Lightning Strikes posted... What could this mean?: That Allen's anti-rally system works, that we can't predict contest changing rallies, and that small dedicated fandoms not in the zeitgeist the way Undertale and LoL were are not to be feared. It was a straightforward match that was very much overhyped. I think the rallies we will see will be smaller ones like the one in this match, and unlikely to change the course of the whole thing. Otherwise Wario looked reasonable and should get to round 3 with no trouble.
I'm not sure we can say much about the anti rally systems yet. Even with the double votes and the supposed Monika rally, the match ended up at 30k votes. A random R1 unrallied match in 2015 would have between 35k and 40k. What I mean is that something like Draven or Undertale would have gotten out of this Wario match easily.
I guess one thing to consider is that rallies need a sucessful first match to catch on, and that can be harder to achieve with the double votes.