Alexander 100%.

FDR

obiwan - Mozart was my nomination. You might want to check yours again

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FDR

Alexander, but only just

Maybe the greatest thing about this thread is seing how people are shiting on the greatest people in history.

Alexander

FDR: 5
Alexander: 13
How did I manage to forget obi started this tournament?

obi, NME, goldie, Sulram, ghug, vamosrammstein, Jeff Kuta, Tolstoy, James, and I still have our nominations in this tournament.

I still have Borlaug. Somehow.

Alexander's empire may have fallen apart, but Macedonian Greeks still had serious control of certain places for a time. The Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt was started by one of Alexander's bodyguards and continued for 300 years until Cleopatra died and Egypt was conquered by Rome. The ruling family of Egypt wouldn't have been without Alexander.

Alexander

FDR revolutionised the US, World Politics, singlehandedly ripped apart Nazi Germany, Mussolini and Japan, ended colonialism, left the largest empire and richest empire ever, managed to concentrate more than half of the worlds power in one single pair of hands, won 4 times the highest office in the world and outruled Alexander by several months not by blood, fear and terror, but by delivering more than he promised,… – and all this being physically impaired. you can't seriously not vote for him, unless for uncalled for wannabe generals' romanticism.

I vote FDR only although X3's reasoning is a little extreme FDR was very important to global history, I feel that if alexander didnt do it some other world leader would have where as FDR proposed relatively new ideas and got them through, so I do not feel anyone would have matched him.(If hitler was still in then he would beat FDR on a leadership scale)

Alexander would have done a hell of a lot more than he did if infectious disease didn't kill his military advantage when he crossed into the tropics and then kill him.

FDR: 6
Alexander: 14

Alexander dropped the vote bomb on FDR's chances of winning, and now my nomination is going on to the quarterfinals.

Remaining Historical Figures:

Leaders:
10. Augustus
19. Napoleon Bonaparte
*24. Alexander the Great

Artists:
26. William Shakespeare
27. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
28. Johann Sebastian Bach
32. J.R.R. Tolkien

Scientists/Inventors:
6. Aristotle
9. Nikola Tesla
10. Norman Borlaug
13. Albert Einstein

Wild Card:
1. Buddha
10. Jesus
11. Rene Descartes
29. Benjamin Franklin

New Matchup:

Artists: J.R.R. Tolkien vs Johann Sebastian Bach

Updated brackets:
http://challonge.com/webDipGreatestLeaderBrackett
http://challonge.com/webDipGreatestArtistBrackett
http://challonge.com/webDipGreatestScientistBrackett
http://challonge.com/webDipGreatestWildCardBrackett

"FDR proposed relatively new ideas and got them through" Tell that to Keynes, the Progressives, and Hoover.

Gotta say Tolkien in the matchup of artistic legends.

bach, obviously.

Bach. This shouldn't even be close.

Bach

Bach

Bach

Both great. Tolkien definitely cooler though.

Bach

I stand corrected on the Mozart bit.

Has to be Bach here...though that saddens me, that it's Bach vs. Tolkien...since that means the OTHER Artists match-up will be between...! :O

Bach

Bach

Tolkein.