LeonhartFour posted...
T&T's well of votes dries up for some reason this week as it doesn't get anywhere close to the Top 25. And despite the big upset, it's not enough to get Persona 4 into the Top 25.
Let's see, my guesses are that voters were attracted to all of the shiny wins put up by fringe contenders. Persona 4 scored a huge upset last week; Metroid Prime got a quality win over SMW2, and some of the voters that dropped Paper Mario from their ballots last week after its loss to Okami probably put it back after it beat Super Metroid. (This actually seems pretty plausible--looking at last week's totals, there was a huge gap between #22 Symphony of the Night and #23 Okami, and then there was a big cluster of games right behind it, including #24 Paper Mario. This week, there is once again a huge gap between Okami and the game immediately in front of it (Portal), but now Okami is #24 and Paper Mario has moved up to #21.)
As for how DKC2 managed to get past it, though...I don't know. Maybe PW3 was adversely affected by PW1's loss because there does seem to be a persistent belief that PW1 is stronger and people wanted to continue putting PW1 ahead of PW3 even while dropping PW1 down the ballot for its loss? Or maybe the people who were voting for Metroid Prime noticed that DKC2 beat SMW2 by a larger margin than Prime did? I don't know.
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Ulti (in one of his Post-Contest Analyses): God of War turned a 5 hour deadlock into a total laugher
Anagram: Oh God, Tidus and Yuna were involved?