Sad Cat OCT

Summary
Sad Cat OCT opened submissions on the 5th December 2022. The tournament was based on the Warriorcats books. The premise is that a big cat with a small hat has landed in fourtress and is holding a tournament to find the world's saddest cat. The tournament was elimination format and had a requirement for all characters to be cats.

Competitors had 1 week deadlines with a limit of 3 comic pages. In the final round, the page limit was changed to 5 pages.

The OCT ended in February 2023, the winner was Poolnoodle with their character Glowheart.


 * Sad Cat OCT Discord Link
 * Introduction Comic by tytywithasword
 * LAST SAD CAT (Ending Comic) by tytywithasword

Premise
Premise copied from the Sad Cat OCT discord. The official Introduction Comic can be found here. The competitor characters had to be in one of the four clans: KillMurderClan, SewageClan, RabiesClan, and WeedClan. All locations were based on the Warriorcats universe's map. A big cat with a smoll hat has landed at fourtrees and is holding a tournament to find the world's saddest cat. What does he promise as reward for this nebulous competition? There's only one way to find out. ..

🐛This OCT takes place in the warrior cats series (with a few deviations, see lore-n-stuff), however you don't need to stick to the lore! Go wild!

🐛 Each round will take place over a week, with a page limit of 3

🐛 This is an elimination tournament, the winner of each round will move on to the next round and the loser is out for good!

🐛 Each round a location will be given in which your comics will take place, most of these will be from the warrior cats series, with some sort of twist

🐛 Your submission has to be a cat

The Clans:


 * KillMurderClan: once known as the Thunderclan, after realizing that violence is indeed the answer they've renamed and made it thier mission to KILL
 * SewageClan: once known as Riverclan. After large amounts of human expansion to the south the river has become a thick muck. Many of them are born in the sewage, and many never leave
 * RabiesClan: once known as Shadowclan. After a rabies outbreak their only desire is to bite people. They subsist off the blood of their enemies
 * Weedclan: once known as Windclan. After discovering a spicy plant in nearby mountains, theyve become extremely chill.

Judges

 * tytywithasword
 * Dream Weaver
 * rat

Competitors and Competitor Characters

 * Competitor Username - Character Name

Rounds
There were 3 rounds in Sad Cat OCT

Round 1
Round 1 began on 2nd January 2023 and was set in the forest location.

Sici, xx Death Claw Xx, Cross-Eye, Glowheart and Goodbye Kitty won their matchups.

Matchups

 * Sici vs Trash&Can
 * Breadcat vs XX_DeathClaw_XX
 * Cross-Eye vs Captain Catpain Bluntensmoken
 * Scrums vs Glowheart vs Old Man Goldie
 * Goodbye Kitty vs Potato

Round 2
Round 2 began on 18nd January 2023 and was set in the Sewage River location.

Glowheart, Goodbye Kitty and xX Death Claw Xx won their matchups.

Matchups

 * Cross-Eye v Glowheart
 * Honeycat v Goodbye Kitty
 * Sici v xX Death Claw Xx

Round 3
Round 3 was the final round and began on 2nd February 2023 and was set in the Treecut Place location.

Glowheart won their matchup and the tournament.

Matchups

 * Goodbye Kitty vs. Glowheart vs. xX Death Claw Xx

Trivia

 * Goodbye Kitty is a parody of Hello Kitty
 * The Hyperbolic Litterbox is a side tournament to the Sad Cat OCT. Its winner was Mrtheninja with their character Honeycat.
 * The Hyperbolic Litterbox's name originates from the Hyperbolic Late Chamber from the Goku Royale OCT side tournament which in turn is a reference to the Hyberbolic Time Chamber from the Dragon Ball series.