WELCOME TO THE MR. T206 COMPETITION!!!
The T206 portraits are full of iconic images, beautiful backgrounds, great facial expressions, awesome hair do's (and don'ts), etc. This is intended to be a fun "March Madness" tournament style thread, in which our favorite T206 (portraits only!) subjects will battle it out mano-a-mano (based on polling of net54 members) for the prestigious title of "Mr. T206"!
Based on a highly scientific (OK, not really) nomination process, we have narrowed the initial field down to the following 32 subjects (in no apparent order): HOFers (16): wagner, plank, tinker, matty, wajo, cobb (green), collins, lajoie, bender, young, keeler, waddell, evers, walsh, m. brown, griffith; Non HOFers (also 16): shag, chase (pink), titus, beaumont, kling, dahlen (boston), wiltse (with or without cap???), lobert, mcintyre, merkle, dougherty, rucker, killian, magie, elberfeld, revelle. Some good ones missing, no doubt, but a strong field by any measure!
You can see the tournament bracket (randomized seedings) and follow the results here:
http://challonge.com/mrt206
New match ups will be initialized as new posts, to give the thread continuity, but will also be copied here (below) to ensure the current matchup(s) are always easy to find. Subject images, for better or worse, will come from the gallery at
http://www.t206resource.com, though fans (enemies) of a given subject are welcome to post their own better (worse) images. Commentary, humor, and trash talk [preferably in the matched-up players' voices] is highly encouraged!
Hope many of you will enjoy participating!
Cheers, David
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CURRENT MATCH:
Ladies and gentleman, we have our winner, and a fine champion it is...
Walter "The Big Train" Johnson
wins the "Mr. T206" competition, defeating the great Ty Cobb 26-11 in the finals.
Thanks to all who participated the past couple of weeks!
The final updated bracket is at:
http://www.challonge.com/mrt206
Cheers, David