In all seriousness, I think Joanna will rank at about Crash's level.
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"Heil Dweebenheimer!"
MasterMage119

so at the current pace how many votes will we have at the end of the day?

Since the matches started and with a huge flood of votes, if this keeps up we'll get 165,312 votes by the end of the match, but personally I'm expecting around 85k-90k
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17 handhelds Nintendo has taken down 1 more to go (see quote for rest)

from Mario's 2k4 match, 15 minutes in:

Mario 1141
JC 235

Total 1376

15 minutes in this year:

Mario 1375
Joanna 327

Total 1702

however, it's also the first match, which I would assume would get more votes.

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Mario 80.85% 1617
Joanna Dark 19.15% 383
TOTAL VOTES 2000

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Happiness is like peeing on yourself. Everyone can see it, but only you feel it's warmth.

The effects of DDR Mario Mix are showing.

Mario 80.85% 1617
Joanna Dark 19.15% 383
TOTAL VOTES 2000

Mario doin' better than at the 1000 vote mark. <3

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Mario's Path to Victory: Round 1 - (8) Joanna Dark
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/135/cunningplan32kw.jpg

Mario may have boosted a lil', but not much (unless SM64DS did alot for him)...I suspect minor "SFF" and Joanna generally bein' real weak is more of the case though.
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Serious Reminder: Vote for Knuckles
Serious Reminder: Vote for Tifa Lockheart, too

if mario has boosted what does it mean for his later rounds?
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Kilroy:There fate will be in each other's hands as they decide whether to share or to shaft

Well...not much really. Samus might be in a bit more trouble than I planned.
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Mario vs. Joanna - Bracket: Mario - Vote: Mario

I still don't get where people are getting this idea of SFF from. Games are different from characters. Just because they shared a console doesn't mean they have a larger than normal fanbase overlap.
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 1: (7) Geno

if mario has boosted what does it mean for his later rounds?

Quite simply, it means he makes Crono his *****.

And when I said Joanna is about equal to Crash, I meant between Conker and Sam Fisher.
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"Heil Dweebenheimer!"
MasterMage119

Mario may have boosted a lil', but not much (unless SM64DS did alot for him)...I suspect minor "SFF" and Joanna generally bein' real weak is more of the case though.

She's definitely weak. But I think she has to be stronger than someone as obscure as JC Denton. Now she isn't going to be that much higher than Denton, but being equal with him is just something I couldn't imagine happening.

I think it's likely he at least regained what he had lost last year -- I, obviously, think more than that though.

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Mario's Path to Victory: Round 1 - (8) Joanna Dark
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/135/cunningplan32kw.jpg

Mario seems to have stabilized in the upper 80s for now.
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 1: (7) Geno

It's not even the N64 Joanna, for crying out loud. There's no SFF here. Mario is just that damn good.
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Board 8: Where people treat each other right.

From what I've been following, (and from whatever's possible to glean from a whopping 20 minutes) we're slightly ahead (about 100 votes) of the Sephiroth/Ganon pace so far.
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Revenge is a dish best served cold. ~Old Klingon Proverb

Total votes At 0:20
Cloud vs Samus 2k4- 2205
Mario vs Joanna Dark- 2235

On pace for 100k.
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"Those whose memories fade seek to carve them in their hearts..."
"All dreams are but another reality. Never forget..."

For the life of me, I can't remember who J.C Denton is.

I'm certain I knew before the last contest was released, but I seem to have forgotten him.
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Mario is Winnar
Next victim: Miss. Dark

after a couple more thousand votes we should get a general idea on by how badly mario is gonna thrash joanna right
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Kilroy:There fate will be in each other's hands as they decide whether to share or to shaft

Works for me. The higher the totals get, the better. Here's hoping the match can keep up that pace, though I don't think it will. I think we might be able to break 90k on a regular basis though.
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 1: (7) Geno

If this first match hits 100,000+ votes, even my relatively high tiebreaker is in trouble. I'm hoping this is just Mario causing a stir and not a trend to be seen throughout the contest.
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Board 8: Where people treat each other right.

She's definitely weak. But I think she has to be stronger than someone as obscure as JC Denton. Now she isn't going to be that much higher than Denton, but being equal with him is just something I couldn't imagine happening.

I'll agree with this. I do think she'll keep above 16.46% and that Mario gained a small bit, so she should be stronger than JC...at the end of the day though, she's still probably gonna be pretty comparable to him.
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Serious Reminder: Vote for Knuckles
Serious Reminder: Vote for Tifa Lockheart, too

It's not even the N64 Joanna, for crying out loud.

This would really only count for something if PDZ was actually out yet. I would imagine practically everyone voting for her has played perfect dark on the n64. I wouldn't factor out the possibility of SFF. Then again Joanna is also really weak I'm sure. FPS characters don't exactly have steller performances in these contests.
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so with high vote totals will square benefit from this more than nintendo?
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Kilroy:There fate will be in each other's hands as they decide whether to share or to shaft

so with high vote totals will square benefit from this more than nintendo?

Who knows? This could be Nintendo's version of Square's 2003.
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Board 8: Where people treat each other right.

Could Mario get near 83% with the day vote? I do believe so! And I think Joanna is indeed stronger than Mr. Denton. God, Mario is doing great.

Mario 80.3% 803
Joanna Dark 19.7% 197
TOTAL VOTES 1000

As impressive as Mario is with the day vote, he is far more impressive with the board vote. His position week-in and week-out with the NCAA poll, your cunning plan, and etc. testify to that. He'll get weaker as the day goes on.


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Spring Contest 2k5 Score: 76/80 T-117th

Based on what we saw in 2003, higher vote totals favor Square.
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 1: (7) Geno

Just posting to let myself know where I left off when I pick back up in the morning. >_>

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Explicit Content, having fun, not being warned.
Cheer Up Emo Kids.

I think we all need to stop tossing the term "SFF" around when it is not needed, personally.

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Mario's Path to Victory: Round 1 - (8) Joanna Dark
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/135/cunningplan32kw.jpg

TBA on that, voltch, but if 2k5's like 2k3, then it may mean good things for Square.
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Serious Reminder: Vote for Knuckles
Serious Reminder: Vote for Tifa Lockheart, too

Who knows? This could be Nintendo's version of Square's 2003.

Do you know how awesome that would be?
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Mario vs. Joanna - Bracket: Mario - Vote: Mario (0/0)

Nintendo generally wins the morning vote (a.k.a. the "kiddy vote"), at least. Mario might build the percentage until the afternoon, and then Joanna could gain a little.
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 1: (7) Geno

Who knows? This could be Nintendo's version of Square's 2003.

That, sir, would kick copious amounts of ass.

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Mario's Path to Victory: Round 1 - (8) Joanna Dark
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/135/cunningplan32kw.jpg

I predicted 80.5% for Mario in the Oracle Challenge.

Mama mia.

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A E I OWN U

I think we all need to stop tossing the term "SFF" around when it is not needed, personally.

Well if you ask me SFF here would make a decent amount of sense. Well that and Joanna being incredibly weak. I don't think we should be speculating a mario increase until he faces an opponent who we can actually have some idea of strength on. At least when he faces CJ we can compare it to vercetti, or figure out CJ's strength through ness.
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It's finally nice to see Mario killing again. =p
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Shut up, make me a sandwich. That is all.

I think we all need to stop tossing the term "SFF" around when it is not needed, personally.

It's not needed in the sense that it'd sway the outcome of the match...but if Joanna were to face somebody next year who was close to her but noticably outranked her (for my example to stand, let's assume PDZ isn't released by then), then I wouldn't count Joanna out just yet.

In that sense, to me, there's minor SFF goin' on.
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Serious Reminder: Vote for Knuckles
Serious Reminder: Vote for Tifa Lockheart, too

Who knows? This could be Nintendo's version of Square's 2003.

I thought that was basically SC2K4...
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 1: (7) Geno

let's hope that mario's performance doesn't make people say they want to change their picks in favour of ness.
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Kilroy:There fate will be in each other's hands as they decide whether to share or to shaft

In that sense, to me, there's minor SFF goin' on.

There's SFF in every match to some degree. We just don't need to throw the term around in matches where it's negligible, such as this one.
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 1: (7) Geno

I think he meant instead of the higher vote totals favoring Square, they would favor Nintendo this year.
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Mario vs. Joanna - Bracket: Mario - Vote: Mario (0/0)

Mario 80.88% 2428
Joanna Dark 19.12% 574
TOTAL VOTES 3002

Mario's hangin' on.

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Mario's Path to Victory: Round 1 - (8) Joanna Dark
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/135/cunningplan32kw.jpg

Joanna is just this damn weak. No SFF.

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I expect mario to stay around this the entire match with very little shift due to the similar fanbase the two share.
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How many voters do you think vote in every match?

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A E I OWN U

I think he meant instead of the higher vote totals favoring Square, they would favor Nintendo this year.

Considering just about everyone seems to be in agreement that Square in general was weaker in 2004, I don't see why higher vote totals don't favor them moreso than anybody else.
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 1: (7) Geno

Hit the brakes!

I CAN'T STOP IIIIIT!!!11


>_>
<_<

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*officially humiliated for the nth time*

well it looks as if mario has secured the 80% bench mark
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Kilroy:There fate will be in each other's hands as they decide whether to share or to shaft

Well if you ask me SFF here would make a decent amount of sense.

No matter how you slice it, there is "SFF" in every single match. But the only time you need to say something is SFF is when it's actually worth nothing -- today's match is not worth nothing. Link/Ganon, Crono/Magus, Mario/Bowser; those are all matches where it would make sense to say SFF. The other matches just don't make sense to throw it around. I don't even like when people blame Mega Man/Link for SFF. I'm sure something happened, Mega MAn could have got that much weaker but no one considers that.

Today's match has no SFF that is worth noting. That's really what I mean. Mario is looking to be stronger than his performance in 2004 if only because Joanna being equal to JC Denton would make little sense given how popular one is and how obscure the other is. But that isn't to say she'll be anything to talk about, because she's still big fodder.

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Mario's Path to Victory: Round 1 - (8) Joanna Dark
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/135/cunningplan32kw.jpg

I expect mario to stay around this the entire match with very little shift due to the similar fanbase the two share.

The inclusion of FLUDD would have certainly harkened Mario to the FPS crowd.
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Mario is Winnar
Next victim: Miss. Dark

I expect mario to stay around this the entire match with very little shift due to the similar fanbase the two share.

...Are you serious? You expect Joanna Dark to hold Mario during the early morning/day? I can count on my fingers how many characters have been able to do that. Joanna isn't one of them.

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Mario's Path to Victory: Round 1 - (8) Joanna Dark
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/135/cunningplan32kw.jpg