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2019 Sims Theam Madness! - it's all over but the partying
GrimSuruDoi
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Hey y'all!
As a designer on the Sims 4 team, I really like to set up fun things for people on the team to participate in. The past few years, I've created March Madness brackets within the office so we can have fun voting for the "best" something – we've done top-rated movies (Empire Strikes Back), Disney songs (A Whole New World), and TV show theme songs (Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) – and this inspired us to try to do something with our lovely players and community this year!
With that, I'm excited to present a bracket of pack themes reimagined as teams (or, as Lyndsay charmingly portmanteaued – Theams). I hope that you'll join me over the next few weeks in voting for the Best Sims Theam! We'll post a new round of voting every 2 days or so. 32 will enter, 1 will win!
I should be clear that this isn't like the community-voted SP; we are not here to pick the next pack the team will make. Some of these themes we've tackled for multiple Sims games. Some we've explored only a bit. Some are ideas we've bounced around but never officially made. All of them are excited Theams vying for the love of the community. As a fellow fan of the Sims, I'm excited to see how it all shakes out, and also jazzed that we all get to do this together.
P.S. I suppose if you're a big fan of brackets and March Madness and think you know what's going to happen, you could print out a bracket for yourself and fill it in before the voting and see how your predictions line up with the results!
OK, enough talk, here's the bracket!
Tentative tournament vote schedule:
March 18: Western Half
March 20: Eastern Half
March 22: Sweet Sixteen
March 25: Elite Eight
March 27: Final Four
March 29: Championship
As a designer on the Sims 4 team, I really like to set up fun things for people on the team to participate in. The past few years, I've created March Madness brackets within the office so we can have fun voting for the "best" something – we've done top-rated movies (Empire Strikes Back), Disney songs (A Whole New World), and TV show theme songs (Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) – and this inspired us to try to do something with our lovely players and community this year!
With that, I'm excited to present a bracket of pack themes reimagined as teams (or, as Lyndsay charmingly portmanteaued – Theams). I hope that you'll join me over the next few weeks in voting for the Best Sims Theam! We'll post a new round of voting every 2 days or so. 32 will enter, 1 will win!
I should be clear that this isn't like the community-voted SP; we are not here to pick the next pack the team will make. Some of these themes we've tackled for multiple Sims games. Some we've explored only a bit. Some are ideas we've bounced around but never officially made. All of them are excited Theams vying for the love of the community. As a fellow fan of the Sims, I'm excited to see how it all shakes out, and also jazzed that we all get to do this together.
P.S. I suppose if you're a big fan of brackets and March Madness and think you know what's going to happen, you could print out a bracket for yourself and fill it in before the voting and see how your predictions line up with the results!
OK, enough talk, here's the bracket!
Tentative tournament vote schedule:
March 18: Western Half
March 20: Eastern Half
March 22: Sweet Sixteen
March 25: Elite Eight
March 27: Final Four
March 29: Championship
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Help vote for who wins the first round in the Western half of our Theam Madness.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/D7P2QG6
This vote is over!
Here's where we stand after our first round:
It's time to figure out who wins our first round of voting from the Eastern half of our bracket.
The next round of voting is now open and lasts for 48 hours!
Go here to vote:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JVDG9DZ
This vote is over!
Every theam here has a win under their belts. Can they make it to the elite eight?
Voting for the sweet sixteen round will go over the weekend and will close in about 72 hours on Monday, 2pm (Pacific).
Here's the voting link!
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CH8FFHX
This vote is over!
The quarterfinals are upon us! Voting will be up for 48 hours and we'll have our final four on Wednesday, around 2pm (Pacific).
Go vote here!
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/95PJTG5
This vote is over!
The next vote is now up and will be for the next 48 hours. See you again on Friday, lovely Simmers, as we find out who will be playing the championship!!
Vote here:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SPBPXFG
This vote is over!
From the Western half: the Students! From the Eastern half: the Farmers!
Who will win 2019 Sims Theam Madness??
The next vote is up! Let's wrap this all up on Monday at 5PM (so...75 hours from now) at which point we'll celebrate our winner and all of our competing theams! On a personal note, thanks for everyone who has voted and cared and played. I've been invigorated by your passion!
But here's what you came for, the voting link:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/63BHFY2
This vote is over!
It's all over. The Students take the trophy!
THANK YOU ONE AND ALL (Simmers and the other people who work on the Sims) for indulging these few weeks of bracket madness with a Sims twist. I'm happy to see what people turned out to vote for. I'm happy to see how much y'all care. And remember: if your favorite theam lost, it doesn't mean we don't care about it! One of the things that I love best about the Sims is how we all play differently, how we all like different things, how we all focus on different parts of the game. This game is huge in every way, and I love it and I love you.