And my post was to inform you that you're wasting your time if you think that there's more of a point to this topic than "just because we've got nothing better to do".
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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing over half of the brackets that Ridley could win. - Harrich

I do have better things to do, like finish beating Breath of Fire III. I just choose to interact electronically with people who think they are smarter than they really are, just because it is quite entertaining. Much like watching the long jump in the Special Olympics.

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Team Dragostrea Din Tei for Trivia XV

Diablo just broke 52% for all curious.
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Hi,I'm partystar. ^_^
Or maybe I'm Leonhart. That's for you to decide.

well, i wish i had something clever, witty, or interesting to say about Diablo's current 2600 vote lead, but i don't. all i know is that either Robotnik or Kefka had better win their next matc or i will be seriously depressed. =(

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SInce you've made the claim that we think we're smarter than we actually are I'd like to be a smart ass and point out you've done a fine job of misspelling your trivia team name. It's Dragostea, not dragostrea.
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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing over half of the brackets that Ridley could win. - Harrich

I don't really care who wins between Kefka and Diablo, but Master Hand beating Robotnik would only further disgust me.
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Hi,I'm partystar. ^_^
Or maybe I'm Leonhart. That's for you to decide.

Unfortunately, MH does have a chance to beat Robo.

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MH vs. Robotnik sucks, but I'm looking forward to seeing where Sin and Kuja are in relation to each other. I picked Sin over Kuja (yes, my bracket is shot), so I'm curious if I was completely wrong or just mostly wrong.

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Unfortunately, Master Hand will actualy beat Robotnik. I still believe that Not Robotnik > Who Cares?

I need to cut back on the time I spend here.
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Sephiroth is good, if he wasn't good, sephiroth wouldn't have 8.000 fans around the world. ~Siimor11
ZSB [aX]

After seeing Lavos actually do well against Liquid, I think Sin could well be stronger than Kuja.
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And how many points do you have, again? - fedor
And how many contests have you won, again? - UltimaterializerX

Master Hand seems to be the favorite going into it.
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Board 8: Where people treat each other right.

The scary thing about this is that Bison is still pulling in 160-170 votes per five minute update, which would normally be a very respectable number for a tight match at this point in the evening...it's just that Diablo's in the 220-230 range, which is what you'd expect up against a weak character.
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ALL YOUR VOTES ARE BELONG TO CATS

...I just noticed that this poll is getting a lot of votes.
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And how many points do you have, again? - fedor
And how many contests have you won, again? - UltimaterializerX

Yeah. It's certainly looking to break Sephiroth/Ramirez's total, at least.
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"Thank you, Mario. But our princess is in another castle."
-Toad in Super Mario Bros.

Oh em gee! Diablo is cheating! Sound the alarm!

I'm kinda joking... but then again it wouldn't surprise me. The Diablo 2 "community" is the scum of the internet for the most part. Heh heh heh.
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He needs nominations, 61! Nominate Raiden (Metal Gear Solid 2) for SC2K5!

Hopefully Diablo finishes with over 53%.

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“But though we strike at you from the shadows, do not think that we lack the courage to stand in the light.”
- Zeratul

I'm kinda joking... but then again it wouldn't surprise me. The Diablo 2 "community" is the scum of the internet for the most part. Heh heh heh.

100% true. I'm not going to say all of them are like this, but for the most part, they are disgusting and willing to resort to any means to win. Expect Diablo to get 1.5x his highest vote totals thus far against Kefka.

Heil Dweebenheimer!!! For I am MasterMage119!!!

Hopefully M. Bison makes a miracle comeback and beats Diablo.
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"Thank you, Mario. But our princess is in another castle."
-Toad in Super Mario Bros.

Over the past hour, Diablo's gotten 57.53% of the vote.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So...what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Hopefully M. Bison makes a miracle comeback and beats Diablo.

I wouldn't want to see that...

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“But though we strike at you from the shadows, do not think that we lack the courage to stand in the light.”
- Zeratul

This may be the first non-Sephiroth poll to bring in 80k votes o_o
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HRC total: 77592.6
VOTE FOR MASTER HAND

HM, you got something against Bison, or what? I figured a SF fan such as yourself would be rooting for Bison rather than rooting for "Ridley looking as good as possible".
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100% true. I'm not going to say all of them are like this, but for the most part, they are disgusting and willing to resort to any means to win. Expect Diablo to get 1.5x his highest vote totals thus far against Kefka.

*sigh* All I know is that Diablo's almost certainly going to walk away from today's poll with more votes than he had up against a (presumably) weaker Ridley...which would be highly irregular for a non-crooked poll.
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ALL YOUR VOTES ARE BELONG TO CATS

Speaking of Diablo cheating theory, anyone up to making a graph with excel... or whatever the hell that dude used for Master Hand/Kuja? See if the normal function (is that what it was called? The thing that has to be close to 1... man I've forgotten my teachings) is fishy?
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He needs nominations, 61! Nominate Raiden (Metal Gear Solid 2) for SC2K5!

This has been a close poll between two very devoted fanbases. There's really no reason to believe this is a "crooked poll."
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Board 8: Where people treat each other right.

Sadly enough, whenever I think of Diablo... the thought of cheaters just comes to mind. If you've played Diablo you'd know why I think that.
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He needs nominations, 61! Nominate Raiden (Metal Gear Solid 2) for SC2K5!

Triforce Division: Round 2 - Match 23 – (1)Ganondorf vs. (4)Ansem

Moltar’s Analysis

Ganondorf - Last I checked, Ansem didn’t have a Master Sword.
Round 1 – vs. Giygas (Ganondorf: 84.98% - Giygas: 15.02%)

Ganondorf has the biggest blow-out of Round 1, completely destroying Giygas.

Ansem - CATS had his Wheaties that morning...DID YOU, ANSEM?!
Round 1 – vs. CATS (Ansem: 54.04% - CATS: 45.96%)

Well…Ansem turned out to be quite the failure here…

Really, CATS was beating Ansem at more than 1 point in the match, and not just at the beginning. When you let CATS get close to 46% on you, you know you suck. Ganondorf has no troubles here.

But wait, according to those 2004 stats, CATS was stronger than Ganondorf. Ansem is going to win! Oh noes! I’ll take a risk though and go with Ganondorf.

Moltar’s Bracket Says: Ganondorf will win

Moltar’s Prediction is: Ganondorf 80% - Ansem 20%



Ulti’s Analysis

Ganon vs Moron, Inc.

.....is there a point in putting anything in this section? Honestly, Moron, Inc. had to rely on the day vote to fight off CATS. CATS!!

Besides, Moron, Inc.'s Darkness <<<<<< Ganon's Darkness. Know your ****ing roots, fools.

Ganon with 81.34%



Soul’s Analysis


Another close match finished, means we need a blowout to even it out. Ganondorf is going to take this match, and after Kuja's horrible performance last round, expect him to get around 76.79%.



Outback’s Analysis

>_<

Hey, Ansem beat CATS, right? And CATS is above Ganon on the XStats, right? Ha, Ganon's going down!!!!

Ganondorf 79.69 Ansem 20.31



Inviso’s Analysis

Yeah, Ganondorf is gonna win this one. It’s pretty obvious. He scored the biggest blowout of round one, and he’s the second strongest villain on Gamefaqs, topped only by Sephiroth (don’t give me that Magus stuff, because anyone who joins your party in effect becomes a non-villain). Ansem is from a game that gets a huge amount of hate on this site, and he struggled with a joke character, CATS. I realize CATS has a huge fanbase (undeservingly), but come on, Ansem should’ve done better than that.

Ganondorf’s gonna move on after this match, and is the best hope of someone defeating Sephiroth. “It makes me wanna…wanna…volunteer at the soup kitchen. Come Ganny.”

My Prediction: Ganondorf with 76.95%

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M. Bison vs. Diablo - Bracket: Ridley - Vote: Diablo (24/26)

Not to mention the whole Gamespy fiasco.
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Okay, since the CSaD's excitement is waning at this time of day (though the casuals seem to be pumped up today) I wanted to talk about Summer nominations. I can never, ever fill in 10 spots with characters I genuinely wish to see in the contest. Just going by my ever shrinking list of characters I want to see in but havent made it I've got three: Geno, Vincent, Mai. The second group of characters I look to are ones that have gotten screwed somehow, and I feel a need to fix that injustice. This time they are: Aeris and Raiden.

Outside of that I would like you guys to help me come up with a suitable list. No naming characters that are guarenteed in, no naming characters that are guarenteed not to get in (Mai is the only character whom I nominate "on principle") and no naming characters that were in a contest in that last 12 months unless there is no relatively solid data backing them up (that means no Magus).

This isn't an offer to trade (though I'd be grateful if you kept any of my nominations in mind should you fall short of ten), its me asking you to tell me which newbies deserve a shot the most by likely being good performers (20%+) and which previous performers need to come back.

The current list, so far:
Vincent
Aeris
Mai
Raiden
Geno
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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing over half of the brackets that Ridley could win. - Harrich

Absolutely agree with yoblazer. There is no reason to believe there is something wrong with this poll in the way of cheating.

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“But though we strike at you from the shadows, do not think that we lack the courage to stand in the light.”
- Zeratul

Regardless of how scummy the Diablo community has always been, I can't see cheating here. We expected Diablo to be strong at this time of day from the beginning, and when Bison couldn't get a lead over 100 it was obvious that the ending result would look like htis. No reason to suspect cheating if he wasn't doing it last round.
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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing over half of the brackets that Ridley could win. - Harrich

Do you guys know of other huge sites besides diabloii.net that have been advertising Diablo's matches? I'd really like to know, as I could provide a little bit of data if you tell me there aren't any other big sites helping Diablo out.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So...what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

It's precisely because we're dealing with two loyal fanbases that I find today's results to be a little odd: character vote totals are virtually guaranteed to drop in the later stages of a tournament because the competition gets fiercer, and people are more likely to care for both characters involved. The only exceptions we've generally seen to this are in matches that have had HUGE spikes in voting (greater than the 10,000 or so that this match will beat out Diablo's last one, anyway). The only way I see today's match not involving a fair amount of stuffing is if Diablo dragged in a good deal more outside support today than he got in his first match, which I'll admit is a possibility.

No reason to suspect cheating if he wasn't doing it last round.

To be fair, people wouldn't have bothered vote-stuffing in a match that was a runaway.
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ALL YOUR VOTES ARE BELONG TO CATS

Some characters I'd like to see get in the contest:

Diddy Kong (replace Donkey Kong, just to see how he measures up)
Sub-Zero (ditto with Scorpion)
Peach
Chun-Li
Ryu IN NINJA FORM for justification
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Oh, IMO, a nomination for Vivi wouldn't hurt, 'cause it's no sure thing that he'll make it back with competition among Square characters as fierce as it is...but if you're looking for new characters...hmm...well, I'd still like to see how Serge would fare in the contest.
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ALL YOUR VOTES ARE BELONG TO CATS

A higher percentage of the total votes up to hour 17:30 were in the first 7 hours for Kefka/Wesker than for Diablo/M. Bison, which is the opposite of what I expected (and I'd consider Monday and Tuesday to be comparable days)...after all, diabloii.net put up their Diablo/M. Bison advertisement at 7:00 AM. Vote stuffing in the early hours, perhaps? Meh, I'll wait until the poll ends...

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So...what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

From: ChichiriMuyo | Posted: 5/24/2005 5:52:29 PM | Message Detail | #045
SInce you've made the claim that we think we're smarter than we actually are I'd like to be a smart ass and point out you've done a fine job of misspelling your trivia team name. It's Dragostea, not dragostrea.

Cookie if you tell me what it is actually from... I wanted Ron Mexicoz Infectorz, but was shot down. And it is a collective 'we,' encompassing everyone, not just some.

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Team Dragostea Din Tei for Trivia XV

ChichiriMuyo, you are enlightened without my intervention. +61 points! May I put you on my nomination topic's list so it looks a bit less depressing?

As for another character... well I won't really mention any unless you're at a loss later. You've already got the character I would've mentioned first anyway. No need to be greedy.
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He needs nominations, 61! Nominate Raiden (Metal Gear Solid 2) for SC2K5!

Diddy Kong - He feels like fodder to me. With the exception of DKC2 in all of his appearances he's... well... second bannana.
Sub-Zero - I would much rather see Sub Zero than Scorpion. Heck, I might even vote for Sub-Zero but I can't see a situation where I'd vote for Scorp.
Peach - When talk of her began in 2k3 I was rather against the idea, nearly two years later I think I like her in a contest setting more than then (of course there were too many Mario characters that year, not to mention Nintendo characters in general)
Chun-Li - I'll almost definitely put in Chun-li. I was thinking about her before but forgot her when I made my list.
Ryu - Can't control the pic that Ceej uses, unfortunately.
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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing over half of the brackets that Ridley could win. - Harrich

What about Morrigan and Strider?
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Two turtle-like fighters make their debuts in Middle... Will either Blastoise or Cagnazzo manage to win? Find out at www.rpgdl.com!

What about Leon Kennedy? Post-RE4 he might be able to make some noise if he's seeded well (or seeded badly depending on how it unfolds). Plus, he's got the RE2 vote for the people who haven't played RE4.

I think that I'll also be nominating Master Hand, so that might be an idea...see how it stacks up in a real contest.
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Davidson is in the house!

I love Vivi, you'd be nuts to think otherwise, and I'd like to see him sans SFF but there are so many Square characters. If the cap doesn't get raised and ceej doesn't "retire" the champs I know that things will get ugly. It almost seems counter productive to nominate too many Square characters which is also why Serge wasn't on my list. Still up for consideration, maybe even to replace my "throw-away" Mai nomination (I think with the right circumstances she could honestly make it), just not a guarentee for either.

"Cookie if you tell me what it is actually from..."

The O-Zone song thats also known as Mai Ai Hii (sometimes hee) and is translated to be approximately "Love Under the Lime Tree"? Tis a great song, the first hundred times you hear it, but to my ears it doesn't strike me as being an ultimately dancable song, which is why it stands out so much on the dance music stations I listen to.

"May I put you on my nomination topic's list so it looks a bit less depressing? "

For whom? I mean, put me on there, since you've stated I'm noming them anyway, but which character is the list for?

"No need to be greedy. "

It wouldn't be greedy, I want to know which characters the memebers of this grand topic believe would be fine competitors in the summer. I'm looking for 9/10 or my nominations to make it and score 20% or higher, if I can. Past the list I made it's not really about who I like but who we think (meaning not just who I think, since that'd be a done deal of a list) would be good in the contest, period. Basically half my noms are my htoughts on who will rock in the contest (minus Mai), the other half is the general consensus of characters I've missed.
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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing over half of the brackets that Ridley could win. - Harrich

We'll kinda know how Master Hand stacks up in a contest though by how he does against Ganondorf. I would say Richter Belmont, but his ceiling is Alucard, so that's not very interesting. I do think that Toad could cause a stir, and maybe do better than Peach (definitely Wario). Maybe someone to consider next year after Peach gets in. (if she got in)

And Chichiri, I'm putting you on the infamous "list" unless you're opposed to it. Seems kinda silly to ask now that I think about it. The people must be informed of just how much support Raiden has. (Plus, like I said, 2 names are less depressing than 1)
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He needs nominations, 61! Nominate Raiden (Metal Gear Solid 2) for SC2K5!

Proof that no one reads sigs... heh heh heh.
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He needs nominations, 61! Nominate Raiden (Metal Gear Solid 2) for SC2K5!

I'd love to see a xenogears character (probably Fei), or Yuri from shadow hearts, but I imagine both of them would get massacred anyway due to being "cult". as mentioned earlier, Cecil would be interesting, and I'd love to see how the prince from katamari damacy did. that's all I can think of for now.

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Morri - She's up for consideration. What with the rather decent (for a Darstalkers title) release on the PSP this is her best shot since ceej opened noms up to the front page. Unfortunately, I think it'd take another MvC2-level game for her to be as strong as she was in 2k2.

Strider - He grabbed a nom from me last year, I won't abandon him this year unless there is overwhelming support for other candidates. Too bad he hasn't had a new release lately. Can't say I see him making it, nor can I see him doing as well as 2k2... very saddening to me as I've been a fan of Strider since he first hit the 'cades.

Leon - Good solid pick, if I actually liked him personally he'd be on the list. I don't dislie him, though, and he has the whole world going for him (well, for a RE character, anyway) so he's got a fair shot unless 5 others can nudge him out.
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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing over half of the brackets that Ridley could win. - Harrich

As far as new contestants that should break 20%:
Leon Kennedy (RE2/4)
Arbiter (H2)
Kratos (GoW)
CJ (GTA:SA)
Kerrigan (SC:BW)
Naked Snake (MGS3:SE) -- If he counts
Lloyd Irving (ToS) -- Mithos did far better than expected

And that's really all the non-SquEnix/Nintendo stuff I can think of right now. I'd also like to see Ken, Aeris, Zelda, and Raiden return, as well as Terra/Celes, Serge, and the two obvious FFVII characters, but that's only happening if Cloud/Seph are retired.
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Kerrigan would be fodder in one of these contests.
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Current Match Prediction -- M. Bison vs. Diablo
Spring 2005 Contest -- 25/26 points

Ah, RPGuy, you'd like to see Raiden return, but are you nominating him? I'd love to put another on "the list". Heh heh.

But yeah, Richter Belmont and Toad are the only two I have interest in that I think would be possibly able to break 20%. Well, Kerrigan could too, I mean look at Diablo.
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Fei - Would love to see him, always liked Fei.... can't see him doing well though.
Yuri - He'd probably do worse
Cecil - So many squares, so little room.
Toad - Seems to me to be bottom of the barrel for Mario characters, not ready to back him yet.

Oh, and anyone that's known simply as the prince doesn't strike me as someone who is making the contest. With the exception of Servbot and Master Chief every character has had a name, and Master Chief is almost a name.
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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing over half of the brackets that Ridley could win. - Harrich