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I've done this style of poll contest once before, back in either Gen VII or Gen VIII, so why not try it again now? The rules are simple: each day, I'm going to post a poll for a given Pokemon typing, with each generation's roster of new Pokemon filling in that typing. You just need to look at what each generation had to offer, and select which generation you think brought the best new roster (for any reason; you could say that a single Pokemon was so good that it overwhelms everything else the generation spawned, or you could select a generation that may be more well-rounded that the one that created your personal favorite). At the end of the day, one generation will be crowned a champion (with potential tiebreakers if need be), and that generation will advance to a second round, where the eighteen winners, and fourteen strongest runner-ups will be sorted into a 32-entrant tournament to crown which generation produced the best overall roster of a single typing.

Yesterday's one-on-one contest saw another strong showing from both entrants as they fought for the final spot in the tournament, but after some early equality between the two generations, Gen IV took a slight lead, and Gen IX just couldn't make up the difference. It's a shame, because Gen IX is genuinely one of the better Ghost rosters, and if I'd just voted it instead of Gen I the first time around, it would've made the tournament.

Anyway, with all ties broken, we have our official best generation per type, plus fourteen runners-up who managed to put on a strong enough showing to earn one of the remaining slots in the overall bracket. Unfortunately, Gen II Psychic, Gen II/III Rock, Gen I/V Grass, and Gen III Ice didn't put on a good enough showing to snag spots for themselves. Thus, here are your top thirty two!

1. Fire: Gen I (30 Votes, 47.62%)
2. Bug: Gen V (30 Votes, 44.12%)
3. Dragon: Gen III (30 Votes, 41.67%)
4. Poison: Gen I (29 Votes, 50.88%)
5. Grass: Gen III (28 Votes, 45.90%)
6. Psychic: Gen III (25 Votes, 45.45%)
7. Fairy: Gen VII (24 Votes, 39.34%)
8. Electric: Gen I (24 Votes, 37.50%)
9. Ice: Gen IV (24 Votes, 36.92%)
10. Flying: Gen I (21 Votes, 35.00%)
11. Water: Gen I (21 Votes, 34.43%)
12. Ground: Gen I (20 Votes, 33.33%)
13. Dark: Gen II (18 Votes, 26.87%)
14. Normal: Gen I (17 Votes, 28.81%)
15. Steel: Gen III (15 Votes, 27.27%)
16. Rock: Gen I (14, 23.33%)
17. Fighting: Gen IV (14 Votes, 21.88%)
18. Ghost: Gen V (13 Votes, 17.81%)
19. (Dark: Gen IX - 17 Votes, 25.37%)
20. (Fire: Gen V - 16 Votes, 25.4%)
21. (Electric: Gen V - 15 Votes, 23.44%)
22. (Poison: Gen VIII - 14, 24.56%)
23. (Bug: Gen VII - 14 Votes, 20.59%)
24. (Dragon: Gen VI - 14 Votes, 19.44%)
25. (Steel: Gen VI - 13, 23.64%)
26. (Flying: Gen VI - 13 Votes, 21.67%)
27. (Water: Gen III - 13 Votes, 21.31%)
28. (Ground: Gen V - 12 Votes, 20.00%, 28-21 Tiebreak over Gen III)
29. (Fairy: Gen VI - 12 Votes, 19.67%)
30. (Fighting: Gen IX - 12 Votes, 18.75%)
31. (Normal: Gen VIII - 11 Votes, 18.64%)
32. (Ghost: Gen IV - 10 Votes, 13.70%, 26-23 Tiebreak over Gen IX)

(Psychic: Gen II - 9 Votes, 16.36%)
(Rock: Gen II/III - 9 Votes, 15.00%)
(Grass: Gen I/Gen V - 9 Votes, 14.75%)
(Ice: Gen III - 9 Votes, 13.85%)

I've put together a bracket using the above numbers as seeds, and I'm going to give a little bit of time for people to make any predictions they want to make before I start the contest itself. Note: match-ups will be 1v1, 1 per day, poll determining each day's winner. In the event of a day ending in a tie, I will cast the tiebreaking vote. Anyway, here is the bracket, so make your predictions!

https://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=478370