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Best Supporting Character Tournament: Minigame

Anyway, a request: if a character you have nominated is slated for Groups B-D, please check on the pic you posted for it. Although having the pics and write-ups posted as part of the nomination has definitely streamlined things for me, it would help even more if the pics were tweaked to certain standards - i.e. dimensions between 200 and 400 pixels, the focused character cropped out when in a pic with others (or a lot of empty space), and the pic file available in .jpg format. I had to do a lot of this kind of adjusting, or in some cases even find new pics; only about a third of the pics for Group A characters were usable without alteration.

Ultimately, we ended up with 17 participants (Spastic Minnow got one in sometime between abunai and bluebeard's, and dtm got his in about 10 minutes before Key's), which is about average.

I'm surprised at who my winner turned out to be. If we'll still use "it's a main character" as an excuse during the tournament then I'll most likely do as bad as I did in the last minigame(which pretty much involved 0 research and popularity before anything else). And during a quick glance at wiki, I realized so many characters that would be considered part of the main cast, strictly speaking.
One single thing I'll definitely regret later is picking Balalaika instead of November 11. Oh, I'll definitely support November 11 when the time comes.

Olliff wrote:

This will definitely come up.

I suppose we should prepare for a storm, in that case. Too many characters reach said borderline, yet some still intend to use that as a factor. I, on the other hand, will completely ignore that, as the phase to decide whether they're mains or not is already over. Though that's what I'll be sticking to, but I suppose the first phase will be composed mostly of popularity based votes; perhaps until reasons are required.

Anyway, a request: if a character you have nominated is slated for Groups B-D, please check on the pic you posted for it. Although having the pics and write-ups posted as part of the nomination has definitely streamlined things for me, it would help even more if the pics were tweaked to certain standards - i.e. dimensions between 200 and 400 pixels, the focused character cropped out when in a pic with others (or a lot of empty space), and the pic file available in .jpg format. I had to do a lot of this kind of adjusting, or in some cases even find new pics; only about a third of the pics for Group A characters were usable without alteration.

My pics for Ichiro Mihara and Kaname Chidori have been resized now. They were the only two over your size limit (not counting Yue, who you've already replaced. 12 pixels over. Oops). You will probably need to refresh your cache, though, as I uploaded the resized images with the same file name to the same location.

The image for Winry is a little on the narrow side. I can look for a different one if you'd prefer.

The Winry pic is probably okay, although I'm kinda partial to this one.

If I'm wrong, would you mind revealing who you are referring to?

Although I have a good pic for him, the write-up for Franz d'Epinay from Gankutsuou is, frankly, crap. While I could manage doing it myself, I'd much prefer if someone else could take care of this for me. (And really, I just need the "What Makes Him A Great Supporting Character" part.) It would need to be done by late Sunday (U.S. EST) at the latest.