User blog comment:Nkstjoa/Top 8 Completed What-If? Death Battle's poll/@comment-5035900-20141228030218/@comment-26367254-20141228030441

The way I'd see the splitting polls thing working would be to have one poll for the new battles added, and then another poll for the already existing ones that were in the previous poll. The top 4 from each would then contribute to the top 8.

Okay, maybe it wouldn't be quite as simple as that, but that's what I figure.