I suppose it might be worthwhile to post this here. We're currently at the finals of the Best Series Ever contest, and it is Final Fantasy vs. The Legend of Zelda. The current results:
The Legend of Zelda 51.65% 52386
Final Fantasy 48.35% 49033
TOTAL VOTES 101419
Zelda leads by 3353 votes. That is a very large margin, but with the extremely high total votes today (100k before 2 pm est), FF might just have a slim chance at pulling off the largest comeback ever. Last night Zelda jumped out to a 2200 vote lead in the initial voting surge, before FF pulled it down overnight to 1400. After morning, Zelda began making big gains, but has slowed very much in the last hour. Zelda's best time is over, FF is beginning to stall Zelda, and it will only get better for FF as we get closer to the end of the match. The current lead, however, is vast.
The largest successful comeback was made from 2100 votes down, ending at 1500 votes up, by Master Chief against Donkey Kong last summer, with much lower vote totals. But of course, Zelda is no DK. Starcraft came back from 2000 down against Zelda: Wind Waker in 2004, to win by less than 200. Duck Hunt came back from 3200 votes down against DK, only to run out of time at the end and lose by about 100. Master Chief came back from 3000 against Frog, getting to 600 votes up, before Frog made his own comeback at the very end, and won by 7 votes. That match had both the largest vote swing and the closest result. Today's match could set all kinds of records if FF can pull off the miracle and come back. (Even if it doesn't, it's got the record for most votes in a Gamefaqs poll.)
