❌Defeated: Hippopotamus - Hippopotamus amphibius 🥈🥈🥈 [beat by Brown Rat]

❌Defeated: Orca - Orcinus orca [beat by Housefly]

❌Defeated: Hotwheels sisyphus spider - Hotwheels sisyphus [beat by Saltwater Crocodile]

[⚔️Frontrunner] Saltwater Crocodile - Crocodylus porosus 🥈

🚫Ineligible: Water bear - Milnesium tardigradum

❌Defeated: Ping-Pong Tree Sponge - Chondrocladia concrescens 🥉 [beat by Prehistoric Elephant]

🚫Ineligible: human [I'm shortening this]

Great White Shark - Carcharodon carcharias

Yellow-Lipped Sea Krait - Laticauda colubrina

🚫Ineligible: [This animal was edited in bad faith]

❌Defeated: Cliff Swallow - Petrochelidon pyrrhonota [beat by Elephant]

Platypus  - Ornithorhynchus anatinus 🥉

Giant Nematode - Placentonema gigantissima

Flightless  Elephant Bird  - Aepyornis maximus

Prehistoric Elephant - Palaeoloxodon namadicus 🥉

❌Defeated: Great evening bat - Ia io [beat by Lion]

❌Defeated: Funny valentine spider - Funny valentine [beat by Dermophis donaldtrumpi Caecilian]

❌Defeated: Yi qi dinosaur - Yi qi [beat by Elephant]

❌Defeated: Aha ha wasp - Aha ha [beat by Hippopotamus]

❌Defeated: Cuban Cockroach - Panchlora nivea [beat by Hippopotamus]

Giant Pacific Octopus - Enteroctopus dofleini

❌Defeated: Giant Pterosaur - Quetzalcoatlus northropi [beat by Ping-Pong Tree Sponge]

❌Defeated: Lesser Flamingo - Phoeniconaias minor [beat by Honey Badger]

Sonoran Desert Sidewinder - Crotalus cerastes cercobombus

Western lowland gorilla - Gorilla gorilla gorilla

Eastern lowland gorilla - Gorilla beringei graueri

❌Defeated: Dermophis donaldtrumpi Caecilian - Dermophis donaldtrumpi 🥈[beat by Brownthroated three-toed sloth]

❌Defeated: New World Screwworm - Cochliomyia hominivorax [beat by Hippopotamus]

Brownthroated three-toed sloth - Bradypus variegatus 🥉

[⚔️Underdog] Chinese giant salamander - Andrias davidianus

❌Defeated: Australopithecus - Australopithecus afarensis [beat by Platypus]

I'm not sure what my favorite animal is. Let's decide it by a market! This 

 inspired game will play out in phases. Aside from the Setup phase, expect each phase to last about a day, but I reserve the right to speed up the clock as I deem fit. 

Traders add animals to the market. After the setup phase is complete, traders will no longer be able to add animals to the market. Expect this phase to end some point after 

 resolves. Traders can add as many eligible animals as they wish to the market. To be eligible, add a real, non-microscopic, non-

-genus animal by following the provided formatting:

A subspecies can be specified, but new animals must have a unique genus + species compares to all other animals already listed.

The animal with the highest probability (the “Frontrunner”) and the lowest probability (the “Underdog”) will be selected to do battle. I will declare when the approximate cutoff time for when this selection is. 

Traders can convince me why an animal should win the match up. DO NOT paste an AI / LLM output in the comments. However, I 

 read an AI / LLM conversation if you paste a link to it. 

If an animal loses a battle, it will be marked as "defeated". If an animal wins a battle, that animal will continue on in the tournament, and that animal will have its memory wiped of the battle. We loop back to the Selection phase after a Battle phase if we're not at the last animal. The last animal on the market that isn't defeated and isn't ineligible resolves YES. All others, NO. "Other" will not resolve YES, but it may be a useful answer during the Setup phase. I cannot resolve market answers until the game is over. 

I will award at least 100 mana to the person who adds the animal that wins this tournament. I guarantee no refund of your mana of you add an ineligible animal. 

🥇: Won a battle while 10 or fewer animals remain. (This is awarded instead of a bronze or silver medal.)

There will be no AI clarifications added to this market's description. 

The close date is a placeholder and has no bearing on this market. 

This will be a very subjective market. Expect that 

 will be scuffed, and I will have to fix things on the fly. 