*Wakes up*

Crono is leading, but Mega Man is coming back.

Mega Man has all day to comeback and build a lead for the night vote.
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17 have challenged Nintendo in the handheld market, 17 have failed. (see quote for list)

crono-mario final
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My mother's my sister!- Random Ped, GTA 3

Mario ftw
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What a 42 carat plonker you really are~del boy only fools and horses

15 votes for Crono.

Nothign special combared to Megaman's 44.

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hmmm.... any guesses on who the character most likely to be stable on this side of the bracket is? Squall, maybe?
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Squall is a good guess.

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Why are you guys trying to adjust the x-st. Look what it did to us this year. I say leave them alone because 2k3 data doesn't stay the same over the years.
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17 have challenged Nintendo in the handheld market, 17 have failed. (see quote for list)

There goes the neighberhood.
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Why not adjust them? I mean even if they aren't all that accurate, it's not like as many people are going to put as much faith in them as previous years.

FTW @ Crono.

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by the way if you were to add up every vote total match which character has reciveved the most votes in gamefaqs history cloud/link? i say link he had one more match than cloud but sephiroth could have caught up with the spring contest
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What a 42 carat plonker you really are~del boy only fools and horses

Why is Crono still trying to get a lead.

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17 have challenged Nintendo in the handheld market, 17 have failed. (see quote for list)

Votes dropped off in that update. ALL THE MEGAMAN VOTERS WENT TO CHURCH.
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Uh oh, they started moving their legs back and forth while standing in place. You're about to fight aren't you? - My friend watching me play FFT

my only problem with Squall is that he's based off Vincent this year, who may or may not have gotten some AC love vs. Crono.

anyway, assuming 2k3 Squall = 2k5 Squall and 2k3 Snake = 2k5 Snake (the two characters who have seemed the most stable this year to me), Mario would get 57.72% on Crono. blah.
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Clearly the most constant is....

Laharl.
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Uh oh, they started moving their legs back and forth while standing in place. You're about to fight aren't you? - My friend watching me play FFT

Why not adjust them? I mean even if they aren't all that accurate, it's not like as many people are going to put as much faith in them as previous years.

Sure you can do them, but don't go overboard trying to adjust KOS-MOS, Ryu or Vyse because they don't look right.
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17 have challenged Nintendo in the handheld market, 17 have failed. (see quote for list)

I agree.

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If Crono keeps gaining this may be over.
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17 have challenged Nintendo in the handheld market, 17 have failed. (see quote for list)

Geez Crono.

NICE TRY MEGAMAN.
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Uh oh, they started moving their legs back and forth while standing in place. You're about to fight aren't you? - My friend watching me play FFT

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON??!

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there's nothing wrong with playing with numbers.
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wow, go Crono. this match isn't over unless Crono consistently gains throughout the day, like numerous updates in a row. you guys see a 30 vote gain and think the match is over.
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Why not adjust them? I mean even if they aren't all that accurate, it's not like as many people are going to put as much faith in them as previous years.

Because it's hard to gauge how much to adjust. Although it's not difficult to manually adjust the entire Zebes division up a few points to move people into the right ballparks, which park depending on entirely how much SFF you think there was. The best thing would be to go with an unadjusted list and have a script where you can input what you think the result of a SFF-affected match would be without the SFF, and have it calculate from there.

And it's still perfectly OK to use the stats, assuming you rely on your own judgment as to how much SFF there is in certain matches, and you don't assume that they're going to be correct when they come up with close results. The stats are never going to tell you the result of, say, Kirby/Dante with 100% certainty, and they're not intended to. That's where your judgment comes in. But it'd be safe to use them to call something like Snake/Fisher for example, if you knew nothing and couldn't see that as obvious in the first place.

And as an aside, we can do with less of those 10 minute 70 vote swings to Crono, and more of those 5 minute 44 vote swings to Mega Man.
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Jon Thomson - MARIO, Samus, SOLID SNAKE, Bowser, CRONO, Squall, Sonic, MEGA MAN

Why not adjust them? I mean even if they aren't all that accurate, it's not like as many people are going to put as much faith in them as previous years.

Adjusting is the reason no one picked Knuckles to beat Magus in the BOP or Guru. Basically, the consensus of veteran contest analyzers. Do we really want something like that to happen again? :-(

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there's nothing wrong with playing with numbers.

Of course there isn't, but saying that they are right is a different problem.
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17 have challenged Nintendo in the handheld market, 17 have failed. (see quote for list)

Sure you can do them, but don't go overboard trying to adjust KOS-MOS, Ryu or Vyse because they don't look right.

That's right. The reason for two of those drops are perfectly obvious, and Bowser's simply that much better than Ryu. Fact.
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Jon Thomson - MARIO, Samus, SOLID SNAKE, Bowser, CRONO, Squall, Sonic, MEGA MAN

do you make a bracket based 100% on the stats? I don't.

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Down 21 :-)

Go, Mega Man! Knock Square's block off!
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Does anyone think Crono has a chance? Mario beat Snake with 57.5%, Crono is struggling with Megaman.

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I think Crono will do decently, like better than Snake did. I don't think he has much of a chance at winning, but he has a better chance than anyone else.
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Does anyone think Crono has a chance? Mario beat Snake with 57.5%, Crono is struggling with Megaman.

There's a chance, but it'll most likely be like Mario/Crono III, but for Mario.
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17 have challenged Nintendo in the handheld market, 17 have failed. (see quote for list)

Actually, Mario Vs Crono IV
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MARIOWNED

Mega Man needs 4 votes an update to catch up.
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17 have challenged Nintendo in the handheld market, 17 have failed. (see quote for list)

bah. i really hate this busy time of year at work. i have to work today, too. working in construction on a SUNDAY! bah. figures that i keep missing these good matches, too.

for today, it looks like Megaman is gonna keep it interesting. the updates seem very sporadic for the past hour. and seeing how i don't care for Crono at all, i'm cheering for Megaman for the comeback, here. go, Blue Bomber!!

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Actually, Mario Vs Crono IV

No that's this contest, I'm talking about III.
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17 have challenged Nintendo in the handheld market, 17 have failed. (see quote for list)

Mega Man needs 4 votes an update to catch up.

Let's see, Factor in Crono getting waker over the course of the day, factor in Megaman being good with the day and night vote, carry the three...

Conclusion: Crono had better not get too confident.

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Crono is the best oldsquare character during the day vote.

He's not that bad.
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17 have challenged Nintendo in the handheld market, 17 have failed. (see quote for list)

Unless of course he continues to score 34 vote updates. -_-

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The 870 barrier.
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17 have challenged Nintendo in the handheld market, 17 have failed. (see quote for list)

Where are these random updeates comign from? Strange.

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I'm calling it now: There' a small amount of Crono cheating, enough to put Megaman over the top.

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Magus screwed my bracket over. Yay!

If the cheator keeps doing it and as long no one cheats a lot for Mega Man.
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17 have challenged Nintendo in the handheld market, 17 have failed. (see quote for list)

yo that 280 vote update does look strange indeed
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Ifnkovhgroghprm and Jay Solano for Sc2k6

it's 10am. people are waking up.
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2 280 updates in a row.

cool isn't it?
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17 have challenged Nintendo in the handheld market, 17 have failed. (see quote for list)

Not when it's Crono who's getting the votes.
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MARIOWNED

Crono only gained 3 votes that update.
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17 have challenged Nintendo in the handheld market, 17 have failed. (see quote for list)

Crono's managing to survive the morning vote....cool.
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RIP Samus: Mario, you better take down Seph.
Crono vs. Mega Man - Bracket: Crono - Vote: Crono (108/144)

mega man is increasing like mad
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Ifnkovhgroghprm and Jay Solano for Sc2k6

Mega Man took back 1 vote.
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17 have challenged Nintendo in the handheld market, 17 have failed. (see quote for list)

Watching your dreams of a comeback shatter as your 3rd is set back to where he was 2 and half hours ago is very painful.

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