15 minute Match Updates were first put to use by solarshadow during the 2002 Summer Contest, when he (with some help) tracked all 24 hours of the Cloud vs Pikachu poll. Although update topics popped up here and there over the next two years (such as Link/Mario in '02 and Mario/Crono in '03), no concerted effort at tracking results was made until the Spring of 2004, when Ngamer's nightly update topics resulted in a strong (though not complete) collection of vote updates. The tracking system was automated and eventually perfected later that year by creativename and his ingenious update script, effectively taking the manual labor out of the job.