GameFAQs Contests

From: Lopen | #309
Shame this is probably my favorite match so far in terms of how much I like both entrants!

From: MyWorldIsCrono | #296
Currently 3/4 wings of Icecrown Citadel (the dungeon he's the boss of) is open. He is in the final wing and should be opened up within a week or two. But really, you can't play WoW these days without Arthas everywhere. He's on loading screens, he's related to nearly every quest in Northrend, and he appears in a lot of quests himself. Last contest Wotlk wasn't even out yet; it was only hype. IF anything, I'd expect him to be stronger since then, because people who play WoW would have seen him now and haven't seen him if they weren't paying attention to the hype last contest.

From: Lopen | #318
Well I'm convinced

Laharl vs Altair who ya got. SFF match and all.

From: ExThaNemesis | #277
Hahah, Frog with ease.

From: ExThaNemesis | #295
I'd still take Liquid over Midna. She lost to Scorpion.

From: LOLContests | #340
Does anyone else find it odd that we have so few perfects? Thinking about things logically, there have really been only 7 50/50 matches so far, where there is no clear favorite (I mean in a logical sense, not a predictive sense. Just because Red had more brackets doesn't mean you couldn't make a clear argument against him.) Those matches are: Alucard/Magus, Red/Ocelot, Amaterasu/Shadow/, Nathan Drake/The Boss, Wesker/Ken, GladDOS/Fawful, and Altair/Liquid. Every other one has a clear favorite from a logical sense, based on what we know. Taking this into account, assuming someone always picks the clear favorite and only differentiates on the 50/50 matches, ~7.5% of the predictors should have perfect brackets (.5 x 7) Obviously, all 50/50 matches are not really 50/50 splits in predictors, but over time I would expect this to even out. However, the totals are far far less than that.

Now the reason behind this is obvious. People make "illogical" decisions, and the prediction percentages prove as such. Still, that's a large discrepancy. But it's not just the predictors at large. Look at the Gurus. These are people are allegedly trying their best to predict the contest, and thus would not make "illogical" decisions on any grand scheme. And yet, there's only 1 perfect left out of over 100 entrants, and there is only 1 additional person who would have a perfect if not for an "illogical" choice.

Now, I think at least one possible explanation for this is that people do not make their predictions in a vacuum. People make predictions based on what they assume trends will be, but if those trends are not consistent, their vision is broken. Drake/The Boss and Altair/Liquid contradicted themselves in their results, and had one or the other gone the other way, that the amount of perfects we have would be noticeably increased. Once again, this doesn't explain anything, but it is interesting to think that we tend to have less perfects than we statistically should.

From: Darth_Voltch | Posted: 1/28/2010 3:54:30 PM | #343
I'm just wondering how many non-B8ers can fare well in these contest environments, even if you take lurkers into account, how on earth do some of the casuals who don't access our ressources are able to compete with us?
I honestly can't imagine doing well without some of the tools like the B8 wiki.

From: UltimaterializerX | #347
Only one B8 regular has ever won a contest.