Tidus in 2002 is just weird...Claire Redfield is way higher than she ought to be, even when you adjust for WDF. However, his poll with Sonic was down during the Blue Blur's best time of the day, so keep that in mind.

However, considering the stats would seem to show Tidus > Knuckles > Magus, it's possible that he actually increased in 2004. Either that or Magus decreased, but Tidus did have reason to go up.
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Round 2: (3) Mag...Er...(6) Knuckles the Echidna

He's right on those numbers, definitely. Here's a list of the Top 20 games from the same list he got his numbers from.

1 PS2 GRAND THEFT AUTO:VICE ROCKSTAR GAMES (TAKE 2) Oct-02 6,610,595
2 PS2 GRAND THEFT: ANDREAS ROCKSTAR GAMES (TAKE 2) Nov-04 5,720,062
3 PS2 GRAND THEFT AUTO 3 ROCKSTAR GAMES (TAKE 2) Oct-01 5,559,333
4 XBX HALO MICROSOFT Nov-01 4,057,427
5 PS2 GRAN TURISMO 3:A-SPEC SONY COMPUTER ENT. (SONY) Jul-01 3,728,212
6 PS2 MADDEN NFL 2004 ELECTRONIC ARTS Aug-03 3,440,574
7 PS2 MADDEN NFL 2005 ELECTRONIC ARTS Aug-04 3,151,962
8 XBX HALO 2 MICROSOFT Nov-04 3,000,167
9 GCN SUPER SMASH BRO MELEE NINTENDO OF AMERICA Dec-01 2,814,425
10 PS2 MADDEN NFL 2003 ELECTRONIC ARTS Aug-02 2,727,248
11 PS2 NEED SPEED: UNDERGRND ELECTRONIC ARTS Nov-03 2,455,325
12 GBA SUPER MARIO ADVANCE 2 NINTENDO OF AMERICA Feb-02 2,454,874
13 PS2 KINGDOM HEARTS SQUARE ENIX INC (CORP) Sep-02 2,376,635
14 GBA POKEMON RUBY NINTENDO OF AMERICA Mar-03 2,358,883
15 PS2 MEDAL HONOR FRONTLINE ELECTRONIC ARTS May-02 2,291,959
16 PS2 FINAL FANTASY X SQUARE ENIX INC (CORP) Dec-01 2,270,819
17 GBA POKEMON SAPPHIRE NINTENDO OF AMERICA Mar-03 2,130,009
18 PS2 TONY HAWKS PRO SKATR3 ACTIVISION Oct-01 2,106,194
19 GBA NAMCO MUSEUM NAMCO Jun-01 2,101,210
20 PS2 SPIDER-MAN: THE MOVIE ACTIVISION Apr-02 2,096,132


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here's the top ten of that list:

1 PS2 GRAND THEFT AUTO:VICE ROCKSTAR GAMES (TAKE 2) Oct-02 6,610,595
2 PS2 GRAND THEFT: ANDREAS ROCKSTAR GAMES (TAKE 2) Nov-04 5,720,062
3 PS2 GRAND THEFT AUTO 3 ROCKSTAR GAMES (TAKE 2) Oct-01 5,559,333
4 XBX HALO MICROSOFT Nov-01 4,057,427
5 PS2 GRAN TURISMO 3:A-SPEC SONY COMPUTER ENT. (SONY) Jul-01 3,728,212
6 PS2 MADDEN NFL 2004 ELECTRONIC ARTS Aug-03 3,440,574
7 PS2 MADDEN NFL 2005 ELECTRONIC ARTS Aug-04 3,151,962
8 XBX HALO 2 MICROSOFT Nov-04 3,000,167
9 GCN SUPER SMASH BRO MELEE NINTENDO OF AMERICA Dec-01 2,814,425
10 PS2 MADDEN NFL 2003 ELECTRONIC ARTS Aug-02 2,727,248
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Cool, thanks guys.
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bah, beaten by eight seconds. and ten games.

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Mario Advance 2 outsold Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire?
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Squall Leonhart's Road to the Summer Contest 2005 Championship
Round 2: (3) Mag...Er...(6) Knuckles the Echidna

http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/8066/auron23pj.jpg

I really wish he could have gotten something like that for a picture. . .

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for those who believe sales = popularity:

12 GBA SUPER MARIO ADVANCE 2 NINTENDO OF AMERICA Feb-02 2,454,874
21 GBA MARIO KART: CIRCUIT NINTENDO OF AMERICA Aug-01 2,059,106
22 GBA SUPER MARIO ADVANCE NINTENDO OF AMERICA Jun-01 2,058,245
24 GCN SUPER MARIO SUNSHINE NINTENDO OF AMERICA Aug-02 2,005,175
27 GCN MARIO KART: DOUBLE NINTENDO OF AMERICA Nov-03 1,871,786
28 GBA MARIO BROS 3: MARIO 4 NINTENDO OF AMERICA Oct-03 1,775,022
80 GBA YOSHI'S ISLAND:MARIO3 NINTENDO OF AMERICA Sep-02 1,150,043
97 NDS SUPER MARIO 64 DS NINTENDO OF AMERICA Nov-04 1,004,092

vs.

66 GCN METROID PRIME NINTENDO OF AMERICA Nov-02 1,295,912

http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/8066/auron23pj.jpg

God FFX FMV's are so beautiful. And I expected a WW Ganondorf, for some reason, like his pic against Robotnik. I know Ganondorf isn't exactly attractive, but that's gotta be my favorite.

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http://saria.coolfreepage.com/images/tww/ganondorf.jpg

A face shot of Ganon there would have been his best picture, if you ask me.

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To the man whose spirit was so free it was bothersome... Kurosaki Ichigo, my sword has been broken by your freedom of spirit.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too.
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whoa, Ganon needs the Atkins treatment.
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Sorry this took so long to get up.

Score-Brackets-% Right
33-----41-------95.1219512
32-----203------85.2216749
31-----1142-----85.0262697
30-----2468-----79.0518639
29-----3806-----71.4923805
28-----4769-----65.0450828
27-----4831-----57.2138274
26-----4302-----49.8140400
25-----3419-----44.8084235
24-----2507-----39.6888712
23-----1742-----37.1412170
22-----1338-----33.5575486
21-----984------30.3861789
20-----699------27.8969957
19-----426------28.4037559
18-----305------28.5245902
17-----209------23.4449761
16-----149------22.1476510
15-----93-------20.4301075
14-----55-------12.7272727
13-----36-------13.8888889
12-----14-------21.4285714
11-----7--------14.2857143
10-----7--------0.0000000
9------11-------9.0909091
8------22-------4.5454545
7------27-------0.0000000
6------42-------2.3809524

Everybody with a score of 5 or less got the match wrong. The people near to top saw that it was an obvious pick and overwhelmingly choose Zero. However after the top few tiers, Zero support completely falls like lead leading to a very poor overall prediction percentage.

Three people fell off the Top 50 today. GuitarHero1001, ATSher03 and crossinganimal did not have Zero winning the match.
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"All dreams are but another reality. Never forget..."

So you know, transience, I dig the site in your sig. "Never Forget"...heh.
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Lewis Black: Namely as valued contributors to our re-election fund.

some of those pictures crack me up.
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holy hell, the board is being idiotic today.

prediction percentage: Samus with.. 79.45%.
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The vote totals in this match didn't end up looking to bad after all. Well at least when you consider that some people were calling samus a horrible vote drawer at the start of the match, and one of the two is from CT which is nutorious for being a low vote drawer.
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I figure that this well be a 55-45 affair in gannon's favour, but I'm not putting it past auron to pull out a win. I just don't expect it.
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I think Frog is a late vote-bringer; wasn't Frog/Riku bringin' in a lot larger percentage of its votes in the second half than the first half (at least in comparison with other matches)?
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Lewis Black: Namely as valued contributors to our re-election fund.

Samus with 88.74%...the exact same as Mario gettin' out of his four-pack, heh.
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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.

if that were true, wouldn't Frog be gaining? he's been sitting at 29.xx% since 07:00.
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83.72% will have Samus winning.
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Round 1: (0) Voters

19 GBA NAMCO MUSEUM NAMCO Jun-01 2,101,210

Wow, it's incredible to think how profitable that game must be, since I would imagine development costs are MUCH lower than every other game on the list. I didn't know those old-school comps sold so well.
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Aren't they so much cheaper too though? Seriously, I don't think they ever sell for more than $20...though if you sell that many with as low of development costs and advertising as games like that have, I'm sure a profit ain't too hard to come by.
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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.

Makes you wonder why more companies aren't releasing compilations (cough, Konami, cough). They could certainly net potential profits from their older games that way instead of just losing it to emulation.

As for the vote totals, maybe the distribution of votes has shifted now that school is in session. Perhaps a larger portion of the votes occur in the late afternoon now compared to previous matches.

I think companies are releasing too many compilations/ports/remakes, myself. it seems to be a good idea though if you look at the top 100 sales. there's just so many of them out there and not enough new good games.
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only about ten minutes now till the start of the gauntlet
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They're nice when they're in compilations and not trying to be sold as individual draws anymore (I'm looking at you, Nintendo, though Super Mario All-Stars was great). Sega and Capcom have made two awesome compilations in SMC and MM:AC, for example, and I know Namco always throws several games in there...that's the way I think it should be done more often.

Since Konami was mentioned...would anybody else be happy as hell if they did a Contra compilation?
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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.

Samus with 72.68% of the votes. I'd be surprized it its actually not lower than that.

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Squall: ...Flower.

a metal gear compilation would be desirable
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*votes = brackets <_<;

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Squall: ...Flower.

Contra would be cool, I admit. a Super Metroid remake would be cool too, if only to fix its control issues and bring it to a new audience. still, I'd rather have a new game than a ported game, unless the ported game was impossible to find or not released in NA. I mean, there's like six mario ports but no mario-exclusive GBA games. that's inexcusable.

and I mean platformers, not stuff like mario and luigi (though I really liked m&l)
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I'd go for a Super Metroid remake/port.

It would make it a lot easier for me to obtain, at least...

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Oh. My. God.
Did the PS2's light just change color...?!

anyone think that when we eventually get FFXII characters they ought to be decently strong?
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No. About as strong as FFIX.
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Next victim: Master Zero

No.

I just got off of WoW, and wow Snake got OWNED, MOTHER ****ER. Ceej, what the hell are you doing, seriously, GOD, it's find the worst pic available round isn't it?

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Shouldn't FFXII be to FFX as FFVI was to FFIV?
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whoa! no vote!
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XD


~RPGGamer~

What the ****? o_O
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-Toad in Super Mario Bros.

what the hell is going on here?
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Kilroy:There fate will be in each other's hands as they decide whether to share or to shaft

WTF

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a glitch in the matrix!
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XD
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I wonder how long it well be before it's fixed.
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He he he, awesome.
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I just got off of WoW, and wow Snake got OWNED, MOTHER ****ER. Ceej, what the hell are you doing, seriously, GOD, it's find the worst pic available round isn't it?

No because Zero would have this pic.

http://www.templegames.co.uk/Images/Products/Standard-Pack-Shot/13316.jpg

well now we know. the match is a draw
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