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

Such as? A Cloud/Squall SFF-fest? A 2002 blowout back when KH didn't exist and bashing Squall was all the rage?
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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

How so? Squall was behind SFF when he faced Cloud.
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Pwned by Jman_gamerX8 in the Guru Contest.
Nominate Sub-Zero and The Prince of Persia for SC2k6

33 Rikku 25.77

LOL good one.
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I know what I'm getting into, I don't care if I die trying!-Peppita Rossetti

31 Vivi Ornitier 26.47
32 Alucard Tepes 25.83
33 Rikku 25.77

LOL even better one >_>
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Pwned by Jman_gamerX8 in the Guru Contest.
Nominate Sub-Zero and The Prince of Persia for SC2k6

How about knuckles.

He seems more stable.



But the idea here is that, the Nintedo wouldnt make up for 10%.




KB

How about knuckles.

He seems more stable.

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

How about knuckles.

He seems more stable.

LOL, if he is then Squall took a major dive.

But the idea here is that, the Nintedo wouldnt make up for 10%.

That's what the SFF is there for.
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*is Karma Hunter*

Even Knuckles isn't stable. He went from 26 to 29.
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What online fan couldn't get behind Trevor Murdoch? I mean, finally, a wrestler with our physique! -Sean Carless

You're delusional if you think Vivi would beat Rikku.
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I know what I'm getting into, I don't care if I die trying!-Peppita Rossetti

You're delusional if you think Vivi would beat Rikku.

Eh, I'd take him over her.
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*is Karma Hunter*

I would take Vivi over Rikku as well.

And The Plan > Rikku.
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Pwned by Jman_gamerX8 in the Guru Contest.
Nominate Sub-Zero and The Prince of Persia for SC2k6

I meant more stable than the SFF fest of Samus/ Link ect.

And what about the Adjusted stats. How is it that hard to guage where Luigi is with those.


KB

You're one to talk, you had Rikku beating RYU.

Besides, it's not like Vivi's out of reach anyway.
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What online fan couldn't get behind Trevor Murdoch? I mean, finally, a wrestler with our physique! -Sean Carless

Pfft, I had Rikku beating Tidus. Like I really thought that was going to happen.
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I know what I'm getting into, I don't care if I die trying!-Peppita Rossetti

If you take Rikku over Ryu, you should have taken her over Tidus. Besides, until what Kirby did to Bowser, it was looking like Tidus was going to end up weaker than Rikku.
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*is Karma Hunter*

This match are sick!!1

Oh well, I won't complain. I knew it was going to happen, and at least Mario has proven to be the 4th most powerful now. Great run, Mario. You've done awesome!

I wonder if it would make us bad people if we voted for Sephiroth tomorrow to try and keep Mario and the main bracket not look like absolute fodder?
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Vote for Mario, this year's contest champion!
This line reserved for winner of the 2k5 guru contest.

No it won't at all ^^^
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"Let's mosey"
Summer Contest Score: 152/160, Predicted Winner: Crono

I wonder if it would make us bad people if we voted for Sephiroth tomorrow to try and keep Mario and the main bracket not look like absolute fodder?

...No, not at all. In fact, it's encouraged that you vote Sephiroth tomorrow to make Mario look better. Yes, that's it! =p

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

Hey HM, what's with always posting with your alt now?
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"Let's mosey"
Summer Contest Score: 152/160, Predicted Winner: Crono

In fact, it's encouraged that you vote Sephiroth tomorrow to make Mario look better. Yes, that's it! =p


I don't really vote like that, if anyone smashed Mario, I'd just vote Link to make Sephiroth look worse.
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MARIOWNED

I'll be voting for Link because he is far superior to Sephiroth.
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Pwned by Jman_gamerX8 in the Guru Contest.
Nominate Sub-Zero and The Prince of Persia for SC2k6

62 Laharl 15.28
63 Albert Wesker 15.11
64 Vyse 14.3

I can officially say that something really crazy happened with Tifa/Vyse.

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Jman_gamerX8: It's over, BWA! I've got the high ground! I picked Mario over Samus!
BWA: NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

That... thing and amazing do not belong in the same sentence >.>

Master Hand > Kuja was amazing.
Master Hand > Kuja was amazing.
Master Hand > Kuja was amazing.
Master Hand > Kuja was amazing.
Master Hand > Kuja was amazing.

=P


I can officially say that something really crazy happened with Tifa/Vyse.

Nothing crazy happened in Cloud/Vyse, so the craziest thing that could have happened is that Vyse is non-existant to the new voter shift that apparently came. The match itself, by all means, should be fine.
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Much like priest-sex, Jman_gamerX8 molested the gurus by the hundreds.
Congrats, for your dominance has now been compared to priest-sex.

Pfft, I had Rikku beating Tidus.

*checks your bracket*

No, you didn't.

By the way, doesn't Vyse's number put him below Spring Ramirez?
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"What's going to happen to this Planet?"
"Who knows...That's up to you, I guess."

62 Laharl 15.28
63 Albert Wesker 15.11
64 Vyse 14.3

Such a sad day in Gamefaqs history.

*goes to play Skies of Arcadia for the 11th time*
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It's official: Princess Peach has bouncing breasts in Super Mario Strikers! http://www.livejournal.com/users/the_gel/14416.html

By the way, doesn't Vyse's number put him below Spring Ramirez?

I haven't checked for myself, but that sounds about right, actually...holy ****. Something's screwy there, and I don't have a clue what.
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Much like priest-sex, Jman_gamerX8 molested the gurus by the hundreds.
Congrats, for your dominance has now been compared to priest-sex.

Match 66: (0) Link vs. (0) Sephiroth

Past Performances

Link

Summer 2002
Beat Little Mac, 84.31% - 15.69%
Beat Strider Hiryu, 75.77% - 24.23%
Beat Jill Valentine, 72.63% - 27.37%
Beat Scorpion, 75.98% - 24.02%
Beat Sephiroth, 56.65% - 43.35%
Beat Mario Mario, 62.53% - 37.47%
Ranked: 1st

Summer 2003
Beat AiAi, 91.35% - 8.65%
Beat Fox McCloud, 82.47% - 17.53%
Beat Janus “Magus” Zeal, 65.07% - 34.93%
Beat Samus Aran, 62.06% - 37.94%
Lost to Cloud Strife, 48.39% - 51.61%
Ranked: 2nd

Summer 2004
Beat CATS, 87.83% - 12.17%
Beat Ganondorf, 87.90% - 12.10%
Beat Yoshi, 81.74% - 18.26%
Beat Crono, 62.82% - 37.18%
Beat Mega Man, 67.61% - 32.39%
Beat Cloud Strife, 51.82% - 48.18%
Ranked: 1st

Spring 2005
Did not attend
Ranked: N/A

Summer 2005
Beat Cloud Strife, 52.44% - 47.56%

Win - Lose Record
17-1

Sephiroth

Summer 2002
Beat Gabe Logan, 87.71% - 12.29%
Beat Crash Bandicoot, 81.52% - 18.48%
Beat Mega Man, 50.51% - 49.49%
Beat Samus Aran, 52.64% - 47.36%
Lost to Link, 43.35% - 56.65%
Ranked: 2nd

Summer 2003
Beat Raziel, 82.00% - 18.00%
Beat Max Payne, 82.67% - 17.33%
Beat Alucard Tepes, 72.28% - 27.72%
Beat Mario Mario, 61.60% - 38.40%
Beat Mega Man, 61.18% - 38.82%
Lost to Cloud Strife, 48.11% - 51.89%
Ranked: 3rd

Summer 2004
Beat Sly Cooper, 86.37% - 13.63%
Beat Vivi Ornitier, 70.25% - 29.75%
Beat Auron, 67.70% - 32.30%
Lost to Cloud Strife, 44.00% - 56.00%
Ranked: 3rd

Spring 2005
Beat Ramirez, 83.70% - 16.30%
Beat Vergil, 78.81% - 21.19%
Beat Liquid Snake, 75.92% - 24.08%
Beat Bowser, 59.55% - 40.45%
Beat Ganondorf, 58.17% - 41.83%
Ranked: 1st

Summer 2005
Beat Mario Mario, 56.00% - 44.00% (estimate)

Win - Lose Record
18-3

Analysis

Now this is the final match. I’ve been doing this for 66 days and now it’s over. After this analysis I’ll take a little break before doing another big project for the board. Link beat Cloud last round so Link shouldn’t have much of a problem here since Cloud has beaten Sephiroth twice before. It would be nice to see what these characters get against each other before SFF though.

Link may not have done as well as I thought he would, but he still beat Cloud by more than he did last year so it does looks like Link may have gotten stronger. Sephiroth is easily taking care of Mario as of now and I don’t think Clinkeroth won’t be in danger until Mario 128 or Chrono Trigger 2 comes out.

Like I said this match is for Link to win. As much as I would like to see board 8, self-destruct with Sephiroth winning, it won’t happen. Sephiroth is one of those characters that won’t be defeated by any character from outside of Clinkeroth, but he himself can’t defeat a member of Clinkeroth. The only question is by how much he will get beaten up. Since Sephiroth hates he could literally get anything on Link. With his performance today though I think he’s gone back up to his 2k3 numbers.

Some people wanted Cloud and Link to verse in the finals, but then we would’ve only had one debatable match instead of two debatable matches. Nothing may stop Link once TP is out, but keeping some kind of ToC may make the main bracket much more interesting. This is it for analyses see you next contest.

charmander6000’s Bracket: Link over SC2k5 Winner

charmander6000’s Prediction: Link wins, 54.24% - 45.76%

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

There's been talk for an All Female Contest. I think the females in that contest would be stronger than the villains. Here's all the female characters that's been to the summer contest before (hope I don't miss any)

Morrigan Aensland
Aya Brea
Lara Croft
Kasumi
Aeris
Tina Armstrong
Jill Valentine
Claire Redfield
Samus Aran
Ms. Pac-Man
Ulala
KOS-MOS
Yuna
Zelda
Joanna Dark
Chun-Li
Rikku
Terra Branford
Sarah Kerrigan
Tifa Lockheart

That's 20 characters I can name off the top of my head that were in the contest and we still have many characters such as Peach, Yuffie, Kari and varrious fighters. We could easily have a 32 character bracket and can even make it 64, but it would have to many fighters in it.
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17 have challenged Nintendo in the handheld market, 17 have failed. (see quote for list)

You know, I'll be interested in seeing how Sephiroth handles Link's day vote. He held his ground against Mario very well.
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"What's going to happen to this Planet?"
"Who knows...That's up to you, I guess."

Tournament of Champions Match 66 – Link vs. Sephiroth
…

Link

Yay

Sephiroth

Boo

Here’s a boring, lame analysis for a boring, lame final match. Link managed to beat Cloud, and Sephiroth managed to crush Mario. Now, Link > Cloud > Sephiroth, so if you can manage to rub two brain cells together, you’d figure out that Link will beat Sephiroth comfortably.

Take that Sephiroth fanboys! (All 4 of you!)

Moltar’s Bracket Says: Link will win

Moltar’s Prediction is: Link: 56% - Sephiroth: 44%



Soul’s Analysis

Link defeated Cloud: 52.44% - 47.56%

Sephiroth defeated Mario: N/A at this time

Well, what an unexpected final...

We all know Link is going to win this match. Sephiroth is a lot weaker then Cloud. Link defeated Cloud. Would you take Sephiroth > Cloud?

Since this analysis will look really, really short, and since this is the last match, might as well do something about it. OMG, here comes Soul's favorites of the contest!!

Favorite Match: Sonic Vs. Mega Man

This is my favorite match because I was trying to hype it since the beginning. I continually said that Sonic was going to beat Mega Man, or at least come very close in doing so. The first topic was filled with "No, he isn't". Of course, that was changed during the second topic. Instead, I got a barrage of people actually agreeing with me. Reason being was Sonic > Diablo. I created the third topic somewhat before the fourth round (around the time that Sonic beat Tifa). Like the first topic, people believed that Sonic had no chance. Well, those same people were scared ****less when Sonic was cutting away at MM's lead all day during that match. I thought he was going to overtake him, but Sonic's goal to win fell short. It was still an excellent, down to the wire match between two of the contest's strongest characters though, and despite the winner, this match was all that I could have asked for.

Favorite Upset: Knuckles Vs. Magus

Yes, it's always great to see an out-of-nowhere upset. It's even better to see the character responsible for this upset happens to be your favorite character. Because of this match, all sins from the past were forgiven, in my mind. Whenever I think that "this contest lost all credibility" when one of my favorites lost, I'll always remind myself of this outcome.

Favorite Division: Dream Division

Kirby beating a random FF character started off what would become my favorite division. Yes, I dislike the FF series and it's characters. Seeing them get eliminated was very pleasing, to say the least. With that said, I was hoping that Tidus would defeat KoaC, because I hate Katamari Damacy more then FF. Seeing Tidus getting absolutely killed against Kirby was hilarious as well. Of course, Bowser winning his four-pack was great as well, since he is one of my favorite characters. Can't forget Bowser actually winning. What was even better then all of that was Bowser barely losing to Snake. That was possibly the best outcome I could have hoped for.

Favorite Surprise: Donkey Kong

Before the DK/MC match, I decided to make a rather out-of-this-world pick when I chose DK over MC. When I woke up the following day, I saw DK leading by 1000 votes. This shocked the hell out of me. Sure, I was thinking the upset could have happened, but I also thought that Knuckles could win the entire contest as well. It was an amazing sight to see, basically. Of course, being Donkey Kong, he went on to lose to Chief. But still, those few hours was amazing to me.


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I can't see why kids love CTC, but I can see that Jman_gamerX8 owns all gurus.
Seph vs. Mario - Bracket: Mario - Vote: Mario (132/200)

This contest has been my favorite. The best possible winner (Mario), great upsets (Knux > Magus), 50/50 matches (MM Vs. Sonic), and Link winning the ToC. Hope next year's contest can be just as great.

MY FINAL PREDICTION: Link wins with 90% of the vote. Meh, why not?


Inviso’s Analysis

I still don’t feel like writing a long analysis on the matches, especially since this one is so simple after the first match of the Tournament of Champions. First off, Sephiroth is, has been, and will always be the third strongest character in these contests, right behind Cloud, and yes, you guessed it, Link. Link has been number 1 twice, and was perhaps only a loser in 2003 because of such a crappy match pic, from Wind Waker, against Cloud. Link BEAT Cloud for the second time this year, and Cloud is the MAIN character from Final Fantasy VII. Sephiroth will always be the villain, not on Cloud’s level. He hasn’t even won a real tournament before, but only got into the ToC by a villains contest where he had no real competition. Link beat Cloud, so he will beat Sephiroth, AGAIN, by even more.

My Bracket: Link
My Vote: Link
My Prediction: Link with 55.89%



Vlado’s Analysis

And so, the time has come for the Summer Contest 2005's last match. It will be a boring one, but it seems that, as soon as Link keeps paticipating, we'll be treated to that. Cloud's loss to him was an utter disppointment, though it was quite sweet when he took the lead at one point and even started building a lead... Too bad it didn't last. Well, he's now facing Sephiroth, who disposed of Mario in a nice fashion, proving that still no one can touch the big three. Not even the Nintendo boost helped Mario do much against the much stronger villain contest winner. But, the win over Mario shouldn't fool anyone. Sephiroth simply has no chance against Link. The most popular Nintendo character on GameFAQs is simply way ahead of all others.

Link's win over Cloud decided the Tournament of Champions. It was clear ever since the bracket was announced that the winner in that match would take the title. Now, he'll face Sephiroth and enjoy the experience of defeating BOTH the FFVII stars in the same tournament... Something he will achieve for the first time. Despite Sephiroth's win over Mario, the last match will only confirm the Nintendo dominance this summer. Well, at least Sephiroth didn't lose against the plumber, so there's still some hope for GameFAQs, after all. Now if only Link could lost another match at sometime soon... Yeah, like that could happen with Twilight Princess coming next year.

Anyway, what could make this match very entertaining would be Sephiroth doing better than Cloud. That would be quite funny and the X-Stats would be a bit messed up, as the two FFVII powerhouses would switch places. It's the final, after all, so I think Sephiroth can indeed achieve that goal. Sure, it's not very likely, but it could happen. This summer, logic has played very little role in the contest, I don't see why it should start on its very last day.

Predicted percentage: Link with 52.32%.

I must also say that I had a lot of fun writing these predictions all contest and I got as many as 10 out of the 65 matches so far the closest. Not terribly bad for a start, was it? Too bad that neither of Inviso and me could win it. Congrats to Soul for his victory! I want to thank jkmill550, who was my only supporter in this little contest of ours. Well, guess what, I had one more than everyone else involved. Or at least the others' weren't as loud. I'll be looking forward to writing for the next contest, if, of course, Moltar decides that I'm worthy of being kept on the crew.

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I can't see why kids love CTC, but I can see that Jman_gamerX8 owns all gurus.
Seph vs. Mario - Bracket: Mario - Vote: Mario (132/200)

That's 20 characters I can name off the top of my head that were in the contest and we still have many characters such as Peach, Yuffie, Kari and varrious fighters. We could easily have a 32 character bracket and can even make it 64, but it would have to many fighters in it.

Too many fighters, feh, these contests have too many RPG characters and nobody complains >.> But seriously, I agree that the overall field would be stronger than the villians field.

Ah, our final analyses are out of the way...good show by all, even Vlado. Note to self: I should join up next year.
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Much like priest-sex, Jman_gamerX8 molested the gurus by the hundreds.
Congrats, for your dominance has now been compared to priest-sex.

I want in, too!
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"What's going to happen to this Planet?"
"Who knows...That's up to you, I guess."

Leonhart, with your biased crazy-talk like Squall > Magus, you'd be ignored by people who truly know what they're talking about, like Ulti. =P
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Much like priest-sex, Jman_gamerX8 molested gurus by the hundreds.
Congrats, for your dominance has now been compared to priest-sex.

Heh heh heh. True enough.
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"What's going to happen to this Planet?"
"Who knows...That's up to you, I guess."

If you don't get accepted from MM you can always do one yourself.
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17 have challenged Nintendo in the handheld market, 17 have failed. (see quote for list)

There's been talk for an All Female Contest. I think the females in that contest would be stronger than the villains.

heh, i was one of the first guys to predict that next spring we will have a Female Contest. and i also agree that they would be stronger and more interesting than the Villain Contest. after AC is in full swing, Tifa and Aeris could make a charge at Samus, or at least each other. that alone would be more interesting than the Villain Contest.

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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..."

Looks like this match is going to break 115k.

Tomorrow's match should be inbetween.
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17 have challenged Nintendo in the handheld market, 17 have failed. (see quote for list)

good idea charmander *thumbs up* *might write his own analysis next year, even though no one will hear my rants on how i think sonic should be in the final 4*
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*sigh* sonic's never going to be in the final 4 -_-

Out of curiousity, what topic-number were we on when the bracket was released, which one were we on when the contest actually started? I'm thinkin' we've actually made it to 100 topics during the contest itself, not even including post-bracket-but-pre-contest topics.
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Much like priest-sex, Jman_gamerX8 molested gurus by the hundreds.
Congrats, for your dominance has now been compared to priest-sex.

I really want another game contest this Spring. The game contest was so good.

Or Games vs Characters... heheh.
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Raiden fact of the contest: Jman_gamerX8 puts not only Lopen's bracket making skills to shame, but also Raiden's... unheard of!

I messed them up?

*goes to look*

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Jman_gamerX8:Link::me:Jay Solano.

whoa.. what the hell did I do..

sorry about that, everyone. I am clearly an idiot.

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Jman_gamerX8:Link::me:Jay Solano.

Break 56% Sephiroth!

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

So, how 'bout that Midna, eh? I can't believe that all this Female Contest discussion is happening without any mention of her. She'd definitely be top 5 material, and if she's good enough, she might even be in contention for the championship. She's just that awesome.
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Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

...

Yeah, except I cannot agree with that at all. Hell, just thinking that is probably enough to make my physically ill.

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

As current 9th place, and moving on up, I think I am a worthy candidate for next year's Analysis Crew =p
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ertyu.ytmnd.com (yes, it's him!)
"i dont live with my mom any more i have my own place now" - ertyu

And if we're talking about running an "Best. Female. Ever." in the spring, it isn't as though Twilight Princess would be guaranteed to be out by the time we started. At the earliest, April 1st is the date.

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

Man, I can't wait for this phase to be over. Go play a good RPG, like Valkyrie Profile, or something.
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Congrats to Jman_gamerX8, who pwned all the Gurus in SC2k5!