FF Character Tournament Madness! Winner revealed!

[Del Murder]

Welcome to the second installment of the Official Eyes on Final Fantasy Character Tournament, or April Madness if you prefer. This year we will have 4 divisions, each representing a certain set of games. No more FFVI characters hogging up the later rounds. The divisions are:

Old School (FFI-III, Mystic Quest)
Glory Days (FFIV-VI)
Teen Angst (FFVII-IX)
Games Spuuky Hasn't Played (FFX, X-2, XI, Tactics, Tactics Advance, Crystal Chronicles)

Before we get things underway, we have a few spots left to fill, and a once in a lifetime opportunity for four lucky characters to make the big dance. This is known as the play-in round. Eight characters will battle it out in one-on-one matchups for the 16 seeds in this preliminary match. The winners never end up doing anything, but it provides for an emotional moment for some of these characters who always dreamed of making this tournament.

As always, vote by selecting one name out of each lettered pair. This is a multpile selection poll, so you can vote in as many or as few matches as you like. Use any criteria you like for making your selection: power, personality, importance to story, personal preference, etc.

Rounds will last a couple days. Here is an unfinished bracket for those of you who want to get a head start on your office pools.

[CloudDragon]

Interesting. I never saw one of these before.

[Masamune·1600]

I'm guessing Cloud was intentionally excluded from the tournament. No Alcindor UCLA to compete against, then.

So, a Summoner is a 3 seed and Sage is an 11? This can only be the insidious work of the RPI.

Agrias would be an awesome sleeper pick.

[CloudDragon]

Uh...I demand a recount?

[Ultima Shadow]

I don't really car about Josef and Ming-Wu... but I'll just vote Ming-Wu.

Cyan was 1 of my fav FFVI characters so he gets my second vote.

Eiko got my thirth vote since I simply like her more than Selphie... and she doesn't use any cheap The End moves.

I've never been able to play FFT since I live in europe... but someday I will... because it really seems to be a great game. FFTA on the other hand was a dissapointment in my opinion and I never liked the characters in it and therefore Agrias gets my last vote... just because he probably is from a better game and PROBABLY is a better character.

[Masamune·1600]

I've never been able to play FFT since I live in europe... but someday I will... because it really seems to be a great game. FFTA on the other hand was a dissapointment in my opinion and I never liked the characters in it and therefore Agrias gets my last vote... just because he probably is from a better game and PROBABLY is a better character.

Agrias is a "she". Good call, though, because she is the better character.

[Raistlin]

...Spuuky hasn't played FFT? Absolute disgrace.

[Ultima Shadow]

Agrias is a "she". Good call, though, because she is the better character.

Ops...

[Spuuky]

I have played FFT, but not enough to know the characters well enough to vote.

[Flamethrower]

Josef, Setzer, and Cyan got my votes, for being generally cooler than the rest.

EDIT: I voted in a rush without carefully reading the brackets, so yes, I realize voting for both Cyan and Setzer were wasted votes. Oh well.

[Del Murder]

Cloud was left out of the tournament because he won the first one.

[SpiritWolf]

Mingwu
Setzer
Selphie
Ritz

[Psychotic]

Mingwu
Setzer
Selphie
Ritz

Same

[rubah]

Mingwu
Setzer
Selphie
Ritz

Same

Sans the Mingwu and you'll find mine awful similar.

Go selphie go!

[Del Murder]

Here are the results of the play-in round:

Ming-Wu - ||||\||||\ 10
Josef - ||||\||||\|| 12

Setzer - ||||\||||\||| 13
Cyan - ||||\||||\||||\|| 17

Selphie - ||||\||||\||||\||||\|| 22
Eiko - ||||\||||\||

Agrias - ||||\||||\||||\ 15
Ritz - |||| 4

Now we are ready to get started! We'll start things off with a bang and begin with the Glory Days Division, where many of us found our first and greatest FF experiences.

Matchups:

1. Celes (VI) vs.
16. Cyan (VI)

8. Bartz (V) vs.
9. Shadow (VI)

5. Locke (VI) vs.
12. Edge (IV)

4. Cecil (IV) vs.
13. Reina (V)

6. Edgar (VI) vs.
11. Faris (V)

3. Terra (VI) vs.
14. Rosa (IV)

7. Kain (IV) vs.
10. Mog (VI)

2. Rydia (IV) vs.
15. Krile (V)

Remember, vote by selecting one character out of each lettered pair in the poll. The full bracket is attached. Eyes on Final Fantasy is not responsible to gambling losses incurred in relation to this tournament. Feel free to fill out a bracket and post it in this thread to see who makes the best predictions.