The 5 minute update thing is only suspenseful in close matches. In matches like this it just makes it a long wait before we can detect trends.
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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*

1) Kefka slowly built up a lead of 1100.
2) Tommy spent all day chipping away at the lead, stalling at every 100 vote "barrier" from anywhere to thirty minutes to three hours.
3) Tommy finally reached 0, and stalled there for several hours. Everytime he took the lead, Kefka would suddenly receieve a surge of 40 votes or so.
4) We suspected cheating.
5) CJayC changed the update format of the poll to five minute updates instead of instant.
6) CJayC took 1800 votes away from Kefka and said a user named "George Romero" did it.
7) CJayC posted in a couple random topics on Board 8.
8) Everyone and their mother tried to get CJayC to post in their topic.
9) George Romero said that he stuffed in every close match.
10) Ulti believes him.
11) Tommy received a couple of 200 vote surges late in the match that either came from Kefka supporters trying to get votes stripped from him or from Asia.
12) Crono is raping Zidane.
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What was the final tally on Kefka/Vercetti anyways?
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50165 to 47920.
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Welcome to Moonside. Wecomel to Soonmide. Moonwel ot cosidme

One more thing before I go to bed:

Board 8 is at 3,045 topics. Crazy night.
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Welcome to Moonside. Wecomel to Soonmide. Moonwel ot cosidme

Whoa, Kefka/Vercetii is the biggest upset of Round 1. Who would've thought?

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"It takes but a man to gaze into his own twilight and approach it with fear. It takes but a legend to approach it with open arms." - The Unheard Z

In contest history I mean.

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"It takes but a man to gaze into his own twilight and approach it with fear. It takes but a legend to approach it with open arms." - The Unheard Z

I'd have thought. I counted on the general bracket makers being fools. Hell, they had Kefka over Diablo by a fair amount. I did too, of course, but that all made me realize that he is always, and I mean always, overrated by the general bracket makers. As I've said, when it comes to Kefka they NEVER learn.
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"Love forever, love is free. Let’s turn forever you and me." - Gorillaz "Feel Good INC"

Oh and throw in a little "Scorpion Factor" with that too. Seeing Kefka do so "well" in the spring obviously made them think he could pull one over TV.
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"Love forever, love is free. Let’s turn forever you and me." - Gorillaz "Feel Good INC"

Didn't SC over WW have the lowest prediction percentage ever?
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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*

Nah, Cloud/Sephy 2003 did.

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Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best. Game. Ever." Contest
"If my fate is to be destroyed... I must simply laugh!" -Magus

I don't even remember that, but I could imagine why...
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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*

Me and Cpt. Morgan are celebrating TV's win. You're all welcome to join as we mourn for the only slightly under appreciated Kefka!
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"Love forever, love is free. Let’s turn forever you and me." - Gorillaz "Feel Good INC"

GOD, Captain Morgan is terrible. So is all rum, inside of a Coke or not.

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Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best. Game. Ever." Contest
"If my fate is to be destroyed... I must simply laugh!" -Magus

Rum, terrible? Prey tell what do you drink?
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"Love forever, love is free. Let’s turn forever you and me." - Gorillaz "Feel Good INC"

Mostly sweet stuff. Hard alcohol tastes so bad that I almost puke the second I swallow it. The exeption is tequila, while I'll drink no matter what.

From: Crono LV99 | Posted: 8/7/2005 5:45:53 AM | Message Detail | #013
I don't have enough karma to mark them so I have no choice but to bring it here. [quoted Smurf text]

Unfortunately that's not a legit excuse, even for level 10 users, and I know you could switch accounts if you really wanted to anyway.

Crono is hilarious, if for no other reason than the fact that he's brutally honest.

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Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best. Game. Ever." Contest
"If my fate is to be destroyed... I must simply laugh!" -Magus

I have tequila (Sauza). I have Midori (and I suppose you're special enough to share that with, as it's probably one of the best liqours ever). I have irish cream. I have pineapple run (Malibu). I have Smirnof Twist (Raspberry, of course, as it's my favorite flavor ever). That's about it for the sweeter side of things. I have Kool-Aid, though, and that makes rum bearable.
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"Love forever, love is free. Let’s turn forever you and me." - Gorillaz "Feel Good INC"

If you choose any flavor BUT raspberry or orange, you don't deserve to be drinking alcohol in the first place. I applaud your good taste, good old friend.

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Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best. Game. Ever." Contest
"If my fate is to be destroyed... I must simply laugh!" -Magus

Can anyone link to the CJayC topic about George Romero?
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It was a sticky that Ceej deleted. I reposted what he said earlier in this topic.

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Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best. Game. Ever." Contest
"If my fate is to be destroyed... I must simply laugh!" -Magus

*nods*

Indeed. I hadn't thought of orange, though. I did think of vanilla, since i drink a lot of vanilla coke and it'd go together well, but Raspberry is truly the flavor for me. Oh, and if you haven't tried Midori yet you should. Very good, melon flavored drink. Rather syrupy, so needs to be mixed no doubt (unless you're my crazy-ass roomate), but quite sweet.
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"Love forever, love is free. Let’s turn forever you and me." - Gorillaz "Feel Good INC"

http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=22709915

http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=22707931

I don't like vanilla much, sorry.

Anyway, I need sleep. Good night, guys.

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Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best. Game. Ever." Contest
"If my fate is to be destroyed... I must simply laugh!" -Magus

http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=22707340

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"It takes but a man to gaze into his own twilight and approach it with fear. It takes but a legend to approach it with open arms." - The Unheard Z

No, no. I don't disagree that vanilla isn't the best option, but I just love Vanilla Coke for some reason (probably because it's smoother than regular coke) and thought the two would blem well together. Frankly, however, Raspberry rules over all.

Well, I work at 2:45 tomorrow, which is quite early for me, and I ought to head off as well not that the alcohol has made me sufficiently leaden-eyed.
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"Love forever, love is free. Let’s turn forever you and me." - Gorillaz "Feel Good INC"

4 for me.

it looked more like the Korean ISP floods during the Best Game Ever matches with StarCraft. *shrug*

So it WAS in more than one match. I'll be god damned.

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Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best. Game. Ever." Contest
"If my fate is to be destroyed... I must simply laugh!" -Magus

And he says "matches". How unusual.

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Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best. Game. Ever." Contest
"If my fate is to be destroyed... I must simply laugh!" -Magus

So, wait, what does that mean?

Both for StarCraft and Tommy. Just that he has international fans, or that it was international vote stuffing on a large scale?
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Mario is Winnar
Next victim: Master Ness

Zidane is getting heavily SFFed today...

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Currently Playing: Tales of Symphonia (again), Burnout 3 (still), Loz:Minish Cap

Zidane is getting heavily SFFed today...

This was to be expected. Vivi would be projected to get around 33% on Crono before SFF. And I'd say Vivi > Zidane.

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"It takes but a man to gaze into his own twilight and approach it with fear. It takes but a legend to approach it with open arms." - The Unheard Z

Kefka sucks.
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Vote for Kirby in SC2K5!

Hmm, Zidane is actually winning percentage back during the day.

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"It takes but a man to gaze into his own twilight and approach it with fear. It takes but a legend to approach it with open arms." - The Unheard Z

awesome, Crono's dropping like expected. he's only been getting 70.68% over the last two hours. Zidane may yet avoid a tripling.
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nominate Jay Solano for sc2k6.

oh, and this five minute thing occasionally causes sc2k5 to miss an update. I'm surprised it's still up.
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nominate Jay Solano for sc2k6.

It's beyond me why people keep nominating that fodder Kefka.

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General Beatrix > Kefka

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"It takes but a man to gaze into his own twilight and approach it with fear. It takes but a legend to approach it with open arms." - The Unheard Z

There's nothing that hasn't been said already, not even on my own account. But I'd just like to laugh at the coincidence that my expectations were the same as for MvC2, and the same outcome happens (though for different reasons, of course). So these barriers were stuffing barriers... it was really strange to see Vercetti struggle to get past hundreds, yet anywhere else he was in the clear. And Kefka continually jumping ahead of Vercetti whenever they were tied... before going to sleep I noticed Kefka's lead was actually going down, and I wondered what it was. I felt it wasn't natural. (Oops, I'm really slipping into ****ese mode here.) Anyway, I still thought, okay, CJay only ever took action twice, there must be nothing all that wrong. Hehe. I feel like a god for cursing Kefka like that. And all that while the stats topic was on part 187. Must've been destiny.

And the brackets. Hoo boy. For a first round match, it was the second most missed in history, right behind Vivi/DK. Both matches are similar in that Vercetti and Vivi were both the board favorites, but underdogs among the casuals. Well, at least we get to one-up these people after they did the same to us with Ness/CJ. We shall die by GTA, but we shall also live by GTA!
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SC2K5 status - Points: 017/018 - Matches: 17/18 - Rank: 00889/33793 - Today: Vercetti - Tomorrow: Crono

Crono might not even triple Zidane..
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Summer 2005 Contest Score : 19/19
Rank : 1/33793 Today: Crono

What the hell is with this vote stuffer guy? He makes the ridiculous claim of causing practically every major upset in contest history and you guys go off and believe him? Judging by his sloppy style of vote stuffing and how he even talked about it at the board I have a hard time believing he's done it before on a large scale like this. Even if he did some of you are overreacting way too much. We should change te xstats over this? What.the.hell? A few thousand votes aren't going to make any character look exceptionally stronger then they really are in the xstats. It's not like the xstats are 100% cannon, and small changes like that wouldn't make too huge of a difference in them. I don't see why anyone should believe this guy. If he bothered cheating in this, what would be stopping him from lying about previous acts to boost his ego?
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Well, I agree. I'm thinking he's just gloating. I don't ever recall seeing such crazy patterns... it'd have made more sense if he said he was helping Starcraft, but as it is, no, just no.
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SC2K5 status - Points: 018/019 - Matches: 18/19 - Rank: 00149/33793 - Today: Crono - Tomorrow: Dante*
*w/ account on the line

i really think that people are blowing the SFF business way out of proportion today. Crono and Zidane are from different generations. i suppose there could be a small amount of SFF from both being RPG heroes, but that wouldn't be much different than admitting that Magus SFF'd Luca Blight.

just admit it: Zidane is weaker than Vivi.

oh, and i thought Kefka would be the bracketmaker's favorite, but 62%? yeesh. and i can't believe we lost 10 of our 12 zeroes and 740 of our 888 perfects. man.

does anyone know who the last two zeros are?

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

oh, and i just noticed:

32 JohnDeere04 19 Samus

alright!! JohnDeere is a buddy of mine who consulted me for some help on his bracket. that is absolutely awesome that he made the Top 50. and as only 1 out of 3 who have Samus winning.

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

I think it's official now.

Kefka is the Donkey Kong of Square.
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God bless The Great George Romero, the true winner of the 2k5 Summer Contest.
He truly breaked all the previous barriers of vote stuffing.

by the way were there any suicides of accounts when kefka lost?
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Kilroy:There fate will be in each other's hands as they decide whether to share or to shaft

Knuckles > Vercetti
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Dp eats poop.

No suicides seen by me.
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Dp eats poop.

Haven't seen anything either... then again, I went to sleep shortly after 11 PM Eastern, so I missed all the juicy action.

Funny how no one's rushing to 500... when yesterday alone we used SIX stats topics, TWICE AS MANY AS FOR THE ENTIRE 2003 CONTEST. What a crazy day.
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SC2K5 status - Points: 018/019 - Matches: 18/19 - Rank: 00149/33793 - Today: Crono - Tomorrow: Dante*
*w/ account on the line

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"Extinguish your desire and the fire will be cool. Clear your mind and you will feel no pain."- Master Poi from Golden Sun

Kefka should've won.
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"Extinguish your desire and the fire will be cool. Clear your mind and you will feel no pain."- Master Poi from Golden Sun

George Romero is the greatest person to have ever lived. I shall forever sing his praises to all, and his name will live in infamy throughout the ages.

ALL HAIL THE GREAT GEORGE ROMERO!

http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=22713170
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God bless The Great George Romero, the true winner of the 2k5 Summer Contest.
He truly breaked all the previous barriers of vote stuffing.