[Poll] Vote on your favourite Protagonist! [Finals: Round 2!]

[bobandbill]

Vote on your Favorite Protagonist!​

Hello and welcome to a new multi-platform event, that will last several weeks!

In this event, your objective is to vote for your favorite Pokémon protagonist across a series of polls. To begin, we will start by region*, and see who is the favourite protagonist from each area**. Afterwards, the winner will form a tournament round, where we will do 5 sets of up to 4*** winners, and then take the winners and 3 best-second-place protags from there into 2 sets of four, then a final poll.

Where can I vote?

You can vote for the first set of people in this thread at the top - the Kanto nominees! You can also vote on our social media pages: Twitter (will use its own poll system), Bluesky (a Google poll), Instagram (a Google poll) and Facebook (a Google poll). Yes, it's better to not go around voting multiple times, but we won't be monitoring things that closely. But don't cheat, that's just boring. This means the winner of each poll will be from all polls (here, Twitter, Google poll) added together, not per platform.

Polls will run roughly 4 days, and be posted every week as a new thread (or on social media, as a new post). We may speed things up for the spin-off regions.

Meanwhile, share some propaganda for your pick each week! Take about why you're voting for your character, and make fun of the others (respectfully, of course). We'll also use the results and input for a Daily article summarising the whole event once it ends.

* Hisui will be treated as separate to Sinnoh.
** Spinoff games will also be considered! Orre will feature, while we will also consider the Ranger games' regions separately, but lump the Snap/New Snap regions (and hence protagonists) together.
*** We may see what the Legends: Z-A protags look like before we hit the tournament phase... pending TPC(i). If so, we'll do a poll on them! Otherwise, one set of 4 polls will have less options... Or we can consider a second chance for the losing protag with the most amount of votes!

Rules

1. No Trolling - This includes things like voting on behalf of other users, inputting joke responses in the Google Forms, using bots or creating alt accounts to try and game the voting system, and other dishonest activities. Please don't do that stuff.
2. Have Fun - We all love Pokémon, and we hope that you derive enjoyment and have a good time with this event!

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns regarding this event, feel free to contact bobandbill.

Previous Polls

By region/game:

Kanto: Red, in a narrow win over Leaf! Chase and Elaine were well behind.
Johto: Kris, in another narrow win over Gold! In fact, Gold won on the forums, but not in the other two platforms. Lyra was a distant third.
Hoenn: May, in the first clear victory in these series of polls. Brendan and his hat were no match.
Sinnoh: Dawn, who basically murdered poor Lucas in the polls.
Unova: Hilda, in a very narrow victory over Rosa (only 2 votes as the difference). This time third place had a respectable turnout (Hilbert), while Nate did okay but was comfortably fourth.
Orre: Wes won out - Michael got some votes especially on Twitter, but couldn't keep up with the cool teen.
Kalos (XY): Serena. It was even on Twitter, but everywhere else, especially on the forums, she ran out comfortably.
Alola: Selene won on each poll convincingly. Chicken hat too powerful!
Galar: Gloria was the victor... over Victor. Every poll was won.
Fiore (Ranger 1): Solana won by a couple votes, after the polls all together were tied! Lunick was so close there.
Almia (Ranger 2): Kellyn wins, and breaks the streak of female protagonists winning!
Oblivia (Ranger 3): Summer won across all polls - close on Twitter, but on the forums pretty one-sided.
Hisui: Akari won with a bit over twice the number of votes overall.
Paldea: Juliana won by a similar amount over Julian.
Snap games: Todd Snap wins! The OG won out over two others with no obvious name available.
Legends: Z-A: Paxton wins! It was tight, but he did come ahead in every poll, even if in two of them he won by 1 vote.
Conquest: Hero won after a slow start! Heroine did win the Twitter poll by 1 vote however.
TCG 2: Mint won with twice the votes on the forum, although Twitter's poll was tied.
PBR: Cyndy won by a mere two votes! It was tied on Twitter and the Google form.
Masters: Scottie won by 2 votes on Twitter, and was tied on the forum poll in the lowest turnout.

Finals:

Round 1: Red won by 4 votes over Hilda in a tight affair, despite Hilda winning on the forums. Will she make the semi finals? Paxton came third and Kellyn had... a few votes, actually.

Thanks to PoryKid575 and Arcaneum for CSS.

 

[bobandbill]

Here they are! 4 girls this time (not too surprising given how many of them won). Get voting, and remember, 2nd place's performance matters!

 

[Palamon]

I'm going with nostalgia here, so Dawn.

 

[nl4real]

Hard one, but I have to go with a PC that actually got a lead role in the anime.

 

[Alex_Among_Foxes]

Oof, this is a tough one for me. Summer takes it for fashion, but I'm the most attached to Ashley Dawn from my first run of Platinum... >.>I think I'll go with Ashl- Dawn here, cause that was an especially good playthrough for me.

 

[Rock_Salazar]

Dawn

 

[Explorer of Time]

Summer > Gloria > Juliana > Dawn

I'm kind of sad that nobody else is voting for Summer so far. Hopefully she gets a few more votes by the time this round is over, even if she doesn't make it to Round 3.

 

[Janp]

I'm surprised by how easy this one is for me when compared to the last one. Dawn is easily the best one or of these.

 

[nl4real]

I like Gloria because of her design and the Scottish memes it inspired, but Dawn is the only one here who was a major character in the anime, which is the best opportunity to flesh out a character. In fact, I believe Dawn won a poll on here for best traveling companion of Ash's. I suspect she's the one to beat for the last round.

 

[Palamon]

I didn't vote for Juliana but the lack of votes for her both surprising and simultaneously not surprising at the same time.

 

[nl4real]

I didn't vote for Juliana but the lack of votes for her both surprising and simultaneously not surprising at the same time.

Unfortunately, the school uniform concept made creating a unique design difficult, by my reckoning. It funny, since Spain and Portugal (from what I've read) don't typically have uniforms in public schools. In fact if this Wikipedia map is correct, then the UK seems to be in the extreme minority as far as Europe is concerned with public schools.

 

[Sheep]

Gloria for me!

Dawn is one of the protagonists I care very little about, mostly because I just do not care for her design very much lol. But Gloria is adorable!

 

[Trainerorigin]

I know next to nothing about Paldea apart from the Pokemon in it, so I don't know Juliana that much (just learned her name from this right now).

Never even heard or seen Summer before this, although her fit is immaculate. I would've voted for her just for that.

But the poll says Favorite, so she's out to in good faith.

Now it's between Possible Team Magma Grunt Dawn and Our Glorius Scottish Queen Gloria.

Now Gloria hold's a large chunk of my heart due to the above scottish memes and that guy on youtube that does hilarious SFM stuff with her and some Pokemon.

But Dawn's best girl #...5? I think? And I actually managed to get an emulator to play her games.

She's also pretty neat in the anime, although Serena technically won out in the shipping wars. She's the reason I play contests at all.

...Tough choice...

Gonna have to be Gloria, I think.

 

[Elite Overlord LeSabre™]

Dawn is very clearly the winner here.