Close Match Never Ends - 2019 SpoilerTV Character Cup Post
The 2019 edition of SpoilerTV Character Cup shall go down in the history books as the competition that served all sorts of firsts and exciting battles throughout the competition, starring some of the favorite TV characters in the world of TV fandom, and featuring a healthy amount of close battles throughout rounds. Defending champion Lucifer set to pull its second consecutive victory, while other shows will also seek for another title in what could be dubbed as the most special Character Cup yet, with all kinds of firsts.
The competition is the second of SpoilerTV's series of summer competition after the Episode Competition in which Lucifer won with "Save Lucifer" episode, a ringer to the show's fourth season campaign last year, completing the show's triple crown on the site after last year's Character Cup and Favorite Series Competition wins.
The competition has marked my fourth involvement in the competition, this time I'm back with full commitment after last year where I had to finish my final project on the go. The competition did not disappoint with what has been in store for this year, which I enjoyed my time there.
STATISTICS
Marking the sixth edition of the Character Cup (since Dahne's hosting), the statistics for this year's competition span from all-time stats (couting from 2014) to competition-specific stats, as well as those pertaining to competing characters and shows. Some of the general statistics are taken from the ranking and stats page Dahne compiled (warning: spoilers!) while the rest is self-compiled, comparing this year's numbers to the last five editions. To shake things up for the sake of better organization, I've re-structured the stats I'll be presenting here.
Let's start out with general stats based on the winner announcement page (contains competition spoilers), the number of shows and characters in this competition are up to 140 and 194 respectively, bringing in 15 new shows and 21 new characters for this year's competition of which I will break down in detail later. Following the absence of Once Upon a Time, The Originals, Sherlock, and The Walking Dead this year, the number of shows competing since 2014 is down to 13, whereas Sherlock Holmes' absence also meant that the character counterpart of the statistic down to 4; Raymond Reddington, Buffy Summers, The Doctor, and Dana Scully are still represented to this day. One-time competing shows were up to 46 from last year's 40 with the character counterpart increased from 98 last year to 105. Worth noting that for this year there are 15 new shows with 7 "graduating" from the "one-time" list, while for the characters there are 21 new competitors with 12 "graduating" from the list.
As for the votes for this year's competition, due to availability of the information (which will be addressed later), my estimation for the votes were within 100K given the Final Round voting's TV Talk topic revealed that this year's voting numbers were lower than last year's 126K. Dahne however confirmed that my estimation was wrong by about a half which means it could stand within the range of 50-60K, and is most probably lower than the 2017 numbers of 58K.
The finale post also revealed almost 400 character nominations made, which basically put it higher than the 2016. Not really much compared to the previous years, especially for the nominated shows which could be 50%-60% from the nominated characters number if you consider shows with multiple characters. Lower nomination head count doesn't mean decline though because, personally, multiple number of nominations per one character can be a factor as well.
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Shows competing for this year's Character Cup comprised of 49 returning shows, the record most in competition's history, and 15 new ones. The composition of 49 returning shows this year consists of 40 returning names from last year and 9 returning from absence at some point. There are, of course, notable debuts within the 15-strong grid: Dynasty, Schitt's Creek, and Whiskey Cavalier introduced themselves during Episode Competition earlier this month, while BoJack Horseman and One Day At A Time have competed two years earlier in the same competition though this is their first Character Cup to date, but the former's debut is a special one in that it is the first ever animated show contender in history. Old Favorite Series Competition contenders Stargate SG-1 and JAG also made their debut in this year's Character Cup, marking their return to SpoilerTV competitions after years of absence; the former was a Series Competition regular from 2010 to 2015 while the latter only appeared once in 2011 and has never be heard of again until recently (in addition to a potential revival of the show). NBC's The Good Place also made a proper debut after Eleanor Shellstrop failed to make it by the virtue of the actress rule last year despite competing in other competitions, with Janet fronting the campaign instead for this year. England's Gentleman Jack and A Discovery of Witches joined the fleet of fresh debutants along with first ever set of Mexican shows of Like, la leyenda, Mi marido tiene más familia (which you may be familiar with somewhere...), and its spinoff series Juntos, el corazón nunca se equivoca. The rest of the debutants are New Amsterdam and 9-1-1. Worth noting that 40% of the debuting shows are not officially covered by SpoilerTV.
Grey's Anatomy still leads in the all-time contribution list, having sent 5 different characters since 2014, with Jo being the latest addition. Just behind the ABC drama is Game of Thrones with Arya Stark as the show's fourth addition all-time, debuting in the same year as Grey's, and Battlestar Galactica's "Starbuck" Kara Thrace put the ended show to the all-time map as she became the third character in the roster, sitting with eight other shows in the list. The rest of the shows haven't had three multiple characters represented yet; 13 of this year's competing shows had their second characters competing, while 41 still loyal with their single represents.
As for the genres, sticking to the four main genres mainly used for the statistics (being Comedy, Teen, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, and Drama), the composition for this year favors the drama genre once more just like last year, while attendance for Comedy shows mirrors 2014's number of 6, miles better than last year's declining number and being consistently dropping since 2016. Teen drama attendance marked the record lowest for the past 6 years of the Cup, and the Sci-Fi/Fantasy attendance mirrors 2015's number of 22, second-lowest all-time. Interesting to note that the remaining contenders are actually categorized as Telenovela which is its own genre after checking their respective Wikipedia entries, breaking from the core four. That said, maybe I need to revamp the genre system, departing from just the core four plus Telenovela to others. Proposed additional genres include Animated shows (of which it's solely represented by BoJack Horseman this year, first time ever in the competition), Fantasy (separated from Sci-Fi), Superhero/Action (particularly those produced by DC and Marvel), and Crime (container for detective-themed shows, among others, separated from Drama). I might need to do further research first before proceeding with them as this will greatly impact the previous years' stats as well... (given that I'm kinda departing from the f_march_madness roots, just for the genres at least)
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In terms of characters, there are 21 debuting names and 43 returning names. Returning characters consist of 29 coming from last year and 14 making their appearances from their last year's absence, while the debuting competitors for this year consists of 6 originating from returning shows and 15 from new shows in contrast from last year's favor towards debutants from returning shows of 12. Returning with four mentioned characters who have competed in the past six years are notable names like Sam Winchester, Leo Fitz, Lucy Preston, and those marking appearances after an absence or two, for instance Kara Danvers (last competed 2016), Peggy Carter (2017), Donna Paulsen, and Clarke Griffin (2015) to name a few. Most of these names come from the 2017 competition, of which there are actually 11 names (Peggy included) from that year. Interestingly, all debuting competitors from last year whose shows return to the competition reprised their campaigns, being The Good Doctor's Shaun Murphy, The Handmaid's Tale's June Osborne (competing as Offred last year), Killing Eve's Villanelle, and Peaky Blinders' Thomas Shelby (as Tommy Shelby). As for the debuting names, Parker, Althea, Jo Wilson-Karev, Chloe Decker, Kara Thrace, and Arya Stark front their existing shows' campaigns while we say hello to the total debutants, including the three Telenovela contenders (Aris Córcega, Temo López, and Emilia Ruiz), and names like Max Goodwin, Fallon Carrington, Anne Lister, Janet, Elena Alvarez, David Rose, and Frankie Trowbridge to name a few.
Gender composition for this year favored towards female characters with 37 known, making it the second female-focused competition within the six years, the first time since 2017, and the second-most number compared to last year's well-balanced 32. Consequently, this also made the head count of male characters the second-lowest all-time, with the record head count stay at 33, achieved during 2014 and 2016 competitions. However, this year is made special in that given The Doctor's multiple identities with the recent one being a female Doctor portrayed by Jodie Whittaker, the character belongs to the "Others" category, the first occurence being so. The category is currently the general container for characters not specifically tied to any gender and is subject to change upon condition (i.e., a non-binary character competing). Without the category, the rough count would be 38-27.
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Over 22 networks represented for this year (regardless of status), most are your usual suspects whatever the syndication is. The total networks for this year matches that of 2017's, albeit with a different ratio: the composition for that year was 6 networks, 2 public broadcasts, 13 cable, and only one streaming (only Netflix was available at that time). Worth noting that this is the first year where another public broadcast network PBS does not return to the competition and that two cable networks Starz and A&E did not compete this year, all competed in 2017. On another note, this marks the highest participation of broadcast networks, especially looking at the fact that Canada's CBC counts as broadcast network and that Las Estrellas counts as a broadcast, although the exact position would be that it is a cornerstone network of Televisa's and that shows in the same network are mostly seen in American free-to-air network Univision, of all others (Wikipedia). Additionally, Sky One is counted as Cable, being a pay TV. Other notable facts to for this year is that this is the sixth year where all broadcast networks have at least one representatives (even the now-defunct The WB) and the second year Netflix and Hulu compete altogether in the streaming category. The only missing piece of the streaming puzzle is Amazon Prime where Mrs. Maisel almost made it to the final roster.
Show quantity-wise, this is the fourth consecutive time The CW swept the berths with at least three networks tailing behind with Netflix in between, but ABC also has the same number of entered shows, while NBC also managed to switch FOX's place from last year. The debut of Las Estrellas (network, not to be confused with an Argentinian telenovela of the same name) and CBC shook things up a bit in the network dynamics, most prominently the former with three shows in its debut. SyFy becomes the highest in the cable category with 3 shows, while FX, HBO, and AMC behind, and public broadcast networks sees its representation in BBC with only Doctor Who representing. Worth noting that despite Gentleman Jack is also aired on BBC One, the show counts towards the American broadcaster which is HBO since the show's premiere is aired in the US first.
New for this year is the nation of origin for competing shows. The existing years saw American, British, and Canadian shows competing, but Mexico is the latest addition to the mix with three shows represented. While there doesn't need to be a question on the number of American shows (with 53 shows), both Canada and Mexico are represented with 3 shows and United Kingdom 2. Last year saw 9 British shows, only one Canadian show, and 54 American shows. I haven't researched further on this for the remaining past editions but this will be expanded upon in the future.
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Last but not least is the same set of statistics but with my personal "2-year cutoff date" rule to determine shows still active and shows ended, inspired by FMM. This rule is used due to the fact that the competing characters involved also include those from long-ended shows, like Buffy Summers from instance. The original source material only uses the year cut-off with no specific date given, while existing stats I've wrote had a cut-off date of two years before the start of the first round, I've decided that the new cutoff date would be the start of the year in order to not overcomplicate things up, meaning that for this year the cutoff date is actually January 1, 2017, same for the previous years, though this doesn't affect much as most of the ended shows were just above the given date, unless if we go to Favorite Series Competition which is something I will visit another time.
The definitions of the show statuses are also intact, depending on the final airdate prior to the first round of the competition: "active" shows refer to those still airing during the competition, while "current" shows refer to those ended prior to the competition, but are either renewed for another season, had a TV movie or a special, or anything as long as it is not cancelled by the network. Finally, "ended" shows are those whose final season has been finished prior to the competition or that it is cancelled by the network. For streaming shows, it simulates weekly airing from the day the show's new season arrives to determine its status. This is done because personal research on individual streaming shows proved that Netflix and Hulu are different ballparks altogether.
Going by this definition, there are 40 current shows and 24 ended, with the complete composition being 9 still airing during the competition (two of them are from Netflix shows), 30 still active for another TV season, 11 ended after 2017, and 14 ended below 2017, a new all-time record for both categories. This year's active shows tied last year's numbers while this year also sees the lowest all-time current shows, a sacrifice made for the expanded finished show entries. Although the line-up is predominant with current shows like usual, there are more ended shows competing this year.
There are some points of interests here regarding on statuses: while Veronica Mars' latest season on Hulu has been available, it was released two days after the first round has started, so it actually competed under the "ended show" banner for this competition. However, provided that the show could make it to the Favorite Series Competition roster this year, the show will indeed compete with updated airdate and network. Meanwhile, One Day At A Time competed as a "current" show thanks to PopTV's announcement that it will take over the show's continuation in June, though the show's last airdate and netwo- uhh... streaming service are intact for this year's competition. Jessica Jones has the final 13 episodes released on Netflix on June 14 with the "simulation" got them to the 5th episode out of 13, earning the show's "active" status this way which will last until September 6, same goes to Stranger Things where the simulated airing got them to the 2nd episode out of 8 released and will retain its "active" status until August 25. Suits meanwhile has just started airing its ninth and final season within the first round which also put them to the list as well. Other shows still airing during the competition's run include The Handmaid's Tale, The 100, Fear The Walking Dead, Jane the Virgin, S.H.I.E.L.D., and Juntos el corazón nunca se equivoca.
To correct a bit on the 2018 stats, I've mistaken Shadowhunters' airing status as "ended" while in fact it would set to have its series conclusion in February this year, meaning the show actually belonged to the "current" category, effectively making last year's competition made up of 36 current shows and 9 ended shows within the cutoff date, though it didn't affect much as the numbers still stand as they were. I knew that the show already announced that the third season will be its last, but I didn't aware the second part of the season (which also holds its series finale) is in fact aired in 2019.
The year filter for countries doesn't affect much for shows originating from the UK and Mexico although the latter has 2 ended shows with 1 currently airing at that time, while all of the English shows are still current. For Canadian shows, Stargate SG-1 is the sole representative far away from the 2017 cutoff while both Wynonna Earp and Schitt's Creek are set to air their latest season in the future. Lastly, three-quarters of the American shows competing are within the cutoff year, with five still airing, 27 currently active, and 8 ended after 2017.
In the network's standpoint, only 19 of the networks listed way above have their shows within the cutoff date; for broadcast networks, 80% of The CW's entire fleet have their latest runs within 2017, while for ABC and FOX's case it's half of their line-up, and CBS only have one ended show below 2017 (the newcomer JAG). The only network with shows ended within the cutoff year is NBC, whose line-up consists entirely of current shows and Timeless whose run ended in December 2018. In the cable region, SyFy only has one current show with HBO, FX, and AMC having all the shows last aired above 2017 in their line-up. In the streaming region, all 6 entered shows are last aired within 2017, but Netflix has two of them folded this year. Finally, shows from public networks and international networks are unaffected.
Concluding the statistics for this year, we see 17 male and 21 female characters from currently active shows competing, plus The Doctor, of which 7 female and 2 male characters still have their shows currently airing. 6 male and 5 female characters originate from ended shows above 2017, while the remaining 10 female and 4 male characters come from shows ended before 2017. Statistics for earlier years will be covered on the upcoming 2019 SpoilerTV Competition Suite spreadsheet.
COMPETITION RECAP
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The first round lasted for four days with four set of polls being posted each day. On Day 1, top seed Eleven was expected to easily crush Lorelai Gilmore until the final result declared otherwise, the first all-time occurence in the competition where the top seed is eliminated by 22 votes. Last year's third placer Buffy Summers also had to concede against Criminal Minds's Spencer Reid, ending her campaign way earlier than expected. Sam Winchester sent Schitt's Creek's David Rose packing with a 56% percentage victory, while Fallon Carrington managed to fail Supergirl's second round campaign for the second time, this time with Kara Danvers. Despite their elimination, the three mentioned went home with the most votes for losing competitors. As for the Mi Marido derby between Aris and Temo, it resulted in the former advancing to the next round. The second day saw favorites The Doctor, Lucy Preston, Veronica Mars, Caitlin Snow, Leo Fitz, and Chloe Decker winning their respective polls while Walter Bishop narrowly ended The Good Place's debut run by 5 votes. The third day saw another Telenovela contender Emilia Ruiz coming on top, as well as Elena Alvarez from One Day At A Time. The superhero faceoff in Oliver Queen vs. Jessica Jones ended up with the latter taking the narrow victory by 8 votes, whereas Wynonna Earp finally progressed through the Handmaid herself June Osborne. The final day saw the remaining winners Sara Lance, Sheldon Cooper, Clarke Griffin, Althea, Jake Peralta, and Magnus Bane advancing through.
The second day consisted of two days with own set of polls being run. All ten polls for the first day were incredibly close and lead switches happened often. Lorelai had to concede against Temo's strength for this round while Spencer Reid gave it his all in an attempt to overthrow Sam Winchester, of which he failed and marked the second time Supernatural go past the second round this year after Episode Competition. Lucy Preston from Timeless also managed to overthrow The Good Doctor's contingent Shaun Murphy after hours of hard fight with the latter kept catching on throughout the poll. Another DC vs. Marvel showdown also took place with Leo Fitz vs. Caitlin Snow with the S.H.I.E.L.D. scientist able to overcome the S.T.A.R. Labs' bio-engineer turned Killer Frost. The main highlight of the day however was Villanelle against Max Goodwin where the poll ended up in a 50-50 tie until it is revealed that the Killing Eve character subdued the New Amsterdam contender by 5 votes, one of the closest polls for this year. The remaining polls were run the day after with most ended up in expected fashion with victories from Arya Stark, Peggy Carter, Raymond Reddington, Sara Lance, and Clarke Griffin. The battle between Jake Peralta and Magnus Bane was the main headline for the day as Jake scored a surprise win by 7 votes, defeating one of the clear favorites to pave his way further in the campaign.
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The third round provided more interesting derbies in the competition, with one of them being the time-travel derby between Lucy and Doctor Who's The Doctor (incidentally the second time Lucy battled a doctor). The poll was close throughout the round, but at the end of the day it was once again Lucy who managed to take the victory, advancing herself to the next round with the opponent being Leo Fitz after fighting tooth-to-nails against this year's dark horse Fallon Carrington, being the competition's most-voted poll, with the victor raking up 68% of votes. Temo and Sam were also set to meet each other after winning against Villanelle and Kate Beckett respectively, same with Red and Peralta who also defeated fan favorites Sara Lance and Clarke Griffin respectively. Arya Stark's journey had to end by about 1% of the poll's votes with Peggy keeping Agent Carter's title contention alive, with the opponent being Lucifer's second title attempt of Chloe Decker after defeating Jessica Jones in what could also be dubbed as the Netflix derby, both being shows from said streaming service.
The fourth round however was when things got heated up as the final eight contenders fought for survival. The first hour saw Peggy leading the battle against Chloe, but the Lucifer character caught wind a couple of hours later, and saw the former struggling for the lead exchange although she was unable to eventually take the lead back, resulting in Chloe's win, set to go up against Peralta who amazingly resisted Red's opposition after two hours of leading. Lucy Preston meanwhile was able to take the lead she had in the early hours against Fitz somewhere within the two-thirds of the battle, but it was Fitz in the end who managed to conquer the remainder of the round. The first poll however was a battle to remember in which the Winchester managed to take the lead from the last Telenovela standing, leading for about 8 hours before Temo took it back from him. Despite Sam's attempt to regain lead, it was all too late with Temo advancing to the semifinal where Fitz awaits. Amazingly, all polls ended up in a close manner, and resulted in a final percentage of 51% to 49% in favor to the winners.
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The semifinal set the stage for Temo vs. Fitz and Chloe vs. Peralta. In the former, Temo built up a large lead with Fitz continously gaining despite drops at some point. However, the Mexican contender proved too strong for the scientist to cope with, guaranteeing him of the place in the final round. In the latter, however, things are much closer with Chloe holding her lead in the first quarter of the poll, with Peralta closing in and taking the lead back after the 12th hour mark. Chloe's hopes in the final shrunk with Peralta establishing the pace throughout the second half, although the Lucifer fandom made gains. This result guaranteed Jake Peralta a place in the finals, marking the first time a character from a Comedy show reaching the finals.
The final round was straightforward given that Temo held the 8x% percentage mark almost the entire poll from the first hour, despite not making any further gains as Fitz attempted to catch up to the lead, easily giving Temo the title. The third place battle however closed in a surprising manner as Fitz caught Chloe's wind during her lead and consistently gained over time after the second half of the voting, bringing up the 50/50 finish in favor of Fitz with the confirmed exact winning percentage being 50.4%, failing Chloe's third place. The final five hours of the voting was where Fitz's power awakened to give S.H.I.E.L.D. its first bronze medal in process after going no further than 47% 19 hours since the poll opened.
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With this victory, Cuahtemoc "Temo" López is officially the sixth winner in the competition, with the show Mi marido tiene más familia named as the fifth different winner all-time. Additionally, this is the first time in the competition's history that a foreign, non-English show won the competition, and the first time for the Telenovela genre as well. Brooklyn Nine-Nine also finished within the Top 10 ranking for two years straight, and marked its best finish this year. Other MVPs for the competition include Leo Fitz who held the most total votes from this year's competition, Fallon Carrington who had the biggest improvement in the final rankings from the initial seeding, and Tommy Shelby whose ranking improvement is the highest out of the returning participants. Complete statistics on the competition can be seen here.
The mini-competition this year meanwhile revolved around shows that lasted for only one season, with eight contenders competing in this competition, including first round eliminee Whiskey Cavalier and other notable names such as Firefly, Almost Human, The Secret Circle, and Forever. At the end of the day, it was Firefly who became the Mini-contest winner.
PREDICTIONS & WHATNOT
Let's start with predictions; compared to my last years' predictions, this year's predictions were actually positive even if it was not 100%. While there was a struggle for the first set of polls, I actually had a majority of them guessed right and had somekind of a topsy-turvy condition with favorites like Magnus Bane and Kara Danvers didn't go too far (especially for the former). The TV Scoop Awards voting which ran within the same timeline as the competition (and with the fact that there were lots of polls to vote on) impacted a couple of fandoms which might saw earlier exits in the competition, especially my own Wynonna Earp.
This year's lucky reference goes to Japanese anime sensation Neon Genesis Evangelion of which my prediction took its namesake from: The Cruel Angel's Bachelor's Thesis, which combines the opening song title with the fact that I've finished my Bachelor's thesis this year. As for the wishlist, it was named "Another RnTheAndrian: His Mind Post-Area 51 Raid" because Area 51 memes are probably still a hot topic from the time of this post (and I still wonder why people suddenly wants to raid Area 51 *thinking emoji*). As said before, this is my fourth involvement in the competition, both in general and the prediction contest, while this marked my third for wishlist since I was absent in that contest.
As far as the prediction went, I had 24 out of 32 correct predictions in the first round which became my new personal record, beating out my 2016 attempt. In the next round, I had 10 out of 16 correct in second, not a record per se but it's better than the last two years. The third round was as average as last year with 4 out of 8 correct, and even the next one matched my average of 2 correct predictions out of 4, in which my record in that round is 3 in 2017. As unfortunate the Final Four went, I actually managed to pitch one correct finalist, Temo Lopez, and apparently his victory meant that I officially won the prediction contest, something I'd never expect to be. I noticed that I do kept getting better in every year when it comes to predictions, but this year actually saw my ultimate form; not only I managed to finish within the Top 10 of the prediction out of 40 competing this year, but also won the contest as well, even winning the wishlist contest as well (another one out of my expectations). I guess fourth time's a charm, no?
But even then part of me felt like I don't deserve the victory, judging on the outcome of the Chloe vs. Jake battle. The thing is, Luana and I were close come Final Four with myself tailing with 40 correct picks to Luana's 41. Luana pitched Chloe to win while I pitched Temo to win with Chloe in the final round. If Chloe actually won the battle, both of us would have 42 correct picks, 74 points at disposal, and a sudden death setting. My final round situation would see the Lucifer fandom go all-out a la 2018 against the Aristemo fandom which has brought both of their characters fighting for the win to this competition along with above prediction contest situation, but in the end it was just a dream and everything felt like it's too predictable, especially out from the couple competition back in April/May. Nonetheless, I take the victory. Other than that, completing the top 3 in the Prediction Contest is the host Dahne1 with 58 points and 38 correct picks, while the rest of the top 3 names in the Wishlist were Maria Sol with 36 correct picks and a prediction by the name "Predicción MMTMF" eight correct picks apart from the second place but has 52 points, enough to slingshot past others with better correct picks but lesser points.
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And then there's the more technical aspect talk which you might recognize if you read too much of my other competition recaps. For this year's competition, I laid back on poll monitoring in the early rounds in exchange of my job search, and effectively began to do it on the fourth round (the quarterfinals) of the competition after researching the widgets via Page Source. Unfortunately, with the updated code, I couldn't able to find the number of votes within the polls like I used to, so it was once again settled by percentages. I also learned that it also applies to other polls as well, meaning that the source code is updated by the OpinionStage platform themselves. Even I couldn't find the number of votes in previous years which was a possibility last year around, but thankfully I managed to record-keep them all for statistical purposes. As I said above in the Analysis section, votes for this year's competition are estimated within 50-60K with no revelation on individual numbers for each poll.
This however would mean that the bracket composition for my upcoming spreadsheet will only feature the final percentage, with the final ranking featured will be based on what posted on Dahne's page. The competition's bracket can be found in this link but I've compiled my own which also includes results and the individual status of each poll (e.g. closest poll, highest polls, etc.), plus the mini-contest results, which you see the full version by clicking the image.
To anyone expecting a spreadsheet for this year's competition, please do look forward for the 2019 SpoilerTV Competitions Suite which should be released after the Favorite Series Competition ends, the ultimate competition on the site! This will include more in-depth statistics for all competitions including this one!
CONCLUSION
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Once again, after 64 contenders became one, the inevitable happened; the first ever non-English show to become a victor in the character competition. Temo López, the half of Aristemo, did what the other non-English show characters hasn't able to: winning the Character Cup, let alone making it to the final roster. The 2017 saw Isak Valtersen from SKAM almost making it to the final competition, but failed to do so. Fast forward two years later where international shows started to gain ground in the competiiton, albeit some almost made it to the nomination poll. Yet, he, along with Aris Córcega and Emilia Ruiz, finally embarked the new journey of which he has become the last one standing, succeeding Lucifer Morningstar's throne, despite his win can be considered as a controversial one, judging by his show that almost nobody on the site has ever heard of, the same fate that a certain couple competition has endured for three years straight. On another note, this shall not be the last we see of either of the three, especially the couple.
The battle continues as the SpoilerTV competition continues to the upcoming SpoilerTV Awards, of which you can follow the progress on the competition by following SpoilerTV on Twitter and check the site as you wait!
That said, I'm gonna think about what kind of post I'll be making next...
~[R]