The IAT Play-In Artist SubTournament

The SubTournament Play-In Results

As of May 25, 2013.

The logistics of the Play-In SubTournament are revealed below, if you're into that.


Phase 1 Winners:

1. Jean Baptiste Oudry -- 1.000 (First Place, Flight 9)
2. Remedios Varo (First Place, Flight 3) -- .917
3. Kris Kuksi (First Place, Flight 1) -- .867
4. Abelardo Morell (First Place, Flight 8) -- .818
5. Timothy Ely (First Place, Flight 7) -- .813
6. Olafur Eliasson (First Place, Flight 2) -- .800
6. The Mysterious Book Artist in Scotland (First Place, Flight 6) -- .800
6. Ernst Haeckel (Second Place, Flight 1) -- .800
9. Nicholas Roerich (First Place, Flight 5) -- .769
10. Geertgen tot Sint Jans (Second Place, Flight 3) -- .750
11. Ansel Adams (First Place (tie), Flight 4) -- .733
11. M.C. Escher (First Place (tie), Flight 4) -- .733
11. Adolphe William Bouguereau (Second Place, Flight 2) -- .733
11. Hans Heysen (Second Place, Flight 6) -- .733
15. Pavel Filinov (Second Place, Flight 9) -- .727
16. Theo Jansen (Second Place, Flight 5) -- .692
17. Maskull Lasserre (Second Place (tie), Flight 7) -- .688
17. Andres Amador (Second Place (tie), Flight 7) -- .688
19. Saul Steinburg (Second Place (tie), Flight 8) -- .636
19. David Mach (Second Place (tie), Flight 8) -- .636
21. Adolf Wolfli (Third Place, Flight 6) -- .600
21. Banksy (Third Place, Flight 2) -- .600
23. Pieter Saendredam (Third Place, Flight 3) -- .583
24. Dorothea Lange -- (Third Place (tie), Flight 5) -- .538
24. Norman Rockwell -- (Third Place (tie), Flight 5) -- .538
26. Charles A.A. Dellschau (Third Place, Flight 1) -- .533
27. Sharon Johnstone (Third Place (tie), Flight 4) -- .467
27. Robert Smithson (Third Place (tie), Flight 4) -- .467
29. Baptiste Debombourg (Third Place (tie), Flight 9) -- .455
29. Clifford Tjapaltjarri (Third Place (tie), Flight 9) -- .455
29. Pierre Alechinsky (Third Place (tie), Flight 9) -- .455

Flight 10 closes June 22, 2013.
Flight 11 closes late July, 2013.
Flight 12 will kick off June 20.

Phase 2 begins in or around August, 2013.

SubTournament Rules and Logistics

Phase 1:  96 nominees will compete in 12 flights of eight artists apiece between July 2012 and June 2013.  These flights have been designated and internally ordered by a random number generator.  Each voter may identify up to four preferred artists per flight.  All SubTournament flights will be kept open for voting for approximately two months.

Phase 2 (Updated 3/16/13): Artists will be ranked according to their number of votes received as a percentage of all votes cast in their initial flight. The first-, second-, and third-place artists in each flight will advance. The 36 artists so selected will be grouped by "serpentine seeding" into a new 12 flights of three artists apiece. six new flights of six artists apiece. These seeded contests should begin about August 2013 and continue through the Summer beginning of 2014. Each voter will have a single vote up to two votes in Phase 2.

Update 12/26/12: Somehow at least one third-place tie in Phase 1 will have to be dealt with.  We'll decide how that's going to work once we see how many of them we have to deal with. 

Phase 3:The first-place and second-place artists in each Phase 2 flight will enter the regular tournament in the first round versus artists that tied in their initial first-round contests.  These matches will occupy the first of the four matches in each bracket cluster of eight, as needed and available, with the first available artist in each category (formerly tied artists and successful play-in artists) selected according to alphabetical order.  The first such match should occur in or around October 2013, with the winner of the first Phase 2 flight taking on Andre Beauneveu, the "upper" of the first pair of artists to fight to a tie in the first round.