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Prompted by Niahak's post in the Objections! thread about the paucity of RPGs and series-persistence in the higher ranks of this contest, I pulled some comparisons on the previous Top 32 brackets:

Games that have been in the Top 32 in all three "BGE!!!" Projects:

Final Fantasy VI
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Super Mario World
Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario Galaxy
Portal
Super Metroid
Super Mario Bros.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Tetris
Super Mario 64
Mega Man 2
Metal Gear Solid

Games that have been in the Top 32 twice:
Red text = missed the Top 32 for the first time in 2015

Chrono Trigger
Secret of Mana
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Final Fantasy IV
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Pokémon [Blue/Red] Version
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Metroid Prime
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Mega Man 9
Batman: Arkham Asylum

Games that are in the Top 32 for the first time:
[Previous peak rank in brackets]

Team Fortress 2 [58]
Super Meat Boy [101]
Red Dead Redemption [38]
Mega Man X [38]
Banjo-Kazooie [57]
Pikmin [122]
Doom II: Hell on Earth [45]
The Legend of Zelda [37]
Doom [33]
R-Type [259]
XCOM: Enemy Unknown/Within [185]
Castlevania [43]
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening [43]

Kong Wen wrote:Red text = missed the Top 32 for the first time in 2015

Chrono Trigger
Secret of Mana
Final Fantasy IV
Pokémon [Blue/Red] Version
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Niahak, this is where your RPGs went.

Where did FF IV finish this year? I don't remember seeing it in the top 64 or possibly even the 128

Kong Wen wrote:

Kong Wen wrote:Red text = missed the Top 32 for the first time in 2015

Chrono Trigger
Secret of Mana
Final Fantasy IV
Pokémon [Blue/Red] Version
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Niahak, this is where your RPGs went.

Yeah, those are pretty disappointing (although the Suikodens had a pretty good run - I think they were more competitive than previous years). I've only even played about half of the games that are new to the top 32.

Slurmee wrote:Where did FF IV finish this year? I don't remember seeing it in the top 64 or possibly even the 128

It was in the Top 128. I don't have an exact rank worked out for it yet (it'll take some maths).

Niahak wrote:Yeah, those are pretty disappointing (although the Suikodens had a pretty good run - I think they were more competitive than previous years).

Suikoden certainly did. It finished #147 in 2010 and #214 in 2012, but cracked the Top 128 in this year's contest.

Suikoden II seeded deep and then was immediately eliminated as it debuted, which I wouldn't characterize as a run of any kind. Nice to see it get initial support on the nomination end, though.

Man this forum has some great taste good job guys

Look at all dat Mario.

Jordan wrote:Look at all dat Mario.

Is a BGE comp planned for this year?

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm finding the Round of Pools to be a quite effective way of seeding the tournament, much moreso than number of nominations / nomination priority!

The Admin has sorted the results-so-far in the main spreadsheet / master list (link in the nomination thread) and it's a pretty solid list of games floating to the top. It'll be interesting to see how it looks when we get through a few hundred more games!