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Let's say I do decide to start doing repeats. Should I be asking you all to make new suggestions, should I be pointing out the old suggestions they had, or should I be doing both? :P

@TheDoc : It's also worth mentioning that there were guys like MegaMan.exe, Magic Man, King, Bass, and most notably, Ballade, that never got a real chance to prove how much of a contender they'd actually be because they just happened to get caught in awkward battles with unexpected vote totals. In fact, with the exception of Mega Man > Ballade, all of the other 4 battles--Roll > MegaMan.exe, ProtoMan.exe > Magic Man, Skull Man > King and Enker > Bass--were ALL decided by a difference of just ONE vote.
As far as I can tell, all 8 of these characters have the potential to be Division Finalist material at the very least--some might even challenge the likes of Vile, Sunstar, Mega Man and Proto Man, themselves. That's just a prediction, though; we'll see for sure in 2-3 months. :P


@MusicalKitty : You mean, like a Tournament of Champions. GameFAQs did 2 of those with their Character Battles, too.
Link won both of them. Pretty much just as easily as he's won 4 of the 7 GameFAQs Character Battles that he's shown up in. Now, granted, I'm almost positive that this is because there's always a prize in it for whoever predicts the bracket most accurately, and there was no such prize for this Tourney. There likely won't be, either, 'cause as far as I've seen, that would corrupt the unpredictability of this tournament by having the same people vote for the same characters over and over again, even when they wouldn't, otherwise. That's no fun.
I know of ways to keep this tourney fresh besides including prizes; if the 2nd one turns out to be subpar [it SHOULDN'T, but, it could], and people still want a 3rd one, I'll have a way to make that one better. I promise. A mad genius always has backup plans for his backup plans. :P


@Meta : I just told you, it's called "Seasonal". Some also call it "Quarterly", but, either one works. :P

@TailsMK4 and @Tobyjoey : Yeah, I could go with a whole seeding, ranking thing, but, that creates massive amounts of predictability. I figured it would be much better for every1 if the entire bracket was randomized without me tinkering with it at all; this makes for boring blowouts, like the aforementioned King > Bomb Man, but also crazy upsets, like Enker > Bass, Auto > Ring Man, Sigma > Zero and, of course, Proto Man > Sunstar. With all due respect, There was always either 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 or--in the case of the Final Battle and the Galaxy Man > Saturn tie that I had to break--11 voters. This could easily change 2-3 months from now, as we won't have precisely the same audience.....I think. Proto Man, for all the votes he had going for him, still had some pretty close calls down the home stretch; He only beat Mega Man by 2 and he only beat Sunstar by 1--that could easily reverse if they ever face off again, 'cause it won't be the same 10 and 11 people voting on it. I guarantee it.

Whether Proto Man maks it in or not, I'll leave it up to the people of Prototype; there'll be no Guaranteed entries for the 2nd Tourney. If he does win that one, too.....well, your idea will be a lot easier to consider, then, won't it, T.J.? :P

@Meta : It's called "Seasonal", my friend, due to how the seasons change every 3 months. "quad-yearly" isn't a thing, and even if it was, that would be every 4 years. :P

Definitely a Level 100 Pikachu, here

I'm still determining if there's anyone in the Top 50 that I HAVEN'T interviewed that still comes around here on at least an almost-regular basis--I'm still waiting to hear back from Spinstrike, after all, and I don't wanna wait that long for anyone else. If there aren't any, that's cool, too, 'cause then I get to do REPEATS! WHOOOO!

Srsly, though, any ideas, fellow programs?

@TheDoc: Awww, you're too kind. You kick butt, too, for all the work YOU put into participating in it so much. =)

Actually, I've said this is the Chat plenty of times, but, if there is a 2nd Tourney, I'd be nixing the idea of the 5 Mega Men being guaranteed entries altogether. In fact, not even Proto Man will be guaranteed in. To compensate for this, I'll be allowing 30 nominations per person instead of 25, next time.

There's also pleanty of characters that people forgot that I think would be pretty good contenders, if nothing else. Not naming names, though. :P

Proto Man will likely have even stiffer competition, next time. Just sayin'. :P


@MegaBossMan : The Final battle was not only the most popular non-Mikey battle of the whole tourney, but, Proto won it by one, buddy. That IS theatrics. Put it this way, what was more theatrics: The Final Battle or King vs. Bomb Man [R1 of Division 5]? :P

Oh, also, I edited the opening post. =)

Sorry about the extremely late announcement, here; meant to do this earlier, tonight, but, I had too much stuff going on my comp at once, and I shut it off to let is rest before rebooting it, completely forgetting about this. :P

Anyway, we have our tournament champion:

THE FINAL BATTLE [voting ends at 11:59 PM, EST on 1/2/16]:vs. (6-5)

It's an upset and a half, in all honesty. StupidStudiosN broke the tie with his vote. It was a close one, but, you, the people of Prototype, have decided that Proto Man is the greatest Mega Man Character EVER....for now, at least.

[The pastebin has been updated accordingly, along with the [almost] complete rankings of all 71 characters who made it into the tourney, from the Eliminator all the way to the Final Battle.](http://pastebin.com/D8gmNq4J)

When you're done looking at that, do me a favor and vote on one last bonus battle:

BONUS BATTLE!
2 months vs. 3 months [voting ends at ??:?? pm on ??/??/????]

How long should we wait before doing another tourney like this?

Also, feel free to give me your thoughts on the tourney itself; How do YOU feel about it?

Huh. All the votes in this round took place in the 1st 12 hours. :P

Grand Division, Round 2:
Proto Man [Mega Man 3] vs.(6-4)
vs. Sunstar [Mega Man World 5 (8-2)

And with that, we have our grand finale. Our crème de la crème of the Mega Man universe:

THE FINAL BATTLE [voting ends at 11:59 PM, EST on 1/2/16]:
Proto Man [Mega Man 3] vs. Sunstar [Mega Man World 5]

Who will be crowned champion? It's up to you to decide, Prototype, startiiiiiiing NOW!

HAPPY 2016, ALL!

Grand Division, Round 1:
vs. Proto Man [Mega Man 3] (6-2)
vs. Mega Man [Mega Man] (5-3)
vs. Terra [Mega Man World 5] (5-3)
Sunstar [Mega Man World 5] vs. (6-2)

Let's celebrate by narrowing the field down to the final 2!

Round 2 [1/1/16; Happy 2016!]
Proto Man [Mega Man 3] vs. Mega Man [Mega Man]
Terra [Mega Man World 5] vs. Sunstar [Mega Man World 5]

It might be difficult, but, I know you all can do it. BEGIN!

All righty, then: Our final Grand Division entry iiiiiis.....

Division 8 Final:
vs. Enker [Mega Man World] (8-1)

Speaking of the Grand Division....

Grand Division, Round 1 [voting ends at 11:59 PM on 12/31/15]:
Pharaoh Man [Mega Man 4] vs. Proto Man [Mega Man 3]
Vile [Mega Man X] vs. Mega Man [Mega Man]
Knight Man [Mega Man 6] vs. Terra [Mega Man World 5]
Sunstar [Mega Man World 5] vs. Enker [Mega Man World]

....here it is, the final push to decide who is the greatest Mega Man character of all time [for now, at least] starts now. Let the Grand Division.....

.....COMMENCE!

WOW. Easily the biggest upset, yet:

Division 8, Round 2:
vs. Shade Man [Mega Man 7] (5-4)
vs. Enker [Mega Man World] (5-4)

...Now we get to see who has to face Sunstar in the Grand Division:

Division 8 Final [voting ends at 11:59 PM on 12/30/15]
Shade Man [Mega Man 7] vs. Enker [Mega Man World]

En Garde!