All Match Results

Final vote counts for every contest match. Entrants are ordered by final votes, so A is the winner. Click a column heading to sort, or an entrant / contest to filter.

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Filtered: entrant = Sonic the Hedgehog 2 [×] · contest = Best. Game. Ever. (2009) [×]   — 2 of 1,524 matches   show all

2 matches · 2-entrant 0 · 3-entrant 0 · 4-entrant 2

# Poll ▲ Contest Date n A — winner BCD Total Margin
1 3457 Best. Game. Ever. (2009) 2009-04-19 4 Sonic the Hedgehog 2
40,222 · 37.32%
Mortal Kombat II
32,441 · 30.10%
Secret of Mana
28,106 · 26.08%
Shining Force II
6,998 · 6.49%
107,767 7.22%
2 3483 Best. Game. Ever. (2009) 2009-05-15 4 Final Fantasy III (VI)
42,009 · 37.32%
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
35,056 · 31.14%
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
21,587 · 19.18%
Mortal Kombat II
13,923 · 12.37%
112,575 6.18%

Name aliases

These spelling variants are treated as one entrant when you filter by name:

  • Cloud Strife — also Cloud
  • Samus Aran — also Samus
  • Aerith Gainsborough — also Aeris, Aeris Gainsborough
  • Cecil Harvey — also Cecil
  • Terra Branford — also Terra
  • Tifa Lockhart — also Tifa Lockheart

Omitted matches

  • Poll 2562 — CB 2006 "The Field" qualifier poll — a pooled "Field" entry vs one challenger, not a 1-v-1
  • Poll 2563 — CB 2006 "The Field" qualifier poll
  • Poll 2564 — CB 2006 "The Field" qualifier poll
  • Poll 2565 — CB 2006 "The Field" qualifier poll

† Flagged matches (shown, with a note)

  • Poll 1618 — poll re-run after a voting bug; one result row shown
  • Poll 1626 — GameFAQs layout changed partway through the match
  • Poll 1631 — two-day match
  • Poll 2437 — match ran ~15 min short (delayed start)
  • Poll 2455 — match ran ~30 min short (site downtime)
  • Poll 2546 — 25-hour match (Daylight Saving switch)
  • Poll 5205 — joke-candidate vote purge late in the match; the final total shown is the official one
  • Poll 5207 — joke-candidate vote purge late in the match; the final total shown is the official one
  • Poll 5267 — all-star exhibition match — run alongside the bracket, not part of it

Margin is the winner’s percentage minus the runner-up’s. For 3- and 4-entrant matches it can look small even when the winner was never in danger, because the vote splits more ways — the n column shows how many entrants a match had. “Highest turnout” leans toward the 2007 Character Battle, which ran four entrants per poll.