How it works
The contest for the crust.
Pizzagon is pizza plus agon — Greek for contest, the public games. Say it as one word. Eight shops, three days, one champion. Then the next city.
The rules
Each city gets eight shops. Day one is four quarter-finals. Day two is two semis: winner of QF1 against winner of QF2, winner of QF3 against winner of QF4. Day three is the final.
Each round stays open for one day. The shop with more votes advances when the round closes. You vote once per match. A tie goes to the higher seed — the better field score, the lower seed number.
New York is first. The next city is a sequel, added as data: one city, eight contenders, a start time. No new code.
The New York bell
Times below are the scheduled windows. Your clock is filled in by the browser; New York time is on the line under it.
- Day 1 · Quarter-finals
Opens Wed, Nov 11, 1:00 AM UTC UTC
New York: Tue, Nov 10, 8:00 PM EST – Wed, Nov 11, 8:00 PM EST - Day 2 · Semi-finals
Opens Thu, Nov 12, 1:00 AM UTC UTC
New York: Wed, Nov 11, 8:00 PM EST – Thu, Nov 12, 8:00 PM EST - Day 3 · Final
Opens Fri, Nov 13, 1:00 AM UTC UTC
New York: Thu, Nov 12, 8:00 PM EST – Fri, Nov 13, 8:00 PM EST
The house can move the start, or open and close a round by hand. Once a start exists, the clock is the referee.
How the eight were picked
The field weighs popularity, taste, and online presence equally, one shop per brand, flagship only. Popularity is a log of review counts. Taste is public stars, stretched so the serious shops don’t all look the same, plus critic lists. Online is Instagram where a count was verified, plus media. A missing number was dropped, never invented and never scored as zero.
Scarr’s finished ninth at 61.5, the first shop outside the bracket. Shops with an unverified Instagram count were not given a fake follower total. The full receipts sit on each shop’s page, with the source next to the number.
L’Industrie is the 1 seed. Lucali is the 8. That is the opening match, and it is rude on purpose.
One vote, then the door
The browser remembers your pick. The server also refuses a second ballot from the same hashed IP and user agent, and from the same browser id, on that match. There is a short rate limit. A human check can be switched on later. It is off unless the house turns it on.
Share a match and the post is already written: two names, the hook, the link, #Pizzagon. The brand account to claim is @pizzagon.