LogFAQs > #936291167

Advokaiser posted...

Someone pointed out in the last topic that today's votals were behind last contest's Day 1 matches, despite having exactly the same voting format, almost the same starting time, and more brackets entered this time.

The only logical conclusion I can come up with for what's causing this is that it's easier for people to loosely vote for characters they don't know or care about than to loosely vote for games they haven't played. Like, not every person likes to just bracket-vote since it doesn't seem fair, so they might as well abstain.

Characters are much easier to vote for, as voters can vote based on character design. That's not the case with games, which generally requires hands on exposure with the game for someone to make a proper decision on which game to vote for. If you haven't played either game in a particular match, it's a lot harder to choose which game to vote for. This issue is compounded even worse by the forced voting in all 4 matches. I would expect vote totals to improve in the later rounds as the weaker games are eliminated. We may even see an improvement as early as round 2.
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