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Who the **** is Archer? I never even heard of his game before.
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Not Wylvane

Nice to see Bioshock doing well though.
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If there were match pics Archer would be even higher!

If GameFAQs voters are as dumb as I think they are, the "Hey it's Dante!" factor would've done very well for him.

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Pac-attack missed out in 2006 thanks to the Female Bracket. Otherwise though, he's made every normal contest (and both BGE-contests, while we're at it).
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Oh yeah......

lol Diddy Kong
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From: Not_Wylvane | #401
Might as well ask here.

Who the **** is Archer? I never even heard of his game before.

main character of some hentai game b8 likes i think
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I thought about what SBAllen has done as far as grouping the 2 BioShock guys together, the 3 pokémon yesterday and the 2 MGS characters and it's to achieve a diverse character range, not necessarily the strongest.

Sure, you could put 3 pokémon characters in 3 polls and get them all through, or you could open up the contest to a wider range of series'. I understand why he's done it that way but at the same time, if Big Daddy doesn't get in because Andrew Ryan screwed him over, that's a bit sucky.
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Might as well ask here.

Who the **** is Archer? I never even heard of his game before.

http://aqery.org/blog/image/20060409/11.jpg

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KrahenProphet lived up to his name.

Archer is from one of those visual novel/porn games.

sc2k5 is down at the moment, but I think Big Daddy had a pretty good day vote.

I'd say that this poll is overall much stronger than yesterday's, looking at Liquid Snake vs. The Boss's percentage. Liquid eats the Boss alive.
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Who the **** is Archer? I never even heard of his game before.

One, maybe two people were very vocal about it making some people think he was a big shot.


Also Diddy has been dropping like a rock and could finish below Sam Fisher.
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Rikku is going to eat Frog alive during the dead hours
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Maybe he's doing this as a way of seeding or something. Have groups of 24 characters, seed the upper half by number of noms, seed the lower half by these polls. Then match them together for a tag-team.

Ridiculous, but you never know.
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I thought about what SBAllen has done as far as grouping the 2 BioShock guys together, the 3 pokémon yesterday and the 2 MGS characters and it's to achieve a diverse character range, not necessarily the strongest.

Sure, you could put 3 pokémon characters in 3 polls and get them all through, or you could open up the contest to a wider range of series'. I understand why he's done it that way but at the same time, if Big Daddy doesn't get in because Andrew Ryan screwed him over, that's a bit sucky.

Which is fine, but wouldn't that mean Liquid should have been in yesterday's poll?
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Yeah this field is much stronger than yesterday's. We have Frog, Rikku, Liquid, and Midna here, all of whom have some respectable strength.
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all these low-tier Nintendo things are bombing. the only ones that have done well are the jokes.
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xyzzy

I think it's kinda funny how we used to argue about whether or not Diddy could beat DK...and now Diddy is struggling with Captain Olimar.
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Yeah, I think we can stop nominating Diddy. He's a bigger failure than DK.
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Demyx is better than Axel.

Big Daddy is getting ready to go past Midna.
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I'd eat Rikku out alive.

Or dead.
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Diddy already got killed by Captain Falcon. this really isn't any worse.
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xyzzy

I just now noticed that Diddy was in the poll, and that he is apparently getting SFFd badly enough by Midna to be below Archer.

This guy was an NRT nomination? We don't really have such a great track record with them outside of the winners, do we?

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Which is fine, but wouldn't that mean Liquid should have been in yesterday's poll?

Yeah... I missed that. Maybe these are seeded as well?
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Who knows.

Oh sorry, Midna and the amazing Captain Olimar.

God this poll sucks. If Archer wasn't in it I doubt I would have voted for anyone.

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I know, but Olimar lost to Banjo...so it's still worth stressing.


I posted this in my Doc-topic, but it looks like even less-nominated characters from the board got in today's poll than yesterday's. We saw Dan Hibiki, Jigglypuff, and Yoshimitsu yesterday when they were all in the top ten on our board...whereas the most nominated character from our board in today's poll is Archer (13th), somebody with certainly no casual support. I wonder if this will be a continuing trend of grabbing guys we supported less in future polls or of this is being done randomly.
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Another good update for Frog.
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Frog vs. Rikku: +27, +36, -2, +17, +6, +27
Frog's percentage: 54.90%

Rikku's probably more likely to win, although we've had so few votes in so far that the results right now don't mean nearly as much as they normally would 30 minutes into a match. The nice thing about FF/CT's new day vote is that Frog really just has to survive until 9 AM or so. If he's still up then, he can hang with Rikku the rest of the match.
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this is just random. I really think we're reading too much into these. as someone said earlier, nobody takes Frog to beat Liquid unless MGS in general just fell off the earth (which wouldn't be impossible given the 2008 that they had)
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xyzzy

Chrono Trigger character vs. Final Fantasy character.

red sox, you know what you must do.
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It's kind of depressing to me that Big Daddy is destroying Andrew Ryan so badly. Andrew Ryan is the main antagonist of the game, extremely quotable, well-developed character. Big Daddy is a recurring enemy. You'd think that (especially without pictures) the hardcore Bioshock fanbase would support the former at least a little bit more than if it were a normal contest setting.

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With the write-ins unless the board looks somewhere else I can see the top nominations for next character contest being old characters that have missed the last two or three contests.
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From: KamikazePotato | #429
It's kind of depressing to me that Big Daddy is destroying Andrew Ryan so badly. Andrew Ryan is the main antagonist of the game, extremely quotable, well-developed character. Big Daddy is a recurring enemy. You'd think that (especially without pictures) the hardcore Bioshock fanbase would support the former at least a little bit more than if it were a normal contest setting.

he's the face of the game. he's on the box art and hes what people think of when they think of bioshock. its not really surprising
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Nominate Vault Boy!

RIKKU

RIKKU

RIKKU

AAAAAAAHHHH
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Vote for Rikku in today's poll!

So uh... I did take a look at the geolocation for yesterday, and it's a huge mess. As far as I can see the highlights are:

South America like Missigno the most, followed by North America and Oceania. then it falls off in Europe and does terrible in Asia

Lightning is least popular in North America and is awesome in Asia.

Europe, Asia and Oceania like Yoshimitsu while he is loathed in the Americas.

Mudkip does best in Oceania (jokes generally do for some reason) and decent in Europe and North America. The others don't care about him at all

The Boss Did far better in South America then anywhere else. Asia and Europe also care more about her then the others.

Toad did adequate in North America and terrible everywhere else


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bad update alert
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Pac-Man's dropping, but I'd be shocked if Archer/Diddy/Sam were to pass him.
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Frog is the best- I've never been this interested in a non-contest poll before.
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Archer has already gotten more votes than people have probably played FSN in the US. The idea of him passing anyone is uuuuh

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Frog with a big gain there, and Liquid looks like he's pulling away from Midna.
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Link he come to town to dominate all other characters and trample them down with his sword of more votes.

Excel file with the vote updates from yesterday's match:
http://members.shaw.ca/teamrocketelite/Spr10Vote-In1.xls

As always, the times listed are when I got the update not when the update actually happened but the two values should be close. I unfortunately missed 3 updates around noon(PST) but all the other updates are there.
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Captain Olimar is officially losing to an SFFed Andrew Ryan. This makes him "Captain Tanner," right?

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how the hell is Archer stabalizing? I figured he'd fall flat after the board vote
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Nominate Vault Boy!

And Frog finally breaks the 200 vote barrier with the last update of the Power Hour. He'll keep going a bit higher for a little longer.
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Ngamer64 | Posted 12/8/2009 4:06:20 PM | message detail
And now for a

BOLD PREDICTION

If tonight's poll is these same options but pared down (as in Miss advanced into the bracket and bottom options Yoshi and Jiggly cut out), then we're looking at a 64 character bracket. Most likely with 60 locked in already and these Play-Ins deciding the final 4 spots.

If tonight's poll features 12 entirely new options, it will be because 96 were locked to start, meaning we're back to a 128 character bracket. (And almost certainly tag teams.)

I'm... kind of leaning toward it being the latter at the moment. But I'd sure prefer it to be the former!


If I was correct in that prediction, then this season we will be indeed be seeing a 128 character Tag Team bracket much like the one I simulated over at

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=52514344

I imagine SB will assign seeds based on how well these characters performed in their Play-In polls, which would mean we've just decided the following:

#13 seed - Missingno

#14 - The Boss

#15 - Axel

#15 - Lightning

#16 - Scorpion

#16 - Mudkip

Wow, got to love the chances of whatever #1 seed gets paired up with Mudkip. It's going to be very nice having that kind of 4chan rally power packed in, sure wouldn't expect a nice boost like that from the last character to make the cut.


Based on the results 40 minute in, here are the seedings we're setting up with our Day 2 results.

#13 - Frog

#13 - Rikku

#14 - Liquid Snake

#14 - Midna

#15 - Big Daddy

#16 - Pac-Man

Dang, I'd hate to be the 2 seed saddled with Big Daddy. On the other hand, Pac-Man's old school respect vote could make a big difference, if placed in a group with 3 modern characters.

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Frog with a 208 vote lead and 55.38% against Rikku at the end of the power hour. It's still anyone's game, and Frog's got another 3 hours before he falls off that cliff waiting in the dark at 4 AM while FF characters gain superpowers. After morning reaches all the way to the West Coast tomorrow, these two will probably have very similar trends for the remainder of the match.
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Link he come to town to dominate all other characters and trample them down with his sword of more votes.

maybe the kiddies will think that Rikku is Riku and have a crazy asv for her
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Nominate Vault Boy!

Ngamer, why do you think the first day had two 15 and 16 seeds but today will have two 13 and 14s? I don't see the logic there, other than the characters today are a little stronger.
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Archer looking legitimately stronger than Frank West is beyond hilarious. Especially since he'd be far stronger with a picture.
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Demyx is better than Axel.

Archer just cut Pac-man twice

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Well the seeds are just an estimate, but I figure that when in doubt SB will consider the strength of competition. And he'd be crazy to think the D1 strength was anything close to what we're seeing in this current poll.

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