One of the nice things about the NCAA college basketball tournament is the breather the competition builds in between rounds. Unless you’re a diehard college basketball fan, you’ve had a reprieve the past few days from people saying ridiculous things like the Big Dance, bracketology and dribble penetration.

However, while basketball’s Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight will play out this weekend, MySpace’s Greatest Female Avenger Sweet Sixteen Tournament is winding down to its conclusion.

Earlier this week, we seeded 16 superheroines who have been members of Marvel Comics superhero team, the Avengers, and had them face off against one another based on their character traits, popularity and legacy. The winners of those first two rounds have moved on to our Final Four. (For those wondering why we’re doing this now, it’s because of reasons and more reasons.)

As we reach the end of the competition, it’s clear that the remaining Avengers are pretty even and worthy of holding the title of Greatest Female Avenger. That’s why we’ve added two new competitive components—Best Fight and Best Moment—in order to determine a winner. (Plus, we’ve got to make this interesting for you to read, right?)

So finish filling out the rest of your bracket, place your bets with your bookie and read on to find out who is the Greatest Female Avenger.

Agree or disagree with the seedings and the results? Who do you think should take home the title? Leave your thoughts and opinions about the bracket in the comments section.  And don’t forget to check out how the first part of our Greatest Female Avengers Tournament turned out.

FINAL FOUR

AVENGERS MANSION BRACKET

(3) SHE-HULK

She-Hulk serves up some knuckle sandwiches in Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #7. Written by Jim Shooter and illustrated by Mike Zeck and John Beatty. (Marvel)

Best Fight: Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #7. After the Wrecking Crew killed and then cruelly tossed the corpse of the Wasp (don’t worry, she got better) in front of the Battleworld-stranded heroes during the Secret Wars, She-Hulk disobeyed Captain America’s orders and went looking for revenge. In fact, she became a one-woman wrecking crew in her own right.

(4) SPECTRUM

Spectrum blasts her way through the bad guys in Nextwave: Agents of HATE #11. Written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Stuart Immonen. (Marvel)

Best Fight: Nextwave: Agents of HATE #11. Spectrum leads her Nextwave teammates through the death traps that litter the corridors of the evil Beyond Corporation’s floating State 51 base of operations. And yes, those death traps include Elvis-MODOK (Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing) hybrids, Wolverine monkeys and weaponized Stephen Hawkings.   

WHO ADVANCES? Honestly, this really is too close to call, with each fight having a bit of a downside. She-Hulk’s battle is pretty badass, but Titania (the blonde who catches She-Hulk cracking the Wrecking Crew’s heads) ends up knocking her around, and she’s beaten within an inch of her life by the rest of the bad guys. And while Spectrum is doing a fine job blasting through the Beyond Corporation’s weird-ass mutations, she does have the benefit of receiving helping hands from her super-powered colleagues. 

Guess that can only mean one thing: overtime.

OVERTIME ROUND

She-Hulk (vol. 1) #1 shows there’s nothing worse than a supervillain who can’t hold his liquor. Written by Dan Slott and illustrated by Juan Bobillo. (Marvel Comics)

(3) SHE-HULK

Best Fight, OT: She-Hulk (vol. 1) #1. Sometimes a superheroine’s best weapons can be a healthy sense of ennui and a healthy liver. Instead of engaging in fisticuffs with the Blizzard, She-Hulk lets the beer do all the work, which comes as a relief to the bar owner’s insurance premiums.

(4) SPECTRUM

Best Fight, OT: Nextwave: Agents of HATE #12. For background, a baby MODOK is what happens when “a MODOK and a MODAM [Mental Organism Designed for Aggressive Maneuvers] made sweet monkey love by the light of a rack of World of Warcraft servers.” So when the baby MODOK lunges at Spectrum, she responds in the only sane and reasonable way: She knocks it down.

Spectrum adds a new dimension to the spanking debate when she smacks around a baby MODOK in Nextwave: Agents of HATE #12. Written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Stuart Immonen. (Marvel Comics)

WHO ADVANCES? She-Hulk. It’s close again, but She-Hulk’s quick wits beat out Spectrum’s quick reaction time by a hair.

AVENGERS TOWER BRACKET

(1) BLACK WIDOW

Best Fight: Daredevil (vol. 1) #188. Black Widow puts down a mob of secret agents easily, even though she’s outnumbered and slowly dying from being poisoned. You know, as badasses are wont to do.

Black Widow shows that good secret agent help is hard to find in Daredevil (vol. 1) #188. Written by Frank Miller and illustrated by Klaus Janson. (Marvel Comics)

(2) CAPTAIN MARVEL

Best Fight: Captain Marvel (2012) #7. What setup do you need? She’s beating the chum out of a shark with another friggin’ shark.

If they ever make a sequel to Deep Blue Sea, a variation on this scene from Captain Marvel (2012) #7 needs to be in it. (Marvel Comics) 

WHO ADVANCES? Black Widow. As insanely cool as Captain Marvel’s deep sea move is, it loses a bit of its impressiveness given that she has super strength and can shoot energy beams from her hands. But with poison eating through her body, the Widow handles a phalanx of trained professionals like she’s maneuvering through a tourist-choked sidewalk in Times Square.

CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND
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(1) BLACK WIDOW

Best Moment: Marvel’s The Avengers (2012). Up until this point, the examples used in this competition have come from these Avengers’s comic book appearances. But there’s no reason to exclude a heroine’s screentime on TV or in film. Especially when those instances can provide a moment that’s the equivalent of a buzzer-beating, game-winning 3-pointer. That’s the case with this scene of the Black Widow magnificently outclassing Loki aboard S.H.I.E.L.D.’s hellicarrier.

(3) SHE-HULK

1985 has much to answer for, including She-Hulk’s white, faux-tux ensemble in Marvel Graphic Novel #18: The Sensational She-Hulk. Written and illustrated by John Byrne. (Marvel Comics)

Best Moment: Marvel Graphic Novel #18: The Sensational She-Hulk. What’s made She-Hulk so refreshing as a character is how comfortable she is in her gamma-irradiated skin, even though it can draw unwanted and negative attention to her body. But her attitude has always been: This is me, and screw you if you can’t deal with it. Sometimes, the bravest, most heroic thing in life can be accepting ourselves as we are. 

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And the GREATEST FEMALE AVENGER is …: Black Widow. Let’s face it, the team’s resident super-spy is pretty much like Kentucky’s run this year, as it tries to cap off an undefeated season with a championship title. She has all the important elements that make her a great Avenger: a long history on different rosters that’s included leading the team, the respect of her colleagues, a value past her super-skill set, compelling character traits and popularity among fans.  

Of course, she’ll continue to have stiff competition nipping at her heels in the future. Scarlet Witch will be hogging some of the Widow’s movie spotlight when she’s introduced in Marvel’s The Avengers: Age of Ultron in May. An already-popular Captain Marvel is almost guaranteed to make cameos in Age of Ultron and Captain America: Civil War before carrying her own film. And who knows, maybe there’s a new, unknown member waiting in the wings who might emerge from the field to capture the title of Greatest Female Avenger.