[Poll] Vote on your favourite Protagonist! [Two-day poll: Pokémon Masters]

[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 4 sets of up to 4*** winners, and then take the top two options 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

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.

Thanks to PoryKid575 and Arcaneum for CSS.

 

[bobandbill]

Besides Masters (or MastersEX...), what are Scottie and Bettie's favourite Pokemon game?

Spoiler:

Pokemon X, because they clearly hate the letter 'Y'

 

[Rock_Salazar]

The most bland designs I've seen. But I'll go with Scottie because green hasn't been done yet.

 

[Alex_Among_Foxes]

Scottie looks like someone I'd want to be friends with lol. My vote's for him.

 

[nl4real]

Blaaaaaand. But Scottie's collar is weirdly big so I went with Bettie.

 

[Palamon]

Sorry, man enjoyers, I am picking Bettie this time. I think her pose has more personality.

 

[Explorer of Time]

I picked Scottie since I like the green color scheme he has. Apart from that, they're both quite bland.

 

[Sheep]

I agree - definitely very bland protagonists. I voted Bettie though, but I'm probably indifferent in regards to them?

 

[Rock_Salazar]

I can't believe I'm saying this, but c'mon Scottie!

 

[Janp]

Yeah, these two certainly reflect the state of creativity in modern Pokémon. And that's not a compliment. I'm voting Bettie, because I like her colour scheme better.

 

[RefinedPlat]

Technically, shouldn't all the protagonists be listed on the Masters EX poll?

 

[Palamon]

Weird polls are tied here. Wonder who will win then?

 

[bobandbill]

Technically, shouldn't all the protagonists be listed on the Masters EX poll?

Nah, they're not the person you play as and start as right from the beginning (and can even rename). Also that'd be a very long poll...

Weird polls are tied here. Wonder who will win then?

So the Google Form we use for other platforms was a bit of a graveyard for this one. Actually votes were down for this right across the board. I suppose that reflects some comments here on them - people don't particularly know nor care about these guys.

But on Twitter, Scottie had a two vote lead, so the man in green gets through!



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Next poll will be between a selection of winners from previous polls. Here's how it will work:

• 5 polls each made up of 4 winners.
  • Characters are seeded based on votes in their own round, and then randomised into each group of 4. I did the seeding to avoid having 4 very popular or niche, etc. people in the same poll.
• The winning character from each poll goes through (5 winners) to semifinals
  • The remaining three slots will go to the three best second-place characters. So even if someone comes second, they could still continue on.
• The semi-finals will have 2 sets of 4. Top two go through to the final...
  • Again some seeding will happen - best four winners will get priority.
• Final poll out of 4 people!
• Each poll will last 5 days (Sunday - Friday).

It starts tomorrow, so chance for any feedback on the above is... now!

 

[Palamon]

That works for me. I think randomized is the best way to go for this.

 

[nl4real]

Alright, let's get it on!

 

[GYM LEADER SEGADUDE]

Red or Gold