At last, we have our final four! Head over to Challonge to see who’s left or click the Continue Reading button below.
Game of Thrones and X-Men actress Sophie Turner has had a fairly easy run of it thus far, cruising through the early rounds against CSWL favourite Natalie Sawyer, some kinda athlete Madison Keys, Heroes star Hayden Panettiere (whose surname I almost never spell correctly the first time), and Irish TV presenter Laura Whitmore, before narrowly beating Scarlett Johannson 55-51.
Her opponent for this star is Hollywood starlet Emma Stone, who soundly defeated UFC fighter Joanna Jędrzejczyk in round 1 before embarking on an elimination spree of loads of big names with a lot of potential: Christina Hendricks, Emma Watson, Katy Perry and Taylor Swift. Pop/former country star Swift proved to be the closest match yet: 51-46.
Option A in the other matchup is Marvel, Jumanji and ex-Doctor Who actress Karen Gillan, the only former champion who could take the crown this year. Her wins have all been fairly convincing too, beating Evanescence’s Amy Lee, fellow actress Anne Hathaway, two singer-actresses in a row in the form of Ariana Grande and Hailee Steinfeld, and one of the GGP’s biggest rising stars in the form of Peyton List (the younger) in the last round. Her tightest win was against Anne Hathaway back in round two – if you consider a 30-22 win to be tight.
Rounding out the bracket is Hunger Games actress Jennifer Lawrence. After two fairly easy wins against MMA fighter/Hype Contest pie slide volunteer Paige VanZant and actress Carey Mulligan, she then eliminated reigning champion Margot Robbie and former champion Jenna Coleman in succession. Just to top it off, she wiped out CSWL favourite Pixie Lott in the last round. That’s not to say it’s all been smooth sailing for her, and Jenna Coleman in round 4 only lost by a single vote – 39-38.
Hype Contest is still open for funniest reasons and most impassioned reasons, so drop three reasons for why a particular nominee (any of the 128) is your dream gungee in the comments if you want. However, there’s something a bit more important to talk about in the comments too – what exactly we’re going to do with the winner in the main story contest. The only stipulation is that it has to be something that could reasonably appear on a pre-watershed mainstream TV show of some kind.
One last thing: