The Elimination Game - Franchises

[Final-Fan]

theRepublic said:
I arrived at those results by starting with Final-Fan's post at 21:36 and working forward from there.

The problem comes when supermario128 votes too early. From that point on Mario actually has one less vote than displayed. That means when mibuokami's vote takes Mario to only 1 point, it is actually eliminated. Every vote after that no longer counts.

The problem with that method is that people were voting without knowing the actual scores.

Another problem comes when Final-Fan posts at 22:10. For some reason, he says that mibuokmi's vote is not valid. It looks ok to me, but maybe it was edited at some point.

Well, I could try to reconstruct exactly what happened, but I don't have to.  It's all too clear what happened:   

I updated the scores with people's votes since they got off kilter (again), but made a mistake.  I saw that mibuokami's vote was impossible and neutralized it.  Then I found an error in my tallies, corrected it, and failed to realize that mibuokami's vote was actually valid after all.  (Normally I mark all notable edits in my posts, but this thread was just moving too fast to spend the effort on nuances like that.)

Sorry everyone.  And damn you all for picking Zelda at the end.

[edit:  P.S.  Alternatively, it's possible that there was a truly stange brain malfunction when correcting for supermario128 that made me think the vote was impossible.]