EoFF RPG Thunderdome!

[Wolf Kanno]

It did, but it will always have an asterisk on this win seeing how it was eliminated in a prior match and only made back in by voting. Still, the game is well beloved, so it's no surprise it would dominate a lot regardless of the category system.

I ended up liking the category system because it did keep the roster more interesting and competitive in the early stages. As usual, the major factor of the tournament was recognition. Some games survived longer than they probably would have thanks to the high amount of niche support on this forum, while some others had the opposite issue and lost quickly because only two people had played the game at most. Lots of rounds has abstentions which allowed a few games to last longer or go out faster than I anticipated so I'm pretty content with the way things turned out. Had it been a straight popularity contest, I feel some games would have excelled longer (probably a lot of the Final Fantasy series) while a lot of niche titles would have never made it past the second round. I also found it amusing how often Western games seemed to always wind up going head to head with each other.