All right, it's been confirmed that the top 3 on the leaderboard all picked CJ to win today.

That means LeonhartForever will be #1 until Ganondorf/Yuna, meaning Squall Leonhart will finally take his rightful spot at the top.
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 1: (7) Geno

Way to go, Leonhart. Long time in the making. =)
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Board 8: Where people treat each other right.

You rock my house, Leon. =P

I'm assuming Leonhart4 is the prize entry?
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SC2K5- Mario, Frog, Snake, Tidus, Crono, Knuckles, Sonic, Ocelot
I prefer to think that SFF stands for Some Frivolous Factor. ~Dabu

Yes, Leonhart4 is the for prizes bracket. Unfortunately, it will go away today.
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 1: (7) Geno

XD

nice Leonhart. ^_^ it's too bad that my alt has to fall off after the first day, though..... =(

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Ness 55.18% 40067
Carl Johnson 44.82% 32545
TOTAL VOTES 72612

40000 for Ness. Won't be too long before he sets his personal record for most votes in a match.
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 1: (7) Geno

I don't know if this has been brought up before but the theory behind so of the villains performing as well as they did in the Spring was that they represented their series.

So would Bowser become the flag-bearer of the series if Mario lost to Samus?

If villains represented their series, we're gonna see an upset of unheard-of proportions: Diablo > Sonic.
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Even in 2k3, when he was SFF'd by Bowser, Ness would've been expected to get 20.22% on Mario. I can't see him doing much worse than that.

Vote totals are dead sexy.

Can't wait till Ganon vs Yuna.

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I prefer to think that SFF stands for Some Frivolous Factor. ~Dabu

Yep yep, it's official, Jak > CJ

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=2067
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1738
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Can't wait till Ganon vs Yuna.

...I can.
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 1: (7) Geno

From: Sir Crono | Posted: 7/20/2005 5:06:28 PM | #051
All right, it's been confirmed that the top 3 on the leaderboard all picked CJ to win today.

That means LeonhartForever will be #1 until Ganondorf/Yuna, meaning Squall Leonhart will finally take his rightful spot at the top.

Ewww....you deserve to lose that number 1 spot if you prefer Yuna over the best character out there, Ganon.

Anyway, congrats on getting the Top spot. =P
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Ness vs. CJ - Bracket: CJ - Vote: Ness (1/1)

I was #6 on the leaderboard but I'm losing it after today.
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Summer 2005 Contest - 1/2 points
Current Match Prediction: Zero vs. Ryu Hayabusa

I would NEVER take Jak over CJ in a poll, even after this showing.

30000 more people are going to end up voting in this poll than they did in Ness Vs. Jak. That's a huge difference.
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Mario is Winnar
Next victim: Miss. Dark

What's to say they won't favor Jak?
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Round 1: (4) Tidus... LET ME DREAM :

Meh, I'm not too wild about Ganondorf, while Yuna is probably my favorite FF leading lady.

Note: I said Yuna, NOT Hedy Burress.
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 1: (7) Geno

Yuna is an awful character. Really. I just finished a second run through and looked back to see why I thought the FFX characters were awful. It wasnt all of them. I just hated Yuna and Wakka.
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"Why would the boost from AC be bigger than those?" - Mac Arrowny
"Because (Heroic Mario) just replayed Final Fantasy VII." - Lucid Faia

Yuna is an awful character. Really. I just finished a second run through and looked back to see why I thought the FFX characters were awful. It wasnt all of them. I just hated Yuna and Wakka.

Actually, it is all of them. I hate every character in FFX, except perhaps Rikku. If not for the horrible characters, the game might actually be good.

What's to say they won't favor Jak?

Nothing, but I wouldn't expect them to.

I figure when you're dealing with two fairly mainstream PS2 games, votes will go to the character from the more popular game, and therefore to Carl.
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Mario is Winnar
Next victim: Miss. Dark

Not sure if it's been mentioned in here, but the Mario VS Jo poll is still open for voting, for some strange reason, and so we're inching ever closer to 100k votes. If you'd like to help, you can vote here:

http://thengamer.com/FV/

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Nothing, but I wouldn't expect them to.

I figure when you're dealing with two fairly mainstream PS2 games, votes will go to the character from the more popular game, and therefore to Carl.

Don't forget that Jak has Jak 3 on his side now, his most critically acclaimed title yet. that might help him out a bit.

... I'd like to thank Lucid Faia (I am 99% sure it was him...) for convincing me to change my bracket. >.>
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If you'd like to help, you can vote here:

http://thengamer.com/FV/

I'd say that Mario is a villain, but Joanna is not :o)
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You know, it figures. I never bothered looking at this match at all, I just went with the flow and picked CJ. I don't think I seriously examined any first-round matches, besides Terra vs. Dante and Kefka vs. Vercetti. Well, there goes my zero bracket, at any rate, and most likely my alternate bracket. On the plus side, my serious bracket heavily favors Nintendo (though I had CJ winning), and this looks like it may be Nintendo's year. Kirby > Tidus is looking more and more likely now, and I'll be very interested in how well DK performs on Master Chief. Of course, Donkey Kong has proven time and time again to be ridiculously weak in these contests, so I don't have much confidence in him doing too well. But after this match, I'm not counting anything out.

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Mario's Path to Victory: Round 1 - (8) Joanna Dark

I dont see how Kirby > Tidus is looking any more likely. Square could be just as strong.
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"Why would the boost from AC be bigger than those?" - Mac Arrowny
"Because (Heroic Mario) just replayed Final Fantasy VII." - Lucid Faia

I'm thinking mostly SSBM factor, although it's true that we really need to see some Square matches before we make judgments as to how well Square will do this contest.

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Mario's Path to Victory: Round 1 - (8) Joanna Dark

This match is ahead of Mario vs. Joanna by 616 votes at the 16:10:00 mark. ^_^

This is precisely what I wanted to see a year ago.
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Flee back to your masters, Aldaris, and huddle with them in darkness! For your actions shall set us all unto the Zerg! ~ Tassadar

Question!

How is Dante expected to hold up?

Who knows.
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"Why would the boost from AC be bigger than those?" - Mac Arrowny
"Because (Heroic Mario) just replayed Final Fantasy VII." - Lucid Faia

... I'm relatively certain that he is favored to win...

Oh, and I'm very happy to see *****ing. It just isn't the same when people ignore the results and don't whine....
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Flee back to your masters, Aldaris, and huddle with them in darkness! For your actions shall set us all unto the Zerg! ~ Tassadar

I have Terra over Dante and still confident about it.
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Bracket: CJ - Vote: CJ Points: 1/1 Rank: 1/1

Off of the first two matches that just so happened to have Nintendo characters winning, everybody's claiming Nintendo jumped...may I remind us all that they both won over new characters that haven't proved themselves yet? The biggest case you can relate to Joanna is Perfect Dark in the Game Contest, which wasn't all that impressive....the biggest case you can relate for CJ is Tenpenny in the Villain Contest, which had nothing to do with the word impressive. Mario's coming off impressive because RUMOR HAS IT anti-votes keep him from blowing most characters out, and Ness is impressin' because sc2k4.com refused to acknowledge Auron got SFF'd.

People will be even more sure it's Nintendo's year when Samus faces Yuri, too. I can't wait for some Square characters to come into play so we can see if there's any good reason to believe all this yet or not.
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Hillary Clinton: We need to treat violence in video games like we treat tobacco and alcohol.
Lewis Black: Namely as valued contributors to our reelection fund.

Well, I have magus and dante meeting, with dante winning. But then I'm thinking, if I have magus getting there, why would he lose to dante?

Either way, I have Crono winning the entire bracket before losing to an old champion, so what do I know?

Hillary Clinton: We need to treat violence in video games like we treat tobacco and alcohol.
Lewis Black: Namely as valued contributors to our reelection fund.

>>>>XD

That's hilarious.
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Flee back to your masters, Aldaris, and huddle with them in darkness! For your actions shall set us all unto the Zerg! ~ Tassadar

If you have Magus losing to Dante you're doomed.

I feel that there could be some minor SFF in this match which is leading to a CJ underperformance.
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Mario is Winnar
Next victim: Miss. Dark

It wasn't even like I meant to have it that way, but I just forgot to change it since I was changing magus through his matches, and somehow left the dante/magus match untouched. But it's the only pick I have that I'm not confident about whatsoever, as opposed to just partially like the rest of my bracket.

Wait, what? They are on different systems, from completely different games? How could there be any SFF in this match?
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Flee back to your masters, Aldaris, and huddle with them in darkness! For your actions shall set us all unto the Zerg! ~ Tassadar

Hold on. Minor SFF between Ness and CJ??!? They have NOTHING in common. If I had to pick two characters that would never SFF each other it would be Ness and CJ.
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"Why would the boost from AC be bigger than those?" - Mac Arrowny
"Because (Heroic Mario) just replayed Final Fantasy VII." - Lucid Faia

SFF? What do Ness and CJ have in common?
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Bracket: CJ - Vote: CJ Points: 1/1 Rank: 1/1

-_-

It was a joke.
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Mario is Winnar
Next victim: Miss. Dark

I CAUGHT THE SARCASM!

I feel better now.
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Hillary Clinton: We need to treat violence in video games like we treat tobacco and alcohol.
Lewis Black: Namely as valued contributors to our reelection fund.

but I just forgot to change it since I was changing magus through his matches

I don't see a reason to have Dante beating Magus in the first place.
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Bracket: CJ - Vote: CJ Points: 1/1 Rank: 1/1

They have NOTHING in common

They both ride bikes and like to beat stuff with baseball bats.

Wait, Ness and CJ do have one thing in common. They like beating people with bats. Lil' Slugger has to be dying on who to vote for.
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"Why would the boost from AC be bigger than those?" - Mac Arrowny
"Because (Heroic Mario) just replayed Final Fantasy VII." - Lucid Faia

Just because I was doing the bracket at the last second and was stressing over the rest of the choices. It was just an odd oversight. Maybe the number one seed will help?

Eh?

Crap...oh well.

They're in...cities.. >_>
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Bracket: CJ - Vote: CJ Points: 1/1 Rank: 1/1

Ooh, how it made me mad that Ness/CJ was the most frequently mentioned match for being "overhyped". I saw more people mocking others for picking Ness over CJ than I did see actually pick Ness, I swear.

Heh...Ness/CJ is the only R1 match I have different from the BOP. The BOP generally has missed only 1 or 2 matches for R1 each contest, so here's hoping that I can make it through perfect in Round 1...

Oh, and I'm still perfect with predicting anything involving GTA, Earthbound, or SotN. Alucard WILL defeat Sora next round! Vercetti WILL beat Kefka. :P (I -would- love to see Kefka win, though)

I took CJ and had confidence in him, but I still thought the match would be close.

Huge mistake, indeed. Everyone should know by now that if we know a match will be close that the underdog will have more than a shot at winining. See Squall/Jill and Sora/Ryu Hayabusa, as well.

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Seeds aren't good reasons to choose characters a lot, ya know.
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Bracket: CJ - Vote: CJ Points: 1/1 Rank: 1/1