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56k... looks like board rallies will be more powerful (expect Jigglypuff, Doc Louis, Red and Dan Hibiki)
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From: charmander6000 | #351
56k... looks like board rallies will be more powerful (expect Jigglypuff, Doc Louis, Red and Dan Hibiki)

It'll be interesting to see what kinda nominations we get with lower nomination totals. Maybe people will even not nominate some heavy hitters due to "Oh, they'll get in anyway"
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Nominate Vault Boy!

At this rate, we could get up to around 60k.

Also, votals on this poll suck. Only 580 votes at the freeze. And an extra 459 on the second update. The fourth option went up big time with the second update.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
Popular at school, but not as cool as KrahenProphet, Guru Champ!

I don't think it'll be that different.
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"The great GF...Bahamut."
"...GF? I...? Using my powers...It is you humans...I fear..."

Didn't 2004's nominations last for 2 days only?
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Congratulations to Krahenprophet for winning the guru contest

By the way guys, notice today's poll about the Character Battle has an option about nominating before Monday...I don't think that's typical for these types of polls to point out a specific day. Maybe they're closing soon?
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Please nominate DOC LOUIS from Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
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From: HaRRicH | #356
By the way guys, notice today's poll about the Character Battle has an option about nominating before Monday...I don't think that's typical for these types of polls to point out a specific day. Maybe they're closing soon?

Says so on the front page.
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"I can set you free, mate."
"My freedom was forfeit long ago!"

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3204
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3688

Small increase from last year! At the board vote, anyway.

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KrahenProphet lived up to his name.

Wow I'm late. Hitting refresh should have showed me most of your posts...grrrr.
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Please nominate DOC LOUIS from Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
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Excellent, I need a contest soon.
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Link he come to town to dominate all other characters and trample them down with his sword of more votes.

Sweet, Bacon's speeding this thing up.

No point in having nominations lasting more than a couple of weeks on the front page. Plus this way the bracket may come out quicker than with nearly four times as many nominations.

Assuming Bacon isn't doing something that would be complicated, but I guess we'll see about that in the future.
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Not Wylvane

I wouldn't mind if the bracket came out after the 19th, when I finished my finals.
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Small increase from last year! At the board vote, anyway.

By the end of this poll, it will probably end up at around the same that we had last year. The fourth option went berserk in the first 2 updates after the freeze. Percentage of votes per update for each option:

0:05 | 6.90% | 12.93% | 9.48% | 37.93% | 32.76%
0:10 | 4.58% | 11.11% | 7.19% | 42.92% | 34.20%
0:15 | 5.71% | 9.29% | 7.86% | 47.86% | 29.29%
0:20 | 4.60% | 13.08% | 7.26% | 42.62% | 32.45%

I don't know what happened at 0:15, but that fourth option almost pulled in 48% of the votes. If it keeps this up, the final percentage for that option will be pretty close to what we had last year.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
Popular at school, but not as cool as KrahenProphet, Guru Champ!

Yeah, contest season and finals don't mix well, but I don't really consider the bracket period contest season anymore, except maybe for the first couple days.
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Link he come to town to dominate all other characters and trample them down with his sword of more votes.

If the bracket comes out any time this month, you'll still have plenty of time to fill it out.
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"Hold on a minute! That testimony stinks!"
"Witness! You can't just say 'Hello' and expect us to get anywhere! I want you to testify!"

I'd rather have a longer bracket period than a longer nomination period. Nomination period is nothing but "Nominate X!" topics, but when the bracket comes out, that's when the real fun begins between all the match discussion and all the various topics like Guru, Betting, Oracle, and the unintentionally hilarious Analysis Crew write-ups that I might actually start reading more of.
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Not Wylvane

I agree, but then we'll also start the "man, there's nothing left to talk about, start the contest already" talk by New Year's if the bracket comes up immediately after nominations close. I still prefer actually having something to debate and predict though, and the sooner we get to praise or hate this new format the better.
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Please nominate DOC LOUIS from Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
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I agree, but then we'll also start the "man, there's nothing left to talk about, start the contest already" talk by New Year's if the bracket comes up immediately after nominations close.

We're already in the "Man, there's nothing left to talk about, give us the bracket already" phase as it is.
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"The great GF...Bahamut."
"...GF? I...? Using my powers...It is you humans...I fear..."

From: LeonhartFour | #368
I agree, but then we'll also start the "man, there's nothing left to talk about, start the contest already" talk by New Year's if the bracket comes up immediately after nominations close.

We're already in the "Man, there's nothing left to talk about, give us the bracket already" phase as it is.

Seriously. Do we really need a couple more weeks of debating if it will be tag team or not? I say just get the bracket as soon as possible. Debating matches is more fun then what we have now.
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Nominate Vault Boy!

So while waiting for the new contest, weve exhausted all the debates on newcomers like Bayonetta or Eddie Riggs, most of the characters like batman, the watchmen cast and other comic book or movie characters like luke skywalker.
We've gone over just about every possible scenario of a tag team contest and more.
srsly just announce the format already.
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Shakes Fist!

Besides even if talk about the bracket dies by New Years we still have the GotY to talk about.
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Goty doesn't look so hot anymore since that poll where MW2 crushed everything.
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Shakes Fist!

From: voltch | #372
Goty doesn't look so hot anymore since that poll where MW2 crushed everything.

we always knew MW2 was gonna win it. It'll be good to see how others compete for 2nd and 3rd place though
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Nominate Vault Boy!

http://www.crispygamer.com/features/2009-12-04/game-of-the-decade-sweet-16.aspx

no real big surprises for their 3rd round matches
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Nominate Vault Boy!

I'm glad to see their vote totals have picked up all around. Their least popular poll is Psychonauts/SotC, and that's still pulling in 1,552 votes with a day to spare. That's still nothing compared to our standards and nothing we can take very seriously, but that's also a big change from their most popular R2-poll having only 933 votes. Maybe the following rounds will improve even more.
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Please nominate DOC LOUIS from Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
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Each time the round changes, an update is posted to Digg, so that probably has something to do with it.

Only time I've seen Digg have a story on a GameFAQs contest was to rally L-Block in the 2007 semifinals, though it was posted so late it pretty much applied for the finals instead.
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Not Wylvane

Update.

Highlights:
-Prinny has more nominations than Altair ever did, proving that B8 would rather nominate a side character from Disgaea than the main character of a game than sold millions.
-At this rate, Godot is going to pass Trite. How about that!
-Everyone kind of stagnated as the people nominating rally tournament winners gave way to the casuals nominating whoever the hell they felt like.
-Vyse doubled his nominations from 3 to 6, and is now set to take this contest by storm as soon as it ends up as Tag Teams and he gets paired up with Link.


Prinny – 65

Charizard – 53

Ken – 40

Pokemon Trainer Red – 39

Cid Highwind – 36

Doc Louis – 33

Jigglypuff – 31

Darth Revan – 29
Yoshimitsu – 29

Dan Hibiki – 28

Godot – 20
Phoenix Wright – 20

Lyn – 19

Archer – 18

Minsc – 16
Professor Layton – 16

CATS – 15
Jecht – 15
Proto Man – 15

Jack Frost – 14

Albert Wesker – 13
Boko – 13
Nathan Drake – 13
Yuna – 13
Zack Fair – 13

Ike – 12

Captain Falcon – 11
Bayonetta – 11
Gene – 11
Green Biker Dude – 11
Solid Snake – 11

Gilgamesh – 10
Vault Boy – 10
Yuffie Kisaragi – 10

Fawful – 9
Gordon Freeman – 9
Miles Edgeworth – 9
Miles Tails Prower – 9
Sniper Wolf – 9
Yuri Lowell – 9

Big Boss – 8
Dan McNeely – 8
Goomba – 8
Isaac – 8
Vivi – 8

Ghaleon – 7
Guybrush Threepwood – 7
Happy Mask Salesman – 7
Knuckles the Echidna – 7
Locke Cole – 7
Maxwell – 7
Squall Leonhart – 7
Terry Bogard – 7
The Blue Marble – 7
Tifa Lockheart – 7

Blue Toad – 6
Bowser – 6
Chun Li – 6
Dante – 6
Etna – 6
Laguna Loire – 6
Leon Kennedy – 6
Magus – 6
Morrigan (Dragon Age) – 6
Neku Sakuraba – 6
Pious Augustus – 6
Seifer Almasy – 6
Sonic the Hedgehog – 6
Vyse – 6
Yoshi – 6

Ada Wong – 5
Crash Bandicoot – 5
Crono – 5
Dick Gumshoe – 5
Hector – 5
Kirby – 5
Liquid Snake – 5
Little Mac – 5
Raiden – 5
Rikku – 5
Tim – 5
Yangus – 5

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KrahenProphet lived up to his name.

Dan Hibiki – 28
Chun Li – 6

dammit

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the journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step

In a perfect world Dan would have more nominations than Ken, too!

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KrahenProphet lived up to his name.

dan bottom tier in every way

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the journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step

And that's why we love him!

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KrahenProphet lived up to his name.

From: KamikazePotato | #377
-Prinny has more nominations than Altair ever did, proving that B8 would rather nominate a side character from Disgaea than the main character of a game than sold millions.

There were more people in this Guru contest than in 2007.

Also, whoo, 39 nominations for Red!

what is the all time nomination record from this board anyway?
I know Jay Solano got like over 100 in theory, but wonder how many actually went through with it.
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Shakes Fist!

What are some of the all-time biggest snubs nomination-wise? I could only find 2007 and 2008's lists on the B8-wiki.
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Please nominate DOC LOUIS from Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
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Vincent, maybe?
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shouldn't seifer and Charizard be pretty high up anyway?
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Shakes Fist!

I cannot understand why there are so many rallies for characters that are definite fodder.

well stuff like prinny is understandable and sometimes people try to emulate l-block which just turns the contest into a joke and sometime it's just because the character is awesome and we don't care if they suck.
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Shakes Fist!

I mean, if I like a character, the last thing I would want to see is how badly he would get his ass kicked in a contest.

I really do not understand nominating more "joke" characters, either. None of them will be as recognizable or have the same iconic status that the L-Block has. I voted for L-Block every time in the 2007 contest, not because it was funny or anything, but because I genuinely liked L-Block and Tetris.

I cannot understand why there are so many rallies for characters that are definite fodder.

We're at the point where besides new characters or Final Fantasy VII all that is left are fodder or low mid-carders.

Also before NRT there weren't as many big rallies though the ones that did form got their characters in.

Major failed rallies:
Seifer
Raiden
Diddy Kong
Midgar Zolom
Charizard
Nightmare
Gilgamesh
Jay Solano

There were also some years where characters got a decent backing by some people on the board and were kind of forgotten afterwards.
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I really do not understand nominating more "joke" characters, either. None of them will be as recognizable or have the same iconic status that the L-Block has. I voted for L-Block every time in the 2007 contest, not because it was funny or anything, but because I genuinely liked L-Block and Tetris.

I nominated L-Block because I want to see what it can do in this new format. I also nominated ? Block, since it's going to be pretty strong for a joke character (as it defeated L-Block in a bonus match). I also nominated Weighted Companion Cube to give it another chance to be in a contest (it has only been in one contest and L-Block has been in two).

And then there Goomba, which I nominated just because someone decided to make an attempt at a nomination rally for Goomba.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
Popular at school, but not as cool as KrahenProphet, Guru Champ!

I like joke characters as long as they aren't too strong cuz they can wreck some havoc with 4chan and stuffing and stuff. thats more exciting
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Nominate Vault Boy!

Same here, jokes are ok to an extent. Goobma seems interesting though.
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GENO WHIRL!

"mid-carders."

I have to say, I always find it kind of funny when people use wrestling lingo outside of wrestling. I mean, are we calling a character in this tournament a midcarder because... they tend to have fights in the middle of card? But that doesn't make sense in the context... =P

That said, I totally mark out for Solid Snake.
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One Piece: Pirates with style!
-= Metal Gear Solid: Tactical Espionage Action =-

For the record, I was against L-block all the way, to me a character with no character doesn't deserve to go far. But, I can enjoy some joke characters.
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One Piece: Pirates with style!
-= Metal Gear Solid: Tactical Espionage Action =-

I was all about L-Block when he won his first match, but his charm wore off more and more as he won more matches and started going nuts. I think I'm like that with most joke-characters I like; I don't like seeing them do TOO well and affecting the major parts of the contest, but they provide good fun for a match or two and it's funny to see who can lose to them more than anything else.
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Please nominate DOC LOUIS from Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
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Most people know by now I have no problems with joke characters, and L-Block beating Link was something GameFAQs long needed. It's clear L-Block or any other joke will never win another contest, though they have a loyal enough fanbase that they have actual character strength. So if anything, joke characters are our best shot these days of nominating characters with strength, along with nominating icons like Goomba, Vault Boy, and Boco that represent their series more than establish themselves as actual characters.

That or clones like Toon Link and Mega Man X. Which reminds me, I still have time to nominate Toon Link!
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Not Wylvane

Would Toon Link even by allowed?
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I'm not even sure. Although I would be interested to see how strong it would be in comparison to Link himself.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
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I think he would be a lot weaker than just Link because people will think of him of just the Brawl entity.
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