*Stats websites*

Everything you could ever imagine:
http://www.sc2k4.com

Sortable Table for Every Contest Match:
http://sc2k4.com/displaytable.php

Explanation of Extrapolated Standings:
http://sc2k4.com/extrapolated.php

Simple Explanation of Extrapolated Standings:
A = Strongest Character
B = Character Weaker than A
C = Character Weaker than B
To figure out a character's Xsts Percentage ---> [(CvB)(BvA)]/50 = CvA
To compare how C would do against B ---> [(CvA)/(BvA)]*50 = CvB
To figure out how B would do against A ---> [(CvA)/(CvB)]*50 = BvA

Summer 2002 Extrapolated Standings:
http://sc2k4.com/excel/sc2k2_extrapolated.htm

Summer 2003 Extrapolated Standings:
http://sc2k4.com/excel/sc2k3_extrapolated.htm

Spring 2004 Extrapolated Standings:
http://sc2k4.com/excel/spc2k4_extrapolated.htm

SFF Adjusted Spring 2004 Extrapolated Standings:
http://sc2k4.com/excel/spc2k4_extrapolated_sff.htm

Summer 2004 Extrapolated Standings:
http://sc2k4.com/excel/sc2k4_extrapolated.htm

SFF Adjusted Summer 2004 Extrapolated Standings:
http://sc2k4.com/excel/sc2k4_extrapolated_sff.htm

Summer 2002 Contest:
http://solarshadow2002.tripod.com

Summer 2003 Contest:
http://solarshadow-stats.tripod.com/2003/index.html

Spring 2004 Contest: (not currently updating)
http://solarshadow-stats.tripod.com/sp2004/index.html

*Stats topics*

Summer 2002 Contest:
http://solarshadow2002.tripod.com/page1.html

Summer 2003 Contest:
http://solarshadow-stats.tripod.com/archive/topic1p1.html
http://www.angelfire.com/games5/sum_contest/Page1.htm (See note)

2003-2004 Off-Season:
http://membres.lycos.fr/shindohikaru/stats1.htm (See note)
Note: Don't use the links in the topic to browse through the pages, change the page number in the URL.

Spring 2004 Pre-Season:
http://sc2k4.com/archive/04SpringPreSeason1.htm
http://sc2k4.com/archive/04SpringPreSeason2.htm
http://sc2k4.com/archive/04SpringPreSeason3.htm

Spring 2004 Contest:
http://sc2k4.com/archive/04SpringStats1.htm
http://sc2k4.com/archive/04SpringStats2.htm
http://sc2k4.com/archive/04SpringStats3.htm
http://sc2k4.com/archive/04SpringStats4.htm
http://sc2k4.com/archive/04SpringStats5.htm
http://sc2k4.com/archive/04SpringStats6.htm
http://sc2k4.com/archive/04SpringStats7.htm
http://sc2k4.com/archive/04SpringStats8.htm

Creativename's Links Page:
http://sc2k4.com/links.php

*Miscellaneous*

MMXcalibur's Prophet Sites:
http://prophetchallenge.hyperboards2.com/index.cgi
http://www.freewebs.com/mmxcalibur/

Poll Vote Total Updator:
http://sc2k4.com/update.php (add "?pollid=[4-digit poll number]" at the end of url to look at charts from past polls)

Summer 2002 Match Pictures:
http://sc2k4.com/frog/view.php?gid=15
http://sc2k4.com/frog/view.php?gid=15&page=1
http://sc2k4.com/frog/view.php?gid=15&page=2

Summer 2003 Match Pictures:
www.angelfire.com/games5/heroicmario0/contestpictures.htm

Spring 2004 Match Pictures:
http://sc2k4.com/frog/view.php?gid=17
http://sc2k4.com/frog/view.php?gid=17&page=1
http://sc2k4.com/frog/view.php?gid=17&page=2
http://sc2k4.com/frog/view.php?gid=17&page=3

Summer 2004 Match Pictures:
http://sc2k4.com/frog/view.php?gid=18
http://sc2k4.com/frog/view.php?gid=18&page=1
http://sc2k4.com/frog/view.php?gid=18&page=2
http://sc2k4.com/frog/view.php?gid=18&page=3

!yawA tsoP
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Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best. Game. Ever." Contest
"If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh!" -Magus Zeal

what goes on here?
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*does randy orton pose*
MaxedOutRyu......in Legendary Form

what goes on here?

Oh ****, an outsider!

*puts on pants*
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"I find your lack of faith disturbing."
- Darth Vader

I will hack this tournament to get the mongoose in! MUAHA

*fapfapfap*
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I Guess it comes down to a simple choice. Get busy living..or get busy dying.-Andy Dufresne

Diablo or Ridley?!

Still can't decide!! Ack!!! >_<

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FFVI says "A Love Between Human and Esper".

We're about to need this.....
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Serious Reminder: Vote for Dr. Wily in 2k5
Meanwhile, sit back and enjoy the contest-hype.

i think i finally came to terms on Ridley vs. Diablo. i decided to go with

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VOTE FOR ULTROS!!! G'FHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Trivia XIV: MEATWADD SUCKS!!

Hmmmm....So this is it then.
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"It feels as though the raindrops are blessing our victory." - Kuja
"I never trust a Frenchman." - Revolver Ocelot

Ridley's taking it.

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“Booster has such a nice place…I miss my fortress…I miss the good old days…Toadstool screaming in terror, Mario rushing in to save her…”

This seems needed.
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Insomnia is like having immortality, except you're gonna die. ~PepsiPlunge

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http://www.alexa.com/site/site_stats/signup?site_url=www.gamefaqs.com
&range=1y&widget=g&style=c&submitted=true&mode=graph&range=3m&amzn_id=

Of course, piece the two together. Interpret as you will.
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Serious Reminder: Vote for Dr. Wily in 2k5
Meanwhile, sit back and enjoy the contest-hype.

Cloud vs. Milkem is the picture for the main site? Awesome!

Of course, there is a great deal of fodder in this contest, but we still have some contest powerhouses. Those will draw in votes where others won't, especially when you put two of them against each other.
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"It feels as though the raindrops are blessing our victory." - Kuja
"I never trust a Frenchman." - Revolver Ocelot

yay! I want to say I was able to get a post into one of these.....im done
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*is Jessanugget*
"Ninjas don't destroy straw wrappers, they kill you"-Loki

wow, according to that link, if you push it out to the past two years, we are currently at the same level of site traffic as we were at the beginning of the SC2K3. we very well could have more casual voters and higher vote totals again.

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VOTE FOR ULTROS!!! G'FHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Trivia XIV: MEATWADD SUCKS!!

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1779

That's a Nintendo vs. Square matchup that took place in the final four of the Summer Contest. Now, Cloud is undoubtedly more popular, and a bigger vote getter, than Sephiroth ever will be. Samus is far more popular than Ganondorf. That match barely managed to get over 100,000 votes. I'm seriously doubting that Sephiroth vs. Ganondorf is a guaranteed 100,000 vote total. It may go over that, if it did it would be by very little.

I refused using Link / Cloud for this because those are the two biggest vote getters in the contest and it would be silly to use that as an example for this.

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“Booster has such a nice place…I miss my fortress…I miss the good old days…Toadstool screaming in terror, Mario rushing in to save her…”

and if you look, the site was really at a low-point during last spring's contest, right after that Gamespot merger. the site's really improved it's traffic since then.

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VOTE FOR ULTROS!!! G'FHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Trivia XIV: MEATWADD SUCKS!!

You're still dealing with lower site traffic last year than now. Even matches involving mid-tier characters got into the 90K range in SC2K3.
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"It feels as though the raindrops are blessing our victory." - Kuja
"I never trust a Frenchman." - Revolver Ocelot

I already saw the traffic listing a while ago. And I have no doubt that we could very well see the return of multiple 100,000+ matches during the next Summer Contest. I just severely doubt we'll see such a thing happen in this villains contest. I also think the amount of bracket entries will be lower than even last year's 33,000 - or something around that.

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“Booster has such a nice place…I miss my fortress…I miss the good old days…Toadstool screaming in terror, Mario rushing in to save her…”

Even with Sephiroth-Ganondorf, perennial powerhouses from the two biggest series on the site?

Heck, site traffic has even noticably increased since the contest was announced. People definitely seem to be interested.
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"It feels as though the raindrops are blessing our victory." - Kuja
"I never trust a Frenchman." - Revolver Ocelot

Yes, I seriously doubt that even Sephiroth / Ganondorf is somehow a "guaranteed" 100,000 matchup. Look, I would love for it to do so and even hope it happens, but until I actually see the first few matches of the contest I'm not going to jump out and assume that we're going to start seeing insane vote totals again.

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“Booster has such a nice place…I miss my fortress…I miss the good old days…Toadstool screaming in terror, Mario rushing in to save her…”

heh, this is the best review for Gamefaqs.com posted on that site:

1 of 5 stars It was cool,

When I first found this site, I thought it was the coolest thing on earth. I was on it everyday. Even before I was actualyl 13. The boards start getting really strict and people were getting banned left and right. Then he threatend to shut down the best board ever, LUE. He went totally mad. Then he changed the layout and made the boards look like crap. I left then ande never returned. Dont plan too, till it goes back to normal.

XD

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VOTE FOR ULTROS!!! G'FHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Trivia XIV: MEATWADD SUCKS!!

I just don't see why we wouldn't. Sure, we're dealing with a good amount of fodder, but we still have a bunch of characters that voters know and care about. Site traffic is much higher, and it's not like Sephiroth and Ganondorf DON'T draw voters. They're involved in 4 of the 10 matches with the highest vote totals.
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"It feels as though the raindrops are blessing our victory." - Kuja
"I never trust a Frenchman." - Revolver Ocelot

Matches are going to get 2K3 like votes? Hello? Did anyone forget that the poll is now out of view?
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O, flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified! ~Mercutio

Yes, because nobody ever scrolls.
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"It feels as though the raindrops are blessing our victory." - Kuja
"I never trust a Frenchman." - Revolver Ocelot

Food for thought: the traffic now is higher than it was during the Final Four of the Summer Contest last year OR in the days before and after Halo 2's release OR the days following Christmas (which had a blockbuster line-up last year). I don't know how it compares with 2k3's numbers, but considering we had two contests going on last year that helped with traffic, we're still looking very strong in visits.
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Serious Reminder: Vote for Dr. Wily in 2k5
Meanwhile, sit back and enjoy the contest-hype.

What, you didn't notice that SC2K4 had lower totals than SC2K3? Don't even tell me the new layout didn't affect vote totals.
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O, flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified! ~Mercutio

What, you didn't notice that SC2K4 had lower totals than SC2K3? Don't even tell me the new layout didn't affect vote totals.

Lower site traffic would be more to blame, if you ask me.
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"It feels as though the raindrops are blessing our victory." - Kuja
"I never trust a Frenchman." - Revolver Ocelot

Either way, they had a compounded effect. At least we have the traffic back up for now.
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Serious Reminder: Vote for Dr. Wily in 2k5
Meanwhile, sit back and enjoy the contest-hype.

I think it has been easy to tell that the traffic is backup just from looking at the amount of people logged in. I remember a time when having 4000 was something, now it gets up to as high as 6000.

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“Booster has such a nice place…I miss my fortress…I miss the good old days…Toadstool screaming in terror, Mario rushing in to save her…”

Bad poll placement certainly didn't hurt the finals last summer.
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"It feels as though the raindrops are blessing our victory." - Kuja
"I never trust a Frenchman." - Revolver Ocelot

Although that isn't overall site traffic, but I think it does do a good job of showing some increased interest in the amount of people on the site.

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“Booster has such a nice place…I miss my fortress…I miss the good old days…Toadstool screaming in terror, Mario rushing in to save her…”

I meant to put in the last topic....

Being on the leaderboard is overrated

(tag in disguise)
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Graduation: April 30, 2005 "There are only 10 kinds of people in this world, those that read binary and those that don't."

It's so not overrated.

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“Booster has such a nice place…I miss my fortress…I miss the good old days…Toadstool screaming in terror, Mario rushing in to save her…”

Yep. It is... I've been on the leaderboard at some point in every contest I've entered (2k3 and up). On the final leaderboard for SC2k4 tied for 10th place prize.... I really don't care anymore.

And if I DO get a prize this time (thanks to a better tiebreaker) I don't even care about the prizes. I'm about to graduate from college in a week and hopefully start working in DC in a month. Most likely I would give it away to my little brother or something....
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Graduation: April 30, 2005 "There are only 10 kinds of people in this world, those that read binary and those that don't."

Hey, one man's trash is another man's treasure, ya know.
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"It feels as though the raindrops are blessing our victory." - Kuja
"I never trust a Frenchman." - Revolver Ocelot

I have saved pictures of every day I was on the Top Fifty list last year (both contests), heh, so it's not all that over-rated I think (unless you're already had your success, like you have)...I vow two things though, now that I've gotten some taste of success:

1) To break the Top Ten one day.
2) To finish in the Top Fifty on day.

Of course, my goal's to win a contest, but only so many people can win, heh.
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Serious Reminder: Vote for Dr. Wily in 2k5
Meanwhile, sit back and enjoy the contest-hype.

I will be on the top 50 when Kefka wins over Diablo....

Or at least I hope so.
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Just like everything quiet and beautiful on this planet, my thread was ruined by man. Sakura 26
Zelos: Don't hate me just because I'm beautiful.

The weakest of weakest broke 90K in 2003.
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"I find your lack of faith disturbing."
- Darth Vader

Gordon Freeman vs Max Payne was it?
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BANG BANG BANG VIPER BEAM!

Gordon vs Max was the lowest-scoring, and even that scored 91000+, higher than last year's barnburner, Frog vs Master Chief.

Incidentally, IIRC, site traffic on gaming sites in general spiked on October 3rd, '04.
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"I find your lack of faith disturbing."
- Darth Vader

2003 was really the golden age of the contests... Not sure we'll ever get back to that level of unpredictibility and voter turnout.
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http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=20388161 - The GameFAQs Fanfiction Project, based off of the Spring Contest!

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OK then...

So I started playing Chrono Trigger. That'll be a surprise to those who know my tendency with game selection but anyway... how long is it going to take me to play through the thing? Roughly? I'm only been playing it for about an hour or so so far.
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Jon Thomson - knows nothing
Ridley's Road to Victory - Round 1 vs. (7) Diablo

Chrono Trigger should be roughly 20 - 25 hours to complete. It isn't that long for an RPG today.

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“Booster has such a nice place…I miss my fortress…I miss the good old days…Toadstool screaming in terror, Mario rushing in to save her…”

Actually I think it's a little more than that first play through, especially if you're not much of an RPG player.
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Not to put too fine a point on it, Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet. Make a little birdhouse in your soul.

That's how long it took me to beat it on my first playthrough.

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“Booster has such a nice place…I miss my fortress…I miss the good old days…Toadstool screaming in terror, Mario rushing in to save her…”