2131: Emojidome

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Emojidome

Title text: Thank you to the xkcd April 1st volunteers/commentators, including @Chromakode, Kevin, @Aiiane, Patrick, Kat, Reuven, @cotrone, @bstaffin, @zigdon, schwal, Stereo, and everyone who voted!

• The comic is a link to a image of the results.

Explanation

This was the ninth April fools' comic released by Randall. The previous fools comic was 1975: Right Click from Sunday April 1, 2018. The next became 2288: Collector's Edition, which was delayed two days and released on Friday April 3, 2020.

The interactive comic began at noon ET (16:00 UTC) on April 1, 2019, and ended a day later. In it, users were shown two emojis and voted for their favorite before the time ran out. 512 different emojis were paired against each other in a cup or bracket system, with only one winner. See more below under How it worked.

Brackets - like the one in this comic, for finding the best emoji - are a recurring theme in xkcd. It is also relevant for this time of year, and two years ago in 2017, the first comic in April, 1819: Sweet 16 from April 3rd was a bracket, referencing March Madness. The 2019 version of the National Collegiate Athletic Association College basketball national championship tournament began March 19th and ends April 8th 2019. So this comic could also be said to reference this, although it is not so explicit here. Earlier Randall made another large and "silly" bracket in 1529: Bracket (which someone then actually made into an online voting system, just like in this comic).

The title is a reference to the movie Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, which had the tagline: "Two men enter. One man leaves." The "Thunderdome" in the film is a gladiatorial arena where conflicts are resolved by a duel to the death.

In the final round, the Milky Way emoji (🌌) won against the Hedgehog emoji (🦔). The comic was updated to show the result.

Clicking the comic links to a bracket of 128 emojis showing the winners: https://xkcd.com/2131/emojidome_bracket_round_of_128.png

How it worked

Comic as it appeared during the competition

In the first round, the voting period for each bout lasted 37.5 seconds. The voting period for each bout doubled for the second, third, and fourth rounds. The voting period for each bout for the fifth round through the end was 26 minutes. The entire bracket took 24 hours 6 minutes.

Remaining time of a given bout was shown on a timer beneath the voting buttons. If the time remaining was one minute or greater, the time was shown rounded to the nearest minute (e.g., "Remaining Time: 26 minutes"); thus the minute would change on the half minute (e.g., "2 minutes" changed to "1 minute" at 1 minute 30 seconds). If the time remaining was less than a minute, the time was shown in seconds (e.g., "59 seconds"). When there were two (sometimes three) seconds remaining, the timer would display "Time's Up!" through the end of the bout and for a couple of seconds after the end of the bout while the images for the next bout were loading. Then the next bout would appear and the results of the previous bout would be added to the list of past bouts, with the most recent bout at the top.

Commentary was displayed above the images for each bout, and changed occasionally through the bout. In the first round, the commentary was made up of some stock phrases with a few custom phrases mixed in. Later commentary was tailored to suit each match-up and provided live updates on how each bout was progressing. A final comment was included in the list of past bouts.

Round	Start (ET)	Start (UTC)	Bouts	Bout length	Round length
1	12:00	16:00	256	37.5 s	2 h 40 m
2	14:40	18:40	128	1 m 15 s	2 h 40 m
3	17:20	21:20	64	2 m 30 s	2 h 40 m
4	20:00	0:00	32	5 m	2 h 40 m
5	22:40	2:40	16	26 m	6 h 56 m
6	5:36	9:36	8	26 m	3 h 28 m
7	9:04	13:04	4	26 m	1 h 44 m
8	10:48	14:48	2	26 m	52 m
9	11:40	15:40	1	26 m	26 m

The competing candidates were periodically overlaid with colored hearts that floated up from the vote button oscillating in a triangle wave pattern before disappearing above the candidate. Below the current competition, the results of past bouts were shown with the "loser" displayed in greyscale, the winner in color, and the final robot-commentator comment on that match.

The commentary appeared to suggest that there was some real-time feedback from the results of the competition. For instance, "It seems like our friends over Australia is joining the fun" appeared in the commentary. So did "We are getting a lot of questions on this today. This is live commentary, folks." https://i.imgur.com/8kPwjou.png, directly declaring that the commentary is live.

Note that the schedule might show different emoji pictures than the main voting screen, presumably because of fonts. The image is pre-rendered.

The competing candidates are chosen in order of Unicode value at first, resulting in similar emojis being compared. Examples include:

😜 squaring off against 😛 - two emojis playfully sticking their tongues out

🤩 squaring off against 😍 - two smiling emojis with symbols for eyes

😂 squaring off with 🤣 - two emojis that are crying in laughter/joy.

The original title text "🤼🤼🤼🤼🤼🤼🤼🤼" consisted of eight wrestler emojis. This likely represented the round of 8, where the eight winners then can turn to the winner next to them and continue the quarterfinals, etc. The title text was updated after the final round.

Notably, it appears the eggplant emoji (🍆) and the peach emoji (🍑) were left out of the bracket, alongside the middle finger emoji (🖕). The eggplant and peach are frequently used to represent a penis and vulva/buttocks, respectively. There has been no statement from Randall on why they were left out.

A robot face announcer-emoji (🤖) and a link to the full bracket was added at 38 minutes in. https://www.xkcd.com/2131/emojidome_bracket.png shows 512 emojis in a single-elimination tournament. https://www.xkcd.com/2131/emojidome_bracket_256.png was added later and shows the 256 emojis that competed on the second round. https://www.xkcd.com/2131/emojidome_bracket_round_3.png was added for the third round. https://www.xkcd.com/2131/emojidome_bracket_round_4.png was added for the fourth round. The round 3 bracket was later updated with results during the Volcano vs Owl fight. There was an error where the flying saucer had beaten the stars, which was not the case. A new bracket image was created for the Round of 32 which seems to be updated with new results as they come in. https://www.xkcd.com/2131/emojidome_bracket_round_of_32.png

It is not clear how the winner is decided when both emojis tied for first. This has happened twice: in Cupcake vs. Birthday Cake (🧁 vs. 🎂) with 3658 points each, where the Birthday Cake (🎂) was declared winner, and in the very first match of Grinning Face vs. Grinning Face With Smiling Eyes (😀 vs. 😁), in which no votes were cast, but the Grinning Face With Smiling Eyes (😁) was declared winner. Both of these tied bouts occurred in round 1, and both declared winners lost their subsequent match in round 2.

Alternative viewers

Real data with results (clicks) can be seen as JSON-websocket at https://emojidome.xkcd.com/2131/socket, transposed into a more human-readable format at https://leet.nu/tmp/xkcd-2131.html.

https://phiresky.github.io/emojidome/, made by a redditor, shows the brackets along with the final scores and comment.

Transcript

[This was an interactive and dynamic comic during April 1st from its release until its completion. But the final and current image, will be the official image to transcribe. But the dynamic part of the comic as well as the "error image" displayed to services that could not render the dynamic comic is also transcribed here below.]

[The final picture shows the winner of the gold medal in the Emojidome bracket tournament, as well as the runner up with the silver medal. There is no text. The winner is the "Space", "Stars" or "Milky Way" emoji, which is shown with a blue band on top of a dark blue band on top of an almost black background, indicating the light band of the Milky Way in the night sky. Stars (in both five point star shape and as dots) in light blue are spread out in all three bands of color. The large gold medal with its red neck string, is floating close to the middle of the picture, lacking any kind of neck in space to tie it around. To the left of the gold medal is the runner up, the brown Hedgehog, with light-brown face. It clutches the smaller silver medal, also with red neck string, which floats out there in space. The hedgehog with medal is depicted small enough to fit inside the neck string on the gold medal.]

Dynamic comic transcript

[This is an example of how the comic appeared during the competition. The example includes one of the final winner, Space's, matches. The dynamic part of the comic is transcribed below:]

[At the top center of the comic, the two emojis battling it out are shown next to each other. The emojis displayed in the comic used the twemoji icon set. A different emoji set was shown in links to image of the tournament brackets. These matches are called bouts in the comic. The emoji from the top (or left) of the bracket is shown to the left. In this case it was space, night sky, milky way or stars vs Maglev train. Between them is the following text:]

VS

[There are two buttons one below each of the two emoji. If pressed the buttons became red. They could be pressed multiple times each match. The buttons have text on them:]

Vote Vote

[From the buttons colored hearts are released, often in bundles, and then they wave up across the emoji who's button they emanated from.]

[Below the buttons there is and indicator showing how long the current battle is open for further votes. In the example the text is:]

Remaining time: 24 minutes

[The time began at "26 minutes" during the final rounds. It changed to "1 minute", with 1 minutes and 30 seconds left, and then 30 seconds later to "60 seconds" counting down to a few seconds. Then, before reaching 2 or 3 seconds it changed (a bit too early) to "Time's up!" Shortly there after a new bout would begin.]

[Above the two emoji at the very top is a comment. The commentator is shown as a robot emoji. The comment often changed during the long final rounds. In the current example the text is:]

"~future~"

[But there would have been several others during the match. Given that Space won the entire Emojidome, the train lost this match. Often a final comment was posted just as the result was in. These final messages was then put at the top of the list of past bouts (matches). These bouts was displayed at the bottom of the comic below the remaining time. To the left was the following text:]

Past bouts:

[Below this text was a list of all previous matches, showing the two emojis, with the loser grayed out, with their final comment next to them. As soon as there where more than three a scroll bar appeared to the right, making it possible to scroll down through all these previous matches. As it was 512 emojis to begin with, there were 256 bouts in the first round, and then 255 the rest of the way to the final for a total of 511 bouts at the end. Here are the text of the three matches that can be seen in the example (the grayed out loser was Sushi, Bee and Wizard):]

🌋 vs 🍣 "Sushi has received a technical disqualification for being very very cooked"

🐝 vs 🦉 "Owls well that ends well"

🦔 vs 🧙 "The Wizard didn't do it"

[All the final bouts remarks, as well as the match ups, the score of votes, and all the other comments coming at the top during each bout can be found below in the round 1 to round 9 sections. They are thus not only a transcript.]

[Finally at the bottom of the comic below the scroll-able version of the past bouts, there was a link to images of the brackets, beginning with the full long one of all 512 emojis, and the zooming in and out, plus updating with results along the way. The link was a text that explained what the link was for. In the current example the link text, which is link blue, was:]

Full bracket for today's comic (round 3).

Round 1

Competitors and score	Commentary
😀 (0) vs 😁 (0) Grinning face Grinning face with smiling eyes (Tie - unclear how winner was chosen)	You do not want to miss the fan favorite 😀. Coming up next!
😆 (207) vs 😅 (251) Smiling face with open mouth and tightly-closed eyes Smiling face with open mouth and cold sweat	Next up, 😅 and 😆. I'm really looking forward to everything we're going to see today.
😂 (772) vs 🤣 (824) Face with tears of joy Rolling On the Floor Laughing	Oh, this one should be good.
🙂 (939) vs 🙃 (1494) Slightly smiling face Upside-down face	You do not want to miss the fan favorite 🙂. Coming up next! You think this is something, folks, well... we're just getting started.
😊 (857) vs 😉 (1774) Smiling face with smiling eyes Winking face	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 😉 vs. 😊.
😇 (1417) vs 🥰 (1392) Smiling face with halo Smiling face with smiling eyes and three hearts	Welcome back, it's time for 😇 and 🥰 to go head to head.
😍 (2159) vs 🤩 (1447) Smiling face with heart-shaped eyes Grinning face with star eyes	We will be right back with 😍 vs. 🤩!
😗 (1045) vs 😘 (2595) Kissing face Face throwing a kiss	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 😗 vs. 😘. This is a day that 😗 has been anticipating for a long time.
😚 (1619) vs 😙 (1770) Kissing face with closed eyes Kissing face with smiling eyes	Have at it, 😙 and 😚! If you are just joining us, fear not! You haven't missed much.
😋 (1549) vs 😛 (2644) Face savouring delicious food Face with stuck-out tongue	It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 😋 or 😛? 😋 stole that win.
😜 (2302) vs 🤪 (2085) Face with stuck-out tongue and winking eye Grinning face with one large and one small eye	Next up, 😜 and 🤪. 😜 didn't do their homework.
😝 (2568) vs 🤑 (1372) Face with stuck-out tongue and tightly-closed eyes Money-mouth face	Don't change that channel, folks. We have 😝 and 🤑 warming up.
🤗 (1598) vs 🤭 (2316) Hugging face Smiling face with smiling eyes and hand covering mouth	Next up, 🤗 and 🤭. Sometimes miracles happen.
🤫 (734) vs 🤔 (4374) Face with finger covering closed lips Thinking face	Oh, this one should be good.
🤐 (1119) vs 🤨 (2928) Zipper-mouth face Face with one eyebrow raised	We will be right back with 🤐 vs. 🤨! Not sure which way this one goes.
😐 (1506) vs 😑 (1665) Neutral face Expressionless face	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 😐 vs. 😑. One for the history books.
😶 (2437) vs 😏 (2659) Face without mouth Smirking face	It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 😏 or 😶? This one was over before it started.
😒 (1562) vs 🙄 (2692) Unamused face Face with rolling eyes	If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, 😒 or 🙄.
😬 (3345) vs 🤥 (1137) Grimacing face Lying face	Oh this one should be good. No surprises here. 🤥 skates to an easy win. I hope everyone has printed their brackets and are ready, because time waits for very few people! No surprises here. 😬 skates to an easy win.
😌 (1980) vs 😔 (2238) Relieved face Pensive face	Next! Who would win in a match between 😌 and 😔? We are about to find out. 😔 comes out on top.
😴 (2770) vs 🤤 (1957) Sleeping face Drooling face	Oh, this one should be good. A dominant performance by 😴.
😷 (1760) vs 🤒 (2629) Face with medical mask Face with thermometer	Welcome back, it's time for 😷 and 🤒 to go head to head. In the end, there was nothing 😷 could do to stop the power of 🤒.
🤢 (2270) vs 🤕 (2648) Nauseated face Face with head-bandage	Next up, 🤕 and 🤢. 🤕 stole that win.
🤧 (2325) vs 🤮 (3260) Sneezing face Face with open mouth vomiting	Will it be 🤧 or 🤮? Find out next after this message from our sponsors. 🤮 opened strong and 🤧 never caught up.
🥵 (1884) vs 🥶 (3983) Overheated face Freezing face	You do not want to miss the fan favorite 🥵. Coming up next! I have never seen 🥶 crush an opponent that mercilessly before.
😵 (2920) vs 🥴 (3762) Dizzy face Face with uneven eyes and wavy mouth	Oh this one should be good. That was 😵's to give away and they did.
🤯 (3055) vs 🤠 (3110) Shocked face with exploding head Face with cowboy hat	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🤠 vs. 🤯. However this ends up, someone got blown away.
😎 (4316) vs 🥳 (2201) Smiling face with sunglasses Face with party horn and party hat	On deck, we have 😎 and 🥳. I guess it was that kind of a party.
😟 (2184) vs 😕 (3663) Worried face Confused face	Uh oh. 😟 has had words with 😕 before. The next match will be good. 😕 one, 😟 zero.
☹ (1638) vs 😮 (5498) White frowning face Face with open mouth	Next up, ☹ and 😮. I hope everyone has printed their brackets and are ready, because time waits for very few people!
😲 (2383) vs 😯 (3904) Astonished face Hushed face	Don't change that channel, folks. We have 😯 and 😲 warming up. And 😲 falls to 😯. A suprising turn of events.
😧 (3063) vs 😳 (3754) Anguished face Flushed face	We will be right back with 😧 vs. 😳! This one was over before it started.
😨 (2082) vs 😰 (4050) Fearful face Face with open mouth and cold sweat	Oh, this one should be good. Well, this doesn't look good.
😢 (2095) vs 😭 (5108) Crying face Loudly crying face	Have at it, 😢 and 😭! This one's a real tear-jerker.
😖 (2039) vs 😱 (4758) Confounded face Face screaming in fear	If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, 😖 or 😱. 😱 stole that win.
😞 (2879) vs 😣 (3528) Disappointed face Persevering face	Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 😞 vs. 😣! This one's painful.
😩 (2785) vs 😓 (3231) Weary face Face with cold sweat	On deck, we have 😓 and 😩. It's early yet, folks. The coffee hasn't kicked in.
😫 (1827) vs 😤 (4871) Tired face Face with look of triumph	Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 😤 vs. 😫! I didn't remember 😫 qualifying. I think they snuck in.
😠 (1866) vs 😡 (5192) Angry face Pouting face	Will it be 😠 or 😡? Find out next after this message from our sponsors. It is astounding how much competition we have in store for today.
😈 (4225) vs 🤬 (3072) Smiling face with horns Serious face with symbols covering mouth	Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 😈 vs. 🤬! Speak of the devil...
👿 (2341) vs 💀 (4739) Imp Skull	We will be right back with 👿 vs. 💀! It has been a long road for 💀 to get to competing on the world stage.
💩 (4829) vs 🤡 (2514) Pile of poo Clown face	Have at it, 💩 and 🤡! I think we all know how this is going to go.
👻 (3680) vs 👽 (3983) Ghost Extraterrestrial alien	Have at it, 👻 and 👽!
🏰 (2715) vs 👾 (4412) European castle Alien monster	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🏰 vs. 👾. 👾 opened strong and 🏰 never caught up.
😸 (3334) vs 😺 (3542) Grinning cat face with smiling eyes Smiling cat face with open mouth	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 😸 vs. 😺. This one is serious, folks.
😹 (2778) vs 😻 (3702) Cat face with tears of joy Smiling cat face with heart-shaped eyes	Welcome back, it's time for 😹 and 😻 to go head to head. The hearts are my favorite part. It all comes down to love. And that really says something.
😽 (1815) vs 😼 (3991) Kissing cat face with closed eyes Cat face with wry smile	I'm looking forward to this. Sometimes miracles happen.
😿 (1189) vs 🙀 (4682) Crying cat face Weary cat face	On deck, we have 😿 and 🙀.
💋 (2122) vs 😾 (3837) Kiss mark Pouting cat face	Oh, this one should be good.
💌 (1659) vs 💖 (3386) Love letter Sparkling heart	Next! Who would win in a match between 💌 and 💖? We are about to find out. 💌 is an fan favorite to go far today.
❤ (3904) vs 💔 (1920) Heavy black heart Broken heart	Uh oh. 💔 has had words with ❤ before. The next match will be good.
🖤 (2940) vs 💯 (3866) Black heart Hundred points symbol	It is a battle as old as time itself. 💯 and 🖤! Facing off against each other again! A dominant performance by 💯.
💥 (3055) vs 💦 (3843) Collision symbol Splashing sweat symbol	Welcome back, it's time for 💥 and 💦 to go head to head. Like fire and water.
🕳 (2476) vs 💣 (4063) Hole Bomb	Don't change that channel, folks. We have 💣 and 🕳 warming up. This one was a mess.
🤞 (2246) vs 🤘 (4845) Hand with index and middle fingers crossed Sign of the horns	You do not want to miss the fan favorite 🤘. Coming up next! It feels like these early matches are over almost before they begin.
👎 (2231) vs 👍 (5077) Thumbs down sign Thumbs up sign	Will it be 👍 or 👎? Find out next after this message from our sponsors. Nice to see the support for positivity.
🙏 (3114) vs 👊 (4861) Person with folded hands Fisted hand sign	Have at it, 👊 and 🙏! I don't think 🙏 expected to see 👊 opposite them today.
💅 (2366) vs 🦵 (4060) Nail polish Leg	It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 💅 or 🦵? If 🦵 wins this match, it will be interesting to see how far they can go.
🦷 (1409) vs 🧠 (5821) Tooth Brain	Oh this one should be good.
👀 (4052) vs 🦴 (2198) Eyes Bone	Uh oh. 🦴 has had words with 👀 before. The next match will be good.
👄 (1712) vs 👅 (4648) Mouth Tongue	Don't change that channel, folks. We have 👄 and 👅 warming up.
👶 (1414) vs 🤦 (5666) Baby Face palm	Uh oh. 🤦 has had words with 👶 before. The next match will be good.
👩‍🔬 (6374) vs 🤷 (2385) Woman + microscope Shrug	Have at it, 👩‍🔬 and 🤷!
👩‍🚀 (5502) vs 🦸 (2302) Woman + rocket Superhero	It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 👩‍🚀 or 🦸?
🧚 (1909) vs 🧙 (6294) Fairy Mage	Uh oh. 🧚 has had words with 🧙 before. The next match will be good. There are some titanic match-ups that could happen today. Yes, this is live commentary. We have only just started, folks. Stay tuned for more amazing contests!
🧜 (3835) vs 🧛 (3840) Merperson Vampire	You do not want to miss the fan favorite 🧛. Coming up next! Not sure which way this one goes.
💆 (2815) vs 🧟 (3747) Face massage Zombie	Next up, 💆 and 🧟. That's just a typical Monday for you.
💇 (3029) vs 🚶 (3055) Haircut Pedestrian	We will be right back with 💇 vs. 🚶! It's going to be a busy day, folks. Remember to pace yourself.
🏃 (2239) vs 💃 (5833) Runner Dancer	On deck, we have 🏃 and 💃. Make some noise! Show 🏃 and 💃 some love! That was 🏃's to give away and they did.
🕺 (1990) vs 🕴 (5035) Man dancing Man in business suit levitating	We will be right back with 🕴 vs. 🕺! I spoke with 🕴 before we started today. They were hoping to dodge 🕺. Too bad for them.
🏇 (2563) vs 🤺 (5157) Horse racing Fencer	Have at it, 🏇 and 🤺! Never bring a sword to a horse fight.
⛷ (4510) vs 🏂 (3762) Skier Snowboarder	Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's ⛷ vs. 🏂! We have a lot of excited fans in the audience.
🏌 (2557) vs 🏄 (6285) Golfer Surfer	It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🏄 or 🏌? Ok! Let's see those hearts! I have never seen 🏄 crush an opponent that mercilessly before.
⛹ (2793) vs 🏊 (5994) Person with ball Swimmer	Have at it, ⛹ and 🏊!
🏋 (2300) vs 🚴 (8063) Weight lifter Bicyclist	Will it be 🏋 or 🚴? Find out next after this message from our sponsors. Right now the crowd is chanting 🏋! 🏋! An early sign of a favorite?
🚵 (5650) vs 🤾 (4698) Mountain bicyclist Handball	We will be right back with 🚵 vs. 🤾! It's neck and neck!
👤 (2195) vs 🛀 (5529) Bust in silhouette Bath	Don't change that channel, folks. We have 👤 and 🛀 warming up.
🐒 (4644) vs 🦍 (3336) Monkey Gorilla	Oh, this one should be good.
🐕 (3458) vs 🐶 (4004) Dog Dog face	You do not want to miss the fan favorite 🐕. Coming up next! Mostly a matter of perspective.
🐺 (2774) vs 🦊 (6024) Wolf face Fox face	Oh, this one should be good. Again, small variations make all the difference.
🐱 (4931) vs 🦝 (4017) Cat face Raccoon	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🐱 vs. 🦝. 🦝 is an fan favorite to go far today. 🐱 stole that win.
🐈 (5046) vs 🦁 (3957) Cat Lion face	Don't change that channel, folks. We have 🐈 and 🦁 warming up. Again, we are getting a lot of questions on this today. This is live commentary, folks. We have a lot of excited fans in the audience.
🐆 (2186) vs 🐅 (6280) Leopard Tiger	It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🐅 or 🐆? Stripes or Spots, Stripes or Spots
🐴 (3722) vs 🐎 (4120) Horse face Horse	Next! Who would win in a match between 🐎 and 🐴? We are about to find out. I've got your horse right here.
🦓 (3486) vs 🦄 (6830) Zebra face Unicorn face	Next! Who would win in a match between 🦄 and 🦓? We are about to find out. I think we all know how this is going to go. It was neck and neck until the very end, but some necks are longer than others.
🐮 (3658) vs 🦌 (5111) Cow face Deer	Uh oh. 🦌 has had words with 🐮 before. The next match will be good. This is a close one!
🐖 (3568) vs 🐷 (5175) Pig Pig face	You do not want to miss the fan favorite 🐖. Coming up next! Who will bring home the bacon?
🐗 (2576) vs 🐏 (6073) Boar Ram	It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🐏 or 🐗?
🐪 (3329) vs 🐐 (5304) Dromedary camel Goat	It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🐐 or 🐪?
🦙 (4397) vs 🦒 (5164) Llama Giraffe face	Uh oh. 🦙 has had words with 🦒 before. The next match will be good. It's neck and neck! I hope 🦙 comes back next year. It would be a sham to see it all end like this.
🐘 (4809) vs 🦏 (3804) Elephant Rhinoceros	It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🐘 or 🦏? We'll never forget this.
🐁 (4039) vs 🦛 (4085) Mouse Hippopotamus	It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🐁 or 🦛?
🐀 (2994) vs 🐹 (4580) Rat Hamster face	Will it be 🐀 or 🐹? Find out next after this message from our sponsors. Today is also about settling scores, there is no doubt about that for some of our contestants.
🐰 (1865) vs 🐿 (5175) Rabbit face Chipmunk	If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, 🐰 or 🐿. Its about reflexes.
🦇 (3648) vs 🦔 (4507) Bat Hedgehog	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🦇 vs. 🦔. This one is a toss-up in my book, folks.
🐻 (2686) vs 🐨 (5059) Bear face Koala	Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 🐨 vs. 🐻! Ok! You know what to do! Let's see those hearts!
🐼 (2896) vs 🦘 (5185) Panda face Kangaroo	Next! Who would win in a match between 🐼 and 🦘? We are about to find out. It's exciting to look around and see so many joining us from all over the world. One for the history books.
🦃 (2553) vs 🦡 (5483) Turkey Badger	It is a battle as old as time itself. 🦃 and 🦡! Facing off against each other again! That was a stinker of a battle, if you ask me.
🐓 (2883) vs 🐣 (5153) Rooster Hatching chick	Welcome back, it's time for 🐓 and 🐣 to go head to head.
🕊 (2432) vs 🐧 (5951) Dove of peace Penguin	We will be right back with 🐧 vs. 🕊!
🦅 (3871) vs 🦆 (4800) Eagle Duck	Uh oh. 🦆 has had words with 🦅 before. The next match will be good.
🦢 (1613) vs 🦉 (7025) Swan Owl	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🦉 vs. 🦢. 🦉 didn't do their homework. I hope everyone has printed their brackets and are ready, because time waits for very few people! Yes, this is live commentary. 🦉 one, 🦢 zero.
🦚 (4333) vs 🦜 (4803) Peacock Parrot	Oh, this one should be good. I know some very invested audience members for this one.
🐊 (3986) vs 🐢 (6403) Crocodile Turtle	I'm looking forward to this.
🐍 (5378) vs 🦎 (4415) Snake Lizard	Have at it, 🐍 and 🦎! In the end, there was nothing 🐍 could do to stop the power of 🦎. Did you just see that!? Plenty of matches left to see. Don't go anywhere.
🐉 (5359) vs 🦕 (4855) Dragon Sauropod	Have at it, 🐉 and 🦕! One for the history books.
🐳 (5445) vs 🦖 (5411) Spouting whale T-rex	I'm looking forward to this. Again, another difficult match-up for our audience.
🐟 (1639) vs 🐬 (8071) Fish Dolphin	Will it be 🐟 or 🐬? Find out next after this message from our sponsors. I know which one I would choose, but I don't have time to vote!
🐡 (2307) vs 🦈 (6544) Blowfish Shark	Have at it, 🐡 and 🦈! 🦈 opened strong and 🐡 never caught up.
🐚 (1590) vs 🐙 (8224) Spiral shell Octopus	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🐙 vs. 🐚. This one was over before it started.
🐌 (4816) vs 🦋 (4835) Snail Butterfly	We will be right back with 🐌 vs. 🦋! The hearts are flying on this one!
🐜 (3194) vs 🐛 (5132) Ant Bug	I'm looking forward to this. 🐜 didn't do their homework.
🐞 (3561) vs 🐝 (5804) Lady beetle Honeybee	On deck, we have 🐝 and 🐞. This one is a true test of the audience today. Will luck be a ladybug tonight? Amazing!
🕷 (4806) vs 🦗 (4195) Spider Cricket	Uh oh. 🦗 has had words with 🕷 before. The next match will be good. And 🦗 falls to 🕷. A suprising turn of events.
🦂 (3853) vs 🦠 (4971) Scorpion Microbe	Next! Who would win in a match between 🦂 and 🦠? We are about to find out. Nope. Nope nope nope nope.
🌷 (3767) vs 🌻 (4374) Tulip Sunflower	We will be right back with 🌷 vs. 🌻! Now that's more like it.
🌳 (1973) vs 🌲 (6563) Deciduous tree Evergreen tree	If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, 🌲 or 🌳. Who would have thought, eh?
🌴 (3876) vs 🌵 (5468) Palm tree Cactus	Oh, this one should be good. In the end, there was nothing 🌴 could do to stop the power of 🌵.
🍈 (2617) vs 🍇 (5319) Melon Grapes	It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🍇 or 🍈? Folks, I am just as stunned at the outcome as you.
🍋 (4186) vs 🍉 (4720) Lemon Watermelon	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🍉 vs. 🍋. I just don't know why they can't find common ground. 🍉 one, 🍋 zero.
🍌 (4704) vs 🍍 (5525) Banana Pineapple	Don't change that channel, folks. We have 🍌 and 🍍 warming up. Ok! Let's see those hearts! I guess it was that kind of a party.
🍎 (5111) vs 🥭 (3830) Red apple Mango	I'm looking forward to this.
🍏 (2703) vs 🍓 (6403) Green apple Strawberry	It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🍏 or 🍓? We might be close to some matches the audience is expecting or hoping to see today. Berry nice!
🍅 (3002) vs 🥝 (5348) Tomato Kiwifruit	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🍅 vs. 🥝.
🥥 (3840) vs 🥑 (5759) Coconut Avocado	On deck, we have 🥑 and 🥥. Somehow, someone will blame millenials for this.
🥕 (4577) vs 🥔 (4620) Carrot Potato	Next! Who would win in a match between 🥔 and 🥕? We are about to find out. Ahhh the age old question, 🥕 or 🥔.
🌽 (4074) vs 🌶 (5087) Ear of maize Hot pepper	Have at it, 🌶 and 🌽!
🥬 (2694) vs 🥒 (5472) Leafy green Cucumber	You do not want to miss the fan favorite 🥒. Coming up next! Not sure which way this one goes.
🍄 (5850) vs 🥦 (2707) Mushroom Broccoli	Will it be 🍄 or 🥦? Find out next after this message from our sponsors. Folks, we are nearly halfway through the first bracket! Again, we are getting a lot of questions on this today. This is live commentary, folks. Into the second half of the first round. That was 🥦's to give away and they did.
🌰 (2698) vs 🥜 (6225) Chestnut Peanuts	It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🌰 or 🥜? I am not even sure what I am looking at here.
🍞 (2934) vs 🥐 (6465) Bread Croissant	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🍞 vs. 🥐. Well, I know who I would vote for.
🥖 (4800) vs 🥨 (5136) Baguette bread Pretzel	We will be right back with 🥖 vs. 🥨!
🥯 (2470) vs 🥞 (5926) Bagel Pancakes	Uh oh. 🥯 has had words with 🥞 before. The next match will be good. Now I am just hungry.
🥩 (3959) vs 🧀 (6225) Cut of meat Cheese wedge	Oh this one should be good. Truly a battle for the ages.
🍟 (3719) vs 🍔 (5352) French fries Hamburger	Don't change that channel, folks. We have 🍔 and 🍟 warming up.
🌭 (1340) vs 🍕 (7881) Hot dog Slice of pizza	If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, 🌭 or 🍕.
🌮 (6417) vs 🥪 (2869) Taco Sandwich	It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🌮 or 🥪? I'll be honest, even I voted in that last one. There are some titanic match-ups that could happen today. One for the history books.
🌯 (5359) vs 🥚 (3868) Burrito Egg	It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🌯 or 🥚? 🥚 is an fan favorite to go far today. One for the history books.
🍳 (5293) vs 🥗 (3101) Cooking Green salad	Have at it, 🍳 and 🥗! There can be very food-centric history books. If 🍳 wins this match, it will be interesting to see how far they can go.
🍿 (2640) vs 🧂 (2067) Popcorn Salt shaker	Oh, this one should be good. This one was over before it started.
🍱 (4931) vs 🥫 (1948) Bento box Canned food	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🍱 vs. 🥫. It is early still. Possibly too early to predict an over-all winner. But I am hearing 🏇 mentioned a fair bit. And 🥫 falls to 🍱. A suprising turn of events.
🍤 (2334) vs 🍣 (5552) Fried shrimp Sushi	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🍣 vs. 🍤. Plenty of matches left to see. Don't go anywhere.
🥡 (3101) vs 🥟 (4128) Takeout box Dumpling	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🥟 vs. 🥡. 🥟 one, 🥡 zero.
🦀 (3762) vs 🦞 (4739) Crab Lobster	Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 🦀 vs. 🦞!
🦐 (2421) vs 🦑 (6162) Shrimp Squid	Will it be 🦐 or 🦑? Find out next after this message from our sponsors.
🍦 (3804) vs 🍨 (4698) Soft ice cream Ice cream	If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, 🍦 or 🍨.
🍪 (3722) vs 🍩 (5167) Cookie Doughnut	We will be right back with 🍩 vs. 🍪!
🎂 (3658) vs 🧁 (3658) Birthday cake Cupcake (Tie - unclear how winner was chosen)	Next up, 🎂 and 🧁.
🍬 (1244) vs 🍫 (6674) Candy Chocolate bar	We will be right back with 🍫 vs. 🍬!
🍭 (2568) vs 🍯 (5445) Lollipop Honey pot	It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🍭 or 🍯? Thank you for tuning in. I promise you are in for a treat today.
🍼 (1824) vs 🥛 (5239) Baby bottle Glass of milk	Will it be 🍼 or 🥛? Find out next after this message from our sponsors.
☕ (4813) vs 🍾 (3227) Hot beverage Bottle with popping cork	If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, ☕ or 🍾. Time to get another feel for our audience today.
🍷 (3021) vs 🍹 (3561) Wine glass Tropical drink	It is a battle as old as time itself. 🍷 and 🍹! Facing off against each other again! Well now I am just getting thirsty.
🍺 (5763) vs 🥤 (3897) Beer mug Cup with straw	Will it be 🍺 or 🥤? Find out next after this message from our sponsors. Still thirsty!
🍴 (3917) vs 🥢 (4348) Fork and knife Chopsticks	We will be right back with 🍴 vs. 🥢! I know which one I would choose, but I don't have time to vote!
🔪 (5627) vs 🥄 (1742) Hocho Spoon	Have at it, 🔪 and 🥄!
🏺 (2604) vs 🧭 (4784) Amphora Compass	Don't change that channel, folks. We have 🏺 and 🧭 warming up. You just know that 🏺 is thinking about 🏎 right now.
⛰ (1843) vs 🌋 (6793) Mountain Volcano	You do not want to miss the fan favorite ⛰. Coming up next! This one was over before it started.
🏖 (3159) vs 🏕 (5611) Beach with umbrella Camping	Welcome back, it's time for 🏕 and 🏖 to go head to head. Time to pick your poison!
🏟 (2537) vs 🏝 (6180) Stadium Desert island	I'm looking forward to this.
🏗 (4093) vs 🧱 (3680) Building construction Brick	Oh this one should be good. What an amazing display of prowess from 🏗.
🏢 (2178) vs 🏠 (5829) Office building House building	Oh, this one should be good. 🏠 has every reason to be concerned about this match-up.
🏨 (1367) vs 🏥 (5326) Hotel Hospital	Next! Who would win in a match between 🏥 and 🏨? We are about to find out. is $6,000,000 of one and Six million of the other, am I right?
🏪 (3114) vs 🗽 (4875) Convenience store Statue of liberty	It is a battle as old as time itself. 🏪 and 🗽! Facing off against each other again!
⛲ (4296) vs ⛺ (3483) Fountain Tent	Don't change that channel, folks. We have ⛲ and ⛺ warming up. If you look away for a moment, you may miss your chance to send ⛺ into the later rounds.
🌁 (3488) vs 🌃 (4354) Foggy Night with stars	I'm looking forward to this.
🏙 (2396) vs 🌅 (6055) Cityscape Sunrise	Next up, 🌅 and 🏙. 🏙 is fully committed to this match.
🎠 (3307) vs 🎡 (4648) Carousel horse Ferris wheel	It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🎠 or 🎡? Oh no. 🎠 fans are not going to like this match-up.
🎢 (5854) vs 💈 (2137) Roller coaster Barber pole	Next up, 🎢 and 💈. This one will be filled with twists and turns!
🚂 (3915) vs 🚄 (4826) Steam locomotive High-speed train	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🚂 vs. 🚄. The future waits on no one. Let's see those hearts!
🚇 (3395) vs 🚝 (4881) Metro Monorail	Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 🚇 vs. 🚝! On the other hand, time and space are a matter of perspective, right? I guess it was that kind of a party.
🚌 (2412) vs 🚑 (5363) Bus Ambulance	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🚌 vs. 🚑. Uh oh, that can't be good for 🚌.
🚓 (2703) vs 🚒 (6746) Police car Fire engine	Oh, this one should be good. Uh oh, that can't be good for 🚓. This is a classic struggle.
🚕 (3400) vs 🚗 (3794) Taxi Automobile	Don't change that channel, folks. We have 🚕 and 🚗 warming up. Well that's certainly something.
🚘 (2922) vs 🚜 (5363) Oncoming automobile Tractor	Next up, 🚘 and 🚜. This one is a real nail biter! If 🚘 falls today, we might start hearing serious conversations about retirement.
🏎 (3103) vs 🛵 (4839) Racing car Motor scooter	Don't change that channel, folks. We have 🏎 and 🛵 warming up. Well this is just fan service. And I am ok with it.
🛴 (2103) vs 🚲 (6970) Scooter Bicycle	Next! Who would win in a match between 🚲 and 🛴? We are about to find out. Frankly, I don't think anyone saw this coming.
🛢 (3474) vs 🛹 (4780) Oil drum Skateboard	Next! Who would win in a match between 🛢 and 🛹? We are about to find out. And 🛢 falls to 🛹. A suprising turn of events.
⚓ (4816) vs 🚨 (2389) Anchor Police cars revolving light	Welcome back, it's time for ⚓ and 🚨 to go head to head. Just to stress this again. Live commentary, folks. Completely unscripted and coming in hot. This one is a true test of the audience today.
⛵ (4941) vs 🚢 (2877) Sailboat Ship	Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's ⛵ vs. 🚢! SAIL!
💺 (1776) vs 🛩 (5947) Seat Small airplane	You do not want to miss the fan favorite 💺. Coming up next!
🚡 (3729) vs 🚁 (4148) Aerial tramway Helicopter	If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, 🚁 or 🚡. Sometimes miracles happen. Plenty of matches left to see. Don't go anywhere.
🛰 (3655) vs 🚀 (4861) Satellite Rocket	Welcome back, it's time for 🚀 and 🛰 to go head to head. 🛰 and 🚀 have been friends for a long time. I am not sure where that relationship is going to be after today.
⏳ (3021) vs 🛸 (5203) Hourglass with flowing sand Flying saucer	It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, ⏳ or 🛸? This one is serious, folks.
⌚ (4462) vs ⏰ (3619) Watch Alarm clock	You do not want to miss the fan favorite ⌚. Coming up next! If you believe in ⏰, now is the time to clap or whatever, because it is not looking good. If you believe in ⏰, now is the time to clap or whatever, because it is not looking good.
🌕 (3690) vs 🌒 (4145) Full moon symbol Waxing crescent moon symbol	You do not want to miss the fan favorite 🌒. Coming up next! What a shocking result!
🌡 (2829) vs 🌙 (4432) Thermometer Crescent moon	It is a battle as old as time itself. 🌙 and 🌡! Facing off against each other again!
🌝 (3559) vs 🌞 (3871) Full moon with face Sun with face	You do not want to miss the fan favorite 🌝. Coming up next!
⭐ (2063) vs 🌌 (5731) White medium star Milky way	Uh oh. 🌌 has had words with ⭐ before. The next match will be good.
⛈ (5487) vs 🌦 (1983) Thunder cloud and rain White sun behind cloud with rain	Don't change that channel, folks. We have ⛈ and 🌦 warming up. And 🌦 falls to ⛈. A suprising turn of events.
🌨 (3646) vs 🌪 (4139) Cloud with snow Cloud with tornado	It is a battle as old as time itself. 🌨 and 🌪! Facing off against each other again! Folks, I am just as stunned at the outcome as you.
🌀 (3034) vs 🌈 (7070) Cyclone Rainbow	Next! Who would win in a match between 🌀 and 🌈? We are about to find out.
☂ (2117) vs ⚡ (5125) Umbrella High voltage sign	You do not want to miss the fan favorite ☂. Coming up next!
☄ (4988) vs ⛄ (2602) Comet Snowman without snow	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's ☄ vs. ⛄. Another curious match-up with significant implications on how the rest of the day will go.
🌊 (3356) vs 🔥 (5286) Water wave Fire	Oh, this one should be good. I am not sure if 🌊 was prepared for today.
🎆 (3284) vs 🎃 (4418) Fireworks Jack-o-lantern	If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, 🎃 or 🎆. This is a mystery.
🎇 (2770) vs 🧨 (4066) Firework sparkler Firecracker	Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 🎇 vs. 🧨! Get ready for an explosive result!
🎈 (2619) vs 🎉 (4673) Balloon Party popper	I'm looking forward to this. I guess it was that kind of a party.
🎊 (2250) vs 🎁 (4203) Confetti ball Wrapped present	Welcome back, it's time for 🎁 and 🎊 to go head to head. This one was a mess.
🎟 (2054) vs 🏆 (4558) Admission tickets Trophy	Don't change that channel, folks. We have 🎟 and 🏆 warming up. Truly a dizzying win.
⚽ (3116) vs 🏅 (4383) Soccer ball Sports medal	Have at it, ⚽ and 🏅! A dominant performance by 🏅.
⚾ (5479) vs 🥎 (2335) Baseball Softball	Uh oh. 🥎 has had words with ⚾ before. The next match will be good. Uhhhh. I can't tell the difference here, can you?
🏐 (3742) vs 🏀 (4148) Volleyball Basketball and hoop	Oh this one should be good. The ball is round, everything else is negotiable.
🏈 (2932) vs 🎾 (6003) American football Tennis racquet and ball	Next up, 🎾 and 🏈. The ball is round ...er .... well .... uh.
🎳 (4071) vs 🥏 (4561) Bowling Flying disc	We will be right back with 🎳 vs. 🥏! I had BOWLING BALL in my March Madness bracket. I did not do well. Ok. Now this is just ridiculous.
🏑 (2742) vs 🏏 (3810) Field hockey stick and ball Cricket bat and ball	We will be right back with 🏏 vs. 🏑!
🏒 (5926) vs 🥍 (2291) Ice hockey stick and puck Lacrosse stick and ball	Oh this one should be good. Floor stick vs. sky stick—who will win?
🏓 (5858) vs 🥊 (2203) Table tennis paddle and ball Boxing glove	Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 🏓 vs. 🥊!
⛸ (2465) vs 🛷 (4552) Ice skate Sled	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's ⛸ vs. 🛷. Foot sled vs. regular sled!
🎯 (1539) vs 🥌 (1873) Direct hit Curling stone	Next! Who would win in a match between 🎯 and 🥌? We are about to find out.
🎮 (6798) vs 🔮 (2657) Video game Crystal ball	Oh, this one should be good.
🎭 (2137) vs 🎲 (4868) Performing arts Game die	If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, 🎭 or 🎲.
🎨 (4172) vs 🧶 (2994) Artist palette Ball of yarn	Uh oh. 🧶 has had words with 🎨 before. The next match will be good. A lot of cats clicking on screens right now.
👓 (4206) vs 🥽 (3986) Eyeglasses Goggles	Have at it, 👓 and 🥽! Glasses vs. Science Glasses!
👛 (1029) vs 🧦 (5468) Purse Socks	Have at it, 👛 and 🧦!
🎒 (3516) vs 👟 (2756) School satchel Athletic shoe	Don't change that channel, folks. We have 🎒 and 👟 warming up. Time for school! Which one will you bring?
👠 (1627) vs 👑 (5203) High-heeled shoe Crown	Oh this one should be good.
🎩 (5611) vs 💄 (1719) Top hat Lipstick	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🎩 vs. 💄. The fanciest matchup!
💍 (1284) vs 💎 (5973) Ring Gem stone	Will it be 💍 or 💎? Find out next after this message from our sponsors. If you like the one on the right, put a ring on it!
🎤 (1728) vs 🎵 (5239) Microphone Musical note	On deck, we have 🎤 and 🎵.  :notes::notes::notes: Music!
🎷 (4934) vs 📻 (2021) Saxophone Radio	Don't change that channel, folks. We have 🎷 and 📻 warming up. The radio and the saxophone are having a music fight. Who can be louder?
🎺 (3427) vs 🎸 (4388) Trumpet Guitar	Uh oh. 🎺 has had words with 🎸 before. The next match will be good. Truly, this is a day that will live in the memories of everyone here.
🎻 (4450) vs 🥁 (2857) Violin Drum with drumsticks	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🎻 vs. 🥁. You can hit either one with drumsticks, technically.
📱 (3837) vs 📞 (3980) Mobile phone Telephone receiver	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 📞 vs. 📱. 📞 is fully committed to this match.
📠 (2877) vs 📟 (3262) Fax machine Pager	Uh oh. 📠 has had words with 📟 before. The next match will be good. This one is a toss-up in my book, folks. Only 15% of the people voting recognize either of these antique devices.
🔋 (2676) vs 💻 (4418) Battery Personal computer	Oh this one should be good. I spoke with 💻 before the match today, and they had this to say: 💻. Sparks fly!
⌨ (5293) vs 🖨 (1909) Keyboard Printer	Oh, this one should be good. A keyboard is just a reverse printer.
🖱 (2661) vs 💾 (6308) Three button mouse Floppy disk	I'm looking forward to this. Yes, this is live commentary. This one is a mystery to me, folks.
📀 (2585) vs 🧮 (5282) Dvd Abacus	Will it be 📀 or 🧮? Find out next after this message from our sponsors.
📺 (2752) vs 📷 (4543) Television Camera	Next up, 📷 and 📺. 📷 certainly has its work cut out for it going up agaist 📺. The camera comes with a tiny TV on the back, which hardly seems fair.
📼 (3648) vs 🔎 (3663) Videocassette Right-pointing magnifying glass	It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 📼 or 🔎? 🔎 has every reason to be concerned about this match-up. These two can combine for a very unsatisfying movie-watching experience.
🕯 (3910) vs 💡 (4178) Candle Electric light bulb	Welcome back, it's time for 💡 and 🕯 to go head to head. I'm so happy to see 💡 here, after 🧠 didn't make it. Some would argue this one was settled in the 1800s.
🔦 (1663) vs 📚 (5960) Electric torch Books	It is a battle as old as time itself. 📚 and 🔦! Facing off against each other again! The flashlight illuminates the pages, but it only makes the books stronger!
📰 (2524) vs 📜 (5491) Newspaper Scroll	You do not want to miss the fan favorite 📜. Coming up next! I thought we had seen everything, but look at 📜 go! Amazing! A faceoff between two types of ancient scrolls.
💳 (2655) vs 💰 (5595) Credit card Money bag	It is a battle as old as time itself. 💰 and 💳! Facing off against each other again!
📬 (3218) vs 📦 (3350) Open mailbox with raised flag Package	Don't change that channel, folks. We have 📦 and 📬 warming up. Will the package fit in the mailbox? Vote now!
🗳 (2403) vs 🖋 (4691) Ballot box with ballot Lower left fountain pen	Welcome back, it's time for 🖋 and 🗳 to go head to head. The winner of this bout will go on to face The Sword. The winner of this bout will go on to face The Sword. Who’s mightier?
🖌 (3530) vs 🖍 (3897) Lower left paintbrush Lower left crayon	It is a battle as old as time itself. 🖌 and 🖍! Facing off against each other again! If 🖍 falls today, we might start hearing serious conversations about retirement. Paintbrush (hard mode) vs. Paintbrush (easy mode)
💼 (2264) vs 📅 (3884) Briefcase Calendar	Oh, this one should be good. You have to wonder if 💼 even wanted to be here today.
🗒 (2430) vs 📊 (4726) Spiral note pad Bar chart	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 📊 vs. 🗒. *checks notes* Yikes.
📌 (2799) vs 📎 (4796) Pushpin Paperclip	Uh oh. 📎 has had words with 📌 before. The next match will be good. I am excited about this match. This might be my favorite early match so far.
✂ (3762) vs 🗑 (2409) Black scissors Wastebasket	We will be right back with ✂ vs. 🗑! This is a day that ✂ has been anticipating for a long time.
🔒 (2827) vs 🗝 (5214) Lock Old key	Oh this one should be good. Finally, an answer to the classic question.
🔨 (3350) vs 🗡 (5042) Hammer Dagger knife	Oh, this one should be good. Between the two of these, you can cover almost any home improvement situation.
⚔ (5352) vs 🔫 (3734) Crossed swords Pistol	I'm looking forward to this. Pew pew pew! [sword noises]
🏹 (4931) vs 🛡 (2629) Bow and arrow Shield	Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 🏹 vs. 🛡! Where is the Master Sword when you need it? In this match, we see Legolas take on Captain America.
🗜 (3393) vs 🔧 (3481) Compression Wrench	Don't change that channel, folks. We have 🔧 and 🗜 warming up. [drops pretense of impartiality] VOTE C clamp!
⚖ (4961) vs 🧰 (1868) Scales Toolbox	Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's ⚖ vs. 🧰! I know some of you out there had a challenging commute. Hopefully today's matches will improve your day. If there’s any justice in the world, the one on the left will win.
🧪 (4134) vs 🧲 (4519) Test tube Magnet	It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🧪 or 🧲? Do you want super-powers? Because this is how you get super-powers!
🔬 (2587) vs 🧬 (5487) Microscope DNA double helix	Oh, this one should be good. Do you want super-science? Because this is how you get super-science!
📡 (3609) vs 🔭 (4607) Satellite antenna Telescope	You do not want to miss the fan favorite 📡. Coming up next! This one is a real nail biter!
🚿 (3933) vs 🚽 (4031) Shower Toilet	Next up, 🚽 and 🚿. Combine these to save time in the morning!
🛁 (4131) vs 🧷 (2740) Bathtub Safety pin	You do not want to miss the fan favorite 🛁. Coming up next! Well that just doesn't seem fair.
🧹 (2655) vs 🧻 (5118) Broom Roll of paper	Will it be 🧹 or 🧻? Find out next after this message from our sponsors.
⚰ (4651) vs 🧯 (4009) Coffin Fire extinguisher	You do not want to miss the fan favorite ⚰. Coming up next! You should have one of these handy in your house, although I guess which one is up to you.
🆗 (5326) vs 🆒 (5506) Squared OK Squared COOL	Don't change that channel, folks. We have 🆒 and 🆗 warming up. Here it is, the final match before the second round! At least this one is going to be over quickly. Here it is, the final match before the second round!

Round 2

Competitors and score	Commentary
😁 (5968) vs 😅 (9223) Grinning face with smiling eyes Smiling face with open mouth and cold sweat	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 😁 vs. 😅. What a shocking result! Welcome to round 2! Welcome to round 2! These rounds will be a little slower. Welcome to round 2!
🙃 (12578) vs 🤣 (5892) Upside-down face Rolling On the Floor Laughing	It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🙃 or 🤣? Round two is serious business, folks. Rolling-on-the-floor-laughing is a top seed, but the upside-down smiley has a certain intriguing ambiguity. Possible upset?
😇 (4117) vs 😉 (10595) Smiling face with halo Winking face	Uh oh. 😉 has had words with 😇 before. The next match will be good. Is it winking *at* the halo? Or is it winking at me? I didn't remember 😉 qualifying.
😘 (6659) vs 😍 (8816) Face throwing a kiss Smiling face with heart-shaped eyes	On deck, we have 😍 and 😘. I expect to see a lot of hearts on the page for this one.
😙 (2284) vs 😛 (11620) Kissing face with smiling eyes Face with stuck-out tongue	It is a battle as old as time itself. 😙 and 😛! Facing off against each other again! This one is a toss-up in my book, folks. Don’t you hate it when one of you sticks out your tongue right as the other goes for the kiss? Close one!
😝 (6304) vs 😜 (7167) Face with stuck-out tongue and tightly-closed eyes Face with stuck-out tongue and winking eye	You do not want to miss the fan favorite 😜. Coming up next!
🤭 (1796) vs 🤔 (15162) Smiling face with smiling eyes and hand covering mouth Thinking face	Will it be 🤔 or 🤭? Find out next after this message from our sponsors. You know what the correct answer is here.
😑 (5943) vs 🤨 (9223) Expressionless face Face with one eyebrow raised	You do not want to miss the fan favorite 😑. Coming up next! 😑 certainly has its work cut out for it going up agaist 🤨.
🙄 (5122) vs 😏 (8486) Face with rolling eyes Smirking face	Welcome back, it's time for 😏 and 🙄 to go head to head. Why is the one on the right looking at me like that?
😔 (4101) vs 😬 (8574) Pensive face Grimacing face	It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 😔 or 😬? I don’t think either competitor wants to win this round. See? That's how you should feel. Starting at a humble live commentator doing live commentary.
😴 (8582) vs 🤒 (2281) Sleeping face Face with thermometer	Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 😴 vs. 🤒! Mondays, am I right? Two big moods enter, one leaves.
🤕 (5579) vs 🤮 (8136) Face with head-bandage Face with open mouth vomiting	On deck, we have 🤕 and 🤮. I don't feel so good... Really leaving it all on the floor with this one.
🥴 (5548) vs 🥶 (7121) Face with uneven eyes and wavy mouth Freezing face	On deck, we have 🥴 and 🥶. Ice to see you. I think they might be trying to ice the kicker!
😎 (8912) vs 🤠 (5576) Smiling face with sunglasses Face with cowboy hat	Have at it, 😎 and 🤠! Howdy, I’m the sheriff of cool!
😕 (4748) vs 😮 (7861) Confused face Face with open mouth	I'm looking forward to this. An unexpected pairing! This should be good. I mean ... you can *see* the bracket so it isn't completely unexpected.
😳 (5552) vs 😯 (6583) Flushed face Hushed face	It is a battle as old as time itself. 😯 and 😳! Facing off against each other again! Wasn't 😯 in the last match?
😰 (2756) vs 😭 (9508) Face with open mouth and cold sweat Loudly crying face	Oh, this one should be good. 😰 is going to have to dig deep if they want to continue.
😣 (2674) vs 😱 (10403) Persevering face Face screaming in fear	Oh, this one should be good. It doesn't get more real than this, folks.
😓 (4790) vs 😤 (7053) Face with cold sweat Face with look of triumph	Welcome back, it's time for 😓 and 😤 to go head to head. Nice. Nice nice nice nice.
😡 (4209) vs 😈 (9437) Pouting face Smiling face with horns	It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 😈 or 😡? This one is a toss-up in my book, folks.
💩 (7681) vs 💀 (12905) Pile of poo Skull	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 💀 vs. 💩. This one is going to cause some arguments.
👽 (4888) vs 👾 (9937) Extraterrestrial alien Alien monster	I'm looking forward to this. Space invaders: Analog vs. Digital
😻 (5800) vs 😺 (6451) Smiling cat face with heart-shaped eyes Smiling cat face with open mouth	Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 😺 vs. 😻! I love cats. I love every kind of cat.
😼 (4767) vs 🙀 (7648) Cat face with wry smile Weary cat face	Oh this one should be good. Every. Kind. Of. Cat. Did someone say "V-E-T?"
😾 (5464) vs 💖 (7037) Pouting cat face Sparkling heart	Next up, 💖 and 😾. 😾 looks pretty upset.
❤ (7490) vs 💯 (7881) Heavy black heart Hundred points symbol	You do not want to miss the fan favorite ❤. Coming up next! Two crowd-pleasers here, folks! The score is Love-100
💣 (6379) vs 💦 (7343) Bomb Splashing sweat symbol	Next up, 💣 and 💦. From where I am standing 💦 has a commanding grip on this bracket. Well that's certainly something. I know which one I would choose, but I don't have time to vote!
👍 (7610) vs 🤘 (6417) Thumbs up sign Sign of the horns	On deck, we have 👍 and 🤘. This is going well, right? This is working for you?
👊 (8368) vs 🦵 (3323) Fisted hand sign Leg	Next up, 👊 and 🦵. Kickpuncher or punchkicker?
👀 (6253) vs 🧠 (6412) Eyes Brain	If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, 👀 or 🧠. Whoever wins this one gets punched by the fist emoji in the next round. Choose wisely. Whoever wins this one gets punched by the fist emoji in the next round. Choose wisely.
👅 (4726) vs 🤦 (7496) Tongue Face palm	It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 👅 or 🤦? Look, we are a little disappointed, too.
👩‍🚀 (5246) vs 👩‍🔬 (7971) Woman + Rocket Woman + Microscope	Oh, this one should be good. So, what do you want to be when you grow up? Neither of these professions go well with concussions.
🧛 (2269) vs 🧙 (13138) Vampire Mage	We will be right back with 🧙 vs. 🧛! Science?
🚶 (6112) vs 🧟 (6020) Pedestrian Zombie	Oh this one should be good. Oh no. 🚶 fans are not going to like this match-up. Walk for your lives!
🕴 (5070) vs 💃 (7283) Man in business suit levitating Dancer	You do not want to miss the fan favorite 💃. Coming up next! The Matrix is TWENTY YEARS OLD The Matrix is *TWENTY* *YEARS* *OLD*
⛷ (4388) vs 🤺 (7484) Skier Fencer	On deck, we have ⛷ and 🤺. A slippery slope. En guard! The IOC has rejected this combination sport.
🏊 (4139) vs 🏄 (5491) Swimmer Surfer	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🏄 vs. 🏊. This one, too.
🚴 (4082) vs 🚵 (7642) Bicyclist Mountain bicyclist	Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 🚴 vs. 🚵! Why is 🚵 stuck in a box?
🛀 (4042) vs 🐒 (6948) Bath Monkey	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🐒 vs. 🛀. Uh-oh.
🐶 (5214) vs 🦊 (12396) Dog face Fox face	We will be right back with 🐶 vs. 🦊! Again, we are getting a lot of questions on this today. This is live commentary, folks. 12/10 Both good doggos.
🐱 (5182) vs 🐈 (7578) Cat face Cat	We will be right back with 🐈 vs. 🐱! EVERY. CAT.
🐎 (4944) vs 🐅 (9398) Horse Tiger	Have at it, 🐅 and 🐎! If it were up to me, the last bracket would have eight cats and then just stop there with eight winners.
🦌 (5619) vs 🦄 (10318) Deer Unicorn face	Have at it, 🦄 and 🦌! The IOC had some words about this pairing as well
🐷 (5341) vs 🐏 (8541) Pig face Ram	Welcome back, it's time for 🐏 and 🐷 to go head to head. Or side to head, or whatever. VOTE! That was 🐷's to give away and they did.
🐐 (6038) vs 🦒 (8345) Goat Giraffe face	I'm looking forward to this. Yet more Very good dogs
🐘 (11342) vs 🦛 (3614) Elephant Hippopotamus	Oh, this one should be good. Another curious match-up with significant implications on how the rest of the day will go.
🐹 (3660) vs 🐿 (10713) Hamster face Chipmunk	It is a battle as old as time itself. 🐹 and 🐿! Facing off against each other again! We are incredibly excited to see so many fans here. Finally, the long-awaited showdown between Alvin and the Chipmunks and the Hamster Dance.
🐨 (5171) vs 🦔 (10929) Koala Hedgehog	On deck, we have 🐨 and 🦔. It doesn't get more real than this, folks. Tree pocket cat vs. spiky cat
🦘 (6954) vs 🦡 (7727) Kangaroo Badger	Will it be 🦘 or 🦡? Find out next after this message from our sponsors. If you believe in 🦘, now is the time to clap or whatever, because it is not looking good.
🐣 (5846) vs 🐧 (12239) Hatching chick Penguin	We will be right back with 🐣 vs. 🐧! Don't count 🐣 out yet. They may have a contingent of fans just tuning in to battle. I thought we had seen everything, but look at 🐧 go! Amazing! A generational battle.
🦆 (6558) vs 🦉 (9674) Duck Owl	Will it be 🦆 or 🦉? Find out next after this message from our sponsors. You just know that 🦆 is thinking about 🏥 right now. Duck... duck... duck... duck... owl!
🐢 (11594) vs 🦜 (3957) Turtle Parrot	Uh oh. 🦜 has had words with 🐢 before. The next match will be good. Sometimes miracles happen.
🐍 (5264) vs 🐉 (6954) Snake Dragon	Have at it, 🐉 and 🐍! How spiky do you like your sneks? Snake is currently losing to Fanfiction Snake. Snake is losing to Snake Fanfiction
🐬 (7916) vs 🐳 (9398) Dolphin Spouting whale	On deck, we have 🐬 and 🐳. It's the battle of the blowholes!
🐙 (8799) vs 🦈 (3695) Octopus Shark	Next up, 🐙 and 🦈. This one is potentially a battle between two mimic octopuses.
🐛 (5330) vs 🦋 (9176) Bug Butterfly	On deck, we have 🐛 and 🦋. Time waits for no one. Another generational struggle.
🕷 (5714) vs 🐝 (12151) Spider Honeybee	We will be right back with 🐝 vs. 🕷! 🕷 and 🐝 have been friends for a long time. I am not sure where that relationship is going to be after today.
🌻 (6639) vs 🦠 (10448) Sunflower Microbe	Oh, this one should be good. You *knwo* what to do, folks. Oh no. 🦠 fans are not going to like this match-up. Fresh off its victory over the aliens in War of the Worlds…
🌲 (8099) vs 🌵 (8194) Evergreen tree Cactus	Will it be 🌲 or 🌵? Find out next after this message from our sponsors. DISAPPOINTED! both are surprisingly spiky! This is the closest battle in the bracket so far.
🍇 (6548) vs 🍉 (8681) Grapes Watermelon	Oh this one should be good. sweet!
🍎 (5411) vs 🍍 (10586) Red apple Pineapple	Have at it, 🍍 and 🍎! Regular apple versus Pine’s Apple Fancy apple holds a clear lead over Regular Apple.
🍓 (8877) vs 🥝 (7540) Strawberry Kiwifruit	It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🍓 or 🥝? Seeds: Inside or Out? Outside: Seeds or Hair?
🥔 (7800) vs 🥑 (9580) Potato Avocado	Don't change that channel, folks. We have 🥑 and 🥔 warming up. Fun fact: Several different analyses confirm baby boomers like avocados more than millennials!
🌶 (8714) vs 🥒 (6360) Hot pepper Cucumber	You do not want to miss the fan favorite 🌶. Coming up next! I know some very invested audience members for this one.
🍄 (8929) vs 🥜 (5311) Mushroom Peanuts	You do not want to miss the fan favorite 🍄. Coming up next! It's peanut butter mushroom time!
🥨 (7003) vs 🥐 (9204) Pretzel Croissant	Don't change that channel, folks. We have 🥐 and 🥨 warming up. Buttery curved bread: extra-buttery or extra-curved?
🥞 (7881) vs 🧀 (9457) Pancakes Cheese wedge	Will it be 🥞 or 🧀? Find out next after this message from our sponsors. I wonder what cheesy pancakes are like.
🍔 (5917) vs 🍕 (11407) Hamburger Slice of pizza	It is a battle as old as time itself. 🍔 and 🍕! Facing off against each other again! Friday Night Food Fight!
🌮 (7714) vs 🌯 (8885) Taco Burrito	Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 🌮 vs. 🌯! ……… . . . . . .
🍿 (7104) vs 🍳 (8128) Popcorn Cooking	You do not want to miss the fan favorite 🍳. Coming up next! The saltiest and butteriest matchup yet
🍱 (4259) vs 🍣 (7578) Bento box Sushi	Oh, this one should be good. Hungry again. Wasn't it just lunch time? This part of the bracket has been *wild* Sushi takes the lead!
🥟 (5804) vs 🦞 (7681) Dumpling Lobster	Oh this one should be good. A delicious dumpling vs some kind of large spider
🍨 (7349) vs 🦑 (7834) Ice cream Squid	If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, 🍨 or 🦑. I think there’s another squid hiding in the ice cream bowl.
🎂 (4175) vs 🍩 (8454) Birthday cake Doughnut	If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, 🍩 or 🎂.
🍯 (4787) vs 🍫 (7565) Honey pot Chocolate bar	Next! Who would win in a match between 🍫 and 🍯? We are about to find out. The beans vs. the bees!
☕ (7674) vs 🥛 (5344) Hot beverage Glass of milk	Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's ☕ vs. 🥛! Would you like some coffee with your milk?
🍹 (4901) vs 🍺 (7490) Tropical drink Beer mug	Uh oh. 🍺 has had words with 🍹 before. The next match will be good. how drunk do you want to get? One small glass of beer with an umbrella, please.
🔪 (7787) vs 🥢 (5468) Hocho Chopsticks	Oh, this one should be good. The two most popular ways to eat food
🌋 (8706) vs 🧭 (4079) Volcano Compass	I'm looking forward to this. That compass is not leading you in a good direction.
🏝 (5445) vs 🏕 (8722) Desert island Camping	Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 🏕 vs. 🏝!
🏠 (5722) vs 🏗 (5804) House building Building construction	It is a battle as old as time itself. 🏗 and 🏠! Facing off against each other again! It's building vs. building!
🏥 (7053) vs 🗽 (5981) Hospital Statue of liberty	We will be right back with 🏥 vs. 🗽!
⛲ (5498) vs 🌃 (6519) Fountain Night with stars	You do not want to miss the fan favorite ⛲. Coming up next!
🎡 (3212) vs 🌅 (8000) Ferris wheel Sunrise	It is a battle as old as time itself. 🌅 and 🎡! Facing off against each other again!
🎢 (4701) vs 🚄 (7014) Roller coaster High-speed train	We will be right back with 🎢 vs. 🚄! Do you like your fast trains flat, or up-and-down?
🚑 (4901) vs 🚝 (7087) Ambulance Monorail	On deck, we have 🚑 and 🚝.
🚗 (2707) vs 🚒 (8391) Automobile Fire engine	Will it be 🚒 or 🚗? Find out next after this message from our sponsors.
🛵 (5344) vs 🚜 (6475) Motor scooter Tractor	It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🚜 or 🛵? Both of these are popular rideshare vehicles.
🛹 (3509) vs 🚲 (9447) Skateboard Bicycle	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🚲 vs. 🛹. next wave of rideshare vehicles.
⚓ (6608) vs ⛵ (6431) Anchor Sailboat	Welcome back, it's time for ⚓ and ⛵ to go head to head. Should I stay or should I go?
🛩 (5694) vs 🚁 (6529) Small airplane Helicopter	Will it be 🚁 or 🛩? Find out next after this message from our sponsors. Here in the future, flying cars are common!
🚀 (7266) vs 🛸 (14945) Rocket Flying saucer	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🚀 vs. 🛸. IFO vs UFO
⌚ (6623) vs 🌒 (7404) Watch Waxing crescent moon symbol	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's ⌚ vs. 🌒. Waxing crescent already? I must be running slow.
🌙 (8921) vs 🌞 (15703) Crescent moon Sun with face	Welcome back, it's time for 🌙 and 🌞 to go head to head. Two contenders as different as night and day. In five billion years, this battle will play out in real life with the same result.
⛈ (9358) vs 🌌 (17038) Thunder cloud and rain Milky way	I'm looking forward to this. Astronomers are hammering the button on the right as hard as they can.
🌪 (9848) vs 🌈 (11326) Cloud with tornado Rainbow	You do not want to miss the fan favorite 🌈. Coming up next! The Wizard Of Oz (1938) The Wizard Of Oz (1939)
☄ (8014) vs ⚡ (7597) Comet High voltage sign	Oh, this one should be good. The two leading theories for what killed the dinosaurs: A comet strike, or Zeus. Boom!
🎃 (4112) vs 🔥 (10407) Jack-o-lantern Fire	If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, 🎃 or 🔥.
🎉 (5422) vs 🧨 (18509) Party popper Firecracker	Oh this one should be good. How emphatic do you like your celebrations?
🏆 (5564) vs 🎁 (6499) Trophy Wrapped present	Have at it, 🎁 and 🏆!
⚾ (5404) vs 🏅 (7337) Baseball Sports medal	Oh, this one should be good. Sports fact: If you hit a medal-winner with a ball, you take their title.
🎾 (6117) vs 🏀 (6171) Tennis racquet and ball Basketball and hoop	We will be right back with 🎾 vs. 🏀! Sports fact: If you hit a medal-winner with a ball, you take the medal (but they take first base.) Sports showdowns: Bouncy edition Would you rather play basketball with a tennis ball, or tennis with a basketball?
🏏 (7343) vs 🥏 (7546) Cricket bat and ball Flying disc	You do not want to miss the fan favorite 🏏. Coming up next!
🏒 (8078) vs 🏓 (8739) Ice hockey stick and puck Table tennis paddle and ball	Uh oh. 🏓 has had words with 🏒 before. The next match will be good.
🛷 (7104) vs 🥌 (7733) Sled Curling stone	Have at it, 🛷 and 🥌!
🎲 (11931) vs 🎮 (14739) Game die Video game	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🎮 vs. 🎲. Digital or analog? Devices or, uh, dices?
🎨 (5374) vs 👓 (4988) Artist palette Eyeglasses	We will be right back with 🎨 vs. 👓! two ways to add color to your world
🎒 (4961) vs 🧦 (4819) School satchel Socks	We will be right back with 🎒 vs. 🧦! You can put your feet in either of these! No one can stop you.
🎩 (23265) vs 👑 (19274) Top hat Crown	Will it be 🎩 or 👑? Find out next after this message from our sponsors. Hats for fancy people!
🎵 (17951) vs 💎 (9378) Musical note Gem stone	We will be right back with 🎵 vs. 💎! C-notes
🎷 (6954) vs 🎸 (10692) Saxophone Guitar	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🎷 vs. 🎸. I've never heard the dueling banjos played like this!
🎻 (11568) vs 📞 (8172) Violin Telephone receiver	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🎻 vs. 📞. Can I put you on hold? I can't hang onto both of these with my chin
💻 (7355) vs 📟 (9348) Personal computer Pager	It is a battle as old as time itself. 💻 and 📟! Facing off against each other again! Over time, computers have gotten steadily smaller.
⌨ (3372) vs 💾 (8550) Keyboard Floppy disk	I'm looking forward to this. fun fact: it would take the average person 20 years to type an entire floppy disk
📷 (10623) vs 🧮 (12401) Camera Abacus	Oh, this one should be good.
🔎 (7902) vs 💡 (12706) Right-pointing magnifying glass Electric light bulb	On deck, we have 💡 and 🔎. it's mostly clicks either way. Both equally bad for bugs.
📜 (4020) vs 📚 (32459) Scroll Books	Oh, this one should be good. Turning pages: hot new technology, or too much complication?
💰 (5378) vs 📦 (17957) Money bag Package	Oh, this one should be good. Let's be real. Neither contain actual money.
🖋 (6166) vs 🖍 (42115) Lower left fountain pen Lower left crayon	It is a battle as old as time itself. 🖋 and 🖍! Facing off against each other again! Neither is coming off your walls if a kid gets ahold of them.
📅 (3309) vs 📊 (5217) Calendar Bar chart	Have at it, 📅 and 📊! It’s cool how, if you design an emoji font, you get to tell everyone your birthday.
✂ (4504) vs 📎 (5846) Black scissors Paperclip	It is a battle as old as time itself. ✂ and 📎! Facing off against each other again! Look, we all have too much paper in our lives, but we all deal with it differently Clippy, I swear…
🗡 (5537) vs 🗝 (6193) Dagger knife Old key	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🗝 vs. 🗡. There are two ways to open doors: The easy way and the fun way.
⚔ (5514) vs 🏹 (7201) Crossed swords Bow and arrow	Welcome back, it's time for ⚔ and 🏹 to go head to head. Close-up stabby, or stabby from a ways off?
⚖ (6153) vs 🔧 (4351) Scales Wrench	Will it be ⚖ or 🔧? Find out next after this message from our sponsors. ⚖ comes out on top.
🧲 (4654) vs 🧬 (9019) Magnet DNA double helix	Oh this one should be good.
🚽 (4388) vs 🔭 (8647) Toilet Telescope	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🔭 vs. 🚽. I got these mixed up last week and I still haven't heard the end of it.
🛁 (4540) vs 🧻 (11347) Bathtub Roll of paper	Welcome back, it's time for 🛁 and 🧻 to go head to head. Needed both of these after the telescope incident.
⚰ (7909) vs 🆒 (6024) Coffin Squared COOL	On deck, we have ⚰ and 🆒. And that wraps up the round!

Round 3

Competitors and score	Commentary
😅 (6285) vs 🙃 (31589) Smiling face with open mouth and cold sweat Upside-down face	Uh oh. 🙃 has had words with 😅 before. The next match will be good.
😍 (8430) vs 😉 (10837) Smiling face with heart-shaped eyes Winking face	Next! Who would win in a match between 😉 and 😍? We are about to find out. Some of us are more suave than others...
😛 (9010) vs 😜 (10428) Face with stuck-out tongue Face with stuck-out tongue and winking eye	Uh oh. 😜 has had words with 😛 before. The next match will be good. Battle of the tongues
🤨 (6519) vs 🤔 (18849) Face with one eyebrow raised Thinking face	Next up, 🤔 and 🤨. Some behind the scenes for you, folks. I know for a fact that 🤔 wanted first billing for this match and 🤨 refused to budge.
😬 (8983) vs 😏 (11449) Grimacing face Smirking face	It is a battle as old as time itself. 😏 and 😬! Facing off against each other again!
😴 (10588) vs 🤮 (7773) Sleeping face Face with open mouth vomiting	Have at it, 😴 and 🤮! 🤮 opened strong and 😴 never caught up. I hope everyone has printed their brackets and are ready, because time waits for very few people! I guess it was that kind of a party.
😎 (11469) vs 🥶 (9176) Smiling face with sunglasses Freezing face	Oh, this one should be good. 🥶 has a chance here, but it is slipping away. What's cooler than being cool? What’s cooler than being cool? You need to be cooler than that!
😯 (7648) vs 😮 (7944) Hushed face Face with open mouth	Oh, this one should be good. Anyone want to go bowling? Sometimes I spend so long deciding on which of these to use that the conversation moves on.
😭 (7559) vs 😱 (8894) Loudly crying face Face screaming in fear	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 😭 vs. 😱. In these kinds of contests, everyone comes away a little hurt.
😤 (5475) vs 😈 (9739) Face with look of triumph Smiling face with horns	Uh oh. 😤 has had words with 😈 before. The next match will be good. I don't think 😤 expected to see 😈 opposite them today. Devils over Cotton by a country mile. Let's see those hearts! This one was over before it started.
💀 (6669) vs 👾 (11173) Skull Alien monster	It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 👾 or 💀? It doesn't get more real than this, folks.
😺 (7993) vs 🙀 (8903) Smiling cat face with open mouth Weary cat face	On deck, we have 😺 and 🙀. I spoke with 🙀 before we started today. They were hoping to dodge 😺. Too bad for them. The next few are contests are going to break friendships. This one is a real nail biter!
💯 (9859) vs 💖 (10041) Hundred points symbol Sparkling heart	Next! Who would win in a match between 💖 and 💯? We are about to find out. I've always considered 💖 to be one of the greats. Starting to think 100 might go all the way. Starting to think 💯 might go all the way.
👍 (9892) vs 💦 (9960) Thumbs up sign Splashing sweat symbol	It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 👍 or 💦? What an unexpected result!! Now what is going to happen here: We are seeing some real back and forth matches this round. Again, cannot stress this enough. This commentary is 100% (sorry) live.
👊 (6867) vs 🧠 (12115) Fisted hand sign Brain	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 👊 vs. 🧠. Sometimes miracles happen. The match-up you have been waiting for!
👩‍🔬 (15141) vs 🤦 (7172) Woman + Microscope Face palm	Oh this one should be good. Looks like someone forgot their PPE today!
🚶 (2581) vs 🧙 (17413) Pedestrian Mage	Welcome back, it's time for 🚶 and 🧙 to go head to head. Another fan favorite. Can 🚶 catch up to 🧙? Well folks, it is not looking good for 🚶. In the end, there was nothing 🚶 could do to stop the power of 🧙.
💃 (10409) vs 🤺 (10987) Dancer Fencer	We will be right back with 💃 vs. 🤺! Pointy Dancy vs. Pointy Stancy This one should be familiar to anyone who has tried fencing in heels.
🏄 (7355) vs 🚵 (10300) Surfer Mountain bicyclist	Oh this one should be good. 🏄 has a chance here, but it is slipping away. Bicycle --> Unicycle --> None-cycle with left waves 🏄 has a chance here, but it is slipping away.
🐒 (4784) vs 🦊 (15635) Monkey Fox face	It is a battle as old as time itself. 🐒 and 🦊! Facing off against each other again! Another challenging contest of cute! What *does* the fox say? "NOT TODAY, MONKEY."
🐅 (7014) vs 🐈 (11420) Tiger Cat	Oh this one should be good. I have taken this yoga class! It looks like it is Cat vs. Extremely Cat.
🐏 (12498) vs 🦄 (12505) Ram Unicorn face	On deck, we have 🐏 and 🦄. 🐏 is an fan favorite to go far today. This one is a real nail biter! This one is a real horn-biter!
🐘 (11723) vs 🦒 (6162) Elephant Giraffe face	Have at it, 🐘 and 🦒! Two great examples of character creator parameters set to different extremes.
🐿 (9539) vs 🦔 (12565) Chipmunk Hedgehog	Have at it, 🐿 and 🦔! I have no idea how you are going to handle this one, folks. 🦔 is out to an early lead, but don't count 🐿 out just yet. the crowd is going nuts! One for the history books.
🐧 (14230) vs 🦡 (7361) Penguin Badger	It is a battle as old as time itself. 🐧 and 🦡! Facing off against each other again! Arriving at the party ... same party two hours later.
🐢 (10674) vs 🦉 (10893) Turtle Owl	Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 🐢 vs. 🦉! Yeah, we know. This one is going to sting. It's neck and ... very interesting neck! Owl standing in for Hare in this round. We're all as surprised as you are.
🐳 (9881) vs 🐉 (12000) Spouting whale Dragon	Welcome back, it's time for 🐉 and 🐳 to go head to head. Dry Snek vs. Wet Snek. A showdown between two mythical creatures! The dragon keeps beating real animals, even though dragons are just our animal fanfic. Save the whales!
🐙 (13431) vs 🦋 (6011) Octopus Butterfly	On deck, we have 🐙 and 🦋. save the butterwhales! Here we have a contest between two mimic octopuses The octopus has over twice as many clicks, folks. This one isn’t looking close. The octopus has over twice as many clicks, folks. This one isn’t close.
🐝 (19577) vs 🦠 (16657) Honeybee Microbe	I'm looking forward to this. nooooon, :butterfly: nooooon, butterfly (edited) Honeybees vs. colony collapse disorder I’m looking at the totals, and this one is extremely close. 🦠 fans need to click more and faster! I mean, 🐝 fans need to keep clicking! Fun fact: You can click more than once, although if you click too much it ignores you. No! Save the bees! Bees!
🍉 (12946) vs 🌵 (13830) Watermelon Cactus	Have at it, 🌵 and 🍉! As a dessert for saving the bees, try one of these fine desert fruits. Ever wonder what the inside of a cactus looks like? We’ve cut one open for you here.
🍓 (12167) vs 🍍 (12522) Strawberry Pineapple	Uh oh. 🍓 has had words with 🍍 before. The next match will be good. What fruit is best to eat in the night? Could it be Pine’s Apple? The weird-textured fruit showdown features two strong competitors.
🌶 (13812) vs 🥑 (13975) Hot pepper Avocado	Uh oh. 🥑 has had words with 🌶 before. The next match will be good. We have reached the halfway point of round 3! As Twitter user @jitka said, “I like avocados because they taste pretty good and also they come with a cool wood ball you get to keep”
🍄 (11290) vs 🥐 (11348) Mushroom Croissant	Next up, 🍄 and 🥐. Don’t eat either of these if you find them on the ground in the woods.
🍕 (13520) vs 🧀 (8558) Slice of pizza Cheese wedge	Don't change that channel, folks. We have 🍕 and 🧀 warming up. cheese: baked or not? pizza is just impure cheese
🍳 (8407) vs 🌯 (9848) Cooking Burrito	Don't change that channel, folks. We have 🌯 and 🍳 warming up. one burrito, sunny-side up Now I want a burrito.
🍣 (11362) vs 🦞 (9488) Sushi Lobster	It is a battle as old as time itself. 🍣 and 🦞! Facing off against each other again! I thought we had seen everything, but look at 🍣 go! Amazing!
🍩 (12192) vs 🦑 (12893) Doughnut Squid	On deck, we have 🍩 and 🦑. Do not mix these flavors.
☕ (7248) vs 🍫 (13919) Hot beverage Chocolate bar	If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, ☕ or 🍫. what a cruel choice in which form would you like your beans? mocha hold the chocolate vs. mocha hold the coffee
🍺 (11448) vs 🔪 (12597) Beer mug Hocho	Will it be 🍺 or 🔪? Find out next after this message from our sponsors. What an amazingly bad combination! Its ... a close shave.
🏕 (6055) vs 🌋 (13928) Camping Volcano	They have been attacking each other on social media all week. Next up! It's 🌋 vs. 🏕. What an amazingly bad combination! .... Again! the eruption of mt. Saint helens (artist's conception) ruuuuunn!
🏥 (7225) vs 🏗 (8415) Hospital Building construction	You do not want to miss the fan favorite 🏗. Coming up next! the crane can build hospitals, so voting for the crane is like wishing for infinite wishes
🌅 (7042) vs 🌃 (10460) Sunrise Night with stars	Oh this one should be good. all good things must come to an end
🚄 (8128) vs 🚝 (8903) High-speed train Monorail	I'm looking forward to this.
🚜 (6598) vs 🚒 (8085) Tractor Fire engine	Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 🚒 vs. 🚜! We can put out your fire, or we can move it over there.
⚓ (6987) vs 🚲 (9001) Anchor Bicycle	If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, ⚓ or 🚲.
🚁 (3409) vs 🛸 (12591) Helicopter Flying saucer	Oh, this one should be good. Independence Day (1996)
🌞 (6290) vs 🌒 (11026) Sun with face Waxing crescent moon symbol	Coming to you live from the Emojidome, it's 🌒 vs. 🌞!
🌈 (12417) vs 🌌 (13194) Rainbow Milky way	Uh oh. 🌌 has had words with 🌈 before. The next match will be good.
☄ (7687) vs 🔥 (8315) Comet Fire	Have at it, ☄ and 🔥! Armageddon (1998)
🎁 (5311) vs 🧨 (9417) Wrapped present Firecracker	I'm looking forward to this. Do you like surprises?
🏀 (3729) vs 🏅 (9083) Basketball and hoop Sports medal	If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, 🏀 or 🏅. This match has me questioning 🏀's commitment.
🏓 (9290) vs 🥏 (7916) Table tennis paddle and ball Flying disc	I'm looking forward to this. Don't blink.
🎮 (11060) vs 🥌 (14205) Video game Curling stone	Welcome back, it's time for 🎮 and 🥌 to go head to head. Curling Simulator 2019 If you love 🥌, you will have to show it now! Its a close match! 🎮 sweeping up 🥌 sweeping up I think 🥌 has it.
🎒 (5682) vs 🎨 (8574) School satchel Artist palette	Oh this one should be good. Is the backpack Blue or Red?? Blue or Red isn't going to matter if 🎨 keeps their lead! This one was over before it started.
🎩 (9120) vs 🎵 (10259) Top hat Musical note	It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🎩 or 🎵? Top Hat (1935)
🎸 (7349) vs 🎻 (10889) Guitar Violin	Don't change that channel, folks. We have 🎸 and 🎻 warming up. the day the music died
📟 (3276) vs 💾 (14470) Pager Floppy disk	Don't change that channel, folks. We have 💾 and 📟 warming up. 🖍, are you watching this match? At this rate, 📟 will lose worse than 🎒 earlier!
💡 (7834) vs 🧮 (10579) Electric light bulb Abacus	It is a battle as old as time itself. 💡 and 🧮! Facing off against each other again! What an illuminating contest. In case you were wondering, the obsolete tech bracket is coming to a close soon. 🧮 comes out on top.
📦 (3650) vs 📚 (13464) Package Books	Uh oh. 📦 has had words with 📚 before. The next match will be good. Remember trees?
📊 (7144) vs 🖍 (8035) Bar chart Lower left crayon	It is a battle as old as time itself. 📊 and 🖍! Facing off against each other again! Which crayon is the shortest Which crayon is the shortest?
📎 (8114) vs 🗝 (9019) Paperclip Old key	Have at it, 📎 and 🗝! Have you considered just casting 'Knock'?
⚖ (6910) vs 🏹 (9251) Scales Bow and arrow	You do not want to miss the fan favorite ⚖. Coming up next! I am not sure if there is anything else that 🏹 needs to prove.
🔭 (9037) vs 🧬 (11772) Telescope DNA double helix	It's time to find out: Who would win in a match, 🔭 or 🧬? Pretty sure that is not how any of this works.
⚰ (12470) vs 🧻 (13083) Coffin Roll of paper	Don't change that channel, folks. We have ⚰ and 🧻 warming up. This is the final match of round 3! You have died of Dysentery.

Round 4

Competitors and score	Commentary
😉 (13589) vs 🙃 (22912) Winking face Upside-down face	Will it be 😉 or 🙃? Find out next after this message from our sponsors. Finally! A rivalry spoke only in whispers now takes center stage. I see our friends in Australia have joined in the fun. 😉 has some time to recover, but they are going to need help. Down to our last minute in the match! 😉 never had a chance.
😜 (6578) vs 🤔 (25692) Face with stuck-out tongue and winking eye Thinking face	Next! Who would win in a match between 😜 and 🤔? We are about to find out. This match-up reminds me of something clever I heard earlier ... Oh! I remember what it was! Someone said
😴 (11518) vs 😏 (12506) Sleeping face Smirking face	If you're like me, you've argued over who would win head-to-head, 😏 or 😴. Success is no stranger to 😏. Let's see if they can keep it going. Don't sleep on this match-up!
😮 (18361) vs 😎 (18415) Face with open mouth Smiling face with sunglasses	Next up, 😎 and 😮. I don't know about you, but this is the match I have been waiting all day to see. Sunglasses pulling ahead. The betting markets had 😮 as favourite today, but it sure looks like 😎 is going to make it! It's all up to 😎 now. Can they hold 😮 back long enough to claim victory? The betting markets had 😮 as favourite today, but it sure looks like 😎 is going to make it! The gap is closing! Is there enough time for 😮 to take the lead? This one is coming down to the wire! Surprised Pikachu pulls ahead!
😱 (4868) vs 😈 (5411) Face screaming in fear Smiling face with horns	It is a battle as old as time itself. 😈 and 😱! Facing off against each other again!
👾 (18385) vs 🙀 (18571) Alien monster Weary cat face	👾 and 🙀 have been friends for a long time. I am not sure where that relationship is going to be after today. This could get interesting if 🙀 brings out their lasers! This could get interesting if 👾 brings out their lasers! Can we go back to the laser kittens for a minute? laser kittens! mew mew mew! Uh oh. The cat cheering section seems to be slacking. Can the cats make a comeback and save us all? It's gonna be tight!
💦 (13865) vs 💖 (15698) Splashing sweat symbol Sparkling heart	Someone has to win this match and someone has to lose, but you have to acknowledge the pure sportsmanship of these competitors. Click the link at the bottom of the comic to view the current bracket! (Just updated.) That last one came down to the wire, and this one's looking like it might too. The three other Planeteers are watching this match tensely. Sparkle Heart has been a surprisingly strong contender, knocking out the 100 emoji early! Click the link at the bottom of the comic to view the current bracket! Sparkle heart appears to be running away with another one.
👩‍🔬 (19865) vs 🧠 (9398) Woman + Microscope Brain	This is a match that no one wanted to deal with until the end. what exactly is 👩‍🔬 going to do with that beaker? Neuroscience vs. Neuro! There seems to be a commotion in the audience as to whether that was a flask or a beaker. I *was* a beaker, but someone changed it in post! Looks like 👩‍🔬 is really taking 🧠 to *flask*.
🤺 (8947) vs 🧙 (25337) Fencer Mage	🤺 has been a fan favorite all day. Suprising literally no one. However, 🧙 has literally been disintegrating their competition all afternoon. What are we thinking here? 'Heat Metal'? Parry hotter vs Harry Potter?
🚵 (7397) vs 🦊 (27045) Mountain bicyclist Fox face	This is a match that no one wanted to deal with until the end. several people are typing. 🦊 is putting 🚵 in the rear-view mirror and stepping on the gas. I have never seen 🦊 crush an opponent that mercilessly before.
🐈 (25965) vs 🦄 (20912) Cat Unicorn face	Oh this one should be good. I am not sure if there is anything else that 🐈 needs to prove.
🐘 (23083) vs 🦔 (23975) Elephant Hedgehog	I spoke with 🐘 before the match today, and they had this to say: 🐘. This is one grudge that won't be resolved soon: 🐘 never forgets. Hedgehog has been a strong contender but elephant is running surprisingly close. This is going to come down to the final seconds. An amazing match from 🦔.
🐧 (19957) vs 🦉 (22737) Penguin Owl	There are a lot of 🐧 fans in the audience today hoping to see their champ make it through. Another close match in the making! 1 minute for 🦉 to overtake 🐧! I think the bird has it.
🐉 (25129) vs 🐙 (25238) Dragon Octopus	You wouldn't know it to look at them right now, but 🐉 and 🐙 have been friends for years. I think 🐉 may have finally met their match. 🐙 is trying to get back in the lead. But 🐉 is not having any of it. The totals are back and forth! An unbelievably close match is down to the final minute! It’s neck and neck, despite one being all neck and the other having none. The final seconds are here. Who will take the final lead?
🌵 (17985) vs 🐝 (18691) Cactus Honeybee	🌵 has really suprised me today. another close match. Are all of the contests going to be like this now?
🍍 (19728) vs 🥑 (18099) Pineapple Avocado	🍍 continues to show why they are just the dominant force to be reckoned with today. Avocado Toast or Pineapple Pizza Avocado Toast or Pineapple Pizza?
🍕 (19207) vs 🥐 (11100) Slice of pizza Croissant	Oh this one should be good. Pineapple pizza isn't real pizza There are two correct answers here. Choose wisely. Pizzas are like croissant tacos Looks like 🥐 is getting roasted. 🥐 burn so easily. Who knew?
🌯 (16204) vs 🍣 (17599) Burrito Sushi	🌯 came to play. It is so obvious. why do we have to choose? I have definitely eaten food that was described as both of these.
🍫 (17503) vs 🦑 (18313) Chocolate bar Squid	Oh this one should be good. No No Nothing about this is good. 🍫 is pretty sweet, but I'm a sucker for 🦑
🌋 (18049) vs 🔪 (7144) Volcano Hocho	🌋 has been a fan favorite all day. Suprising literally no one. before the knives come out of the mountain they're technically called "magma" before knives come out of a mountain they're technically called 'magma'
🏗 (7355) vs 🌃 (12660) Building construction Night with stars	Oh this one should be good. Has anyone ever seen one of these without the other? Hmm. 163
🚒 (4736) vs 🚝 (9570) Fire engine Monorail	🚒 is dedicating this match to someone very special in their lives.
🚲 (11477) vs 🛸 (14994) Bicycle Flying saucer	🚲 has really suprised me today. E.T. (1982)
🌒 (7313) vs 🌌 (15975) Waxing crescent moon symbol Milky way	I am very excited to see 🌌 still in this competition. This battle is out of this world!
🔥 (13588) vs 🧨 (8239) Fire Firecracker	This is a match with a special meaning for 🔥. Uh oh, this is one of those battles where nobody wins. 🔥 bolting ahead with an alarming lead against 🧨 Take cover folks, this looks like it's going to be a hot one. aaaaaand boom goes the dynamite!
🏅 (9309) vs 🏓 (11409) Sports medal Table tennis paddle and ball	I am very excited to see 🏅 still in this competition. Ohhhhhhhh. That one is going to leave a mark.
🎨 (11242) vs 🥌 (20329) Artist palette Curling stone	Look at where you came from 🎨. Look at where you started! You would think that this would be enough. C'mon baby put the rock in the house
🎵 (10452) vs 🎻 (11806) Musical note Violin	🎵 came to play. It is so obvious. It is a battle as old as time itself. 🎵 and 🎻! Facing off against each other again! No, that's not the iTunes logo 🎻's tuning might be working against them right now.
💾 (16887) vs 🧮 (13339) Floppy disk Abacus	💾 is dedicating this match to someone very special in their lives. Welcome back to the Obsolete Technology Dome! MicroSD Card is watching closely at this battle of two square data storage options
🖍 (6157) vs 📚 (16083) Lower left crayon Books	This is going to be a challenge for 📚. 📚 really left a mark on 🖍 in their last match. 🖍 really left a mark on 📚 in their last match.
🏹 (14112) vs 🗝 (11789) Bow and arrow Old key	🏹 is looking fierce, but 🗝 is having none of it.
🧻 (8107) vs 🧬 (24415) Roll of paper DNA double helix	🧬 came to play. It is so obvious. 🧻 and 🧬 are neck and neck here in the final bout of round 3! when either is missing, you're in trouble And 🧻 falls to 🧬. A suprising turn of events.

Round 5

Competitors and score	Commentary
🙃 (77562) vs 🤔 (85714) Upside-down face Thinking face	all remaining rounds will be 26 minutes all remaining bouts will be 26 minutes Sometimes I think they've gone too far with plastic surgery This one's a fitting start to the round of 32, don't you think? Spiderman (2002) these vote totals are getting *close*! 🤔 up is down, down is up! 🤔 up is down, down is up! 🙃 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 Getting knocked out in the round of 32 🙃
😎 (35129) vs 😏 (35485) Smiling face with sunglasses Smirking face	😎 and 😏 have been friends for a long time. I am not sure where that relationship is going to be after today. wink wink vs nudge nudge The Blues Brothers (1980) Can't read my p-p-p-poker face" Can't read my p-p-p-poker face David Caruso, is that you explicit vs. implicit
🙀 (34060) vs 😈 (46401) Weary cat face Smiling face with horns	Are we about to see a huge upset? The devil went down to kittytown We're not sure which of these is a more accurate representation of a cat Both of them like to make your life hell. Which side are the Hellcats cheering for? 9 circles of hell. 9 lives. COINCIDENCE? Better the devil you know than the one you pet.
💖 (15594) vs 👩‍🔬 (43035) Sparkling heart Woman + Microscope	This is a match that no one wanted to deal with until the end. Love Potion No. 9 (1963) The shine seems to be wearing off for sparkle heart. The shine seems to be wearing off for sparkle heart. What's in that flask?
🦊 (48941) vs 🧙 (49275) Fox face Mage	🦊 has really suprised me today.  :leaves:: Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn targeting Devilthorn Fox G: Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn targeting Devilthorn Fox
🐈 (32862) vs 🦔 (42994) Cat Hedgehog	I don't care if you are a 🐈 fan or a 🦔 fan, you have to admire their work here today. Scoring of this bout might be delayed, we're having to re-calibrate our cuteness meter.
🐙 (38553) vs 🦉 (204094) Octopus Owl	Someone has to win this match and someone has to lose, but you have to acknowledge the pure sportsmanship of these competitors. This staring contest began hours before the match started. You obviously like owls.
🍍 (25531) vs 🐝 (28801) Pineapple Honeybee	🍍 is dedicating this match to someone very special in their lives. Neither of these really go well with a bonnet.
🍕 (30696) vs 🍣 (33247) Slice of pizza Sushi	We didn't expect 🍕 to show up today, and ... well ... we are just as suprised as you! It's come down to this... which one is going to get taken out. In Toronto, this isn't even a competition.
🌋 (24884) vs 🦑 (20329) Volcano Squid	There was never any doubt in my mind that 🌋 would be right here, right now. Finally the mastermind has an appropriate lair
🌃 (21192) vs 🚝 (24042) Night with stars Monorail	I am very excited to see 🌃 still in this competition.
🌌 (25884) vs 🛸 (14803) Milky way Flying saucer	🌌 has been a fan favorite all day. Suprising literally no one. Will we go to the stars, or will the stars come to us?
🏓 (13494) vs 🔥 (17154) Table tennis paddle and ball Fire	🏓 continues to show why they are just the dominant force to be reckoned with today. Would you rather be on fire, or on fire? Have you ever seen a ping pong paddle on fire? Me neither.
🎻 (26281) vs 🥌 (26221) Violin Curling stone	🎻 certainly has its work cut out for it going up agaist 🥌. Which do you prefer, classical or house?
📚 (16770) vs 💾 (19628) Books Floppy disk	💾 had an interesting previous round. Let's see what they do now. One of these is a universal icon for saving data, and the other is a floppy. The Persistence of Memory (1931)
🏹 (9717) vs 🧬 (20370) Bow and arrow DNA double helix	We didn't expect 🏹 to show up today, and ... well ... we are just as suprised as you! The latest ad targeting technology is pretty scary.

Round 6

Competitors and score	Commentary
😏 (17357) vs 🤔 (23903) Smirking face Thinking face	Look at where you came from 😏. Look at where you started! You would think that this would be enough. I know something you don't know. How do you know for sure that your votes are doing anything?
😈 (11306) vs 👩‍🔬 (30208) Smiling face with horns Woman + Microscope	This is a match with a special meaning for 👩‍🔬. The scientific method's problem is that the devil's in the details.
🧙 (26205) vs 🦔 (27999) Mage Hedgehog	🦔 had an interesting previous round. Let's see what they do now. Hedge magic is generally more pragmatic than other forms of sorcery. The wizard didn't do it
🐝 (21941) vs 🦉 (28070) Honeybee Owl	🐝 came to play. It is so obvious. Of course we all know about the Owls and the Bees The Owlbee is a lesser known, but beloved D&D monster. The Owlbee is a lesser known, but beloved D and D monster. The Owlbee is a lesser known, but beloved DnD monster. Owls well that ends well
🍣 (27026) vs 🌋 (33364) Sushi Volcano	🌋 is dedicating this match to someone very special in their lives. Cooked or raw? Sushi is tasty, but the volcano offers free delivery. Click the link at the bottom for a just-updated bracket! Sushi has received a technical disqualification for being very very cooked
🌌 (36285) vs 🚝 (17405) Milky way Monorail	🌌 continues to show why they are just the dominant force to be reckoned with today. ~future~ The red carpet is empty tonight; the sky is full of stars. NIGHT TRAIN! Spaaaaaaaaace
🎻 (26806) vs 🔥 (32652) Violin Fire	🎻 is dedicating this match to someone very special in their lives. Either can kill if used indiscriminately. And fire flew from his fingertips as he rosined up his bow. That fiddle-playing is [fire emoji], but that fire emoji is [actual fire]. That 🎻 is 🔥, but that 🔥 is actual 🔥. Click the link below the comic to see the current round of 32! (just updated) Click the link at the bottom to see the current round of 32! (just updated) That 🎻 is 🔥, but that 🔥 is actual 🔥.
💾 (57577) vs 🧬 (58313) Floppy disk DNA double helix	Look at where you came from 💾. Look at where you started! You would think that this would be enough. Magnets work on both of these, right? Fun fact: Your genome could fit on just a few hundred floppy disks. This is the final match of the round, determining whether 💾 or 🧬 makes it into the Elite Eight. These two have been neck-and-neck through the whole bout. The “3d-printed save icon” is pulling ahead in the home stretch! This is a close one! Fun fact: Your genome could fit on just a few hundred floppy disks.

Round 7 - Quarterfinals

Competitors and score	Commentary
👩‍🔬 (113683) vs 🤔 (108653) Woman + Microscope Thinking face	Nearly tied at 40,000 votes each! Nearly tied at 50,000 votes each! 👩‍🔬 has the lead, but 🤔 points out it’s not a statistically significant difference. 🤔 has the lead, but 👩‍🔬 points out it’s not a statistically significant difference. 🤔 pulls ahead, but reminds everyone that it’s not a statistically significant lead. 👩‍🔬 pulls ahead, but reminds everyone that it’s not a statistically significant lead. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 👩‍🔬 is ahead, but reminds everyone that it’s not statistically significant. 👩‍🔬 appears to be leading, but more studies are needed. 🤔
🦉 (103212) vs 🦔 (105260) Owl Hedgehog	I've always considered 🦉 to be one of the greats. sky cat vs. pointy cat This bout will decide which animal emoji advances to the final 4. The main difference between these two is the number of potentially flying spines. This one's going to be close. One might say this was neck and neck if either of these had one. 🦔 just barely squeaking in a victory.
🌋 (105716) vs 🌌 (175099) Volcano Milky way	🌋 had an interesting previous round. Let's see what they do now. Star stuff or regurgitated star stuff? This is secretly a referendum on air pollution. “Earth” and “Space” have each sent their most exciting representatives 🌋 is going to go extinct at this rate. This combination led to the cretaceous extinction. It’s looking like 🌌 will advance to the final 4. Good (starry) Night!
🔥 (178121) vs 🧬 (159553) Fire DNA double helix	Did you know the melting point of DNA depends on the information it encodes? Jurassic Park III (2001) 🧬 pulled ahead early, but 🔥 has closed the gap. 🧬 is pulling away! Click the link below to see the current bracket! 🧬 seems eager to move up the ladder. Whatever happens, this one will have a twist ending. 🧬 has pulled ahead in the home stretch! 🔥 has pulled ahead in the home stretch! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Round 8 - Semifinals

Competitors and score	Commentary
👩‍🔬 (285263) vs 🦔 (285736) Woman + Microscope Hedgehog	👩‍🔬 defeated [purple devil face] and [sparkling heart] to get here. 👩‍🔬 defeated the wizard and then beat out the rest of the animal quadrant. 🦔 defeated the wizard and then beat out the rest of the animal quadrant. With over a quarter of a million votes, this one is coming down to the wire. In the final minutes, 🦔 is opening up the first real lead of the bout! 🦔 fans had better keep clicking! 👩‍🔬 is ahead but 🦔 is closing the gap! It’s virtually tied going into the final minute! Keep clicking! 🦔 pulls ahead! Science!
🌌 (281040) vs 🔥 (155282) Milky way Fire	Without oxygen, there’s no 🔥. Space fire fact: If we detect fire on exoplanets, it may indicate life. Oxygen is volatile and shouldn’t persist in an atmosphere without something replenishing it. Space fire fact: If we detect fire on exoplanets, it may indicate life. Oxygen is volatile and shouldn’t persist in an atmosphere without replenishment. Just how much fire is there in a star, anyway? The winner of this match will go on to face hedgehog in the finals. The galaxy is running away with this one. Click the link below for the bracket! (Change the 32 to 128 for a larger one.) Space is running away so fast with this one we're seeing red shift. Spaaaaaaaaaaaaace Space ran away with that one so fast it redshifted.

Round 9 - Final

Competitors and score	Commentary
🌌 (710129) vs 🦔 (682919) Milky way Hedgehog	🦔 is in the lead! 🌌 has pulled ahead again! 🦔 is slowly trying to close the gap that 🌌 managed to open. 🦔 is catching up! 🦔 is in the lead, 🌌 hot on its tail. 🌌 beginning to expand its lead again. Over a million votes have been cast! 🌌 in the lead, but 🦔 isn't out of this yet. This is it folks, the final moments... 🌌 takes it!

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Discussion

I've checked the network tab and console - nothing really seems to happen when you vote, which may be something we want to put on the explanation tomorrow - Myxoh

I suspect the real april fools joke is going to come on Wednesday when xkdc posts an app showing us our psychological profiles that they are now selling to marketing companies after data-mining our emotional preferences to marketing firms - Nosajimiki

@Nosajimiki: psychological profiles of xkcd fans. That might be some interesting marketing. - 5Cincinatus

@Myxoh: I came here to see if anyone else had noticed this! But, I do also see a websocket connection to emojidome.xkcd.com, I bet it's counting votes that way.

There is a websocket connection. A message is sent every time you vote. It looks like there are also status update messages every second (saying which emoji currently has exactly how many votes, i suspect this changes the amount of hearts that show up), and "bracket start" messages every so often. The bracket start message seems to contain hundreds of upcoming emoji pairs. Edit: a bracket start is sent at the start of every match (so every ~30 seconds). It also contains logs of which messages to show for previous matches, and which emoji are currently battling.172.69.138.10 16:30, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

There seems to be nothing stopping me from clicking multiple times. Do you think it actually counts it all those times? Can I click-spam to say "this is much better"? Fabian42 (talk) 16:48, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Randall just confirmed that you can vote multiple times, although if you click too fasr you get rate limited. (*warning: generic ip address assigned to phone data.*) 172.69.70.47 22:35, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Where did he confirm that? 162.158.93.105 10:44, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Well this is fun. Look like there are 512 symbols, meaning 256 first-round contests. The first round would take (at 38 seconds / round) ~2.7 hours. The remaining rounds, from an estimate of geometric progression, would just under double this, meaning this comic will run for ~ 5 hours until we have our winner... ~alexandicity 172.69.226.177 16:51, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Did he just add a scroll bar to the previous matches? I didn't notice it earlier 162.158.255.148 18:17, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Nope, you were able to scroll before, too. At least about 2 hours ago. Fabian42 (talk) 18:20, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

While some of the recaps of past battles are generic (taco vs sandwich: "One for the history books"), many seem to be specifically written for the battle (light bulb vs candle: "Some would argue that this one was settled in the 1800s"). I wonder if/how much this will continue into round 2.

Round two has just begun, and the timeout has been bumped to 60 seconds. --Anarcat (talk) 18:41, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

If that trend continues, the full competition will take pretty close to 24 hours. Fabian42 (talk) 18:45, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

It looks like it's 1:14/round, which is double what the time was in round one. Will round three be 2:28? 1:51?

It's just over 1:15/round from the history JSON (plus some hundredths of a second, but it appears 1:15 is the intent)

Hadn't looked there. Round one concluded at 18:39:20-ish, 9560 seconds from 16:00:00. At 256 battles, that's 37.34 seconds/battle. However, it looks like the first battle ended at 15:59:57, which would add about 40 seconds, 9600 seconds/256=37.5 seconds exactly. Doubling for round 2 gives 75 seconds.

2 minutes 30 seconds per battle now. Looks like each round will be 2 hours 40 minutes long.

Well it is after 5:00 PST and round 4 just started - and this thing is at exactly 5 minutes a round - which means another 160 minutes for the round. Will see in 2 hours and 40 minutes if the times go up to minutes. --172.69.33.65 00:25, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

And while the match-ups winners are typically colored, and underlined, the losers are endgame grey.

Has anyone determined if multiple-voting is actually counted? For me at least the vote button fades back to gray after I click it, which implies you can/should click it again, but that may not actually be processed. We might add a clarification about that to the explanation. - jerodast (talk) 19:01, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

A reddit user on the r/xkcd thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/b84at1/xkcd_2131_emojidome_script_src2131comicjs/) claims to have attempted "vote stuffing via the console" with no noticeable change in vote totals. So it looks like it may be sending it client-side, but only counting the vote once server-side --l

Just few minutes ago there was message in "fun facts" that you can click multiple times, although it's not counted if you click too many times (or something like that). I guess that vote stuffing was too much. -- Hkmaly (talk) 22:34, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

It would appear that we are supposed to believe the commentary is live, and unscripted: " {"This one is a true test of the audience today.", "Just to stress this again. Live commentary, folks. Completely unscripted and coming in hot.} "--162.158.79.173 19:20, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

It's clearly live because the result of a previous round is affecting the next round's commentary - and the combinatorial explosion would prohibit that from being remotely plausible. We're watching live comedy here! SteveBaker (talk) 19:30, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

On the dog vs. wolf, he said "Again, we are getting a lot of questions on this today. This is live commentary, folks." Proof I guess. HI RANDALL! 172.68.189.241 19:31, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Is there really anything we can put for the transcript? 172.68.189.241 19:25, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

We can go into the socket data and pull out the commentary for each matchup. -- Bobson (talk) 04:05, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Any ideas on how the commentary is done? It seems to sort of match the emojis. Svízel přítula (talk) 19:31, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

It seems that Randall is commentating this live, as he periodically says it's live in the robot commentator text. See above. 172.68.189.241 19:36, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Perhaps not "live" as each round 2 matchup was known 160 minutes before it was voted on. He could comment on the battle itself, and/or provide a comment if one or the other combatant won. I think he's a couple hours ahead of us.

I dunno. Whenever a new battle starts, there is a default message, that is soon replaced by a more pertinent message. That seems to suggest that he's doing it on the fly. 9yz (talk) 20:03, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

If that's live, Randall, and if you see this, give us a shout-out as proof. -Brent

Just because it says it's live, doesn't mean that it really is. It's also possible that the actual clicks are being ignored and the reported numbers are all pre-generated. Much less likely than that it's actually counting and Randall is inserting commentary live (with default messages when he doesn't), but possible. -- Bobson (talk) 12:50, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

He updated the title text to thank volunteers for commentating, so I guess we know that the commentary was live, just not necessarily all Randall. Moosenonny10 (talk) 14:34, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

This is a quick piece of python to see the json results (and commentary): import json, urllib.request d = json.loads(urllib.request.urlopen("https://emojidome.xkcd.com/2131/socket ").read().decode('utf-8')) for g in d['bracket']['played'][0]: c1, c2 = g['game'] print(f"{c1['score']} {c1['competitor']}-{c2['competitor']} {c2['score']}") Tammo80 (talk) 19:42, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

or if you want to see the vote count live in browser: https://emojidome.playcode.io/ -Andy 22:01, April 2019

Awesome, thank you 9yz (talk) 20:23, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

There must be some kind of manipulation going on with the votes. There is NO WAY the poop emoji would lose to the skull emoji in round two. It was my guess for the winner >:( 162.158.106.138 20:50, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

And the 100 emoji just lost to the shiny heart. :(

Well, there's the comment "How do you know for sure that your votes are doing anything?". For my side because every single one I voted for lost so far. Well, I'm not a lucky charm, apparently... 141.101.104.11 10:14, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

The second round bracket was released, but is hidden behind the bottom nav buttons: https://xkcd.com/2131/emojidome_bracket_256.png --Thefallen138 (talk) 20:56, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

And now the third round has begun. Strangely, the bracket is not visible yet: https://xkcd.com/2131/emojidome_bracket_128.png. The delay has been bump to something above two minutes as well. --Anarcat (talk) 21:21, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

It's here https://xkcd.com/2131/emojidome_bracket_round_3.png 162.158.107.79 21:41, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

It seems to be he overwrote round_3.png with round_4.png (at least its the same picture)

Both the Emojidome and counter were brought together in iframes https://ducakedhare.co.uk/emojidome.html 141.101.99.17 23:39, 1 April 2019 (UTC)taikedz

Anyone have an IRC room for Emojidome discussion? 162.158.146.10

So disappointed he left out the egg plant... :D --Kynde (talk) 12:27, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Despite Spaaaaaaaaace winning the battle 🌌 (36285) vs 🚝 (17405), the current bracket chart https://xkcd.com/2131/emojidome_bracket_round_3.png shows 🚝 as having won. 108.162.242.13 13:23, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

What if the April Fools joke of the whole bracket is that the "Vote" buttons were actually switched and all the losers are actually the winners??? 172.68.59.84 15:24, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

In case the websocket ever goes down, here are the data: https://pastebin.com/YYgPS1FC Svízel přítula (talk) 19:22, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Is that a Kingdom Hearts reference I see? - Bench

"Emoji" or "emojis" as the plural?

Due to the nature of the Japanese language, "emoji" is technically both the plural and the singular - however, the improper form "emojis" is used more as a plural frequently nowadays among English speakers. Which form should this explanation use? --Youforgotthisthing (talk) 22:27, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

For clarity, I think we should use emoji as the singular and emojis as the plural. I'm going to go fix this. 9yz (talk) 19:34, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

The "friends in Australia" comment was made during the last round's wink vs upside down smile battle. This is probably a pun on how Australia is on the other side of the world from America; I don't think Randall was seriously saying he witnessed an influx of Australians inbound. 108.162.219.82 00:47, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Draws

What would happen if any of the fights resulted in a draw? (same number of votes for both)

Given the # of matchups, it's not actually that unlikely.

We should try to test this. Gotta keep Randall on his feet!

Pretty sure one early on resulted in a tie.

The very first round was 0-0. I guess no one refreshed at exactly the right minute to see it. --Bobson (talk) 04:05, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Actually, Birthday Cake vs Cupcake was a tie at 3658:3658. Birthday Cake advanced. I wonder why? (from the socket: [{"score":3658,"competitor":"🎂"},{"score":3658,"competitor":"🧁"}]) 162.158.106.138 04:54, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Is Birthday Cake vs. Cupcake the draw referenced at the end of the "How it worked" section? Can we please have names added to all the emoji in the explanation text; I have never found a way to blow up emoji to a visible size, so frequently find I can't see them clearly enough to identify them, and in that bit at the end of "How it worked", the first one isn't rendering on my computer anyway. I'm guessing that the other is the birthday cake; really, I have come to hate emoji because they are so tiny. At least Randall made them nice and big on the voting screens. Yngvadottir (talk) 18:27, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

I had assumed that the "score" was a not simple count of vote clicks - I'd imagine (especially with all the autoclicking etc) that the raw votes would be gigantic numbers. So it could be that these were not draws when calculated to full precision - just that the API was only sending out a rounded number?

Emoji Fonts

Having an emoji font is required to see emoji displayed on sites such as http://srv-01.valo.media/ . If anybody else is looking for a way to display these, there's a good free emoji font available here: https://github.com/eosrei/twemoji-color-font It includes a script to replace the default Windows emoji fonts to get them to display properly on windows. Unfortunately it's only black-and-white in chrome. If anybody knows any better options, please let me know!

For Ubuntu Linux users: sudo apt install fonts-noto-color-emoji -- then restart Chrome/Firefox.

SteveBaker (talk) 11:29, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

I'm on Android here & many of the emoji do not show up. Notably, this includes the hedgehog, which... is not in the emoji set of any of my Android devices. Could somebody please add the emoji names next to their pictograms, where they appear the explanation? ProphetZarquon (talk) 04:16, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

Tested on an iPad, a Mac and a PC, a lot of emoji are still appearing as black rectangles. Herobrine (talk) 07:09, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

Commentary Transcript

I've written a script that pulls the commentary history and transforms it into a wiki table. It's up to date as of right now, and I'll run it again in the morning and one last time after the final round. If you have formatting suggestions, just put them here and I'll incorporate it when I regenerate the table. -- Bobson (talk) 04:58, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Wonderful, thank you! Could you perhaps make the winner bold (or underlined like in the comic)? -Andy

Successful Ballot-stuffing?

As I type this, I'm watching owl blast past 180000 votes in the owl-octopus bout. That means that in about 10 minutes, owl has earned more votes than all the votes earned in the entirety of any other individual bout. I could be totally off-base, but that seems vaguely suspicious to me. 162.158.214.82 05:28, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

I concur: that is highly suspicious. Fortunately, nothing of importance is at stake here, even if you were really pulling for the octopus. At this moment, we're ±10 minutes into bee vs pineapple and nothing comparable has happened. It may be an isolated incident. 162.158.106.144 05:50, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

I've seen enough hentai to...what? The *owl* has won? O RLY? I demand a recount! 141.101.105.6 08:10, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

YOLO. You Obviously Like Owls. 141.101.104.11 10:11, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

For the violin vs the curling stone ('classical vs house'), the stone was ahead, but in the last four minutes I spammed my discord server to vote and we just got it over the line. - fudgeforlife

Rrrr. :angry face: I love curling, and of course I wanted the stone to win. With curling no-one complains if I fall asleep watching. But with classical music everyone complains... 141.101.104.89 12:49, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

A similar thing happened for the "scared cat vs devil" bout - those two were consistently nearly tied until about T-10 minutes, whereupon the devil voting rate spiked and devil finished ~12000 votes ahead. The "cat vs hedgehog" bout was also similar - hedgehog had a consistent lead of ~1000 votes until about T-10 minutes, when the hedgehog voting rates spiked and hedgehog ended up finishing ~10000 votes ahead.162.158.214.28 14:39, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

What? It's possible the owl cheated? IT'S POSSIBLE OCTOPUS TOTALLY SHOULD HAVE WON IF THE MATCH WAS LEGITIMATE? 162.158.75.226 12:02, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

I love how owl getting 200 000 votes in 20 minutes is causing all this controversy when crayon got 40 000 in 75 seconds --Maple42 (talk) 18:54, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Avocado quote citation

I'm not sure where to put this. The "I like avocados because they taste pretty good and also they come with a cool wood ball you get to keep" quote is from here: https://twitter.com/jitka/status/236240801926086656 . 172.69.33.41 07:15, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

How sure are we the voting is real

I'm no expert at all, but it there any way that the websites that shows the number of votes live etc. can test whether these votes are real, or something Randall has pre-programmed? Not that I would not believe he was willing to stay up for the duration of this day, but it is an April Fools' Day comic, so he is completely "allowed" to have decided him self who should win all matched and have made up the commentaries in advance. Yes it would take along time, but not longer than doing it on the fly. It could just be that joke on us, that our votes does nothing and we just see how Randall has decided the dome should end. Can anyone go in to this, and explain why it is as it is either way (for sure made up, for sure real or uncertain if real or fake)? (PS I dislike these sections in the commentaries, but there are already 6...) --Kynde (talk) 12:27, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

It should be noted that Milky Way won over Maglev by a long shot, but the bracket shows otherwise. - Brent 172.69.50.58 13:14, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Which picture should we use for the comic

The current picture shown is not relevant. That is only shown to web crawlers that pick new images up. Does anyone have a picture of the very first match? Not sure that is relevant either. Anything in between could be used. like this: --Kynde (talk) 12:43, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

I’m assuming there’ll be a picture at the end. Show that when it finishes. “That Guy from the Netherlands” (talk) 13:53, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

I added the current picture originally as a temporary solution since the bot didn't upload one. No one commented on the image so I kept it though I considered using something like this:

--Asdf (talk) 14:17, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Right now, for me at least, the comic shows this image with the hover-text "Thank you to the xkcd April 1st volunteers/commentators, including @Chromakode, Kevin, @Aiiane, Patrick, Kat, Reuven, @cotrone, @bstaffin, @zigdon, schwal, Stereo, and everyone who voted!" Just another option, though that image doesn't explain the comic set-out during the competition. 172.68.133.84 19:12, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Yes for sure we should use that now. I should have thought of that. Can see it has already been uploaded, but it takes long time, hours, from these pictures have been changed to the change can be seen ion the site. I have no idea why, but have experienced it several times, so later today the final picture should be ready. --Kynde (talk) 18:17, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

If we do that, we should add example pictures in the explanation of what it actually looked like during the competition. I vote for yours, Kynde. 172.68.133.84 19:11, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

I added Kynde's image in the "How it worked" section as it is useful for people who missed the competition. --Asdf (talk) 19:22, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Great, I also added it to the transcript section and transcribed the dynamic part of the image. As well as the final image, which is not on-line and added the error image we had to begin at the bottom of the transcript and kept that transcript as well. Tanscript is more or less done I think.--Kynde (talk) 21:29, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

References and jokes in the commentary

Should we start explaining some of the robot announcer's commentary lines? Some of them are clear references to things. For example, the "Kickpuncher vs. Punchkicker" line is a reference to Community (Kickpuncher is a character in an in-universe film series, and Punchkicker is one of the characters' OC based on it.)

Maybe make extra pages like has been done for several of the previous years huge comics, especially April Fools' comics. And yes it would be interesting to explain them... But that is a huge job. --Kynde (talk) 13:17, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Errors

There’s a mistake in the bracket, the genome won but is grayed out “That Guy from the Netherlands” (talk) 13:14, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Same with stars vs flying saucer --Kynde (talk) 13:17, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

The genome has been corrected, but not the stars. --Kynde (talk) 13:48, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Yeah - stars is currently duelling volcano - but the bracket shows that stars was eliminated by monorail. This kinda suggests that the bracket is being manually generated! SteveBaker (talk) 13:59, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Speaking of errors, hearts no longer show up on mobile. “That Guy from the Netherlands” (talk) 14:31, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

I think that was intentional, as, at least in my experience, the comic was a massive battery hit. 108.162.241.4 17:11, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Disappointed no one thought to get the egg to at least the second round. 162.158.255.142 15:27, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Many of the rounds were incredibly close - even the final was won by just a couple of percent. It was rare for there to be an overwhelming majority on either side. But it's incredible that 1,393,048 votes were cast in the final...given that all those people had to be there over just the 26 minute voting timeslot. I presume explainxkcd was taken down by overwhelming traffic? SteveBaker (talk) 16:44, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Why are brackets relevent to this time of year. The FA Cup has reached the semi-final, the Champions League and UEFA have reached the qarter finals. The European Rugby Champions Cup and European Challenge have reached the semi-finals. Arachrah (talk) 17:02, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

March Madness is under way, he has referenced this before, it is in the explanation. Do not post at the top but at the bottom, for continuity. I moved your post down here where it belonged --Kynde (talk) 21:27, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

So it is to do with boxing hares.

In the mentioning of eggplant and peach, peaches represent butts, not the female sex organs. At least that is the far more common usage, including but not limited to the gay community. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/peach-emoji-%F0%9F%8D%91 172.68.54.76 16:50, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

Stuffing

Did anyone else noticed these comments :

• Honeybees vs. colony collapse disorder
• I’m looking at the totals, and this one is extremely close.
• 🦠 fans need to click more and faster!
• I mean, 🐝 fans need to keep clicking!
• Fun fact: You can click more than once, although if you click too much it ignores you.
• No! Save the bees!

I'm quite curious as to how many people did those 1.4 million clicks in final ! --172.69.226.131 11:43, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

random object battles in popular culture!

Hee hee! All I could think of during this was the old Laurie Anderson recording about which thing was more macho Jonwchgo (talk) 14:19, 3 April 2019 (UTC)