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#BestVidyaGirlContest Post-Tournament Analysis (The Final Battle)

CONTEST FINAL

1st Seed Samus Aran (Metroid) VS 14th Seed Tamamo-no-Mae (Fate/EXTRA)

Samus: 222 votes
Tamamo: 165 votes

This is what everything had been leading up to, and we ended up with the pre-tournament favorite and #1 Seed Samus Aran going up against deadly dark horse Tamamo-no-Mae. With the exception of Remilia in round 2, Samus had been absolutely DOMINATING the competition, crushing even powerhouses like Momiji and Reimu with barely any effort. Tamamo meanwhile had a far more eventful and difficult journey to the tournament final, with the fox never even breaking 60% of any of her opponents, which were all very formidable and iconic vidya girls. As such, while Tamamo hadn’t scored any true blowout win, she had nonetheless looked amazing throughout the tournament, repeatedly setting all sorts of records, including several for both individual vote totals and match vote totals. That said, going by the semifinals Samus seemed to be in a league of her own, though the Fluffy Tail Frens seemed remarkably confident ahead of the big day.

And once the final battle began, that confidence initially seemed well warranted – for the first time ever, Samus did NOT start off a match steamrolling her opponent, the early votes leaving the girls dead even, with 6 – 6, 8 – 8 and 11 – 11 scores. Samus kept trying to pull ahead, but Tamamo refused to yield until the 31-vote mark, when Samus managed to go up by 3, before reaching a 6-vote lead after 40 votes. Knowing just how crucial it was to prevent Samus’s morph ball momentum from spinning out of control, Tamamo struck back with 3 successive votes, and after 48 votes she was only 2 behind. The magic fox girl now had monster momentum of her own, and after 54 votes she’d actually taken the lead, being up 52% - 48%!

Against all odds, we actually had a competitive match on our hands, and the Tamamo supporters were as always out in force, and even had some new tricks up their sleeves – zemichi had for example generated some really nice AI art of Tamamo for the past 24 hours in preparation of the poll, and wan had done some edits of Tamamo blowing up Israel with a bazooka (hilariously, this match took place on the same day as Hamas giving the Jews a true taste of Oy Vey, Annudah Shoah!). However, the Samus that Tamamo was facing was a different beast from the one who had let Remilia fans completely take over the round 2 match thread – Samus fans were also flooding the thread with Samus content, and fully keeping pace with Team Fluffy Tail.

And the match itself was staying close – after briefly being overtaken by Tamamo, Samus fired back with great force, quickly leapfrogging the fox and opening up an 8-vote lead, her biggest of the match, before it was *Tamamo’s* turn to strike back, the Fox slicing into the bounty hunter’s vote and reducing it to 1 lone vote. The top seed was however in no mood to relinquish her lead, again stepping up her game and being up by 6 after 116 votes. Tamamo again scored 3 straight votes, followed by 3 Samus votes in a row, and it kept going back and forth, though Samus was maintaining a 3-6 vote lead.

After 150 votes Samus was still up by 6, but then Tamamo moved in for a the kill – a whole string of unanswered Tamamo votes dropped, in a flash completely erasing the Aryan’s lead. Suddenly Tamamo was on top, and again she managed to go up by 3 votes before Samus answered back After 162 votes it was dead even, 81-81, and then…it was all over. Samus again took back and extended her lead, but this time Tamamo was no longer capable of retaliating. Samus’s lead quickly spiraled out of control, the floodgates had opened and Samus voters were as unstoppable as a swarm of X Parasites in an environment devoid of Metroids – Samus was quickly up by 10 votes, then 20, 30, 40, hell she was blowing past 50 and even 60 votes, easily breaking 60% on Tamamo. After 292 votes, Samus lead 61% - 39%.

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