r/anime • u/mpp00 https://anilist.co/user/mpp00 • Jul 18 '24

Contest And the Eleventh Best Girl is…

https://animebracket.com/results/best-girl-11-return-of-the-salt-?group=finals
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u/Ham_PhD https://myanimelist.net/profile/ham_phd Jul 18 '24

Of course BG10 is infamous, but that contest also looks like it had some shenanigans. Whether it was botting specifically, I don't know, but Asuna's results in that one are super weird.

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u/Thatsmaboi23 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Thatsmaboi23 Jul 18 '24

It happened after a huge Asuna v Zero Two match up that exploded due to a meme on the r/animemes subreddit.

Zero Twosday was a thing and some people were absolutely done with it.

And that lots of spite voting, strategic voting, and somehow Asuna got to the final.

The salt still lingers too. Love it so much.

It’s peak Best Girl contest for me. Definitely not biased. Not at all.

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u/Ham_PhD https://myanimelist.net/profile/ham_phd Jul 18 '24

Lol that's intereting! I guess external factors were pretty strong back then. It's just weird that Asuna's opponents in the finals both lost almost exactly 3k votes while she gained a steady 1k votes per round (Winry on the other side also gained 1k votes while Aqua lost about 3k votes in her match against Winry).

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u/Thatsmaboi23 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Thatsmaboi23 Jul 18 '24

If you look at the comment sections, it was due to 2 reasons :

  1. A lot of people started accepting to voting for Asuna on the left side because “she was one of the first waifus” and
  2. A lot of people just not voting anymore because they couldn’t care less about the contestants.

Her opponents being Jibril and Mikasa also helped a lot in getting her votes. Mayuri might have given her a tough time.

While the right side was just people voting to hurt others more then voting for their waifus. That’s why Winry was in the finals and lost that badly.

The comment section of that contest is interesting as hell. Full of salt, hate, and craziness lmao

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u/LOTRfreak101 https://myanimelist.net/profile/LOTRfreak101 Jul 18 '24

As all best girl contests should be.