It's interesting how Vercetti and GTA:VC have both been heavy bracket favorites before in matches...yet, this summer, both Vercetti and CJ were underdogs against more cult/niche characters.
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And it looks like Crono is going to approach, or maybe even surpass, 80%. Zidane is more likely to get the board vote.
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we lost 740 perfects and 10 0's, if anyone's wondering.
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What happened to 5 minute updates? >_>
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Aw damn, looks like 5 minute updates have become permanent again.

There is a major problem with that: it makes cheating much harder for us to notice. And if we don't sound the alarms, then Ceej is also less likely to be made aware of it.
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Zidane is more likely to get the board vote.

Doesn't CT have a tendency to almost always win the board vote? I don't think Zidane well do badly enough tto fall under 20%, but this is kind of pathetic.
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we lost 740 perfects and 10 0's, if anyone's wondering.

Ouch for the Perfects
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Please, no way I'm believing he influenced that many matches. The most recent topic by cjayc cites why - Vercetti would have won anyway.

This hacking cheater wants to be more glorified than he already, undeservedly, is. If he was that good at it, he wouldn't have gotten caught now, and if he's swung larger vote turnarounds, there's no way he would have gotten caught now. He's a liar, and why should you trust a proven cheater?
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Ness nor Kefka are cult/nieche on GFAQs.

SSB and FF... a potent force.
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From: AmazingKirby | Posted: 8/7/2005 3:07:09 AM | Message Detail | #304
What happened to 5 minute updates? >_>

We always had live updates for the first update, IIRC; was the first 15 minutes back in the day, now it's the first 5 minutes.
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I don't know what the hell I was thinking when I picked Ryu Hayabusa over Zero. I guess it was one of those Tommy Vercetti moments except a miracle didn't come true that time.
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This hacking cheater wants to be more glorified than he already, undeservedly, is. If he was that good at it, he wouldn't have gotten caught now, and if he's swung larger vote turnarounds, there's no way he would have gotten caught now. He's a liar, and why should you trust a proven cheater?

Exactly. There is no way this guy's word is even remotely credible. He's just trying to prolong his soon to be short lived fame on this board.
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From the huge number of perfects that were just wiped out, I would guess that there was a very strong correlation between people who had Tommy and CJ winning.

I was just thinkin' that myself. For two characters commonly believed to be weak by the board, most of us thought Ness and Kefka both would lose. For two characters with notable roles in some of GameFAQs's most loved games, most of the casuals thought Ness and Kefka would win. Very few of us had just one of them losing...and most of the ones who did thought Kefka would win and Ness would lose, heh.
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From: creativename | Posted: 8/7/2005 3:08:34 AM | Message Detail
From: AmazingKirby | Posted: 8/7/2005 3:07:09 AM | Message Detail | #304
What happened to 5 minute updates? >_>

We always had live updates for the first update, IIRC; was the first 15 minutes back in the day, now it's the first 5 minutes.

Really? I always thought that it gave you a live update when you voted, but I never bothered to test my hypothesis.
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18-----888------16.6666667
17-----3641-----24.9931338
16-----5160-----22.7519380
15-----5864-----29.3826739
14-----5525-----36.9773756
13-----4433-----44.8003609
12-----3296-----51.1832524
11-----2231-----57.8664276
10-----1338-----61.1360239
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8------302------60.5960265
7------113------67.2566372
6------65-------63.0769231
5------34-------82.3529412
4------29-------86.2068966
3------35-------91.4285714
2------57-------80.7017544
1------109------56.8807339
0------11-------81.8181818

Everybody got blasted on that match. The 0s and perfects were decimated. This was another match where knowledge seemed to work against you, the lower your score, the more likely it was that the person got it right.

Thirty eight people fell off the Top 50 today. Finalxflash, comeasur337, gjdsj, Mithrandir1331, chris1815, someaznboi, riceaaterman, chocoboslayer, checkerboard, Mondo_Medicale, FaultyGourry, Shade_the_Chao, wmjasonx2, MRow13, Skyfall_Fox_, Estebest, X64888, Pikman2_, PsychoShredder, Biske_La_Varet, Ganondorf99, XPiggo, Confidentiality, TerraBolt681, WHATISTHISBS, BTWD, Neo9898_98, woodchuck81, mullettron, new_noise, novelist9, krazievnboi, SteveHP, The_Scythe, JackFrost187, Nick_Hardy, GoldSlime35 and The_Sub did not have Vercetti beating Kefka.
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Can't we just move on and focus on ya know, Crono SFFing Zidane? <_<
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Ness nor Kefka are cult/nieche on GFAQs.

'Twas for a lack of a better word, really...but when compared to Vercetti and CJ, I think it'd still be appropriate.
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TRE's post-mach results are interesting, I see. :x

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Well, Crono is already climbing close to 80%.
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Can't we just move on and focus on ya know, Crono SFFing Zidane? <_<

Better yet, Terra beating Dante?
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Today: Crono, Tomorrow: Terra

I'm still confident about Terra beating Dante, too.
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It'll be interesting to see how much the vote totals are effected by this new anti-cheating addition that was briefly mentioned.
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M4***** (11:18:43 PM): One more thing if you're still there. Do you really talk to Ulti often? Because he makes it seem like you do.

CJayC (11:19:45 PM): He's one of the few on this account's list. Of course, I'm only on this account a few times a month. But, I suppose if you were to add up the time of all the people I talk to who I don't actually work with, he's in the top 10.

OK, great, you talk to CjayC occasionally, and I know you know this, because you've been better about it, but really, people, that shouldn't mean anything to you. He's just a person like anyone else.
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I find it Ceej's latest topic extremely strange, since stuffing for Tommy in the last bit was as obvious at anything, ever.

From 23:15:02 to 23:40:00, Kefka got 380 votes. Tommy got 1013. That's an average of 200 votes per update for Tommy, when he got less than 100 per update before and after that period.

Tommy definnitely would not have won by more than 1700 votes without this, so the removal of Kefka's votes did alter the result.

Now, the result deserved to be changed; but Tommy would not have won anyway.
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Damn it, I was hoping zidane could show some semblence of strength. Enough to not look damn near close to kuja at least. I hope he falls above the VFL so we can see him make a return.
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Better yet, Terra beating Dante?

I'm rather glad Kefka/Vercetti was before that match because honestly, I think the vote stuffing woulda been HELL OF A LOT worse.
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'Twas for a lack of a better word, really...but when compared to Vercetti and CJ, I think it'd still be appropriate.

I dunno. Something tells me that on GFAQs, Ness and Kefka would be recognised by more people than CJ or Vercetti.

I got what you meant, I was just being a little annoying :)
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And Crono should fairly easily blast past 80% it seems.

(too bad for me I lowered my Oracle prediction from 79% to 77% at the last minute)

And I doubt there is too much SFF here. I believe that Zidane is just very weak.
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With all that support against Vercetti, someone not far from Dante in strength, you've got to wonder about where Dante/Terra will be.
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holy hell.. 70-80% of the top scores took Kefka? and here I thought TV was the 'safe' pick.

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I find it Ceej's latest topic extremely strange, since stuffing for Tommy in the last bit was as obvious at anything, ever.

From 23:15:02 to 23:40:00, Kefka got 380 votes. Tommy got 1013. That's an average of 200 votes per update for Tommy, when he got less than 100 per update before and after that period.

Tommy definnitely would not have won by more than 1700 votes without this, so the removal of Kefka's votes did alter the result.

Now, the result deserved to be changed; but Tommy would not have won anyway.

Look on the second page. He explains it.
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Ooh...Terra had better not defeat Dante, as I still need to see myself appear on the Top 50...as long as Dante pulls it off I have no worries until Luigi/KOS-MOS, in which case we'll probably be down to under 50 perfects by then, anyway.

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holy hell.. 70-80% of the top scores took Kefka? and here I thought TV was the 'safe' pick.

People are probably realizing GameFAQS hates GTA, Ness had over 50% on his side too.

Then you failed at being annoying, good sir.

Crono is handily whipping Zidane's ass, as a side-note. Zidane could have been SO much better used...Lloyd/Zidane, Luigi/Zidane, or Revolver/Zidane could have been alot better than this. Hell, if Aeris/Sora is a sign of anything, maybe Sora/Zidane could have been interesting (though doubtful).
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Since I refrained from doing this all of yesterday:

20XXDF Vercetti:
34 Luigi 25.24
35 Jill Valentine 25.14
36 Morrigan Aensland 24.87
Kefka 24.82
37 Aya Brea 24.80
38 Diablo 24.69
39 Felix 24.60

20XXDF Kefka:
46 Yuna 23.66
47 Ness 23.46
48 Revolver Ocelot 23.38
Tommy Vercetti 23.28
49 M. Bison 23.26
50 Kefka 22.72
51 Ryu Hayabusa 22.68

2k4 Crono:
76 Kite 17.79
77 Max Payne 17.73
78 Pikachu 17.62
Zidane 17.44
79 Protoman 17.30
80 Crash Bandicoot 16.90
81 Simon Belmont 16.88

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The Korean (err, Chinese) vote comes through for Vercetti? Now that is truly weird. Another tidbit to add to this match.
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Look on the second page. He explains it.

Second page? Are you talking about the China post? Because that's not an explanation; he can't know what happened there.
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KosMos isn't going to beat Luigi.

I learned recently (I don't pretend to be an expert) that Luigi/Yoshi sff was never even mentioned, really. There had to have been some, they're from the same fanbase....so Luigi's probably a little underrated, and...it just isn't going to happen...
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If Terra beat Dante, I'd be done for.
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Heh...China favored Tommy. But wouldn't the Italian Mafia be enemies of the Triad?
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Sora would defeat Zidane almost as bad as Crono is.
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Hmm... I'm not really sure how to feel about the poll updater returning. With so many high-profile matches coming up, the chances for increased vote stuffing will proliferate, so it can be argued that we need this as a safety barrier. Still, the constant refresh is a luxury I'm going to miss. All in all, it's probably for the better, though.
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Terra beating Dante is a total pipe dream.

I can virtually guarantee that Dante will not get below 53% in that match, and honestly that's one of the most sorry ass guarantees ever.
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China favoring Vercetti? To the tune of ~700 votes in 15 minutes? No one actually buys that, do they? I'm not the only one who has their BS meter going off?
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China?

CHINA?

Wow... it's like something out of the Twilight Zone or something.

And if Terra beats Dante, how many perfects do you think we'd have left? I'd wager not very many at all (and I'm sure it'd kill the zeros), because who would have had Kefka losing and Terra winning? Besides me, of course. <_<

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Terra is not looking good. Cecil blew chunks, Kefka went down to Vercetti, (You can argue till your blue that Kefka is stronger, won;t change my opinion) and Dante is significently stronger then Vercetti.
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How does it act as a safety barrier?
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