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I replaced my own photo with a few month old bit of art I did of my boykisser sona

I got the original boykisser image off of reddit, but I think they ripped it from somewhere else? I'm not sure

Also I realized near instantly after decorating the cake that it should've said 15/26 instead of the date of my birth T^T

I screwed up my OWN birthday cake somehow 😭

With 20 contestants and 20 matches, this bracket was the third smallest we've run on the blog- with only the Organisations bracket of the Villains tournament and the Best Type tournament being shorter.

But despite being ever so slightly longer than those tournaments in terms of matches, this has actually been the tournament with the fewest total votes across the 20 matches. The 7,927 votes is almost 500 less than the second lowest total of 8,419 for the Best Type tournament! And at an average of 396 votes per match, this only barely clears the Best Ball tournament's average, the lowest of all tournaments, of 370 per match (with Preliminaries). It's understandable that a tournament made up primarily of lesser known side game characters wouldn't attract as much attention as the others!

When we compare the bracket in graph form, it's pretty clear:

And overall, our blog's total votes cast across all major tournaments is 213,936, with an average of 526 votes over 407 matches! Thanks everyone for all the support and votes, and let's keep this number growing!

Now for some individual contestant stats. Looking at their average vote score, we can rank them like so:

Giratina- 275 (1,099 votes across 4 matches)

Gengar- 263 (526 votes across 2 matches)

Dusknoir- 249 (994 votes across 4 matches)

Nuzleaf- 243 (728 votes across 3 matches)

Eternatus- 226 (226 votes in 1 match)

Darkrai (Explorers)- 219 (438 votes across 2 matches)

Shadow Lugia- 213 (1,063 votes across 5 matches)

Primal Dialga- 208 (1,042 votes across 5 matches)

Necrozma- 195 (195 votes in 1 match)

Darkrai (PokePark 2)- 182 (365 votes across 2 matches)

Darkrai (SoA)- 152 (305 votes across 2 matches)

Munna- 143 (143 votes in 1 match)

Dark Matter- 127 (127 votes in 1 match)

Mewtwo (Guardian Signs)- 117 (117 votes in 1 match)

Skuntank- 111 (111 votes in 1 match)

Pecharunt- 107 (107 votes in 1 match)

Munkidori- 105 (105 votes in 1 match)

Shadow Mewtwo- 103 (103 votes in 1 match)

Fezandipiti- 91 (91 votes in 1 match)

Okidogi- 42 (42 votes in 1 match)

Funnily enough, while our silver medalist Giratina, managed to end up on top, our winner was pushed to 3rd, and the bronze medalist Primal Dialga landed in 8th! Only the top 8 managed averages over 200, and the bottom two didn't even hit 100. With low vote totals, the averages in the tournament are lower too!

But we can also arrange the group by their average vote share, the percentage they won on average:

Gengar- 68.3%

Giratina- 60.1%

Dusknoir- 59.2%

Primal Dialga- 57.9%

Shadow Lugia- 56.7%

Darkrai (PokePark 2)- 55.2%

Nuzleaf- 54.7%

Darkrai (Explorers)- 51.4%

Darkrai (SoA)- 49.0%

Eternatus- 45.2%

Necrozma- 41.0%

Mewtwo (Guardian Signs)- 38.5%

Munna- 34.6%

Skuntank- 32.4%

Shadow Mewtwo- 29.9%

Pecharunt- 26.8%

Fezandipiti- 26.5%

Dark Matter- 25.5%

Munkidori- 25.2%

Okidogi- 12.4%

This time our top 4 contestants are all in the top 5, but they've all been beaten by Gengar! Some justice for Gengar fans after all? Meanwhile, the Loyal Three land in the bottom 4 in both data sets, and of the Darkrai, the Almia Darkrai is the clear loser. And the top 8 all sit over the 50% mark! Congrats to them.

And we can also take a quick look at what proportion of the overall votes went to which contestant. Of course, the ones that stayed in the longest get the highest proportion, but the Semi Finalists alone manage to take almost 53% of the vote between them!

Now let's look at individual matches!

The most voted on match in the bracket was actually Round 5: Final Match- Giratina vs Dusknoir! It earned 569 votes. Second place goes to the only other match to break 500 (or 500 exactly), being Round 1: Match 1- Nuzleaf vs Eternatus!

On the other end, the lowest vote total for a match was actually a tie! Both Round 2: Match 6- Mewtwo vs Darkrai (SoA) and Round 3: Match 2- Darkrai (Poképark 2) vs Primal Dialga got only 304 votes. No match fell below 300, but they got close!

For individual contestants, the most votes earned in one match by a single contestant was 372 votes earned by Giratina in Round 2: Match 2 against Dark Matter. The dubious honour of least votes goes to Okidogi, with only 42 votes in its Round 2: Match 7 match against Gengar!

Finally, we have some winning margins to go over! First, the closest margin this time round was a 2.2% margin in Round 3: Match 4- Gengar vs Shadow Lugia. Not the closest when it comes to the blog, but only a 10 vote difference is not something to scoff at!

Last, but certainly not least, the biggest sweep. My extra special award given to a contestant that may not have won, but showed their support in a big way all the same. This time? The winner with a 75.2% margin in Round 2: Match 7 is Gengar! He managed to sweep Okidogi away, earning 256 more votes than his opponent. Congratulations Gengar!

I was getting awful chest pains that radiated up to my jaw, down one arm, and through to my back. I was clammy and short of breath. Then my hands started tingling so I called it. They say minutes matter and to never hesitate to get checked out if you think you're having a heart attack so I called 111.

Turns out I was not having a heart attack (I knew it was unlikely at my age) but the paramedics wanted me to get checked out at the hospital.

After a bunch of IV pain relief, blood tests, a urine sample, another ECG, endless blood pressure and heart rate checks, and a lot of questions (I really wished I had brought someone with me cos this part was overwhelming), they decided it definitely wasn't my heart. The blood tests had shown a very normal white blood cell count and no inflammation. At this point, I got a bit worried that it was going to be another round of "congrats your tests came back normal so you're perfectly healthy, goodbye!"

I lucked in with the doctors on duty, though, and they were actually concerned that I was still short of breath and my heart was racing (and that I still wasn't pain free). One of the blood tests was also a little off so there was a concern I might have a clot in my lung. It was only a 1% chance but that's too high a risk for me (probably wouldn't have worried a few years ago but I have no confidence in my body these days) so I got a CT scan of my lungs.

The good news is there's no clot. The not-so-good news is they spotted a little nodule in one lung but I'm told it's nothing to worry about, I just need another CT scan in 6 months. And they still don't know what was causing the chest pain.

I know this is a good outcome; I'm definitely happy that I don't have heart issues or a clot but... I feel so defeated. Yet again, my body is torturing me and nobody really knows why. And they can't even do anything or give me anything to help. I hate it. I'm just like...