Here are the results from the Round 5 finals. With a score of 107 (73.3%) to 39 (26.7%), ALEXA BLISS has defeated Maryse to become this year's winner!
Check out the bracket below to see how the tournament went down in its entirety and just how Alexa Bliss carved out a path to victory. Was it a matter of true fan support or did the seeding play a big factor?
BREAKDOWN AND ANALYSIS:
ALTERNATIVE FINALS
Just for curiosity's sake, it was asked how you would have voted if the semifinals had gone the opposite direction with the losers advancing into the finals instead of our two true finalists, which would have made the finals Renee Young vs. Peyton Royce instead. In that scenario, who would have been voted the winner?
Your votes were 86 to 54 in favor of Renee Young, who effectively earns the bronze medal for getting third place in this year's tournament, the silver medal going to Maryse and of course the gold medal going to our winner, Alexa Bliss.
BEST BODY VOTE
Third place went to Maryse, second place to Nikki Bella and the winner was Alexa Bliss with a rather impressive lead.
Surprisingly, a few people received zero votes who I would personally think could be in the running to get my vote, like Carmella and Alicia Fox. Pay attention to Charly Caruso's body, too!
BEST FACE VOTE
Despite all her criticism, Nikki Bella received the third place amount of votes. Becky Lynch came in second and with a MASSIVE lead of over 50 votes above Becky, the winner for Best Face is Alexa Bliss. Starting to see a trend here...
I'll echo the Charly Caruso vote here, too, saying she deserved to be in the top handful of names in my opinion. I'm also surprised there wasn't any support for Mickie James, who I would have voted in the top percentage as well.
BEST PERSONALITY
Uber babyface Bayley came in third with another favorite for this poll in Becky Lynch coming in second yet again. However, none can compare to the juggernaut of Alexa Bliss making it a hat trick for first place.
I have a feeling many people voted based on character instead of the real person's personality and they might have let that influence certain heel characteristics as being sexier or annoying compared to the actual people behind the scenes. Very shocked Natalya didn't get any votes here, and that Nikki Bella did as well as she did by getting in the top five.
CLOSEST CALL
Round 3 saw the closest match where the powerhouse former winner Nikki Bella was edged out by Renee Young with two votes (92 to 90) as Renee received 50.5% of the vote.
BIGGEST LANDSLIDE VICTORY
The biggest blowout was unsurprisingly in favor of Alexa Bliss, who defeated Alicia Fox with a score of 192 to 14 votes (93.2% for Bliss). This was not just the largest margin victory of the women's bracket, but every poll in both the women's and men's bracket for the entire 2017 tournament. Poor Alicia Fox :(
VOTING TURNOUT
The most active round we had this year for the women's bracket was round #2 with 208 votes.
BIGGEST SHOCKERS
Asuka not making it into the tournament for the second year in a row is kind of surprising to me, although I can kind of see why people voted that way, too, judging by the names who did advance. Andrea D'Marco not making it was an even bigger surprise, but perhaps people just didn't know who she was. I'm also kind of shocked Paige was eliminated by Lana in the first round since Paige was last year's winner.
Our analysis on the outcome of the finals and the 2017 edition of the tournament as a whole can be found in the latest podcast below:
SMACK TALK BREAKDOWN AND ANALYSIS:
Big thanks to everyone who participated in the voting from the qualifying round all the way up until the end, as well as those who shared this on Facebook, Twitter, or elsewhere to draw more attention to it and to get more people involved.
If you have any suggestions of what you'd like to see happen in next year's tournament or ideas of how we can improve this, make sure to leave us a comment or shoot us an email to send that message our way!
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