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ASV deboost confirmed
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"Spoil it for me. I'm never going to play that game so I want to know if he's going to be another Auron or another Sin." - Soul about Jecht vs. PW

Okay, finished the mock-bracket! As I mentioned before, my goal was to cut everything SB did for this contest in half -- I only kept the top fifty nominated characters as guarantees instead of one hundred, then took the next thirty-six most nominated to form six groups of six for the vote-in process instead of the next seventy-two for six groups of twelve. With your input, I picked the fourteen highest-scoring characters instead of twenty-eight and threw them into the bracket to be reorganized. I tried to stay true to their original seedings, but eventually ditched it as long as I was sorta close...then toward the end, I may have made some bigger seeding-changes to try doing something with some of these guys.

For the record, it's hard to cut it back down to sixty-four! Here's what I made though, have at it:



1-Link
8-Magus
4-Captain John Price
5-Zidane
3-Ezio
6-Knuckles
2-Master Chief
7-Yuna

1-Cloud
8-Donkey Kong
4-Tidus
5-Jill Valentine
3-Kratos
6-Pikachu
2-Altair
7-Fox McCloud

1-Sora
8-Zelda
4-Crono
5-Ness
3-Auron
6-Sackboy
2-Squall
7-Vincent

1-Sonic
8-Isaac
4-Bowser
5-Ganondorf
3-Luigi
6-Zack Fair
2-Dante
7-Big Boss

1-Sephiroth
8-Duke Nukem
4-Captain Falcon
5-Red
3-L-Block
6-Zero
2-Soap MacTavish
7-Charizard

1-Samus
8-GlaDOS
4-Albert Wesker
5-Kefka
3-Kirby
6-Yoshi
2-Nathan Drake
7-Ryu

1-Mario
8-Ratchet
4-Commander Shepard
5-Riku
3-Leon Kennedy
6-Alucard
2-Gordon Freeman
7-Ryu Hayabusa

1-Solid Snake
8-Geno
4-Ike
5-Roxas
3-Mega Man
6-Amaterasu
2-Phoenix Wright
7-Tifa Lockhart
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T E A M C H O C O L A T E
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HaRR, you're bracket fails. You cut Guybrush.
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NOT COOL

Also, for those curious about the vote-in results.....


Fox McCloud - 49
Jill Valentine - 44
Chris Redfield - 33
Darth Revan - 30
Terra - 19
Shadow the Hedgehog - 15

Ryu Hayabusa - 52
Knuckles - 47
Cecil - 36
Balthier - 26
Kratos Aurion - 19
Neku - 9

Tifa Lockhart - 54
Yuna - 44
Duke Nukem - 37
Laharl - 27
Yuri Lowell - 17
Sandal - 10

Vincent Valentine - 53
Big Boss - 42
Weighted Companion Cube - 34
Vivi - 32
Marcus Fenix - 18
Crash Bandicoot - 9

Zelda - 54
Donkey Kong - 44
Magus - 37
Travis Touchdown - 25
Captain MacMillan - 16
Fawful - 13

Alucard - 54
Geno - 37*
Lloyd Irving - 32*
Niko Belic - 26*
Miles Edgeworth - 25*
Guybrush Threepwood - 15*
* Since yo didn't vote for anybody but Alucard in this group, I let their ranking after all the other votes were tallied decide the rest of his abstained votes. Niko/Miles was a tie at the time which I personally broke (sorry Miles!), but it hardly mattered since Geno himself was barely able to make it in.
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HaRR, you're bracket fails. You cut Guybrush.

Hey, see the vote-in? You, you, you, you, and YYOOUU cut him!
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I rank Guybrush and no-one else.

Does he get in over Geno now?
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Please?

If you voted for Guybrush in first and Miles in last twice, he'd still be tied for last...!
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From: HaRRicH | #357
If you voted for Guybrush in first and Miles in last twice, he'd still be tied for last...!

Then I vote Guybrush in first for Fox's group and Miles last 8 times.

Then what?
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Gimme some love!

From: HaRRicH | #352
Okay, finished the mock-bracket! As I mentioned before, my goal was to cut everything SB did for this contest in half -- I only kept the top fifty nominated characters as guarantees instead of one hundred, then took the next thirty-six most nominated to form six groups of six for the vote-in process instead of the next seventy-two for six groups of twelve. With your input, I picked the fourteen highest-scoring characters instead of twenty-eight and threw them into the bracket to be reorganized. I tried to stay true to their original seedings, but eventually ditched it as long as I was sorta close...then toward the end, I may have made some bigger seeding-changes to try doing something with some of these guys.

For the record, it's hard to cut it back down to sixty-four! Here's what I made though, have at it:

My thoughts:
1. Any reason you didn't go for Sonic/Crono/Mega Man/Vincent in one division? Their seeds line up perfectly for it, and it'd be one of the most interesting setups you could do. I did something like this a few days ago and it was the first division I did.

2. I'm not a fan of Link/Cloud meeting so early; it'd be great to see someone else in the final, but it just doesn't seem right. At least let them both make the semifinals.

3. Needs more Companion Cube.
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http://thengamer.com/guru/bracket.php?id=68

1-Sora
8-Zelda
4-Crono
5-Ness
3-Auron
6-Sackboy
2-Squall
7-Vincent

Aw yeah, what a division.

(How much you want to bet HaRR picks Ness > Crono?)
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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!"

In Fox's group? Why, he's not eve--

--ah hell. Feel free to substitute Guybrush in for Geno in your mind if you feel better about Guybrush becoming Snake-food!
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T E A M C H O C O L A T E
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1. Any reason you didn't go for Sonic/Crono/Mega Man/Vincent in one division? Their seeds line up perfectly for it, and it'd be one of the most interesting setups you could do. I did something like this a few days ago and it was the first division I did.

I felt compelled to have Solid face a Noble-Niner (or potential NN-breaker) before he went against Mario, Tifa would have had a boring route without Mega Man around, and I like the idea of the Noble Niners (specifically Crono and Sonic) going against the world in their divisions. Mega Man's definitely a competitor in their league, but the divisions felt better in my mind if they were serving as testing the Noble Nine (plus Tifa also gets a shot against Mega Man to test it). Bloodbaths for the sake of bloodbaths are fun too though...hard to go wrong either way.

I also like Luigi/Zack.


2. I'm not a fan of Link/Cloud meeting so early; it'd be great to see someone else in the final, but it just doesn't seem right. At least let them both make the semifinals.

I'm not either, but they still win their divisions and we've seen them in so many championships that it wasn't worth giving them that free ride for the sake of this exercise (even if they deserve it).


3. Needs more Companion Cube.

GEEENOOO!!!


(How much you want to bet HaRR picks Ness > Crono?)

Ness > Squall!
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T E A M C H O C O L A T E
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Oh ho ho.

1-Link
8-Magus
4-Captain John Price
5-Zidane

Price's percentage on X looks all the more impressive after we've seen classic, Protoman, and Zero in action. Sorry, Zidahn!

3-Ezio
6-Knuckles
2-Master Chief
7-Yuna

Nice. Both Knux and Ezio disappointed us, but at least Cecil has a reason to be stronger. Horribly tempted to pick Yuna but I can't get around the doubling from Game Fuel Chief. Dante turned around 45% pretty easily but that's a pretty big barrier. I'll take Chief over Knuckles; both sucked in the first round but Knux was worse.

1-Cloud
8-Donkey Kong
4-Tidus
5-Jill Valentine

Does Tidus double Niko? Not a chance.

3-Kratos
6-Pikachu
2-Altair
7-Fox McCloud

That Tails performance was awful. Kinda tempted to go with Fox after Ezio but it's hard to take too much away from Altair's great performance on Liquid. No problems with the rat over Altair.

1-Sora
8-Zelda
4-Crono
5-Ness

Sora gets the slight nod over Zelda.

3-Auron
6-Sackboy
2-Squall
7-Vincent

Staying consistent with Auron > Squall! I think Vincent's going to lose steam as FFVII in general does, which should come as no surprise.

1-Sonic
8-Isaac
4-Bowser
5-Ganondorf

Staying consistent here too with Ganondorf > Sonic! I'm not sure how much I trust Ganondorf vs other Nintendo, especially Bowser, but he did well enough on Samus two out of three tries.

3-Luigi
6-Zack Fair
2-Dante
7-Big Boss

Zack gives Luigi a good match, same with Big Boss and Dante, but I don't have second thoughts picking either of them. Naked Snake/Luigi is awfully close but I give the edge to Luigi as I'm still convinced he's stronger than Kirby.

1-Sephiroth
8-Duke Nukem
4-Captain Falcon
5-Red

Kinda disappointed with Falcon's performance but I think it was better than Red's.

3-L-Block
6-Zero
2-Soap MacTavish
7-Charizard

Zero in a squeaker and I've got no problems taking the Zard out of this one.

1-Samus
8-GlaDOS
4-Albert Wesker
5-Kefka

Kefka seems a bit stronger than Alucard and I'd take him over Wesker, still.

3-Kirby
6-Yoshi
2-Nathan Drake
7-Ryu

I'm not sure I trust Kirby over other Nintendo (see: Bowser, Luigi, bad LFF with DK, Lucas), but Yoshi is meh recently. Definitely like Kirby over Ryu - for now.

1-Mario
8-Ratchet
4-Commander Shepard
5-Riku

Shepard could certainly win but I'm reluctant to take too much away from a fodder beatdown. Riku didn't look great and neither did Axel or Roxas, though.

3-Leon Kennedy
6-Alucard
2-Gordon Freeman
7-Ryu Hayabusa

Don't like Alucard enough to pick him over Leon, same with Hayabusa and Dr. Freeman, and Gordon and Leon.

1-Solid Snake
8-Geno
4-Ike
5-Roxas

Both had subpar performances but I'll go with who I like better.

3-Mega Man
6-Amaterasu
2-Phoenix Wright
7-Tifa Lockhart

As FFVII falls I'll trust Tifa less. She can prove me wrong with a big win over Freeman, since we know what she got on Peach in 2006.
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Mustache...and Green...

Link
Master Chief
Cloud
Pikachu

Pikachu to break 40% in the sprite round imho.

Crono
Auron
Ganondorf
Luigi

Crono in a very close one and how could I not take Luigi?

Sephiroth
Charizard
Samus
Kirby

Oh yes. Samus had the best performance of the first round and Cloud had the worst; Sephiroth can certainly take that mantle from him. We haven't seen Seph truly be dominant since that Mario match in 2005.

Mario
Leon
Snake
Mega Man

Snake gives Mario a great match but I'll take the plumber.

Link
Crono
Samus
Mario

No surprises here.
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Mustache...and Green...

Fox McCloud - 49
Jill Valentine - 44
Chris Redfield - 33

??? Fox should be closer to Chris not winning outright.
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Board 8 BOP: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB8%20BOP.xls
Character Battle VIII - 43/52 - Today's Winners: Auron and Zero

??? Fox should be closer to Chris not winning outright.

Why? Because of Jill's round 1 match?

Quick, Lloyd vs. Niko: Who you got?
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"Spoil it for me. I'm never going to play that game so I want to know if he's going to be another Auron or another Sin." - Soul about Jecht vs. PW

Naked Snake/Luigi is awfully close but I give the edge to Luigi as I'm still convinced he's stronger than Kirby.

So is Big Boss, in all likelihood.
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"I can set you free, mate."
"My freedom was forfeit long ago!"

Niko easily

Even last year Chris was expected to get 43% on Fox and I would take Jill over Chris.
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Board 8 BOP: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB8%20BOP.xls
Character Battle VIII - 43/52 - Today's Winners: Auron and Zero

So is Big Boss, in all likelihood.

I agree, that's why I think that match is awfully close.

Plus I'll always take Luigi in a close match.
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Kinda like I'll always take Kefka! Luigi finally worked out in 2005, Kefka in 2010.

See, I'm not so sure Niko beats Lloyd easily. I think Jill/Niko was more Niko being utter crap than Jill getting some monstrous boost, but we'll find out next round.

And what is up with these western characters and their utter inability to do anything with the ASV? Chief couldn't do anything with it, neither of the two CoD guys could do anything with it, Drake couldn't do anything with it, Kratos couldn't do anything with it, Fenix is doing nothing with it right now. The only exceptions have been Altair and Ezio. Heck, even traditional Smash Bros. fan favorites who have Smash Bros.-esque trends haven't done anything with it. Ike, Captain Falcon, and Fox all did nothing with the day vote. Kingdom Hearts and the Assassin's Creed guys have been the only ones to have any sort of day vote power so far.
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"Stay with me until the end. Please."
"Not until the end. Always."

A lot of people are coming back from the first 12 hours to vote in this poll causing the ASV to be diluted.
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Board 8 BOP: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB8%20BOP.xls
Character Battle VIII - 43/52 - Today's Winners: Auron and Zero

From: charmander6000 | #371
A lot of people are coming back from the first 12 hours to vote in this poll causing the ASV to be diluted.

But that doesn't explain why Altair, Ezio, and Axel had pretty strong day votes (and Riku to an extent against Ramza with the little bit of day vote he got).
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"Stay with me until the end. Please."
"Not until the end. Always."

Just imagine how strong they would be if the ASV wasn't diluted.
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Board 8 BOP: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB8%20BOP.xls
Character Battle VIII - 43/52 - Today's Winners: Auron and Zero

I think there's more to it than that. There's really no reason why those guys should be the exceptions to a diluted ASV. Captain Falcon and Ike had no business not dominating the ASV whatsoever. Chief should've owned Spy, rallying or not. Axel had a good ASV, and he was facing a guy with an average day vote himself (At the very least, a guy with better day votes than Spy, Wander, and Prinny, for cryin' out loud).
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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!"

And Dante's day vote is pretty comparable to Zero's, I'd imagine, and they were at relatively similar percentages when the ASV hit. Axel makes a big move, Fenix does squat.

XBox and Brawl deboost part deux
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"I couldn't stand a day without a past or future. I need to live each moment to keep fighting here and now."

It could also be that their DSV is terrible while their ASV is that much better. Some characters begin their increases in the morning and don't really pause during the DSV.
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Board 8 BOP: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB8%20BOP.xls
Character Battle VIII - 43/52 - Today's Winners: Auron and Zero

Zero with blowout of the contest..... in South America!

And somehow Marcus Fenix is winning in UK.

lol england

Pikachu got higher...

In Asia.
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Board 8 BOP: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB8%20BOP.xls
Character Battle VIII - 43/52 - Today's Winners: Auron and Zero

From: Wii_TuRtLe | #377
Zero with blowout of the contest..... in South America!

And somehow Marcus Fenix is winning in UK.

lol england

It's almost like Mega Man never got released here.
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Oh wait.

South America absolutely loves Mega Man for whatever the reason. The games and the characters always do well there.
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"The great GF...Bahamut."
"...GF? I...? Using my powers...It is you humans...I fear..."

I like it. Crono vs. Sora would be a great 24-hour match, it's the biggest day/night shift we'll ever see with characters that strong. I'd be scared even with a 5000 vote lead at 3 PM!
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6 years later, Crono's quest to defeat Sephiroth -- Round 1: Missingno
'Till shade is gone, 'till water is gone, into the shadow with teeth bared....

But that doesn't explain why Altair, Ezio, and Axel had pretty strong day votes (and Riku to an extent against Ramza with the little bit of day vote he got).

With the exception of Ezio/Simon where something weird was definitely going on, all of those matches they involve Day Vote characters who are stronger in America/Night Vote characters who are stronger in Europe.

I'm not entirely sure why Europeans can't vote in the Day Vote poll (the times covered are times in which everyone should be able to vote unlike the 12AM-12PM poll for Americans.), but Europe's percentage of the Day Vote polls is lowered. Zero, who is weak in Europe anyway, is thus not able to be taken advantage of with the ASV, since there's less European votes to be diluted by it.
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"Sonic... he asked me for the first time to do something for him. I won't let him down! I won't give up!!"--- Tails
Yesmar

Maybe Protoman is indeed a low-midcarder and suddenly Snake's performance looked to be slightly more impressive.

Great performance from Zero so far, i don't think he can beat Auron just yet, but scoring 45+% on him isn't out of the question.
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Snake's Mission "To make it to the finals for the fourth consecutive times"

I think protoman is confirmed to be in mega man 10 so that might have boosted him a bit.

From: LOLContests | #382
I'm not entirely sure why Europeans can't vote in the Day Vote poll (the times covered are times in which everyone should be able to vote unlike the 12AM-12PM poll for Americans.), but Europe's percentage of the Day Vote polls is lowered. Zero, who is weak in Europe anyway, is thus not able to be taken advantage of with the ASV, since there's less European votes to be diluted by it.

Because a night poll is 5/6am to 5/6pm in europe, so we get our morning vote and a massive chunk of our ASV, and a day match has the entirety of Europe's dead hours.
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Seems obvious how the voting goes.

South America absolutely loves Mega Man for whatever the reason. The games and the characters always do well there.

Now why can't the rest of the world agree with them?


http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=995 <3

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1364 <3 <3 <3 <3

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1775 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3



I miss the good old days (2003 and 2004) when Mega Man was considered to be a step over Mario and Samus, and was the 4th strongest character...
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Ngamer64: Zylo, you're making less sense every day. KrahenProfit > Me

I was actually thinking that it was the other way around - Europeans were voting in the traditional DSV hours, later than they normally would. This depresses the DSV of characters weak in Europe, like Zero, and then, when the ASV vote comes, they don't really have far to fall.

If we had votal stats we could make more sense of it.
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Mustache...and Green...

For the record, Protoman's performance on Snake would put him at 22.56% on Link based on 2008 stats. That would put him in the same general area with this fine group of individuals:

Amaterasu – 23.16%
Marth – 23.14%
Captain Falcon – 23.10%
Roxas – 22.76%
KOS-MOS – 22.29%
Duke Nukem – 21.91%
Donkey Kong – 21.85%
Arthas Menethil – 21.81%
Rydia – 21.76%
Altair – 21.70%
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"But you have been given freedom. Freedom to be...outside."
"I am lightning...the rain transformed."

Because a night poll is 5/6am to 5/6pm in europe, so we get our morning vote and a massive chunk of our ASV, and a day match has the entirety of Europe's dead hours.

But Europeans should still be able to vote a second time in the beginning hours of the poll. The entire poll isn't the European dead hours.
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"Sonic... he asked me for the first time to do something for him. I won't let him down! I won't give up!!"--- Tails
Yesmar

Finally have internet again. Skimming through the topic:

-Auron got pretty much the same % Squall did on Aeris. Match is debatable.
-Zero should do well against Auron, but he isn't coming close to beating him.
-Revan would not lose to HK-47.

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KrahenProphet lived up to his name.

From: nintendogirl1 | Posted: 2/11/2010 3:44:22 PM | #353
HaRR, you're bracket fails. You cut Guybrush.

Guybrush is useless fodder who shouldn't have been in any bracket past 2002.
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I am the Dragon of Blood, a relentless prince of pain
Renouncing God on His throne, my blood is forever stained.

Guybrush is awesome useless fodder. I would be much more sad to see him go than I was when CATS finally got the boot.

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KrahenProphet lived up to his name.

Man, if we're going to have some useless fodder, it should be FFVIII characters, right?

C'mon now.
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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!"

But Europeans should still be able to vote a second time in the beginning hours of the poll. The entire poll isn't the European dead hours.

You can say the same about NA in the end of the night poll.
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Board 8 BOP: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB8%20BOP.xls
Character Battle VIII - 43/52 - Today's Winners: Auron and Zero

Seeing Seifer getting blown out would warm my heart.

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KrahenProphet lived up to his name.

Guybrush is useless fodder who shouldn't have been in any bracket past 2002.

Agreed. Why that loser Guybrush continues to make contests will forever be a mystery.
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"Here I go! Divine judgment for an evil soul! Sacred Penance! Rest in peace." - Estellise Sidos Heurassein, Tales of Vesperia

From: UltimaterializerX | #391
Guybrush is useless fodder who shouldn't have been in any bracket past 2002.

Not where I come from:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3247&region=GB

Mega Man is useless fodder who should be kicked out:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3296&region=GB
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Get the **** outta here.

Guybrush is awesome and I will forever nominate him.
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http://img.imgcake.com/boxarts2jpgsy.jpg

Blame Europe, the guy is a mid-card over there.
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Board 8 BOP: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB8%20BOP.xls
Character Battle VIII - 43/52 - Today's Winners: Auron and Zero

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3247&region=GB

Muhahaha I can beat that: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3247&region=SE

Pretty much every gamer here either loves Monkey Island, or you don't love the games because you haven't played them.
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Ngamer64: Zylo, you're making less sense every day. KrahenProfit > Me