Over the course of the last week, you have nominated 18 truly vile morally reprehensible individuals for the coveted Torquemada Award for the most despicable human being alive. We've decided to change the format of the elimination rounds slightly. We'll have a series of head-to-head knockout rounds involving the top 16 nominees until we have a winner.
Based on your votes during the nomination round, here are the 16 candidates who will make it to the knockout stage:
1. George W. Bush (58 Points)
For murdering a million civilians in Iraq, bankrupting the US economy, eroding civil liberties, shredding the constitution, stealing elections, undermining democracy, lying to the American people, destroying the nation's credibility, re-igniting the cold war, legitimizing torture, destroying the world image of America even worse than it already had been, going into a war by trickery, and staying in a war against his nation's will.
2. Pope Benedict XVI (12 Points)
For exacerbating the HIV/AIDS epidemic through continuing ban on condoms, providing shelter to paedophile priests, justifying the persecution of Galileo, promoting religious intolerance and trying to take the world back to the dark ages.
3. Eric Prince (11 Points)
For founding a mercenary army (Blackwater) that is murdering civilians in Iraq with impunity.
4. Vladimir Putin (8 Points)
For undermining Russia's fledgling democracy, killing journalists covering the atrocities in Chechnya including Anna Politkovskaya, using gas supplies to browbeat neighbors, abusing his "elected" position and misappropriating (for his own personal gain) some $40 billion of state assets rightfully belonging to the Russian people, for directly or tacitly approving the murder of Alexandr Litvinenko in London and other state-sponsored criminal activities.
5. Benjamin Netenyahu (8 Points)
For being the most dangerous man in the world, and his ties to 9/11 and 7/7.
6. Than Shwe (7 Points)
For being the head of military junta that as running an oppressive dictatorship in Burma, and keeping the rightful leader Aung San Suu Kyii under detention.
7. Nancy Pelosi (7 Points)
For running on a platform of antiwar promises and backing down at any opportunity to do so, and being spineless in general and continuing to talk in platitudes while caving to the opposition whenever conflict occurs.
8. Dick Cheney (6 Points)
For unspecified reasons.
9. Robert Mugabe (6 Points)
For destroying the economy of Zimbabwe, and for emptying the bread basket of Africa.
10. Tom Cruise (5 Points)
For being the public face of the evil cult of Scientology that has destroyed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around the world.
11. Alan Greenspan (4 Points)
For creating the housing bubble, indirectly causing the foreclosure of countless middle-class homes and causing a depression/recession in the US that has the potential to cause a global economic downturn.
12. Atal Biharee Vajpayee (3 Points)
For attempting to destroy the secular nature of the Indian society, ignoring the plight of India's poor millions, large scale corruption, stirring ethnic and religious tensions culminating in genocide against Muslims
13. George H. W. Bush (3 Points)
For having offspring, and for the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the overthrow of the lawful government of the United States, and responsibility for all of the War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity of the resulting unlawful regime since 1963.
14. Hillary Clinton (3 Points)
For supporting Bush's genocidal war in Iraq, passing legislation harmful to civil liberties, clamoring for war against Iran, and being willing to do just about anything to snatch the US Presidency
15. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang (3 Points)
For denying the AIDS crises and promoting beetroot as a cure.
16. Kim Jong Il (1 Point)
For starving millions of his people to death while igniting an arms race in the region.
The Schedule for the knockout rounds
All competitions will run from Monday 1200GMT to Sunday 1800GMT. Once the competition gets underway, you will be able to click through to the competition page.
The round of 16
1. George W. Bush (23 points) defeated Kim Jong Il (0 points) (25 Feb - 2 Mar)
2. Pope Benedict XVI (31 points) defeated Manto Tshabalala-Msimang (5 points) ( 3 Mar - 9 Mar)
3. Eric Prince vs. Hillary Clinton (10 Mar - 16 Mar)
4. Vladimir Putin vs. George H. W. Bush (17 Mar - 23 Mar)
5. Benjamin Netenyahu vs. Atal Biharee Vajpayee (24 Mar - 30 Mar)
6. Than Schwe vs. Alan Greenspan (31 Mar - 6 Apr)
7. Nancy Pelosi vs. Tom Cruise (7 Apr - 13 Apr)
8. Dick Cheney vs. Robert Mugabe (14 Apr - 20 Apr)
The quarter finals
1. Winner of (1) vs. Winner of (8) (21 Apr - 27 Ap
2. Winner of (2) vs. Winner of (7) (28 Apr - 4 May)
3. Winner of (3) vs. Winner of (6) (5 May - 11 May)
4. Winner of (4) vs. Winner of (5) (12 May - 18 May)
The semi finals
1. Winner of (1) vs. Winner of (4) (19 May - 25 May)
2. Winner of (2) vs. Winner of (3) (26 May - 1 Jun)
The final
Winner of (1) vs. Winner of (2) (2 Jun - 8 Jun)
The winner will be announced at 1800GMT on Sunday 8 June
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