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Both of the Kaguya openings have.................................. been eliminated, just short of the finals! We are down to the final matchup to determine the winner of the entire tournament:

Shinzou wo Sasageyo vs Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!

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Mini Challenge

• Which opening will win, and how much do you think they will win by (ex. will they get 60% of the vote? 55% of the vote? 70% of the vote)?

• What have your favorite and/or most memorable moments of the tournament been? How does this tournament compare to prior Best OP tournaments?

• This tournament was named "99% Salt" in reference to 99 winning the previous Best OP tournament. If Shinzou wo Sasageyo wins, what should we name the next tournament? And if Chitty Chitty Bang Bang wins, what should we name the next tournament? Assuming there is even a next tournament since AnimeBracket is on life support rn

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After two days and a lot of proccessing, we have our final entrants list with 846 anime openings!

This will be the first elimination day out of 4, if an opening is not in this group, there are still three more rounds they can be in.

Posts for elimination rounds will be at 7 PM EST (11 PM UTC)

Please let me know if there are any duplicates, errors, or typos and I will fix them as soon as I can. Thank you!

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List of all the nominated openings

Discussion Prompt of the Day:

• Let's take a journey back to the past by revisiting the nine previous winners: again, Hacking to the Gate, Unravel, Flyers, A Cruel Angel's Thesis, Tank!, Renai Circulation, Guren no Yumiya, and 99. Rank all the previous winners!

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People were meming about how in a previous Best OP tournament's Top 8, one matchup only had a difference of two votes.

Well, for maybe the first time in ALL of r/anime tournament history, we had a TIE in the Top 8. A FUCKING TIE. So your vote definitely matters.

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Mini Challenge

• Call your shot: which of the 4 remaining openings will win?

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The first bracket voting results are in! Which openings will be robbed next?

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Mini Challenge

• Predict which openings will make Top 8! (More information can be found in the comments)

• When you analyze openings, how much % weight do you give to the song and how much % weight do you give to the visuals?

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Sorry for being so late! None of my mobile/desktop reminders went off today, and this completely slipped my mind.

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Mini Challenge

• Rank the Top 8 openings!

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Round 1 is complete! We now have 128 openings remaining. Let the salt flow!

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Mini Challenge

• Which of the openings eliminated in Round 1 were ROBBED hard?

• Overall, what are your Top 5 favorite openings from the 256 entrants?

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We are down to just 32 openings! The competition is narrowing down!

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Mini Challenge

• Which matchups from prior rounds were finals-worthy/semi-finals-worthy, in your opnion?

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Bracket A: Heh heh, look at us, we had two MHA openings cannibalize each other in the first round

Bracket C: (Stares at the FMA03 openings facing off against each other in Round 1)

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Mini Challenge

• What are your favorite openings of 2023 so far?

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With the results from yesterday, every Demon Slayer opening has officially been eliminated from this tournament against a lower-seeded opponent (ie. all the final matches for the KnY openings were upsets). Will we see even more carnage against popular series? Let's find out!

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Mini Challenge

• So a little fun fact about me is that I love doing song rates (ie. I'm currently running r/kpoprates right now). A few months ago, r/popheads did an Anime Openings/Themes rate where they had the raters go through 75 anime openings and rate ALL of them, which theoretically removed show-popularity-bias as much as possible (also, many of the raters were not familiar with most of the anime, so that also helped to minimize bias). The results to r/popheads's Anime Openings/Themes rate can be seen here. What are your thoughts on the results, and what are your thoughts on if we did a rate similar to that on r/anime?

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Time to complete the first round of salt with the final voting group!

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Mini Challenge

• Which openings in this bracket were not as popular/highly seeded as you would have expected?

• In your opinion, what was the most stacked matchup of Round 1 (ie. where both openings in the matchup should have made it far into the tournament)?

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The last round before the quarterfinals / Top 8! Which two openings will be the last two to qualify for the QFs?

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Mini Challenge

• What are openings that you think "people who watched the show" have a notably higher opinion on the OP than "people who haven't watched the show"?

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After two-highly-seeded-and-expected openings advanced to the Top 8 from Bracket A, we have two lower-seeded openings advancing to the Top 8 from Bracket B! Will we see more upsets in the Round of 16?

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Mini Challenge

• Let's dish out the hot takes: what are some openings that are widely-beloved that you dislike and/or don't understand the hype for?

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Finally, the official bracket for r/anime's Best OP tournament has begun! Let's see where this tournament goes, 2+ years after the previous contest concluded!

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Full Seeds Before Removal

Mini Challenge

• Predict which openings will make Top 8! (More information can be found in the comments)

• Any thoughts on the overall seeding and the Top 256, and/or the openings that didn't make the bracket?

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This will be the second elimination day out of 4, if an opening is not in this group, there are still two more rounds they can be in.

Posts for elimination rounds will be at 7 PM EST (11 PM UTC) 5 PM EST (9 PM UTC)

Please let me know if there are any duplicates, errors, or typos and I will fix them as soon as I can. Thank you!

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List of all the nominated openings

First Elimination Day full voting results (excluding the Top 6)

Discussion Prompts of the Day (Feel free to answer either one, or both if you're feeling brave):

• Predict the top seeds for the entire bracket! (Or simply call your shot and predict which opening will rank #1!)

• The Top 6 highest-voted openings from the First Elimination Day are: [openings] (ordered alphabetically, NOT by seed): Daddy Daddy Do, Kimi no Sei, My Soul Your Beats, Shinzou wo Sasageyo, Sing My Pleasure, the WORLD. How do you predict the Top 6 are seeded?

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This will be the third elimination day out of 4, if an opening is not in this group, there are still one more round they can be in.

Posts for elimination rounds will be at 5 PM EST (9 PM UTC) (new time, 2 hours earlier than the previous time).

Please let me know if there are any duplicates, errors, or typos and I will fix them as soon as I can. Thank you!

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First Two Elimination Days voting results

Discussion Prompts of the Day (Feel free to answer either one, or both if you're feeling brave):

• Thoughts on the current top seeds of the bracket? How did they align/differ from your predictions?

• Which of your favorite openings from the first two voting groups are below the presumed cutoff range (~124-132) and are out of contention to make the bracket?

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We have our first Quarterfinalists decided! Which remaining openings will advance to the Quarterfinals? Let's find out!

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Mini Challenge

• /u/DrShanahanIII made a tierlist maker for the Top 16 openings. Fill it out and share your tier list!

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Round 4 continues on!

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Mini Challenge

• Which matchups from prior rounds were the toughest to decide, in your opinion?

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We are down to just 64 openings! Let Round 3 commence!

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Mini Challenge

• Of the top seeds of the bracket, which ones do you think may get eliminated earlier than expected?

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We finally got some upsets yesterday in Bracket C! Will we get more upsets in Bracket D to close out the round? Let's see!

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Mini Challenge

• Which openings do you think are the most unique/distinct/interesting from a visual perspective (regardless of whether or not you like them)?

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More and more openings are getting culled from the bracket! Which ones will stay alive?

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Mini Challenge

• Which openings do you think are the most unique/distinct/interesting from a musical perspective (regardless of whether or not you like them)?

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Round 4 continues on!

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Mini Challenge

• Which openings still remaining in the bracket would you replace with another opening from the same series/show?

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This will be the final elimination day out of 4, if an opening is not in this group, there are still one more round they can be in.

Posts for elimination rounds will be at 5 PM EST (9 PM UTC) (new time, 2 hours earlier than the previous time).

Please let me know if there are any duplicates, errors, or typos and I will fix them as soon as I can. Thank you!

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List of all the nominated openings

Full (current) voting results

Discussion Prompts of the Day (Feel free to answer either one, or both if you're feeling brave):

• Thoughts on the current top seeds of the bracket? How did they align/differ from your predictions?

• Which openings from this fourth voting group do you think will enter the Top 5 and/or Top 10?

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More and more openings are getting culled from the bracket! Which ones will stay alive?

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Mini Challenge

• Opposite of yesterday's question, which openings that are relatively-lower-seeded do you think could make a surprisingly deep run?

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My apologies for posting this a bit late! It's here now.

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Mini Challenge

• Many openings from 2020-2022 made it into the bracket for the first time. However, there were still many openings from 2020-2022 that did not make the bracket. Which eligible openings from 2020-2022 that didn't make this bracket did you think were the most robbed?