The "girls aren't worth my time" episode.

*Creativename's websites*

Everything you could ever imagine:
http://www.sc2k5.com
http://www.sc2k4.com

Summer 2002 Contest Information:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/taxonomy/term/1

Summer 2003 Contest Information:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/taxonomy/term/2

Spring 2004 Contest Information:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/taxonomy/term/3

Summer 2004 Contest Information:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/taxonomy/term/4

Summer 2005 Contest Information:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/taxonomy/term/5

Sortable Table for Every Contest Match:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/node/19



*Extrapolated Standings*

Explanation of Extrapolated Standings:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/node/11

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://sc2k5.com/drupal/node/13

Summer 2003 Extrapolated Standings:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/node/14

Spring 2004 Extrapolated Standings:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/node/15

SFF Adjusted Spring 2004 Extrapolated Standings:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/node/16

Summer 2004 Extrapolated Standings:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/node/17

SFF Adjusted Summer 2004 Extrapolated Standings:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/node/18



*Solarshadow's Sites*

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



*Old 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



*Match Pictures*

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

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

Spring 2004 Match Pictures:
http://sc2k4.com/frog/view.php?gid=17

Summer 2004 Match Pictures:
http://sc2k4.com/frog/view.php?gid=18



*Miscellaneous*

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

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

Poll Vote Total Updator:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/node/25

All Time Top 25/Top 10 Lists:
http://www.rpgdl.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3251

!yawA tsoP
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"If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh!" -Magus Zeal

poor, poor Ghaleon.

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It's at 329, for God's sakes. Just let someone else post the damn thing whenever it's done.
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What happened with whatever female happens to be your significant other this time, Ulti?
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I'm like a mentally insane girl who keeps running back to her abusive boyfriend. ~ Mars
ZSB [aX]

Ramirez > Laharl
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Hi,I'm partystar. ^_^
Or maybe I'm Leonhart. That's for you to decide.

Well, I was bored, so I decided to average out all the Final Fantasy review scores. Stat collecting has always been a bit of a hobby of mine. Here they are.

Final Fantasy- 8.56 (43)
Final Fantasy II- 5.69 (32)
Final Fantasy III- 8.78 (27)
Final Fantasy IV- 9.03 (65)
Final Fantasy V- 9.28 (40)
Final Fantasy VI- 9.42 (53)
Final Fantasy VII- 9.06 (85)
Final Fantasy VIII- 8.17 (77)
Final Fantasy IX- 8.28 (64)
Final Fantasy X- 8.91 (98)
Final Fantasy XI- 7.77 (70)

Series average: 8.45

Numbers in parantheses are the number of reviews that game has...so, FFVI really is the most well-liked after all. FFV comes in a surprising second, with FFVII a solid third.

Also, I believe the 98 reviews that FFX has are the most of any game on the site.
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"Thank you, Mario. But our princess is in another castle."
-Toad in Super Mario Bros.

What did FFT, FFTA, and FFX-2 have?
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I'm like a mentally insane girl who keeps running back to her abusive boyfriend. ~ Mars
ZSB [aX]

that's cool
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My luck works best when things are... random. Mat Cauthon from The Dragon Reborn

Holy ****

There's no way I can keep up with this thread anymore.

Woe is me!
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"I don't care about your instrument! My god is communicating with me!"
- Ludwig van Beethoven

VOTE LAVOS!

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“The past is dead. It was all just a dream…”
http://img50.echo.cx/img50/131/justadream7fz.png

Liquid's much better though.
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"I don't care about your instrument! My god is communicating with me!"
- Ludwig van Beethoven

...no. As meh as Lavos is, I'll take anything over the prototype of Shadow the Hedgehog. Especially if made by that crackhead Kojima.
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Spring Contest 2005 - Points: 05/05 - Matches: 05/05 - Rank: 00001/24748 - Today: Vergil - Tomorrow: Lavos

Liquid's much better though.

First, no he isn't. Second, Lavos is facing Mother Brain tomorrow. =p

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http://img50.echo.cx/img50/131/justadream7fz.png

Wow, I hope you wrote a program to parse those out for you, instead of you entering all those numbers by hand.
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For the sake of simplicity, I'm going to refer to Gordon Freeman versus Tanner as Schrodinger's Match. -Phoenix Flattener

Skeet skeet.

In other news, this'll be needed pretty soon.
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"What awaits each person in Heaven is eternal peace, divine rest, and $10,000 cash." --Cartman

Nah, I input all the scores by hand. Took me about an hour to do all of them.
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"Thank you, Mario. But our princess is in another castle."
-Toad in Super Mario Bros.

Almost time, eh?
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Can't keep a good man down, baby!

Two in a row, bay-bee.
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Serious Reminder: Vote for Dr. Wily
"What awaits each person in Heaven is eternal peace, divine rest, and $10,000 cash." --Cartman

Squall > Magus

Liar.

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http://img50.echo.cx/img50/131/justadream7fz.png

Magus > Squall
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"I like it . . . when . . the red water comes out" - Salad Fingers QOTW: Dash it all - Wakkloud

Hideo Kojima > your face

~*ST*~
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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

Final Fantasy- 8.56 (43)
Final Fantasy II- 5.69 (32)
Final Fantasy III- 8.78 (27)
Final Fantasy IV- 9.03 (65)
Final Fantasy V- 9.28 (40)
Final Fantasy VI- 9.42 (53)
Final Fantasy VII- 9.06 (85)
Final Fantasy VIII- 8.17 (77)
Final Fantasy IX- 8.28 (64)
Final Fantasy X- 8.91 (98)
Final Fantasy XI- 7.77 (70)

im happy with FFIV's score =)

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Spring Contest '05 - 4 points
next pick: Seph

Sakaguchi > Kojima.

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“The past is dead. It was all just a dream…”
http://img50.echo.cx/img50/131/justadream7fz.png

According to cn's SFF adjusted stats DK increased by a little less than 2%. It'd end up putting Vivi at 24.85% (down 4 spots in the 2k4 SFF adjusted XSt) on 2k3 Link, assuming the DK number from my adjusted 2k3 is correct. Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if Donkey Konga had helped the ape ever-so-slightly though.
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But my silent fears have gripped me, long before I reach the phone, long before my tongue has tripped me. Must I always be alone?

Shigero (sp?) > Kojima > about everyone else.
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Serious Reminder: Vote for Dr. Wily
"What awaits each person in Heaven is eternal peace, divine rest, and $10,000 cash." --Cartman

I was thinkin' the same thing about Donkey Konga, but it's not a significant factor with or without it.
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Serious Reminder: Vote for Dr. Wily
"What awaits each person in Heaven is eternal peace, divine rest, and $10,000 cash." --Cartman

From last topic, on the subject of Vergil vs. Sephiroth:

^Wow....that would make him stronger then Auron.

Yeah, I know, that’s why I said if he was *really* lucky. Seriously, I see Sephiroth at around 76% in that match.

I just realized I don't even remember who I put down to win tomorrow's War of Blobs. Does it even matter?
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some of these villian battles aren't even fair

i mean sephiroth vs. Ramirez, c'mon how many people actually know who Ramires is? And now it's Virgil vs. Ghaleon. I bet the casual gamer just comes in here and is like "hmm, i don't even know who that is, i'll vote for him since i actually know him."

According to cn's SFF adjusted stats DK increased by a little less than 2%. It'd end up putting Vivi at 24.85% (down 4 spots in the 2k4 SFF adjusted XSt) on 2k3 Link, assuming the DK number from my adjusted 2k3 is correct.

That's less than DK's number on 2K3 Link. Are you sure you don't mean 2K4 Link?

If that's true, that still gives Zidane some wiggle room to be ahead of Vivi and not be higher than Squall.
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I bet the casual gamer just comes in here and is like "hmm, i don't even know who that is, i'll vote for him since i actually know him."

Stop the presses everyone, we have ourselves a brilliant new thought...

....
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Honorary Spring 2005 Winner - Kerrigan.

Hmm...so that'd put Vivi between Yoshi and Luigi (I'd say right under Knuckles, but he's been in Mega Man's division for the last two years). That makes Zidane seem more capable of being stronger than Viv to me, since I think he'd be right at Knuckles's strength before this. This also doesn't help Kuja's case, though it doesn't necessarily hurt either.
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Serious Reminder: Vote for Dr. Wily
"What awaits each person in Heaven is eternal peace, divine rest, and $10,000 cash." --Cartman

Yeah, it's only going from beating Yoshi to beating Luigi. Not that far, really, and of course it is assuming that a character with a new game or three didn't gain anything at all over the course of a year.
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But my silent fears have gripped me, long before I reach the phone, long before my tongue has tripped me. Must I always be alone?

If we didn't assume your Mega Man theory and did assume DK stayed steady from 2k3 to 2k4, that actually put Vivi up to Bowser's level (or just short, actually, I think). That's a lot bigger difference than just Yoshi-to-Luigi, though that isn't shown in the adjusted stats.
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Serious Reminder: Vote for Dr. Wily
"What awaits each person in Heaven is eternal peace, divine rest, and $10,000 cash." --Cartman

From: XdemonAlucard | Posted: 5/8/2005 2:40:33 PM | #028
some of these villian battles aren't even fair

i mean sephiroth vs. Ramirez, c'mon how many people actually know who Ramires is? And now it's Virgil vs. Ghaleon. I bet the casual gamer just comes in here and is like "hmm, i don't even know who that is, i'll vote for him since i actually know him."

Heh, like you don't need to be known to perform in a popularity contest. Strange, the concept of popularity, eh?

When's the last time we've had one of 'em tourists in the stats topic, BTW?
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Spring Contest 2005 - Points: 05/05 - Matches: 05/05 - Rank: 00001/24748 - Today: Vergil - Tomorrow: Lavos

"That's less than DK's number on 2K3 Link. Are you sure you don't mean 2K4 Link?"

Methinks you've missed out on what I've been talking about since the last topic. I assumed that Sephiroth overperformed on Cloud in 2k3 (since the 2k2 and 2k4 numbers seem to support that idea). Assuming that as a fact, two full divisions in 2k3 have incorrect stats. Re-doing the stats with that assumption in mind gives DK a lower score against 2k3, and that lower score was carried over to adjust Vivi assuming that the adjusted number is both correct and unchanged.

The second assumption isn't one I put my full faith in, so if I were to guess I'd have Vivi directly in between Luigi and Yoshi, at least, but since we're working with what limited math we've got I am trying to not insert non-mathematical assumptions in with the rest. That being said, Vivi, through that aforementioned DK, is about 3% lower than previously thought.

While it's being brought up, I think Zidane might outperform Vivi ever so slightly in an actual contest. As a fan favorite Vivi gets more nominations for sure, but that doesn't mean that he'd perform better. Then again, with nothing to prove otherwise it doesn't mean Zidane would do better either (look at Auron). As for Kuja, it doens't mean too much to him since almost everyone else in the contest rates in the oft mentioned weak bastards catagory.
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But my silent fears have gripped me, long before I reach the phone, long before my tongue has tripped me. Must I always be alone?

Bowser is one of the few characters whose adjustment I'm actually confident in. That being said, Bowser is quite a bit ahead of Vivi, no matter who adjusts him or how.
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But my silent fears have gripped me, long before I reach the phone, long before my tongue has tripped me. Must I always be alone?

I weep for humanity if they think Vergil deserves twice as many votes as Ghaleon. Just apalling.

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Well, yes, yes he does deserve it. Know why? Because he's twice as popular.
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Spring Contest 2005 - Points: 05/05 - Matches: 05/05 - Rank: 00001/24748 - Today: Vergil - Tomorrow: Lavos

I'm confident too; he did face Cloud in 2k3, afterall.
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I've long since decided humanity isn't worth weeping for. Instead I simply assume that 2/3 of them likely need to die.
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But my silent fears have gripped me, long before I reach the phone, long before my tongue has tripped me. Must I always be alone?

Heh, like you don't need to be known to perform in a popularity contest. Strange, the concept of popularity, eh?

i'm sorry, but if i remember correctly this was a who is the better villain contest not a popularity contest.

Screw Sonic/Magus... give me Magus/Frog!

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From: XdemonAlucard | Posted: 5/8/2005 3:02:07 PM | #041
i'm sorry, but if i remember correctly this was a who is the better villain contest not a popularity contest.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Read the rules again, kid.
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Spring Contest 2005 - Points: 05/05 - Matches: 05/05 - Rank: 00001/24748 - Today: Vergil - Tomorrow: Lavos

Hard for people to vote for who the better villain is when they only know one of them.
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i'm sorry, but if i remember correctly this was a who is the better villain contest not a popularity contest.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/contest/spr05.html

"Remember: This is a popularity contest, and nothing more."
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"All dreams are but another reality. Never forget..."

And Slowflake's right, too. Forgot it actually says that in the rules.
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That's not what I mean. I'm saying his fans either knew he wouldn't be eligible as you-know-who and nominated Sin instead. Either that, or they would vote accordingly, treating it as you-know-who.

that's the thing, Leon, on Board 8, Seymour had way more nominations than Sin and you-know-who actually had more nominations, too.

so, i am reasonably confident in Sin now.

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Hard for people to vote for who the better villain is when they only know one of them.

my point exactly

But when everyone only knows one, doesn't it make him the most popular? My point exactly. Sephiroth may not be the best villain ever, but he's by far the most popular and thus deserves to win in a landslide.
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Spring Contest 2005 - Points: 05/05 - Matches: 05/05 - Rank: 00001/24748 - Today: Vergil - Tomorrow: Lavos

Sephiroth deserves nothing more than the worst death possible.

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