Christi Junior on Nostr: ROUND 1, MATCH 9: 3rd Seed Tamamo-no-Mae (Fate/Extra) VS 30th Seed Saya (The Song of ...
ROUND 1, MATCH 9:
3rd Seed Tamamo-no-Mae (Fate/Extra) VS 30th Seed Saya (The Song of Saya)
Tamamo: 84* votes
Saya: 33* votes
* a number of votes are actually missing from these vote totals, see my final paragraph of the match analysis for more details.
Fun fact: Until this match, Tamamo had never actually broken 60% on any of her opponents. Now this might sound bizarre, given how she was a finalist in the previous season and such a fierce competitor, but the explanation is simple enough: due to being heavily underseeded, Tamamo ended up facing a veritable murderers' row of top-tier Waifus in 2023, and while this resulted in a string of stunning victories and memorable matches for the fox girl, it DID deny her the chance to ever score one of those cathartic blowout victories (58% - 42% over Illya being her biggest win of the season).
So of course, now that Tamamo had earned herself a top seed and finally got to face an opponent who was legitimately weak, she wasted little time absolutely wiping the floor with Saya. While the Eldritch girl did actually keep things close during the opening minutes of the match, even taking a 7-6 lead at one point, it didn’t take long for Tamamo to absolutely dominate; even without her classic Spaghetti Fox match pic, last season’s finalist would completely run away with the match, before too long she was Doubling Saya, and then later on even breaking 70% on her. In the end, Tamamo would pull off what was easily the biggest win of the 2024 tournament up to this point.
Watching this match, you certainly wouldn’t expect Tamamo to end up getting dumpstered in the quarterfinals – in scoring such an overwhelming round 1 victory, Fate/Extra’s Caster was looking every bit as formidable as she had in 2023. But I guess Saya ended up being a lot weaker than I thought she was, which does makes some sense – she’s from a very niche hentai game, she only got 5 votes in the Qualifier Poll and apparently she’s also quite the evil, malevolent force in her own game, meaning that even people familiar with The Song of Saya might refuse to vote for her in a vidya Waifu contest. SuperSnekFriend certainly posted a pretty brutal anti-Saya message:
>Saya is not a good person, she is not truly beautiful, and I don't even think she can be called female.
>Fate's Tamamo no Mae is a monogamous vanilla extremist, floof-pilled, and lovey-dovey, she is a sexy fox goddess, and is not a figment of your eldritchly disturbed mind. It shouldn't be a contest.
Ouch! I guess the real question is, how on earth did Saya beat Negev in the Tiebreaker poll? Oh, I know why – because Jews are even worse than Eldritch abominations!
Oh, and as I alluded to at the beginning, this match actually ended up with a misleading vote total, since DRC maintenance ended up permanently erasing 8 votes, slightly increasing Tamamo’s percentage victory in the process. Good thing the maintenance happened during such an extremely one-sided match, and the lost votes didn’t really even affect any of the major takeaways from this match anyway: even with the lost votes counted this was the biggest win of the 2024 tournament at the time, the second biggest in tournament history, and Tamamo would have ended up breaking the 70% barrier anyway. At the same time, even with the lost votes counted, this match would have marked the first time Tamamo had failed to break the 100-vote milestone in one of her matches (vote totals were definitely on the low side during this stage of the tournament).
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3rd Seed Tamamo-no-Mae (Fate/Extra) VS 30th Seed Saya (The Song of Saya)
Tamamo: 84* votes
Saya: 33* votes
* a number of votes are actually missing from these vote totals, see my final paragraph of the match analysis for more details.
Fun fact: Until this match, Tamamo had never actually broken 60% on any of her opponents. Now this might sound bizarre, given how she was a finalist in the previous season and such a fierce competitor, but the explanation is simple enough: due to being heavily underseeded, Tamamo ended up facing a veritable murderers' row of top-tier Waifus in 2023, and while this resulted in a string of stunning victories and memorable matches for the fox girl, it DID deny her the chance to ever score one of those cathartic blowout victories (58% - 42% over Illya being her biggest win of the season).
So of course, now that Tamamo had earned herself a top seed and finally got to face an opponent who was legitimately weak, she wasted little time absolutely wiping the floor with Saya. While the Eldritch girl did actually keep things close during the opening minutes of the match, even taking a 7-6 lead at one point, it didn’t take long for Tamamo to absolutely dominate; even without her classic Spaghetti Fox match pic, last season’s finalist would completely run away with the match, before too long she was Doubling Saya, and then later on even breaking 70% on her. In the end, Tamamo would pull off what was easily the biggest win of the 2024 tournament up to this point.
Watching this match, you certainly wouldn’t expect Tamamo to end up getting dumpstered in the quarterfinals – in scoring such an overwhelming round 1 victory, Fate/Extra’s Caster was looking every bit as formidable as she had in 2023. But I guess Saya ended up being a lot weaker than I thought she was, which does makes some sense – she’s from a very niche hentai game, she only got 5 votes in the Qualifier Poll and apparently she’s also quite the evil, malevolent force in her own game, meaning that even people familiar with The Song of Saya might refuse to vote for her in a vidya Waifu contest. SuperSnekFriend certainly posted a pretty brutal anti-Saya message:
>Saya is not a good person, she is not truly beautiful, and I don't even think she can be called female.
>Fate's Tamamo no Mae is a monogamous vanilla extremist, floof-pilled, and lovey-dovey, she is a sexy fox goddess, and is not a figment of your eldritchly disturbed mind. It shouldn't be a contest.
Ouch! I guess the real question is, how on earth did Saya beat Negev in the Tiebreaker poll? Oh, I know why – because Jews are even worse than Eldritch abominations!
Oh, and as I alluded to at the beginning, this match actually ended up with a misleading vote total, since DRC maintenance ended up permanently erasing 8 votes, slightly increasing Tamamo’s percentage victory in the process. Good thing the maintenance happened during such an extremely one-sided match, and the lost votes didn’t really even affect any of the major takeaways from this match anyway: even with the lost votes counted this was the biggest win of the 2024 tournament at the time, the second biggest in tournament history, and Tamamo would have ended up breaking the 70% barrier anyway. At the same time, even with the lost votes counted, this match would have marked the first time Tamamo had failed to break the 100-vote milestone in one of her matches (vote totals were definitely on the low side during this stage of the tournament).
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