News:MixedCandy, Arend lead Fracas picks

April Nominations for the Fandom's Favorite Fursuit Fracas have closed, with 326 fursuit characters proposed for the 2009 event - an 11% increase over 2008. Voting for the knockout tournament will begin once all nominees have been contacted for their permission.

Last year's event ended with a landslide victory by Nevermint's Jäger from One Fur All Studios, who attracted 319 votes in the last round to Greifer's 195 (Tilt Longtail/Jax). In 2007 — the first year in which the tournament was held — Frazzle (Rose Quoll/self-made) beat Sophie Cabra (MixedCandy) in a close 135-122 final. Many now turn to full-time costume makers for their suits, with professional mascot builders MixedCandy and Arend Studios each responsible for twice the entries of any other individual builder. Still, the top five account for less than 40% of the total, and just over half the nominees were created by builders outside the top ten.
 * Top 10 builder nominations
 * 1) MixedCandy - 41 (12.93%)
 * 2) Arend Studios - 34 (10.73%)
 * 3) Furr Happens - 16 (5.05%)
 * 4) B3Mascots - 14 (4.42%)
 * 5) One Fur All - 14 (4.42%)
 * 6) Don't Hug Cacti - 13 (4.10%)
 * 7) Lacy - 10 (3.15%)
 * 8) White Wolf - 7 (2.21%)
 * 9) Kodi - 6 (1.89%)
 * 10) Noble Wolf - 6 (1.89%)

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