Board 8 > Best New Character 2022 - FINAL RESULTS

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Johnbobb
02/09/23 10:30:08 PM
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Predicted winner for next year?










https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/3/3/AAS3NhAAEGNx.jpg

https://challonge.com/b8bestnewcharacter2022

With a final score of 20-13, Waymond Wang (Everything Everywhere All At Once) defeats Vecna (Stranger Things) to become the best character of 2022! Vecna put up a solid fight, but Waymond held a pretty solid lead over him from the very beginning, and despite a near comeback later in the day, he never managed to surpass everyone's favorite fannypack-wielder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqu-WytFKpw

Ultimate Loser:
Waymond > Vecna > Death > Eddie Munson > Jobu Tupaki > Santa Claus > Vigilante (Peacemaker)

Best Predictor:
[Anonymous] with a score of 93 (44/63 correct picks): If this is you, feel free to claim your victory!

Fun facts:
  • Vecna is the highest Stranger Things character to place, beating Robin (semi-finals), Bob Newby (R2), and Chief Hopper, Eleven and Alexei (R1)
  • Throughout the 2010s we had a pattern of men/women winners swapping every year, but so far the 2020s have been male dominated, though perhaps that would've changed if Evelyn had beaten Waymond!
  • Waymond is only the 2nd movie winner not from Disney/Marvel, after Furiosa (Mad Max) in 2015.


Previous Results

2007 - Nathan Drake (Uncharted) | GLaDOS (Portal)
2008 - Walter White (Breaking Bad) | Tony Stark (Iron Man)
2009 - Saul Goodman (Breaking Bad) | Hans Landa (Inglourious Basterds)

2010 - Mike Ehrmantraut (Breaking Bad) | Rapunzel (Tangled)
2011 - Louise Belcher (Bob's Burgers) | Cave Johnson (Portal 2)
2012 - Ralph (Wreck-It Ralph) | Clementine (The Walking Dead)
2013 - Ellie (The Last of Us) | Anna (Frozen)
2014 - Oberyn Martell (Game of Thrones) | Valka (How to Train Your Dragon 2)
2015 - Imperator Furiosa (Mad Max: Fury Road) | PC Principal (South Park)
2016 - Deadpool (Deadpool) | Lyanna Mormont (Game of Thrones)
2017 - 2B (Nier: Automata) | Laura/X-23 (Logan)
2018 - Erik Killmonger (Black Panther) | Spider-Gwen (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)
2019 - Edelgard (Fire Emblem: Three Houses) | Claude (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)
2010s - Mike Ehrmantraut (Breaking Bad) | Wheatley (Portal 2)

2020 - Joe Gardner (Soul) | Zagreus (Hades)
2021 - Seong Gi-hun (Squid Game) | Yelena Belova (Black Widow)
2022 - Waymond Wang (Everything Everywhere All At Once) | Vecna (Stranger Things)

Thanks to everyone for participating and I'll see you again in the summer for Best New Character 2006!

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_SJimW_
02/10/23 12:21:33 AM
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As someone who's never looked at this, it's fascinating how well non-game media does here. This almost seems like something a side board for movies/TV on a gaming themed site would vote for.

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Snake5555555555
02/10/23 2:37:25 AM
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Pretty solid winner all things considered!

Next year's predictions -
M3gan gets eliminated round 2
Beau from Beau Is Afraid gets annihilated round 1
Live-action Little Mermaid fails to get any character in the bracket
Adam Warlock (if allowed) is a sleeper hit but gets eliminated semi-finals
Blue Beetle probably does well

Not sure of any game or TV characters yet!


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Chaeix
02/10/23 4:57:49 AM
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If Bill and Frank from the TLoU are eligible because of the reimagining of their story in the show, I bet theyd do super well

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Johnbobb
02/10/23 10:13:26 AM
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Snake5555555555 posted...
M3gan gets eliminated round 2
Oh shit I forgot m3gan

Chaeix posted...
If Bill and Frank from the TLoU are eligible because of the reimagining of their story in the show, I bet theyd do super well
Oh damn yeah they may be strong contenders. Joel and Ellie potentially if the show tries to distinguish them from the game

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Ngamer
02/10/23 10:43:24 AM
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Another great tourney and worthy winner!


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dilateDChemist
02/10/23 12:41:39 PM
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2023 winner maybe Kang.

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MacArrowny
02/10/23 12:58:42 PM
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Seems silly to allow Last of Us characters, but it's your contest I guess. This year had the best winner of the last three years, though I wouldn't rank him particularly high for 2022.

dilateDChemist posted...
2023 winner maybe Kang.
Kang was introduced in 2021's Loki, tho.

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FFDragon
02/10/23 1:11:05 PM
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Variants count separately. Sylvie was already in for example.

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Johnbobb
02/10/23 6:19:09 PM
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bump

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