Ladies, gentlemen, and everybody in between! We are back with more movie-based tournament podcast action! It's been more than two months since the conclusion of Mouse Madness. And while I'd love to say we spent that entire time gushing about The Emperor's New Groove nonstop, we had other business to attend to. See, during the middle of that tournament, Wesley and I were talking about what this tournament would look like if we ranked all the Pixar movies. And seeing how much fun we had with the Disney Animated Canon, we decided that at the conclusion of that tournament, we would do the same thing with Pixar, with Wesley taking on hosting duties! The reason we had to wait so long after Season 1's conclusion was so that we could include "Soul" in the tournament. Bit of a pain to have to extend the wait, but here we are now! Because Pixar only has 23 feature films, we had to structure the bracket a bit differently. Here's a breakdown of how it works: -Instead of being split across four classes, all the movies were given a rank from 1 to 23, based on the average of their IMDb and Metacritic scores. -The top 9 seeded movies automatically enter the tournament. The other 14 will face each other in a preliminary round. The preliminary matchups are determined by seed, where higher seeds compete against lower seeds (so #10 faces #23, #11 faces #22, and so on). -Once the preliminary round is completed, the winners will be reseeded by relative rank. This means that the highest-seeded winner will be the #10 seed for the main tournament, second-highest will be the #11 seed, and so on. -Finally, the reseeded films will enter the main tournament, and their primary opponents will follow the standard March Madness bracket formula (see the following link for the layout: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/im... ). The rest should follow naturally. Since there are 14 films in the preliminary round, we'll be covering it in two sessions: 6 films this week and the other 8 next week. This week, the normal posse and I are joined by a newcomer to the server, from the UK no less. That's right, Mouse Madness is going international! (Granted this isn't the first time we've done this, we've had non-American guests before, but it's still really cool!)
The 6 films we talk about this week are as follows: -A Bug's Life (#16) vs. Cars (#17) -Monsters Inc. (#13) vs. Onward (#20) -Toy Story 4 (#12) vs. The Good Dinosaur (#21)