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16 hours and 40 minutes into the poll, Mass Effect 3 had a 9252 vote lead. It lost by 1056 votes.

This result -- I don't know what the second biggest comeback in contest history is, but it's probably not even one third as big as this one -- gets short-changed a bit because of where the site was (we were pulling in only about 35k votes a match), and because of what we had already seen (namely, Draven). Once the comeback started, you knew it was going to be fast enough. The comeback would oscillate to whatever was needed to finish it.

Still, this wasn't some joke character. This was Undertale, a heartfelt single player indie game with a huge presence with the touchy feely indie crowd. We weren't talking about a game with 57 versions like Tetris or with 70 quadrillion concurrent players like League. You could kinda get behind this one in a way that you couldn't with Draven.

Unfortunately, the Draven stuff, and even the L-Block stuff for some, brings us to our most nihilistic place the second we see interference. This match had 18,000 more votes than the previous day which is quite a lot when you're only averaging 35k. Undertale pulled in 66% of the votes in the afterschool block, with some single updates reaching as high as 84%. That's wild.

Unlike Draven's comeback over Chie, you knew this contest was over the second you saw this. Board 8 had just been burned by enough rallies to know, in the age of low vote totals, that we were about to get washed. There wasn't going to be some mythical game that could shut it down like Pikachu did to L in 2008. The only response here would be a counter rally response, and there wasn't any faction out there that cared as much as the Undertale crowd.

This contest hit at the perfect time when that game was just exploding out of the corners of the internet and people were out looking for anything Undertale. Gamefaqs just ended up in the middle of it.
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