The fifth annual Alpha Showdown is slated to begin May 18. Are you ready?
Your votes selected all 16 of our alphas, and we loved seeing new faces this year! We have fresh blood in the bracket this year including Kaleb (Nalini Singh), Mad Rogan (Ilona Andrews) and Celaena Sardothien (Sarah J. Maas) alongside long-time favorites like Ethan Sullivan (Chloe Neill), Jane Yellowrock (Faith Hunter) and Vlad (Jeaniene Frost).
Basically, you can expect some epic battles this year and a whole lot of new books to add to your to-be-read list.
The 2015 Alpha Showdown launches on May 18. Each battle will be open for two days. We’ll have a giveaway of awesomeness on every round.
Let’s take a look at the bracket (click the picture to enlarge), and see if your favorite characters made it to this year’s Alpha Showdown.
Yeah Jericho is back. But wow Kaleb though. Ohhh this is going to be good. Thank you VBC for having these Battles. They are awesome.
Oh.. these are going to be some hard choices.. May the best Alpha win!
Awwww .. how could Reyes Farrow not make the cut!?!?
The Grimlets may have focused on other favorites this year, since Reyes won last year?
But he is soooo delicious! He should win every year!!!
Mmmm…Kaleb. It’ll be hard to beat the dual cardinal. But I think this year we’ll get a female champ!
I don’t know about a woman winner, just seems to be the regular favourites as far as the women are concerned. Some interesting new men this your though.
Your key at the bottom says that Reyes had the most nominations, but he isn’t in it, so I assume you forgot to change that from last year.
Thanks for the catch, Brenda. I totally missed that. I’ll update. 🙂
YES Slade from the Protectors made the list!!
What is this? You have some of my favorites against each other in the FIRST ROUND?! This year is going to be brutal.
I think it gets more brutal every year.
I’m so happy to see that Gin made it into the bracket this year! Fingers crossed that one of the badass ladies win this year!
OMG!!!
i don’t know who i’ll vote, there are some of my favourites at 1st round?!?! I think i’ll pick a coin ….
I cant wait for the Alpha Showdown!!
There are some tough choices this year (well, every year).
I love alpha showdown!! But I’m biased…. JZB will always be the number one alpha for me! No matter how much I love some of the others.
Their will be hard choices
Man, this one is going to be TOUGH! You’ve got some interesting pairings right off the bat — very curious to see how things get mixed up after the first voting round!
Looks like a good one. Let the games begin!
I Love Ilona Andrews books but I will have to vote for Celena over Mad Rogan. I liked Bones character but no way I can vote against Kate Daniels my favorite female alpha. I am also happy that Gin Blanco got votes. I am only sad my big for 16 seed didn’t make it Sidney from the Bloodline series.
I would have loved to see Sydney Sage in the bracket. She really became stronger and stronger with each book. Maybe next time!
Looking forward to getting started…
Rapheal and Wrath in the same category to start, that is a real tough battle an Archangel and a Master King Vampire that’s an Alpha battle on it’s own!!!
Either it was not meant to be a pattern but the first 5 rounds went by the top seeds until round 5. Not sure if it was on accident or with a reason the match up between Ethan Sullivan (5) vs Kaleb (12). Was skipped for Charles Cornick (6) vs Vlad (11)
It was on purpose. We have to move through each bracket to make sure the matches time out so we have winners for the next rounds. The Kaleb vs. Ethan match will be on Wednesday.