GameFAQs Contests
Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 640
| Biolizard28 | Posted 11/18/2008 7:54:04 PM | message detail |
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I keep saying that Sephiroth is only popular because Cloud's popular. I've always believed that. --- Biolizard28: The cream of Fire Emblem fanboyism. ALLEN LIED! PEOPLE LOST THEIR ABILITY TO CONTEST! |
| params7 | Posted 11/18/2008 7:54:26 PM | message detail |
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The best part is, Link is going to be breaking 40%, making Snake, Cloud and Crono look like crap. Which sucks balls. I thought Crono should be bringing Link down tomorrow? But he'll be pulling Cloud down more than effecting Link, I guess. *sigh* I'm voting Snake anyways. --- The King Of The World.Y2J Folding@Home - Official GameFAQs Team : No. 48759 - Join Now! |
| BlAcK TuRtLe | Posted 11/18/2008 7:54:34 PM | message detail |
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And? It's still going to make Mario look horrible this year, all due to *****y bracket placement. I try to avoid reading Biolizard posts, but I'm curious as to what you would think is good or "fair" bracket placement for Mario. Do you propose we stick him as the sole Nintendo guy in a division full of Square? Then work it so that Link gets beat early by Cloud by crippling him completely and have Cloud/Seph split in the finals? --- 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 |
| Blade Of Evils Bane | Posted 11/18/2008 7:55:57 PM | message detail |
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I wish L Block was in the poll tomorrow so Link could murder that stupid piece of crap. Oh well though. --- Can't think of a good sig. |
| Biolizard28 | Posted 11/18/2008 7:57:44 PM | message detail |
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From: BlAcK TuRtLe I try to avoid reading Biolizard posts, but I'm curious as to what you would think is good or "fair" bracket placement for Mario. Do you propose we stick him as the sole Nintendo guy in a division full of Square? Then work it so that Link gets beat early by Cloud by crippling him completely and have Cloud/Seph split in the finals? I'm not asking for a free pass to the finals, but the guy was SFFd in literally EVERY MATCH this year, and he was stuck with Link in the quarters. How much more screwed could he be? --- Biolizard28: The cream of Fire Emblem fanboyism. ALLEN LIED! PEOPLE LOST THEIR ABILITY TO CONTEST! |
| HaRRicH | Posted 11/18/2008 7:58:14 PM | message detail |
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BT, you gotta understand that Mario did get a terrible draw. He never
got a single chance to be unhindered. There's no need to reverse the
scenario and only let him take advantage of SFF/LFF, but he shouldn't
have had to be so heavily sandbagged each match. Well, only Magus was sandbagged this contest, but you get my point! --- NRT winners: Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow, Star Fox 64, Donkey Kong Country 2 Remember these games! |
| Master Moltar | Posted 11/18/2008 7:58:19 PM | message detail |
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Alright one hour to go and a ~400 vote lead with assistance if Snake falls too far behind. I'm calling this one, Snake has won No, not only Snake, but we won. GameFAQs won today. Not only is Kirby crushing Sephiroth, but Cloud is also being toppled as well, by who? Only one of the greatest characters in gaming, Solid Snake. I'll admit GameFAQs, you had me worried in the early rounds. You made some bad decisions before, but today...you chose right. GameFAQs wanted change from the predictable Cloud win, and Solid Snake brought us that change. It doesn't matter what the future holds for us, I'm going to embrace this day. The day...that we, GameFAQs, chose right. The Queen may be dead, but the King lives on (through this arm). http://i38.tinypic.com/2cgzwy0.jpg --- Moltar Status: augh Cloud/Snake/Seph/Kirby - Bracket: who cares go snake |
| ZFS | Posted 11/18/2008 7:58:27 PM | message detail |
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Hey Cloud actually made this close. Too little, too late, though. --- http://i33.tinypic.com/2s0xn3o.gif |
| shadow8021 | Posted 11/18/2008 8:01:03 PM | message detail |
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All this talk about how bad the 4-way format is is making me sad. So
why don't we talk about our favorite matches to take place in this
format instead? For me, hard to beat Link/Vincent/Crono/Zero last year. 4 awesome characters and the first time a NNer bites the dust to a non-NNer. Not to mention the fact that the match was rather close. --- 2008 Hickory Cross Country Becoming One |
| Karma Hunter | Posted 11/18/2008 8:04:47 PM | message detail |
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I'm calling this one, Snake has won we will win despite this Moltar --- turnturnturn your brain in turnturnturn your brain in |
| Lieutenant Kettch | Posted 11/18/2008 8:07:22 PM | message detail |
| Alucard/Liquid/Ness/Zidane was my favorite match. Fun 3-way at the start, and then voting for Liquid in the final 5 minutes to help him win by 3 was awesome. |
| luckynumber777 | Posted 11/18/2008 8:08:48 PM | message detail |
| It certainly mixes things up. It isn't fair to the
characters by a landslide, but it does keep things fun (which we may
need after doing this for a few years). --- I don't think anyone in 7,8,9, or 10 looked like Cloud. Save maybe Tidus -Sparkster185 There was this guy in 7 who looked JUST like Cloud..... -EMaylic |
| Karma Hunter | Posted 11/18/2008 8:09:23 PM | message detail |
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Oh my favorite four-way match hmm I couldn't POSSIBLY imagine what this is a trick to stop me isn't it --- turnturnturn your brain in turnturnturn your brain in |
| Biolizard28 | Posted 11/18/2008 8:11:06 PM | message detail |
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Watching Mario have his ass handed to him every time he was in the poll
wasn't my idea of fun. I don't mean to sound like a fanboy, but aside
from Ike, I can't think of any other character who was as screwed as
Mario. --- Biolizard28: The cream of Fire Emblem fanboyism. ALLEN LIED! PEOPLE LOST THEIR ABILITY TO CONTEST! |
| Xuxon | Posted 11/18/2008 8:12:38 PM | message detail |
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Tifa... Squall? And the best was easily Vincent vs Crono this year. --- DQVIII LLG - level 1/6/10/24, Marcello defeated (12 attempts) Brawl FC: 0344-9611-6716 |
| -LusterSoldier- | Posted 11/18/2008 8:14:42 PM | message detail |
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I hope Kirby ends this match with a lead of over 9000 votes on Sephiroth. That's still possible. --- Luster Soldier - Popular at school. ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ |
| Biolizard28 | Posted 11/18/2008 8:15:09 PM | message detail |
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I'll give you Tifa, but Squall wasn't held down horribly by Sora, and he still managed to look half decent. Mario, out of the gate, had an anchor in Zelda, who was replaced by MMX, who had help from Luigi, all the way until Mario met Link. You know the rest. --- Biolizard28: The cream of Fire Emblem fanboyism. ALLEN LIED! PEOPLE LOST THEIR ABILITY TO CONTEST! |
| Xuxon | Posted 11/18/2008 8:17:33 PM | message detail |
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He still made the semifinals though, and you can't really expect much
more than that out of him. Squall was destined to lose in the third
round to Cloud when he's quite easily a top 16 character, and Tifa was
even worse off. --- DQVIII LLG - level 1/6/10/24, Marcello defeated (12 attempts) Brawl FC: 0344-9611-6716 |
| ZFS | Posted 11/18/2008 8:20:36 PM | message detail |
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Don't think anybody could argue with Mario getting bad placement - the
entire path was SFF. He's not the only one who has gotten screwed by
placement this year, but he's the first that comes to mind. Probably
would have looked a bit worse anyway, but yeah. --- http://i33.tinypic.com/2s0xn3o.gif |
| charmander6000 | Posted 11/18/2008 8:20:48 PM | message detail |
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Match LXIII: Link vs. Crono vs. Solid Snake vs. Cloud Strife Last Round: Link – 38.45% Crono – 25.28% Mario – 19.56% Samus Aran – 16.71% Even with triple LFF Link was still able to walk over Crono, the same can’t be said about Mario and Samus though. Samus was able to perform much better against Mario ever since their 2005 encounter shortening the gap from 60/40 to 55/45. Crono makes it to his first final since 2005 by defeating the character that won the 2005 contest. Solid Snake – 30.70% Cloud Strife – 30.40% Kirby – 22.75% Sephiroth – 16.15% Unless Cloud does anything it looks like Snake got the upset. What’s more amazing is that Kirby had no problems destroying Sephiroth even if there was SFF you have to give the pink puff ball a hand here. It’s kind of funny that the results here are opposite to what they were in round 4 just because of fanbase overlap. Analysis: At the time of writing this Snake and Cloud were battling it out, though since both of them are advancing and the results there won’t change my opinion for this match I’ve decided to start this analysis, though I will finish it when the results become more final. Welcome to the final match of Character Battle VII. For the past 62 days the board has laughed, cried and argued over the results, but now only four characters remain, three of which were in the finals in the previous year. Only one will take the crown and even if the winner is kind of predictable this should still be a good match. The Crono/Vincent affair in round 4 was more than just another rematch; it was basically a free pass to the finals due to three Nintendo characters being present in the first semi-final. Crono has looked much more impressive compare to last contest though considering his competition that won’t be enough to avoid last in this final match. We have Link and Cloud, two of the strongest characters of the bracket and Solid Snake who while doesn’t have an agreed position is still agreed that he is stronger than Crono. There isn’t fanbase overlap to save Crono here, but being a strong character himself he won’t exactly be demolished by the three characters. With no Sephiroth in the poll Snake won’t be as close to Cloud as he is currently and will probably return to his round 4 performance. Still 43% against Cloud puts him in my opinion as being the fourth strongest character in the bracket, unless Crono performs better than I expected putting Samus and in turn Mario up there. Still with the recent release of Metal Gear Solid 4 I would have to give Snake the nod as fourth strongest of the bracket, at least for this year. It should be an interesting fight between the three characters, just as long as they aren’t in the same poll. |
| charmander6000 | Posted 11/18/2008 8:20:59 PM | message detail |
| With no other Nintendo character in the poll I
don’t see a reason for Cloud to defeat Link though I’m expecting him to
perform much better than last year’s final because there are no
anti-L-Block votes going towards Link. Still for a character whose game
put GameFAQs on the map Cloud still puts up a good show with Link,
until the sun rises. By next contest Dissidia should hopefully be
released in North America and while it is only on the PSP a smaller
Kingdom Heart like boost is highly probable which could give Cloud the
support needed to beat Link. With no jokes or Nintendo characters in sight the finals is more or less a formality for Link. Unless Snake decides to steal all of Link’s Brawl support, which is unlikely seeing how well he did last round I don’t see a way for him to lose. Some of the elite characters on GameFAQs need to get some hot releases while Link sits there doing nothing before I see him losing. While many people don’t want to admit this the contest did have its moments and upsets and while I wouldn’t rank it as the best contest ever it wasn’t that bad. I think a lot of people give this contest a lot of negative points because of the format and while I’d like to have the old format return I’m not going to leave the board if this format returns. Well I guess this is my final analysis for this contest and time for some stats. Using Times New Roman and 12 point font in Microsoft Word all of my analyses take up 103 pages and have over 45,000 words. See you next contest. charmander6000’s Bracket: Link > Cloud charmander6000’s Prediction: Link – 32.52%, Cloud – 27.43%, Solid Snake – 21.53%, Crono – 18.52% --- Board 8 BOP: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB7%20BOP.xls Character Battle 2008: Points 391/576 Today's Match: Cloud > Solid Snake |
| Lieutenant Kettch | Posted 11/18/2008 8:25:03 PM | message detail |
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Mario was given a fine draw last year. One thing I don't like about 4-ways though, is how some characters will inevitably go out under unfair circumstances. Mario will always keep going and then get eliminated when he hits Link. Sephiroth will always keep going and then get eliminated when he hits Cloud. It's happened for both of them in both contests, and would just about every year regardless of bracket placement. LFF is the only way they would be eliminated barring an L-Block type run. |
| hailEC | Posted 11/18/2008 8:29:13 PM | message detail |
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so no match pics? awesome. --- all hail ec your lord and savior |
| RPGuy96 | Posted 11/18/2008 8:31:38 PM | message detail |
| While this bracket has a lot of problems, it's
really hard to break up the Noble Nine (and the near-elites) in a
decent manner. Cloud and Link should probably be on opposite sides of
the bracket, and then you've already got a problem on where Sephiroth
should go. If he's on Cloud's side, he gets mauled by the likes of
Kirby. If he's on Link's side, then you probably lose a good semifinal
match (sorry Snake, but I'm not buying you > Seph yet). You can't
stick Mario/Samus with Link or you get what happened this year and
last year, and you'd really like to avoid putting them together.
Likewise for the Square near-elites and probably Crono too, and if you
put Seph with Link then your options for them are really constrained. It's much easier to make "fair" 1v1 brackets, since fourways depend on who you're with so much of the time. --- Mustache...and green... |
| Fayt_Esteed | Posted 11/18/2008 8:38:15 PM | message detail |
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While this bracket has a lot of problems, it's really hard to break
up the Noble Nine (and the near-elites) in a decent manner. Cloud and
Link should probably be on opposite sides of the bracket, and then
you've already got a problem on where Sephiroth should go. If he's on
Cloud's side, he gets mauled by the likes of Kirby. If he's on Link's
side, then you probably lose a good semifinal match (sorry Snake, but
I'm not buying you > Seph yet). You can't stick Mario/Samus with
Link or you get what happened this year and last year, and you'd really
like to avoid putting them together. Likewise for the Square
near-elites and probably Crono too, and if you put Seph with Link then
your options for them are really constrained. It's much easier to make "fair" 1v1 brackets, since fourways depend on who you're with so much of the time. This. --- Isaac and Princess Kumatora for SSB4! SSBB Mains: Zelda, Peach, Lucas, Ness Now we must duel, like two gleaming banjos on a moonlit stoop! -Dimentio, SPM |
| RockMFR 5 | Posted 11/18/2008 8:39:04 PM | message detail |
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Bold prediction: The final poll will have Cloud in the 3rd position. --- Be a good little washing machine, now... o_0 The Ohio State University: We are so much better than m*ch!g@n. |
| Lucid Faia | Posted 11/18/2008 8:42:28 PM | message detail |
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| TheDerpMeister | Posted 11/18/2008 8:42:43 PM | message detail |
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oh man, Snake wins. suck it cloud. --- Latest Reviews: Uncharted: Drake's Fortune |
| HaRRicH | Posted 11/18/2008 8:45:15 PM | message detail |
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I took that as to mean Cloud will be the third option in the poll to choose from. --- NRT winners: Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow, Star Fox 64, Donkey Kong Country 2 Remember these games! |
| charmander6000 | Posted 11/18/2008 8:48:34 PM | message detail |
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Still no pictures? Are we going the Frog/Ganon/KOS/Neku way? --- Board 8 BOP: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB7%20BOP.xls Character Battle 2008: Points 391/576 Today's Match: Cloud > Solid Snake |
| tee316 | Posted 11/18/2008 8:49:06 PM | message detail |
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No the choices will be Link, Crono, Snake and then Cloud. It is 1,2,1,2 --- "Mewtwo is a major joke."- Vlado |
| MyWorldIsCrono | Posted 11/18/2008 8:49:31 PM | message detail |
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Watch Bacon fail to have the pics up by match time and we go picless --- http://card.mygamercard.net/aero/Albion+Hero.png http://videogames.techfresh.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/wow-wrath-of-the-lich-king.jpg |
| KleenexTissue50 | Posted 11/18/2008 8:49:33 PM | message detail |
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well i hope you guys are happy i'm going to go cry myself to sleep tonight --- CB7 Score: 456/576 http://www.rosebride.com/lyn/otakon2k6/chronotrigger.jpg |
| tee316 | Posted 11/18/2008 8:51:19 PM | message detail |
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i'm going to go cry myself to sleep tonight Why? Link will beat up the bad man. --- "Mewtwo is a major joke."- Vlado |
| Janus5000 | Posted 11/18/2008 8:52:09 PM | message detail |
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"Vegeta, what does the scouter say about Kirby's lead over Sephiroth?" "It's... wait, Kirby's leading Sephiroth? What in the" "Cloud's also in the poll." "Sure, but... Kirby?" --- http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g320/HowDisturbing/stayawhile.jpg Stay a while and breathe me in. |
| ZFS | Posted 11/18/2008 8:52:10 PM | message detail |
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who's ready for link getting 40% --- http://i33.tinypic.com/2s0xn3o.gif |
| HaRRicH | Posted 11/18/2008 8:53:23 PM | message detail |
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So Solid Snake has successfully lead Cloud for twenty-four hours once
we hit midnight...how many more minutes (hours?) do you think this can
last? --- NRT winners: Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow, Star Fox 64, Donkey Kong Country 2 Remember these games! |
| HaRRicH | Posted 11/18/2008 8:54:39 PM | message detail |
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Lead, led, whatever! --- NRT winners: Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow, Star Fox 64, Donkey Kong Country 2 Remember these games! |
| tee316 | Posted 11/18/2008 8:55:14 PM | message detail |
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It ends at Midnight because then he faces the real top dog. --- "Mewtwo is a major joke."- Vlado |
| red sox 777 | Posted 11/18/2008 8:55:22 PM | message detail |
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10 minutes. --- Crono's quest to beat Link: Character Battle VII Final: Link vs. Cloud vs. Crono vs. Snake |
| KingBartz | Posted 11/18/2008 8:57:18 PM | message detail |
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Heh, this is it. --- Back to California |
| red sox 777 | Posted 11/18/2008 8:57:23 PM | message detail |
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Just watch: the one year we don't hype Cloud > Link it will happen. Aw yeah Hero of Time rSFF! --- Crono's quest to beat Link: Character Battle VII Final: Link vs. Cloud vs. Crono vs. Snake |
| Gaddswell | Posted 11/18/2008 8:57:52 PM | message detail |
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Still no pic! Quick, who gets hurt by the lack of a pic the most? --- http://www.court-records.net/manga/4koma/(eng)4koma2.png |
| Mr3790 | Posted 11/18/2008 8:58:00 PM | message detail |
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I am! It's also epic that snake was able to man up and hold his lead against Cloud today! --- |
| redrocket | Posted 11/18/2008 8:58:09 PM | message detail |
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I'm calling it now, Snake takes first due to three way sword LFF! --- From his looks Magus is Macho Man Randy Savage as an anime zombie. The black wind howls, and one of you will snap into a Slim Jim ooh yeeeah! -sonicblastpunch |
| Blade Of Evils Bane | Posted 11/18/2008 8:58:17 PM | message detail |
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| MyWorldIsCrono | Posted 11/18/2008 8:58:48 PM | message detail |
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Can Bacon fail any more then if he lets the final match go up without a pic? --- http://card.mygamercard.net/aero/Albion+Hero.png http://videogames.techfresh.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/wow-wrath-of-the-lich-king.jpg |
| Biolizard28 | Posted 11/18/2008 8:59:09 PM | message detail |
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From: Gaddswell Still no pic! Quick, who gets hurt by the lack of a pic the most? Crono --- Biolizard28: The cream of Fire Emblem fanboyism. ALLEN LIED! PEOPLE LOST THEIR ABILITY TO CONTEST! |
| Karma Hunter | Posted 11/18/2008 8:59:13 PM | message detail |
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It ends at Midnight because then he faces the real top dog. Why so serious? oh wait lol --- turnturnturn your brain in turnturnturn your brain in |
| BlAcK TuRtLe | Posted 11/18/2008 8:59:13 PM | message detail |
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From: RPGuy96 | #224 Yeah, that's the point I was trying to make. People are always going to get screwed, and despite how badly he looked, Mario still made it to Link, which is about as far as he's going to go. Tifa, Squall and Mega Man/Zero all had way worse placement. Dante got stuck with Leon again, Big Boss and Raiden screwed eachother out of looking good. Geno is the epitome of bad bracket placement. Squall twice and Bowser this year. The list goes on. To whine about how it's "unfair" that Mario got 52% on X instead of 55% is completely lame. --- 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 |
