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As far as 2018 goes regarding the purity of the Noble Nine record, I'm of the opinion that every single Noble Nine loss has counted with the exception of Jay Solano (never forget!). That was a Board 8-focused bonus poll that should be noted, but I don't think it counts in the same way the other front page-losses do. I'll be happy to add him in if enough people disagree with that assessment since a Noble Nine member did indeed lose in an official GameFAQs poll.

Still, there are indeed differences in every loss we have seen from the Noble Nine compared to the original way they were conceived. I bring this up to discuss 2018's matches we consider.

I absolutely count Mega Man's loss to Pikachu as a Noble Nine loss. That said, does it break the Noble Nine's record in the way it was originally formed? We're in a funny format where that answer can different from match to match, but I see three differences worth noting if you're going the "NU-UH PURITY THOUGH" route.

1) Mega Man would have won if we went purely by total votes instead of registered users getting double the votes.
2) Mega Man was not eliminated.
3) Voters have to vote in multiple matches at once now instead of one match at a time, which can affect all related matches each day.

To those points though:

A) Everybody's playing by the same rules here and I don't remember people objecting to this Noble Nine-possibility before the contest.
B) How much did we care about the difference in four-ways between Vincent beating Crono and Auron beating Sonic? Crono was eliminated while Sonic was not, but they both still lost to an outsider.
C) A match is a match and every format favors somebody.

So if you're really pushing for that purity angle, you have your angles here, but do know this format doesn't insist on any of those protections through-out the entirety of this Second Chance-bracket:

i) Characters can still lose by enough where the registered double-votes wouldn't matter.
ii) Characters can still be eliminated in the losers bracket.
iii) There will be some one-match days in this format.

So, I mean, good luck with that purity. My thought's that I don't know the rules-purity ever mattered in the early years as much as the idea that the Noble Nine just gets the job done -- both through their undefeated win record from their first five years and from overcoming adversity along the way like major pic disadvantages and momentum-based rallies.

But for those who care the most about those technicalities, there they are.
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