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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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:[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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[[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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