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Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 595
| creativename | Posted 10/12/2008 10:15:12 PM | message detail |
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Course, if Magus does make it (which I really hope he does), and Auron
loses to Sonic by like 1% or something, then yeah - I'd blame Magus,
and say Sonic lucked out. --- www.gamefaqscontests.com www.gamefaqscontests.com/gallery |
| __hiei__ | Posted 10/12/2008 10:16:03 PM | message detail |
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did Raiden really boost this much? i mean,Look at Crono's first match last year Sam fisher was closer to raiden than Kaim is here.and they both got obliterated by Crono who had over 48% MC is below 35% here on a fourpack that should be around the same level. Raiden boosted? yeah,sure,but to me this is mostly MC being a lot weaker than we thought. |
| creativename | Posted 10/12/2008 10:18:30 PM | message detail |
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I've kinda flip-flopped on this a bit. If Crono/Zidane wasn't SFF,
that means Shadow and Link must have had a LOT of overlap, or Link is
now at around Mario's level. But Shadow and Link clearly had a lot of overlap (or Shadow's just become a weakling) regardless of Crono/ZIdane SFF. And while I told people at the time that Crono/Zidane wasn't SFF, and Zidane was just weak - and I still believe it wasn't SFF - Zidane is older-school than Auron. Big gap between the FF9 and FFX fanbases, I think. --- www.gamefaqscontests.com www.gamefaqscontests.com/gallery |
| PartOfYourWorld | Posted 10/12/2008 10:19:08 PM | message detail |
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There really doesn't need to be much SFF between Auron and Magus.
Whatever fanbase overlap exists between the two is still (logically) a
lot more than whatever exists between Sonic and either of them. Throw
in another mature-looking badass like Sub-Zero, and Sonic stands out
bigtime as the only Nintendo/kiddy/mascot-y looking vote. Besides, even
if he is
intrinsically weaker than Auron now, it's not like they're worlds
apart. Any tiny advantage Sonic can muster should be enough to turn the
tide. Of course, I'm still hoping for Sandbag to make it and produce the inexplicably awesome Auron > Sandbag > Sonic result I've been pining over in my dreams. --- Yoblazer: http://i33.tinypic.com/16hnm05.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
| Calintares | Posted 10/12/2008 10:19:30 PM | message detail |
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I believe that FF IX is more vulnerable against old-Square SFF than any
other Square game after FF VII, seeing as how it returned to the roots
of the series and all that. I think there probably was at least some
moderate degree of SFF in the Crono/Zidane match --- Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do and die. |
| HeroicTronBonne | Posted 10/12/2008 10:22:11 PM | message detail |
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So far doesn't seem to be any major changes in voting patterns after
the power hour... so maybe it'll go like this the rest of the night --- Albion Hero http://card.mygamercard.net/geothermal/Albion+Hero.png |
| Karma Hunter | Posted 10/12/2008 10:22:44 PM | message detail |
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There really doesn't need to be much SFF between Auron and Magus.
Whatever fanbase overlap exists between the two is still (logically) a
lot more than whatever exists between Sonic and either of them. Throw
in another mature-looking badass like Sub-Zero, and Sonic stands out
bigtime as the only Nintendo/kiddy/mascot-y looking vote. We had this scenario come up almost exactly last year - it was called Sonic/Squall/Sora/Sub-Zero. Except we're taking someone whose fanbase is a LOT less connected to Auron, and weakening Sonic significantly. No way do I consider Sonic the favorite there. --- turnturnturn your brain in turnturnturn your brain in |
| BlAcK TuRtLe | Posted 10/12/2008 10:24:11 PM | message detail |
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Makes sense. Chief has a terrible power hour anyways, so the power hour would likely resemble the night vote in this case. --- I want adventure in the great wide somewhere... I want it more than I can tell! - Belle http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/3949/beautyandthebeast21024uh9.jpg |
| PartOfYourWorld | Posted 10/12/2008 10:26:56 PM | message detail |
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I hope you're right, but I still have trouble seeing it. Also, Sora may
have burdened the power Square guy (in that case, Squall) with more
SFF, but it's also likely that he overlaps fanbases with Sonic much
more than Magus would. Thinking about it too much makes my head spin, and I'm hoping it's all a moot point anyway because GO SAND Speaking of which, the best result of all would be Sandbag > Magus > Sonic in Round 1. Magus finally meets his 2003 expectations and beats Sonic. --- Yoblazer: http://i33.tinypic.com/16hnm05.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
| HeroicTronBonne | Posted 10/12/2008 10:27:16 PM | message detail |
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I look forward to all of the "Whos that Seaweed guy?" topics tomorrow --- Albion Hero http://card.mygamercard.net/geothermal/Albion+Hero.png |
| KleenexTissue50 | Posted 10/12/2008 10:27:46 PM | message detail |
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Forget Sonic, weren't his 2003 expectations to beat Link? <_< --- CB7 Score: 78/100 http://www.rosebride.com/lyn/otakon2k6/chronotrigger.jpg || http://64.81.113.250/a-kon-12/000177.jpg |
| Calintares | Posted 10/12/2008 10:29:02 PM | message detail |
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To be fair, Auron is a bit weaker than Squall. And Sora might have
stolen more of the "kiddy" voter than Magus will, still I agree that
Sora likely hurt Squall a lot more than Magus will hurt Auron. Let's just hope no bag of sand will block this awesome match --- Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do and die. |
| paraboxx | Posted 10/12/2008 10:29:22 PM | message detail |
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LTTP: Wow. Either Kain's really good, or Raiden and Chief are suddenly really bad. Either way...awesome. Oh, and since I never got here yesterday, LOL Lucas. (And, um, I still don't see Travis bombing) |
| PartOfYourWorld | Posted 10/12/2008 10:29:43 PM | message detail |
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I'm sorry, I meant his post-2003 expectations. THANK CREATIVENAME AND HIS X-STATS EVERYONE --- Yoblazer: http://i33.tinypic.com/16hnm05.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
| BlAcK TuRtLe | Posted 10/12/2008 10:32:20 PM | message detail |
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I'm loving this match, as it finally shuts up all the "Chief benefits
from this format" garbage that is always thrown around. I said from day
1 his run last year was ALL Halo 3 and now I'm being proven right.
Feels good man :) --- I want adventure in the great wide somewhere... I want it more than I can tell! - Belle http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/3949/beautyandthebeast21024uh9.jpg |
| PartOfYourWorld | Posted 10/12/2008 10:33:04 PM | message detail |
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Nice sig. --- Yoblazer: http://i33.tinypic.com/16hnm05.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
| BlAcK TuRtLe | Posted 10/12/2008 10:33:24 PM | message detail |
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Can't win 'em all --- I want adventure in the great wide somewhere... I want it more than I can tell! - Belle http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/3949/beautyandthebeast21024uh9.jpg |
| KleenexTissue50 | Posted 10/12/2008 10:33:26 PM | message detail |
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Nice sig indeed. --- CB7 Score: 78/100 http://www.rosebride.com/lyn/otakon2k6/chronotrigger.jpg || http://64.81.113.250/a-kon-12/000177.jpg |
| paraboxx | Posted 10/12/2008 10:33:39 PM | message detail |
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Chief could still pull a Fenix during the day vote, though. ...you know, I know people joke about this a lot, but this is actually really making me want to see an FF-only contest. See if we can find any more hidden gems like this. (To be fair, though, Shadow's probably the one most likely to do anything, and that's not saying much...) |
| BlAcK TuRtLe | Posted 10/12/2008 10:34:16 PM | message detail |
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An FF-only contest is the worst idea I've heard since the female villain contest. --- I want adventure in the great wide somewhere... I want it more than I can tell! - Belle http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/3949/beautyandthebeast21024uh9.jpg |
| HeroicTronBonne | Posted 10/12/2008 10:34:23 PM | message detail |
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He still benefits... just not as much as we thought. --- Albion Hero http://card.mygamercard.net/geothermal/Albion+Hero.png |
| Karma Hunter | Posted 10/12/2008 10:34:48 PM | message detail |
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Chief could still pull a Fenix during the day vote, though. Pull a Fenix? He's Master Chief - all he has to do is pull a Master Chief. --- turnturnturn your brain in turnturnturn your brain in |
| BlAcK TuRtLe | Posted 10/12/2008 10:35:33 PM | message detail |
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Pull a Fenix? Chief is the original "pull a Fenix". Fenix pulled a Cheif if anything. --- I want adventure in the great wide somewhere... I want it more than I can tell! - Belle http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/3949/beautyandthebeast21024uh9.jpg |
| HeroicTronBonne | Posted 10/12/2008 10:36:10 PM | message detail |
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his 2 mega comebacks against frog and DK. He was down 60-40 against
frog in power hour, and came back and lost by 7 VOTES. --- Albion Hero http://card.mygamercard.net/geothermal/Albion+Hero.png |
| Yesmar | Posted 10/12/2008 10:36:22 PM | message detail |
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Let me see if got this right: every MGS character that we have seen
have exceeded expectations, Liquid, Big Boss and Raiden. But not Solid
Snake, at least not to the degree that his peers have. Does that make
sense? I don't get it I disagree with the sentiment that Liquid Snake overperformed. Maybe a little, but not anything that noticable. He got around 47% on Luigi which is pretty close to what I'd expect him to get in 2004. Luigi's probably a little more popular than then, but not by much. --- ""This is my chance to avenge my father's death. This time, he won't walk away.""--Ike |
| BlAcK TuRtLe | Posted 10/12/2008 10:36:25 PM | message detail |
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Big Boss 40.75% / 31.28% Kirby 40.53% / 49.95% Looks like everyone got burned. --- I want adventure in the great wide somewhere... I want it more than I can tell! - Belle http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/3949/beautyandthebeast21024uh9.jpg |
| PartOfYourWorld | Posted 10/12/2008 10:36:34 PM | message detail |
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So much Xbox sexual innuendo during Chief's matches, I swear. --- Yoblazer: http://i33.tinypic.com/16hnm05.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
| BlAcK TuRtLe | Posted 10/12/2008 10:37:39 PM | message detail |
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Luigi went from getting his assed kicked by Yoshi to beating Zero and
Kirby, and coming close to beating Ganondorf and outright beating
Bacondorf. He also looked great against Dante despite Pikachu being
there. --- I want adventure in the great wide somewhere... I want it more than I can tell! - Belle http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/3949/beautyandthebeast21024uh9.jpg |
| BlAcK TuRtLe | Posted 10/12/2008 10:38:13 PM | message detail |
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X-Box? More like X-Sex mirite? --- I want adventure in the great wide somewhere... I want it more than I can tell! - Belle http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/3949/beautyandthebeast21024uh9.jpg |
| paraboxx | Posted 10/12/2008 10:38:27 PM | message detail |
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Pull a Fenix? He's Master Chief - all he has to do is pull a Master Chief. I wouldn't be at all surprised if that's true. But one of the few things I can still remember about last year is what Fenix did to Kefka during the day vote in R1. That was just brutal. |
| Yesmar | Posted 10/12/2008 10:39:12 PM | message detail |
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Luigi went from getting his assed kicked by Yoshi to beating Zero
and Kirby, and coming close to beating Ganondorf and outright beating
Bacondorf. He also looked great against Dante despite Pikachu being
there. Luigi was most likely as popular as Yoshi in 2004. He was just underanked due to being behind Link/Samus in 2003. Yoshi most likely SFFd him a little back in 2004. --- ""This is my chance to avenge my father's death. This time, he won't walk away.""--Ike |
| paraboxx | Posted 10/12/2008 10:40:58 PM | message detail |
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Pull a Fenix? Chief is the original "pull a Fenix". Fenix pulled a Cheif if anything. If you know this, why are you so confident Chief's going to look bad by the end of this? How far do you think he'll go up, anyway? |
| BlAcK TuRtLe | Posted 10/12/2008 10:41:34 PM | message detail |
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I wouldn't be at all surprised if that's true. But one of the few
things I can still remember about last year is what Fenix did to Kefka
during the day vote in R1. That was just brutal. That's because most of Kefka's votes come from the night and most of Fenix's come from the day. Chief was making massive swings against night characters before Fenix was even concept art. --- I want adventure in the great wide somewhere... I want it more than I can tell! - Belle http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/3949/beautyandthebeast21024uh9.jpg |
| HeroicTronBonne | Posted 10/12/2008 10:41:39 PM | message detail |
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Because he might get 39-40% MAX, when last year he woulda done 45-50% here. --- Albion Hero http://card.mygamercard.net/geothermal/Albion+Hero.png |
| Karma Hunter | Posted 10/12/2008 10:41:42 PM | message detail |
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that was a pretty update for everyone let's go three-way ties --- turnturnturn your brain in turnturnturn your brain in |
| BlAcK TuRtLe | Posted 10/12/2008 10:42:21 PM | message detail |
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Chief will probably drop a % or 2 overnight, then probably hit high-30's by the end of the match. --- I want adventure in the great wide somewhere... I want it more than I can tell! - Belle http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/3949/beautyandthebeast21024uh9.jpg |
| Yesmar | Posted 10/12/2008 10:42:32 PM | message detail |
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Fenix's comeback against Ocelot is actually the third biggest comeback
of all time if you adjust for vote inflation. Keep in mind that while
his comeback was only around 1,100-1,200 votes the "match" itself was
pulling in under 50,000 votes. --- ""This is my chance to avenge my father's death. This time, he won't walk away.""--Ike |
| Link The Hylian | Posted 10/12/2008 10:42:43 PM | message detail |
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Crap I thought it was Mortal Kombat Raiden and voted before I saw the picture. : ( --- "The PS2 had 12,000,000 pre orders. To give you an idea of how many people that is that's over half of the world population." - DifferentialEquation |
| HeroicTronBonne | Posted 10/12/2008 10:42:49 PM | message detail |
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http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/board8/images//5/56/Graph1756.png --- Albion Hero http://card.mygamercard.net/geothermal/Albion+Hero.png |
| consolefreak | Posted 10/12/2008 10:43:35 PM | message detail |
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Lol Chief. --- 80/96. Today : Kirby > Boss. Tomorrow : Chief > Raiden Those who speak do not know, those who know do not speak - Soviet adage |
| BlAcK TuRtLe | Posted 10/12/2008 10:44:48 PM | message detail |
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I forgot Ocelot was leading by that much. That was a good match. Shame I didn't stick with my dark horse this year. --- I want adventure in the great wide somewhere... I want it more than I can tell! - Belle http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/3949/beautyandthebeast21024uh9.jpg |
| KleenexTissue50 | Posted 10/12/2008 10:46:01 PM | message detail |
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kain cut OH GOD --- CB7 Score: 78/100 http://www.rosebride.com/lyn/otakon2k6/chronotrigger.jpg || http://64.81.113.250/a-kon-12/000177.jpg |
| HeroicTronBonne | Posted 10/12/2008 10:46:22 PM | message detail |
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kain be cuttin' --- Albion Hero http://card.mygamercard.net/geothermal/Albion+Hero.png |
| paraboxx | Posted 10/12/2008 10:51:14 PM | message detail |
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http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/board8/images//5/56/Graph1756.png Okay, yeah, that's impressive. Even if Frog still wound up winning the match. Chief was making massive swings against night characters before Fenix was even concept art. I don't know why, but this is extremely funny to me. |
| BlAcK TuRtLe | Posted 10/12/2008 10:53:23 PM | message detail |
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Wasn't Chief/Crono the biggest % swing of all time back in 2005? --- I want adventure in the great wide somewhere... I want it more than I can tell! - Belle http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/3949/beautyandthebeast21024uh9.jpg |
| vcharon | Posted 10/12/2008 11:06:50 PM | message detail |
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lol Chief --- :> |
| MyWorldIsCrono | Posted 10/12/2008 11:09:40 PM | message detail |
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BlAcK TuRtLe (#145) It was 31% to 39%, so Frog match is still bigger since he went from 38% to 50% --- Albion Hero http://card.mygamercard.net/geothermal/Albion+Hero.png |
| transience | Posted 10/12/2008 11:16:50 PM | message detail |
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Kain cut aw yeah almost cut Chief --- xyzzy "Man...tranny gets bored, the rest of us suffer." -satai |
| vcharon | Posted 10/12/2008 11:19:17 PM | message detail |
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I should have called MC not even hitting 40%, much less 50%. Say goodbye to him taking down anyone I thought he could... ugh, overestimated his ass once again. --- :> |
| MyWorldIsCrono | Posted 10/12/2008 11:20:19 PM | message detail |
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vcharon (#149) He's still the favorite to get to round 4, just cuz Bacon gave him such an easy division. Only thing that changes is that he might not get first in all rounds. --- Albion Hero http://card.mygamercard.net/geothermal/Albion+Hero.png |
