The season ends and the results are in!
Before I get into announcing the winners, let's have a look at some of the interesting facts from our predictions:
First and foremost,
NOBODY PREDICTED OGERPON AS THE FIRST PLACE POKEMON
We all thought this mon was a fraud, and brushed off the first couple of days of it's #1 position as new toy syndrome. The bad Dragonite matchup was not enough to pull this mon down from the throne, and it ended up as the best Pokemon in the format. However, everyone did have Ogerpon somewhere in their top 10, with AldrichYan putting it lowest at 8th.
Contrary to everyone having Ogerpon in their top 10 list,
NOBODY PREDICTED SCIZOR TO BE IN TOP 10
This is the first time that a Pokemon has completely snuck in without a single person predicting it (ignore the fact that this is the second time this contest was ever conducted). Scizor's impact in the metagame checking Flutter Mane, Chien-Pao, and Ninetales-A with Bullet Punch, and the Dual Wingbeat buff exceeded everyone's expectations. Also to add to this, only 3 people predicted Chi-Yu to be in the top 10.
With this, I would like to show the Expectation chart, which displays which Pokemon exceeded our expectations (positive value), and which mons were overhyped (negative value). Pokemon that were not predicted are assumed to be 11th for each user.
As seen here, Scizor and Ogerpon both far-exceeded our expectations, and Ursaluna-Blood Moon went even further having almost +100 differential compared to our predictions! Meanwhile Chien-Pao, Urshifu-R, and Iron Bundle were overhyped and were way lower than we imagined.
Lastly, let's have a look at the community average again and see how it did.
As you can see, we probably put a little too much faith into the Ground-types. Only one (Ursaluna-B) survived. Personally I did not expect Ting-Lu to fall that much.
We had a couple of people with the same top 10s in their list (in different order of course):
- marilli and Crayfish have the same top 10, and also happens to match the top 10 of the community average
- thickfatazumarill and ribombun
- Reggz13 and caojie
- The Squash and Atr
Finally, here's the compiled results!
Congratulations to
zapper22001 on winning the second Metagame Prediction Contest!
Like last time, nobody got all 10 mons correct, but unlike last time nobody got 9/10 either. The highest correct score was 8/10 which 5 people got, and Atr managed to squeak past everyone else by getting the 2 perfect match bonus points by correctly guessing Gholdengo (5th) and Chi-Yu (9th)!
If you notice any mistakes that I've made, let me know.
Thanks to everyone for playing and we'll be back for the next metagame prediction contest!
Until Next Time, See Ya