Bracket. From: CJayC | Posted: 6/28/2005 4:08:06 PM | Message Detail http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/sum05_bracket.php http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/sum05_who.php is also up, but no descriptions are up yet. Contest entry form will be up later tonight. --- Lighten up. The world is not out to get you, except in the sense that the world is out to get everyone. --- The Contest is Officially Open From: CJayC | Posted: 6/28/2005 9:21:29 PM | Message Detail http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/contest/sum05.html Entries are due July 18th, Midnight GMT. And, for the record, I have no clue who's going to win. I feel like my bracket's been shot before the first vote has even taken place... --- Lighten up. The world is not out to get you, except in the sense that the world is out to get everyone. --- Tiebreaker Clarification From: CJayC | Posted: 6/28/2005 10:59:14 PM | Message Detail Just to clarify for those who already got their bracket in, the tiebreaker is for the number of votes the victor receives in the main bracket, not the Tournament of Champions. --- Lighten up. The world is not out to get you, except in the sense that the world is out to get everyone. --- OFFICIAL CONTEST RULES (updated) Summer 2005 Contest: The Great GameFAQs Character Battle IV Summer 2002: Link Summer 2003: Cloud Summer 2004: Link Spring 2005: Sephiroth This year, Champions have their own bracket, and it's time to crown a new Champion. 64 Characters. 3 Champions. 2 Winners? The users of GameFAQs have nominated 64 characters and it's time to let them battle it out. Starting July 19th, the fourth 64-character winner-take-all tournament will begin. Using the Poll of the Day to decide, only the most popular character will be crowned champion, and then have to face off against three prior winners in the Tournament of Champions. Don't forget: This is not a contest to see which character would be more powerful in a fight, or necessarily which character is best. It's all a big popularity contest, and visitors who have never visited GameFAQs before will be sure to stop in and vote. The Tournament of Champions will pit the winner of the battle against Link, Cloud, and Sephiroth in a 4-character bracket, and correctly picks for each of those three battles is worth a bonus 8 points per battle added to your final score. CONTEST RULES AND SCORING There are sixty-three regular rounds of the tournament plus three bonus rounds, which will take place using the Poll of the Day question located on the front page of GameFAQs. Picking the correct answer of each battle earns the entrant points depending on the round: Round 1: 1 point, Round 2: 2 points, Round 3: 4 points, Round 4: 8 points, Semi-Finals: 16 points, Final: 32 points, Tournament of Champions: 8 points. The sum total of all 63 regular scores plus 3 bonus scores is the entrant's final score. --- ~*Why CJayC instituted a poll update*~ From: UltimaterializerX | Posted: 8/6/2005 10:35:58 PM | Message Detail There is massive cheating for Kefka. Ceej signed on AIM to try and scare the idiot, but he wasn't on. Ceej then did the 5 minute trick with the poll. You didn't hear that from me. ~*ST*~ --- Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best. Game. Ever." Contest "If my fate is to be destroyed... I must simply laugh!" -Magus --- Vote adjustment due to stuffing. From: CJayC | Posted: 8/6/2005 10:49:27 PM | Message Detail Kefka has lost 1800 votes due to flagrant vote stuffing. The clear majority of the stuffed votes appear to have come from user "George Romero" (who even hinted that he was doing it in his posts here, and has since been banned, although it appears he had no valid entry in the contest). While there are probably many more than 1800 votes stuffed exclusively in favor of Kefka, that's approximately how many I can confirm were done by this group, and it's more than enough to set the balance right. While there is, of course "vote stuffing" for both characters, this is a clear case where a few people have gone through extraordinary lengths to alter the vote, spending hour after hour stuffing votes. There was no vote stuffing to this order of magnitude for Tommy, so the vote totals have been adjusted accordingly, and new measures are being put in place to prevent this from happening again. As a reminder, this is covered explicitly in the rules, and again, I have absolutely no stake in whoever actually wins in each day's bracket (not counting my own entry for fun, which, of course, I picked Kefka for). --- Lighten up. The world is not out to get you, except in the sense that the world is out to get everyone. --- A few extra notes on the adjustment. From: CJayC | Posted: 8/6/2005 11:13:12 PM | Message Detail In case you're wondering how bad the cheating was for Kefka, here's a sample: http://img205.imageshack.us/my.php?image=votes4fz.png The yellow is Kefka votes, the blue is Tommy. The number (vertical) is how many votes out of each group of 1000 (horizontal) came from a IP range from a particular ISP. Based on the user logs, this was clearly perpetrated by a single person or at most a small group of people, and as such, cannot be allowed. As I mentioned in the first post, this situation is explicitly covered by the rules: "we reserve the right intervene in the daily tally when there is a clear evidence of mass voting fraud". If that chart isn't clear evidence, well, then nothing's going to convince you. If you want to get angry at anyone, get angry at the people who caused it. --- Lighten up. The world is not out to get you, except in the sense that the world is out to get everyone. --- From: AyaneLuverGuy | Posted: 8/7/2005 12:30:55 AM | Message Detail Here it is, I left CJayC because he said it's already closed, but I changed my friend's in the name of privacy. CJayC (11:07:25 PM): Congratulations. You're a celebrity. M4***** (11:07:34 PM): Thanks dude CJayC (11:07:56 PM): How many times did you actually vote? I had to guess. Or did you keep count? M4***** (11:08:15 PM): Eh, I didnt keep count M4***** (11:09:09 PM): Somewhere around 2000 though CJayC (11:09:58 PM): Figured. I knew I had you for 1500 (300 were from other folks). Funny, though, the way you talked it sounded like you were pulling for Tommy. Which makes it look like an even bigger conspiracy. Always fun. M4***** (11:10:24 PM): Yes. I love creating confusion and deceit M4***** (11:10:47 PM): Who was I going for? Tommy or Kefka? The world may never know. CJayC (11:11:01 PM): Heh, I couldn't even find a bracket for you, not that I was looking extra hard, though. M4***** (11:12:02 PM): I had a bracket. Though I have Cloud over Link so I doubt I would have won. M4***** (11:13:28 PM): Unless Cloud...managed to beat Link again. CJayC (11:14:00 PM): It could happen. *shrug* Anyway, gotta run. You now have a lovely IM conversation to paste everywhere so you can garner even more attention. :-) M4***** (11:14:19 PM): Cool. M4***** (11:14:39 PM): Though with the name CJayC, aren't you getting tons of IMs just from being on right now? CJayC (11:14:56 PM): Closed list. CJayC (11:15:04 PM): Last time it was open, I got 100s. M4***** (11:15:32 PM): Ok. Yeah that doesn't surprise me. M4***** (11:18:43 PM): One more thing if you're still there. Do you really talk to Ulti often? Because he makes it seem like you do. CJayC (11:19:45 PM): He's one of the few on this account's list. Of course, I'm only on this account a few times a month. But, I suppose if you were to add up the time of all the people I talk to who I don't actually work with, he's in the top 10. M4***** (11:21:50 PM): Hey add me to the list. You have to. I'm the infamous cheater guy. I deserve it. CJayC (11:22:16 PM): Just don't give me a reason to remove you. I'm lazy like that. M4***** (11:22:32 PM): Ok, fair enough. CJayC (11:25:08 PM): 'Night. M4***** (11:25:14 PM): See ya. M4***** (11:25:20 PM): Have a good night CJayC signed off at 11:26:47 PM. --- Make yourself a Jill sandwich and cheer up - AxeltheRed Jill Valentine > You - Darque --- From: CJayC | Posted: 8/7/2005 12:37:34 AM | Message Detail The whole reason I had the conversation with him, of course, is so it _would_ get re-posted, confirming that what I did was indeed find one person voting massive amounts of times. Not really devious, but an ulterior motive. Figured this was easier than posting "Yes, AyaneLuverGuy really does know George, I can see the usermap, and he's more than likely really talking to him on the phone". As for his claims that he did this for Mario v Crono, I couldn't tell ya. From what I remember, all of the stuffing I saw was pretty much equal on both sides, so his claim that he decided it can be shared by many others. --- Lighten up. The world is not out to get you, except in the sense that the world is out to get everyone. --- Oh, by the way, Tommy would have won regardless. From: CJayC | Posted: 8/7/2005 1:02:58 AM | Message Detail Given the final vote differential was 2245, and I only removed 1800 votes from Kefka... In other words, had I just not done anything at all, the same result would have occurred, minus all of the hullabaloo. There's irony for ya. --- Lighten up. The world is not out to get you, except in the sense that the world is out to get everyone. --- From: CJayC | Posted: 8/7/2005 1:11:54 AM | Message Detail Yeah, I did see the Vercetti stuff at the end of it; odd thing though, it good portion of it (half?) came from a wide variety of IPs and ISPs, in China of all places. None of the IPs were known proxies, and given that they were from multiple ISPs, it can't have been one person doing it; it looked more like the Korean ISP floods during the Best Game Ever matches with StarCraft. *shrug* --- Lighten up. The world is not out to get you, except in the sense that the world is out to get everyone. ---