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Missningno. used ASV

It's super effective!

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SFF (Same Fanbase Factor) - Same Fanbase Factor is the theory that, if two contestants share a common fanbase, the weaker of the two options will underperform in a direct matchup. For instance, Link was expected to defeat Ganon with 65% of the vote in 2004, based on their 2003 values. Instead, Link collected near 88% of the vote, because the Zelda fanbase so clearly sided with him. However, take some SFF labels with a grain of salt, as many people will slap it onto any match that doesn't make total sense. This has caused a few SFF jokes, with LordOfDabu's "Some Frivolous Factor" being the funniest of them.

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Noble Nine - Link, Cloud, Sephiroth, Mario, Crono, Solid Snake, Sonic, Samus and Mega Man.

Near-Elite - The Squall, Auron, Tifa, Vincent, Zelda, Kirby, Missingno etc group that has come at, near or even ahead of Noble Nine characters in the past.

The Fodder Line - A final X-Stat value of 15% or below.

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YOSHI fainted!

Red defeated Jumper Mario!

"Oh nooooo..."

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So we expect 52% for Missingno at the end?
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GameFaqs is NOT the place to go for relationship advice.Nobody here gets any action unless it is their right or left hand.Including me.~Dawn and Dusk~

Missingno's reading an even more effective technique than ASV. It's called Power Hour.

Power Hour
Rallying
Anti-Votes
Bandwagon

All are perfect counters to Sephiroth!
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Missingno's quest to avenge Crono - Round 2: Yoshi
Link's quest to save us from the oppression of the jokes- Round 3: Megaman X

Suck it, dino.
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Not Wylvane

And here we go.
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Q. If your canoe is in a tree with its headlights on, how many pancakes does it take to get to the moon?
A. None. Snakes don't have armpits.

A+ 500 post.
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Not Wylvane

god damnit red sox
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"I learned in England not to deceive the referees" - Cristiano Ronaldo
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Ralliers got lazy for a while there.

Now they appear to be back.
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"Right... today we'll be discussing the philosophy of putting a bullet in someone's head"--Marcus Fenix
Yesmar

Come on, Missingno!

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raytan. The Cream of Terra Branford Fanboyism.
Haruhi/Mikuru vs Kyon/Koizumi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GskPbsYVyKQ

These gifs have convinced me.

If for some reason there's character battle where you simply have to have appeared in a video game to be eligible, each and every one of you is nominating Tiger Woods.
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Bandwagon? Missingno hasn't gotten a bandwagon yet. And he'll need a pretty damn big one to defeat Sephiroth. Sephiroth would massacre Crono and Yoshi

Just you wait until the NYU Games Club Vote comes in. Trust me. Missingno will be buried!
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"Right... today we'll be discussing the philosophy of putting a bullet in someone's head"--Marcus Fenix
Yesmar

War only characters that have originated from a video game are legit.So Tiger Woods can't be in contests.
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bleh. horrible result.
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"Calling Pokemon RBY a top 10 game was the most insane contest jibba-jabba ever
Woe unto he who sig bets with the near-invincible Lord High creativename

700-vote barrier activated
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Oracle Challenge 2k10 - Rank: 20th
Today's prediction: Missingno - 53.57% Status: Decent

Tag
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"Here I go! Divine judgment for an evil soul! Sacred Penance! Rest in peace." - Estellise Sidos Heurassein, Tales of Vesperia

Ah, I've just been playing some Ace Attorney Investigations (WOO) and came to find this!

Beautiful comeback, MissingNo! Keep it going, man. I have a lot of fond memories of exploiting your great power.

yessss infinite Earthquake TMs
yessssssss infinite Master Balls
yessssssssssssss infinite Rare Candys
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And then the car wash cost five dollars.
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You do not exploit Missingno. He giveth, and he taketh away.

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Yoshi back up over 49%. The ASV only has a few hours left. Yoshi merely has to hang on.

Say what you want about Missingno, but he sure knows how to make matches entertaining.
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JechtFAQS.

Don't be silly, Yoshi's finished.

Argh Central ASV. I forgot, Pokemon is only strong in blue states, meaning along the coasts.
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Missingno's quest to avenge Crono - Round 2: Yoshi
Link's quest to save us from the oppression of the jokes- Round 3: Megaman X

huh haven't followed too much, but how are the vote totals compared to crono/MIZNO?
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Shakes Fist!

Yoshi has won 4 of the last 5 updates. I have no idea why.

Uh, Missingno is favored in every timeframe from here on out. West Coast, SNV...yeah.

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SNV? Why would someone who wins the ASV be favored in the SNV? That doesn't make sense.

So can we agree that IF MissingNo beats Seph, he wins the contest?

Still depends on his pictures. If it gets that fossil one and nobody recognizes it, it could lose to anyone. Probably safe to win the semis and finals though, since we usually have rotating pics by that point.
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KrahenProphet and Nintendo cleaned me out in the Guru Contest.

Missingno is basically following the exact trends Charizard did: start out poorly, increase, falter at the Central ASV, and after that increase until the end of the match.

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Missingno can beat Seph and still lose the contest. I think it's clear by now that jokes don't have to increase in strength every round, and Link in a 24-hour match is a good deal tougher to beat than Sephiroth in a 12-hour match.
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Missingno's quest to avenge Crono - Round 2: Yoshi
Link's quest to save us from the oppression of the jokes- Round 3: Megaman X

Central zone making me proud

At least we didn't fail it up today!
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Moltar Status: Prediction: Sephiroth > Vincent (98/120)
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y6ou think 24 will hurt jokes that much?
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Shakes Fist!

Missingno. is killing in Australia and getting equally killed in Asia. The SNV should be pretty split.

Yeah, 24 hours will hurt. Look at what happened to Snake in the 2008 final, or L-Block in the 2007 final. Both did way way better in the first half than the second- Snake lost the ASV to Crono in fact, giving him his only ASV win in who knows how long.
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Missingno's quest to avenge Crono - Round 2: Yoshi
Link's quest to save us from the oppression of the jokes- Round 3: Megaman X

cloud > missingno then!

Missingno has shown absolutely nothing in the way of early match support though. I don't see why a 24 hour match would hurt it at all when it's using the ASV to bury its opponents.

If it starts going up 500 votes at the freeze, then you'll have an argument.
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KrahenProphet and Nintendo cleaned me out in the Guru Contest.

Unlike other jokes, MissingNo. has individual strength. Based on this match and the lack of rallying, I'd put it at 52% on Yoshi in a 12-hour day match. If he can get enough joke votes to beat Sephiroth in a night match, he should be able to beat Cloud when you add the beastly Pokemon day vote. Link may very well SFF No.'s actual fanbase into nothing and win in a huge blowout.

Missingno hasn't got a match starting at midnight yet- he'll have a strong early vote then. Also, he won't be able to beat Link with the ASV like he's doing to Yoshi here.
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Missingno's quest to avenge Crono - Round 2: Yoshi
Link's quest to save us from the oppression of the jokes- Round 3: Megaman X

Sephiroth would massacre Crono and Yoshi

Which is precisely why he doesn't stand a chance against Missingno. Joke characters are at their best when they have a backlash to work with, and there's no bigger backlash than FF7. Looking at the grueling path set out for the glitch, it would take a massive upset somewhere else to get someone weak enough to not activate Missingno.'s rally powers but strong enough to beat it--and that bandwagon's only going to get bigger with each passing round, so it's probably all over if it makes it out of the division. Why did they have to put it in a group of death like this?

Yes, it seems that with Yoshi apparently not up to the task, our only hope is the Last Free Man. Sure, maybe one of the non-Square elites can just outright overpower the glitch, but do you really trust Snake to take care of it, as cool as he may be? And we all saw back in 2006 how Link responds to a joke character after fighting through an entire tournament--quite simply, he doesn't. If only some of the other jokes were in the bottom half of the bracket...
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CB8 score: 99
Wrong picks: Ocelot, Wesker, Fawful, Tidus x2, Phoenix x2, Simon, Kratos Aurion, Crono, Soap MacTavish; Master Chief, Kratos x2, Riku, Dante x2

I must be picking the wrong times to refresh, because I only see Missingno. pulling further away--almost up to 800 now.
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CB8 score: 99
Wrong picks: Ocelot, Wesker, Fawful, Tidus x2, Phoenix x2, Simon, Kratos Aurion, Crono, Soap MacTavish; Master Chief, Kratos x2, Riku, Dante x2

Come on Yoshi! Why do you keep falling off?
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"Right... today we'll be discussing the philosophy of putting a bullet in someone's head"--Marcus Fenix
Yesmar

I like how people were like lol Crono when we already established that Yoshi had a shot here regardless and it had no bearing on character strengths
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

missingno is going to get destroyed by sephiroth. He has shown no boost in power from round 1 to round 2. Like Lblock did as the rounds progressed. It's unrealistic to think he'll muster THAT much more strength to rival sephiroth. WONT happen.
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hmmmmmmmm

"LOL Crono" indeed, but not for his loss. It's really quite possible that he'll end up at #2 in the lol x-stats--I can't imagine many of Missingno.'s future opponents holding it that close.
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CB8 score: 99
Wrong picks: Ocelot, Wesker, Fawful, Tidus x2, Phoenix x2, Simon, Kratos Aurion, Crono, Soap MacTavish; Master Chief, Kratos x2, Riku, Dante x2

Sephiroth doesn't stand a chance against Missingno in a night match huh

I'm glad we can dismiss the formalities of THAT bout, then. Phew.
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Nice match. Thoughts:

1) There's obviously no bandwagon here. No surprises there.

2) Missigno is a super day vote guy. So
a) Crono wins a night match.
b) Yoshi might have eked out a night match win.
c) Sephiroth is laughing all the way to showdown with Snake.

3) Crono > Yoshi, but not by a whole lot. Good show, Yoshi.
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Mustache...and Green...

Yoshi just cut it here. He's not dead yet, but he isn't winning unless he really does something here.
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Yoshi made a big cut there but still lost percentage in the US. Does that make any sense?

From: Karma Hunter | 3/3/2010 4:56:44 PM
Sephiroth doesn't stand a chance against Missingno in a night match huh

I'm glad we can dismiss the formalities of THAT bout, then. Phew.

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*headslap*

Darn it, and here I thought I'd figured out for certain that Missingno. had this wrapped up. Of course! We still haven't seen what Missingno.'s trends would be in a night match! And we all know that Square owns the night...

Maybe Sephiroth has a chance after all.
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CB8 score: 99
Wrong picks: Ocelot, Wesker, Fawful, Tidus x2, Phoenix x2, Simon, Kratos Aurion, Crono, Soap MacTavish; Master Chief, Kratos x2, Riku, Dante x2