We had some great exciting and stressful battles in round 2.

Number 1 ranked Barn Owl dropped to one of our surprise newcomers, Buffy Fish, who is currently neck and neck with fellow winner Little Owl. Little Owl has been dominating the South Pacific division, taking out Ruru/Morepork and the Barking Owl. Fellow owl from down under, the goths of the Tyto genus, the Sooty Owls also came up short this week to Blakiston’s Fish Owl.

Flammulated Owl is on fire at the moment, after having late upset victories over 2 of the all time Greats: the Great Horned and the Great Grey. Tomorrow though, we’ve got Fire vs Ice as the Flammulated Owl goes up against possibly its toughest challenge yet, the Snowy Owl! It’s a battle of the Elemental Owls you’re not going to want to miss!

Burrowing Owl and White Faced Scops also took some easy wins, but now they must face each other. Both have had a pretty easy go of things up to this point, but they’re going to need to get serious tomorrow. Screech Owl is in a pretty dominating position of the Big F’n Owl right now, so whichever owl wins between Burrow and Scops isn’t going to get any rest before facing another serious challenge.

Tomorrow is going to be intense, but then we will be down to our final 4 before crowning our winners this weekend! This is still any owl’s chance to win, nothing but strong contenders are left.

How do you see the rest of this playing out?

What has been your biggest surprise so far?

I’ve seen some of you change opinions and get behind the owls that defeated your original choices, and some others are forming some outspoken fan clubs.

The one thing we can say for sure is that fish owls as a group have gained some serious popularity here, and we’ll be seeing much more of them next year! Also some more in depth analysis of the little brown owl club so you can learn about more of the differences between them.

      • anon6789@lemmy.worldOP
        4·
        11 months ago

        This owl has so much net cred for yeeeeears. He’s looking good, but you’ve all shown me you’re full of surprises with the voting!

    • anon6789@lemmy.worldOP
      9·
      11 months ago

      It is going so fast for me.

      I hope you guys keep up the participation even after it’s over. It’s been fun seeing everyone socialize in here.

        • anon6789@lemmy.worldOP
          6·
          11 months ago

          You’re tired of politics and people yelling “FOSS or nothing!!!” at you??? 😁

          I’ll have to whip up OwLinux soon before I get banned.

          I mostly kid, but this is where I’ve been spending most of my Lemmy time lately. A lot is just feeling like things we already talked about on Reddit. With everyone being engaged with each other here the last 2 weeks, this place has been a heck of a lot of fun. I’m glad to see some of you start posting too. I told you it wasn’t hard!

  • onigiri@lemm.ee
    5·
    11 months ago

    I was really hoping for an all Tyto final. I knew it was a long shot for Sooty to make it that far, but I was shocked when Barn Owl lost. 😢

    I expect Snowy to be the big winner, but Flammy has momentum and precedent for taking down big owls… 🤔

    • anon6789@lemmy.worldOP
      5·
      11 months ago

      Barn Owl I couldn’t believe didn’t make it to at least the semi-finals.

      Sooty had gotten such momentum that I thought it would have easily beat BFO too.

      You guys have surprised me so many times I have no clue who’s going to win. If it comes to Burrow vs Screech next, I think that will be a tough one. Ever since we got to Round 2, most of these races have been tight. It’s been legitimately exciting to watch some of these play out.

    • anon6789@lemmy.worldOP
      4·
      11 months ago

      Flammy has WELL exceeded expectations thus far! Really happy to see this little cutie get wider recognition.

    • anon6789@lemmy.worldOP
      6·
      11 months ago

      Stopping the Snowy isn’t going to be easy! There’s been a big movement to find “new” owls to lead the way forward though.