and yuck, that's an awful schedule. I had to work that once - never again.

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vote for vivi.

Yeah, I don't know what the hell is going on anymore, to be honest. Especially after my weekend... nothing like driving six hours then blowing a tire (and not having a spare) in the middle of the desert then playing Magic for what felt like a bajillion hours before drivign another six hours. You'd think I would be so tired that I'd want to nothing but sleep and you'd be correct... actually sleeping though? Nah, who needs it?

Oh, and being transposed into an Ultros quote makes me the coolest motha ****** in this topic, even if I am the the most brain dead at the moment.
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"Love forever, love is free. Let’s turn forever you and me." - Gorillaz "Feel Good INC"

Solid Snake 82.69% 7102
Manny Calavera 17.31% 1487
TOTAL VOTES 8589

There's a little update on Snake's drop, because that's what he's done since the last time we were actually discussing the match. =p

Here's an update on the vote totals.

Solid Snake/ Manny Calavera - 8681
Ganon/Yuna - 9757
Ness/CJ - 8841

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Mario's Path to Victory: Round 2 - (4) Ness
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/135/cunningplan32kw.jpg

Everybody drops during these hours.

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Wait, there's a match going on?
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"Love forever, love is free. Let’s turn forever you and me." - Gorillaz "Feel Good INC"

Solid Snake 82.31% 9545
Manny Calavera 17.69% 2052
TOTAL VOTES 11597

I'll be interested in seeing how much the day vote helps him.

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Mario's Path to Victory: Round 2 - (4) Ness
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/135/cunningplan32kw.jpg

snake's percentage is on a steady decline at the moment. where's that mgs3 factor damnit
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Kilroy:There fate will be in each other's hands as they decide whether to share or to shaft

Oh goodness, Snake's looking like absolute horse feces, both on the pic and on the poll. Can't get the day vote against Manny Calavera of all people? Miserable. I have Snake going to the Final 4, but I wouldn't shed a tear if he were to go out next round.

Oh, I totally want to see Shake's reaction.
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SC2K5 status - Points: 007/008 - Matches: 07/08 - Rank: 03526/33793 - Today: Snake - Tomorrow: Zelda

Yeah. Sad. I almost expected Manny to be weaker than Guybrush.

But apparently not even close. Either that or Snake is stinking even worse than 2004.
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Xbox fanboys are only slighty behidn the FF ones on this site.... - zidane15

I'm loving this. Manny is doing well, Snake is doing horrible, and Bowser is lookin' very nice for his final four appearance over Snake. <3

That's assuming, of course, he doesn't lose to Zelda, or Vivi, next round. I doubt he would, but it should be very close.

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Mario's Path to Victory: Round 2 - (4) Ness
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/135/cunningplan32kw.jpg

Either that or Snake is stinking even worse than 2004.

He's actually performing very similar to his 2004 unadjusted level, if Manny is equal to Guybrush.

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Mario's Path to Victory: Round 2 - (4) Ness
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/135/cunningplan32kw.jpg

Unadjusted Snake.

I don't want to think about that. Oh how the mighty have fallen.
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Xbox fanboys are only slighty behidn the FF ones on this site.... - zidane15

so has day vote started ? or is it still to come
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Kilroy:There fate will be in each other's hands as they decide whether to share or to shaft

OMG i just noticed cjayc made an faq for grim fandango. he must be doing everythng to make manny look good and snake look like crap.
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Kilroy:There fate will be in each other's hands as they decide whether to share or to shaft

Unadjusted Snake.

What happened? Snake?

SNNNNNNNNNNNNNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKKKKKKEEEEEE!

du du du.


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My biggest predictions: Mario over Samus, Alucard over Sora, Magus over Dante.

I'm going to cherish Snake's path of pain throughout this contest.

I'll ****ing laugh if he gets kicked out of the Noble Nine despite Clinkeroth freeing up three new spaces. That would simply be delightful.
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Snakes percentage continues to drop... MGS is sucking it up two days in a row.

It's been pretty stable at around the 82.3-82.4 mark. Not exactly the kind of performance you want from Snake though.

Snake not approaching even 85%? Sheesh, what a bum.

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SC2k5 - 8/8 (empty slots in brackets suck)

well, at least Snake is finally moving his percentage up. he's gone from 82.38% to 82.61% in the past 30 minutes. he's got an outside shot at hitting 85% before the end of the day.

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Yoblazer is officially THE MAN for beating us all in SpC2K5!!

I would be shocked if he even came close to 85%.

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Mario's Path to Victory: Round 2 - (4) Ness
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/135/cunningplan32kw.jpg

HOLD ON MANNY!!
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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

Blast it, Snake. Ah well, the best I can do is blame the pic factor and call it a day.
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Board 8: Where people treat each other right.

Seeing how with normal 16-character divisions we'd be finished with one division now, here's my take on who the winners and losers are so far:

1) Ness - a clear winner so far. Tipped by many to go out first round in what was clearly the toughest match to call so far, he takes down the star of the San Andreas juggernaut, and by a comfy margin with numbers similar to his previous victory over Jak. Sure he'll be annihilated in the next round but who cares?

2) Samus - probably the winner of the intra-Nintendo posturing battle with Mario so far, taking the fodder opponent and smashing it to pieces, with a new percentage record for the Zebes division favourite and nearly holding Yuri under 10K.

3) Auron - the potential strength of Big Boss varied depending on who you asked. Personally I thought Auron wouldn't manage a doubling, but instead he took over 70% of the votes and managed more votes than Ganondorf despite having a lot less to work with.

4) Mario - Ending up with over 80% is never a bad result, and Mario does what he's supposed to, grabbing 80K+ votes on the way to an easy win.

5) Albert Wesker - what you say? But he lost? Maybe he did, but the unfancied 7-seed stayed within 10% of Lloyd after being dismissed as fodder after an embarrassing doubling by Kefka in the Spring. The next round will tell us if Lloyd is just weak, but in any case Wesker came out better in this one.

6) Ganondorf - Got through his match, the first to get over 100K votes. The result didn't inspire confidence, but it's a comfortable enough victory.

7) Zero - Probably didn't do as well against Ryu as expected, but the stats we're basing that off are somewhat screwy. A comfortable margin of victory was obtained and is a clear favourite to get as far as Mario.

8) Frog - can never make it through easily, just about scraping together a 3000 vote victory, not the sort of performance you want before facing Samus.

9) Riku - it's never easy when a tournament newcomer faces a veteran, but putting up over 45000 votes in defeat is not to be sniffed at. Riku's true strength will be determined after Frog-Samus, as Frog's erratic results are somewhat misleading, although grabbing over 48% looks alright on paper at the moment.

10) Lloyd Irving - dropped the ball here. Given a cushy 2-seed and an easy looking opponent, he doesn't even manage 55% and looks in serious trouble against Zero in the next round, as opposed to simply big trouble beforehand. Still, a win is a win I guess.

11) Yuna - did somewhat better than expected, keeping Ganondorf under 60% for a while and looking respectable enough in defeat.

12) Ryu Hayabusa - avoiding a doubling will probably go down as a moral victory, but hasn't convinced me that it's worth bringing him back next year.

13) Carl Johnson - would have been lower than this, were it not for the fodder that was floating around this division. 44000 votes isn't terrible but didn't cut it against Ness.

14) Big Boss - The strength of anything Metal Gear related that doesn't begin with Solid and end with Snake is questionable. Liquid's stats are all over the place, all we know of Ocelot is from the Spring at the present, and most people don't rate them as worth the paper they're printed on. Big Boss? Allowed Auron to pick up a first doubling, something Scorpion, Ness and even Tails avoided.

15) Joanna Dark - probably just happy to make the contest. 19% against Mario is better than some thought, but still plants her in the fodder category.

16) Yuri - Fairly obscure RPG character + contest powerhouse = barely managing five figures in votes. Bye.
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Jon Thomson - MARIO, Samus, SOLID SNAKE, Bowser, CRONO, Squall, Sonic, MEGA MAN

Looks like I woke up a bit too early, because Snake's morning vote looks to just started less than an hour ago.
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Snake vs. Manny - Bracket: Snake - Vote: Snake (7/8)

snake is starting to gain votes a little faster right now. so is this the day vote finally kicking in?
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Kilroy:There fate will be in each other's hands as they decide whether to share or to shaft

Ouch. Manny is barely getting votes now. The morning/day vote is here.
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That's right. Cloud N. Candy would get a NEGATIVE percentage, and RPGuy's extrapolated calculator would crash. - therealmnm

From: Heroic Mario | Posted: 7/27/2005 12:49:48 AM | Message Detail
Zelda > Vivi

Bowser > Snake

Ganon > Auron

I Salute You

Manny gets to 5000 just before Snake gets to 25000... holding off the quintupling but not for long I fear...
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Jon Thomson - MARIO, Samus, SOLID SNAKE, Bowser, CRONO, Squall, Sonic, MEGA MAN

at the moment snake seems to be getting like 7-8 votes for each vote manny gets.
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Kilroy:There fate will be in each other's hands as they decide whether to share or to shaft

Snake's Percentage of votes in the 08:00 update - 85.94%
Snake's Percentage of votes in the 08:05 update - 86.88%
Snake's Percentage of votes in the 08:10 update - 84.86%
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Snake vs. Manny - Bracket: Snake - Vote: Snake (7/8)

Snake looks like he could end up with around 85-87% at this rate...
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"The Lotus in Konoha blooms twice..." Rock Lee

Come on, Solid, go ahead and fly away with the day-vote.....
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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.

Snake is not impressing me, but he isn't unimpressive either. I think the 30% is good enough.
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17 handhelds Nintendo has taken down 1 more to go (see quote for rest)

Also Snake is really bad in the day vote.
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17 handhelds Nintendo has taken down 1 more to go (see quote for rest)

i noticed that at the 9 hour mark snake has the biggest lead in terms of vote totals so far in the contest.
samus was leading yuri by about 300 votes less than snake is leading manny at the 9 hour mark. the only one who comes closer is mario's lead on joanna

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Kilroy:There fate will be in each other's hands as they decide whether to share or to shaft

Oh, and my tag:

Vivi > Zelda.
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Summer 2005 Contest - 7/8 points
Current Match Prediction: Solid Snake vs. Manny Calavera

On the subject of Zelda/Lara Croft, if Lara Croft is constant between 2k2 and 2k3 (21.18%, after removing Crono cheat votes) and suffered her full fall in 2k4, Zelda is at 28.08% on 2k3 Link.

On Vivi's side, if Donkey Kong was 1% stronger in 2k4 than his was in 2k3 (26.54%), then Vivi is at 30.25%.
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"Luca Blight's insane. He's a wolf raised on the smell of fire and the taste of blood."" ~ Viktor, Suikoden II

So it looks like Snake will break 84%.
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17 handhelds Nintendo has taken down 1 more to go (see quote for rest)

Wait, what's this about Tequilla Gundam being banned? When did that happen?
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So I said "Supercollide her? I just met her!"

Oh, just purgatory.

Heh, he's on Luelinks asking people to give them a new account for 20$ because his old one was "banned" for "starting a flame war' on board 8.
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So I said "Supercollide her? I just met her!"

14) Big Boss - The strength of anything Metal Gear related that doesn't begin with Solid and end with Snake is questionable.

I don't know about you, but I wouldn't expected Solidus Snake to be a very strong character. =p
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I need to put something here.

Solid should make a run at 85%, but still, very unimpressive after his throttling of Tanner.

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SC2k5 - 8/8 (empty slots in brackets suck)

I don't know about you, but I wouldn't expected Solidus Snake to be a very strong character. =p

I actually would.
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"Heil Dweebenheimer!"
MasterMage119

Not stronger then Liquid, and it's anybody's guess where he lies now.
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I need to put something here.

The higher one is 20XXDF Snake, the lower is unadjusted Snake.

117 Goemon 11.90
118 Pyramid Head 11.08
119 Tom Nook 10.82
Manny Calavera 10.64
120 Ulala 10.62
121 Giygas 10.53
122 Akira Yuki 10.45
123 Guybrush Threepwood 10.19
124 Kane 10.08
Manny Calavera 9.80
125 Gabe Logan 9.61
126 Captain Olimar 8.84
127 AiAi 8.65
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"Luca Blight's insane. He's a wolf raised on the smell of fire and the taste of blood."" ~ Viktor, Suikoden II

This is off-topic (I apologize), but does anyone know what Tequilla Gundam did?
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Board 8: Where people treat each other right.

Pfft, LUEsers. You know when one's involved in any incident that a suspension is expected. :-)

Zelda > Vivi
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Manny already have more votes than Tanner did the whole day last year?
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SC2K5 GAME REPRESENTATION TOURNAMENT
http://boards.gamefaqsascii.com/genmessage.php?board=5552&topic=25560

Tanner received 4,492 votes, so yeah. Almost double that.
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Snake vs. Manny - Bracket: Snake - Vote: Snake (7/8)