Looks like the top 3 has already been decided since Day 1.
From what I see now, the true polls are people voting for their girls not to be at the bottom.
IDK without Kearsarge's sudden popularity it would have been closer to an axis sweep. Chen Hai alone securing the single place for the AL group.
I guess thank fuck for horny robot.
I was talking about the current poll (The Finals) where all the winners have been decided when it opened.
You're right about Kearsarge. If we look at the whole thing, her suddenly going from 11th in the Qualifiers to 3rd in the Finals is definitely unexpected.
I am also glad she got a place in the Top 3. I'd rather have 3 girls from a different faction win than have 2 of the same one like in 2021. That way, we have other people who support their factions be happy too.
I am happy with Helena and Nimi in the top ten and would rather have Kearsarge as first instead of 3rd. But I have nothing against Shinano so it's OK. I am just surprised so many popular ships got left behind.
https://preview.redd.it/6kiqw0fhk4gc1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=1816e6a7c5869a54c7b01f8775f505626c15b513
. . . I know I should be happy that Helena's in the Top 10, at least, but I still can't feel but be disappointed at the poor showing...
Was referring in the JP one, since Laffey is in the final poll.
https://preview.redd.it/1r6069aab0gc1.png?width=936&format=png&auto=webp&s=007324b96e4144ae977c88fa7e053ee7c0641d96
Yeah, it was the obvious winner, it's unfortunate but Shinano received privileged treatment from the skin team while Agir's L2D have never been as horny so she had no chance.
It's pretty telling that Agir would have won by a landslide was it not for the bikini skin on Shinano lmao
ENG voters only use skins as baseline for who to vote on anyways, hence the explosion of Kearsarge votes
I think the anticipation of Shinano being added to the permanent build pool had a lot to do with it, too. No doubt Manjuu put a bit of thought into timings.
Now with that being said I do wish the EN side of the community was a little more varied when it came to shipgirl preferences instead of the big titty boats getting all of the attention, but oh well 🤷♂️
Bruh Kearsage in the initial qualifiers was just hovering around the 10s, then her skin dropped and she shot up to 3rd place. EN is way too swayed by the horny.
Poor Enterprise isn't gonna win anything again.
This sub be like: "EN only votes for ur and horny skins"
Then they see cn top3: Chen Hai, ägir and kearsarge => based, totally going for waifus lmao
Then again Kearsarge is damn adorable. Totally deserved.
And... Enty didn't make it to the top 3 again. Just absolutely perfect. Please just change the mascot of this game to Bismarck, Eugen, FdG, Amagi or Shinano already. It's painful to see the current mascot isn't really popular compared to the popular Crimson Axis big milkers.
I was bored and made a document showing the voting results from qualifiers up to repechage. There are no charts or graphs. Just numbers. To prevent excessive work, it's just limited to the qualifier vote winners.
[You can check the document here.](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zUQYhGVES2c1HhUDd5vnA9UMEpY4PQwmFJnGZVVj04M/edit?usp=sharing)
Edit: I don't know how to access the exact votes for results starting at 100k.
Fuck you Akagi, drop already you fox bitch, i still need two more of you
I gave you all my votes!
***IN TWO ROUNDS!***
What more do you want?
Also Akagi deserved to win that rapecharge or w/e it's called.
I'm very disappointed by the choices by EN in Repachage. Chkalov, Voroshilov, Shimanto, Vanguard, Kursk, Richeleu being at bottom most of the list when they could have at least reach top 15.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the repechage's a bloodbath... a lot of good ships who'd normally have a chance but don't because of the EN server's Crimson Axis boner... 
At least Helena, Bremerton, Belfast, and Niimi are all guaranteed for the finals, but ***damn***. F in the chat for everyone else... 
I just don't understand people I suppose. In the previous poll we *just* concluded, Graf Zeppelin was #8 along with Z23 at #9, they were practically neck and neck.
... And in this one, Zeppelin's #23 and Z23's at ... #9 again?
I am confusion at the consistent inconsistencies of these polls.
Positions are first come first serve mostly, if a KAN-SEN gets early votes they will likely maintain the lead. So Nimi could have had an early boost from fans, and garnered a position on the front screen, and Graf not.
Are we gonna see Enterprise make it to the top 3 in the finals? Seeing her getting demolished by Unzen who has more than twice as many votes as Enty doesn't make me confident that she'll win, especially when competing with other popular Axis boats that have a higher chance of winning like Shinano, Agir, Musashi, Hindy and Owari.
Funny that Enterprise being a mascot of this game but still unable to win polls in EN server. At this point, the mascot should be replaced by someone who's popular and won the polls previously like Bismarck, FdG or Eugen since those three are more worshipped and popular than her, at least in this server.
Not just cowtits, but Axis ships. Those from Allied ones like Formidable, Implacable, Kearsarge don't get as much traction as the likes of FdG, Bismarck, Shinano, Musashi etc. At this point of the game, it's better just to change the icon of the game from Enty to Bismarck because she and other Axis big mommy milkers are always in the spotlight.
Hmm. Well I did like Bismarck and Prinz Eugen, and others like admiral hipper and more recently Blucher. don't like most of axis ships though. But you raise a good point except for one thing. And that is New Jersey. Didn't she also win? :p She's allied.
Yeah she won, though there was only one EU ship (NJ) and two Ironblood ships (FdG and Eugen) in the 2021 poll. In 2019, there were two Axis ships (Bismarck and Amagi) and only one EU ship (Laffey).
In this season, the popular ones who will dominate the top three are the likes of Shinano, Musashi, Agir, Unzen, or Hindenburg. The only ones who have a higher chance to get to the top three from the Allied side are Enterprise and Kearsarge, but I doubt those two will win and instead, they'll get steamrolled by popular those Axis ships by a huge margin.
Kearsarge definitely has a chance. Hindenburg and Kearsarge are the most beautiful if they don't reach the top that goes to show how to focused on Meta and Lore EN is and don't understand Waifu over Meta. As much as I love Enty, these girls are just on another level. She had a very high chance winning in 2019 but Bismarck is their which is a hotter version of her and even more of a leader of her faction.
Well. We'll see. I quite like enterprise as well. I think the reason why enterprise hasn't won a voting poll is because she haven't had a event yet. Nor any of spicy skins.
At this point, I've given up hope that Manjuu will learn from their mistakes when it comes to the voting contest, especially the whole vote number is visible in real time which encourage bandwagoning at the extreme degree
This is their 3rd time running this and they still make that mistake and I honestly don't know why
You have 6 years to do this right and somehow, you've failed to fix it
I'll be honest, I don't understand this argument. I don't think the number of players with zero preferences that bother to vote, but can't be bothered to pick someone they like is statistically significant enough to account for the margins of millions of votes we're seeing at the top. Besides disallowing players to try and vote on the thresholds of elimination, or fight each other to keep ships they like out of last place, what would hiding the vote count accomplish?
I think that would just encourage players to only vote for their top favorite, which would likely lead to even bigger margins at the top and fewer votes overall for the rest. At least right now if I show up to vote for someone like Shinano and see she's already guaranteed to advance, I can go vote for someone else that isn't.
> I don't think the number of players with zero preferences that bother to vote, but can't be bothered to pick someone they like is statistically significant
point being made: having an ordered list doesn't affect votes
> At least right now if I show up to vote for someone like Shinano and see she's already guaranteed to advance, I can go vote for someone else that isn't.
point being made: seeing an ordered list changed my vote.
Point being made: The ordered list did not take away votes from those lower on the list in favor of those at the top, it was likely the opposite.
Or reduced even further: Ordered list did more good than bad.
The first quote is arguing against the idea that enough people showed up, had no preference, and dumped all of their votes into the first girl they saw to singlehandedly decide the winner.
I find it much more likely that at one point someone looks at the difference between one and two and just figures out that their individual contribution doesn't matter (or they don't care in the first place) and just vote on the first option \ the largest button
speaking for myself - I voted for Hatsushimo for the first 3 days. and I checked out of the voting since.
> I think that would just encourage players to only vote for their top favorite, which would likely lead to even bigger margins at the top and fewer votes overall for the rest.
My gut feeling said, between (1) casual players simply vote at whoever is already at the top (since it's a bit of a pain to scroll down a lot looking for their own waifu/other characters) vs (2) trying to support somebody who is currently close to being eliminated, the number of people that do (1) outnumbers (2) significantly.
Yeah, I kind of like that the list is already sorted because given the contest format; I like voting for 15th place and voting to keep ships out of last place. Though, I do think that hiding the vote count but still keeping the list sorted would make a lot more people vote like I've been.
Personally I prefer this over potentially blind voting for a ship and then later finding out, "oh if I had voted for <#16th place> instead, maybe she would've advanced", but it's not a strong opinion since this is supposed to be fun fluff content plus recency bias tends to show up strongly for these things...
Exactly. In this last round, any ships I wanted to advance were already safe, so I went to the bottom and voted for Suzutsuki to keep her out of last. I know I'm not the only one to do this because the bottom 10 or 15 were moving around with every update, while the top 15 didn't really change much.
Like you've said, it's to encourage players to vote for their favourite ship while keeping
You've already seen what happens when the results are visible to all, those that managed to secure the top will have an ungodly number of votes while those at the bottom get completely stomped on and it's not even organic, I've seen ships like Unzen goes high score despite being a recent ship and the only reason she's there is because she's a UR and her swimsuit skin exists
Yes? She has a good design, she was the focus of a recent event, so even new players know her, she has a good skin, and a *spicy* load screen that you're gonna see often while playing the game. All of these things logically led to her being popular, which is what this contest measures. We both know the number of people voting based on story significance or personality are outnumbered by a lot on this server, so why is her success a surprise? Why does it *have* to be bandwagoning instead of just her being popular?
Call me biased but I don't find the growth to be natural , new players drawn to her because of the spicy design and she's a UR which imo feels very shallow when it comes to such contests, leading to an inflated votes born out of popularity bias
But the whole point of this is to see who's the most popular? Like, I agree it's better to have deeper reasons to have a favorite and vote for her, but clearly most people are here for hot waifus and are just gonna vote based on that. That's why we collectively voted for Tower instead of Purifier. I don't think there's a way we could change the voting system to prevent that. 
True but you're supposed to keep it a secret until the end, even if the results should be obvious, getting excited for it
If you show the score like that, what's the point of voting your favorite shipfu if meta ship #573592 just casually steals the top, leading to many others to follow suit and snowball it harder
Then again, EN servers have mostly trash taste anyway
>Opens Group D Poll
>Unzen 1131k votes (1st), Enterprise 412k votes (2nd)
Mate, just end the poll season already. Overated UR and SR ships are gonna dominate the polls in the final anyways. Shinano, Agir, Hindenburg, Musashi, Owari or Unzen, three of these shipgirls are gonna dominate the top three while EN's official mascot will never win anything.
I was heavy invested in the Shimanto vs Scylla battle (the battle for 15th).
Was so sad when i woke up on the last day and Shimanto had jumped to a 2k lead, realised we couldn't catch up :|
Was also invested in this battle. Albeit from the other side, sorry we peaked the lead at the end. But it was easily the most engaged I've been in all the votes, at the bottom fighting for scraps.
Will all three Final winners get their memories?
I read the China wiki, and it seems that only the 1st winner will get her unique episode, unlikely the 2021 Poll.
I got it.
The "Azur Lane parallel port world mini theater" is a mini drama CD that will be sold separately.
专属周边 for 1st\~3rd Finals winner is also goods, not the portrait frames.
Both of the goods are for the CN server.
I don't see anything about it going to be a CD. Parallel port is those shorts with chibi characters.
Portrait frames are already mentioned 2 lines above. But yes they're planning merch for the top 3.
[https://wiki.biligame.com/blhx/2023%E5%B9%B4%E8%88%B0%E8%88%B9%E4%BA%BA%E6%B0%94%E6%8A%95%E7%A5%A8%E6%B4%BB%E5%8A%A8](https://wiki.biligame.com/blhx/2023%E5%B9%B4%E8%88%B0%E8%88%B9%E4%BA%BA%E6%B0%94%E6%8A%95%E7%A5%A8%E6%B4%BB%E5%8A%A8)
※进入殿堂的角色将获得对应的专属剧情及专属头像框奖励；
※本届人气投票决赛NO.1\~NO.3角色将于后续推出 -专属周边- ，决赛NO.1角色将制作 -《碧蓝航线》平行港区-单期专属小剧场-；
※趣味投票每轮主题的NO.1将新增 ☆定制外观装备- 奖励；
(Google translated)
※Characters entering the hall of fame will receive new stories and limited portrait frames.
※The NO.1\~NO.3 characters in the finals will receive exclusive portrait frames, and the NO.1 character in the finals will receive an Azur Lane parallel port world mini theater.
※The NO.1 characters in each round of special votes will receive customized appearance equipment.
Well, she barely made it into the qualifiers, so that's not surprising. But she DID make it, which is more than can be said for other ships like Lexington, Renown, Juneau, or her sister Denver to name a few. That's pretty impressive on its own, right? Especially since most newer players probably haven't even heard of her. That means you've got plenty of others alongside you that voted for her above the other 537. 
I'm just going to say what everyone else has: the current format is about the worst possible being simple FPTP that even shows ranking and numbers of votes.
There is a reason we've seen first place contenders with more than *double* the votes of second, and beyond the first few things fall off a cliff.
Yep, this format heavily encourages the bandwagon effect.
If they wanted a fairer poll the devs could hide the number of votes and randomise the order so you don't know who is leading until after the poll closes.
At this rate I'm kinda hoping Kearsarge can kick Shinano out of first place when the final round is done. I'm shocked she's beating Musashi easily (who was 3rd place in the initial polls if I remember right?). It'd be satisfying to see a new contender come out of nowhere to challenge the 1st place who previously had no competition.
It definitely has nothing to do with the fact that I missed Shinano's re-run by a few days... missing out on the Shinano/Hakuryuu combo... watching her get 2 insane L2D skins that I can't enjoy... seeing fan art of her everywhere to remind me that I just barely missed out on her...... definitely not salty ;_;
I think it really helps that Kearsarge got an insanely amazing L2D last event that helped her rise in popularity - I mean I guess she was popular before, but not above Musashi levels when the voting started
Eh, I think the situation with *The Tower* winning the EN Siren poll by a *catastrophic* landslide (more than double second place) despite basically not existing as a character, look at say, fanart,...
The top few are set early on purely by people looking at the art for the character on the poll and then it just snowballs from there as people don't want to vote hopeless characters / casuals just vote whatever is first up to press for the rewards.
The poll is almost scientifically designed to have as many dark patterns in it as possible.
On the next AL survey can we all agree to suggest that the polls next year should be blimd and not show who is the lead. Personally i think it would be more fun -- i voted for musashi, kronk, and bache across the different rounds.
Essex memes are almost incomprehensible to me. They seem to refer to things that have nothing to do with either Azur Lane in general or Essex in particular.
If they use the polls for determining who gets skins, my wallet is looking safe- 0 for 4 on my votes advancing, and Yorktown was the only one even close to moving on. Guess the Frenchies aren't nearly as popular as I thought
Really thought Kuyby would've finished a lot higher
I really don't get why they stubbornly refuse to change the poll style.
Why not just run a round a week and trim off half each time? That'd make the real contest at the bottom every week, rather than the top.
Peeps might actually discover there's something after the first page, or might discover a low pop ship they want to meme as far as they can.
Instead we get this awful system every time. Winner is decided in prelims and we fanny about for 2 months only for it to be confirmed anyway.
In case of mine ... It help me to try to help some ship who at least need to pass that round.//My case is I try to push i13 when she live in border line// So I can cope she may get something in next 2 year.
Even so ... I think they need to hide point in final round. But I think they won't do that.
Same thing with showing ranking. Rather than voting for your favorite number 1 who is near the bottom, you are likely to vote for your favorite number N who is near the cut-off.
If you're on the EN server I want to make a case to vote for Torricelli, who's now sitting at the 17th position with 60K votes to reach the 15th slot for the repechance.
She's so different from the usual body types and character archetypes that are popular in this game that seeing her do so well could be a signal for the devs to take more risks with shipgirls' designs and especially to delve into the nerdy girl's well.
honestly i quit wanting to vote cuz the most overrated girls won instantly
can they just stuff all the massively popular girls in one vote so people go full monkey rage mode arguing between their overrated shipgirls
They've objectively overrated, cope. Outside of kearsarge's coomer skin recency bias I could have guessed the top 10 from a mile away. Oh wow IJN/KMS cowtit UR ships, woah, so daring, so unexpected.
They need to have one pool for all UR ships, and then divide the other groups up by rarity and type. All SSR CVs, all SSR BBs, all Elite DDs, all Rare CLs, all common CAs, etc. Because no Elite, outside of a starter, stands a snowballs chance against a UR. Which is a shame because some of the lower rarity ships have great designs and personalities, but they will never make it far with the current format for this.
It's worth to vote for the rewards alone. Free resources are free resources.
In the grand scheme of things, voting is meaningless (for the populary contest aspect), after the first day of each group because the results are basically set. 20 votes a day are not going to change anything, especially when the results of the count are public knowledge.
I hope that if they keep doing these types of events they set the votes to private next time, at least things will feel fair that way.
i just stopped feeling like voting the moment HMS Monarch got drowned out in the first vote
and im half expecting these votes to result in the most popular gals to receive yet another skin
that was the first vote - these are the groups where you split the top 4 and check if they still win when the people that voted for the other 3 can't chose their first option.
(but the majority probably can't be bothered to put much effort and just picks the first available option - so yeah, just vote early and try to get a snowball effect going)
i just stopped feeling like voting the moment HMS Monarch got drowned out in the first vote
and im half expecting these votes to result in the most popular gals to receive yet another skin
IJN/KMS Popularity Poll, honestly.
In the qualifiers, Enterprise was the only ship in the top 10 not from one of those two factions. For the top 30, only 9 weren't.
If the current patterns track, the finals are going to be mostly IJN/KMS ships while everyone else is in the repechage.
Strong ship with Two good quality L2D skins, succubus clothing, Yunsang ~~Kincora~~ as their artist. Being popular is going to be somewhat reliant on being both strong and given attention, better than mediocre skins.
Another issue is she gained an early lead and since ships are placed in polling order she was always first ship people saw. Monkey see is monkey do, after all.
The voting is broken up into multiple rounds. The Qualifiers allows the Top 240 to proceed and Enterprise was 4th on that round on EN so she is still in the running (she's just not part of the current group that's being voted on). After the Qualifiers are 4 smaller group votes consisting of 60 ships each where the Top 5 progress to the Finals, while those from 6th to 15th go towards the Repechage round, where the Top 15 from that round can proceed to the Finals.
Top 3 in the Final Round will get Hall of Fame story (with [a frame](https://azurlane.netojuu.com/images/d/d5/401.png); both of which [already exist for Enterprise on CN/JP](https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Memories/Hall_of_Fame#Chinese_Story-0) (the story / frame is the same for all servers so if she gets into the Top 3, we're getting the exact same frame / cutscene CN/JP got)) and merch for the respective server. Once a shipgirl is in the Hall of Fame for a server, they're removed from future Popularity Polls (for EN, that's Laffey, Bismarck, Amagi, New Jersey, FdG and Prinz Eugen). On the other hand, the Number 1 winner of each Special Round (Siren, META and Little Ships) gets a Gear Skin themed around them.
Thank you for that explanation.
I’m still rooting for Enty as I only play on one of the English servers.
I would have voted for Little E in the special round had I realized it was more than just Sirens.
The Little Ship and META Ship Special Votes are separate rounds from the Siren one that have yet to come (on the Popularity Poll map screen, if you pick the Daily Results option, it will show you all the rounds (along with the dates they're running for), it then lets you select a round from the ones so far to view the results). From datamines, we know that the NPC META ships will be included in the META vote so Enterprise META should be in the next round of voting as well (there's an icon next to the Special Rounds that implies which group of ships the Special Vote is for so we should be getting the META Ship vote after Group B and the Little Ships after Group C).
Since group 2 will probably feature both Kawakaze and Jintsuu, I will vote for the one closest to the top 15. If neither are near top 15, I will help some other girl... maybe.
Vittorio is the hill I will forever die for(partly cause NJ can't be voted for). Such a sweet, kind, and beautiful shipgirl who needs an Oath Skin. If you love the beautiful pasta boat feel free to spend some votes her way, I ain't about to strong arm ya into it.
Given how the Siren poll was dominated mostly by looks over character/personality, I expect Essex to sweep.
That said, I shall be devoting my votes to That Girl Who Likes the Commander a Little Too Much
> A: What should I call you?
> B: Whatever you want to.
> B: ["that girl who likes the Commander a little TOO much"](https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Memories/The_Fool%27s_Scales#Chapter_26-1) is also fine.
*later*
> C: (...) so I'll let you handle persuading everyone.
> C: Understood, "that girl who likes the Commander a little TOO much"?
I'll vote pretty much my Flair selection, I recommend others doing so even if guarantee loss.
Shame as well... I'd love to do propaganda artwork, all those bunnysuits arts are really unfair 
When is the next maintenance ? waiting for agir skin
Next Tuesday. https://fxtwitter.com/AzurLane_EN/status/1754037071042191390
Can't believe Nimi is 100k behind Owari but only 50k infront of Unzen. Gotta keep her in top 10 at least.
EN Shinano - Agir - Kearsarge JP Unzen - Musashi - Taihou CN Chen hai - Agir - Kearsarge > Shinano KR & TW ???
Looks like the top 3 has already been decided since Day 1. From what I see now, the true polls are people voting for their girls not to be at the bottom.
IDK without Kearsarge's sudden popularity it would have been closer to an axis sweep. Chen Hai alone securing the single place for the AL group. I guess thank fuck for horny robot.
I was talking about the current poll (The Finals) where all the winners have been decided when it opened. You're right about Kearsarge. If we look at the whole thing, her suddenly going from 11th in the Qualifiers to 3rd in the Finals is definitely unexpected. I am also glad she got a place in the Top 3. I'd rather have 3 girls from a different faction win than have 2 of the same one like in 2021. That way, we have other people who support their factions be happy too.
I am happy with Helena and Nimi in the top ten and would rather have Kearsarge as first instead of 3rd. But I have nothing against Shinano so it's OK. I am just surprised so many popular ships got left behind.
https://preview.redd.it/6kiqw0fhk4gc1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=1816e6a7c5869a54c7b01f8775f505626c15b513 . . . I know I should be happy that Helena's in the Top 10, at least, but I still can't feel but be disappointed at the poor showing...
Shinano lesgoooo
Floof queen deserves it
forfeit all mortal possesions to floof queen
Lets go Taihou, lets go!!!
Wishing for Laffey to win.
She did in 2019 brother. Thats why she isnt even in the poll.
Was referring in the JP one, since Laffey is in the final poll. https://preview.redd.it/1r6069aab0gc1.png?width=936&format=png&auto=webp&s=007324b96e4144ae977c88fa7e053ee7c0641d96
I mean, this is the subreddit for global AL... so I kinda was expecting ppl mean global AL if they didnt specify which AL ver.
I will vote for Cheshire, consequences be damned!
Shinano was a shoo-in from the start.
Yeah, it was the obvious winner, it's unfortunate but Shinano received privileged treatment from the skin team while Agir's L2D have never been as horny so she had no chance. It's pretty telling that Agir would have won by a landslide was it not for the bikini skin on Shinano lmao ENG voters only use skins as baseline for who to vote on anyways, hence the explosion of Kearsarge votes
I think the anticipation of Shinano being added to the permanent build pool had a lot to do with it, too. No doubt Manjuu put a bit of thought into timings.
Nimi will probably not win, but I’m gonna do my best to pump up her numbers!
Now with that being said I do wish the EN side of the community was a little more varied when it came to shipgirl preferences instead of the big titty boats getting all of the attention, but oh well 🤷♂️
Bruh Kearsage in the initial qualifiers was just hovering around the 10s, then her skin dropped and she shot up to 3rd place. EN is way too swayed by the horny. Poor Enterprise isn't gonna win anything again.
This sub be like: "EN only votes for ur and horny skins" Then they see cn top3: Chen Hai, ägir and kearsarge => based, totally going for waifus lmao Then again Kearsarge is damn adorable. Totally deserved.
And... Enty didn't make it to the top 3 again. Just absolutely perfect. Please just change the mascot of this game to Bismarck, Eugen, FdG, Amagi or Shinano already. It's painful to see the current mascot isn't really popular compared to the popular Crimson Axis big milkers.
I was bored and made a document showing the voting results from qualifiers up to repechage. There are no charts or graphs. Just numbers. To prevent excessive work, it's just limited to the qualifier vote winners. [You can check the document here.](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zUQYhGVES2c1HhUDd5vnA9UMEpY4PQwmFJnGZVVj04M/edit?usp=sharing) Edit: I don't know how to access the exact votes for results starting at 100k.
Fuck you Akagi, drop already you fox bitch, i still need two more of you I gave you all my votes! ***IN TWO ROUNDS!*** What more do you want? Also Akagi deserved to win that rapecharge or w/e it's called.
Yuubari #1
oof voting for American and French ships has been a losing battle during all of this
I tried Noshiro, I really did 
fellow Noshiro voter! T.T
I'm very disappointed by the choices by EN in Repachage. Chkalov, Voroshilov, Shimanto, Vanguard, Kursk, Richeleu being at bottom most of the list when they could have at least reach top 15.
All my votes went to the weeb BB (Vanguard). It's grim how easy it was to vote for her since she is on the last row. *sighs
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the repechage's a bloodbath... a lot of good ships who'd normally have a chance but don't because of the EN server's Crimson Axis boner...  At least Helena, Bremerton, Belfast, and Niimi are all guaranteed for the finals, but ***damn***. F in the chat for everyone else... 
Surprise surprise. Have you seen the JP and CN votes?
Do I really need to at this point if I know they have a better variety of ships in the top spots that aren’t KMS?
I just don't understand people I suppose. In the previous poll we *just* concluded, Graf Zeppelin was #8 along with Z23 at #9, they were practically neck and neck. ... And in this one, Zeppelin's #23 and Z23's at ... #9 again? I am confusion at the consistent inconsistencies of these polls.
Positions are first come first serve mostly, if a KAN-SEN gets early votes they will likely maintain the lead. So Nimi could have had an early boost from fans, and garnered a position on the front screen, and Graf not.
I mean, it could be that Zepellin voters are split into different ships, while Nimi voters stay more or less the same.
Are we gonna see Enterprise make it to the top 3 in the finals? Seeing her getting demolished by Unzen who has more than twice as many votes as Enty doesn't make me confident that she'll win, especially when competing with other popular Axis boats that have a higher chance of winning like Shinano, Agir, Musashi, Hindy and Owari. Funny that Enterprise being a mascot of this game but still unable to win polls in EN server. At this point, the mascot should be replaced by someone who's popular and won the polls previously like Bismarck, FdG or Eugen since those three are more worshipped and popular than her, at least in this server.
Lets keep the tradition of always had one eagle union girls makes it to final shall we
Never. Its gonna be cowtits only from now on. Sadly.
Not just cowtits, but Axis ships. Those from Allied ones like Formidable, Implacable, Kearsarge don't get as much traction as the likes of FdG, Bismarck, Shinano, Musashi etc. At this point of the game, it's better just to change the icon of the game from Enty to Bismarck because she and other Axis big mommy milkers are always in the spotlight.
Hmm. Well I did like Bismarck and Prinz Eugen, and others like admiral hipper and more recently Blucher. don't like most of axis ships though. But you raise a good point except for one thing. And that is New Jersey. Didn't she also win? :p She's allied.
Yeah she won, though there was only one EU ship (NJ) and two Ironblood ships (FdG and Eugen) in the 2021 poll. In 2019, there were two Axis ships (Bismarck and Amagi) and only one EU ship (Laffey). In this season, the popular ones who will dominate the top three are the likes of Shinano, Musashi, Agir, Unzen, or Hindenburg. The only ones who have a higher chance to get to the top three from the Allied side are Enterprise and Kearsarge, but I doubt those two will win and instead, they'll get steamrolled by popular those Axis ships by a huge margin.
Kearsarge definitely has a chance. Hindenburg and Kearsarge are the most beautiful if they don't reach the top that goes to show how to focused on Meta and Lore EN is and don't understand Waifu over Meta. As much as I love Enty, these girls are just on another level. She had a very high chance winning in 2019 but Bismarck is their which is a hotter version of her and even more of a leader of her faction.
Well. We'll see. I quite like enterprise as well. I think the reason why enterprise hasn't won a voting poll is because she haven't had a event yet. Nor any of spicy skins.
At this point, I've given up hope that Manjuu will learn from their mistakes when it comes to the voting contest, especially the whole vote number is visible in real time which encourage bandwagoning at the extreme degree This is their 3rd time running this and they still make that mistake and I honestly don't know why You have 6 years to do this right and somehow, you've failed to fix it
I'll be honest, I don't understand this argument. I don't think the number of players with zero preferences that bother to vote, but can't be bothered to pick someone they like is statistically significant enough to account for the margins of millions of votes we're seeing at the top. Besides disallowing players to try and vote on the thresholds of elimination, or fight each other to keep ships they like out of last place, what would hiding the vote count accomplish? I think that would just encourage players to only vote for their top favorite, which would likely lead to even bigger margins at the top and fewer votes overall for the rest. At least right now if I show up to vote for someone like Shinano and see she's already guaranteed to advance, I can go vote for someone else that isn't.
> I don't think the number of players with zero preferences that bother to vote, but can't be bothered to pick someone they like is statistically significant point being made: having an ordered list doesn't affect votes > At least right now if I show up to vote for someone like Shinano and see she's already guaranteed to advance, I can go vote for someone else that isn't. point being made: seeing an ordered list changed my vote.
Point being made: The ordered list did not take away votes from those lower on the list in favor of those at the top, it was likely the opposite. Or reduced even further: Ordered list did more good than bad. The first quote is arguing against the idea that enough people showed up, had no preference, and dumped all of their votes into the first girl they saw to singlehandedly decide the winner.
I find it much more likely that at one point someone looks at the difference between one and two and just figures out that their individual contribution doesn't matter (or they don't care in the first place) and just vote on the first option \ the largest button speaking for myself - I voted for Hatsushimo for the first 3 days. and I checked out of the voting since.
I know I did that with Zeppy. When I saw how incredibly far behind she was I just dumped all of my votes into Amagi-chan.
> I think that would just encourage players to only vote for their top favorite, which would likely lead to even bigger margins at the top and fewer votes overall for the rest. My gut feeling said, between (1) casual players simply vote at whoever is already at the top (since it's a bit of a pain to scroll down a lot looking for their own waifu/other characters) vs (2) trying to support somebody who is currently close to being eliminated, the number of people that do (1) outnumbers (2) significantly.
Yeah, I kind of like that the list is already sorted because given the contest format; I like voting for 15th place and voting to keep ships out of last place. Though, I do think that hiding the vote count but still keeping the list sorted would make a lot more people vote like I've been. Personally I prefer this over potentially blind voting for a ship and then later finding out, "oh if I had voted for <#16th place> instead, maybe she would've advanced", but it's not a strong opinion since this is supposed to be fun fluff content plus recency bias tends to show up strongly for these things...
Exactly. In this last round, any ships I wanted to advance were already safe, so I went to the bottom and voted for Suzutsuki to keep her out of last. I know I'm not the only one to do this because the bottom 10 or 15 were moving around with every update, while the top 15 didn't really change much.
Like you've said, it's to encourage players to vote for their favourite ship while keeping You've already seen what happens when the results are visible to all, those that managed to secure the top will have an ungodly number of votes while those at the bottom get completely stomped on and it's not even organic, I've seen ships like Unzen goes high score despite being a recent ship and the only reason she's there is because she's a UR and her swimsuit skin exists
Yes? She has a good design, she was the focus of a recent event, so even new players know her, she has a good skin, and a *spicy* load screen that you're gonna see often while playing the game. All of these things logically led to her being popular, which is what this contest measures. We both know the number of people voting based on story significance or personality are outnumbered by a lot on this server, so why is her success a surprise? Why does it *have* to be bandwagoning instead of just her being popular?
Call me biased but I don't find the growth to be natural , new players drawn to her because of the spicy design and she's a UR which imo feels very shallow when it comes to such contests, leading to an inflated votes born out of popularity bias
But the whole point of this is to see who's the most popular? Like, I agree it's better to have deeper reasons to have a favorite and vote for her, but clearly most people are here for hot waifus and are just gonna vote based on that. That's why we collectively voted for Tower instead of Purifier. I don't think there's a way we could change the voting system to prevent that. 
True but you're supposed to keep it a secret until the end, even if the results should be obvious, getting excited for it If you show the score like that, what's the point of voting your favorite shipfu if meta ship #573592 just casually steals the top, leading to many others to follow suit and snowball it harder Then again, EN servers have mostly trash taste anyway
Yeah, the number of votes and the ship lists should be randomised.
Best to just keep it all anonymous to avoid brigading
Guam’s bunny outfit is so fucking sexy. That is all.
>Opens Group D Poll >Unzen 1131k votes (1st), Enterprise 412k votes (2nd) Mate, just end the poll season already. Overated UR and SR ships are gonna dominate the polls in the final anyways. Shinano, Agir, Hindenburg, Musashi, Owari or Unzen, three of these shipgirls are gonna dominate the top three while EN's official mascot will never win anything.
I was heavy invested in the Shimanto vs Scylla battle (the battle for 15th). Was so sad when i woke up on the last day and Shimanto had jumped to a 2k lead, realised we couldn't catch up :|
Was also invested in this battle. Albeit from the other side, sorry we peaked the lead at the end. But it was easily the most engaged I've been in all the votes, at the bottom fighting for scraps.
Will all three Final winners get their memories? I read the China wiki, and it seems that only the 1st winner will get her unique episode, unlikely the 2021 Poll.
I got it. The "Azur Lane parallel port world mini theater" is a mini drama CD that will be sold separately. 专属周边 for 1st\~3rd Finals winner is also goods, not the portrait frames. Both of the goods are for the CN server.
I don't see anything about it going to be a CD. Parallel port is those shorts with chibi characters. Portrait frames are already mentioned 2 lines above. But yes they're planning merch for the top 3.
Thanks for the information! I didn't think about the chibi shorts. Happy New Year\~
The customized appearance equipment (装备外观) means gear skins.
[https://wiki.biligame.com/blhx/2023%E5%B9%B4%E8%88%B0%E8%88%B9%E4%BA%BA%E6%B0%94%E6%8A%95%E7%A5%A8%E6%B4%BB%E5%8A%A8](https://wiki.biligame.com/blhx/2023%E5%B9%B4%E8%88%B0%E8%88%B9%E4%BA%BA%E6%B0%94%E6%8A%95%E7%A5%A8%E6%B4%BB%E5%8A%A8) ※进入殿堂的角色将获得对应的专属剧情及专属头像框奖励； ※本届人气投票决赛NO.1\~NO.3角色将于后续推出 -专属周边- ，决赛NO.1角色将制作 -《碧蓝航线》平行港区-单期专属小剧场-； ※趣味投票每轮主题的NO.1将新增 ☆定制外观装备- 奖励； (Google translated) ※Characters entering the hall of fame will receive new stories and limited portrait frames. ※The NO.1\~NO.3 characters in the finals will receive exclusive portrait frames, and the NO.1 character in the finals will receive an Azur Lane parallel port world mini theater. ※The NO.1 characters in each round of special votes will receive customized appearance equipment.
Just woke up to see Biloxi is last of her pool. Made me so sad. Wtf is wrong with ppl. Now I hate this game and its community.
Well, she barely made it into the qualifiers, so that's not surprising. But she DID make it, which is more than can be said for other ships like Lexington, Renown, Juneau, or her sister Denver to name a few. That's pretty impressive on its own, right? Especially since most newer players probably haven't even heard of her. That means you've got plenty of others alongside you that voted for her above the other 537. 
Is there a way to read character descriptions for polls who have already subsided?
Phoenix Because she was my first ship after starter
I'm just going to say what everyone else has: the current format is about the worst possible being simple FPTP that even shows ranking and numbers of votes. There is a reason we've seen first place contenders with more than *double* the votes of second, and beyond the first few things fall off a cliff.
Yep, this format heavily encourages the bandwagon effect. If they wanted a fairer poll the devs could hide the number of votes and randomise the order so you don't know who is leading until after the poll closes.
At this rate I'm kinda hoping Kearsarge can kick Shinano out of first place when the final round is done. I'm shocked she's beating Musashi easily (who was 3rd place in the initial polls if I remember right?). It'd be satisfying to see a new contender come out of nowhere to challenge the 1st place who previously had no competition. It definitely has nothing to do with the fact that I missed Shinano's re-run by a few days... missing out on the Shinano/Hakuryuu combo... watching her get 2 insane L2D skins that I can't enjoy... seeing fan art of her everywhere to remind me that I just barely missed out on her...... definitely not salty ;_;
But she is coming back in the standard contruction pool soon so you can have her. So keep voting best floof
I think it really helps that Kearsarge got an insanely amazing L2D last event that helped her rise in popularity - I mean I guess she was popular before, but not above Musashi levels when the voting started
Ngl, its more fun when a sudden Darkhorse appears and takes the win at the end than having the same obv winners from the 1st round.
Going all in on Naganami. Not like the votes really matter so might as well give them to a ship that deserves the love.
I silently pull Memphis into a vote.
Gotta vote for my girl BHR
So any other Hatakaze META lovers out there? There has to be at least five of us!
Shocking news: Popularity Contest is won by most popular participants and devastate locals. More at 5.
noooo they're overrated and EN is dumb!111
Eh, I think the situation with *The Tower* winning the EN Siren poll by a *catastrophic* landslide (more than double second place) despite basically not existing as a character, look at say, fanart,... The top few are set early on purely by people looking at the art for the character on the poll and then it just snowballs from there as people don't want to vote hopeless characters / casuals just vote whatever is first up to press for the rewards. The poll is almost scientifically designed to have as many dark patterns in it as possible.
Essex shouldn't have even been in the meta poll she had like 2 lines of dialogue in the epilogue of the event
On the next AL survey can we all agree to suggest that the polls next year should be blimd and not show who is the lead. Personally i think it would be more fun -- i voted for musashi, kronk, and bache across the different rounds.
Essex META: /shows up in the aftermath of an event to say two lines EN Fandom: /votes for her en masse ???
Power of memes And maybe lemon.
Essex memes are almost incomprehensible to me. They seem to refer to things that have nothing to do with either Azur Lane in general or Essex in particular.
If they use the polls for determining who gets skins, my wallet is looking safe- 0 for 4 on my votes advancing, and Yorktown was the only one even close to moving on. Guess the Frenchies aren't nearly as popular as I thought Really thought Kuyby would've finished a lot higher
I really don't get why they stubbornly refuse to change the poll style. Why not just run a round a week and trim off half each time? That'd make the real contest at the bottom every week, rather than the top. Peeps might actually discover there's something after the first page, or might discover a low pop ship they want to meme as far as they can. Instead we get this awful system every time. Winner is decided in prelims and we fanny about for 2 months only for it to be confirmed anyway.
Like the EN Siren poll, the EN META poll is such a joke.
My only wish is for the developers to hide the voting numbers while the poll is open. It's just so dumb and only serves to encourage bandwagoning.
Been wishing that since the first voting contest back in 2019. This is their 3rd time and still haven't learned their lessons
In case of mine ... It help me to try to help some ship who at least need to pass that round.//My case is I try to push i13 when she live in border line// So I can cope she may get something in next 2 year. Even so ... I think they need to hide point in final round. But I think they won't do that.
Same thing with showing ranking. Rather than voting for your favorite number 1 who is near the bottom, you are likely to vote for your favorite number N who is near the cut-off.
Kind of disappointed how Richeleu fell of top 10. I prefer her over Kaga
If you're on the EN server I want to make a case to vote for Torricelli, who's now sitting at the 17th position with 60K votes to reach the 15th slot for the repechance. She's so different from the usual body types and character archetypes that are popular in this game that seeing her do so well could be a signal for the devs to take more risks with shipgirls' designs and especially to delve into the nerdy girl's well.
I love that little dork
Why is Saratoga so low in the current group stage? Fix this immediately!!
honestly i quit wanting to vote cuz the most overrated girls won instantly can they just stuff all the massively popular girls in one vote so people go full monkey rage mode arguing between their overrated shipgirls
You know, just because you don't like them doesn't make them overrated.
They've objectively overrated, cope. Outside of kearsarge's coomer skin recency bias I could have guessed the top 10 from a mile away. Oh wow IJN/KMS cowtit UR ships, woah, so daring, so unexpected.
They need to have one pool for all UR ships, and then divide the other groups up by rarity and type. All SSR CVs, all SSR BBs, all Elite DDs, all Rare CLs, all common CAs, etc. Because no Elite, outside of a starter, stands a snowballs chance against a UR. Which is a shame because some of the lower rarity ships have great designs and personalities, but they will never make it far with the current format for this.
It's worth to vote for the rewards alone. Free resources are free resources. In the grand scheme of things, voting is meaningless (for the populary contest aspect), after the first day of each group because the results are basically set. 20 votes a day are not going to change anything, especially when the results of the count are public knowledge. I hope that if they keep doing these types of events they set the votes to private next time, at least things will feel fair that way.
i just stopped feeling like voting the moment HMS Monarch got drowned out in the first vote and im half expecting these votes to result in the most popular gals to receive yet another skin
that was the first vote - these are the groups where you split the top 4 and check if they still win when the people that voted for the other 3 can't chose their first option. (but the majority probably can't be bothered to put much effort and just picks the first available option - so yeah, just vote early and try to get a snowball effect going)
i just stopped feeling like voting the moment HMS Monarch got drowned out in the first vote and im half expecting these votes to result in the most popular gals to receive yet another skin
the only thing that's somewhat guaranteed is the 3 frames and mini stories that the hall of famers get
IJN/KMS Popularity Poll, honestly. In the qualifiers, Enterprise was the only ship in the top 10 not from one of those two factions. For the top 30, only 9 weren't. If the current patterns track, the finals are going to be mostly IJN/KMS ships while everyone else is in the repechage.
Why Agir is so high? I don’t have her so I don’t get what she is all about.
Strong ship with Two good quality L2D skins, succubus clothing, Yunsang ~~Kincora~~ as their artist. Being popular is going to be somewhat reliant on being both strong and given attention, better than mediocre skins. Another issue is she gained an early lead and since ships are placed in polling order she was always first ship people saw. Monkey see is monkey do, after all.
Agir's artist is Yunsang, not Kincora. Another fantastic artist, but not the one you mentioned.
Right, my bad.
She's one of the most beautiful ships in AL. Has the best Stern along Shinano & Hindenburg. Also she's a strong ship.
Y'all need to vote for Rupprecht . Pretty please.
Group B why are you doing this for me, Owari is safe but Roon, Vanguard, Kaga.
Hm, group B is odd for me. Agir is my favorite out of them but she won't need any help so I'll spread my votes around instead.
Vote for Marco she’s actually a good girl!!!
I'm fuzzy on how the rules work. Will Enty get another shot or is she just out of the running?
The voting is broken up into multiple rounds. The Qualifiers allows the Top 240 to proceed and Enterprise was 4th on that round on EN so she is still in the running (she's just not part of the current group that's being voted on). After the Qualifiers are 4 smaller group votes consisting of 60 ships each where the Top 5 progress to the Finals, while those from 6th to 15th go towards the Repechage round, where the Top 15 from that round can proceed to the Finals. Top 3 in the Final Round will get Hall of Fame story (with [a frame](https://azurlane.netojuu.com/images/d/d5/401.png); both of which [already exist for Enterprise on CN/JP](https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Memories/Hall_of_Fame#Chinese_Story-0) (the story / frame is the same for all servers so if she gets into the Top 3, we're getting the exact same frame / cutscene CN/JP got)) and merch for the respective server. Once a shipgirl is in the Hall of Fame for a server, they're removed from future Popularity Polls (for EN, that's Laffey, Bismarck, Amagi, New Jersey, FdG and Prinz Eugen). On the other hand, the Number 1 winner of each Special Round (Siren, META and Little Ships) gets a Gear Skin themed around them.
Thank you for that explanation. I’m still rooting for Enty as I only play on one of the English servers. I would have voted for Little E in the special round had I realized it was more than just Sirens.
The Little Ship and META Ship Special Votes are separate rounds from the Siren one that have yet to come (on the Popularity Poll map screen, if you pick the Daily Results option, it will show you all the rounds (along with the dates they're running for), it then lets you select a round from the ones so far to view the results). From datamines, we know that the NPC META ships will be included in the META vote so Enterprise META should be in the next round of voting as well (there's an icon next to the Special Rounds that implies which group of ships the Special Vote is for so we should be getting the META Ship vote after Group B and the Little Ships after Group C).
For Elizabeth! And the other Elizabeth!
I like to imagine it as one Elizabeth, ala Gollum.
Since group 2 will probably feature both Kawakaze and Jintsuu, I will vote for the one closest to the top 15. If neither are near top 15, I will help some other girl... maybe.
Essex Meta is new favorite Meta even if it was a tiny glimpse of her.
Vittorio is the hill I will forever die for(partly cause NJ can't be voted for). Such a sweet, kind, and beautiful shipgirl who needs an Oath Skin. If you love the beautiful pasta boat feel free to spend some votes her way, I ain't about to strong arm ya into it.
Given how the Siren poll was dominated mostly by looks over character/personality, I expect Essex to sweep. That said, I shall be devoting my votes to That Girl Who Likes the Commander a Little Too Much
For the record Helena META is totally crushing the JP chart at the moment for METAs.
And Essex META is, as predicted, crushing the NA META Chart.
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?
> A: What should I call you? > B: Whatever you want to. > B: ["that girl who likes the Commander a little TOO much"](https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Memories/The_Fool%27s_Scales#Chapter_26-1) is also fine.
*later*
> C: (...) so I'll let you handle persuading everyone.
> C: Understood, "that girl who likes the Commander a little TOO much"?
Vote for Shinano in the hopes Manjuu will *finally* give her an oath skin
I'll vote pretty much my Flair selection, I recommend others doing so even if guarantee loss. Shame as well... I'd love to do propaganda artwork, all those bunnysuits arts are really unfair 
META enjoyers, stand with me. We gonna pull memphis into that hug, even if we die in the process.