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Lightning Strikes posted...

In the case of Undertale it was receiving dramatic counter-rallying until the last match where everyone rolled over. Not to mention I find it hard to believe that FFVII wouldn't push Melee as hard as CT.

Of course, the fact that SSBM/FFVII got so many more votes absolutely suggests a stronger rally. Now, you could say that it was affected by the Undertale rally and that helped FFVII, but that runs counter to the idea that FFVII underperformed against OoT because of Undertale's rally spillover. Rallies are not chaos, we can get info out of them. Either way, the bonus matches show a remarkable consistency between the FFVI matches. I can't imagine the result of those were altered by rallying for a Smash Bros. game.

SSBM vs FF7 getting more votes is meaningless because of the Undertale rally going on at the same time. It is impossible to say how many votes came from an SSBM rally and how many came from the Undertale rally at the same time. Regardless of which game they supported, it would boost the overall vote total relative to SSBM vs CT so you can't use the difference in vote total between SSBM vs CT and SSBM vs FF7 to show that SSBM rallied more against FF7. As for which game Undertale supporters voted for in SSBM vs FF7, it doesn't really matter. The SSBM rally would more or less scale to absorb the effect.
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