Now that 24 hours has passed, the qualifier poll is coming to an end. I lack admin powers to actually shut down the poll, but no votes after this point will actually impact anything, so they will be moral victories at best. That being said, here are the official results of the poll to determine the remaining 18 slots in Fedi's Favorite Vidya Girl Contest:
1: Patchouli Knowledge (Touhou) 23 votes
1: Remilia Scarlet (Touhou) 23 votes
3: UMP45 (Girls' Frontline) 22 votes
4: Midna (Zelda: Twilight Princess) 19 votes
4: Illya (Fate/stay night) 19 votes
6: Tifa (Final Fantasy 7) 18 votes
6: Tamamo (Monster Girl Quest) 18 votes
8: Marnie (Pokemon) 14 votes
9: Reisalin Stout/Ryza (Atelier Ryza) 13 votes
9: Kagerou Imaizumi (Touhou) 13 votes
11: Mona (Genshin Impact) 12 votes
11: Takanashi Hoshino (Blue Archive) 12 votes
13: Yukiko (Persona 4) 11 votes
13: Cerberus (Helltaker) 11 votes
13: Ganyu (Genshin Impact) 11 votes
16: Ichinose Asuna (Blue Archive) 10 votes
16: Elly (Xenogears) 10 votes
16: Yuri (Doki Doki Literature Club) 10 votes
Tough break for Shoebill (Kemono Friends) and Kochiya Sanae (Touhou), who missed out on making it to a 5-way tiebreaker poll for the final 3 slots by just 1 vote each.
I’ll come back a bit later with the official seeding for the tournament, after that I’ll set up a bracket. Since a bunch of girls ended up with the same number of points or votes, their internal ranking will be determined by how early they got nominated, with the girls nominated earlier gaining more favorable seeding. Not that I think higher seeding will be all that crucial anyway, since a lot of the lower seeds have already shown real strength due to having lots of actual votes behind them.