Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary - EoFF's Ultimate Character Showdown (Nominations)

[Shauna]

Happy Birthday Final Fantasy!

So, I don't know whether you've heard of this series - Final Fantasy, it's a pretty niche thing - but it is turning 30 this year. So old. Join us in celebrating EoFF's namesake in its big milestone!

To kick off the celebrations, which will ^hopefully see various events and such running throughout the rest of the year, we are going to have a character tournament! Yes, I know, such an original idea.

A Character Tournament? I cannot contain my excitement, tell me more!

But which characters will be included in this? There are literally millions of characters to choose from!

That's where I need your input, friends! Please send in via PM to me a maximum of 10 Final Fantasy characters of your choice. Use whatever criteria you want for nominating them! Maybe you like the frill of their socks? That is fine.

The 32 characters with the most nominations will be randomly seeded, and they will each go head to head until we vote the ultimate champion! I can only hope that we see an upset like the IX vs X-2 battle we had a few years ago! What an exciting time that was!

Get your nominations in by Friday 4th August and we'll get this party started!

Is that it?!

No no, there's one more thing... There has been a generous offer made! Three A number of lucky participants will get a neat prize! Well, okay, it's not that neat. Times are tough, and we're not inventive to do something more fancy.

The three number of lucky participants will get any Steam game of their choice*! Ain't that swell? The more you participate in the overall tournament the higher your chances of winning. There will be one winner announced per week of the tournament. So please, get involved!No, this is not begging or bribery.


So, what are you waiting for? Get nominating, nerds!


*Up to a value of $30; for those that do not have Steam, we will discuss an alternative means of providing you with your prize

[Bubba]

Do they need to be playable characters or any character?

[Shauna]

Any character at all! I mean preferably with a name for ease, but if you wanna nominate "Stay Away from the Summoner" Lady, then by all means.

[LunarWeaver]

C'mon, kid, you got this.

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[Shauna]

Thank you for the nominations so far!

I am surprised already at some of the characters who have multiple nominations. Interesting indeed.

[Dat Matt]

I'm gonna vote the most niche of characters that no one else will vote!

[Karifean]

I'm voting for the actual good characters because I know nobody else will.

[Shauna]

I'm gonna vote the most niche of characters that no one else will vote!

same

Competition is cancelled

[Loony BoB]

I just voted for the ten I love most. Don't ruin this thing with tactical voting!

Narrowing this down from eleven to ten was legitimately difficult. I had to cut a character I am very dear to.

[Night Fury]

Done

[Darth Ganon]

This was a little harder than I expected. I tried to just go with feeling rather than over thinking my choices... with a couple joke ones thrown in for my amusement.

[Shauna]

Thank you to my 10 nominees so far! Only 4 days left to get your favourite characters in!

I gotta say, I'm surprised at some of the characters whose names haven't popped up yet. I would have thought they were more popular!

[Psychotic]

Voted for my 10! I tried to pick 5 boys, 5 girls and each one from a different FF. ...although I may have counted XIII and XIII-2 as two FFs. Bloody hell, I don't even like the XIII trilogy!

[Shauna]

We actually have 25 characters with two nominations or more, so hopefully I'll get enough noms in that I won't require any more from people who have already nominated!

Not to mention, I haven't nominated anyone so...

[Lyndis Highwind]

Do we just send in their names, or do we give reasons for nominating them as well?