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I'm not sure if this match is bad news for Kingdom Hearts or not, although the series is not transitive. Never gets blown out, ever blows anything out.
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It's probably going to be half-day matches, will it...
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"Here I go! Divine judgment for an evil soul! Sacred Penance! Rest in peace." - Estellise Sidos Heurassein, Tales of Vesperia

It better not be divided up by generation like the last one. Much more interesting with games from different times going at it.

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I just got the best message from Bacon ever.

Time to work on a very, very key Top 10 list.
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Does anyone take Delita being stronger than Ramza if he ever got in?
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Good show from Ramza. Makes up for losing to Hogger.

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So...we're going to have a contest like this, except with games instead of characters plus Ocarina of Time and FF7 in a Tournament of Champions?

If that's true, then let's try to fish out a bracket!

I missed something -- where's our source for this upcoming contest?
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NGamer64 is our source
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Match XLIV: (4) Captain Falcon vs. (13) Wander

Information

Name: Captain Falcon
Game/Series: F-Zero
Previous Contest: 2008
Performance: 4th in round 2

Name: Wander
Game/Series: Shadow of the Colossus
Previous Contest: 2008
Performance: 4th in round 1

Analysis

Captain Falcon is finally given a non-Nintendo opponent while Wander continues to boggle the board’s mind of how he made it to the contest. Just a few less nominations and he would have ended in the vote-in and would most likely have been eliminated. This is a match of whether or not Captain Falcon has what it takes to take on Riku in the next round.

Wander has quickly become one of the numerous fodders that gain nomination support to reach the contest, but doesn’t quite have the fanbase to do well in the contest himself. Sure the two main characters in his previous two contests were strong, but the percent that he was reduced to was pitiful. Even in this contest the number of characters Wander could defeat number the same on my hand and even then some of those are maybes.

The last time Captain Falcon was given an opponent that wasn’t from Nintendo was all the way back in 2006 where Crono tripled him placing him at around the fodder line. 2007 was a complete wash when you consider that Fox easily takes Falcon’s only power source. 2008 on the other hand had Captain Falcon performing rather decent on Alucard despite Diddy Kong and Kratos Aurion if you believe in a Nintendo/Symphonia relation. If Falcon can show a repeat from last year he does have a great chance to win over Riku.

Blowouts seem to be more infrequent in this contest, but it’s Wander. Some people were hyping that Falcon can get blowout of the round though in my opinion that would put him a bit too close to Vincent. Falcon should be able to reach the mid to high 70s with ease which would bring a lot of hype to the duel next round.

charmander6000’s Bracket: Captain Falcon > Wander

charmander6000’s Prediction: Captain Falcon wins, 77.82% - 22.18%

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Character Battle VIII - 34/42 - Today's Winners: Riku and Captain Falcon

Rikku with 59.74%.
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She already lost. Lol.
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Um...Crono is from Nintendo.
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Crono is a Square-Enix character(former Square-Soft).His game was on SNES,PS1 and DS.He isn't a Nintendo character.
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EternalxCourage is either a troll or he just lost all credibility in debating rights.
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Um...Crono is from Nintendo.

hahahahaHAHAHAHAHA
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I think Curt only read the first line of my analysis.
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Character Battle VIII - 34/42 - Today's Winners: Riku and Captain Falcon

Midgar Division: Round 1 - Match 44 – (4) Captain Falcon vs. (13) Wander

Moltar’s Analysis

Falcon
Master of the Punch. Bringer of the Kick.

Wander
Because you can never have enough complete fodder characters.

Man this division sucks. Falcon is the underdog going into Round 2, but a strong performance against Wander could help him look better. Falcon looked really good in 2008, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see him go big here. Remember, we’re dealing with a guy who got tripled by GlaDOS and nearly [quad]rupled by Falco.

Moltar’s Bracket: Falcon > Wander

Moltar’s Prediction: Falcon: 75% - Wander: 25%



Lopen’s Analysis

Captain Falcon's gonna be all like "show me your moves!"

But Wander is too boring to actually have any moves. Why does this guy keep getting into contests I just don't get it.

Anyway moral of the story is Falcon nails the dude with a Falcon Punch and destroys him for being so lame as to not have moves.

Lopen's prediction:
Captain Falcon with 77.77% (yes a tripling from Captain Falcon, how sad is this)



Transience’s Analysis

HAHAHAHA WANDER YOU LOOK AWFUL

AND YOU'RE EVEN WEAKER THAN AWFUL

HAHAHAHA FALCON PUNCH okay this is an awful writeup

transience's prediction: Captain Falcon with 65.94%



Ngamer’s Analysis

Fantastical writeup coming soon!

Ngamer Says: Captain Falcon > Wander, 72.33%



Kleenex’s Analysis

And just off the heels of Ramza's match, another character who has no business getting into these contests anymore. I mentioned this in the stats topic, but Wander is pretty much a perfect recipe for being awful in these contests. His game is relatively cult. His character design is uninspired and boring. His picture selection is virtually non-exsistant. And a good chunk of the people who have actually played Shadow of the Colossus probably have no idea his name is Wander. I mean, just look at the dude's resume. He lost to a Mario-SFF'd Pac-Man. Does it get more embarassing than that? I think not. Seriously, let that sink in for a minute.

I don't have as much Captain respect as some people might, but this is such a mismatch. Laharl vs. Wander would be a mismatch. He's that bad. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Falcon approached 80% here. The only thing I can guarantee is that Wander will get at least one vote. Beyond that? Who knows!


Bracket: Captain Falcon
Favorites: Wander
Prediction: Captain Falcon with 81.26% (let's do this)



Red Sox’s Analysis

Here is yet another boring match, this time between a Nintendo low midcarder and low fodder. Or perhaps Wander is even bottom of the barrel fodder. That doesn’t really make sense to me considering Shadow of the Colossus was a very well received game, and isn’t obscure, but that’s what Wander’s past contest appearances say. 13% on Mario, 22% on Falco……that would be bottom of the barrel fodder, if the 4-way results are legitimate.

Captain Falcon is probably close to Falco in strength, so that 22% is probably the most relevant percentage here. I don’t really trust it and think Falco was overrated in that match or Wander was underrated, so I’m going to go higher than that for Wander today.

Prediction: Captain Falcon with 74.00%
Upset Potential: 0%
Upper Bound: Captain Falcon with 80%
Lower Bound: Captain Falcon with 68%

Guest’s Analysis - GrapefruitKing

Oh, Wander. You seem like a pretty nice guy. I’d probably go out and have a pint with you. I’d talk to you about school, and girls, and stuff… you’d talk to me about your horse and colossi and stuff. You seem nice but you’re WEAK. Look at 2007… you’re worth 13.44% on Mario. Pretty bad. Was 2008 a better year for you? 14.12% on Vincent. Well at least I guess you’re consistent. Consistently weak. Though you could probably beat Sandal and Eddie Riggs. Feel better?

Why do you keep making these contests, Wander? Your game is nice, and all, but you need to take a rest, now. As for our friend Falcon, he has finally showed what he was really made of last year, almost getting 45% on Alucard with Diddy potentially dragging him down. And this year he actually has a chance to make it to Round 3, if Riku chokes or slits his wrist or something.

This’ll be a boring match but at least it might convince people to stop nominating Wander.
Though Wander would probably win if he acted like this in his game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZSXhuuRgB8

GrapefruitKing’s surprisingly accurate prediction:

Captain Falcon with 72.42%



Crew Consensus: Falcon will show us his moves today when he 3-stocks Wander.

Where did Crono originate again?
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From: EternalxCourage | #420
Where did Crono originate again?

A Squaresoft SNES RPG named Chrono Trigger.
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A Squaresoft SNES RPG named Chrono Trigger.

Oh ok. Is that the system most people played him on?
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No, emulation is.
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Emulation of what system?
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SNES
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So... you consider Kefka a Nintendo character too?
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what the hell Curt

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http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/snes/data/563538.html

Ctrl + F "Nintendo"

Failure, just like that useless Ezio > Zelda nonsense.
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Kefka probably got more exposure from Dissidia than he did the SNES.

But my point isn't that they are necessarily that company's character -- moreso that it's not unreasonable to believe that Nintendo and Crono would have overlapping fanbases when the majority of the people who have played his game did so on a Nintendo system.
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so, wait, if FFVII was on the SNES, would Cloud be a Nintendo character too?
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Curt has a decent point in there, but he's not making it in the best way. He's basically saying that Crono gets more than a fair share of Nintendo support in a way a character like, say, Vincent wouldn't.

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Then SFF would be in almost every match.
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Curt is worse than Turtle, MWC and I combined.

I mean, Crono being a Nintendo character

I mean, really.
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I'm sure he would have overlap with the Nintendo fanbase -- but that's kind of a moot question considering he doesn't originate there.
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From: ZFS | #431
Curt has a decent point in there, but he's not making it in the best way. He's basically saying that Crono gets more than a fair share of Nintendo support in a way a character like, say, Vincent wouldn't.

Yeah I thought it was always considered at least quite possible that Crono had a bit of a Nintendo overlap.
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From: EternalxCourage | Posted: 2/6/2010 11:47:58 AM | #429
Kefka probably got more exposure from Dissidia than he did the SNES.

But my point isn't that they are necessarily that company's character -- moreso that it's not unreasonable to believe that Nintendo and Crono would have overlapping fanbases when the majority of the people who have played his game did so on a Nintendo system.

That argument pretty much only works for Mega Man. Crono doesn't even have the Nintendo voting trends to back up whatever BS you're deciding to spew this week.
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The pre PS1 games are a bit different though, I think. I mean, it wasn't like "Nintendo Vs. Something Vs. Something" it was basically just Nintendo. Yeah, Genesis was there but obviously looking at this site it's easy to see what came out on top there. Today's Playstation and Xbox360 fans are still yesteryear's "SNES players"
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Well you'd have an argument if Crono's games were at least similar to the characters he's facing, but it doesn't work like that.
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From: ExThaNemesis | Posted: 2/6/2010 11:50:25 AM | #435
Yeah I thought it was always considered at least quite possible that Crono had a bit of a Nintendo overlap.

Chrono Trigger has never, not even in 2002-2003 during the height of his vote-stuffing, had a respectable day vote like any other Nintendo character would. You guys could ignore this and stop letting the stats topic be filled with whatever other random crap gets thrown out for no reason, but I know better. Board 8 never ignores trolling.
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What Ulti said. Seriously, I don't ever see Crono ever doing much SFF to Nintendo characters (if there is any it's too small to notice) but whenever he's in a match with a Square character he's usually able to turn it into a beatdown.
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Oh, and remember Link/Cloud/Snake/Crono? Crono stopped Cloud from getting second place. If he were a Nintendo character, wouldn't he take more away from Link?
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Next Curt is gonna say that Snake and Mega Man SFF due to both starting on NES
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Well, Crono representin' 1995 is a good way to ensure he doesn't have Nintendo trends, but whatever support he does get is certainly not significant enough to call him a Nintendo character. He just reaches that the core Nintendo fanbase in a way other characters don't, but it's not in the same way that Mega Man and Sonic have become Nintendo characters or anything.

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I'm not trolling. Ulti is just raging like he always does. Albion put it best -- he's pretty rude and self-righteous. If you don't like the topic of discussion don't participate in it.
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From: Lightslayer987 | Posted: 2/6/2010 11:54:21 AM | #442
Next Curt is gonna say that Snake and Mega Man SFF due to both starting on NES

BUT SOLID SNAKE *IS* A NINTENDO CHARACTER GUYS I MEAN METAL GEAR WAS NES IN 1987 KOJIMA SAID SO
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From: EternalxCourage | Posted: 2/6/2010 11:55:15 AM | #444
I'm not trolling. Ulti is just raging like he always does. Albion put it best -- he's pretty rude and self-righteous. If you don't like the topic of discussion don't participate in it.

Yes, you are trolling. Or ignorant beyond any level of help. Calling Crono a Nintendo character is the dumbest thing I've seen in weeks.
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Hey, without Nintendo, Snake isn't anywhere near as strong as he is now!

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Snake would clearly SFF Luigi 85-15.
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Snake get Nintendo support against another Nintendo character I don't think so ask Samus

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Simon Belmont would probably 95-5 King Dedede.
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