That's because Lloyd and Wesker are A) overrated, B) not bracket busters.

Reminds me of the Sonic/Samus-Megaman/Sephiroth-Mario/Cloud sequence... it's not going to be quite as big, since the only really big name in the upcoming one is Snake, but five? Let's just say MC murdering DK will be a welcome change of pace.
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SC2K5 status - Points: 011/012 - Matches: 11/12 - Rank: 01432/33793 - Today: Kirby - Tomorrow: Tidus

Tidus should be able to break 75% on KoaC. The King's probably going to be super fodder (not Tanner, but Guybrushish), and I don't think the anti-votes will help enough.
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Raiden fact of the contest: Alucard is a plagiarist, this year Raiden will prove it!

I'm surprised that Kirby's still gaining %age so rapidly, he's sucking up the day votes in a huge way. I can't really feel good about Tidus over Kirby next round anymore. I mean... how weak can Cecil be? I can't really stomach him being beaten by Kain... or at the very least being beaten by Kain without it even being that close. Maybe this is a stronger Kirby. Stronger, faster, better.

Kirby to take his division!
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Raiden fact of the contest: Alucard is a plagiarist, this year Raiden will prove it!

Let's just say MC murdering DK will be a welcome change of pace.

No, it will not. That day will suck unless the big ape makes it unexpectedly close.

I wouldn't take too much away from this match. Can we honestly say that Kirby would not have done the same thing last year? To say he wouldn't have come close is a lie, I think. We're saying Kirby looks so strong and so impressive because we had higher expectations of Cecil. This is more of a showing of Cecil's weakness than Kirby's strength. We really can't say if Kirby's noticeably stronger until he faces Tidus.

Same thing with Sora/Alucard. To try to judge strength based on a newbie isn't going to be all that productive. Good to speculate, but I wouldn't go up to considering Kirby the favorite now just because of this performance.

Still, I can't complain. I love Kirby to death. I do feel kinda bad for Cecil though.
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 1: (7) Geno

Heh heh... Leonhart... "it's easier to accept weakness than it is to accept strength".

I don't care how weak Cecil is, Kain being able to beat him with like 60+% of the vote? That just doesn't seem right to me.
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Raiden fact of the contest: Alucard is a plagiarist, this year Raiden will prove it!

Cecil-Shmecil, Kirby's where it's at, heh. If anything, you ought to be holding a grudge against him until Kirby gets him under 22.6% (if that happens at all); that'd mean Kuja is no longer the weakest FF character we've seen.
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Hillary Clinton: We need to treat violent video games the way we treat tobacco or alcohol.
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Heh heh... Leonhart... "it's easier to accept weakness than it is to accept strength".

Unless it's Nintendo or Square, apparently. Then it's just the opposite. Cecil's problem is more due to a lack of recognizability, I think. I wouldn't be surprised if FFIV fans thought it was a different guy named Cecil because that picture doesn't even look human.
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 1: (7) Geno

KoaC is nowhere in sight and gets... a 5?

We're awesome like that >_>
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The King of all Cosmos' route to summer victory:
Round 1: (4) Tidus... LET ME DREAM :

Kirby getting 78% of the vote?

Kirby 75.88% 35793
Cecil 24.12% 11376
TOTAL VOTES 47169

At this rate, he might actually be able to do that! o_O
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So who honestly expected Neo-Tanner to be none other than...*takes off mask*

Cecil?! What?!

Honestly, unless Tidus does better than this against the King tomorrow, Cecil is going to be hard-pressed to avoid that bottom spot.
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 1: (7) Geno

So how's today's vote-totals lookin' to be compared to other matches?
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Manny and Yuri's still gonna be weaker than Cecil.
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anyone think that if we do somehow still have perfect they will be destroyed by the five streak hyped matches? and after those and the devil division's round 2 matches we may end up with a very different leaderboard. round 2 is pretty much the deciding factor for those who have a chance at making the top 50.
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Kilroy:There fate will be in each other's hands as they decide whether to share or to shaft

Doubtful he'll get him that low. Kirby's ramping up the %age, but in the last half an hour he's still only been getting 77.2% of the vote.

Unless it's Nintendo or Square, apparently

Oddly enough though, Leonhart, last time you said this about a Square character in Sora, did you not? Heh heh heh. Kirby fa life!
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Raiden fact of the contest: Alucard is a plagiarist, this year Raiden will prove it!

No, people said that about Sora because they couldn't accept Agent 47's strength. Plus, people are just grabbing for straws to justify their Alucard pick.
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 1: (7) Geno

Just wait; Kirby'll be gettin' 80+% with the after-school vote. Nevermind the fact that it's a Sunday in July, he's still gonna get it. =P
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Hillary Clinton: We need to treat violent video games the way we treat tobacco or alcohol.
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Seems Kirby's Canvas Curse was more like a blessing. That and the star on his heiney.

Regardless, I think it's ridiculous to judge potential strength based on a match with a newbie since all we have to go on are our own personal expectations, which are wrong more often than they're right.
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 1: (7) Geno

Yeah; I'm not about to try to judge Kirby off of this about how he should do against Tidus...but he IS lookin' good right now, no matter if he gained strength of not.
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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.

Cecil's Neo-Tanner? I'd think to be Neo-Tanner you'd need to finish with under 10% of the votes. :)
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So how's today's vote-totals lookin' to be compared to other matches?

This is at the 11:55 mark.

Kirby/Cecil - 48,692
Vivi/Zelda - 58,382
Sora/Agent 47 - 49,161
Ganon/Yuna - 60,206

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Yeah, the vote totals aren't lookin' too good, though I'd probably base some of that on Kirby's opponent, even if it is Cecil.
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 1: (7) Geno

http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=22563262

Who says pics don't make a difference?
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Yeah, I'll agree with that, even if it is Nintendo/Square today.


As a side-note about vote-totals, Kratos/Alucard got nearly 3,000 more votes than Sora/Agent 47. Take that for what it's worth, though I think some Alucard-over-Sora supporters are gonna look more into it than they should.
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Hillary Clinton: We need to treat violent video games the way we treat tobacco or alcohol.
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Kratos is a better draw than Agent 47, to be sure. I was surprised by that though.
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 1: (7) Geno

I agree; I just think some people will be lookin' a lil' too close at the vote-totals and think that Alucard suddenly has the edge on Sora, when in reality it's Kratos with a very hard-to-beat edge on Agent 47.

I don't know why, but since yesterday's match I've been wantin' to call Agent 47 Hitman every time I put his name down. He really coulda benefitted from having that name instead of his generic one (not to say Hitman is more original than it, of course).
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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.

Being identified with the title of your game can only help.
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 1: (7) Geno

Unless you're Awesome Possum, of course.

*still cant believe I had that game as a kid*
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Lewis Black: Namely as valued contributors to our re-election fund.

Kirby 75.9% 41154
Cecil 24.1% 13067
TOTAL VOTES 54221

Dear God, I think Kirby's going to quadruple him. O_O
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No way Kirby is going to quadruple him. He's struggling to increase his percentage now as is.
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 1: (7) Geno

Let's not go that far now; Kirby's likely gonna finish with just over a tripling. I'd like to see Kirby get him below 24% by the end of the match though.
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Hillary Clinton: We need to treat violent video games the way we treat tobacco or alcohol.
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isn't this kirby's greatest victory so far?
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Kilroy:There fate will be in each other's hands as they decide whether to share or to shaft

His best by far. Last year, he got 64.65% on Kain, and that had been his best win. So he improved on that by over 10% today.
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 1: (7) Geno

Heh, imagine what he'd do to FF4 Kain now.

On a side note, do you think Auron beating Ganondorf would screw over a ton of casual brackets? There have been a good bunch of tourists who said they had Ganondorf taking the entire tournament... I honestly don't expect Samus to have a great deal of bracket support to make it out of her own division. This seriously throws into question the possibility of SFF in an eventual Samus/Ganondorf match... I mean, if so many people think Ganondorf can actually WIN...

By the way, my thoughts on Sora/Alucard look like this: well, one of them's gotta win, right? Neither impressed me at all this round.
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SC2K5 status - Points: 011/012 - Matches: 11/12 - Rank: 01432/33793 - Today: Kirby - Tomorrow: Tidus

Dammit Cecil, stop gaining in percentage!

And Kirby almost had 76% too....

Ganon will be the favorite in his match with Auron.
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by the looks of it do people think that the winner's score will be at least three or four points of perfect. i mean the toc is gonna screw a lot of people because link vs cloud is a 50/50.
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Kilroy:There fate will be in each other's hands as they decide whether to share or to shaft

This seriously throws into question the possibility of SFF in an eventual Samus/Ganondorf match... I mean, if so many people think Ganondorf can actually WIN...

Bracket voting won't cancel out SFF, if that's what you're getting at.
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 1: (7) Geno

There will definitely not be a perfect bracket, but I would not be shocked to see somebody head into the ToC missing only 2 or 3 points.

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I suspect that "SFF" and bracket support have a strong correlation actually.
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I'm thinking the fact that so many have Ganondorf beating Samus may have to do with personal preference. I see no other reason.
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SC2K5 status - Points: 011/012 - Matches: 11/12 - Rank: 01432/33793 - Today: Kirby - Tomorrow: Tidus

I suspect that "SFF" and bracket support have a strong correlation actually.

I don't know why. Otherwise, we'd end up with a lot more irregularities than we already do if bracket voting is behind SFF. Mega Man had big bracket support against Zero last summer and did nothing with it.
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 1: (7) Geno

I'm thinking the fact that so many have Ganondorf beating Samus may have to do with personal preference. I see no other reason.

Hello there, Villains Contest finals and over 40% on Sephiroth.
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 1: (7) Geno

Yeah, and I just checked and found only 60% or so had Crono over Kekfa in '03 (my favorite example of sff, for some reason)... although some of that might have been Pac-Man support. <_<
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Currently: 12/13 | Next: Tidus

Over 40% on Sephiroth still isn't impressive as over 40% on Cloud.

There's just nothing going Ganondorf's way, EVEN if you're gullible enough to consider the villain contest accurate.
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SC2K5 status - Points: 011/012 - Matches: 11/12 - Rank: 01432/33793 - Today: Kirby - Tomorrow: Tidus

From: CompmanJX3 | Posted: 7/31/2005 5:07:38 PM | #294
Yeah, and I just checked and found only 60% or so had Crono over Kekfa in '03 (my favorite example of sff, for some reason)... although some of that might have been Pac-Man support. <_<

Probably. Pac-Man was the bracket favorite over Kefka. (I won't even mention the 180° the following year as Kefka was the favorite over Knuckles.)
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SC2K5 status - Points: 011/012 - Matches: 11/12 - Rank: 01432/33793 - Today: Kirby - Tomorrow: Tidus

Over 40% on Sephiroth still isn't impressive as over 40% on Cloud.

Samus did that a year ago. Odds are those people forgot about that or weren't here for it.
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The King of all Cosmos' route to summer victory:
Round 1: (4) Tidus... LET ME DREAM :

Feh, Kirby's percentage is dropping fairly fast.
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But is it dropping like a rock?
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Summer Contest 2005: 11/12
Today: Kirby, Tomorrow: Tidus

Doesn't matter, Cecil still got raped by friggin Kirby of all people.
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