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Name:	adventure-showdown Doctor Who Tumblr Bracket
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Type:	Bracket
Fandom:	Doctor Who
Scope:	DW Stories
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adventure-showdown is a Tumblr blog for a Doctor Who bracket aimed at finding "tumblr's favourite doctor who story"

The top three stories were all from New Who: the winner was Midnight, whilst second place went to The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, and third place went to World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls.

The Bracket

• The furthest comic, The Star Beast, reached Round 5, losing to Classic Who's The Three Doctors.
• The furthest novel, Alien Bodies, reached Round 6, losing against New Who's Turn Left.
• The furthest spinoff episodes, SJA's The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith, and Torchwood's Captain Jack Harkness and Children of Earth, reached Round 6, losing to Classic Who's The Three Doctors, New Who's Vincent and the Doctor, and New Who's World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls respectively.
• The furthest minisode/other TV stories, minisode Night of the Doctor and Comic Relief special The Curse of Fatal Death, reached Round 6, losing to New Who's Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways and New Who's Partners in Crime respectively.
• The furthest audio, BF's Scherzo, reached Round 7, losing to New Who's Midnight.
• The furthest Classic Who story, City of Death, reached the semi-finals, losing to New Who's Midnight.

Fandom Response

Surprises & Other Events

• BF Audio Caerdroia beat out New Who's Father's Day.
• BF Audio The Chimes of Midnight was in the lead for some time in its poll with Classic Who's Remembrance of the Daleks, only losing in the end by a mere 0.8%. The irony of it losing at Christmastime, with its Christmas setting and its meme about how "Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without Mrs Baddeley's plum pudding", were not lost on fans.
• New Who's Heaven Sent, with its reputation of being considered not only one of the best Doctor Who episodes ever made, but also up there with the best of television more generally, lost to World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls, another highly acclaimed Capaldi story, admittedly, but nowhere near the same level as HS. Interestingly, in DWM WEaT/TDF also beat out HS when readers were polled for favourite Capaldi stories. However, HS was then voted the best Doctor Who TV story of all time in DWM for a separate poll later that same year (although the methodology for this one was slightly different).