You have to go all the way back to Summer 2004 to see a match that was a true nailbiter. Our closest match since then was Sonic/Mega I believe, and that one wound up being several hundred votes apart.



*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

It doesn't have to be a nail-biter to be a great match; Magus/Knuckles still owns anything that happened in 2k4.
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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.

ONE-WING ANGEL'D
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"What's going to happen to this Planet?"
"Who knows...That's up to you, I guess."

Knuckles/Magus was great.

Link/Cloud was fun, too. :P

Nothing, though, is as good as Squall/Luigi and Halo/StarCraft. In any year. ;)

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Warden: Talk! What is SeeD all about!?
Squall: ...Flower.

Board 8 yesterday: You'll see, Sephiroth will destroy Mario!
N00blets: NO WAY MRAIO PWNZ0RZ BISHIBOY

N00blets today: OMGWTF HOW IS SEPHIROVERRATED WINNIG!!!?!
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What online fan couldn't get behind Trevor Murdoch? I mean, finally, a wrestler with our physique! -Sean Carless

The funny thing is that even though Magus cut 1000 votes off of Knuckles' lead, he's still going down as the biggest bust we've ever seen in one of these things. He makes Gordon Freeman 2002 look like a winner.

~*ST*~
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Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best. Game. Ever." Contest
Just Got Owned By: Jman_gamerX8, King of Gurus. Congrats!

Nah, Tina Armstrong was a bigger bust than Gordon Freeman, if you catch my drift...
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"What's going to happen to this Planet?"
"Who knows...That's up to you, I guess."

lol *giggle giggle* he made boobiez referecez!

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Currently being bent over the couch by Jman and raped brutally.
Cheer up Emo kids.

Leon's so naughty.

~*ST*~
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Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best. Game. Ever." Contest
Just Got Owned By: Jman_gamerX8, King of Gurus. Congrats!

Heck, it's the main reason she won...
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"What's going to happen to this Planet?"
"Who knows...That's up to you, I guess."

The funny thing is that even though Magus cut 1000 votes off of Knuckles' lead, he's still going down as the biggest bust we've ever seen in one of these things.

MC cut more than double (maybe even triple) that against Frog, and the fact that he still lost only makes him a bigger bust. If anything, Magus is still going down as the biggest bust we've ever seen in one of these things despite only cutting 1,000 votes off. That's something.
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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.

Nothing will ever beat GF 2002. At least Magus lost to someone with some kind of strength. Gordon Freeman lost to someone who got 23% on pre-KH Aeris. Humiliating much?

Random fact: 2005 Tidus > 2004 Kirby. Not that I'm a sore loser or anything, but I guess that's the closest we can have to a consolation prize.
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What online fan couldn't get behind Trevor Murdoch? I mean, finally, a wrestler with our physique! -Sean Carless

Meh, comebacks > close matches

You know, I always thought was a smart guy, but he could have had a perfect bracket ages ago if he just called the winner of the matches 5 minutes into each match-up.

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Currently being bent over the couch by Jman and raped brutally.
Cheer up Emo kids.

I always thought was a smart guy

Compared to the visitors we're getting, this " " sure does look smart.

Seriously, other than 2002, I don't recall a match that had nearly as much whining as yesterday's. Not even SF2. Not even last year's Link/Cloud match.
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What online fan couldn't get behind Trevor Murdoch? I mean, finally, a wrestler with our physique! -Sean Carless

Nah, SF2 has it beat I think; that one went on for what felt like weeks (and it might have been...the whining lasted awhile).
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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.

sf2 :(

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Jman_gamerX8:Link::me:Jay Solano.

yesterday's whining wasn't that bad... it was no worse than Sonic losing to MM or a couple of other matches.

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Jman_gamerX8:Link::me:Jay Solano.

Maybe. Might have to do with us not being conditioned to having FF7 drones flooding the board in droves since the first off-season.
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What online fan couldn't get behind Trevor Murdoch? I mean, finally, a wrestler with our physique! -Sean Carless

yeah, I was rather used to people hating ff7 because it was popular and suddenly they all came out of the woodworks when AC came out. very strange.
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Jman_gamerX8:Link::me:Jay Solano.

-_-

I swear someone on this board hates me, I just got suspended.

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Explicit Content.
Cheer Up Emo Kids.

No, not when AC came out. When Link started clobbering Cloud with his day vote. The people who saw AC and were here before the match are people who like FF7, but don't splooge at the mere mention of Cloud. The people who barged in yesterday are those fabled idiots of legend who are unrivalled at creating black holes of ridiculousness and unintelligence. Why, I even saw one of them say he had always wanted to be Cloud. Not to be like Cloud, to BE Cloud.
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What online fan couldn't get behind Trevor Murdoch? I mean, finally, a wrestler with our physique! -Sean Carless

I splooge at the mere mention of Richard Simmons, does that make me a bad person?

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Explicit Content.
Cheer Up Emo Kids.

wow, that's funny. I usually just stick to the stats topic, so I didn't see what people were saying outside of here.
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Jman_gamerX8:Link::me:Jay Solano.

EC: In a word...maybe.
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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 swear someone on this board hates me, I just got suspended.

Why is it that everytime I lose my main, your's comes unwarned/out of purgatory, and when my main gets unwarned, your's gets suspended?
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Xenobi lost everything he owned in Katrina, works 60 hours a week, and still had time to own me!
*Guru winner's sig*

Because someone hates us so incredibly much that once they get one of us at least warned they take a little vacation for a few days then comes roaring back with a vengeance.

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Explicit Content.
Cheer Up Emo Kids.

I agree. The first post in this topic is actually in my top 5 oldest posts...
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Xenobi lost everything he owned in Katrina, works 60 hours a week, and still had time to own me!
I just got GURU'D by Jman_gamerX8!

tag

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Heroic Mario is sexually stimulated by being wrong.- Digital Pad

tag
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Pwned by Jman_gamerX8 in the Guru Contest.
Nominate Sub-Zero and The Prince of Persia for SC2k6

This match has been constant for the last 2 hours.
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17 have challenged Nintendo in the handheld market, 17 have failed. (see quote for list)

Since Transience completely messed up the X-Sts' calculations for Mario through Sonic, I'm going to have to start their rankings over from scratch. I also inserted a provisional value for Sephiroth (currently at 55.62%). I didn't change any mode of adjustment, though. (Okay, so this is just so that I don't lose track of that.)

3 Sephiroth (47.26)
4 Samus Aran 42.36
5 Mario Mario 41.95
6 Crono 38.72
7 Megaman 37.67
8 Sonic the Hedgehog 37.39
9 Solid Snake 35.9
10 Bowser 35.48
11 Vincent Valentine 34.55
12 Ganondorf Dragmire 34.18
13 Kirby 33.98
14 Zelda 32.73
15 Tifa Lockheart 32.60
16 Squall Leonhart 31.72
17 Auron 31.38
18 Zero 31.16
19 Luigi Mario 30.41
20 Master Chief 29.98
21 Dante Sparda 29.53
22 Donkey Kong 29.51
23 Knuckles the Echidna 29.31
24 Ryu (SF) 29.02
25 Yoshi 29.01
26 Sora 28.93
27 Janus "Magus" Zeal 28.81
28 Tidus 28.77
29 Leon Kennedy 26.7
30 Yuna 26.52
31 Vivi Ornitier 26.47
32 Alucard Tepes 25.83
33 Rikku 25.77
34 Frog 25.37
35 Riku 24.52
36 Chun-Li 24.2
37 Diablo 23.53
38 Ryu Hayabusa 23.06
39 Kratos (GoW) 22.98
40 Ness 22.71
41 Tommy Vercetti 22.58
42 Gordon Freeman 22.13
43 Kefka Palazzo 22.07
44 Sam Fisher 20.79
45 KOS-MOS 20.69
46 Carl Johnson 20.38
47 Kratos Aurion 20.35
48 Pac-Man 20.3
49 Revolver Ocelot 19.79
50 CATS 18.68
51 Conker 18.06
52 Zidane Tribal 18.03
53 Big Boss 17.91
54 Jin Kazama 17.84
55 Agent 47 16.94
56 Cecil Harvey 16.85
57 Terra Branford 16.83
58 Lloyd Irving 16.63
59 Joanna Dark 15.99
60 Geno 15.96
61 King of all Cosmos 15.8
62 Laharl 15.28
63 Albert Wesker 15.11
64 Vyse 14.3
65 Sarah Kerrigan 13.48
66 Manny Calavera 11.43
67 Yuri Hyuga 10.74
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What online fan couldn't get behind Trevor Murdoch? I mean, finally, a wrestler with our physique! -Sean Carless

I hope you all buy into those stats.

I dont.

Tifa, Kirby and Zelda over Squall, and Zero below him.


right.


KB

Well, I would take Tifa and Zelda over Squall, myself.

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“Damn. Jman_gamerX8 is insane -- he kicked my ass in the Guru Contest.”
“This guy are sick!”

Nintendo boost much? Tifa, a FF7 character, carrying some *GASP* strength?

You make as much sense as usual.
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What online fan couldn't get behind Trevor Murdoch? I mean, finally, a wrestler with our physique! -Sean Carless

I would take Tifa and Zelda over Squall as well... Especially next year with AC and TP behind them.

Looks like Vincent and Sephiroth are the only bright spots for Square this year, and that could quickly change if Link breaks Sephiroth apart tomorrow.
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SC2K5 Guru Contest: Where Jman_gamerX8 kicked my ass.

Oh, and by the way, no matter what you do Zero is below Squall, and Kirby is, in the very worst scenario, even with Squall. Zero disappointed against Hayabusa, Lloyd, AND Mario... I don't think that's a coincidence.
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What online fan couldn't get behind Trevor Murdoch? I mean, finally, a wrestler with our physique! -Sean Carless

So the Nintendo boost makes Luigi make up a whole 10% in one year?


i dont buy it.

you dont have to think I make sense, but apart from Crono over Mario in the finals... my bracket made quite a bit of sense.


KB

Mega Man's obviously on the decline...I'd love it, but Snake being that close to him this year isn't all because of his strength.
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*is Karma Hunter*

So the Nintendo boost makes Luigi make up a whole 10% in one year?

Keep in mind that we've never had an accurate read on Luigi. He was behind Link/Samus SFF in 2k3 and behind Link/Yoshi (and Yoshi/Luigi) SFF in 2k4.
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Pwned by Jman_gamerX8 in the Guru Contest.
Nominate Sub-Zero and The Prince of Persia for SC2k6

So the Nintendo boost makes Luigi make up a whole 10% in one year?


Luigi has been behind SFF every year. Combine that with the Ninty boost and you're set.
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*is Karma Hunter*

So the Nintendo boost makes Luigi make up a whole 10% in one year?

After blowing the everloving **** out of KOS-MOS when the two were expected to have an epic, and coming dangerously close to a Tifa that was hot off the most convincing massacre of round 1? I'd say so. Even then, both KOS-MOS and Vyse took sizeable drop.
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What online fan couldn't get behind Trevor Murdoch? I mean, finally, a wrestler with our physique! -Sean Carless

X-Stats are based on math rather than opinion. Shocker!
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I was owned by Jman_gamerX8 in the Guru Contest and all I got was this crappy sig.

Luigi has been behind SFF every year. Combine that with the Ninty boost and you're set.

Ohh so Squall SFF'D him in his 60/40 match in 2k3?


KB

Ohh so Squall SFF'D him in his 60/40 match in 2k3?

...

Link vs. Samus
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Pwned by Jman_gamerX8 in the Guru Contest.
Nominate Sub-Zero and The Prince of Persia for SC2k6

Ohh so Squall SFF'D him in his 60/40 match in 2k3?

Samus beat Squall 60/40, and Link SFF'd Samus. How can you not get this stuff?
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*is Karma Hunter*

Samus beat Squall 60/40, and Link SFF'd Samus. How can you not get this stuff?

There are other ways to base his stats around Squall without following Link/Samus


KB

I don't even believe Samus got SFFed, and I still think you completely refuse to understand on purpose. Fanboys these days...
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What online fan couldn't get behind Trevor Murdoch? I mean, finally, a wrestler with our physique! -Sean Carless

There are other ways to base his stats around Squall without following Link/Samus

Oh, you mean like Squall 2k2, when he got smashed by Snake pre-KH. Or Squall 2k4, when he was SFF'd by Cloud. Squall 2k5 is irrelevant, because it doesn't take Luigi's apparent boost into account.
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*is Karma Hunter*