The r/memes Meme of the Decade Tournament!

Hey all you fantastic memers!

You spoke, and we heard you! We could not keep count of how many of you requested a end-of-the-year / end-of-the-decade meme tournament! So here it is! Let's break it down.

We have 10 years to pick memes from, that's quite a long time span and quite the amount of material! So, here's how this is going to work. We are going to use the popular 3rd party bracket polling website, polltab to count and manage our tournament. There will be 32 meme templates / themes competing in a single-elimination, majority vote, tournament! Each round will last 2 days, and the nomination thread (this one), one week.

The schedule

December 14th: Nomination threads go live December 20th: Nomination threads are locked, and votes are tallied. The mods will select two honorable mentions or wildcards. December 21st: The Meme Tournament begins! Round 1 Starts December 23rd: Round 1 ends, Round 2 begins! December 25th: Quarterfinals! December 27th: Semifinals! December 29th: Finals! December 31st: The r/memes Meme of the Decade is Decided!

The Nominations

Below are links to the nomination threads in contest mode. Go to each, make your suggestion, and please vote for at least 5 others :) Be generic but not too broad. For example, you can nominate "2018 Spongebob Memes" for the 2018 category, as well as "2019 Spongebob Memes" for the 2019 one, since they span multiple years and are quite different from each other. However do not suggest a broad category like "Impact Font Memes" as this encompasses nearly every meme in 2010. Provide a link to an example if you wish!!!

The Rules

At the end of the nomination period, votes will be inspected by the mods for appropriate memes and the three highest voted for will be selected for each year!

The Prizes

Wait, there's prizes involved? OF COURSE THERE ARE. Since we introduced community awards we have amassed quite the coin balance. And, since were not dragons who sit on our gold, we want to give it back to you! So, here's the gist:

• if your nomination makes it into the polltab (top 3 in the year nomination thread), your comment will be awarded a Mod Community Award equivalent to Reddit Gold.
• if your nomination makes it to Round 2, you will receive an additional Mod Community Award with the equivalent of two Reddit Golds.
• if your nomination makes it to the quarterfinals, you will receive an additional Mod Community Award with the equivalent of three Reddit Golds
• if your nomination makes it to the semifinals, you will receive an additional Mod Community Award with the equivalent of one Reddit Platinum
• if your nomination makes it to the Finals, you will receive an additional Mod Community Award with the equivalent of the "Now Thats What I Call a Meme" Community Award
• if your nomination wins it all, you'll receive an additional Mod Community Award with the equivalent of the "Certified GallowBoob-Certified Repost" Community Award

So, if your submission wins it all, you'll receive nearly 20,000 Reddit coins! Now that's what I call a happy start to the New Year!

So happy posting, good luck, and let's see where this takes us!!!