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Which of these Final Fantasy VII characters has received the most total votes? (Aeris | Tifa | Vincent | Zack)

I'll ignore Zack for obvious reasons. He's not in contention with the other three (though his best run is probably better than Aeris's best run)

This one is actually pretty close, at least by rank. By the numbers:

Tifa - 22nd overall - 903,639 votes - 23 matches - 16-7 record
Vincent - 24th overall - 800,353 votes - 20 matches - 13-7 record
Aeris - 26th overall - 671,138 votes - 18 matches - 11-7 record

Tifa leads by over 100,000 votes, but a lot of that is the female bracket. Let's compare their 2006 runs: Tifa got Ivy, The Boss and Princess Peach before making it to Samus. Vincent got Ganondorf and Sonic.

The argument between Vincent and Tifa for best FF7 supporting character has always been really fascinating. I won't recount everything, but Vincent had some really impressive results while Tifa always felt like she was good enough but never given a chance. Vincent beat Squall, beat Ganondorf and beat Crono in a fourway. Tifa lost narrowly to Sonic, almost beat Samus due to a wardrobe malfunction, missed the 2007 contest and got saddled with Sephiroth in 2008 (back when that mattered). Tifa didn't really get a chance to strut her stuff until 2018 when she beat everyone before going down hard to Samus, and by then Vincent became a nobody.

Aeris had great results as one of the original cinderella runs as an underseeded character in the 2002 and 2003 contests, but has been a clear step and a half behind ever since they let Tifa and Vincent into the contests in 2005.

Fun fact: Sora is actually ahead of all these guys in votes.

Which contest gathered the most total votes? (2003 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2010)

2003 - 6,666,441
2006 - 8,233,828
2007 - 8,537,038
2008 - 8,424,961
2010 - 8,161,178

It's really close! By comparison, 2018 had 4,377,530.

Which winless character has gathered the most votes? (Guybrush Threepwood | Ramza | Kratos Aurion | Cecil | CATS)

CATS - 157,168
Kratos Aurion - 123,806
Ramza - 103,892
Cecil - 103,280
Guybrush Threepwood - 82,877

CATS is actually a fascinating contest character. This dude is a contest legend. Kratos Aurion, Ramza and Cecil are 0-5. Guybrush Threepwood is 0-6.

CATS is 0-9. Only 29 characters have been in 9 or more contests! Of them, the lowest number of wins after CATS is 5. Despite being in 3 more matches, and being most notable during our vote total apex, he *still* is only 30,000 votes above the others. CATS isn't the weakest character of all time but we should probably think of him that way as a badge of honor. We didn't need Jay Solano. We had CATS.

Which non-Noble Nine member has the highest average number of votes across all their contest matches (minimum 10 contest matches)? (Dante | Master Chief | Aeris | Yoshi | Yuna)

Master Chief - 44159
Yuna - 42156
Dante - 41975
Yoshi - 40345
Aeris - 37619

For the record, Master Chief is only 300 votes behind Sonic and Mario. When we have our next character battle, he'll probably be ahead.

As others have pointed out, this is more about avoiding the recent contests where vote totals dropped off. One of the contests' lost memories is Master Chief's 2007 contest. Chief was probably a top 5 character in that contest, but it's forgotten because L-Block blew a hole in the whole thing. Chief *destroyed* everyone, was almost equal to post-Brawl Snake and pulled in a ton of votes. He's fallen off as the site has gone even more in the tank for Nintendo, and as a result hasn't been dragged down by the recent mediocrity.

Fun fact: As you would expect, Link is #1 with 56,854 votes. But if you remove the 10 match minimum, #2 is Kairi. 2006, man.

Which of these Pokemon characters has received the most total votes? (Charizard | Mewtwo | Red | Missingno)

This one is a two-character race.

Mewtwo - 298,506 votes - 12 matches - 7-5 record
Charizard - 288,543 votes - 10 matches - 7-3 record
Red - 194,073 votes - 10 matches - 7-3 record
Missingno - 139,449 votes - 5 matches - 3-2 record

2013 being such a messed up contest really inflates these guys' records.

Which Noble Nine member has the least number of contest matches? (Mega Man | Sonic | Solid Snake | Crono | Mario)

Solid Snake - 54 (I may have put him in as a swerve for an earlier question)
Mario - 44
Mega Man - 41
Crono - 39
Sonic - 39

My bad here. I meant to write votes instead of contest matches, in which case it's easily Sonic, who trails Crono by over 100,000 votes. The difference there is almost completely 2002.

For those who don't know, the 2002 battle took a while to gain steam. Some early matches had really bad vote totals, not quite as bad as 2018 but not far off. It wasn't until the contest got going that they really moved, and by then Sonic had lost that shocker with Samus. Crono was ahead by ~150,000 votes thanks to an epic Mario match coming off of Mario/Cloud. Crono shot ahead of him there and never gave it up.

Crono had some really bad contests, 2010 being the most obvious one, but the 2018 contest brought him back to a tie thanks to the losers bracket. Crono was able to beat Bowser and Mega Man to stay alive while Sonic got slaughtered by Snake and Zelda. Sonic would have lost to Crono too - he looked pretty terrible. 2018 was a real paradigm shift.

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xyzzy