January Poll Results! (Patreon)

Whew. Hope everyone had a good Christmas!

Before getting into the poll results, just a quick word about Displaced Hero. Don't worry, it's well underway ;-). I've already got about 9k words of it written, and I've got a couple of hours slotted to work on it more today. I should finish up writing it either today or tomorrow. Then I'll need a day to edit it. It should be up either tomorrow or Sunday. Also note that the first My Hero Automata of Jan might be a couple of days into the month, simply because I won't have a lot of time left this month to get ahead of that. It shouldn't be more than the 2nd or 3rd, though, unless something goes badly wrong.

Now, with that quick bit out of the way, on to the poll results!

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One Piece : Halfway Broken - 153

Harry Potter: Pandora's Box - 72.5 + (70% Boost) = 123.25

A Very Confused Pokemon Adventure - 69.5

Mass Effect: Eridium Dreams - 26 + (110% Boost) = 54.6

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Well, alright then! Poor Eridium Dreams got shafted pretty hard despite its massive boost :-p. If Pandora's Box had possessed the same level of boost, it would have squeaked close enough to a win to demand a recount. As it is, sadly for the Harry Potter fans out there, it's smaller boost meant it fell firmly short of a win. That, of course, puts One Piece: Halfway Broken back on top for the month of January.

Given how well Pandora's Box performed, I might try to sneak a small update of it in, just to keep its momentum going. But no promises, since I don't know just yet what January will be like. I'm also honestly pretty pleased with how well A Very Confused Pokémon Adventure has been performing, even in months without boosts. I think it has pretty good odds of earning itself updates whenever it does have boosts going for it, despite how new the story is. It just didn't have that advantage this month, since it managed to unseat Halfway Broken in December as the main poll winner and lost its boost in the process ;-).

Likewise, since Pandora's Box will have a 90% boost next month, I think it has a solid chance of knocking Halfway Broken out in February, even if it couldn't quite overcome Halfway Broken's popularity this time. Overall, I'm reasonably pleased with how the boosting is working out as a solution for giving other stories a shot. December proved it was possible for Halfway Broken to be overcome, even if it ended up getting a Holiday bonus update anyway :-p. And this month's Pandora's Box voting proved that other stories have a real chance of doing the same thing.

For January, though, One Piece: Halfway Broken is back on top of the heap! Look forward to the crew's return to the Blue Sea and their meeting with a certain Singing Skeleton!