GameFAQs Contests

What's that? Yes, of course hierarchies was the single worst argument of 2009. Uh......how about I change my argument to Link is awesome.

Well hierarchies do exist it's just that people were using it wrong.
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Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats
Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru.

From: red sox 777 | #248
What is Official Nintendo Magazine? Is that the same as Nintendo Power?

UK's Nintendo Power.
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The Gamer In Me
"Ike and Ash and co. saw a Yoshi and didn't catch it" - Mer telling us his dream

Yeah, I'd be really surprised (and dismayed) if Gamespot was different enough for Mario to beat Link. The Nintendo fanbase just favors Link, and among people who started gaming on the N64 or later it's a massacre.
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Dr. Football was not stopped by any of us, and won the Guru Contest.

Yep, what red said. LoZ:OoT killed SM64 here, arguably our #4 game...and SMS doesn't get close to the respect that LoZ:WW gets (and that's one of LoZ's general low-marks of the series). SMG1/2 and NSMBW are making Mario the more important series this generation for the first time since SNES or maybe even NES, but even still it's not showing up here or at that CrispyGamer bracket and it's hard to say how much anywhere else on the internet...plus when the trailer for the new LoZ-game comes out at E3 and people start crying again, Mario owning this generation will be up in question again.

Plus I don't know if any other major website's going to respect the old-school games like GameFAQs does. I feel like we're probably a younger community, but also a more hardcore community. Even if GameSpot loves the old-school much more than us, LoZ and LoZ:LttP can compete with or beat SMB1, SMB3, and SMW.


Mario deserves better. I love Link too, but dammit, it's friggin' Mario !!
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Nominate EPONA for Character Battle 9:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=54225515

[This message was deleted at the request of the original poster]

Mario will get his once Link is removed from the main bracket and he wins the contest by SFFing Cloud in the final thanks to a Cloud Mario pic and Super Mario Galaxy 3 being released that day!
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Not Wylvane
Dr Football Factor'd.

Hey Ulti, I just noticed you linked to the Contest Hall of Fame page in the opening post. Much thanks!
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I'd also be really surprised if Mario could beat Link on any big gaming site. The Nintendo fanbase went through a massive shift with Ocarina of Time, and nothing since has suggested a shift back in Mario's favor. Mario is unquestionably the biggest traditional Nintendo series this gen with Galaxy 1/2 and NSMBWii, yet Twilight Princess would still smoke all those games. Link's big games are just a much bigger deal, and that keeps him on top. He wallops Mario on GameFAQs and beat him even worse in an IGN mini-contest held a couple years back (it was a tripling, IIRC). I don't see why GameSpot's fanbase would be so different as to change such convincing results.
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I missed the last two contests. Completely. Life...wheeee. Hopefully this wall of text isn't TOO huge. I made sure I didn't put too much in.

But I decided to come back and predict the Sp2K9 game contest. I had to carefully find a bracket that would show the matches, but not the results. Then I had to carefully move from poll-to-poll... Oh, and I did the Oracle Challenge, too! =P (did really badly, not surprisingly)

Highlights of the contest for me:
Mario Kart's success, at least in my eyes. Perhaps it was that series contest that lowered my expectations. I really thought Star Fox 64 would edge out MK64, and I didn't think SMK stood a chance against Sonic 3, let alone Super Metroid. How wrong I was. But how much I LOVE the MarioKart series...

Pokemon's success. Great games. When I saw RBY's R1 result I could only imagine how screwed over people's Oracle scores were (I was right on that). It's truly amazing to see Pokemon's progress since 2004. People were crazy shocked in the 2006 series contest when the series almost beat Metroid. But even that day doesn't hold a candle to what the series did in Sp2K9. Of course, the rise of Pokemon was somewhat predictable... we just didn't realize it would be to this extent.

Disappointments IMO:
Old-school Square blowing it. Seriously, FF3/6 couldn't even win against 3 other Nintendo games combined. I was also very disappointed in FF2/4; at least it rSFFed Final Fantasy (the first match I've seen that was -convincingly- rSFF; my memory is rusty, though). Now, some may have been excited that unpredictable things happened. However, when Square and Nintendo are the only companies who dominate amongst old school generations, you would want these two to at least compete. Nope. Nintendo > Square > the rest. Bah.

Kingdom Hearts' strength: sorry, I just don't like the games very much; I can somewhat understand why people like the games so much simply because this is FF-Faqs, but...meh. Well, you can like it if you want. There's a good storyline, I'll give it that. I'm just glad RE4 beat out KH2. Interesting how Sora lost it against Bowser the next year, though. Finally...Random fact: Two of my recent friends have the same name. They decided to distinguish themselves with the names "Bowser" and "Sora"... how interesting when associating it with GameFAQs contest.

Total Nintendo/Square domination in the later rounds...I'm sure people were worshiping MGS4. It's too bad MGS got screwed over with a tough bracket placement. It's arguably a Top Five game now, or close to it.

Both highlight and disappointment:
Zelda: OoT beating FF7. Weird how I didn't see this coming even after the semi-finals. Anyway, it's nice to see that FF7 is beatable, but I almost miss FF7 somewhat losing it's "iconic" status. It's no longer FF7FAQs, but OoTFAQs.... oh, and I like FF7 more.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?" "Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Well on other sites, among other voters and critics, most or all of the Zelda games would be weaker. At the very least, Ocarina of Time may not be their #1, and even if it is it probably wouldn't be so far ahead of the #3 game on most other sites. Twilight Princess would most certainly not be as strong. It would be in the 15-25 range at absolute most, and that may be fairly generous. Majora's Mask and Wind Waker may actually be stronger at other sites, and Link's Awakening would be a tad bit weaker at least. As for the Mario games, Super Mario 3/World/64 would all be closer to Ocarina's level (rightfully so), Galaxy would of course be stronger (let's not forget even in that CrispyGamer contest Wind Waker lost to Psychonauts, so it's not like LoZ was worth much there), Mario Kart would've likely toasted Super Metroid on a good majority of other sites. Neither Smash game would be nearly as strong, so Mario and Link would probably rely on their own games for strength more so, and be weaker as a result, putting them in range of characters like Snake and Freeman.

Haste! Glad to see you back.
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Nominate EPONA for Character Battle 9:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=54225515

Mario Kart would've likely toasted Super Metroid on a good majority of other sites.

Not too sure about that...
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Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats
Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru.

It's always nice to see fresh opinions about the contest, especially when there's nothing else to talk about.

Maybe one of these days when I have enough time, I'll go through each contest and post my favorite matches, or ones I find enjoyably ridiculous.
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Not Wylvane
Dr Football Factor'd.

Well on Empire Magazine's Best Games Ever list, which was voted for readers of the magazine, Super Mario Kart was 17th and Super Metroid was 68th. Says a lot. Super Metroid was probably just lucky to beat Mario Kart.

Now that's someone we haven't seen in like a very long time.
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Nipaa~

From: PartOfYourWorld | #257
Hey Ulti, I just noticed you linked to the Contest Hall of Fame page in the opening post. Much thanks!

Well it *is* the stats topic's project. In a week's time when voting is over, I'll add that page too.
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Infinite manifestation of time.

Cool to see a post from Haste, and how different your opinion can be when you're not on the board during the contest. Tons of people were going on about OoT beating FF7... I still didn't think it would happen, but if you were around then there was no way you could avoid hearing about it. My attitude is pretty similar to yours on that event, I liked it better when FF7 was on top. Zelda officially dominates everything here after that happened, which is a lot less interesting than when it was Zelda vs FF7.
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

Ugh, another poll glitch today. That's 2 poll glitches in less than a week.


Oh man, Geolocation is weird. There is only one vote for "I never play games at home" after the first 5 minutes and North America is the only continent to vote for that option. Then by looking at the countries, both the United States and Canada have voted for "I never play games at home". That's not possible for there to be one vote for "I never play games at home", but for the US/Canada to have at least one vote for "I never play games at home".
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ!

It's nice to see people like Harrich, Ulti, charmander, and Kaxon around still!

Cool to see a post from Haste, and how different your opinion can be when you're not on the board during the contest.

Looking at the Guru contest the board predicted pretty much how I expected. I was a bit surprised about Street Fighter II > Sonic being the popular choice (seems the board underestimated Sonic, while I overesimated), and...huh, OoT didn't get that many championship picks despite all the hype. I WAS amused at the number of people that expected another Starcraft run. Just about nobody expected RBY to get that far... simply awesome.

And, for fun, here were my bold Round 1 picks compared to the Guru...
Sonic > SFII
Sonic 3 > Super Metroid
FF6 > Zelda: LA
Goldeneye > RE2 -_-;
FF7 > Star Fox 64 -_-;;
GTA:VC > KH
Halo > GTA3
TP > FF12
SMG > Team Fortress 2 (DOH!!!)

Of all those, I got only two correct. Owowowow. I missed practically every match I considered a toss-up... not good....though I suppose in the long run I did okay, with 515 points in the end, in the top 2%. Had I predicted OoT's championship I would have nearly made the top 50.

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?" "Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Haste, you should return for good. We need guys like you to counterbalance all the BTs and LMSs.
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"Opinions are like butts, little girl. Everyone has one and no one thinks theirs stink." -Lunar 2

From: HasteTwo | #259
I'm sure people were worshiping MGS4. It's too bad MGS got screwed over with a tough bracket placement. It's arguably a Top Five game now, or close to it.

I'm not sure if you're saying that MGS or MGS4 is a top 5 game, but you'rd be wrong on both counts. I put them both at very similar strength and around the 11-15 area.

These are not ranked in any order. Mostly.

OoT
FFVII
RBY
LttP
SSBB
FFX
SM64
SMW
SMB3

They're all definitely above both MGS games and while it's impossible to know exactly where SSBM is since it got to lay with FFX with KH and then OoT, I'd be shocked if it wasn't also somewhere in that group. I'd take TP over both as well.
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Stuffs.

From: HasteTwo | #269
It's nice to see people like Harrich, Ulti, charmander, and Kaxon around still!

I barely read this topic anymore actually, it was pure coincidence that I just noticed stat topic #900 and decided to click on it. But maybe I'll keep up with it for a while since it looks like there aren't too many posts. I can't keep up during contest time with the multiple topics per day anymore.
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience

From: Kaxon | #272
I can't keep up during contest time with the multiple topics per day anymore.

You say that as if the regulars keep up with it. During contest time, this becomes a concoction of updates, arguing and a social gathering all mixed with random stats here and there. It's basically the Stats Social Topic.
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No more mercy. No more lies.

There's no shame in skipping posts. I did it a few times during the contest, and I'm sure the two people or so here with actual lives do it all the time!
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Not Wylvane
Dr Football Factor'd.

Yeah, I don't think anyone manages to read all the posts here except maybe for Albion.
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Dr. Football was not stopped by any of us, and won the Guru Contest.

I used to try really really hard to read all the posts in the topics. I think it took until 2006 or so that I don't have to read them all, and since 2008 I probably only catch half of them during the contest-season. We just have such a different crowd and it flies so much faster that I don't care to follow them all so much anymore...plus, you know, having more of a life now.
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Nominate EPONA for Character Battle 9:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=54225515

Clearly, I've read every posted that ever existed on Board 8!

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~Wigs~ Board 8's #1 Hydrocity Zone Fanboy
Happily Married to Alanna82 on Valentines Day 05

I could be wrong, but I think these topics have more or less maintained the same pace during contest season since about 2005. Before that, we had exponential growth of course, and after, I think the offseason pace has actually slowed down.
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Dr. Football was not stopped by any of us, and won the Guru Contest.

I usually skim if I'm a few hundred posts behind, especially in the last contest where I miss the beginning of the day match, though not much of importance is said during that time.
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Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats
Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru.

Usually I go back to read older posts on a busy day if a match has unexpectedly went in favor of a character I enjoy.

Of course, all that really matters when it comes to match discussion is the start of the match and any points where significant trend changes occur, the latter including things like comebacks of course.
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Not Wylvane
Dr Football Factor'd.

2005 did a lot for topic-speed, yeah, and I feel like Kefka/Vercetti and Magus/Knuckles made it happen almost instantly.
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Nominate EPONA for Character Battle 9:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=54225515

From: red sox 777 | #278
I could be wrong, but I think these topics have more or less maintained the same pace during contest season since about 2005. Before that, we had exponential growth of course, and after, I think the offseason pace has actually slowed down.

This didn't even exist during 2002's offseason <_<
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Your time is rolling over. My time is coming soon.
I'll resurrect the ancient spores, eclipse the Vargr moon.

wait what, then how did you properly keep track of which edition we were on?

......archives isn't it?
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mii~

The topic existed, just that no one posted in it.

wait what, then how did you properly keep track of which edition we were on?

That's one of the dark secrets of this topic series.

For the 2002, 2002 offseason and 2003 the topics were different in that we restarted the counting. After a few topics into the 2003 offseason Slowflake decided to combine them where we made some educated guesses as to which topic we were on, though I'm positive that we're right.
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Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats
Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru.

There wasn't any guessing involved, just adding. These topics have been archived since the start (though a couple of topics went missing, we knew quite well what they were).
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Dr. Football was not stopped by any of us, and won the Guru Contest.

oki doki, now with the world cup coming, I guess I'm gonna use CS&D as an HQ since by god this board will a ton of **** during England vs USA.

also summer with no contests still feels goddamn weird.
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Hau hauu, omochi kaeri!

Lucky for us that match is on the second day plus Argentina/Nigeria and South Korea/Greece will also be played on that day.
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Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats
Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru.

lol argentina, good players, crap manager and no leaders.
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Nyuu~

For the 2002, 2002 offseason and 2003 the topics were different in that we restarted the counting. After a few topics into the 2003 offseason Slowflake decided to combine them where we made some educated guesses as to which topic we were on, though I'm positive that we're right.

I actually recounted a while back when I was creating my archive. It turns out we were off by 1.

16 - Contest Stats & Discussion - Part 16
15 - Spring 2k4 Pt4
14 - Spring 2k4 Pt3
13 - Spring 2k4 Pt2
12 - Spring 2k4 Pt1
11 - Pre-Spring 2k4 Pt3
10 - Pre-Spring 2k4 Pt2
9 - Pre-Spring 2k4 Pt1
8 - Summer 2k3 Off Season Pt4 (missing)
7 - Summer 2k3 Off Season Pt3 (missing)
6 - Summer 2k3 Off Season Pt2 (missing)
5 - Summer 2k3 Off Season Pt1
4 - Summer 2k3 Pt3
3 - Summer 2k3 Pt2 (missing)
2 - Summer 2k3 Pt1
1 - Summer 2002 Contest Pt2
0 - Summer 2002 Contest Pt1 (modded, missing)
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Dr_Football punted my bracket across the field.
Congrats to Dr_Football for winning the Character Battle 8 Guru Contest!

damn, we're gonna need to rectify this mistake.
Now this topic don't feel like the 900th edition no more.
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Uguu~

Well I was "positive" that we were right because I agreed to it when the number was made.

>_>
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Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats
Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru.

REMINDER: Only 4 days left to vote in the Contest Matches Hall of Fame!

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/54688432
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Explicit Content made us all nominate Altair, then ended up hating the guy.

So, does this make topic 901 or 899, then?

To give you guys something to predict:

Super Smash Bros. Brawl vs. Pokemon RBY
Final Fantasy Tactics vs. Zelda: Majora's Mask
Super Mario World vs. Metal Gear Solid
Goldeneye vs. Kingdom Hearts
Call of Duty 4 vs. Portal
God of War III vs. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Street Fighter II vs. Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island

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"Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?" "Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."

Pokemon RBY
Zelda: Majora's Mask
Metal Gear Solid
Kingdom Hearts
Portal
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Street Fighter II

All instinct, no stats.
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Nominate EPONA for Character Battle 9:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=54225515

Pokemon RBY
Zelda: Majora's Mask
Super Mario World - Very very tough pick for me.
Goldeneye
Call of Duty 4
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
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Dr. Football was not stopped by any of us, and won the Guru Contest.

Pokemon RBY
Zelda: Majora's Mask
Super Mario World
Goldeneye
Portal
God of War III
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
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I'm with red that SMW/MGS is the toughest match. It's funny though -- now that most of us think SM64 is out of MGS's league, we just move onto the next Mario-game (though I think last year SMB3 was the #2 Mario-game...probably not now though).
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Nominate EPONA for Character Battle 9:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=54225515

Super Smash Bros. Brawl vs. Pokemon RBY
Final Fantasy Tactics vs. Zelda: Majora's Mask
Super Mario World vs. Metal Gear Solid
Goldeneye vs. Kingdom Hearts
Call of Duty 4 vs. Portal
God of War III vs. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Street Fighter II vs. Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island

Pokemon RBY
Zelda: Majora's Mask
Super Mario World
Kingdom Hearts
Portal
God of War III
Yoshi's Island

I thought we agreed that Mario 64 was the strongest Mario game?

Mario World vs Metal Gear Solid wouldn't be close.
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I've been burned so bad, but I still play with fire.
Sometimes naked truth is what I don't believe in.

now that most of us think SM64 is out of MGS's league

When did that happen? Especially after SM64's and MGS's performance last year.
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Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats
Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru.