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1. Christi Junior (christijunior@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2023 04:10:39 JST Christi Junior

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   2ND QUARTERFINAL MATCH:
   
   13th Seed Shanoa (Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia) VS 5th Seed Reimu Hakurei (Touhou)
   
   Shanoa: 80 votes
   Reimu: 135 votes
   
   Now THIS is how you respond to your rival blowing out her opponent – by showing her up with a far bigger blowout. Sure, it was against a lesser opponent, but reaching 63% in the quarterfinals was still a Champion-worthy performance by Reimu – as is the fact that the shrine maiden, over the course of 3 matches, had never been brought below 62%. After a somewhat underwhelming opening match (again, by Champion standards), Reimu had caught fire and now looked near-unbeatable, demolishing every girl in her path.
   
   Meanwhile, for tournament sensation Shanoa this was a sad way to go out, but pretty much inevitable given how outrageously she had overperformed. Truth is, Shanoa’s fourpack had been very weak (which was obscured by Tifa’s big name and Alice being so overseeded), and once in the quarterfinals, the Castlevania girl stood no chance regardless of who she’d go up against, since even someone like Momiji was clearly out of her league. Not to mention that at this point quite a few people seemed to be anti-voting Shanoa, be they angry Tifa or Alice fans, or just people convinced that her Cinderella run was the product of cheating.
   
   As for the match itself, Reimu took the early lead without going completely crazy, with Shanoa avoiding being completely blown away and even going up as high as 47% at the 30-vote mark. However, Reimu wasn’t about to let the queen of clutching out close matches actually keep this poll competitive, and started pulling further ahead after that, reaching 60% - 40%, then extending it to 64%, and then reaching 66%. At the 100-vote mark, Reimu lead 65 – 35. Knowing that she needed to really wow the public after the show Samus had just put on, Reimu was also far less willing to ease up on the pressure than she had been against Monster Girl Quest Tamamo, and after Shanoa managed to bring the Touhou heroine down to 62%, Reimu hit back hard and rose back to 65%. Eventually, all Shanoa could manage was eventually bringing Reimu down to 63%.
   
   As decisive as Reimu’s victory over MGQ Tamamo had been, her win over Shanoa looked even better, being a bigger win, against a presumably stronger opponent, and with even Reimu’s one apparent weakness (low vote totals) having been largely patched up. She still wasn’t doing Samus numbers, but getting 135 votes in a match she so quickly killed was nonetheless a good showing by Reimu.
   
   Honestly, the buildup to the most hyped match of the tournament, Samus VS Reimu, couldn’t have been better – both girls were by the quarterfinals looking absolutely fantastic, and it truly did seem like a case of an Unstoppable Force meeting an Immovable Object. Nobody could honestly say that he knew how their semifinal match would turn out, but we all knew that it was sure to be spectacular – which it certainly ended up being, just not in the way we expected.
   
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