Voting Door 19

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Between December 03, 2023 and December 07, 2023, the First Annual Running of the Television's **Voting Door 19** took place. It is part of the season's Elimination Round and was not a Genocide Event.

## Voting

The voting for Voting Door 19, as with the previous Voting Doors, occured exclusively on Encyclopedia SpongeBobia's forums.

### Final Result

Voting Door 19 recieved five votes, constituting a split traditional majority.

## Trivia

### Voting

* ESB user Gamer372Revived cast a vote to eliminate Luan from Category 1 (*SpongeBob*) despite Luan coming from Category 3 (Nickelodeon) instead. This foreshadowed Luan's later elimination the week after.
* Having recieved five votes, this sets a new record for most ESB user votes cast for a single Voting Door in the game's history, and ties for the most votes cast for a single Voting Door in the game's history. The previous record for the former was set in Week 3 with four, while the previous record for the latter was set in Week 6 during the Hiatus with five (including TurtlePedia user Pizza-gyoza77.
	+ Week 3 still holds the record for the most **successful** votes cast in a single Voting Door in the game's history, as all four votes were successful in eliminating the selected characters whereas only two in Category 3, three for Category 1, four in Category 2 and two in Category 4 were successful.

### Contestants

* This is the second week in a row (following Voting Door 18) where a Loud House character is eliminated from the game.
* Lori was previously voted for elimination in the game by ESB user Cp018018 back in Week 12, however the attempt was unsuccessful as Nora Wakeman was eliminated by a Rule of Default that week that involved previous attempts of elimination, in Nora's case the attempt was in Week 10.
	+ Coincidentally, the same Rule of Default is what eliminated her despite a tie between her and Jon (Garfield) over Elimination.
	+ To date, this is the second time the rule had to be played, following Week 12.
* This is the first time since Week 8 where a *Ben 10* villain was eliminated, and the first since Week 8 where a *Ben 10* character was eliminated on the same day as another *Ben 10* character won Immunity.
* This is Ben Tennyson's third win in the game, becoming the first in Category 2 and the second overall to win thrice, following Aang (Category 3, this happened on Voting Door 18).
	+ This is also Squidward's third win in the game, and his first since Week 4, making him the first in Category 1 and the third overall to win thrice.
	+ Ironically, Squidward is the first to win twice in the game in the game's history, leaving a 15-round gap between wins during which both Aang and Ben Tennyson won three times.
	+ Category 4 is the last remaining character to not have a single character that has won thrice, although Steve has already won twice.
* This is Splinter's second win in the game, and his first in a week where no vote was cast by a TurtlePedia user.

### Errors

* In the announcement post of the Voting Door's opening, the Voting Door was stated to end on December 02, 2023 (which had already passed) instead of the supposed December **07**, 2023 (the actual date of closure). This has been corrected, although 2023SpongeBobFan posted an errata in the comments of the post.
	+ The Voting Door was also erroneously designated as Voting Door **18** (the previous Voting Door) instead of its correct number, Voting Door **19**. This is corrected in the announcement post of the next Voting Door's opening.

### Miscellaneous

* In the announcement post of the Voting Door's opening, it has been announced that a new non-championship award will be awarded for Most Unexpected Comeback which, as revealed in VD20, went to Leshawna for Category 2. The award had no name in this post, but was later assigned a name during the announcement post of the opening of the next Voting Door.
	+ The name of the award was revealed to be the Ruben Aquino Most Unexpected Comeback Award and was named after Ruben Aquino, a Filipino animator, but not exactly named by popular vote.
* The announcement post of the Voting Door's opening is the first to officially acknowledge the Gerry Garcia ARTv Championship Trophy.