Gamespot 2010 Contest

The Gamespot 2010 Contest, titled All-Time Greatest Game Villain was the second character contest held on Gamespot and the first to include villains. Due to the lack of an announcement for the next official GameFAQs Contest, many members of Board 8 took an interest in the contest. The contest was a 64 single elimination contest that included only villains.

Most of the same rules from the previous contest applied, but the major rule change was the length of each voting period. Before voting lasted roughly a week while in this contest voting lasts for no more than five days. Another big change was that Gamespot allowed characters that did not originate from videogames into the contest. The notable favourites in this contest are Bowser and Darth Vader while several other characters have minimal support.

Qualification
Like last year Gamespot staff picked 54 characters to enter the contest while choosing another 24 characters for users to vote on in a massive 24-way poll. The top 10 winners would qualify for the contest.

Wild Card Results

 * 1) Darth Vader - 28%
 * 2) Psycho Mantis - 13%
 * 3) Diablo - 12%
 * 4) Sweet Tooth - 7%
 * 5) Vergil - 5%
 * 6) General RAAM - 5%
 * 7) Mother Brain - 5%
 * 8) Lavos - 4%
 * 9) Akuma - 4%
 * 10) The Cyberdemon - 4%
 * 11) Imran Zakhaev - 3%
 * 12) Domino Hurley - 2%
 * 13) Manfred von Karma - 2%
 * 14) King Dedede - 2%
 * 15) Psy-Cow - 1%
 * 16) Evil Otto - 1%
 * 17) Lezard Valeth - 1%
 * 18) Thanatos - 0.4%
 * 19) The Jaquio - 0.4%
 * 20) Dark Falz - 0.4%
 * 21) The 'Unbeatable?' Pterodactyl - 0.3%
 * 22) Machine Gun Willy - 0.3%
 * 23) The Warden Clement Darling - 0.2%
 * 24) Dragon - 0.2%

Snubs
Despite increasing the field to 64 characters 16 out of the 32 characters from GameFAQs' Villain's Contest did not make the cut.

Lost in Round 3
 * Liquid Snake

Lost in Round 2
 * Sigma
 * Ansem
 * Master Hand

Lost in Round 1
 * Pyramid Head
 * Nemesis
 * Ultros
 * Ramirez
 * Ghaleon
 * Mithos
 * Luca Blight
 * Albedo
 * Ridley
 * CATS
 * Sin
 * Kuja

Bracket
Coming Soon.

Trivia

 * Donkey Kong is the only character to be in both the Heroes and Villains Bracket.