![]() Blue Mary was first in the Gamest poll, barely beating Duck King from the Fatal Fury series who was second in the poll via a few mere votes. The Neo Geo Freak's winner was Billy Kane and Famitsu's winner was Ryuji Yamazaki. In order to decide who would become the members of the '97 Special Team, three polls were conducted by the video game journals Weekly Famitsu, Gamest and Neo Geo Freak, in which readers voted who was the character they wanted to see in the team. What team will win the tournament that the eyes of the whole world will look on and wear the KOF crown of victory? And does an incident similar to the unexpected accident of last year's tournament threaten to mar the festivities? All of the world's attention is focused on this year's tournament. ![]() Naturally the anticipation for the KOF '97 tournament exceeded historical precedent and it soon became obvious to everyone that the current tournament, as with the previous one, would reach a remarkable climax. Concomitant to the preliminary matches, came the construction of various KOF stadiums throughout the world. Word of the tournament came through all forms of the media, and fans from far and wide gathered to witness the white-hot preliminary battles. With the decision to hold the tournament, fighters began to gather at various venues for the preliminary matches and approached the tournament with various motives, some came to test their abilities while others entered for wealth and fame. The fad reached all over the globe and in no time KOF '97 came into being. ![]() A few months after, the event triggered a fighting craze and various large corporations, expressing interest in the fad, offered to sponsor subsequent tournaments, leading to a demand for an eagerly awaited KOF '97. In spite of this incident, however, the KOF '96 tournament was an overwhelming commercial success. The incident itself and the subsequent accident it caused were officially reported as the result of terrorist activity by an unknown group, but the details concerning the identity, motives, and subsequent whereabouts of the terrorists remained a mystery. "KOF '96 tournament drew to a close with an incident that occurred right after the tournament's end." The official story given by SNK is as follows:
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