I think Ceej should end every match when the person in the lead is leading by 4,000 votes, and just start the next one. Then make the maximum length of time for a match 24 hours. And no, I don't care that would take much more effort on his part.
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"Heil Dweebenheimer!"
MasterMage119

I'm fairly confident that Manny will be stronger than Guybrush.

If nothing else, he has a far more appealing character model.
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www.SC2K5.com

"And don't come back!"
"I don't think they can come back"
"Uh . . . you're starting to sound more like Lloyd, aren't you?"

The only quote I can remember liking from ToS.
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I need to put something here.

I thought Grim Fandango was a horror game or something when I first saw the cover. >.>

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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."

Seriously he will have the GFF on his side.
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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 doubt Lloyd will hit 70%. The TOS fanbase does not like him at all.

I really think this is mainly a board 8 thing. Possibly snowballed even further because "all the cool people were doing it". The actual ToS board seems to like him enough. He's probably among the top 4 characters overall. For the combat awesomeness alone he'll get many a vote, never mind his character. (which I actually liked... whatever)

Lloyd will just barely miss a tripling, that's my prediction. 74%ish.
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Raiden fact of the contest: Alucard is a plagiarist, this year Raiden will prove it!

http://archive.gamespy.com/titlefight/matches/0120.shtml

HA!

Take that, GameFAQs!
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Summer Contest 2005: 3/3
Today: Zero Tomorrow: Lloyd

Zero 63% 56125
Ryu Hayabusa 37% 32960
TOTAL VOTES 89085

A nice even 63-37.
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Vote for Yoshi
You have no chance to survive make your time.

http://archive.gamespy.com/titlefight/matches/0119.shtml

Thats my personal favorite.
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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

[This message was deleted at the request of the original poster]

Forgot an apostrophe, by the way. =P

XD.

Bastard.

<_<
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Mario is Winnar
Next victim: Master Ness

Ya know what I just noticed about Gamespy? SFF is far less noticable there...
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"Heil Dweebenheimer!"
MasterMage119

I also get the sneak in suspicion that their matches are less transitive...at least, that's a guess of mine after looking at some of the matches with Extra Lives.
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Hillary Clinton: We need to treat violent video games the way we treat tobacco or alcohol.
Lewis Black: Namely as valued contributors to our re-election fund.

Less transitive? It either is or it isn't.
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LordOfDabu.nS)
To be defeated by us is an honor.

Hah, just went through that tournament. A lot less voters than here, and wow, FF7 and Crono Trigger had to face off early, rather than in the Finals where they belong... That was cool though, Mario 3 beat Doom by 2 votes. Although, XD at Gordon Freeman and Half-life winning that contest.
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Vote for Yoshi
You have no chance to survive make your time.

I think Starcraft would have won if it hadn't gotten cheated out by Diablo II.
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"Heil Dweebenheimer!"
MasterMage119

I don't understand that Gamespy contest...AT ALL!!!

What's with some games repeating in different regions...And what's with the random 3rd entry...
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"Opinions are like butts, little girl. Everyone's got one and nobody thinks their's stink." -Lunar 2:EB
*Claims KG's Eclair & Millia Rage*

They had things called "extra lives," where users got to vote out of a pool of the eliminated games and revive one of them, into a match as a third option.
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"Heil Dweebenheimer!"
MasterMage119

But why would you have OoT and HL in two different regions...and have HL win BOTH?!!!
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"Opinions are like butts, little girl. Everyone's got one and nobody thinks their's stink." -Lunar 2:EB
*Claims KG's Eclair & Millia Rage*

Well, maybe transitive's not the word, but here are the two things I'm lookin' at that made me say such a thing:

1) Goldeneye's two matches against Halo. There's a 3% difference from what Goldeneye had in the first round to what it had in the third round.
2) Counter-Strike got 45% on Unreal, and Unreal got 49% on Half-Life. Then, in a three-way match, Counter-Strike only got 12% in a match with Starcraft and Diablo. The winner of that match (Diablo) goes on to face Half-Life and got 39%.

Now, to be fair, I think the SC/Diablo/CS match was a match highly thought to have cheating (and looking at the vote-totals, most likely so), but you would still figure CS would have done better than about 2,700 in a match with 20,000+ votes, especially when the other two games were debatably from the same fanbase.
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Hillary Clinton: We need to treat violent video games the way we treat tobacco or alcohol.
Lewis Black: Namely as valued contributors to our re-election fund.

With such small number of votes, those GameSpy contests are worth absolutely nothing.

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Posts without a sig looks ugly, so I guess I need something here.

One hour to go and this match hasn't even broken 90k...
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"Opinions are like butts, little girl. Everyone's got one and nobody thinks their's stink." -Lunar 2:EB
*Claims KG's Eclair & Millia Rage*

It's pretty clear now that vote totals won't quite be up to SC2K3 levels, then.

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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."

Every single one of these "Contest Stats and Discussion" topics make me writhe in pain at the thought of it.

Only because...

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


This information is incorrect. Obviously...


Because

http://sc2k5.com/drupal/taxonomy/term/5

is for the SPRING 2005 contest...

the SUMMER contest (aka the one we are currently HAVING!!!!)

is here...

http://sc2k5.com/drupal/taxonomy/term/6

Comprende?

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I've run out of sick leave so I'm calling in dead.

It's pretty clear that Heroic Mario and I were correct in thinking it was Nintendo drawing those extra ten thousand votes. :D
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"Heil Dweebenheimer!"
MasterMage119

One hour to go and this match hasn't even broken 90k...

Well, only Zero is a midcarter, while Hayabusa isn't too well known.

Compared to 2 midcarters going at each other yesterday, or the presense of a powerhouse 2 days ago.

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Posts without a sig looks ugly, so I guess I need something here.

Magus/Fisher, the fourth match of 2k3, featured characters with similar strengths as Zero/Hayabusa and it only got 91k votes. I wouldn't rule out 2k3 totals just yet.
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Summer Contest 2005: 3/3
Today: Lloyd, Tomorrow: Samus

It's pretty clear that Heroic Mario and I were correct in thinking it was Nintendo drawing those extra ten thousand votes. :D

Let's see Lloyd's performance tomorrow before you make such hasty claims.

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Posts without a sig looks ugly, so I guess I need something here.

Zero 63.02% 56715
Ryu Hayabusa 36.98% 33285
TOTAL VOTES 90000

90k, finally.
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Vote for Yoshi
You have no chance to survive make your time.

Zero 63.02% 56715
Ryu Hayabusa 36.98% 33285
TOTAL VOTES 90000

About time.
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The King of all Cosmos' route to summer victory:
Round 1: (4) Tidus... LET ME DREAM :

Zero 63.02% 56715
Ryu Hayabusa 36.98% 33285
TOTAL VOTES 90000

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17 handhelds Nintendo has taken down 1 more to go (see quote for rest)

Let's see Lloyd's performance tomorrow before you make such hasty claims.

So be it.
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"Heil Dweebenheimer!"
MasterMage119

Fifty more minutes to kill. Time to make myself some noodles.
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Board 8: Where people treat each other right.

Lloyd vs. Wesker is going to have enough problems breaking 90k
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17 handhelds Nintendo has taken down 1 more to go (see quote for rest)

For kicks and giggles, I'm gonna see what the first two matches we've seen would look like if 10,000 votes from the Nintendo characters were subtracted:

Mario - 70137 (78.76%)
Joanna - 18920 (21.24%)

Ness - 44881 (50.13%)
CJ - 44644 (49.87%)


That only makes our BOP look even worse, really...heh.
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Hillary Clinton: We need to treat violent video games the way we treat tobacco or alcohol.
Lewis Black: Namely as valued contributors to our re-election fund.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v346/Tyrranos/GanonYuna.jpg
http://img293.echo.cx/img293/6226/vivizelda8fp.jpg
http://tinypic.com/6p7u6w.jpg
http://img102.echo.cx/img102/8572/kratosalucard6do.jpg
http://img271.imageshack.us/img271/7965/tidusking0zf.jpg
http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/5403/bowserchunli6oa.jpg
http://tinypic.com/8xnfvq.jpg
http://tinypic.com/8yb6l2.jpg

Ass-kickery/10

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A E I OWN U

Am I the only loser staying up until 3 AM to see the next match? Anybody else here from the east coast?
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It takes a genius to make something simple truly great.

http://img293.echo.cx/img293/6226/vivizelda8fp.jpg

Sheik looks like Zidane O_o
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The King of all Cosmos' route to summer victory:
Round 1: (4) Tidus... LET ME DREAM :

I'm here til 3 and probably for the first hour...that's still late...
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"Opinions are like butts, little girl. Everyone's got one and nobody thinks their's stink." -Lunar 2:EB
*Claims KG's Eclair & Millia Rage*

Am I the only loser staying up until 3 AM to see the next match? Anybody else here from the east coast?

I am, though I am staying up because I just can't fall asleep. And I can't decide on a game to play.
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"Heil Dweebenheimer!"
MasterMage119

Central Coast > East Coast

CST > EST
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Moltar's Comics - http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/Moltar
Lloyd vs. Wesker - Bracket: Lloyd - Vote: Lloyd (2/3)

East-Coaster here, AND have work in the mornin' too.
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Hillary Clinton: We need to treat violent video games the way we treat tobacco or alcohol.
Lewis Black: Namely as valued contributors to our re-election fund.

Actually, I should say Central Time; I was only thinkin' West and East there, heh. I'll be moving back into East Coast in about a month though.....
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Hillary Clinton: We need to treat violent video games the way we treat tobacco or alcohol.
Lewis Black: Namely as valued contributors to our re-election fund.

West Coast > Central Coast > East Coast

PST > CST > EST

No need to leave the inequality incomplete. =D
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"Those whose memories fade seek to carve them in their hearts..."
"All dreams are but another reality. Never forget..."

Good to know at least two other people are with me on the east coast.

Anyway, I'm hoping Lloyd breaks 80% on Wesker. Thus, I'll be that much more confident in my 'upset' pick of Kratos Aurion over Diablo.
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It takes a genius to make something simple truly great.

I'm on the East Coast, but I'm reading and I'll probably fall asleep before the match starts.
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Summer Contest 2005: 3/3
Today: Lloyd, Tomorrow: Samus

I doubt Wesker will get doubled.

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A E I OWN U

All right, make that at least four people with me.
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It takes a genius to make something simple truly great.

*gets hit* Aren't we clever?
*gets hit* Aren't we clever?
*gets hit* Aren't we clever?
*gets hit* Aren't we clever?
*gets hit* Aren't we clever?
*gets hit* Aren't we clever?
*gets hit* Aren't we clever?
*gets hit* Aren't we clever?
*gets hit* Aren't we clever?

WHO AM I?
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"Thank you, Mario. But our princess is in another castle."
-Toad in Super Mario Bros.

West Coaster and feeling so vibrant and alive!

*dodges brick*
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Board 8: Where people treat each other right.