Nominations have closed. Votes have been counted. 43 characters have booked their place in the contest, but still 37 spots are up for grabs.
Over the next five days, 126 characters will battle for the remaining spots in the contest proper. Today we've got 25 characters, and 8 places available.
The preliminaries will work on the same points scoring basis as the Eurovision Song Contest for those lucky enough to have seen it.
Rules 1. You must assign all of the following points to your chosen characters, and you can only assign one set of points per character; 12 points, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. 2. The round will last 24 hours. 3. No changing your vote, what's done is done. 4. No alts, rallying, or trading. 5. The 8 Characters with the most points will progress to the main contest.
The Characters Ayla (Chrono Trigger) Brock (Pokemon Series) Crazy Dave (Plants vs Zombies) ExDeath (Final Fantasy V) Falco Lombardi (Starfox Series) Frederic Chopin (Eternal Sonata) Kefka (Final Fantasy VI) Masaomi (Sharin no Kuni) Midna (LoZ: Twilight Princess) Niko Bellic (Grand Theft Auto IV) Noa (Legend of Legaia) Persephone (Wild Arms 5) Petey Piranha (Mario Series) Rikku (Final Fantasy X) Rose of Sharon Cassidy (Fallout New Vegas) Rydia (Final Fantasy IV) Sesshomaru (Inuyasha) Sho Minamimoto (The World Ends With You) Sigma (Mega Man X) Sketch Turner (Comix Zone) Sly Cooper (Sly Cooper Series) The Great Mighty Poo (Conker's Bad Fur Day) The Nameless One (Planescape: Torment) Toad (Mario Series) Tsugumi Komachi (Ever17)
Inuyasha was an anime first and Chopin is based on the real-life composer (albeit a version of him with magic powers). I don't care if they're included, but nominations would likely have been different if it was known characters and/or real people that didn't originate from games were fair.
-- "We like to think the past doesn't have any effect on us, but ignorance of the past can be as dangerous as a ticking bomb."
Seisen - the brief was purely 'Video Game Characters', so for me any character that has appeared in a video game is fair game, I didn't want specify it any further than this.
Also no one in the nomination topic sought any clarification, so I assumed everyone was happy.
Seisen - thanks for voting, if you want did you want to choose up to 4 characters to enter at the preliminary stage that you perhaps would have otherwise picked? These'll be in addition to your others.
Nah. I am curious who Raka originally nominated as practically everything was in some game (even Gunther from Friends was host of the trivia game), but I'm reasonably happy with my selections.
-- "We like to think the past doesn't have any effect on us, but ignorance of the past can be as dangerous as a ticking bomb."
No worries, I think maybe if you looked at the list again there might be some that appeared in a game, but there were far more that didn't, and I think it was more the mindset the noms were given in that conflicted the contest.
+12 Tsugumi Komachi (Ever17) +10 Crazy Dave (Plants vs Zombies) +8 Kefka (Final Fantasy VI) +7 ExDeath (Final Fantasy V) +6 Sho Minamimoto (The World Ends With You) +5 The Great Mighty Poo (Conker's Bad Fur Day) +4 The Nameless One (Planescape: Torment) +3 Frederic Chopin (Eternal Sonata) +2 Rikku (Final Fantasy X) +1 Toad (Mario Series)
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Junk - It's just because that's how it is in the Eurovision Song Contest which I based the points on, and only 8 can progress today. It's unlikely the 8 someone would pick would go through, so it means you can give support to more.
+12 The Nameless One (Planescape: Torment) +10 Tsugumi Komachi (Ever17) +8 Kefka (Final Fantasy VI) +7 Sho Minamimoto (The World Ends With You) +6 Midna (LoZ: Twilight Princess) +5 Rose of Sharon Cassidy (Fallout New Vegas) +4 Sketch Turner (Comix Zone) +3 Niko Bellic (Grand Theft Auto IV) +2 Rikku (Final Fantasy X) +1 Rydia (Final Fantasy IV)
Easy Vote Form: +12Masaomi HOUZUKI (Sharin no Kuni) +10Tsugumi Komachi (Ever17) +8Kefka (Final Fantasy VI) +7Sho Minamimoto (The World Ends With You) +6Niko Bellic (Grand Theft Auto IV) +5Rikku (Final Fantasy X) +4The Great Mighty Poo (Conker's Bad Fur Day) +3Falco Lombardi (Starfox Series) +2Sigma (Mega Man X) +1Sly Cooper (Sly Cooper Series)
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