And he'll take down a ton of brackets with him.

Beautiful mental image... hahahaha... MC going down after getting slashed by Crono, and tons of brackets going down too... I expect Crono having much much less than 50% of the brackets behind him.

And I'm probably only going to stay up for Mario vs. Samus and the final, school causes me to have to sleep too early, and I can't stay up until 2 AM for a poll every night...
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I dunno, I think Chief might just be resistant to blowouts too. Why?

Well, my mentality is, because I know Master Chief always gets anti-voted, I'll vote him against pretty much anybody, just to help cancel out the hate he doesn't deserve nearly as much of. Even if I prefer his opponent. Maybe many Halo fans think like I do... I guess it all depends on how many actually know that Halo (X-Box) is hated around here.

Well, that was really just hypothetical... I've actually never preferred one of Chief's opponents to him. (I'm not really a huge MC fanboy or anything either... despite my sig... it's as much his opponents as it is him)
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Master Chief's path to the championship: Round 3: (2) Crono.
Halo 2 + 7 vote loss vs Frog = 7 vote win vs Crono

MC going down after getting slashed by Crono

Technically, Crono is the one getting slashed... Plasma Sword and all...
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And actually I expect Crono to have a decent amount of the brackets... he got around 40% vs Mario last year, and while Master Chief will have a good deal of brackets in round 3, I bet many will come from Master Chief over Zidane, Kefka, or Tommy Vercetti, me thinks.
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Master Chief's path to the championship: Round 3: (2) Crono.
Halo 2 + 7 vote loss vs Frog = 7 vote win vs Crono

Come on now, Crono has R*A*I*N*B*O*W power, MC's Energy Sword can't slice through that mother****er.
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Heh...Vivi's projected to beat Sora based on this match with something like 53%. Maybe Vivi did suffer SFF against Sephiroth, after all? (note that I wouldn't be confident at all in taking Vivi over Sora)

Heh, even if you put Snake at 37% on BL, Vivi's just barely above his unadjusted 2K4 level. So, even assuming Snake is at -that- level might be too low. Heck, I could see Zelda stronger than people think, too. I'll still be conservative and estimate Snake to be at 37%, I suppose.

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I would never take Vivi over Sora. hell, I'd have trouble taking him over Alucard. Sora just sucked today.
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I'd take Vivi over Alucard in a heartbeat. Alucard barely broke 55% against Kratos...I mean, Kratos isn't fodder, but...that's just not impressive.

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The DK match was good for him, I think. If you don't count that, he had the crushing of Crash.

erm, this contest? And the dk match was a disgrace, only salvaged by that he turned the second largest comeback, and first true largest successful comeback.
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we don't know where Kratos is - I think this topic underrates him a little. he did have one of the most successful games of the year, after all. Vivi/Alucard would be a tossup, I think, with Alucard having a slight advantage. I'm not sure on either of them.

anyway, I've gotta take a nap, so I'll take Snake with 63% of the brackets.
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I, too, would have difficulty seeing Vivi lose to Kratos. Not saying he'd beat Alucard, but it'd be close. I think any and all doubt that Snake has increased since last year has gone out of the window, but part of me wants to think this isn't ALL Snake.
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And I'm kinda surprised that this match is looking to hit 97,000 despite the slow start. I guess these are the after effects of school starting now.
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oh, I'd take Vivi over Kratos for sure. Alucard's another notch up though.

anyone got this division's x-stats? I'd love to see where Alucard and Vivi rank.. I'm sure Vivi is up higher due to Sora absolutely sucking today. this is Snake increasing for sure, but he's not 38% strong.
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I actually just checked the bracket to make sure tomorrow was Kirby/Bowser, because of the amount we've been talking, you'd think Mc/Crono was tomorrow.
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didn't you hear? Samus/Mario is happening for seven consecutive days.

okay, now I'm really going to bed. night.
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Sora would still beat Vivi handily... extremely handily.

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Extremely handily? Like Zelda handily or Sora over Alucard handily?
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Thing is, "peak" Snake—i.e., Snake with this picture—might be at 38+%. It wouldn't be too surprising I think.

In an actual match with Link or Cloud, with this picture (Link/Cloud in the background role, looking small, and with their head turned), it wouldn't be too shocking to see Snake approach somewhat close to 40%, I think.

Well, maybe against Link it would, if he's gone up again, care of The Boost™ this time.

If true, then that much hated picture he had against Zelda may indeed have hurt him; and thus Bowser won't do as much better than Zelda as he should (sadly).
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Meh, I don't think a picture affects him THAT much. This isn't some guy who relies on visual recognition. It's Solid Snake. The name is enough.
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On a side note... I just found a site that has soundtracks to a bunch of my favorite games available for download in mp3 format. I'm so happy! ^_^
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Phone-calls at one in the morning remind me of why I hate break-ups, and I'm not even involved in this one. =/


I'd be tempted to take Vivi over Sora, but I wouldn't ever be able to get myself to do it. I would take Vivi over Alucard though.
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Zebes Division stats

Samus Aran - 50.00%
Ganondorf - 40.34%
Auron - 37.03%
Yuna - 31.30%
Frog - 29.95%
Riku - 28.95%
Big Boss - 21.13%
Yuri Hyuga - 12.68%


Preliminary Gear Division stats

Solid Snake - 50.00%
Princess Zelda - 45.59%
Vivi Orunitia - 36.87%
Sora - 34.75%
Alucard - 31.02%
Kratos - 27.60%
Agent 47 - 20.34%
Manny Calavera - 15.91%

Vivi beats Sora with 52.87%, according to this.
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I'm in video game music bliss! I found the complete soundtracks to all the Square Games, SOTN, and more! I finally have the Piano version of Eyes on Me to learn how to play it!
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I'm assuming you're talking about Blue Laguna...
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Solid with 51.04% of the brackets behind him.
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Solid Snake with 57.57% of the brackets.
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Hmm... I think Snake will do a fairly impressive job with the bracket support here. Sora's bracket backing took a massive dive last round, and I can't imagine many people putting midcard badasses Alucard and Kratos over Mr. Badass himself. I say Snake with 60%.
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Nah, just Julia's Theme... I've been itching to play it on the piano.
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I mean, the name of the site. It's Blue Laguna, is it not?
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Yes. Why didn't I know of this any sooner???? I'm a HUGE vg music buff. I just never bothered to search the internet for mp3 versions of the songs I like.
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At the same time though, nearly 26% thought Vivi or Zelda would beat Solid Snake. I don't have a problem with just over 20% taking Alucard, Sora, or Kratos (...or Agent 47...) over him.
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Kirby, in perhaps the first case of "reverse SFF" for the win! Well I'm being optimistic, but to be honest I wouldn't be completely surprised. This one could actually be interesting, I think.

Snake with a little over 58%
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Master Chief's path to the championship: Round 3: (2) Crono.
Halo 2 + 7 vote loss vs Frog = 7 vote win vs Crono

I would assume most of that came from Zelda.

And I've known about Blue Laguna for a while. That site has just about all you could ask for in a lot of areas.
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Well, lookin' at 2k3, Lara/Zelda took about 43.5% of bracket-support from Mega Man; whether that's because Zelda (and Lara) are big bracket draws or Mega Man being a poor bracket draw, it's hard to tell. We've seen how poor of a bracket-draw Vivi is though, so I'll agree to that point...still kinda iffy though.
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Yeah, I see! I'm reminded why I love the ending of FF8 so much. The entire ending music was fantastic!
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Kirby 52.94% 18
Bowser 47.06% 16
TOTAL VOTES 34

Solid Snake had 58.76% of the brackets on his side to take his division.
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Kirby 50% 16
Bowser 50% 16
TOTAL VOTES 32

58.76% with Snake. Not bad at all.
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Board 8: Where people treat each other right.

Kirby 57.14% 4
Bowser 42.86% 3
TOTAL VOTES 7

Feh.
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Looks like I wasn't too far off, and Kirby is hangin' in there admirably.
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I have a feeling this is the closest it'll be...
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Board 8: Where people treat each other right.

Kirby 47.73% 21
Bowser 52.27% 23
TOTAL VOTES 44

Well, at least he's making Bowser work to pull away. Ryu let him walk all over him from the start.
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Devil Division Final: (5)Vincent Valentine

Kirby 50.28% 177
Bowser 49.72% 175
TOTAL VOTES 352

Kirbys winning?
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Wait...Kirby just came back and took the lead? Awesome!
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Devil Division Final: (5)Vincent Valentine

Kirby's keeping it neck and neck... Hell Yeah!!
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Master Chief's path to the championship: Round 3: (2) Crono.
Halo 2 + 7 vote loss vs Frog = 7 vote win vs Crono

Hmmm... surprisingly kickass start to this match.
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Board 8: Where people treat each other right.

So who will the day vote favor Kirby or Bowser?
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Bowser leads by 21 at the first freeze, but something tells me he'll have it blown wide open on the next update.
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Devil Division Final: (5)Vincent Valentine

Awful vote total. Not even 500 on the first update?
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Go Kirby! Seeing him in the elite eight would be badass.
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