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The Aquamarine period has concluded and Misaka Mikoto won!!
Her victory came, to me, quite unexpected. The strongest character right now is Tachibana Kanade, no one can rival her. She won every match until now and all by quite a margin. So how was Misaka's victory possible?
Misaka is at the moment the second strongest character out there, as you can see from the graph for the final match of the Aquamarine period:
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| Number of votes for the seven contestants of the Aquamarine periods as a function of time. |
As you can see Tachibana won the last showdown, as usual, but there is also the rank to consider. Each contestant has a rank and no two contestants can have the same rank at the same time. Basically Misaka had a higher rank because she happened to defeat stronger opponents than Tachibana. The rank enters as a multiplier and as Misaka fought harder matches she was finally rewarded by the Aquamarine jewel!
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| Tachibana won the Necklace Match, but Misaka had a higher ranking and won the jewel |
This involves a randomness and a bit of luck and the system might be a little convoluted, but I think it is in the end fair. A character can only win one necklace and Tachibana is most definitely going to win the next one. If the last match was to decide the winner by votes majority alone, they would have just swapped :)
So congratulations to Misaka for her victory!
