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The '''Daria Tournament of Champions''' was a "tournament" held to determine the theoretical best ''Daria'' episode of all time. It began on August 14, 2002 and concluded on March 15, 2003 with "[[Through a Lens Darkly]]" winning the honor.
==Beginnings of the
The tournament was first posted by [[CINCGREEN]] on the [[Scorched Remnants Message Board]], and was only open to posters on that board. With the airing of "[[Is It College Yet?]]" in January 2002, and the official end of new episodes, CINCGREEN had toyed with ranking all 67 "episodes" -- 65 half-hour regular season episodes plus the two extended-length "movie" episodes" -- from greatest to worst.
CINCGREEN then conceived of an idea where fans could vote on the best episodes. The idea would be that episodes would be compared against each other, one on one, in an imaginary tournament. The format would be much like the NCAA Basketball Tournaments, where varying amounts of American college basketball teams compete to name a champion. Each episode would be given a tentative ranking by CINCGREEN to determine a seeding, to make sure that "good" episodes faced "bad" episodes in the first round of play.
The seeding system was determined from a combination of factors: from online polls of the first three seasons and from the reviews of [[Daniel Suni]], [[Mike Quinn]], and [[Wraith]]. (Other attempts to determine a best episode, such as [[Daria by Numbers]], would come later.)
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Many fans disagreed with the overall placement of episodes. In particular, there was disagreement with "Speedtrapped" being seeded as #1 and "[[Depth Takes a Holiday]]" seeded at #66. "Depth Takes a Holiday" easily won the play-in bracket and beat not only the #1 seed "Speedtrapped" but also "[[Jane's Addition]]" to make it to the final sixteen, before it was defeated by "[[The Invitation]]" 10-3. However, this gave awareness that a large group of fans liked "Depth Takes a Holiday" very much and that DTAH should not be instantly relegated to an imaginary "worst episodes" list.
The final four surviving episodes were "[[Boxing Daria]]", "[[Arts '
==The Final==
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