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Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 286
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| HaRRicH | Posted 6/4/2006 12:02:54 AM | message detail |
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I voted Matching Colors in today's poll solely for Dr. Robotnik's Mean
Bean Machine...but which option would Dr. Mario fall under? --- Miss my Four-Pack Of Fun? Go here: http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/gentopic.php?board=585007 |
| greatone10 | Posted 6/4/2006 12:17:59 AM | message detail |
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Matching colors I would assume. --- RIP Eddie Guerrero 1967-2005 "I set my ATM card's number to "0001" because I'm number one!" - Manfred von Karma |
| bigkevinm84 | Posted 6/4/2006 12:27:59 AM | message detail |
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I'm bored..... where's the bracket already? And why nothing on the main page still? Odddddddd......... --- Nominate Fox McCloud for 2006! and support Yoshi! You have no chance to survive make your time. |
| Tiedus | Posted 6/4/2006 1:02:48 AM | message detail |
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Odds are he isn't going to bother putting nominations up on the front page. No problem with that, really. --- Some stories can't be told by words. Some legends are meant to die. Some bloodlines must come to an end. |
| Guess how many teens | Posted 6/4/2006 3:31:56 AM | message detail |
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Is tomorrow a holiday in USA? It is in Europe <_<.. That would mean no bracket before Wednesday --- There are 2 rules to being a success in life: 1. Never give out all the information. |
| ChichiriMuyo | Posted 6/4/2006 3:37:08 AM | message detail |
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Holiday? I'm going to give that a no. --- Take a hike, and don't forget the trail mix *****. Hijack - MC Chris Detective in Sir Chris' Police |
| ToadYoshi | Posted 6/4/2006 7:07:24 AM | message detail |
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IMO No holiday on Monday. I'm ok with CJayC not putting the noms on the front page. If Board 8 alone does the nominations, that's fine. They won't be too wacky. Hopefully. --- Yoshi > most. Toad > All. Mario Kart 64 is amazing. Supporting Fire Emblem and Mario Kart in SpC2k6! |
| transience | Posted 6/4/2006 7:09:51 AM | message detail |
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actually, Tombolo compiled a 64 item bracket based on Lucid's topic: http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=164530&tclass=The%20actual%20bracket%2E%20%3E%5F%3E probably not very accurate, but it gives you an idea of potential seeding. --- xyzzy |
| Applause Sign | Posted 6/4/2006 9:40:10 AM | message detail |
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I kinda wish this thing got scrapped and moved to after the character
battle, just because I'd rather be able to stay up for the start/end of
matches for the Character battle than the series. God damn you Ceej. --- Explicit Content Cheer Up Emo Kids |
| therealmnm | Posted 6/4/2006 9:43:09 AM | message detail |
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Meh. I'm not trying to stay up for matches like I did in the past. That totally messed up my mental clock, and now I find myself randomly not being tired at all past 4 AM. That definitely has to change soon. --- Nominate Carmen Sandiego for SC2k6 Currently playing: KH2, MGS3:S, GTA:SA, MMAC (wow, my PS2 is actually getting play!) |
| transcience | Posted 6/4/2006 10:03:30 AM | message detail |
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I prefer series to character battles - much less predictable. character
battle is good and all, but the next one will be the fifth time we see
the same characters clean house. --- xyzzy |
| UltimaterializerX | Posted 6/4/2006 10:08:45 AM | message detail |
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Tomorrow, it will have been a month (well 4 weeks, but still) since nominations opened. ~*ST*~ --- Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best. Game. Ever." Contest Currently Playing: Resident Evil 4, KH:COM (Sora), Fire Emblem 7 (HHM), Larussa 92 (NYY) |
| Ed Bellis | Posted 6/4/2006 10:13:25 AM | message detail |
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Yeah, I much prefer the series concept to the character battle. I
really wish the character battle would just take a year off and be
replaced with a summer-long games contest. That way, the old stats we'd
have would be two years old and things could get a bit more
unpredictable. And the games contest would obviously be more crazy than
the character contest would be for the same reason: our only xstats are
outdated and unreliable at best. 'tis a shame. --- This was Ed Bellis. Summer 2005 Fanfiction Project: http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=28403845 |
| dethfdddddh | Posted 6/4/2006 10:19:28 AM | message detail |
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Anyone here think a big liscensed game character (Vader, Spiderman, Bond) could beat Link? >_>; --- Just Got Owned By Guru winner Voltch. |
| yoblazer33 | Posted 6/4/2006 10:20:00 AM | message detail |
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I don't think those people anchoring for Link to lose will rally behind
that idea. Besides, Cloud and Link have only had two and three matches
apiece since their clash in 2004. I'm getting antsy; I want to see our
top draws kick ass again. Also, delaying a Games Contest until next
year will allow Twilight Princess and FFXII to make the field. --- Board 8: Where Wii treat each other right. |
| transcience | Posted 6/4/2006 10:23:11 AM | message detail |
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yeah, it's been my dream to have a games/character contest rotate every
summer. that way we'll have had a couple years for each to become more
unpredictable. --- xyzzy |
| Kaxon | Posted 6/4/2006 10:54:47 AM | message detail |
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I prefer series to character battles - much less predictable.
character battle is good and all, but the next one will be the fifth
time we see the same characters clean house. My thoughts exactly. The character battle is still fun, but the potential for true surprises has gone way down. In the series battle we don't know anything for sure... we can make educated guesses, but we might be totally wrong. --- Nominate Aeris for SC2k6 |
| Kaxon | Posted 6/4/2006 10:57:40 AM | message detail |
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However, I do still want to see a character battle this year with Link
and Cloud in it. Seeing them kick ass is part of the fun, and I missed
that last year. --- Nominate Aeris for SC2k6 |
| transcience | Posted 6/4/2006 10:59:15 AM | message detail |
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yeah, the TOC has to be a one-time thing. there was a perfect number of
retired entrants last year. if you continue retiring champions, you
eventually end up with a winner no one really caers about and a weak
field. --- xyzzy |
| swirIdude | Posted 6/4/2006 11:45:38 AM | message detail |
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Yeah, skip the Series contest, no one cares about an auto-FF win. --- Xbox 360 melts disks! And people made jokes about the PS3 being a grill. ~bokunokuso |
| ToadYoshi | Posted 6/4/2006 11:45:50 AM | message detail |
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How's about this for a twist: Any character that has won a contest match is ineligible. How cool would that be? A first-time winner wins the whole thing. That would be a fun, maybe for a spring contest next year or something. As an alternative, let's just ban everyone who got in the tournament last year. That would bring us 64 new faces, and chaos would ensue. --- Yoshi > most. Toad > All. Mario Kart 64 is amazing. Supporting Fire Emblem and Mario Kart in SpC2k6! |
| swirIdude | Posted 6/4/2006 11:47:24 AM | message detail |
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That wouldn't be fun. --- Xbox 360 melts disks! And people made jokes about the PS3 being a grill. ~bokunokuso |
| transience | Posted 6/4/2006 11:55:21 AM | message detail |
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we already had that. it was called the Villain Contest. --- xyzzy |
| Mac Arrowny | Posted 6/4/2006 12:17:20 PM | message detail |
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That would certainly work for the Games Contest (which is part of what
makes biannual Games Contests so desirable), but there aren't that many
good characters. We'd have a bunch of other characters from Final
Fantasy and Chrono Trigger, and a bunch of absolute weaklings. Even if
you decide to let in people who have never one a match, you're still
going to have Gordon Freeman as a top tier character. --- Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent. |
| HaRRicH | Posted 6/4/2006 12:20:43 PM | message detail |
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For the Final Four, we would have Cid, Barret, Yuffie, and -- you guessed it -- Mr. Driller. --- Miss my Four-Pack Of Fun? Go here: http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/gentopic.php?board=585007 |
| LeonhartForever | Posted 6/4/2006 12:25:28 PM | message detail |
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The character battle is still fun, but the potential for true surprises has gone way down I dunno. Magus/Knuckles is probably one of the biggest shockers we've ever had. They're still there, believe me. The Villains Contest featured a lot of characters we'd never seen before, but it wasn't that unpredictable. Just because it's new doesn't mean it'll be better/more unpredictable. Honestly, there are still many, many character battle matches that people on this board would consider to be up in the air. --- SC2K6 Nominations: Squall, Roxas, Serge, Seifer, Laguna, The Prince of Persia, Nightmare, Sub-Zero, Captain Falcon, Raiden |
| dragoontheguy | Posted 6/4/2006 12:28:57 PM | message detail |
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The villains contest also had a lot of characters in it that had been
in character battles before though. The best game ever contest was
extremely unpredictable a lot of the time as well, so hopefully this
series contest is just as good. --- When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. ~ Victor Hugo {WoT}~> Board 408 |
| transience | Posted 6/4/2006 12:32:44 PM | message detail |
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Magus/Knuckles is only a shocker because it went against two years of
expectations - if that happened in 2002, I don't think we would have
thought of it as an upset. either way, Magus/Knuckles is the exception,
not the norm. yeah there are debatable matches, but games are far more unpredictable. we've only seen three matches between generations and a lot of games have been released in the last two plus years, not to mention the standard year to year fluctuation that the character battle relies on. heck, let me make a quick eightpack: Zelda 1 Resident Evil 4 Zelda: Majora's Mask Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Fantasy 8 Metal Gear Solid 3 Mario Kart 64 Metroid Prime we've seen only two of those games and all would have reasonable strength. I'd be pretty shocked if any two people in this topic predicted it the same way. --- xyzzy |
| LeonhartForever | Posted 6/4/2006 12:34:43 PM | message detail |
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The best game ever contest was extremely unpredictable a lot of the
time as well, so hopefully this series contest is just as good. No, Division 128 was unpredictable. There's a difference. --- SC2K6 Nominations: Squall, Roxas, Serge, Seifer, Laguna, The Prince of Persia, Nightmare, Sub-Zero, Captain Falcon, Raiden |
| dragoontheguy | Posted 6/4/2006 12:36:49 PM | message detail |
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It still had a lot of matches that were hard to predict outside of the
128 division. Much more than any recent character contest has had
anyways. --- When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. ~ Victor Hugo {WoT}~> Board 408 |
| transience | Posted 6/4/2006 12:37:29 PM | message detail |
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16 wasn't all that predictable either; SF2/SMRPG, CT/LTTP, LTTP/FF6,
LTTP/SM...and for you, Sonic 2/SMW. :) division 8 and 32 were pretty
predictable until the division finals though, yeah. --- xyzzy |
| LeonhartForever | Posted 6/4/2006 12:38:04 PM | message detail |
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It had...Chrono Trigger/A Link to the Past. That was really it. At least in my opinion anyway, and I didn't even really struggle with picking Chrono Trigger. --- SC2K6 Nominations: Squall, Roxas, Serge, Seifer, Laguna, The Prince of Persia, Nightmare, Sub-Zero, Captain Falcon, Raiden |
| LeonhartForever | Posted 6/4/2006 12:39:22 PM | message detail |
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LttP/SM was unpredictable for the same reasons I took Sonic 2 over Super Mario World: ...Basically, there were none. --- SC2K6 Nominations: Squall, Roxas, Serge, Seifer, Laguna, The Prince of Persia, Nightmare, Sub-Zero, Captain Falcon, Raiden |
| Shivan Reincarnated | Posted 6/4/2006 12:40:02 PM | message detail |
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SFII/SM:RPG --- "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." ~ Benjamin Franklin |
| LeonhartForever | Posted 6/4/2006 12:40:21 PM | message detail |
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And I was shocked that ANYBODY expected Mario 3 to lose before the Final Four. The idea of Zelda beating it was laughable to me. --- SC2K6 Nominations: Squall, Roxas, Serge, Seifer, Laguna, The Prince of Persia, Nightmare, Sub-Zero, Captain Falcon, Raiden |
| HaRRicH | Posted 6/4/2006 12:41:09 PM | message detail |
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The Villain Cntest could have been a good deal better if some simple
changes would have been done. We should have seen Bowser/Ganon in the
Final Four instead of Bowser/Sephiroth and Diablo/Ganon, Mother Brain
should have faced somebody other than Lavos (switch MB with Ghaleon,
for example), and Wesker needed a more main-stream opponent his first
round (give him, say, Halo 2's Tartarus...not that he'd be much
stronger than Luca, but debate could have been worth a damn). --- Miss my Four-Pack Of Fun? Go here: http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/gentopic.php?board=585007 |
| LeonhartForever | Posted 6/4/2006 12:41:23 PM | message detail |
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Had Mario RPG from the beginning. Knowing how the voting demographic on
this site is (pro-Mario and pro-Square, not very fighting game
friendly), it wasn't THAT hard to predict. --- SC2K6 Nominations: Squall, Roxas, Serge, Seifer, Laguna, The Prince of Persia, Nightmare, Sub-Zero, Captain Falcon, Raiden |
| Janus5000 | Posted 6/4/2006 12:41:29 PM | message detail |
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I had a lot of problems picking CT over LttP; first and foremost being that I had LttP losing to Super Metroid. ...Yeah. --- "Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." |
| Slowflake | Posted 6/4/2006 12:41:56 PM | message detail |
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I was worried about the power of the Zelda name, and after round 3 I was regretting picking SMB3. --- i beaten a lot of people in school in a battle. some are noobs like you some are pretty good. i have a perfect record of not loosing. -pika4 |
| transience | Posted 6/4/2006 12:43:38 PM | message detail |
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it's easy to say that now, but a handful of people took LTTP over SM, a
bunch took FF6 over LTTP and a couple took Sonic 2 over SMW. then
there's SF2/SMRPG... compared to most divisions in a character battle,
that's tough. plus, it's a lot easier to gauge a pecking order when looking at a single generation. mix up the generations and it becomes all kinds of unpredictable. --- xyzzy |
| Shivan Reincarnated | Posted 6/4/2006 12:44:04 PM | message detail |
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I also had Super Mario RPG but the match was still surprising to many people (Obviously) --- "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." ~ Benjamin Franklin |
| transience | Posted 6/4/2006 12:44:33 PM | message detail |
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er, SM over LTTP. I'm one of those, but that's just my love for SM speakin'. --- xyzzy |
| dragoontheguy | Posted 6/4/2006 12:46:02 PM | message detail |
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At least in my opinion anyway, and I didn't even really struggle with picking Chrono Trigger. It doesn't really matter how easy it was for you or anyone else to reach what result they did, the results of the match make it unpredictable. That's not an insult by the way, that applies to everyone including myself. As an example, I didn't even hesitate putting frog over master chief. Does that make the match any less unpredictable? When a match ends with both options less than 500 votes apart, it's the kind of match that could go either way on any given day. --- When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. ~ Victor Hugo {WoT}~> Board 408 |
| LeonhartForever | Posted 6/4/2006 12:46:20 PM | message detail |
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I agree with the fact that the games contest had a lot of unused
potential. It's easier to gauge where games fall within their own
generation because they were constantly being compared with one
another. And division 128 was a little more difficult because it's the
current generation and their places in history have yet to be really
determined. While I agree that the Games Contest was great, it wasn't the end-all, be-all of contests for me. I still prefer good ol' Character Battles. --- SC2K6 Nominations: Squall, Roxas, Serge, Seifer, Laguna, The Prince of Persia, Nightmare, Sub-Zero, Captain Falcon, Raiden |
| yoblazer33 | Posted 6/4/2006 12:46:39 PM | message detail |
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I had FFVII > LttP as my final for a bit, but I also had Starcraft
in the third round. I changed both. The toughest aspect of predicting
one of these contests is knowing when to stick with your gut and when
to reevaluate things. --- Board 8: Where Wii treat each other right. |
| HaRRicH | Posted 6/4/2006 12:46:46 PM | message detail |
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Yeah, a new Game Contest would be incredible if the generations were
mixed up (and mixed into decent matches). We just, you know...gotta
have another Game Contest first. --- Miss my Four-Pack Of Fun? Go here: http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/gentopic.php?board=585007 |
| Ngamer64 | Posted 6/4/2006 12:50:34 PM | message detail |
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Games '04 was predictable only because of the silly division into eras,
because it's easy to tell which games have stood the test of time as
you go farther back. As I've been saying for years, mix the eras,
replace that 8-bit fodder with 128/next gen contenders, and you're
going to have the most difficult bracket in history... and by a long
shot, if set up right. --- "lol x-stats" - The Contest Simulator: http://thengamer.com/xstats Ngamer's Contest Archives: http://thengamer.com/gamefaqs/ |
| SquallidSnake | Posted 6/4/2006 12:51:32 PM | message detail |
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Well, even a character bracket can be extremely difficult, if set up right. It's that last part that's make or break. --- Some stories can't be told by words. Some legends are meant to die. Knowing your enemy is the quickest path to victory. |
| yoblazer33 | Posted 6/4/2006 12:55:38 PM | message detail |
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One thing to keep in mind: if you spread out FFVII, OoT, Chrono
Trigger, and LttP, you'll have a lot of very predictable matches as
well. It's how you fill in those cracks between the bulldozers that
will make all the difference. --- Board 8: Where Wii treat each other right. |
| transience | Posted 6/4/2006 12:57:29 PM | message detail |
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yeah, when I was bracket-makin' I would put two of those in the same
16-game division just so the rest will be that much more unpredictable.
much more fun that way. --- xyzzy |