User blog comment:Webkinz Mania/Project 10 - February 2017/@comment-460966-20170201050258

10 For Project 10
Each month, I will provide analysis based on the results of each month's ballot. I will list the top ten trends that stood out or fascinated me. I encourage any viewers to comment on anything that fascinates them.

January 2017

 * 1)  Lindsay is the Total Drama Island queen  - Let's get the big winner out of the way. Lindsay is the best all-around character voted by you guys. Her margin of victory was actually 200 a week before voting stopped, but Owen kept getting more and more votes, especially in Funniest Character and was able to pull within 25 votes (or one first place vote) from Lindsay. I was not expecting things to finish that close.
 * 2)  DJ's fanbase evaporated  - I remember when we used to have fan clubs on the Wiki. Outside of Courtney's fan club (ironically, Courtney had the fewest positive votes), DJ's was the largest. Those days have changed. Overall, DJ's number is not bad, especially when you compare it to Ezekiel, who I will get to in a second. However, DJ's number is disappointing, especially when compared to a few years ago. DJ was only named in less than fifteen ballots and received less than seventy-five points for Best Character. What happened here?
 * 3)  Ezekiel is hated more than Ed MacDonald  -  Fedora Kid  did not vote here, but it would not have made a major difference as Ezekiel was far and away, the most despised character in Total Drama Island, ending up with a finish of -1207.68 points. His negative point total will be tough, even for the "Terrible Trio" to top when we reach  Total Drama: Revenge of the Island . Ezekiel was named on seventy-five percent on the ballots and received a remarkable forty votes as the worst character.
 * 4)  Harold and Leshawna apologists are gone  - Worst Couple in Total Drama Island was a blow-out (for the first ten days, 70 percent of voters said they were the worst). The main competition, like most categories, was the race for second place. Harold and Leshawna carried the majority of the vote as the worst, with slightly less than half voting for them and a total of -44 votes combined from both Best and Worst Couple.
 * 5)  Apparently, Total Drama Island unofficially became Total Drama World Tour  - What's with the Noah love guys? The character who only competed on the show for four episodes, yet got seven place votes and approximately twenty-five votes total for best character? I believe next poll, we should start reading the instructions, as this was a vote for just  Total Drama Island .
 * 6)  Bridgette fans are still going strong  - Practically by default, Total Drama Island was Bridgette's best season. However, it's surprising that she made it over one hundred total votes. Bridgette finished in the top ten! The Bridgette fanbase on the site is one of the quieter ones, but we can see them now.
 * 7)  Everyone loved Heather's trip to the barber shop  - The biggest landslide of all was Heather's elimination as the best elimination of the season. 850 weighted votes when one would combine the Best and Saddest Eliminations. Heather's elimination was named on ninety-six ballots and had sixty-eight first place votes. No contest. In fact, Heather's elimination got as many points as everyone elimination (excluding Ezekiel, Courtney and Lindsay's) combined.
 * 8)  Guys alliance comeback  - On January 15, the Gwen and Leshawna friendship dominated the results, coming in with 50 percent. Afterwards, we had a late surge by DJ, Duncan, and Geoff fans, going from 10 percent to nearly 25 percent, while knocking down Gwen and Leshawna by 25 percent too. Gwen and Leshawna did end up winning, but people still stick with the dudes (shoutout to MrQuest17).
 * 9)  Every vote counted  - As I mentioned several times on the blog, every vote counted. This time, only a handful of categories came down to a first place vote (Best All-Around Character, Worst Episode), but the choices here seemed to be much more clear than the choices we will be seeing over the next few months. The real races this month were the races for second place. Any votes would have swung some close categories the other way (Worst Character, Best Elimination). If you sat out this month, do not make the same mistake twice!
 * 10)  The community has grown  - Not only was voting a success for the activity, but the site had our biggest month since  Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race  came to a conclusion. Our WAM Score was the highest in a year, close to fifty users made their first edits or chat appearances this month and our traffic, particularly front page traffic, rose nearly ten thousand viewers each week (we averaged 3,000 viewers and we reached 12,000 viewers several times this month).