GFNW at its finest. The board fully expects him to lose, yet everyone votes for him anyway.

Or Leon isn't on par with Jill like many thought he would be, but screw common sense in analysing a Gordon match. Gotta love the little guy.



*Creativename's websites*

Everything you could ever imagine:
http://www.sc2k5.com
http://www.sc2k4.com

Summer 2002 Contest Information:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/taxonomy/term/1

Summer 2003 Contest Information:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/taxonomy/term/2

Spring 2004 Contest Information:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/taxonomy/term/3

Summer 2004 Contest Information:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/taxonomy/term/4

Summer 2005 Contest Information:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/taxonomy/term/5

Sortable Table for Every Contest Match:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/node/19



*Extrapolated Standings*

Explanation of Extrapolated Standings:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/node/11

Simple Explanation of Extrapolated Standings:
A = Strongest Character
B = Character Weaker than A
C = Character Weaker than B
To figure out a character's Xsts Percentage ---> [(CvB)(BvA)]/50 = CvA
To compare how C would do against B ---> [(CvA)/(BvA)]*50 = CvB
To figure out how B would do against A ---> [(CvA)/(CvB)]*50 = BvA

Summer 2002 Extrapolated Standings:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/node/13

Summer 2003 Extrapolated Standings:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/node/14

Spring 2004 Extrapolated Standings:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/node/15

SFF Adjusted Spring 2004 Extrapolated Standings:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/node/16

Summer 2004 Extrapolated Standings:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/node/17

SFF Adjusted Summer 2004 Extrapolated Standings:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/node/18

Spring 2005 Extrapolated Standings:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/node/27

All Time Extrapolated Standings:
http://www.freewebs.com/mmxcalibur/alltimexsts.htm



*Solarshadow's Sites*

Summer 2002 Contest:
http://solarshadow2002.tripod.com

Summer 2003 Contest:
http://solarshadow-stats.tripod.com/2003/index.html

Spring 2004 Contest: (not currently updating)
http://solarshadow-stats.tripod.com/sp2004/index.html



*Old Stats topics*

Summer 2002 Contest:
http://solarshadow2002.tripod.com/page1.html

Summer 2003 Contest:
http://solarshadow-stats.tripod.com/archive/topic1p1.html
http://www.angelfire.com/games5/sum_contest/Page1.htm (See note)

2003-2004 Off-Season:
http://membres.lycos.fr/shindohikaru/stats1.htm (See note)
Note: Don't use the links in the topic to browse through the pages, change the page number in the URL.

Spring 2004 Pre-Season (Chance the number after "Season" to view other pages; there are three of them):
http://sc2k4.com/archive/04SpringPreSeason1.htm

Spring 2004 Contest (Change the number after "Stats" to view other pages; there are eight of them):
http://sc2k4.com/archive/04SpringStats1.htm



*Match Pictures*

All the match pics, save for three from 2002:
http://www.sc2k5.com/gallery/index.php



*Miscellaneous*

Creativename's Page of Links:
http://sc2k4.com/links.php

MMXcalibur's Contest Sites:
http://prophetchallenge.hyperboards2.com/index.cgi
http://www.freewebs.com/mmxcalibur/

A List of Acronyms, A Lesson on Percentages, and Some Odd Matches:
http://www.freewebs.com/mmxcalibur/acronymspercentsanomalies.htm

Poll Vote Total Updater:
http://sc2k5.com/drupal/node/25

All Time Top 25/Top 10 Lists:
http://www.rpgdl.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3251



!yawA tsoP

gordies doing well though
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Vincent's Path to Victory: Round 1 - (4) Sarah Kerrigan OWNED 79200 - 21058 Round 2 - (1) Dante

Boy oh boy, I just love watching Gordon Freeman break 40% and lose time and time again. Leon with 60.01%?! Ridiculous!!
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Board 8: Where people treat each other right.

I love leon, but had to vote for Gordon.


KB

Heh, I actually agree with KB on that one.
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Board 8: Where people treat each other right.

First I checked to make sure Gordon wasn't winning. Then I voted for him. :P

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Mario's Path to Victory: Round 2 - (4) Ness

Cloud VS Tifa in the finals!
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When this happened, all of us got PWND by Smurf
http://www.freewebs.com/vgcg/Knuckles.jpg

Yoshi > Vyse > Laharl
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 2: (3) Mag...Er...(6) Knuckles the Echidna

'Tis about time for the annual pants party, don't you think?

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RIP: Tnote827 - 4/4/2005
SC2k5 - 27/29

Btw, tomorrow will be the first match ever in 2k5 where I won't vote.

I hate both chars and I know Yoshi will win with a blow-out so I can't be bothered to even bracket vote.

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Reserved for the winner of the SC2K5 Guru Challenge.

GFNW > the stats
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Summer 2005 Contest - 26/29 points
Current Match Prediction: Gordon Freeman vs. Leon Kennedy

Gordon, Defender of Earth > Gordon Freeman
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BertTheOne | Can't hurt this Bert
Never eat a stoner. We have powers you havent even seen!

It's true, it's true.
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 2: (3) Mag...Er...(6) Knuckles the Echidna

Kurt Angle also owns, yes.
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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.

And the guy with Tifa winning it all has confessed to picking Freeman to win today, so that's at least one less perfect.
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 2: (3) Mag...Er...(6) Knuckles the Echidna

Excellent 500 post.
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For the sake of simplicity, I'm going to refer to Gordon Freeman versus Tanner as Schrodinger's Match. -Phoenix Flattener

I just can't resist voting for Gordon, no matter who he's against.
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Board 8: "It's Great!"

http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=22949316

ANOTHER ONE DOWN
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http://picturesofwalls.com

well, for tomorrow i predict:

Yoshi will triple Laharl due to the site's demograph shift towards Nintendo.

57% of the brackets will have Leon.

we will lose 5 of our perfects to GF.

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"Start wearing purple, for me now. All your sanity and wits, they will all vanish, i promise. It's just a matter of time..."

CJ is weak as well, for he who uses that as a counter point to my Jak is weak statement.
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Now Link, fill up your hearts
So you can shoot your sword with power

http://www.gamefaqs.com/shared/sum05/b33.jpg <--- Wow, Mario 64 face, lol

http://www.gamefaqs.com/shared/sum05/b34.jpg
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"I dont know what I am talking about? I know more about gaming than 90 percent of the users on the internet." -xmagxus

Wow that Mario/Ness pic looks like ass. Lloyd/Zero is cool though.

So yeah, HaRRicH, I think you're hugely underestimating the popularity of wrestling here. To put things in perspective, I'd put pretty much any wrestler that regularly appears and seems to have any sort of fanbase on Raw/Smackdown over Laharl.

The bigger guys like Kurt Angle I'd probably put at around Luigi level, just because it's so fun to do that.

Hulk Hogan? I could see him being Noble Nine material. No joke.

Hey, anyone know of a poll of the day... "got wrestling?" or some crap like that? I'm looking at you, TRE. Heh.
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Of course there's a large chance I'm overestimating it.

I think Lloyd will do respectable with that picture.
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.nS) quote of the week:
"I don't know how to work the machine. I just act like I know what I'm doing, and people tip me." - syst

Heh, I really like the Mario/Ness pic. Zero/Lloyd is probably as good as it could have been, but...ya know...meh.

Solid/Zelda and MC/DK suddenly feels sexy, for whatever reason.
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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.

..So what is this theme supposed to be? Face?
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"I dont know what I am talking about? I know more about gaming than 90 percent of the users on the internet." -xmagxus

Well I guess this means Snake can't get Solid **** against Zelda.

I like Lloyd/Zero.
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http://picturesofwalls.com

Who'da thought the trend would be... headshot, even closer headshot? Heh heh. At least Dante has 0 chance of being stuck with Viewtiful Dante this round, thankfully.
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The fact generator is broken. Come back later.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1678

I don't know how I remembered this poll.
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BertTheOne | Can't hurt this Bert
Never eat a stoner. We have powers you havent even seen!

Well, round 1 wasn't actually "head shot." It was just "close up." This is full-blown head shot, a la Elite Eight 2002.

Mario/Ness is bad, but I really like Zero/Lloyd.
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 2: (3) Mag...Er...(6) Knuckles the Echidna

Perhaps Jak was too low of a standard here, but I just can't shake the feeling wrestling is looked down upon in general by GameFAQs. Hulk...he'd be strong, yes, but I dunno 'bout Noble Nine. Around the likes of Bowser, sure, but I can't see him touching Sonic.
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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.

[This message was deleted at the request of the original poster]

The only wrestlers I could see being REALLY strong are The Rock, Hogan and Stone Cold.

I'd imagine that the nearly 40% of those who used to watch wrestling probably like the Hitman and HBK. They'd be pretty popular, I'd imagine.
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 2: (3) Mag...Er...(6) Knuckles the Echidna

Match 31: (3) Yoshi vs. (6) Laharl

Past Performances

Yoshi

Summer 2002
Did not attend
Ranked: N/A

Summer 2003
Beat Conker, 66.46% - 33.54%
Lost to Bowser, 43.66% - 56.34%
Ranked: 23rd

Summer 2004
Beat Ryo Hazuki, 76.40% - 23.60%
Beat Luigi Mario, 54.48% - 45.52%
Lost to Link, 18.26% - 81.74%
Ranked: 37th

Spring 2005
Did not attend
Ranked: N/A

Laharl
Summer 2002
Did not attend
Ranked: N/A

Summer 2003
Did not attend
Ranked: N/A

Summer 2004
Lost to Vyse, 39.77% - 60.23%
Ranked: 49th

Spring 2005
Did not attend
Ranked: N/A

Analysis

Out of all of the characters that returned from last year, Laharl was the one that shouldn’t have made reappearance. Not only was did he lost to a fodder 60/40; he came back as a 6 seed. Well at least my second favorite character is going to have a blowout. Yoshi should have no problem destroying Laharl tomorrow and hopefully we’ll never see his face in this contest ever again.

Laharl may have not been in any new games this year, but Yoshi’s most notable game last year was Super Mario 64 DS. He was a playable character on that game, but I don’t think it will give him much of a boost other than a couple of points and that might be a stretch. We also don’t know much about Yoshi’s strength since he was SFF on both years (yes I believe there was some kind of SFF against Bowser), but at least this year he’s going to lose to a Non-Nintendo character (most likely Mega Man).

Now if we take a look at Vyse and Luigi’s matches we can see that they didn’t really perform to expectations. While most agree that Vyse underperformed against Tifa (Tifa is not taking the contest dam it), but there’s been some talk about Luigi’s performance. Like he did to Pac-Man I’m pretty sure that Luigi only did so well because of his name and will probably fold against any character with some kind of strength. Then again there could’ve been some kind of SFF in Link/Samus and Yoshi/Luigi, but like Yoshi/Bowser it’s probably not going to be worth so much. Also if we adjusted Tifa to equal Sonic that will put Vyse at Laharl’s number, while many people are having a hard time believing Vyse = Laharl I’m having a harder time believing Sonic = Tifa and besides fodder vs. fodder matches never really tell too much.

I may be acting a little bias here, but I think Yoshi has a good chance on quadrupling Laharl tomorrow, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he couldn’t manage a tripling though. This would’ve been better if we switched Laharl with Knuckles or Alucard so we can make this match interesting. Here’s to Yoshi, hopefully he can make it to the Sweet 16 with ease.

charmander6000’s Bracket: Yoshi over Laharl

charmander6000’s Prediction: Yoshi wins, 78.47% - 21.53%

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I've been Pwned by KoaC. He really is the king of all cosmos.

If Hassan were in this contest... DAMN, possibility be damned, I'd pick him for the win.
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Deejay is as serious as they come. Beneath his sexy, stereotypical exterior beats the heart of a true angry black man. - Titan44

Hassan vs Gordon Freeman would be the best match ever.

Just as a quick observation, notice that Mario and Lloyd have the slight overlap advantage with the face-shots. I'm not saying this will affect any matches with over-laps like that, but it's worth noting that the higher seeds in the first two pics get that lil' bit of over-lap...if there's a pic with a significant over-lap though, especially in a match like Kirby/Tidus, that might have an effect.
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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.

GFN-ALAYELLAHAYELE!!!!!
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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.

Eh, Hayabusa had significant overlap against Zero, too. I really don't think that will have much of an effect.
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 2: (3) Mag...Er...(6) Knuckles the Echidna

Oh, and it looks like we won't have to worry about the possible Frog sprite overperformance now.

And it means that we still won't see a sprite of Knuckles or Luigi this year. Drats.
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It's just not the same without this name.
Faithful supporter of Squall Leonhart in SC2K5

We will if they pull the UPSET SPECIAL!!!

...*cough*...
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"i started playing mario brothers as luigi and threw the controller down in disgust in the middle of the game because he lacked character"--gokujont

Yeah, that's a pretty decent poll strength. The "no, but I used to category", I'd wager 90% of it would know of HBK and Bret Hart and those "old school" big names, and about 75% would know of The Rock, Austin, Triple H... some of the relatively newer guys. That was when wrestling was really big. So yeah, when over half of the GameFAQs population knows of the big names, I think that pretty much every well known wrestler would beat Jak comfortably at least.

Hogan would be known by even part of that 38% or whatever it was that has never watched it. He'd be quite a force. Now, the question is, who would get more anti-votes? Some wrestler or Master Chief? My money's actually on the wrestler at this point.

And uh... something not wrestling? How about "I don't think the overlap will do jack"... heh.
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You probably want me to drop the wrestling topic right about now, eh?

Don't be so quick about Knuckles...


...


...dear God, please let us see a Knuckles sprite.
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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.

I kinda have to be quick about Knuckles. I would rather him not win, as much as I love him.
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It's just not the same without this name.
Faithful supporter of Squall Leonhart in SC2K5

Actually, am I the only one seeing a pic advantage for Mario if he and Samus both get their 8-bit sprites during their match (SMB1 v. Metroid 1)? I know it'll probably be their SMB3/SMW v. Super Metroid sprites if it comes down to it, but still.

That is, if by some crazy stroke of fate the sprite round wouldn't be the third round, but work with me here people.
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"i started playing mario brothers as luigi and threw the controller down in disgust in the middle of the game because he lacked character"--gokujont

I don't like the super close-up pics at all. Ceej could have picked any other theme, why this one? Did he get lazy all of a sudden? Half of these pics are going to look ugly as hell. There are too many good matches in the 2nd round that deserve great pics (Auron/Ganon, Bowser/Ryu, etc.).

I'm not looking forward to seeing Ganon and Auron's big mugs filling up the pic. It's not like those two are the most photogenic characters.
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MM are my INITIALS "There are only 10 kinds of people in this world, those that read binary and those that don't."

I don't think their match will feature sprites. It'll probably be the alternating "ownage" pictures for the Final Four.
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It's just not the same without this name.
Faithful supporter of Squall Leonhart in SC2K5

Here's how I rank the second round matches from most anticipated to not-so-exciting...

#1: Dante Sparda vs. Vincent Valentine
It's down to one of two questions: Is Vincent for real, or is Kerrigan simply fodder? Knowing that Dante's had weak performances against powerful characters (such as not breaking 40% on Crono in 2002), this could be the third time in four years the son of Sparda makes a second round exit.

#2: Knuckles the Echidna vs. Squall Leonhart
The only past stats I looked up for this was both of their performances against Solid Snake. Suprisingly, Knuckles did better, but that was 3 years ago when both characters faced him. If that doesn't convince you, consider this. Knuckles just beat Magus, who beat Ganondorf in 2003. Ganondorf beat Alucard in 2004, and Alucard is slightly weaker than Squall. Another victory for the echidna is quite possible here.

#3: Bowser Koopa vs. Ryu
Winner of this match takes the division. Both men got less impressive victories in round 1, both barely breaking 55% on their opponents. I got Bowser taking this one, but I'd love to be wrong here.

#4: Alucard Tepes vs. Sora
Is Alucard still as tough as ever, or will he become 0-3 against Square characters? Sora hasn't made much of a mark either. Victories over HK-47, Ryu Hayabusa, and Agent 47 aren't saying much.

#5: Ganondorf Dragmire vs. Auron
Is Auron stronger than Tidus? Will Zelda's delay affect Ganon's performance? Only time will tell.

#6: Solid Snake vs. Princess Zelda
I think Snake's got this one, but the question is, how much will Zelda get on him?

#7: Kirby vs. Tidus
Does the little pink guy have what it takes to defy the odds? Tidus came close to beating Ganondorf, who took down Alucard with ease, who took down Kirby in 2003. If Kirby's going to win, he's got a huge mountain to climb.

#8: Master Chief vs. Donkey Kong
It won't be as close as Frog/Chief was, but it'll be interesting to see how much the King of Swing can get on Master Chief.

#9: Samus Aran vs. Frog
This will be the first blowout that Frog endures in any contest, the question is, how much?

#10: Mega Man vs. Leon Kennedy
Mega Man's far from his 2002 performance, and even though he'll beat Leon with ease, it'll be interesting to see what Leon can do in round 2.

#11: Yoshi vs. Revolver Ocelot/Pacman winner
I think it'll be Yoshi/Ocelot, and after seeing both their performances against Bowser, I think Yoshi's got it in the bag.

#12: Tifa Lockheart vs. Luigi
Luigi failed to break 40% on Squall, I doubt he'll do any better against a woman who nearly equaled Cloud's performance against Vyse.

#13: Zero vs. Lloyd Irving
A man who got 48% on Sonic vs. a man who didn't break 55% on Wesker. Lloyd's bending over and kissing his ass goodbye.

#14: Sonic the Hedgehog vs. Diablo
Diablo only got around 35% on Ganondorf last Spring, and I know Sonic's stronger than Ganondorf. Goodbye Diablo.

#15: Tommy Vercetti vs. Crono
The two losses Vercetti had were by pretty bad margins. Crono's gonna break that record.

#16: Mario vs. Ness
Even without the bad picture, this has SFF written all over it. Mario wins with at least 70% of the vote.
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GameFAQs: Where Wesker, HK-47, Ryu Hayabusa, and Agent 47 lose to kids.
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