Here's my 2006 contest wish list (yeah, 5 days late...):
- CATS winning a match (preferably against Gordon Freeman)
- Aeris returning to the summer contest
- Somebody beating Link (okay, realistically that means Cloud beating Link)
- A good spring contest
- At least one suspenseful match between top tier characters
- Some kind of surprising results
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Nominate Aeris for SC2k6.

my 2006 contest wish list:

GAME CONTEST

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xyzzy

But Freeman did well on Leon, Karma Hunter. Kefka lost to VERCETTI! <_< however Kefka would use oldschool hax and win to barely beat GFNW.
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- CATS winning a match (preferably against Gordon Freeman)

CATS will win, but not against GF.

- Aeris returning to the summer contest

She will, as a 6 seed or an 11 seed.

- Somebody beating Link (okay, realistically that means Cloud beating Link)

Sephiroth will beat Link if he gets the chance. <________<

- A good spring contest

It'll be another Games one where Starcraft is exposed and the Super Seven is broken.

- At least one suspenseful match between top tier characters

Mario/Crono will be rekindled with a fury.

- Some kind of surprising results

See above, also Solid Snake will win the contest and yes I've been talking out of my ass.

ooh, we do get a PSP poll - I guess these are going in alphabetical order. it's obviously Lumines vs. GTA, with GTA likely to cruise to an easy victory.
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xyzzy

No Metal Gear Acid? Hmmm.
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Serious Reminder: Nominate Jay Solano in 2k6.
Why? He floats like a butterfly and stings like a...butterfly. Can't match grace like that.

1 - Final Fantasy Tactics
2 - Disgaea: Hour of Darkness
3 - Super Smash Brothers Melee
4 - Final Fantasy 7
5 - Tales of Symphonia
6 - Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
7 - The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
8 - Final Fantasy 6
9 - Starcraft: Brood War
10 - Super Smash Brothers
11 - Metal Gear Solid
12 - Super Mario Brothers 3
13 - Metroid Prime
14 - Chrono Trigger
15 - Super Mario 64
16 - Kingdom Hearts
17 - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
18 - Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
19 - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
20 - Final Fantasy 4
21 - Final Fantasy 9
22 - Super Metroid
23 - Final Fantasy X
24 - Diablo
25 - Super Mario RPG: The Legend of the Seven Stars
26 - Goldeneye
27 - The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
28 - Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction
29 - Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
30 - Crystalis
31 - Star Fox 64
32 - Fire Emblem: The Blazing Sword
33 - Perfect Dark
34 - EarthBound
35 - Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
36 - Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
37 - The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
38 - Guardian Legend
39 - Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
40 - Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne
41 - Tecmo Super Bowl
42 - The Legend of Zelda
43 - Madden 2004
44 - Super Mario World
45 - Metroid: Zero Mission
46 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game
47 - Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
48 - Warcraft II
49 - Earthworm Jim
50 - La Pucelle: Tactics

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Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best. Game. Ever." Contest
Currently Playing: Dragon Warrior, Deus Ex, Perfect Dark, FFTA

Congratulations on another successful 407-post, Ulti.
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Serious Reminder: Nominate Jay Solano in 2k6.
Why? He floats like a butterfly and stings like a...butterfly. Can't match grace like that.

50 - track and field
49 - tales of symphonia
48 - zoop
47 - super mario kart
46 - ssbm
45 - zelda: link to the past
44 - super mario world
43 - dragon quest 8
42 - zelda 1
41 - chrono cross
40 - arkanoid
39 - dragon's lair
38 - katamari damacy
37 - tecmo bowl
36 - disgaea: hour of darkness
35 - mega man 3
34 - contra
33 - ff6
32 - mike tyson's punch-out!
31 - warioware, inc.
30 - castlevania: aria of sorrow
29 - actraiser
28 - dragon warrior 3
27 - metroid fusion
26 - tactics ogre: let us cling together
25 - mega man 2
24 - crystalis
23 - ff7
22 - zork
21 - chrono trigger
20 - xenosaga episode I
19 - xenosaga episode II
18 - we love katamari
17 - shadow hearts: from the new world
16 - suikoden
15 - street fighter 2 turbo
14 - tales of eternia
13 - tetris
12 - ff10
11 - uniracers
10 - lode runner: the legend returns
09 - shadow hearts 2
08 - ff9
07 - ff4
06 - ff1
05 - f-zero gx
04 - shadow hearts
03 - xenogears
02 - super metroid
01 - metroid: zero mission

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xyzzy

An interesting perspective on CJ/Pac: the unadjusted stats show CJ getting 49.55% on Pac-Man. Now, from there, where do you think there was more SFF: Ness/Mario, or the combination of Mega Man/Yoshi and Yoshi/Pac-Man?
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Serious Reminder: Nominate Jay Solano in 2k6.
Why? He floats like a butterfly and stings like a...butterfly. Can't match grace like that.

the latter. Ness got hit hard, but Pac got double-SFFed.

I don't think stats would really help in that match, though - Pac-man is a weird bastard. I hesitate to assign a value to him.

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xyzzy

Am I the only one shocked by Lumine's performance? I was honestly expecting a performance in the neighborhood of 80% from Liberty City Stories, especially with no Metal Gear Acid.
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"Heh, heh. The wind. . .it is blowing."--Ganondorf Dragmire

Nah, I thought Lumines would do well. Dunno what's up with MGA not being on there, as well as DMC3 not being on the PS2 poll.

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Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best. Game. Ever." Contest
Currently Playing: Dragon Warrior, Deus Ex, Perfect Dark, FFTA

I would take Pac-Man over both CJ and Vercetti
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"I was trying to escape. Obviously, it didn't work." - President Bush

It'd honestly be a very difficult choice, especially due to the large fall Vercetti took with the release of SA. (At least I assume that's the reason.) Decidedly, Pac-Man has some more bracket breaking potential if he just gets the right draw.

In other news, the initial post for the contest's nomination phase is ready... I'll put it up later this morning.
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Y'know, a girl should really consider a change of career when getting shot out of a mass driver at hypersonic speeds seems mundane.
-Samus Aran (M''')

MGA not being on there is a crime. What the heck is with CJC and not putting MG games on the end of the year polls? First MGS3 now this...

My unpopular opinions... depends on what you'd call unpopular. If you mean unpopular by mainstream standards:
Halo is among the most repetitive games ever made
All of the GTA games are horrible
FPS's in general are overrated

If you mean unpopular by GFAQs standards:
Fire Emblem is a much better RPG series than Final Fantasy
Fire Emblem 5 is among the hardest (not to mention I think it's the best) game ever made
MGS3 doesn't get enough credit for being as great a game as it is
The Xbox360 is probably the biggest waste of money ever on the market right now
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14-5 (6-0), 55GF, 22GA, Skyline conference champs, first and only NCAA tournament bid, go 1999 Valiants!!

The Xbox360 is probably the biggest waste of money ever on the market right now

That's an unpopular opinion on GameFAQs? I almost thought it was mandatory to register.
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Serious Reminder: Nominate Jay Solano in 2k6.
Why? He floats like a butterfly and stings like a...butterfly. Can't match grace like that.

[We need] A good spring contest
Sp2K5 was a pretty good contest for only 32 contestants, barring the matches involving characters from earlier contests (which meant crappy semi-final/finals). Sp2K4's Division 128 was the best division in any contest EVER, though the rest kinda stunk for the most part. So...I guess neither of them were FULLY good, but the only contest that was close to being good across the board was SC2K2, in my opinion.

At least one suspenseful match between top tier characters.
Let's hope it happens...SC2K4 lacked them, but SC2K5 did have a couple (but my no means "epic").

Some kind of surprising results
SC2K4 was really the only contest that lacked in that, but all others have...not a lot to worry here. But, I'd prefer surprising results involving the Noble Nine. -_-

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So...what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Fire Emblem 5 is among the hardest (not to mention I think it's the best) game ever made

Heh, I've heard some of the hardcore RPGers (like utopianh) note it for its difficulty. They say it makes games like Unlimited SaGa, 7th Saga, and FF2j look like cake.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So...what is a party?"
"Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Sp2K5 was a pretty good contest for only 32 contestants, barring the matches involving characters from earlier contests (which meant crappy semi-final/finals). Sp2K4's Division 128 was the best division in any contest EVER, though the rest kinda stunk for the most part. So...I guess neither of them were FULLY good, but the only contest that was close to being good across the board was SC2K2, in my opinion.

Personally, Sp2k4 was my favorite contest of them all - admittedly, I wasn't on the board in 2k2 or 2k3 (although I did follow both). But Sp2k5 was my least favorite because I didn't care much about the characters. If we just had another game contest in the spring I'd be quite happy.

At least one suspenseful match between top tier characters.
Let's hope it happens...SC2K4 lacked them, but SC2K5 did have a couple (but my no means "epic").

Squall/Vincent and Sonic/Mega Man were both good matches, but like you say, what we really want are epic battles.

Some kind of surprising results
SC2K4 was really the only contest that lacked in that, but all others have...not a lot to worry here. But, I'd prefer surprising results involving the Noble Nine. -_-

Even 2k4 had Sora vs Ryu... but I'm hoping for more than one surprising result, and like you say, preferably involving the Noble Nine. Something totally ridiculous like Snake beating Sephiroth - that would be awesome. I want that "anything can happen" feeling.
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SC2k5 and SpC2k5 First Vote Champion
Nominate Aeris for SC2k6.

I think I'm the only one who doesn't want a games contest. >_>

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I haven't played FE5 yet (2, 4, 7, and 8 beaten, working on 3 and 9), but FE4 is the best game ever.
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pi

I think I'm the only one who doesn't want a games contest. >_>

I don't want one either. The winner will still be obvious, this generation isn't over yet and there are several games that will be out in one year that could be a force to be reckoned with. I say we wait a year.
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"Heh, heh. The wind. . .it is blowing."--Ganondorf Dragmire

Why not have one next year too?

Also, since we've seen Link win it all three times now, I suppose it's time to close shop for the character battles too...right?
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Serious Reminder: Nominate Jay Solano in 2k6.
Why? He floats like a butterfly and stings like a...butterfly. Can't match grace like that.

Also, since we've seen Link win it all three times now, I suppose it's time to close shop for the character battles too...right?

Advent Children/Kingdom Hearts II anyone?
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"Heh, heh. The wind. . .it is blowing."--Ganondorf Dragmire

That's not my reasoning at all, I'd just rather see a tag-team character contest, though a games contest would be better than none at all.

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I used to be Asian, but I didn't get good enough grades so my parents beat it out of me. - snalien

LoZ:TP?
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Serious Reminder: Nominate Jay Solano in 2k6.
Why? He floats like a butterfly and stings like a...butterfly. Can't match grace like that.

I'll agree that a tag-team contest would be cool simply because of how crazy it seems (that and the GFA tourney has been fun, too), but I'll still take a second game tourney over a tag-team tourney for now.
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Serious Reminder: Nominate Jay Solano in 2k6.
Why? He floats like a butterfly and stings like a...butterfly. Can't match grace like that.

Yeah, it would be perfect for a small contest too, 64 characters, 32 teams, that is if Ceej wants to keep Springs down to 32, Link+Fodder may just not be a lock when going up agaisnt two decently popular characters.

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I used to be Asian, but I didn't get good enough grades so my parents beat it out of me. - snalien

I wonder if it'd be anything like GFA; there, Mario and KoaC are great contenders (at least strong) and looked to be the favorite of the contest...yet they didn't look so impressive against Dante/Tetris Block. I'd mention some other things, but I cannot get GFA to load anything other than the front page the past several days.
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Serious Reminder: Nominate Jay Solano in 2k6.
Why? He floats like a butterfly and stings like a...butterfly. Can't match grace like that.

Yeah, I wouldn't expect a Mario/KoaC combo to do as great here, though it would be intresting to see.

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I used to be Asian, but I didn't get good enough grades so my parents beat it out of me. - snalien

I don't care for tag-team contests. I always look at GFA's poll and say "uh.... who the hell am I supposed to vote for?"
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xyzzy

Aga has forsaken us over at GFA; he's too busy with the 10 year olds at NintendoFrienDS. I think Moltar has taken over a lot of the contest duties.
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The team you like more, duuuuh. =P

I've found it to be weird in matches like today though; over there, they have Solid Snake and Servbot against Goemon and Ness. I am completely indifferent against Servbot and Goemon, so it suddenly became Solid/Ness to me, and Solid's easily my favorite of the two. I've also noticed I'll usually vote for a team that has two character I care about over a team with one character I care about except if the one character is awesome.
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Serious Reminder: Nominate Jay Solano in 2k6.
Why? He floats like a butterfly and stings like a...butterfly. Can't match grace like that.

nah, that's not what I mean - usually I like one character and dislike the other, so I don't know if I'm supposed to vote for them, against them or neither. tag-team contests are really gimmicky to me.
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xyzzy

Your face is really gimmicky. I mean seriously, take the goddamn cookie out of the picture you one trick pony!

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I used to be Asian, but I didn't get good enough grades so my parents beat it out of me. - snalien

shut up.

do not mess with the cookie!

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xyzzy

Oh you better believe I just went there.

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I used to be Asian, but I didn't get good enough grades so my parents beat it out of me. - snalien

That's what makes tag teams interesting though -- not really Link/Fodder against two midcarders, because Link is just too strong, but something like (1)Snake/(8)Terra vs (3)Tifa/(6)Alucard. That's the kind of tag-team match that would be interesting to me, and is even seeded accurately.
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pi

Or (3)Magus/(6)Knuckles vs (2)Squall/(7)Geno, heh.
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pi

Guys, anything but the cookie.





I'd reluctantly take Tifa/Alucard in that match-up. If nothing else, Tifa would have a SFF-advantage over Terra in that match, making it almost two-against-one for Solid Snake.
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Serious Reminder: Nominate Jay Solano in 2k6.
Why? He floats like a butterfly and stings like a...butterfly. Can't match grace like that.

I'd take Tifa/Alucard and Magus/Knux, but I really have no idea who would win either.

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I'm with EC on that.


I think Imma make a tag-team bracket now, as a matter of fact...this is fun to think about.
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Serious Reminder: Nominate Jay Solano in 2k6.
Why? He floats like a butterfly and stings like a...butterfly. Can't match grace like that.

in Tag-Team matches, I would take the two characters that have differing fanbases (like Tifa-Alucard) as opposed to a team like Kuja-Kefka or Cloud-Sephiroth. it would be a completely unpredictable tournament, but the pairings just seem random and I don't know how you'd determine them.
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xyzzy

Solid/Terra is a differing fanbase too though.....
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Serious Reminder: Nominate Jay Solano in 2k6.
Why? He floats like a butterfly and stings like a...butterfly. Can't match grace like that.

Determine them by seeding. Normally whoever you'd face in the first round would end up as your partner.

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I used to be Asian, but I didn't get good enough grades so my parents beat it out of me. - snalien

I suppose you could take SC2k5 and just pair them up:

Mario/Joanna

vs.

Ness/CJ


Zero/Ryu

vs.

Lloyd/Wesker

etc.
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xyzzy

I'm tryin' to come up with teams by other means, I believe, though I ain't opposed to a good team that's made like that.
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Serious Reminder: Nominate Jay Solano in 2k6.
Why? He floats like a butterfly and stings like a...butterfly. Can't match grace like that.

well, don't ask me to predict it - have you seen my GFA score? I think I was on some serious chemicals when I made it, because I don't even remember picking half those people. only like one serious bracket has a worse score than mine.

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xyzzy

I'll predict one when you finish. >_>

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I used to be Asian, but I didn't get good enough grades so my parents beat it out of me. - snalien