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Cavedweller2000 posted...

Got to be honest I have never participated in it. I was going to many years back, but then I had a look at the past contest results I couldn't understand how a contest that is held every year with largely the same people could have such wildly varying results. I have just taken a look at the current contest and to give you an example you have Cloud, Zidane and Tidus (characters who would do well in any B8 contest, and im sure one of these must have been top 5 in a previous SMFFFFFC) ending up lower than Ktjn (a very, very minor character that you do not have to talk to at any point of the game - and for the record FF12 is my 2nd favourite of the series). So I don't actually know what the contest results tell me, and it seems more like luck if a character was to do well or not.

Obviously I'm in the minority because it still has a huge following, but I thought I'd say why I don't participate.

Usually after a character wins, most people who supported them move on to try to get championships for their other favorites. Stuff like Ktjn is because some people like to push pet projects to see how far they can get (well Ktjn specifically was a bit different).

I feel like there wouldn't be much of a point in running it so long if everyone just saved the exact same characters year after year after year (no offense lefty).