The 2015 Kaiju Cup Tourney

To coincide with the NCAA’s college basketball tournaments, we decided to have one of our own…except it involves kaiju!

We’re introducing the inaugural Kaiju Cup Tournament. We’re hoping this will be an annual event that will be held this time every year. This year, we have 32 kaiju competing for the cup. We’re thinking about expanding the field to 64 next year.

This particular tournament, we’ve divided the four brackets up into “regions”: Space, Mecha, Mutated, and Legendary kaiju. It’s unclear whether we will continue with the same region names in the future but time will tell.

This year’s bracket is shown below:

The seeding was determined through my own judgment. Again, it’s unclear whether such a decision will be made in future tournaments or through a generator.

How winners will be selected

Through a simple generator. It’s unfortunate that there really aren’t any good, free simulation software out there (unless any of you out there know of any) that could be used to simulate these matches in a more realistic manner that takes kaiju powers into consideration.

So we’re left with a generator that will select the winners at random. While this isn’t ideal, it does, however, give the weaker kaiju a legitimate shot at winning the tournament. Such kaiju, more than likely, wouldn’t make it far if a simulator, such as Zeus, were used.

Schedule

Here is the schedule for the tournament:

• March 21: Round 1
• March 24: Round 2
• March 27: Regional Finals
• March 30: Final Four
• April 3: The Final

The time will allow for some discussion of the results and the build-up of the next round of matches.

We hope you’ll enjoy this year’s tournament!