Judging from the boards reaction, its gonna be pandemonium if Vivi beats Zelda on Thursday.

I don't think so.
I'll be surprised, but not quite shocked yet.

I'm sure most of us realize that matches involving chars of similar strength can go either way.

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The next match I fear is SMRPG and SF2, of which I have picked SF2. - Ulti

This quote had me loling. I've so got to go to the SMRPG vs Street Fighter thread for the reactions there.
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Raiden fact of the topic: Raiden recognizes trollish behavior even behind the illusion of "l33t veteran status". It's a gift few have.

To me, picking who would win the division was the easiest part. I was pretty confident in all of them, though probably less so in SSBM.

Still, I should've done a lot better than I actually did. I made some stupid picks that I really knew weren't going to pay off.
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 1: (7) Geno

And apparently, I'm the only one who thought SMRPG > SFII was an easy pick...
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 1: (7) Geno

I prefer it when my judgment goes with the character I like better. Then I feel like I'm giving em all of my support. I mean, I picked Tommy Vercetti vs Kefka, and part of me is going to be rooting for TV... even though I really want Kefka to win.

I'll still vote Kefka, though.
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Raiden fact of the contest: Alucard is a plagiarist, this year Raiden will prove it!

Man, if Squall over Luigi caused such mayhem, I can only begin to imagine what would happen if Squall won against Magus. Besides me being extremely happy, of course.

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I don't get this 'standing there' argument. what are they supposed to be doing, blowing the living crap out of each other? they're always just standing there.

Well, I mean like...here, look at Zero/Ryu.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/shared/sum05/b03.jpg

They're not just standing there. They're all posing and sparring and what not. Vivi and Zelda are just standing there.


It was a jab a Chichiri for implying that pics weren't worthy discussion material for this topic, since they have little to do with stats.

oh, ok.


Nope, not always. The idea was first proposed by Slowflake during the Spring 2004 Contest.

Whoops, my mistake. Your memory is insanely awesome. However, you left out the o in following!!!




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I had no idea how popular SSBM was until that contest. I sucked an incredible amount of ass in that contest; I had Tetris over Zelda and Mario 3 and FF10 over Vice City. ouch.

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You wanna know some stupid picks? How about I actually picked Super Metroid over A Link to the Past AND Metroid Prime over The Wind Waker, even though LttP and WW are in my top 5 favorite games. I somehow made myself think that OoT was the only Zelda game that was really popular.

As soon as brackets locked, I KNEW that the Zelda games would win. I didn't even watch the contest after that because I knew I ****ed up with that.

But yeah, after Starcraft/Wind Waker, I didn't get a match wrong until Ness/Jak....
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I had no idea how popular SSBM was until that contest. I sucked an incredible amount of ass in that contest; I had Tetris over Zelda and Mario 3 and FF10 over Vice City. ouch.

Heh, had I entered, I would've gotten almost everything wrong except for the contest winner.

That's only because I like FF VII.

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I picked SM over LttP with blinding bias, as SM was my favourite game at the time. I even knew it had no chance, I just didn't want to see it lose to a game like Link to the Past.
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I put too much stock in seeding in Sp2K4...then again it was the first Contest I had predicted.

PS > Contra
SM > LttP
PD > SotN

Those were my three worst picks right there.
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Yeah, when I entered my SpC2k4 bracket, I had no idea what it was for. I was actually picking according to my own preferences. Out of pure coincidence, I liked FF7 and StarCraft a lot, so I had them going far. I didn't even notice the seeding and such. ¬____¬;;

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I dunno. Some people were surprised by matches I thought were obvious picks, such as Contra beating Phantasy Star, Pong over River City Ransom (which arguably had more whining than ANY match in the contest, including "SFII LOST?!"), and Mario RPG over SFII.

Of course, I had Mario 3 winning the whole thing, but that was probably more due to favoritism than anything else.
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Round 1: (7) Geno

AND Metroid Prime over The Wind Waker

If memory serves me correctly, Prime over Wind Waker was one of the more popular upset picks. And besides, nothing can beat my stupidity: my Earthbound over DOOM pick kept me from a three way tie for the lead. Of the four Earthbound related matches I've predicted, I've ****ed up three of them. -__-
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I felt that FF7 was a lock to win it all. it was the only thing I got right in the entire contest. that contest would be much more interesting if they did it again and took FF7 out of the bracket and put it up against the winner of the bracket.
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Oh yeah, forgot about Earthbound over Doom...
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I was 32nd on the leaderboard going into the final match in SpC2k4, but made the mistake of picking Chrono Trigger to win. I was definitely one of, if not the most vocal supporter of StarCraft on this board.

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Doom over Earthbound was the only time I've gotten one of those right (I didn't have a bracket in 2003, though I would've taken Bowser).
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 1: (7) Geno

SMRPG > SF2 still makes me shake my head to this day. I like SMRPG, but I can't believe it beat SF2. I took Doom over Earthbound without thinking twice about it - Ness has confused me to hell ever since.
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Well, my logic for taking Mario RPG to win was that it was the original SFII, not one of the later versions (Like Turbo, which I thought probably would've been more popular). I didn't expect the original itself to be that strong, no matter how "revolutionary" it was.
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 1: (7) Geno

For those who don't know already, CJayC made a FAQ for Grim Fandango.

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I remember us both being pretty vocal supporters of Jak last year, Leonhart. My confidence was nigh invulnerable; there was no way Ness could win, right? As that match progressed, I could imagine Lucid's grin widening and widening. Bastard.
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Board 8: Where people treat each other right.

My logic for taking SMRPG was simply, "Wow, Mario AND RPG? I think RPGs are pretty popular here... so I'll take that over a fighting game, which isn't really that popular of a genre..."
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Gah, Lucid. Your signature almost fooled me. >_<

I was almost going to ask "Wow. You picked the wrong champ and still got 2nd place?" Luckily, I reread that signature.

I didn't even know Doom over EB was that... controversial. I hadn't heard of EB then, and I played Doom a lot, so I went with Doom.

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I know this is kinda off topic and might have been brought up already but....

the more I think about it Jason Stratham from the Transporter movies would be damn perfect to play Agent 47.

Compare this:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/shared/sum05/b12.jpg


To these:

http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0293662/Ss/0293662/TP-33.jpg?path=gallery&path_key=0293662

http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0293662/Ss/0293662/keyart_text.jpg?path=gallery&path_key=0293662

Yep, I was a vocal Jak supporter last year. I actually had him pegged perfectly in the stats (unlike others who thought he'd be as weak as Ratchet). I just didn't realize SSB SFF could be so brutal.
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Round 1: (7) Geno

I consider Turbo and SF2 to be the same thing. I like Turbo a thousand times more than the original, but I imagine everyone voting put them as one and the same.
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Vin Diesel is playing Agent 47, but yeah, Jason Statham is a pretty good choice.

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Well, my logic for taking Mario RPG to win was that it was the original SFII, not one of the later versions (Like Turbo, which I thought probably would've been more popular). I didn't expect the original itself to be that strong, no matter how "revolutionary" it was.

Well, IIRC, it was THE fighting game back in the day.

I've never noticed any popular fighting game prior to that one.

Personally, I don't think any of it's derivatives are nearly as popular as the original.

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Not in my case. I'd vote Super Street Fighter II or Street Fighter II Turbo over some things that I wouldn't vote the original over. I just figured there were a lot of people like that.
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 1: (7) Geno

Judging from the boards reaction, its gonna be pandemonium if Vivi beats Zelda on Thursday.

Meh, I don't think so. The board seems to like Vivi as much as I do. As long as Vivi puts up a good fight, I'll be satisfied.
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Summer 2005 Contest - 7/8 points
Current Match Prediction: Solid Snake vs. Manny Calavera

I made my fair share of both good and bad picks last spring, and some of them using a very newbish mentality (as I was, in fact, new to the place). SMRPG over SFII seemed like a no-brainer to me, but I hadn't even heard of Contra, and I picked Earthbound over Doom.

I did manage to have Starcraft going until Wind Waker, and I was really pleased to come home from school to see Soul Calibur beating Kingdom Hearts. Shame that one didn't last :-(

MGS vs FFT was heartbreaking.

Basically, having heard nothing about Chrono Trigger until coming here, I underestimated it, and had LttP taking the division and going to the finals instead.

And, of course, I had FFX winning its division. But who didn't mess that division up? Very few people!

Not bad for my first contest, really....
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I don't think the board would go nuts. you'd need a bigger upset (or a really close match) to make the board go really nuts. people have been talking about the potential for Vivi over Zelda for weeks.
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I was only two picks away from tying for first in Spc2k4, though granted they were not easy picks by any means. If I had switch WW > SSBM to SSBM > WW and OoT > FFVII to FFVII > OoT, I'd have tied for first. My only other wrong picks were PD > C:SotN, KH > SC, and WW > KH [SC].
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From: creativename | Posted: 5/5/2004 5:25:27 PM | Message Detail
Chichiri, this is the second time you've tried to start a flame war with somebody in one of these topics without provocation. Why in the world are you being so antagonistic?

..heh.
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I'm just trying to think what would really start a riot on these boards...


Squall over Magus would likely...

Frog over Samus...XD! That would be hilarious to see...
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*Claims KG's Eclair & Millia Rage*

Speaking of Zelda, I wonder if TP has helped her in any way like it did Link.

The very title of that game seems to suggest that she will play a more prominent role.

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Well, Zelda hasn't really been featured in the trailers like Link has. Twilight Princess has been all about Link so far, as far as hype and excitement is concerned.
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Round 1: (7) Geno

I'm all for Zelda being fully playable in TP. That sword of hers makes her look like she'll kick ass. But I hope she gets some kind of warrior outfit to go with it...
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*Claims KG's Eclair & Millia Rage*

I didn't enter my bracket for the Spring 2004. I wrote it down on paper and forgot to get an account and submit it. Had I entered, I would have been one point behind Ulti.

This is what I got wrong:
1) Picked Earthbound over Doom.
2) Picked Pokemon over Xenogears
3) Picked Kingdom Hearts over Starcraft.
4) Picked Wind Waker over Kingdom Hearts.
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Summer 2005 Contest - 7/8 points
Current Match Prediction: Solid Snake vs. Manny Calavera

I'm all for Zelda being fully playable in TP. That sword of hers makes her look like she'll kick ass. But I hope she gets some kind of warrior outfit to go with it...

SPOILERS:

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Didn't she get a ninja/assasin outfit already?

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If there is a God, Frog will be defeating Samus in a month.

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

And apparently, I'm the only one who thought SMRPG > SFII was an easy pick...

I knew that one would be easy too. I didn't understand why everyone was all "WTF SF2 lost?!" And I didn't understand that one mid-contest poll that said something like "Dang SMRPG..."
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And apparently, I'm the only one who thought SMRPG > SFII was an easy pick..

I thought that was ridicously easy. I was a newb so I was like, "it's a Mario game, and fighting games aren't liked on GameFAQs." (keep in mind this was before I looked at Ryu's past performances and before I went to the board)
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Summer 2005 Contest - 7/8 points
Current Match Prediction: Solid Snake vs. Manny Calavera

Just got on and saw the pics... and wow Snake looks like a dirty greasey monkey.

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From: arkenaga | Posted: 7/26/2005 9:34:03 PM | Message Detail | #106
Man, if Squall over Luigi caused such mayhem, I can only begin to imagine what would happen if Squall won against Magus.

That wouldn't be nearly as bad as Squall vs. Luigi. Squall crushing Luigi was far more shocking than him beating Magus would be. He had been so unimpressive the year before, and at this point barely anyone was bringing up Kingdom Hearts. Comparing Squall and Magus' 2K3 values makes Squall>Magus unlikely, but hardly implausible.


From: Sir Crono | Posted: 7/26/2005 9:54:03 PM | Message Detail | #127
Yep, I was a vocal Jak supporter last year. I actually had him pegged perfectly in the stats (unlike others who thought he'd be as weak as Ratchet). I just didn't realize SSB SFF could be so brutal.

Ditto.

That's actually why I had Ness>CJ and Auron>Ganon this year. I learned that anytime you have a character possibly underrated by SFF, their ceiling might be pretty high. And after you adjusted Ness up, it was difficult to imagine CJ being as strong as he would need to be to beat Ness.


I'd vote Super Street Fighter II or Street Fighter II Turbo over some things that I wouldn't vote the original over. I just figured there were a lot of people like that.

I doubt that actually.
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Well, maybe it was faulty logic to think that way, but I still got it right.
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I'd vote Super Street Fighter II or Street Fighter II Turbo over some things that I wouldn't vote the original over. I just figured there were a lot of people like that.

Not me at least, I just counted it as all of SF2's incarnations, like how Ceej counts all Megaman's incarnations as one.