Pick Your Girl on Top Tournament Contenders

Determine which of TV's leading ladies will defeat all comers

By Jennifer Godwin Dec 13, 2009 3:59 PMTags
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After we did Alpha Male Madness in March to determine your very favorite TV leading man, many of you requested we do a female version as well. We're launching that tournament today and running it through the holidays. This tournament is tentatively called Girl on Top, but if you have another name suggestion (perhaps one with less sexual inneundo?), please do post it in the comments.

We learned from the first tournament that you guys want some control over who is included in the brackets, so we're offering up 128 of the best female characters on TV for an initital selection round. This means you guys can decide who should be included in Girl on Top and at what rank they enter the initial 64-contestant tournament.

The 128 initial names have been divided into four groups of 32. You should vote for your faves in every group, and we'll automatically include the top 12 names in each group at that rank. We're reserving the last four slots in each group for "editor's choice," which allows for both whismy and for write-in votes to get some play.

Ready...set...go!

Poll

Girl on Top, Pre-Tournament Selection

Group 1
Addison Montgomery Forbes (Kate Walsh), Private Practice
7.5%
Adelle DeWitt (Olivia Williams), Dollhouse
5.3%
Alexandra Eames (Kathryn Erbe), Law & Order: Criminal Intent
0.7%
Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies), The Good Wife
2.6%
Allison DuBois (Patricia Arquette), Medium
1.1%
Amanda Tanen (Becki Newton), Ugly Betty
1.5%
Amy Juergens (Shailene Woodley), The Secret Life of the American Teenager
0.5%
Angela Martin (Angela Kinsey), The Office
1.9%
Angela Petrelli (Cristine Rose), Heroes
0.8%
Anna (Morena Baccarin), V
4.7%
Arizona Robbins (Jessica Capshaw), Grey's Anatomy
7.6%
Barb Henrickson (Jeanne Tripplehorn), Big Love
0.7%
Bethenny Frankel, The Real Housewives of New York
0.3%
Betty Draper (January Jones), Mad Men
2.4%
Betty Suarez (America Ferrera), Ugly Betty
1.9%
Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester), Gossip Girl
12.1%
Bree Hodge (Marcia Cross), Desperate Housewives
2.5%
Brenda Lee Johnson (Kyra Sedgwick), The Closer
3.3%
Britta (Gillian Jacobs), Community
1.9%
Brooke Davis (Sophia Bush), One Tree Hill
8.9%
Calleigh Duquesne (Emily Procter), CSI: Miami
1.4%
Callie Torres (Sara Ramirez), Grey's Anatomy
4.3%
Carrie Ann Inaba, Dancing With the Stars
0.2%
Casey Cartwright (Spencer Grammer), Greek
2%
Casey Klein (Lizzy Caplan), Party Down
0.6%
Cat Deeley, So You Think You Can Dance
3.4%
Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger), CSI
2.1%
Celia Hodes (Elizabeth Perkins), Weeds
1%
Charlotte King (KaDee Strickland), Private Practice
1.4%
Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack), Smallville
13.6%
Christina Hawthorne (Jada Pinkett Smith), Hawthorne
0.4%
Christine Campbell (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), The New Adventures of Old Christine
1.2%
Group 2
Claire Dunphy (Julie Bowen), Modern Family
2.6%
Claire Littleton (Emilie de Ravin), Lost
1.8%
Claudia Joy Holden (Kim Delaney), Army Wives
0.5%
Cristina Yang (Sandra Oh), Grey's Anatomy
9.6%
Debra Morgan (Jennifer Carpenter), Dexter
3%
Denise Sherwood (Catherine Bell), Army Wives
0.7%
Echo/Caroline (Eliza Dushku), Dollhouse
6.3%
Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev), The Vampire Diaries
6.1%
Ella Sims (Katie Cassidy), Melrose Place
2.1%
Emily Kmetko (Chelsea Hobbs), Make It or Break It
0.5%
Emily Prentiss (Paget Brewster), Criminal Minds
4.7%
Emma Pillsbury (Jayma Mays), Glee
8.5%
Erica Evans (Elizabeth Mitchell), V
5.4%
Fiona Glenanne (Gabrielle Anwar), Burn Notice
3.8%
Gabrielle Solis (Eva Longoria Parker), Desperate Housewives
3.4%
Gemma Teller Morrow (Katey Sagal), Sons of Anarchy
3.4%
Gillian Foster (Kelli Williams), Lie to Me
1.7%
Gloria Delgado-Pritchett (Sofia Vergara), Modern Family
1.5%
Grace Hanadarko (Holly Hunter), Saving Grace
0.9%
Grace Van Pelt (Amanda Righetti), The Mentalist
1.6%
Haley James Scott (Bethany Joy Galeotti), One Tree Hill
6.2%
Heidi Klum, Project Runway
2.3%
Hilda Suarez (Ana Ortiz), Ugly Betty
0.8%
Izzie Stevens (Katherine Heigl), Grey's Anatomy
4.8%
Jackie Peyton (Edie Falco), Nurse Jackie
0.8%
Jenny Humphrey (Taylor Momsen), Gossip Girl
1.2%
Jessica Hamby (Deborah Ann Woll), True Blood
1.8%
Joan Holloway Harris (Christina Hendricks), Mad Men
4.6%
Juliet O'Hara (Maggie Lawson), Psych
2.3%
Kahlan Amnell (Bridget Regan), Legend of the Seeker
4.1%
Kara DioGuardi, American Idol
0.5%
Kat Stratford (Lindsey Shaw), 10 Things I Hate About You
2.6%
Group 3
Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly), Lost
7.4%
Kate Beckett (Stana Katic), Castle
8%
Katherine Mayfair (Dana Delany), Desperate Housewives
0.3%
Kendra Wilkinson, Kendra
0.9%
Kim Kardashian, Keeping Up With the Kardashians
1.2%
Kitty Walker McCallister (Calista Flockhart), Brothers & Sisters
1.3%
Kristin Cavallari, The Hills
0.6%
Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler), Parks & Recreation
1.2%
Lexie Grey (Chyler Leigh), Grey's Anatomy
3.5%
Lilly Rush (Kathryn Morris), Cold Case
0.8%
Lily Aldrin (Alyson Hannigan), How I Met Your Mother
7.3%
Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein), House
5.8%
Liz Lemon (Tina Fey), 30 Rock
10.8%
Lois Lane (Erica Durance), Smallville
8.3%
Lynette Scavo (Felicity Huffman), Desperate Housewives
1.5%
Margene Heffman (Ginnifer Goodwin), Big Love
0.7%
Mary Shannon (Mary McCormack), In Plain Sight
1.5%
Melinda Gordon (Jennifer Love Hewitt), Ghost Whisperer
1.4%
Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo), Grey's Anatomy
7.4%
Nancy Botwin Reyes (Mary-Louise Parker), Weeds
2.9%
Nancy Carnahan (Anastasia Griffith), Trauma
0.3%
Naomi Bennett (Audra McDonald), Private Practice
1.3%
Nicolette Grant (Chloë Sevigny), Big Love
0.5%
Nora Walker (Sally Field), Brothers & Sisters
1.2%
Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
5.8%
Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv), Fringe
5.2%
P.J. Franklin (Jordana Spiro), My Boys
1.5%
Padma Lakshmi, Top Chef
0.6%
Pam (Kristin Bauer), True Blood
3.7%
Pam Beesley Halpert (Jenna Fischer), The Office
6%
Pamela Moran (Brigid Brannagh), Army Wives
0.5%
Payson Keeler (Ayla Kell), Make It or Break It
0.6%
Group 4
Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss), Mad Men
2.3%
Penny (Kaley Cuoco), The Big Bang Theory
3.7%
Precious Ramotswe (Jill Scott), The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
0.4%
Quinn Fabray (Dianna Agron), Glee
2.2%
Rachel Berry (Lea Michele), Glee
11.4%
Rebecca Harper (Emily Van Camp), Brothers & Sisters
1%
Rita Bennett Morgan (Julie Benz), Dexter
1.2%
Robin Scherbatsky (Cobie Smulders), How I Met Your Mother
2.9%
Roxy LeBlanc (Sally Pressman), Army Wives
0.7%
Sarah Henrickson (Amanda Seyfried), Big Love
0.4%
Sarah Walker (Rachel Griffiths), Brothers & Sisters
1.4%
Sarah Walker (Yvonne Strahovski), Chuck
11.3%
Serena Van der Woodsen (Blake Lively), Gossip Girl
4.4%
Sierra/Priya (Dichen Lachman), Dollhouse
3%
Silver (Jessica Stroup), 90210
2.1%
Sloan McQuewick (Emmanuelle Chriqui), Entourage
0.7%
Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), True Blood
4.8%
Sophie (Evan Rachel Wood), True Blood
0.4%
Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch), Glee
5.5%
Sun Kwon (Yunjin Kim), Lost
3.7%
Susan Mayer (Teri Hatcher), Desperate Housewives
1.5%
Tami Taylor (Connie Britton), Friday Night Lights
3.2%
Tara (Toni Collette), United States of Tara
0.8%
Tara Knowles (Maggie Siff), Sons of Anarchy
2.3%
Tara Thornton (Rutina Wesley), True Blood
0.5%
Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel), Bones
15.4%
Teresa Lisbon (Robin Tunney), The Mentalist
1.1%
Tess Mercer (Cassidy Freeman), Smallville
4.9%
Tyra Banks, America's Next Top Model
0.9%
Veronica Palmer (Portia de Rossi), Better Off Ted
1.5%
Violet Turner (Amy Brenneman), Private Practice
2.6%
Wilhemina Slater (Vanessa Williams), Ugly Betty
1.8%

Did we forget someone you love? Name her in the comments, and she'll automatically become a candidate for one of those write-in slots.

You can vote multiple times—128 names is a lot to sort through—so feel free to circle back and switch votes in any given group. We'll probably wrap this round in the middle of next week. Keep an eye on @kristinalert for announcement of the exact end point.

Other questions or concerns? Hit the comments!

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