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| titletext = 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!
 
| titletext = 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!
 
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*The comic is a link to a [https://xkcd.com/2131/emojidome_bracket_round_of_128.png image of the results].
 
  
 
==Explanation==
 
==Explanation==
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This was the ninth [[:Category:April fools' comics|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.
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{{incomplete|Created by ๐Ÿ˜‡. Needs more elaboration on font influencing emoji..}}
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This was the ninth [[:Category:April fools' comics|April fools' comic]] released by [[Randall]]. The previous fools comic was [[1975: Right Click]] from Sunday April 1, 2018.
  
 
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 {{w|Bracket (tournament)|bracket}} system, with only one winner. See more below under [[#How it worked|How it worked]].
 
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 {{w|Bracket (tournament)|bracket}} system, with only one winner. See more below under [[#How it worked|How it worked]].
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The original title text "๐Ÿคผ๐Ÿคผ๐Ÿคผ๐Ÿคผ๐Ÿคผ๐Ÿคผ๐Ÿคผ๐Ÿคผ" 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.
 
The original title text "๐Ÿคผ๐Ÿคผ๐Ÿคผ๐Ÿคผ๐Ÿคผ๐Ÿคผ๐Ÿคผ๐Ÿคผ" 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.
  
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Notably, it appears the eggplant emoji (๐Ÿ†) and the peach emoji (๐Ÿ‘) were left out of the bracket, alongside the middle finger emoji (๐Ÿ–•). 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.
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Notably, it appears the eggplant emoji (๐Ÿ†) and the peach emoji (๐Ÿ‘) were left out of the bracket, alongside the middle finger emoji (๐Ÿ–•). The eggplant and peach are frequently used to represent the male and female sex organs, respectively. There has been no statement from Randall on why they were left out.
  
 
A robot face announcer-emoji (๐Ÿค–) and a link to the full bracket was added at 38 minutes in.  
 
A robot face announcer-emoji (๐Ÿค–) and a link to the full bracket was added at 38 minutes in.  
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==Alternative viewers==
 
==Alternative viewers==
  
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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'''.
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Real data with results (clicks) can be seen as JSON-websocket at '''https://emojidome.xkcd.com/2131/socket'''
  
 
'''https://phiresky.github.io/emojidome/''', [https://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/b89zz1/emojidome_live_bracket_viewer/ made by a redditor], shows the brackets along with the final scores and comment.
 
'''https://phiresky.github.io/emojidome/''', [https://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/b89zz1/emojidome_live_bracket_viewer/ made by a redditor], shows the brackets along with the final scores and comment.
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:[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.]
 
:[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.]
  
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:[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.]
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:[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 sits on the smaller silver medal, also with red neck string, which floats out there in space. The hedgehog with medal is small enough to fit inside the neck string on the gold medal.]
  
 
===Dynamic comic transcript===
 
===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:]
 
:[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:]
 
:[[File:2131 Emojidome example.png|400px]]
 
:[[File:2131 Emojidome example.png|400px]]
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:[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 [https://github.com/twitter/twemoji 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:]
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:[At the top center of the comic, the two emojis battling it out are shown next to each other. The emojis was generally in vivid colors, and not completely (or remotely) like the ones they represents. The true emojis 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
 
:VS
  
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:Past bouts:
 
:Past bouts:
  
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:[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):]
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:[Below this text was a list of all previous matches, showing the two emojis, with the looser 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 where 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 the text of the three matches that can be seen in the example (the grayed out looser was Sushi, Bee and Wizard):]
 
:๐ŸŒ‹ vs ๐Ÿฃ "Sushi has received a technical disqualification for being very very cooked"
 
:๐ŸŒ‹ vs ๐Ÿฃ "Sushi has received a technical disqualification for being very very cooked"
 
:๐Ÿ vs ๐Ÿฆ‰ "Owls well that ends well"
 
:๐Ÿ vs ๐Ÿฆ‰ "Owls well that ends well"
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:Full bracket for today's comic (round 3).
 
:Full bracket for today's comic (round 3).
  
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:[These links was to images of the bracket, different sizes, and they could change, update the result etc, so it was not a new link every time a new bracket was uploaded. In some of these images there was even mistakes with which emoji won, and actually the winner space, was shown to be out to the flying sauce during several bouts and at least one update. But it was fixed before last few rounds.]
  
 
==== Round 1====
 
==== Round 1====
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! Competitors and score !! Commentary
 
! Competitors and score !! Commentary
 
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| '''๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ”ฌ (113683)''' vs ๐Ÿค” (108653)
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| '''๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ”ฌ (113683)''' vs ๐Ÿค” (108653) ||  
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* '''Woman + Microscope'''
 
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* Thinking face
 
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* Nearly tied at 40,000 votes each!
 
* Nearly tied at 40,000 votes each!
 
*Nearly tied at 50,000 votes each!
 
*Nearly tied at 50,000 votes each!
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*๐Ÿค”
 
*๐Ÿค”
 
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| ๐Ÿฆ‰ (103212) vs '''๐Ÿฆ” (105260)'''
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| ๐Ÿฆ‰ (103212) vs '''๐Ÿฆ” (105260)''' ||  
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* Owl
 
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* '''Hedgehog'''
 
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* I've always considered ๐Ÿฆ‰ to be one of the greats.
 
* I've always considered ๐Ÿฆ‰ to be one of the greats.
 
* sky cat vs. pointy cat
 
* sky cat vs. pointy cat
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* ๐Ÿฆ” just barely squeaking in a victory.
 
* ๐Ÿฆ” just barely squeaking in a victory.
 
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| ๐ŸŒ‹ (105716) vs '''๐ŸŒŒ (175099)'''
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| ๐ŸŒ‹ (105716) vs '''๐ŸŒŒ (175099)''' ||  
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* Volcano
 
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* '''Milky way'''
 
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* ๐ŸŒ‹ had an interesting previous round. Let's see what they do now.
 
* ๐ŸŒ‹ had an interesting previous round. Let's see what they do now.
 
* Star stuff or regurgitated star stuff?
 
* Star stuff or regurgitated star stuff?
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* Good (starry) Night!
 
* Good (starry) Night!
 
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| '''๐Ÿ”ฅ (178121)''' vs ๐Ÿงฌ (159553)
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| '''๐Ÿ”ฅ (178121)''' vs ๐Ÿงฌ (159553) ||  
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* '''Fire'''
 
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* DNA double helix
 
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* Did you know the melting point of DNA depends on the information it encodes?
 
* Did you know the melting point of DNA depends on the information it encodes?
 
*Jurassic Park III (2001)
 
*Jurassic Park III (2001)
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! Competitors and score !! Commentary
 
! Competitors and score !! Commentary
 
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| ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ”ฌ (285263) vs '''๐Ÿฆ” (285736)'''
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| ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ”ฌ (285263) vs '''๐Ÿฆ” (285736)''' ||  
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* Woman + Microscope
 
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* '''Hedgehog'''
 
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* ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ”ฌ defeated [purple devil face] and [sparkling heart] to get here.
 
* ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ”ฌ defeated [purple devil face] and [sparkling heart] to get here.
 
* ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ”ฌ defeated the wizard and then beat out the rest of the animal quadrant.
 
* ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ”ฌ defeated the wizard and then beat out the rest of the animal quadrant.
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* Science!
 
* Science!
 
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| '''๐ŸŒŒ (281040)''' vs ๐Ÿ”ฅ (155282)
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| '''๐ŸŒŒ (281040)''' vs ๐Ÿ”ฅ (155282) ||  
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* '''Milky way'''
 
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* Fire
 
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* Without oxygen, thereโ€™s no ๐Ÿ”ฅ.
 
* Without oxygen, thereโ€™s no ๐Ÿ”ฅ.
 
*Space fire fact: If we detect fire on exoplanets, it may indicate life. Oxygen is volatile and shouldnโ€™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 shouldnโ€™t persist in an atmosphere without something replenishing it.
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! Competitors and score !! Commentary
 
! Competitors and score !! Commentary
 
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| '''๐ŸŒŒ (710129)''' vs ๐Ÿฆ” (682919)
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| '''๐ŸŒŒ (710129)''' vs ๐Ÿฆ” (682919) ||  
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* '''Milky way'''
 
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* Hedgehog
 
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* ๐Ÿฆ” is in the lead!
 
* ๐Ÿฆ” is in the lead!
 
*๐ŸŒŒ has pulled ahead again!
 
*๐ŸŒŒ has pulled ahead again!
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:[This is the image that appears when JavaScript fails or other errors occur. This is what embeds and automated programs usually see, as they load down dynamic comics. The transcript for this image is below the image:]
 
:[This is the image that appears when JavaScript fails or other errors occur. This is what embeds and automated programs usually see, as they load down dynamic comics. The transcript for this image is below the image:]
 
:[[File:2131_Emojidome_Error_image.png]]
 
:[[File:2131_Emojidome_Error_image.png]]
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:[A tournament bracket tree is shown with eight participants each on the left and right side, for a total of sixteen, all of which are the ๐Ÿ˜ฐ emoji ("Face With Open Mouth and Cold Sweat"). From both sides towards the middle the brackets reduce to eight, then four, two, and one line where the latter join to a rectangle in the middle. Below is an explanation of why this is seen instead of the correct comic. It is due to an error with JavaScript. This is also why the sad emoji is used in all sweet sixteen places.]
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:[A tournament bracket tree is shown with eight participants each on the left and right side, for a total of sixteen, all of which are the ๐Ÿ˜ฐ emoji (a face with eyebrows, one teardrop and a blue forehead). From both sides towards the middle the brackets reduce to eight, then four, two, and one line where the latter join to a rectangle in the middle. Below is an explanation of why this is seen instead of the correct comic. It is due to an error with JavaScript. This is also why the sad emoji is used in all sweet sixteen places.]
  
 
:Visit xkcd.com to participate
 
:Visit xkcd.com to participate
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[[Category:April fools' comics]]
 
[[Category:April fools' comics]]
 
[[Category:Interactive comics]]
 
[[Category:Interactive comics]]
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[[Category:Comics with animation]]
 
[[Category:Comics with color]]
 
[[Category:Comics with color]]
 
[[Category:Emoji]]
 
[[Category:Emoji]]
 
[[Category:Sport]]
 
[[Category:Sport]]
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[[Category:Tournament bracket]]
 
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[[Category:Dynamic comics]]
 

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