Board Thread:Wiki News/@comment-6268337-20180920180504

To Everyone Who Entered KCP2018:

First, I wish you all the best of luck. I am sure you all worked hard on creating your characters, maybe even made up a backstory, sent them off whether through the KCP or PLP and are hoping for the best.

That said? Will one of your characters make the top 32?

There were 20,821 characters submitted for the competition. Even before they weed out the copycats, characters with names that make little to no sense, trademarked characters, and just obvious offensive characters, there is only a 1 in 651 chance that even one of your characters will make the top 32. In percentages, that is 0.15%.

Also, just because your character has a 5-star review, it doesn't mean it will make the field of 32. I haven't had a chance to find it, but Matt and Tony have said that a number of the characters they picked for the final 32 in the past (and remember, THEY make the final decisions, with fan voting a major influence) had 3-4 star ratings.

This is not being negative, and I'm sure I mentioned this the same time last year somewhere. Faithesque (RoseCupid)'s character Amy certainly beat the odds and now she's been immortalized. Will one of you be next? Maybe. WIll Faithesque win twice in a row? Possibly. That's being hopeful. Realistically, just wait and see.

For sure, if one or more people from the wiki's characters make it to the tournament, be sure we will promote the heck out of it. We've had contributors from the FSW make FC's who ultimately made it (Shaira was one I recall, Kiki Steven, the creator of Steven, joined after her character won, so that doesn't count). So it's not impossible.

All I care about is that if your character doesn't make it, do not start the complain/whine/scream/moan/groan fest that is inevitably going to happen. Do not be a poor sport. And especially do NOT complain if another contributor's character DOES reach the final 32. Be supportive.

Finally, and I'm sure it's too late to mention this, but, we have had issues in the past regarding people adding links to their fan made customers and asking others to vote for them. In the past, we've allowed this, but in 2015, it was over-done, and we wound up adding Flipline's website on Fandom's block filter. Slow down on posting links. If you've already done it, fine, just don't over-do it. 