Christi Junior on Nostr: ROUND 2, MATCH 2: 8th Seed Remilia Scarlet (Touhou) VS 9th Seed Lappland (Arknights) ...
ROUND 2, MATCH 2:
8th Seed Remilia Scarlet (Touhou) VS 9th Seed Lappland (Arknights)
Remilia: 65 votes
Lappland: 72 votes
With Samus back to looking like her old, unbeatable self, the rest of Remilia’s journey for this tournament seemed painfully predictable: defeat yet another Gacha girl in round 2, and then lose the rematch with Samus in the quarterfinals. Clean and simple. After all, this is Remilia we’re talking about here: not only is she an Elite Touhou girl, last season she came closer than any girl ever has to actually give Samus a run for her money. The idea of Remilia losing to a Gacha girl who needed to fully mobilize the Fluffy Tail Mafia in order to beat a Fire Emblem side character seemed laughable.
And sure enough, when the match began Remilia seemed to be in full control, taking a commanding 6-1 lead in the opening minutes, which would later on become 10-5 and then 15-10. However, Lappland suddenly woke up and decided to show that she could be just as bloodthirsty as the vampire – before Remilia knew what hit her the seemingly-solid 5-vote lead had been reduced to a single vote, 16-15, and then the vampire and the wolf were tied at 17-17. For the next few minutes Remilia had to struggle desperately just to prevent Lappland from pulling away, which she barely managed until the score was 20-20, only for Lappland to then shoot up to a 25-20 lead!
Remilia was on the ropes, and she seemed unable to recover, as Lappland gradually keep increasing her lead more and more, eventually going up 32-26, 34-27, 37-28 and finally 44-32! The Fluffy Tail Mafia was again out in force, and our DRC admin’s Plappland posting (aka Lappland hentai) was working its magic. Remilia fans tried to fight back, and eventually managed to gain some traction - Lappland’s 12-vote lead remained stable by the 90-vote mark at 51-39, but then a surge of Remilia votes had cute the wolf girl’s lead in half by the time we’d reached the 100 vote milestone, at 53-47. Lappland however fired back, putting a halt to Remi’s momentum and going up 59-48. Remilia fans were mobilizing and trying to get a comeback going, but Lappland just would not allow it – every time Remilia seemed to have something going, Lappland would come back and safeguard her lead. Remilia *was* making some progress, but it was agonizingly slow, and ultimately too little, too late, as Lappland would eventually go on to win by 7 votes.
This was a HUGE upset, and marked a number of Firsts for this tournament: It was the first time ever a Newcomer had defeated a Veteran, it was the first time a Gacha girl had made it to the quarterfinals, and Remilia was also the first Top 8 seed to fall in this season of the tournament (though by the end of round 2, she’d have plenty of company!). Quite frankly, I still can’t really explain what happened to Remilia, who looked utterly unrecognizable to her old 2023 self. Even accounting for Touhou and Meme girls being in decline, Marisa and Cirno still performed far better than the vampire Loli, so that doesn’t explain this chokejob fully.
I mean, the Castlevania Dominus Collection had come out the week before – maybe that acted as something of a debuff for Remilia the Vampire? Jokes aside tho, Remilia had also looked pretty pathetic against Hina, so I really don’t know what went wrong for her this season.
As for Lappland though, this was an outrageously impressive performance, all the more so when you consider the Gacha girl tournament record: the 7 other Gacha competitors have a grand total of 1 win and 7 losses between them. That’s right – Lappland on her own has twice as many tournament wins as all the other Gacha girls combined! And keep mind, Lappland did this during a tournament season that not only saw Gacha girls weakening (2 tourney reps VS 6 last season), but also saw *Fluffy Tails* be a mere shadow of what they used to be (2 tourney reps VS 5 last season, not to mention how badly Tamamo turned out to have fallen off). Basically, Lappland defied all relevant trends to pull off her little miracle run – and against Samus in the quarterfinals, she’d even establish herself as being a shockingly legit competitor, not merely the beneficiary of a lucky bracket.
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8th Seed Remilia Scarlet (Touhou) VS 9th Seed Lappland (Arknights)
Remilia: 65 votes
Lappland: 72 votes
With Samus back to looking like her old, unbeatable self, the rest of Remilia’s journey for this tournament seemed painfully predictable: defeat yet another Gacha girl in round 2, and then lose the rematch with Samus in the quarterfinals. Clean and simple. After all, this is Remilia we’re talking about here: not only is she an Elite Touhou girl, last season she came closer than any girl ever has to actually give Samus a run for her money. The idea of Remilia losing to a Gacha girl who needed to fully mobilize the Fluffy Tail Mafia in order to beat a Fire Emblem side character seemed laughable.
And sure enough, when the match began Remilia seemed to be in full control, taking a commanding 6-1 lead in the opening minutes, which would later on become 10-5 and then 15-10. However, Lappland suddenly woke up and decided to show that she could be just as bloodthirsty as the vampire – before Remilia knew what hit her the seemingly-solid 5-vote lead had been reduced to a single vote, 16-15, and then the vampire and the wolf were tied at 17-17. For the next few minutes Remilia had to struggle desperately just to prevent Lappland from pulling away, which she barely managed until the score was 20-20, only for Lappland to then shoot up to a 25-20 lead!
Remilia was on the ropes, and she seemed unable to recover, as Lappland gradually keep increasing her lead more and more, eventually going up 32-26, 34-27, 37-28 and finally 44-32! The Fluffy Tail Mafia was again out in force, and our DRC admin’s Plappland posting (aka Lappland hentai) was working its magic. Remilia fans tried to fight back, and eventually managed to gain some traction - Lappland’s 12-vote lead remained stable by the 90-vote mark at 51-39, but then a surge of Remilia votes had cute the wolf girl’s lead in half by the time we’d reached the 100 vote milestone, at 53-47. Lappland however fired back, putting a halt to Remi’s momentum and going up 59-48. Remilia fans were mobilizing and trying to get a comeback going, but Lappland just would not allow it – every time Remilia seemed to have something going, Lappland would come back and safeguard her lead. Remilia *was* making some progress, but it was agonizingly slow, and ultimately too little, too late, as Lappland would eventually go on to win by 7 votes.
This was a HUGE upset, and marked a number of Firsts for this tournament: It was the first time ever a Newcomer had defeated a Veteran, it was the first time a Gacha girl had made it to the quarterfinals, and Remilia was also the first Top 8 seed to fall in this season of the tournament (though by the end of round 2, she’d have plenty of company!). Quite frankly, I still can’t really explain what happened to Remilia, who looked utterly unrecognizable to her old 2023 self. Even accounting for Touhou and Meme girls being in decline, Marisa and Cirno still performed far better than the vampire Loli, so that doesn’t explain this chokejob fully.
I mean, the Castlevania Dominus Collection had come out the week before – maybe that acted as something of a debuff for Remilia the Vampire? Jokes aside tho, Remilia had also looked pretty pathetic against Hina, so I really don’t know what went wrong for her this season.
As for Lappland though, this was an outrageously impressive performance, all the more so when you consider the Gacha girl tournament record: the 7 other Gacha competitors have a grand total of 1 win and 7 losses between them. That’s right – Lappland on her own has twice as many tournament wins as all the other Gacha girls combined! And keep mind, Lappland did this during a tournament season that not only saw Gacha girls weakening (2 tourney reps VS 6 last season), but also saw *Fluffy Tails* be a mere shadow of what they used to be (2 tourney reps VS 5 last season, not to mention how badly Tamamo turned out to have fallen off). Basically, Lappland defied all relevant trends to pull off her little miracle run – and against Samus in the quarterfinals, she’d even establish herself as being a shockingly legit competitor, not merely the beneficiary of a lucky bracket.
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