Seeding is one thing, and the votes are another. The guys at SWTVC have been transparent about their data. They've revealed the number of list submissions as well as the vote totals. 1218 people submitted top 25 lists. Round 1 saw nearly 1800 people vote. And they had over 1540 people cast votes in the second round of voting. That's actually an improvement on their participation numbers, because in the past they have not had as many people submit lists. But there have always been more people who vote on the bracket poll. The first region had 7 out of 8 favorites win. The second region had more upsets - 5 favorites and 3 underdogs won. I'm curious to see how the numbers pan out from yesterday's voting. Ultimately, the bracket voting isn't always going to reflect the seeding.
As for the Tonnikas? I voted against them. I gave up on that lost cause a long time ago. Lucasfilm has either the characters or the actors blacklisted, for whatever reason. And I refuse to continue banging my head against the wall for that particular lost cause. I actually ran into a former senior Hasbro exec at a con during the fall. He said that he tried to get them made, even down to the point of only making one of them. And Lucasfilm would not relent. He added that while the Hasbro Star Wars team has turned over since his tenure, the same people are in place at Lucasfilm licensing, and their position on the issue has almost certainly not changed.
Plus, I voted for the Jedi Temple Guards because I actually like them! I have ever since I saw them turn up in Clone Wars. And when the plot point about the Grand Inquisitor having been a temple guard came to light in Rebels? It raised their stock even more for me.
I think I prefer this format to Last Figure Standing. That poll felt like a card trick, where ultimately you were having a card forced on you. The binary choices of a bracket poll give this more of a sense of clarity.
