Wednesday, June 5, 2013

YA Crush Tourney #3: All the Information


The time has come again for another YA Crush Tourney!  I can't believe this will be our 3rd crush tournament. We hope you are as excited as we are about this one!  We have some new guys and some old flames which promises for something completely different.  We also have a great set of advocates this year.  Please go and follow their blogs and twitter to stay up to date with everything concerning the tournament.  Also, follow the hashtag #YACRUSHTOURNEY on twitter for information.  The tournament will kick off next Wednesday, June 12th.  Join your teams, get plenty of sleep, check out any of the new crushes that you don't know yet, and get ready to have a great time!


And, here are our wonderful Advocates and their crushes!  Go help them out with some comment love, and be sure to follow them!!!!  Also, if you haven't read one of these books, go support the authors and meet their very crush-worthy heroes!

SPECULATIVE FICTION
Seed 1. Daemon Black (Lux Series by Jennifer L. Armentrout) Stacey @ Fantasy Book Addict
Seed 2. Will Herondale  (Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare) Courtney @ TMI Movie News
Seed 3.  Four/Tobias  (Divergent by Veronica Roth) Becky @ Bibliognome 
Seed 4.  Dimitri (Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead) Chandra @ Unabridged Bookshelf
Seed 5.  Patch (Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick) Danielle @ Consuming Worlds
Seed 6.  Warner ( Shatter Me by Taherah Mafi) Amber and Stacey @ Page Turners


INDIE
Seed 1.  Dank Walker (Existence by Abbi Glines) Michelle @ Flick Picks
Seed 2.  Dante Walker (The Collector by Victoria Scott) Jessica @ Just A Booklover
Seed 3.  Micah (Mythology by Helen Boswell) Laura @ Little Read Riding Hood 
Seed 4.  Chase Williams (Protector Series by M.R. Merrick) Valerie @ Stuck In Books
Seed 5.  Elias (One by Leigh Ann Kopans) Louisse @ The Soul Sisters
Seed 6.  Torin St. James (Runes by Ednah Walters) Catie @ Forbidden Passions Reviews   


REALISTIC
Seed 1.  Aiden Arrington (Keatyn Chronicles by Jillian Dodd) Ellen @ Always YA at Heart
Seed 2.  Augustus Waters (The Fault in Our Stars by John Green) Sam @ Book Crazed Reviews 
Seed 3.  Etienne St. Clair (Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins) Avery @ Avery's Book Nook
Seed 4.  Jase (My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick) Amanda @ Stuck In YA Books 
Seed 5.  Adam (If I Stay by Gayle Forman) Paige @ Nobody Asked Me
Seed 6.  Alex (Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles) Rachel @ Beauty and the Bookshelf

DEBUT
Seed 1. Kaidan (Sweet Evil by Wendy Higgins) Kayleigh @ K-Books 
Seed 2.  Noah (Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry) Gabbi @ Book Breather
Seed 3.  Perry (Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi) Nikki @ Fiction Freak
Seed 4.  Maxon (Selection by Kiera Cass) Bridget @ Dark Faerie Tales
Seed 5.  Tristan (Shark Bait (Grab Your Pole Series) by Jenn Cooksey) Angela @ Reading Angel
Seed 6.  Cole (Everneath by Brodie Ashton) Jessica @ Step Into Fiction

The Wild Cards (all 7 seeds)
Noah Shaw (Mara Dyer series by Michelle Hodkin) Sara @ The Page Sage 
Ash (The Iron Fey Series by Julie Kagawa) Caitlin @ The YA Bookworm
Caleb (Significance by Shelly Crane) Catarina @ Reading and Things
The Darkling (Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo) Emily @ Falling For YA


YA Crush Tourney #3 Schedule

This year instead of having 1 through  28 seeds, we had 6 seeds from these categories: Speculative, Realistic, Indie and Debut.  Then 4 Wild Card Seeds were chosen through a public vote, and they are all 7 seeds.

Round #1 (The 4, #1 seeds have a BYE in Round 1)

Wednesday, June 12th
Match #1: Maxon(4) vs Patch(5)
Match #2: Micah(3) vs Alex(6)

Friday, June 14th
Match #3: Augustus(2) vs Noah S.(7)
Match #4: Dimitri(4) vs Adam W.(5)

Monday, June 17th
Match #5: Perry(3) vs Torin St. James(6)
Match #6: Dante Walker(2) vs The Darkling(7)

Wednesday, June 19th
Match #7: Jase(4) vs Elias(5)
Match #8: Four(3) vs Cole(6)

Friday, June 21st
Match #9:  Noah H. (2) vs. Ash (7)

Match #10: Chase W.(4) vs Tristan(5)

Monday, June 24th
Match #11: Etienne St. Clair(3) vs Warner(6)
Match #12: Will H.(2) vs Caleb(7)

Round #2: THE SEXY SIXTEEEN!

Wednesday, June 26th
Match #13: Daemon(1) vs winner of Match #1
Match #14: Aiden A.(1) vs winner of Match #4

Friday, June 28th
Match #15: Dank Walker(1) vs winner of Match #7
Match #16: Kaidan(1) vs winner of Match #10

Monday, July 1st
Match #17: winner of Match #2 vs winner of Match #3
Match #18: winner of Match #5 vs winner of Match #6

Wednesday, July 3rd
Match #19: winner of Match #8 vs winner of Match #9
Match #20: winner of Match #11 vs winner of Match #12

Round #3: THE EXCELLENT EIGHT
Friday, July 5th
Match #21: winner of Match #13 vs winner of Match #17

Monday, July 8th
Match #22: winner of Match #14 vs winner of Match #18

Wednesday, July 10th
Match #23: winner of Match #15 vs winner of Match #19

Friday, July 12th
Match #24: winner of Match #16 vs winner of Match #20

Round #4: THE FINE FOUR

Monday, July 15th
Match #25: winner of Match #21 vs winner of Match #22

Wednesday, July 17th
Match #26: winner of Match #23 vs winner of Match #24

THE FINALE

Friday, July 19th
Match #27: winner of Match #25 vs winner of Match #26


The YA Crush Tourney #3 Bracket
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