasta shaped gullet. Crazy Cat Lady took care of offense, using her fierce felines to claw the immobilized triceratank’s soulless eyes out. The kitty swarm then covered the Ranger’s elvish cloak in a nasty blanket of hair and hair balls, completely extinguishing the magic powers. Revolted, the ranger fled to the hills for a lint brush and a horn of grog.

PR: Commando wins —I’m dying to know what’s inside the Triceratank. Is it a tank crew of Triceratops?

WR: Commando over Reigning Cats. This one was close! I love both styles but in the end
Commando is still my personal favorite.

Semi-final 1: The Breakfast Club WINS 3-2

AS: Breakfast club wins!

CH: Bear To Honey cuddles the Breakfast Club to defeat. Proving that sticky sweet bear stuffing is hazardous to ones health, Queen Bee and Dead-e Thread Bear pulled a true tag team by immobilizing the Breakfast Club in a hail of honey covered polyester filling. Despite a caffeine fueled fist pumping, Brew Master was helplessly stuck and Devil Donuts sugary treats were disarmed by Queen Bee’s swarm of bit-o-honeys.

PR: The Breakfast Club wins —These two just go together. And I like how Brew Master is partial to one side side of his body.

WR: Bear to Honey over the Breakfast Club. I love devil donut but thought the combo between the queen bee and dead-e thread bear was stronger.

While waiting for the semi-finals’ results, we have news regarding some of the characters involved in the qualifying round.

A defunct Vladimir, with a message of hope, by Dock Howard (Illustration ’12).

Game over for the Animatronics, by Val Toukatly (Animation + Interactive Media ’13).

Semi-final 1: The Reigning Cats and Dogs VS. Commando

Semi-final 2: The Breakfast Club VS. Bear To Honey

Jane Ausome, by Kelly Murphy

Quarter Final 1: The Reigning Cats and Dogs WIN 4-1

AS: The reigning cats and dogs win! I grew up with a dog that did that every time we went to the beach… she LOVED salt water.

PR: Hopes and Dreams wins through sheer irreverence.

WR: Love the cats.

Quarter Final 2: Commando WINS 4-1

AS: Commando wins! Rock on!

PR: Drunk and Disorderly win, these guys look like they know how to party… and kill.

WR: The tank is genius and the ranger has a nice look.

Quarter Final 3: The Breakfast Club WINS 3-2

AS: The breakfast club wins… and frightens me

PR: Nuisance Population wins, Chalk Blocker is probably pretty fast on those erasers.

WR: Nuisance population wins: I cringe when I look at that chalk board : )

Quarter Final 4: Bear To Honey WINS 3-2

AS: The Sound and Fury wins!

CH: Bear To Honey wins.

PR: Bear to Honey wins: Dead-e Thread Bear’s one eye looks very, very angry. And how do you even begin to fight bees?

WR: Sound and Fury wins (cool sound design! The hair, the notes, cool solutions).

Quarter Final 1: The Reigning Cats and Dogs VS. Hopes and Dreams

Quarter Final 2: The Drunk and Disorderly VS. Commando

Quarter Final 3: The Breakfast Club VS. Nuisance Population

Quarter Final 4: Sound and Fury VS. Bear To Honey