1) This is a very spur of the moment popularity contest. What happens within could influence the direction the story goes! I encourage memories of each combatant we display in the museum! What does seeing the fighter here make you feel as they come up? GIMME THOSE REACTIONS! There's likely going to be all kinds of iconic and obscure choices gathered here from many different games, and I'm super excited to draw them all and see where they take the thread! You get to be a part of that organic process! These threads are my favorite moments on TT EVER, and I want to maintain that improvisation here.
2) Posts will occur when I have the energy to devote to this...which is why it is not an "official" popularity contest. I don't want to force anyone wanting to run theirs to wait, nor do I want to be the only game in town in this subforum. I want to do this when I'm engaged and not feel like it's a chore. So the other contests will roll along at their leisure and I'll be running mine, and it'll all be fantastic.
3) Please please please DON'T BUST IN HERE AND BE AN ASSHOLE. Seriously. Don't shit on a choice, don't shit on people who picked it, don't shit on how I choose to run the contest, don't shit on me for taking too long to post something. I am super excited to be doing this again and will not be in the mood to have someone try to be a jerk. I see someone try to shit in here, I report to a mod. Let's just have fun!
4) If you're curious about the comic these characters come from, check out my art blog: https://wildcatjfart.wordpress.com/tag/so-this-webcomic. Yes, even though this intro post has no comics (or does it?), the majority of these entries will be comic based. I may occasionally dip into other formats as is my wont.
6) I may reference the old contests from time to time (I already have!), which is currently being archived. The Enemy Contest is here (it was the very first popularity contest on the new forum! Isn't that somethin?), and the Box Art one is on the archived 2.0 section we're being sneaky beaky about (search "Welcome one, welcome all to" under Meatspace and you'll find it).
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5) Nominations! Submit a list of 25 fighting game characters, ranked from tip top to wee bottom. #1s will earn 35 points, #25 11 points. If you don't have 25, that's a-ok! We only want characters who originated in a fighting game, and are 100% not from a license! So no Mario and no Goku!
...........ok, we'll make ONE exception to the "originated in a fighting game" rule, but only if the character has been in MORE fighting games than their series of origin. So still no Mario, but Captain Commando would be fine since he's in TWO fighting games and ONE beat-em-up origin story.
Oh yeah, as Torzelbaum asked, please use NA naming conventions. So if you want the psycho power boss from Street Fighter, please submit him as M. Bison. If you want the boxer boss, use Balrog.
Also also, another Torzelbaum legend, I think the SPIRIT of the matter is that characters would be playable, but you know what, I don't mind either way. So long as they debuted in a fighting game OR appear more in fighting games than their game/series of origin, we'll roll with it.
Also also also also, let's keep things simple and not do 3rd Strike Ryu or Injustice Scorpion or things like that. If you like a character enough to nominate them, just list their name and origin franchise. I'll be listing out EVERY fighting game they're in if they gots the votes. And Flavia is mean.
Relatedly, if a character has an alternative version with their primary name included (Evil Ryu, God Rugal, etc.), then please vote for the primary character. However, if the designers felt like giving an alt a completely different name (Oni for Akuma, Mr. Karate for Ryo, etc.), then those alternates are eligible for their own spot on the list.
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