Worst Group Project Role

Everybody has been assigned to these people, and a fair number of us have been one of them, which is the part that makes this bracket slightly uncomfortable to vote in.

The roles here are more specific than the usual complaint allows for. The Ghost is a straightforward problem with a straightforward solution. The Scope Creeper is considerably worse, because the damage arrives disguised as enthusiasm and refusing it makes you the difficult one in the group chat. The Over-Organizer generates work that looks like progress and is not. And The One Who Does Everything is on this list for a reason — that person is not purely a victim of the group so much as an active participant in how it failed, having quietly decided around week two that asking was slower than doing it alone.

It holds thirty-two roles, described rather than illustrated, because everyone already has faces attached to most of them. The bracket is unusually good at producing an uncomfortable moment somewhere in the middle rounds. Most people find at least one entry they recognise from the inside rather than the outside, and the genuinely honest voting starts shortly after that.