Quite a few of you have already partaken in the questionnaire to decide NeoGAF's favorite Smash character; only three days in and I've already received over 130 responses! I really wasn't expecting such a wave of responses, and as a result I'm going to implement a few changes to the voting process.
With everyone only voting for one veteran character, there's been a lot of "clumping" of characters with the same amount of votes (meaning, there's multiple characters with 7 votes, multiple with 4, etc.); this would lead to a pretty boring countdown to have constant 4-way ties being announced. It also seems a little lame for people to only show their support for a single character, as most people have at least a few favorites they like to jump between. Therefore, I'm going to let everyone choose their top 3 favorite characters to vote for.
How this will work is in the new questionnaire I have linked below, it now asks who your first, second, and third favored characters are. Depending on which rank you give the characters you choose, they'll get a different amount of votes. For 1st, the character will get 3 votes. 2nd will get 2 votes, and obviously 3rd will get 1. If you don't have 3 characters you want to vote for, feel free to leave some of the questions blank. Hopefully this will help make a more accurate and interesting final results list. Most wanted newcomer is still limited to 1 choice.
Now, if you've already participated in the previous questionnaire and you don't participate in this one, your vote will still be counted. If you really only care about one character, don't worry about doing anything as I'll keep tallies from the previous poll. If you have already voted and want to add 2nd and 3rd characters to your choices, come vote in this one; there's a choice in the first question labeled "I've already told you!" that will let me know you've already voted. I will still double check all responses to make sure no one is double voting. In addition to that, please PM when you've voted. Going forward, I'm going to require you to PM me to let me know you really did vote and someone isn't just putting your username in the questionnaire. A little silly to think someone would do that one a for-fun poll like this, but this is the internet...
So, all that to say, I think this will end up creating a more exciting countdown as we approach the Japanese 3DS release date. The last day to vote will be August 16. Starting the next night, I'll start revealing the winners (20th-1st) every POTD. This will mean 1st place is revealed on the last POTD before the Japanese launch. Hopefully, this will add to the hype leading to launch (as if we need any more) and help determine who is the most popular character in the SmashGAF community.
Looking forward to seeing all of your choices! Everything so far has already been very interesting and surprising.
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