🏆 Croptober Bud Bracket: 16 harvest shots, 4 rounds, 1 winner

[joe6]

Croptober is here (or half way done)… and so is the bracket!

We’ve pulled 16 of the best harvest shots from recent Bud of the Month and Photo of the Month rounds, seeded by community likes. They go head to head in four rounds of polls until one bud is left standing.

How it works

• One vote per member in each matchup, using the poll under each pairing
• Round of 16 closes Monday 19 October, quarter-finals Friday 23 October, semi-finals Tuesday 27 October, and the final Friday 30 October (all 23:59 UTC)
• Winners go through, and I’ll post each new round in this thread
• Prize: a seed pack for the champion

Round of 16

Match 1: (1) TigerLilly vs (16) Birdshot

Original entries: TigerLilly · Birdshot

• TigerLilly
• Birdshot

Match 2: (8) Aeromatics vs (9) patrick1960

Original entries: Aeromatics · patrick1960

• Aeromatics
• patrick1960

Match 3: (5) Growdoc vs (12) Dakisis

Original entries: Growdoc · Dakisis

• Growdoc
• Dakisis

Match 4: (4) AJs_Stash vs (13) Dman1969

Original entries: AJs_Stash · Dman1969

• AJs_Stash
• Dman1969

Match 5: (6) SausageMahoney vs (11) Dforce

Original entries: SausageMahoney · Dforce

• SausageMahoney
• Dforce

Match 6: (3) WilIy vs (14) LengthyJester

Original entries: WilIy · LengthyJester

• WilIy
• LengthyJester

Match 7: (7) SeaOhAreWhy vs (10) Smoke_bz

Original entries: SeaOhAreWhy · Smoke_bz

• SeaOhAreWhy
• Smoke_bz

Match 8: (2) ScottsBuds vs (15) Derf02368

Original entries: ScottsBuds · Derf02368

• ScottsBuds
• Derf02368

Good luck to all 16 entrants: @TigerLilly @ScottsBuds @WilIy @AJs_Stash @Growdoc @SausageMahoney @SeaOhAreWhy @Aeromatics @patrick1960 @Smoke_bz @Dforce @Dakisis @Dman1969 @LengthyJester @Derf02368 @Birdshot

Vote away, and may the best bud win!

[StonedCold13]

Sorry for being the dumb one this time…
But are the Pics in the same order as the Names?
In each row is 2 names and 2 pics. They read left to right in same order

[kaptain3d]

@StonedCold13

But are the Pics in the same order as the Names?

I’m pretty sure it is. So , unless @joe6 says otherwise, I’d say yes!

[StonedCold13]

Right on
I knew a couple was but wasn’t for sure, Thanks Kap

[Growdoc]

Gotta wonder why they didn’t do ILGM and non ILGM, same as the original contest….

[Growdoc]

The names are in blue, click the name and it displays the correct pic.

[TigerLilly]

Really good point @Growdoc … @joe6 ???

[Ron330]

Some great looking buds

A few I cant decide on, so samples would help

[plumbdand]

I feel like chopped liver

[plumbdand]

When i vote the names switch places on some of them.

[Oldguy]

Just resetting their spot in the ranking real time would be my thoughts.

[Big123]

@plumbdand

feel like chopped liver

Hahaha, I felt totally run through the ringer for a bit of this Croptober going gangbusters 4 days in a row, took a couple days off, been using the table trimmer the past couple sessions and giving my crab claws a little break from scissoring

I am most grateful for the bountiful harvests

Waxing Crescent Sagittarius Moon cheers

[dbrn32]

@Growdoc

Gotta wonder why they didn’t do ILGM and non ILGM, same as the original contest

Original contest was designed to promote and reward in house genetics/customers. Eventually we decided to add a contest that opened up the opportunity to showcase other projects regardless of the source. This one is for fun and entrant criteria wasn’t segregated based on breeder or source. There will probably be more, some of which may be limited to ilgm beans and some that will not .

[plumbdand]

What do I have to do to get in one of these contests Im suffering from a severe case of fomo

[SausageMahoney]

I didn’t enter. I think they just randomly pulled them from BOM and POM. (Picture of Month)

[kaptain3d]

It wasn’t random.

[SausageMahoney]

It’s random in that I didn’t enter or ask to be selected.

Edit: Not that I mind but that what I was implying to @plumbdand that the process for entry was not initiated by me.

[kaptain3d]

Understood!

That what happens when you’re really good at what you’re doing
You get picked amongst the best!

[Growdoc]

@dbrn32 , thanks for clarifying!

[joe6]

Round of 16 is done: here are your quarter-finals!

Thanks to everyone who voted, with 35 to 38 votes in every matchup. It was a round of upsets too: Dakisis (12) beat Growdoc (5), Dman1969 (13) beat AJs_Stash (4) and Dforce (11) beat SausageMahoney (6). WilIy cruised through with 97% of the vote

Round of 16 results

• TigerLilly 86% – 14% Birdshot
• Aeromatics 66% – 34% patrick1960
• Dakisis 76% – 24% Growdoc
• Dman1969 82% – 18% AJs_Stash
• Dforce 64% – 36% SausageMahoney
• WilIy 97% – 3% LengthyJester
• SeaOhAreWhy 61% – 39% Smoke_bz
• ScottsBuds 83% – 17% Derf02368

Quarter-finals

Polls close Friday 23 October at 23:59 UTC, one vote per member per matchup, and I’ll post the semi-finals straight after. Quick tip: once you’ve voted, the poll re-orders itself by votes, so the names can move around. The photos always run in the same order as the names above them (first name = left photo).

Match 1: (1) TigerLilly vs (8) Aeromatics

Original entries: TigerLilly · Aeromatics

• TigerLilly
• Aeromatics

Match 2: (12) Dakisis vs (13) Dman1969

Original entries: Dakisis · Dman1969

• Dakisis
• Dman1969

Match 3: (11) Dforce vs (3) WilIy

Original entries: Dforce · WilIy

• Dforce
• WilIy

Match 4: (7) SeaOhAreWhy vs (2) ScottsBuds

Original entries: SeaOhAreWhy · ScottsBuds

• SeaOhAreWhy
• ScottsBuds

Congrats and good luck to the eight left standing: @TigerLilly @Aeromatics @Dakisis @Dman1969 @Dforce @WilIy @SeaOhAreWhy @ScottsBuds

Thanks to all 16 for taking part. Vote away!