2016 SpoilerTV Favorite TV Competition Analysis & Recap
Also known as... "Repeat Victories, Troubled Horses, and Closing Ceremony - 2016 SpoilerTV Favorite TV Competition Analysis & Recap" because why not!
It's no secret that Person of Interest would effortlessly do well in online poll competitions, especially those hosted on SpoilerTV. In the Character Cup, Sameen Shaw took home the glory after defeating Arrow's Laurel Lance, while the Episode Competition held before the Character Cup also saw POI's episode "6,741" taking the victory. In the end, it was all too predictable, yet even if it is too predictable, it was the greatest goodbye gift for the fandom, especially when you think that POI actually ended its five-season run already and the main actors of the show already ventured somewhere. On that topic, has anybody seen Samantha Groves running wild Amy Acker in MacGyver?
To be honest, there weren't enough horses of mine that made it to the competition apart from Mr. Robot and Orphan Black, which I don't expect much from them because: 1) I have a taste so bad, my horses would lose at one point, and 2) I couldn't fervently campaign either of them within the twenty four hours of the match-up due to my real-life jostles. But, I can say that this year's Favorite TV Competition went really well, there isn't any noticeable mess going on in the competition (i.e., cheating, vote stuffing).
Before I proceed to the recap, let's take a look at the statistics and analytics for this year's running, and how it compares to the two previous years of the competition.
THE ANALYSIS
First thing's first, the bad news: no vote numbers. I thought that there would be a number breakdown like in the Character Cup's final post but sadly there isn't, after looking at the Final Words post where the numbers suggest that this year's voting numbers were lower than the last year. HOWEVER, after an e-mail exchange (read: conversation) with Bradley Adams himself, it was revealed that last year's exact number stood at 38,467 votes cast, with an average of 611, and the most votes cast lie in the final round of POI against Hannibal where it had 10,370 votes, the only round that surpassed the 10,000 mark ever. Two preceding rounds also had more than a thousand votes.
Other than that, this doesn't stop me to present another set of facts...
General Stats20152016
Nominations578338
Current Show Nominations137204
Finished Show Nominations374201
Current Shows Competing*4444
Finished Shows Competing*2020
* = Veronica Mars' 2014 Movie put the fandom into classification in 2015 season before rule changes, which resulted the show belonging to Finished Shows for 2016.
This year's nomination numbers stand at 137 for the current shows and 201 for the finished shows for a total of 338, while last year there were 578, split to 204 current and 374 finished. These numbers however in no way accurate by 100% because there were wrong submissions received. Again, these numbers are courtesy by Bradley Adams (thank you very much!).
While the competition pits 32 current and finished shows, by the 2 year-rule WFC imposes (in which only TV shows which aired their last episode within two years prior to the start of World Fandom Championship are classified; essentially, the cut-off year is 2014) there are actually 44 Current shows and 20 finished shows competing, same as last year's numbers, with Veronica Mars belonging to finished shows for this year despite that the 2014 movie helped the show be able to be classified in the World Championship standings, and it should be noted that this will be its last year ever to compete in WFC. I admit that, since this is a "just for fun" simulation, there's no clear rule for this, so I might address this in the next post.
From this point onward, all statistics are focused on the current shows within the WFC criteria.
Returning Fandoms20152016
Recurring from Character Cup3840
Current Shows Recurring from Character Cup3331
Returning from last year's Favorite TV Series-43
Current Shows Returning from last year's Favorite TV Series-28
And then there are fandoms which also made an appearance in Character Cup before this competition, which has a number of 38 fandoms this year compared to last year's 40. Despite the slightly lower number, there are more current shows that return to this competition than last year, namely POI, Agent Carter, Supernatural, and many more, while the other eleven are new to this competition, including Stranger Things, the new Netflix phenomenon that's also responsible for giving out PB & Js during the Emmys. Speaking of returns, 43 fandoms of last year's competitions do return, with 28 of them being the current shows, more than 50% of the total number.
Syndication and Genre20152016
Network Shows2827
Streaming and Cable Shows1617
* = Veronica Mars' 2014 Movie put the fandom into classification in 2015 season before rule changes, which resulted the show belonging to Finished Shows for 2016.
The syndication table for this year also stands at 27 for network shows and 17 for streaming and cable services. Compared to last year, it's 28-16 for the network broadcast's favor. Not much of a difference despite one network show higher. Also, I had a confusion as for whether BBC (the original one) is a network or a cable channel, so I picked the latter all this time (same goes to BBC Two and BBC America, which is already a cable).
Syndications with Multiple Representatives (2016)
9ABC
6The CW
5CBS
4NBC
3TNT, FOX
2HBO, USA Network
Syndications with Multiple Representatives (2015)
9ABC
5The CW
4BBC, CBS, NBC
3FX Networks (FX and FXX)
2USA Network
Apart from that bombshell, ABC and The CW have the most represents starting 2015, both in general and for network channels. ABC has 9 represents for both 2015 and 2016 while The CW had 5 in 2015 and 6 in 2016. TNT on the other hand has the most represents among cable/streaming services with three fandoms in the competition, but it is the same number FX has for last year's competition, while BBC (not counting the America counterpart) only had one represent in the form of Doctor Who, while last year they had four which included In The Flesh, The Musketeers, and Sherlock.
Genre Representations20152016
Comedy21
Teen42
Sci-Fi/Fantasy1920
Drama1921
Finally, genre representations. The field is emphasized for Sci-Fi/Fantasy and Drama shows, while you don't see much Comedy and Teen shows competing, and that's just the general number, as if you only focus to the current shows, numbers for both mentioned genres are way worse, with Parks & Rec being the only Comedy eligible for classification, and The 100 and iZombie for the Teen genre, compared to last year where both Comedy and Teen had double the number of this year's while Drama and Sci-Fi/Fantasy shows both stood at 19. Last but not least, don't get me started with Animated shows, as nobody seems to invest on animated show titles in the competition, apart from The Simpsons which made its appearance once a long time ago.
THE RECAP
John Reese sprinting for the first day of Favorite TV Competition (Image: fanpop)
The competition started with sixteen days of Round 1 matchups, opened with POI taking up against the award-winning Downton Abbey which the former could easily take out by a 76% winning percentage, in conjunction with Chuck vs. Arrow (whose character Laurel Lance was the Character Cup's runner-up) which saw the former winning by 53%-47%. Emmy dominator Game of Thrones easily winning against its award-winning rival The Good Wife by 80%-20% in the ninth day of competition, whereas Orphan Black, whose actress also won an Emmy, also took out Blindspot with a 63% percentage of winning. Last year's runner-up for Favorite TV Competition Hannibal had otherwise a bad luck the following day, taken out by Battlestar Galactica within a 2 percent margin, same apply to competition winners Castle and LOST with Angel and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D taking their respective opponents out, and the same upset also struck Mr. Robot and The Americans (both of which were Emmy nominees) in which they were beaten by The Walking Dead and Leverage respectively. Fan favorites like Supernatural, Supergirl, Veronica Mars (which finally diminished The 100's run for World Fandom Championship title as a fandom), and Buffy soldiered through the first round, one-time winner Outlander bit Once Upon A Time's buns with a 61%-39% match, and finally the most recent phenomenon Stranger Things had no difficulties at all facing against The Closer, with a victory percentage of 74%.
Round 2 started in the seventeenth day of the competition, pitting POI against Chuck and Breaking Bad against 12 Monkeys with both POI and Breaking Bad advancing through. How to Get Away With Murder and Agent Carter both took out The Blacklist and Battlestar Galactica respectively, and Game of Thrones's journey to victory got even smoother after defeating The Walking Dead by a percentage of 66%-34%. The sixth day of Round 2 also pulled a surprise of its own in a form of Friends vs. The Flash matchup, where it ended up as a tie until we found out that The Flash won by merely ONE vote. The last two days saw key competitors Supernatural taking out Orphan Black in a fairly close game of 51%-49%, and Buffy finally put an end to Stranger Things's online competition debut with a winning percentage of 66% in Buffy's favor. This left 10 current shows (by the 2 year-rule standards a la WFC) soldiering on for the third round (+1 if you also count Veronica Mars, based on the fact that the TV fandom has a movie in 2014).
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As the Spring/Summer Fashion Week has already started prior to the 25th day of the competition, a dream match of POI vs. Breaking Bad and HTGAWM vs. Agent Carter took place, with all shows have a sizable fandom in its own right, but in the end, POI and Agent Carter topped their rivals with winning percentages of 63% and 57% respectively. Major Crimes took out S.H.I.E.L.D in one of the closest polls yet during the following day, as Outlander also managed to blaze past fan-favorite Angel in a final percentage of 64%-36%. Leverage and The Librarians shocked everyone after both fandoms ended Game of Thrones's and The Flash's journey respectively in the third Round 3 matchups, and the final day of the round saw Supernatural taking out Fringe by 55%-45% and Veronica Mars succeeding its arms race against Buffy with 58%-42%, much to everyone's surprise. Prior to the one-day break before Quarter Finals start, all eyes were on POI, Agent Carter, Outlander, Leverage, Supernatural, and Veronica Mars for the title.
After the break, the battle continued with an extended vote length of 48 hours that featured POI facing Agent Carter, Major Crimes with Outlander, Leverage against The Librarians, and Supernatural vs. Veronica Mars. These were the set of battles that, while some might be awfully-predictable, should be enough to be called as "the arms race to the victory lane". Beginning with POI against Agent Carter, which somehow mirrored last year's Character Cup Semifinal where Samantha Groves faced Peggy Carter, the CBS drama toppled the Marvel series by a final percentage of 52%-48%, while Major Crimes managed to tie Outlander into a 50-50, but a vote count investigation revealed that Major Crimes had stopped Starz's trump card by nine votes, not as close as the the Round 2 match between Friends and The Flash but still counted for the second tie in the competition. Leverage blazed through The Librarians' line of defense with 54% winning percentage, and lastly Veronica Mars slain Supernatural in a 43%-57% match, the second time the former defeated The WB/CW's best (three if you count The 100) and with a gap of 130 votes at disposal.
Parker from Leverage trying to find a secret formula to defeat Veronica Mars prior to the break before Semi-Finals commence. (Image:teresadelallo.blogspot)
Onto the Semi-Finals, current shows by WFC homologation Person of Interest and Major Crimes go head-to-head in a battle for the sure-fire full points in the WFC standings, while Leverage took on Veronica Mars for the supremacy of finished shows. POI successfully took out Major Crimes with a 58%-42% game, while Leverage stopped Veronica Mars on its tracks with 55%-45%. Even with its 2014 movie already released, Veronica Mars would be still viable for WFC standings, unfortunately as this is a television competition, VMars do not make the cut unlike last year, and by the time the Primetime Emmys has been aired, the competition has finally come to a full circle.
Person of Interest finally took on Leverage for the Final Round in the final day of the competition, while Major Crimes went up against Veronica Mars for the third place in the competition. In the early hours, POI one-upped Leverage by six percents (53%-47%), but at later hours the percentage went up to five percent to POI's favor, and it kept going up by the time the voting reached its mid-point, and there wasn't much that Leverage could do for the remainder of the matchup. On the other one, Major Crimes also started with a strong gap against Veronica Mars, but overtime the latter caught up and managed to minimize the gap, but like Leverage, there wasn't much to do. In the end, Person of Interest was named the 2016 Favorite TV Competition winner, and also managed to dominate all SpoilerTV competitions the second time in a row. Major Crimes won the third place against Veronica Mars, but at the end of the day, the final three were the Top 3 by the WFC rules.
Full bracket can be seen here, while the statistics for the Favorite TV Series competition in general can be seen in this post.
A FAREWELL GIFT
(Image: SpoilerTV)
Though this is the last time Person of Interest will be an active show in SpoilerTV competitions, and that somehow its time is numbered to snatch an extra People's Choice Awards trophy(ies) on the way, POI will continue competing in World Fandom Championship until at most 2018, judging by the "2-year cut-off rule" in the Championship. A total of four SpoilerTV wins (plus two if you count the Episode Competition too), one Zimbio TV Couples March Madness win, and a PCAs trophy within a short time was definitely a feat to be reckoned with. It is actually a sweet endgame for the fandom despite the series' ending.
For the following year in SpoilerTV, they will now compete under the Finished Shows banner, competing against the likes of Buffy and Veronica Mars, among others. Fighting in this new ground will open a new chapter for POI, and we might wonder whether the fandom's slayage still reside even after the show ends or not. At the end of the day, so long, and grazie, Person of Interest, and Sarah Shahi too, once again.
And as this post ends, the 2016 World Fandom Championship has officially ended! Stay tuned to see who won this season!
To be continued, in at least three days, hopefully...
~[R]
It's no secret that Person of Interest would effortlessly do well in online poll competitions, especially those hosted on SpoilerTV. In the Character Cup, Sameen Shaw took home the glory after defeating Arrow's Laurel Lance, while the Episode Competition held before the Character Cup also saw POI's episode "6,741" taking the victory. In the end, it was all too predictable, yet even if it is too predictable, it was the greatest goodbye gift for the fandom, especially when you think that POI actually ended its five-season run already and the main actors of the show already ventured somewhere. On that topic, has anybody seen Samantha Groves running wild Amy Acker in MacGyver?
To be honest, there weren't enough horses of mine that made it to the competition apart from Mr. Robot and Orphan Black, which I don't expect much from them because: 1) I have a taste so bad, my horses would lose at one point, and 2) I couldn't fervently campaign either of them within the twenty four hours of the match-up due to my real-life jostles. But, I can say that this year's Favorite TV Competition went really well, there isn't any noticeable mess going on in the competition (i.e., cheating, vote stuffing).
Before I proceed to the recap, let's take a look at the statistics and analytics for this year's running, and how it compares to the two previous years of the competition.
THE ANALYSIS
First thing's first, the bad news: no vote numbers. I thought that there would be a number breakdown like in the Character Cup's final post but sadly there isn't, after looking at the Final Words post where the numbers suggest that this year's voting numbers were lower than the last year. HOWEVER, after an e-mail exchange (read: conversation) with Bradley Adams himself, it was revealed that last year's exact number stood at 38,467 votes cast, with an average of 611, and the most votes cast lie in the final round of POI against Hannibal where it had 10,370 votes, the only round that surpassed the 10,000 mark ever. Two preceding rounds also had more than a thousand votes.
Other than that, this doesn't stop me to present another set of facts...
General Stats20152016
Nominations578338
Current Show Nominations137204
Finished Show Nominations374201
Current Shows Competing*4444
Finished Shows Competing*2020
* = Veronica Mars' 2014 Movie put the fandom into classification in 2015 season before rule changes, which resulted the show belonging to Finished Shows for 2016.
This year's nomination numbers stand at 137 for the current shows and 201 for the finished shows for a total of 338, while last year there were 578, split to 204 current and 374 finished. These numbers however in no way accurate by 100% because there were wrong submissions received. Again, these numbers are courtesy by Bradley Adams (thank you very much!).
While the competition pits 32 current and finished shows, by the 2 year-rule WFC imposes (in which only TV shows which aired their last episode within two years prior to the start of World Fandom Championship are classified; essentially, the cut-off year is 2014) there are actually 44 Current shows and 20 finished shows competing, same as last year's numbers, with Veronica Mars belonging to finished shows for this year despite that the 2014 movie helped the show be able to be classified in the World Championship standings, and it should be noted that this will be its last year ever to compete in WFC. I admit that, since this is a "just for fun" simulation, there's no clear rule for this, so I might address this in the next post.
From this point onward, all statistics are focused on the current shows within the WFC criteria.
Returning Fandoms20152016
Recurring from Character Cup3840
Current Shows Recurring from Character Cup3331
Returning from last year's Favorite TV Series-43
Current Shows Returning from last year's Favorite TV Series-28
And then there are fandoms which also made an appearance in Character Cup before this competition, which has a number of 38 fandoms this year compared to last year's 40. Despite the slightly lower number, there are more current shows that return to this competition than last year, namely POI, Agent Carter, Supernatural, and many more, while the other eleven are new to this competition, including Stranger Things, the new Netflix phenomenon that's also responsible for giving out PB & Js during the Emmys. Speaking of returns, 43 fandoms of last year's competitions do return, with 28 of them being the current shows, more than 50% of the total number.
Syndication and Genre20152016
Network Shows2827
Streaming and Cable Shows1617
* = Veronica Mars' 2014 Movie put the fandom into classification in 2015 season before rule changes, which resulted the show belonging to Finished Shows for 2016.
The syndication table for this year also stands at 27 for network shows and 17 for streaming and cable services. Compared to last year, it's 28-16 for the network broadcast's favor. Not much of a difference despite one network show higher. Also, I had a confusion as for whether BBC (the original one) is a network or a cable channel, so I picked the latter all this time (same goes to BBC Two and BBC America, which is already a cable).
Syndications with Multiple Representatives (2016)
9ABC
6The CW
5CBS
4NBC
3TNT, FOX
2HBO, USA Network
Syndications with Multiple Representatives (2015)
9ABC
5The CW
4BBC, CBS, NBC
3FX Networks (FX and FXX)
2USA Network
Apart from that bombshell, ABC and The CW have the most represents starting 2015, both in general and for network channels. ABC has 9 represents for both 2015 and 2016 while The CW had 5 in 2015 and 6 in 2016. TNT on the other hand has the most represents among cable/streaming services with three fandoms in the competition, but it is the same number FX has for last year's competition, while BBC (not counting the America counterpart) only had one represent in the form of Doctor Who, while last year they had four which included In The Flesh, The Musketeers, and Sherlock.
Genre Representations20152016
Comedy21
Teen42
Sci-Fi/Fantasy1920
Drama1921
Finally, genre representations. The field is emphasized for Sci-Fi/Fantasy and Drama shows, while you don't see much Comedy and Teen shows competing, and that's just the general number, as if you only focus to the current shows, numbers for both mentioned genres are way worse, with Parks & Rec being the only Comedy eligible for classification, and The 100 and iZombie for the Teen genre, compared to last year where both Comedy and Teen had double the number of this year's while Drama and Sci-Fi/Fantasy shows both stood at 19. Last but not least, don't get me started with Animated shows, as nobody seems to invest on animated show titles in the competition, apart from The Simpsons which made its appearance once a long time ago.
THE RECAP
John Reese sprinting for the first day of Favorite TV Competition (Image: fanpop)
The competition started with sixteen days of Round 1 matchups, opened with POI taking up against the award-winning Downton Abbey which the former could easily take out by a 76% winning percentage, in conjunction with Chuck vs. Arrow (whose character Laurel Lance was the Character Cup's runner-up) which saw the former winning by 53%-47%. Emmy dominator Game of Thrones easily winning against its award-winning rival The Good Wife by 80%-20% in the ninth day of competition, whereas Orphan Black, whose actress also won an Emmy, also took out Blindspot with a 63% percentage of winning. Last year's runner-up for Favorite TV Competition Hannibal had otherwise a bad luck the following day, taken out by Battlestar Galactica within a 2 percent margin, same apply to competition winners Castle and LOST with Angel and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D taking their respective opponents out, and the same upset also struck Mr. Robot and The Americans (both of which were Emmy nominees) in which they were beaten by The Walking Dead and Leverage respectively. Fan favorites like Supernatural, Supergirl, Veronica Mars (which finally diminished The 100's run for World Fandom Championship title as a fandom), and Buffy soldiered through the first round, one-time winner Outlander bit Once Upon A Time's buns with a 61%-39% match, and finally the most recent phenomenon Stranger Things had no difficulties at all facing against The Closer, with a victory percentage of 74%.
Round 2 started in the seventeenth day of the competition, pitting POI against Chuck and Breaking Bad against 12 Monkeys with both POI and Breaking Bad advancing through. How to Get Away With Murder and Agent Carter both took out The Blacklist and Battlestar Galactica respectively, and Game of Thrones's journey to victory got even smoother after defeating The Walking Dead by a percentage of 66%-34%. The sixth day of Round 2 also pulled a surprise of its own in a form of Friends vs. The Flash matchup, where it ended up as a tie until we found out that The Flash won by merely ONE vote. The last two days saw key competitors Supernatural taking out Orphan Black in a fairly close game of 51%-49%, and Buffy finally put an end to Stranger Things's online competition debut with a winning percentage of 66% in Buffy's favor. This left 10 current shows (by the 2 year-rule standards a la WFC) soldiering on for the third round (+1 if you also count Veronica Mars, based on the fact that the TV fandom has a movie in 2014).
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As the Spring/Summer Fashion Week has already started prior to the 25th day of the competition, a dream match of POI vs. Breaking Bad and HTGAWM vs. Agent Carter took place, with all shows have a sizable fandom in its own right, but in the end, POI and Agent Carter topped their rivals with winning percentages of 63% and 57% respectively. Major Crimes took out S.H.I.E.L.D in one of the closest polls yet during the following day, as Outlander also managed to blaze past fan-favorite Angel in a final percentage of 64%-36%. Leverage and The Librarians shocked everyone after both fandoms ended Game of Thrones's and The Flash's journey respectively in the third Round 3 matchups, and the final day of the round saw Supernatural taking out Fringe by 55%-45% and Veronica Mars succeeding its arms race against Buffy with 58%-42%, much to everyone's surprise. Prior to the one-day break before Quarter Finals start, all eyes were on POI, Agent Carter, Outlander, Leverage, Supernatural, and Veronica Mars for the title.
After the break, the battle continued with an extended vote length of 48 hours that featured POI facing Agent Carter, Major Crimes with Outlander, Leverage against The Librarians, and Supernatural vs. Veronica Mars. These were the set of battles that, while some might be awfully-predictable, should be enough to be called as "the arms race to the victory lane". Beginning with POI against Agent Carter, which somehow mirrored last year's Character Cup Semifinal where Samantha Groves faced Peggy Carter, the CBS drama toppled the Marvel series by a final percentage of 52%-48%, while Major Crimes managed to tie Outlander into a 50-50, but a vote count investigation revealed that Major Crimes had stopped Starz's trump card by nine votes, not as close as the the Round 2 match between Friends and The Flash but still counted for the second tie in the competition. Leverage blazed through The Librarians' line of defense with 54% winning percentage, and lastly Veronica Mars slain Supernatural in a 43%-57% match, the second time the former defeated The WB/CW's best (three if you count The 100) and with a gap of 130 votes at disposal.
Parker from Leverage trying to find a secret formula to defeat Veronica Mars prior to the break before Semi-Finals commence. (Image:teresadelallo.blogspot)
Onto the Semi-Finals, current shows by WFC homologation Person of Interest and Major Crimes go head-to-head in a battle for the sure-fire full points in the WFC standings, while Leverage took on Veronica Mars for the supremacy of finished shows. POI successfully took out Major Crimes with a 58%-42% game, while Leverage stopped Veronica Mars on its tracks with 55%-45%. Even with its 2014 movie already released, Veronica Mars would be still viable for WFC standings, unfortunately as this is a television competition, VMars do not make the cut unlike last year, and by the time the Primetime Emmys has been aired, the competition has finally come to a full circle.
Person of Interest finally took on Leverage for the Final Round in the final day of the competition, while Major Crimes went up against Veronica Mars for the third place in the competition. In the early hours, POI one-upped Leverage by six percents (53%-47%), but at later hours the percentage went up to five percent to POI's favor, and it kept going up by the time the voting reached its mid-point, and there wasn't much that Leverage could do for the remainder of the matchup. On the other one, Major Crimes also started with a strong gap against Veronica Mars, but overtime the latter caught up and managed to minimize the gap, but like Leverage, there wasn't much to do. In the end, Person of Interest was named the 2016 Favorite TV Competition winner, and also managed to dominate all SpoilerTV competitions the second time in a row. Major Crimes won the third place against Veronica Mars, but at the end of the day, the final three were the Top 3 by the WFC rules.
Full bracket can be seen here, while the statistics for the Favorite TV Series competition in general can be seen in this post.
A FAREWELL GIFT
(Image: SpoilerTV)
Though this is the last time Person of Interest will be an active show in SpoilerTV competitions, and that somehow its time is numbered to snatch an extra People's Choice Awards trophy(ies) on the way, POI will continue competing in World Fandom Championship until at most 2018, judging by the "2-year cut-off rule" in the Championship. A total of four SpoilerTV wins (plus two if you count the Episode Competition too), one Zimbio TV Couples March Madness win, and a PCAs trophy within a short time was definitely a feat to be reckoned with. It is actually a sweet endgame for the fandom despite the series' ending.
For the following year in SpoilerTV, they will now compete under the Finished Shows banner, competing against the likes of Buffy and Veronica Mars, among others. Fighting in this new ground will open a new chapter for POI, and we might wonder whether the fandom's slayage still reside even after the show ends or not. At the end of the day, so long, and grazie, Person of Interest, and Sarah Shahi too, once again.
And as this post ends, the 2016 World Fandom Championship has officially ended! Stay tuned to see who won this season!
To be continued, in at least three days, hopefully...
~[R]