Welcome once again, fellow Admirals, to the latest iteration of the most chaotic poll in /r/Kancolle history...

THE /R/KANCOLLE WAIFU WARS X!

It's the polling contest where we show our love, affection, and support for our favorite kanmusu, as they do battle to the death with the rest of the fleet are voted on by interested redditors within and beyond our humble subreddit! So...

For the thousands hundreds in attendance...

For the millions thousands on standby all throughout Reddit...

L......

LET'SGETREADYTOBESALTY~!!!
How This Works

For those of you who aren't familiar with Anime Bracket, the contest is broken down into 3 phases.

Phase 1: Nominations

  • Duration: ~4 days from this post

  • Submit girls that you'd like to see in the contest

  • You can nominate as many girls as you want

  • Duplicates will be automatically and manually culled so go wild

  • Please don't use images from sites that disable hotlinking (danbooru, pixiv, etc). This will break the images and you'll lose your nominated image. Instead, reupload to an image host like imgur

  • You don't have to use the official art, you're trying to get your waifu noticed so dig through your collections and submit your best treasures

  • Put whatever you want in the "Comment" field. Get creative. Have fun. UPDATE: disabled the comment field on this one, for ease of nominations for new redditors.

Phase 2: Eliminations

  • Lasts a day three days (EDIT: to give redditors the chance to really get their bets into the brackets...)

  • Votes determine the seed ranking for each girl

  • If there are more than 128 girls, only those 128 with the most votes move on to the brackets. On the off-chance of a tie, reference to the seed ranking in the previous Waifu War shall be made, in order to allocate positioning in the brackets.

  • You can vote for as many girls as you like in this round

Phase 3: Brackets

  • Each round lasts a day each

  • Divided into two groups of 64 girls

  • This phase determines the ultimate winner

Nomination Rules

  • You can nominate as many girls as you want. Nominate everyone you like and leave the duplicate removal to the admins

  • Please don't submit multiple nominations for base and remodels of the same ship. Exceptions are those girls that get a name and class change like Taigei/Ryuuhou or Hibiki/Verniy

  • The "source" field can be anything you want. We got some zingers last WW so get creative.

NOTE: Per the newly-christened "Daijobu Restriction Rule", the following girls are deemed excluded from nominations since they already won the previous Wars:

  • Yuudachi - WW1

  • Shigure - WW2

  • Haruna - WW3 & 4

  • Shoukaku - WW5

  • Zuikaku - WW6

  • Saratoga - WW7

  • Yamato - WW8

  • Atlanta - WW9

Links

Nominations Page

Closes: 2024/07/06 (2100 JST/2200 PhST)

Punishment Game

As per tradition, there will be a punishment game running. For those of you who are new or blocking out the trauma from the last war, here's how it works:

  • Nominate a girl to back, either through Reddit PM or pinging me on any of the WW threads

  • If your waifu doesn't win, you'll change your Reddit flair to the overall winner at the end of the contest for a week

  • Signups for the punishment game are open until the winner is determined, yes even during the final voting round, so long as your pick is STILL in contention.

  • A list of takers will be updated in every new post.

Now, if that's not spicy enough for you, let me offer the alternative:

Expanded Punishment Game: The Meijin Challenge

This is for the ultra-ballsy redditors who really are devoted to their favorite kanmusu. Here are the rules:

  • A redditor will personally challenge another for this special Punishment game, by tagging him/her.

  • Each will pick Two Kanmusu from the official roster:

  • The first will be the one the redditor nominated and/or will be openly supporting throughout the Waifu Wars;

  • While the other would either be: a) the Kanmusu which the said redditor got sunk, complete with memorial picture frame (Shitty Admiral Clause); or b) the Kanmusu which the redditor hates most (Substitute Shitty Admiral Clause). Said second choice will serve as their Penalty Flair.

  • The rule: The winner will be the one whose respective kanmusu takes top prize (Condition A), OR lasts longer in the polls (Condition B). The loser, for purposes of this special challenge will be the one whose picked kanmusu gets eliminated first.

  • Duration of punishment: if Condition A or B is fulfilled, 1 week. If both conditions fulfilled, two.

  • A bit of a caveat; Those who will avail of this alternate punishment game will automatically be subjected to the conditions of the Original Punishment game. Meaning, if your opponent's pick lost, but your pick later on loses as well, your reddit flair will be that of the winning kanmusu for a week.

  • The same aforementioned caveat will also apply to the one accepting the challenge (EDIT: Provided, said redditor will accept the same and/or reciprocates the previous challenge issued with a challenge of his own.)