SpoilerTV Best Show Ever 2010 Winner: Supernatural
Update: We have the winner of the bracket competition and it is Kathleen "Lanmwolf"Bowles who wins a prize which is a $40 or UK Equivalent Amazon Voucher that they can use to
buy a Box Set of their choice. You can check your final results here, http://www.dawgsled.com/darkufo/welcome.asp and I finished in 62nd place, which a while back looked very unlikely so I'm quite happy with that.
Day 32: And we have our winner of the 2010 Best Show Ever competition and with a commanding final victory, Supernatural has seen off The Vampire Diaries to take the first title and congratulations to the show, and to everyone backing it throughout the various rounds. Tough for The Vampire Diaries as it never really got going until the last few hours, but by then it was far too late and Supernatural crossed the line first.
It's been a long and winding month, with many shocks, surprises and in the end, a huge community gathered in the final week to see our biggest polls by far and really add a feeling of triumph to the final matchups. I hope that our 2011 competition goes on to become bigger and better, and I am already working on a few new rules to answer several of the criticisms that the competition unsurprisingly faced seeing as it was my first attempt at such a tournament, and also on SpoilerTV it was the first of what I hope will be many. There won't be another Show Competition for another year, but in a couple of weeks look out for the beginning of our "Favourite Character Competition" which I hope everyone will tune into from the start, and feel free to post and comments and tips for that competition here also, I will trawl through as I make the final adjustments to all the pre-tournament info before I release the initial nomination phase.
I have thoroughly enjoyed creating the competition for everyone, and it has taken up a large chunk of my time, so it has been great to largely hear positive feedback, with only a few unnecessary comments from several viewers. I'm proud of how successful it's been and even if you don't agree with the results, I hope you've had fun, it's opened your eyes to some new shows, and you got a chance to defend your true love against other shows fans. And keep heading here to SpoilerTV as we all love TV, and it's run by people, like DarkUFO who love TV, and it shows by the way the site is run. Thanks also to Dark for his support in getting the competition started and for allowing me to do it.
The Brackets haven't been finalised and updated but when they are, we will announce the winner and sort out the prize here. One thing is for certain, it isn't me :P
Finally, for all our geekyness, here are a few stats and also a complete list in order of all 64 entered shows:
The Results:
Final
1. Supernatural 2. The Vampire Diaries
Semi Finals
3. LOST 4. The Wire
Quarter Finals
5. The X-Files 6. Smallville 7. Grey's Anatomy 8. The Office (US)
Round 3
9. NCIS 10. Fringe 11. Dexter 12. Doctor Who 13. Glee 14. Desperate Housewives 15. Battlestar Galactica 16. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Round 2
17. Chuck 18. Firefly 19. Veronica Mars 20. Flashforward 21. The OC 22. Alias 23. The Mentalist 24. Scrubs 25. Stargate SG1 26. Arrested Development 27. MASH 28. Gilmore Girls 29. Seinfeld 30. The Twilight Zone 31. Deadwood 32. Mad Men
Round 1
33. Legend of the Seeker 34. '24' 35. Bones 36. The West Wing 37. House 38. Friends 39. True Blood 40. Freaks + Geeks 41. The Sopranos 42. How I Met Your Mother 43. Buffy 44. Charmed 45. The Simpsons 46. Breaking Bad 47. Twin Peaks 48. Prison Break 49. Six Feet Under 50. Band of Brothers 51. ER 52. One Tree Hill 53. The Prisoner (Original) 54. CSI 55. Sex and the City 56. Life on Mars 57. The Shield 58. Babylon 5 59. Oz 60. Carnivale 61. It's always Sunny in Philadelphia 62. 30 Rock 63. Northern Exposure 64. Friday Night Lights
For anyone wanting to see how it all began over a month ago and view the Original Nomination stage, the Post and all the Comments and Nominations are here: http://www.spoilertv.com/2010/06/hunt-for-best-tv-shows-ever.html
Top 5 Most Voted for Polls:
1. LOST vs. Supernatural (Day 30, Semi Final - 14480 votes)
2. The Vampire Diaries vs. Supernatural (Day 31, Final - 8269 votes)
3. Supernatural vs. The X-Files (Day 28, Quarter Final - 7648 votes)
4. Firefly vs. Fringe (Day 11, Round 2 - 4491 votes)
5. The West Wing vs. LOST (Day 6, Round 1 - 3644 votes)
Finally, I look forward to seeing you all in a couple of weeks for the Favourite Character Competition, keep loving TV, keep supporting SpoilerTV as it is the best site there is for TV and thanks for posting nominations, voting, sending youtube videos, commenting, emailing me, or writing reviews. And thanks for just joining in.
See you soon,
Adam D.Harris
