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We have entered an endless recursion of tiebreakers.

Team Rocket Elite posted...

Out of interest, how many ties does Id Purpose need until it is the song that has participated in the highest numbers of matches across all of VGMC?

A quick glance at # of contests and average round performance leads me to conclude these are likely the top contenders in this derby: RFTM, TBIYTC, Zero-Two, Id (Purpose), STDWE, and Battle with Magus. Theoretically it's possible something else breaks into this group if it had an obscene amount of tiebreakers but I don't hate myself enough right now to go that in-depth and it's extremely unlikely anyway unless I just overlooked a contender entirely.

Also my mind kind of melted during all this so hopefully I didn't make any dumb mistakes as I was making this more readable from my draft form that I was compiling in real time.

Total Matches:
Touhou 8 - Reach for the Moon - 34
Metal Gear Solid - The Best is Yet to Come - 34^**
Fire Emblem: Awakening - Id (Purpose) (Active, Includes only the two completed tiebreakers in its current match) - 29*
Kirby 64 - Zero-Two (Retired) - 26 (+1 ToC)
Chrono Trigger - Battle with Magus - 25^?
Final Fantasy X - Someday the Dream Will End (Retired) - 24^? (+1 ToC)

*Match deducted because of VGMC13 Bye. Id lost in Round 3 but it had a bye in R1 so for the purpose of this calculation it was only awarded 2 matches in VGMC13.
**Match deduced because of VGMC14 Wildcards. To be perfectly honest I forget how these actually worked but TBIYTC lost in R1 then came back as a wildcard and dropped into R3 where it lost again. I awarded it only 2 matches for VGMC14.
^ Indicates I made a judgment call and gave it a tiebreaker and awarded it a match. Prior to VGMC8 tiebreakers were not annotated on brackets so I had to look at the votals in the neighborhood and these ones were obvious.
?Indicates I'm raising an eyebrow at the end votals a bit compared to its neighbors but it's not so obscenely out of place that it's a definite thing. Possible tiebreaker. I did NOT award this a match here but it's a bit sus so I made a note of it. (Ironically this was in the only match between the group, STDWE/BwM VGMC5)

Fun Facts: VGMC8 is the one and only contest where all 6 of these songs were all present. Id's first contest and the one Zero-Two retired in as runner-up.

tl;dr: I mean, if it wins and keeps advancing it would need less, but it's currently 5 back of RFTM and TBIYTC and I'm assuming it'll get 1 of those tomorrow.

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