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UltimaterializerX posted...

Okay look at it the other way around.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/1357-south-division-semifinal-mario-vs-crono

All other things equal, is that match as good with 25k votes?

Again, yes? It would still have been a very tight match. 25k votes is a lot, and I don't think there's a tremendous amount of variance added with 5x the votes. (I'm not a statistics/polling major though!) Enough to swing a super close match? Of course, but close is still close.

What I think is worth lamenting is the general smoothing of trends over time, as the "after school" voting is gone. We still have some trends from varying tastes in countries but even that will have homogenized with more recent generations of games.

I guess I'm still a fan of having site wide contests, even if they're only getting 25k votes (or 12K...). I know we have various board topics for voting on "Games of X Generation" but those are more like primaries in politics, much more prone to bizarre nominations and results.