6th Annual BSC Book Tournament – A Taste of The Hunger Games

Do you love The Hunger Games? Well so do we, so in honor of the series and upcoming film adaptation, we have made our 6th Annual BSC Book Tournament feature YA Dystopian Novels. We call it… A Taste of the Hunger Games! We have 32 dystopian novels that were released in 2011 that will do battle for one to become the winner. The March Madness style competition is being hosted by our sister site, Optionated.

The rules are these: eligibility is determined by a book being published for the first time in 2011, in the science fiction or fantasy genre, YA inclusive (anthologies are only considered if they are not reprints). The selected contestants are bracketed out into four groups; within each bracket the seeds are matched highest to lowest, and a voting poll is put up on our website. The poll will remain open the designated length of time, and winners are determined strictly by the highest number of votes.  The winners of each round of voting will be matched to their next opponent on a pre-designated schedule (to be announced at the end of this week, in advance of any match-ups). Repeat the steps until we have four bracket champions, who will then play against one another to determine which books proceed to the consolation round, and which to the championship.

Because, as with Highlander, in the end there can be only one.

Round one began today by pitting the Global Catastrophe bracket against the Future Apocalypse Bracket!

If you would like to begin voting in the competition by clicking here. Each page will have a link at the bottom that connects you to the next match-up for a total of 8 today.

You can see the list of novels included below:

Future Apocalypse Bracket

1. Incarceron – Catherine Fisher
2. Ship Breaker – Paolo Bacigalupi
3. Birthmarked – Caragh M. O’Brien
4. Fever Crumb – Philip Reeve
5. Legend – Marie Lu
6. The Death Cure – James Dashner
7. Across The Universe – Beth Revis
8. All These Things I’ve done – Gabrielle Zevin

Global Catastrophe Bracket

1. Epitaph Road – David Patneaude
2. The Eleventh Plague – Jeff Hirsch
3. Enclave – Ann Aguirre
4. Wither – Lauren Destefano
5. Awaken – Katie Kacvinksky
6. Ashes – Ilsa Bick
7. Delirium – Lauren Oliver
8. Eve – Anna Carey

Female Lead Bracket

1. Uglies – Scott Westerfeld
2. Matched – Ally Condie
3. The Line – Teri Hall
4. 21 Erased – Barbara Rayne
5. Helper 12 – Jack Blaine
6. Divergent – Veronica Roth
7. Dark Parties – Sara Grant
8. Bumped –  Megan McCafferty

Male Lead Bracket

1. The Scorpio Races – Maggie Stiefvater
2. The Gardener – S.A. Bodeen
3. Ashfall – Mike Mullin
4. Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
5. The Water Wars – Cameron Statcher
6. Dark Life – Kat Falls
7. Vortex – Robert Charles Wilson
8. Dark Inside – Jeyn Roberts