Demonbracket 2021 preview

Against all odds it's back. Stuff contested board elections up your jumper, this is the only vote that people are really interested in. Yes, it's Demonbracket, the competition that will not die. 

Burnt out by the admin of having to count votes from and update multiple sources I'd lost interest by the end of last year and was going to wrap this concept up before it got tedious. Then I found a way to do it in a half-arsed fashion that would still allow small-scale electoral action and not cause undue disruption to my mid-life crisis.

This year voting will be conducted entirely by Twitter Polls, allowing anonymous voting for the first time. I'm hoping that anonymity and the smaller voting pool will lead to a handful of zany upsets. Stranger things have happened.

The draw will be posted on @Demonblog from 6pm on Tuesday 26 January, and as it tradition, the competition will kick-off the next day. Warm up on Australia Day by hitting the piss and having a political argument. Up to four matches a day will be held until the final on Thursday 11 February.

The rules

• Given that Twitter Polls can't be pre-scheduled, there will be no set kick-off time for games. Each contest will run 24hrs from time of posting. Some reminders will be issued but check the @Demonblog Twitter account daily for matches.
  
  
• The voting criteria for each match-up is your personal business. It need not have anything to do with football if you don't want it to, but if does then the best of British luck to you. We won't ask questions, and nor should anyone else. Vote shamers will be denounced.

• You no longer need to cate votes for every match but you still should, just for the sake of tradition.

• Non-MFC fans are more than welcome to vote as long as you follow all other rules

• Players are more than welcome to use social media, real media or paid advertising to promote themselves. Outright bribery is not permitted.
  
  
• In the event of a tie both players will advance to the next round, except in the case of the Grand Final where a replay will be held the following day.

• If a match features three or more players and two or more tie for the most votes they will advance with all other players eliminated.
  
  
• If a player is added to the list before 27 January he will be randomly added to a Preliminary Round match. 
  
  
• The decision of the Demonbracket Organising Committee is final. Unless somebody takes us to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lucerne.

Honour Roll
2012 - James Frawley d. Nathan Jones

2013 - Tom McDonald d. Mitch Clark

2014 - Nathan Jones d. Jack Watts

2015 - Nathan Jones [2] d. Dom Tyson

2016 - Jack Viney d. Nathan Jones

2017 - Max Gawn d. Jack Viney

2018 - Neville Jetta d. Clayton Oliver 
2019 - Clayton Oliver d. Neville Jetta
2020 - Max Gawn [2] d. Clayton Oliver

2021 competitors

Seeds (start at Round 1)

1. Max Gawn (reigning champion)

2. Christian Petracca (best and fairest)

3. Steven May

4. Jack Viney

5. Ed Langdon

6. Clayton Oliver

7. Christian Salem

8. Angus Brayshaw

Other players entering at Round 1 (next 14 most experienced MFC players)

9. Nathan Jones

10. Tom McDonald

11. Neville Jetta

12. James Harmes

13. Alex Neal-Bullen

14. Jayden Hunt

15. Michael Hibberd

16. Jake Melksham

17. Bayley Fritsch

18. Aaron vandenBerg

19. Sam Weideman

20. Jake Lever

21. Jay Lockhart

22. Joel Smith

23. Charlie Spargo

Preliminary Round (new draftees, trades, and next lowest games total)
24. Marty Hore

25. Kysaiah Pickett

26. Adam Tomlinson

27. Oskar Baker

28. Harrison Petty

29. Trent Rivers

30. Tom Sparrow

31. Luke Jackson

32. Mitch Brown

33. Toby Bedford

34. Kade Chandler

35. James Jordon

36. Austin Bradtke

37. Aaron Nietschke

38. Ben Brown

39. Bailey Laurie

40. Jake Bowey

41. Fraser Rosman

Have at it sports fans...