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~*creativename's contest site (all things contest!)*~
www.gamefaqscontests.com

~*The Board 8 Wiki (lots of useful contest and board information, including all past Post-Contest Analysis from Ulti, transience, Ed Bellis and others)*~
http://board8.wikia.com/

~*NGamer64's Archive Sites (good stuff!) and (LOL) X-Stats Sim (some offensive language)*~
http://www.thengamer.com/
http://thengamer.com/xstats

~*GameFAQs Contests Hall of Fame*~
http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/GameFAQs_Contests_Hall_of_Fame
http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/GameFAQs_Contests_Match_Hall_of_Fame

~*Character Contest Histories*~
http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Contest_Histories

~*Simple Explanation of Extrapolated Standings*~
A = Strongest Character
B = Character Weaker than A
C = Character Weaker than B
To figure out a character's Xsts Percentage ---> [(CvB)(BvA)]/50 = CvA
To compare how C would do against B ---> [(CvA)/(BvA)]*50 = CvB
To figure out how B would do against A ---> [(CvA)/(CvB)]*50 = BvA

~*All the Match Pics*~
http://www.gamefaqscontests.com/gallery/index.php

~*Acronyms and Percentages for Dummies*~
http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Acronyms_and_Percentages

~*Say What? Common Stats Topic Lingo Defined*~

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. This is the best example of SFF we've ever seen. However take some SFF labels with a grain of salt, as many people will slap it onto any match that doesn't make perfect sense.

Extrapolated Standings - The mathematical "strength" of a contestant that's determined based on their performance relative to the rest of the field. This number is typically based on the contest entrant's loss, but adjustments are sometimes made. See above for a watered down explanation for how the stats are calculated.

Noble Nine - Link, Cloud, Solid Snake, Sephiroth, Mario, Crono, Sonic, Samus and Mega Man.
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Virtue - "You don't need a reason to get voltch'd."

Perfect timing for the VOLTCH'D sig, haha

Now you give me the next mafia discussion topic and we're set <3
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I can understand the deletion, even though it's sarcasm, but I'm more amused that someone actually bothered marking that post.
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Pirateking2000 is a horrible user.

Indeed.
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"Music wouldn't be popular if it wasn't good." -Curt

another topic for us to
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Bokooooooooooooooooooooooo~
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Friendly reminder: Epona for CB9!
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Nominate EPONA for Character Battle 9:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=54225515

sup voltch
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Virtue - "You don't need a reason to no lynch."

oh snapz
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If I'm going to push you off a cliff anyways, it would be more interesting to lure you to a higher place first.

Friendly reminder: Santa Claus for Fictional Character Contest 1!
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"Ahem! There is *sand* on my *boot*!"--Kefka
Dr. Football beat me, Yesmar in the 2010 Guru Contest!

Mario for Villain's Contest 2.
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Wylvane
Chrono1219 is a horrible user.

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KrahenProphet lives up to his name.

Anyone has any idea when the next contest will happen?
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Nominate Epona for the next Character Battle and have a carrot!
Nominate Dan McNeely for the next Character Battle and have immortality!

From: LOLContests | #014
Friendly reminder: Santa Claus for Fictional Character Contest 1!

Santa Claus is not eligible for the fictional character contest.
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Nominate Epona for the next Character Battle and have a carrot!
Nominate Dan McNeely for the next Character Battle and have immortality!

From: Not_Wylvane | #015
Mario for Villain's Contest 2.

NOW THIS, I can get behind.

Mario > Sephiroth
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The Gamer In Me
My bracket's busted, unlike our guru's, Dr_Football.

From: paulg235 | #019
NOW THIS, I can get behind.

Mario > Sephiroth

Yes!
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"Nature is only worth "preserving" to the extent that such preservation can benefit humanity." -SmartMuffin

Mario > Cloud after SMG2's release. Yes! At least, if we do the half-day style of poll.

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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."

Mario > Cloud even before then.
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Mario has no chance to survive against Cloud, though he is a much better villain than Sephiroth, who could never snuff out dreams and hopes with ruthless efficiency and utter shamelessness like Mario could. Besides, Sephiroth never plays dirty, but always precedes any action with an hour of monologue giving his opponent ample opportunity to take unfair advantage.
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Dr. Football was not stopped by any of us, and won the Guru Contest.

LOL @ Sephy not playing dirty

Anyway I'm giving Galaxy 1 another chance, and this game definitely needed to be compatible with the Gamecube controller. Or at the VERY least, let me use the analog stick for that stupid water stingray crap. Good lord.
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Make me a perfect lie.

Your irrational hatred of motion sensing is almost as bad as my irrational hatred of 3D movies.

Seriously it isn't that hard to flick your wrists.
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Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats
Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru.

Kickass poll today. Going to see lots of variation between each state. Especially Arizona:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3951&region=USXAZ

Going to track poll updates here, as I could imagine some big trend changes here.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ!

The eternal struggle begins between "Yes, it's over 90 where I live (32C)" and "It's okay, it's close to 80 degrees (27C)". "Yes, it's over 90 where I live (32C)" just got cut for the first time at 2:20 AM. Right now, "Yes, it's over 90 where I live (32C)" is up to a 1532 vote lead on "It's okay, it's close to 80 degrees (27C)" and it doesn't seem like it will rise much more than that.

But watching "Yes, it's over 90 where I live (32C)" drop like crazy in percentage is amusing to see. I just wasn't expecting it to happen so early (before the end of the first hour), compared to the Soda poll where it wasn't until after 2:00 AM where Soda really began its epic collapse.

The Night Vote for this poll depends more on how late night American voters will vote in a poll like this, rather than the influence of the European voters on this poll. I wasn't sure if late night American voters would vote based on the current temperature at the moment, or based on what the high temperature of the day has been in their area lately.

I voted for "Yes, it's over 90 where I live (32C)" at the start of this poll, since the high temperature of the day in my area is close to 90 degrees. If I had voted late at night when the temperature would have been around 70 degrees instead, I still would have voted for "Yes, it's over 90 where I live (32C)" despite the temperature being around 70 at the moment. If the majority of late night American voters would have used the same logic as me when voting, the trends here won't be as extreme as I might be expecting. I will track poll updates for the US as well, to see how the percentages change over the course of the entire poll.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ!

Central air = the best
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"Dude, I play WoW. I'm on my PC on a pretty strict schedule." -red13n

Today's poll is like a weird company tag-team match. Sega sucks...sad day.
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Nominate EPONA for Character Battle 9:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=54225515

None of these mergers have even been good, but I guess Square is the lesser of all the evils.
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I am insulted that you think you're my friend. -joyrock

I'm actually quite surprised that Activision/Blizzard is doing as well as it is. I thought nearly everyone hated Activision by now.
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Poll updates for the temperature poll:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=t0xI5Qmsru8FiZz9L0Beyow

I think that poll is a good example of where a Canadian ASV is pretty obvious to see. At least in the hourly trends. The "Around 80 degrees" option drops off hard after 6:00 PM because the Canadian ASV is wearing off. In the updates, "Around 90 degrees" has difficulty trying to go up in percentage during the ASV, because of how "Around 80 degrees" is easily dominating Canada.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ!

Canadian ASV? Doesn't Canada have summer vacation now too?
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Dr. Football was not stopped by any of us, and won the Guru Contest.

Activision/Blizzard's the only option with two huge companies combining forces, plus they're behind some of the most popular (and polarizing) games of the past decade. Call of Duty, Guitar Hero, World of Warcraft...while sequels for Starcraft and Diablo 2 are in the works? Hate their CEO or games all you want, but that's a powerful duo in the industry and it's not like they don't have any pull here either.

Can't that option technically add Bungie to their merger nowadays, too? I understand they struck a deal recently (though it's nothing involving the Halo series) and couldn't have hurt them any worse in this poll than their own reputation has done.
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Nominate EPONA for Character Battle 9:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=54225515

Canadian ASV? Doesn't Canada have summer vacation now too?

I'm sure Canadian schools haven't gotten off for summer vacation just yet. Almost all American schools have reached the end of their school year already. The poll from 2 days ago was about the only chance I would have to see if this "Canadian ASV" really does exist, as it has been mentioned a few times last contest, mostly on matches that take place on the day of an American holiday.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ!

Time to see if people know their geography.
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Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats
Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru.

It's not that I'm interested in. I'm tracking poll updates so I can watch the extreme trend changes. I figured North America would be over 80% at the freeze, but I didn't think it would be threatening 90% this early. It will drop a lot overnight.

Let's see if Europe can win a single update overnight. The best case scenario for Europe to win a single update is to do it between 5:00 AM and 7:00 AM.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ!

this isn't PotD stats and discussion
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From: aerithmetic | #031
I'm actually quite surprised that Activision/Blizzard is doing as well as it is. I thought nearly everyone hated Activision by now.

"Blizzard"
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And if you seek vengeance, all you need are instruments of pain." -Dethklok

Uh I know this isn't the time Europe is supposed to do well, but how the hell is it 2nd to last? I thought we had quite a few Europeans on this site...
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It's 6:30am over there.
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Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats
Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru.

I kind of thought Europe would have done a little bit better at this time of the day than what I'm seeing right now. Didn't expect it to be losing to Asia, Oceania, and South America this early.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ!

From: charmander6000 | #041
It's 6:30am over there.

Still, I thought we had like 15% of the site from Europe or something... I would expect at the very least to have 6-7% at this point, if not higher.
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Still, I thought we had like 15% of the site from Europe or something... I would expect at the very least to have 6-7% at this point, if not higher.

According to the last poll roughly 15% of the people are from Europe, but to think it would be at 6-7% is over ambitious. I wake up early, but even I don't think 40% of people are awake at 6:40am (or 5:40 in the United Kingdom). IIRC in an earlier poll only roughly 5% of Europeans vote when the poll is updated.
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Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats
Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru.

Maybe so, but I don't see any way it gets anywhere near 15% when its struggling to hit 2% with the first hour. That would take a massive swing.
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Tonight's POTD is amusing. This is our chance to see which continents/states are the biggest joke voters. =P

I'd post stats, but we might as well wait until the end. I'll just say that 0.78% of Arizona voters so far put "South America", while the rest put "North America". Come on guys, don't you known the southern US is NOT South America?!

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http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3954&map=1

Looks like someone from the Dominican Republic wasn't being honest when he voted for South America. Looks like 2 countries in Central America didn't vote for North America here.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ!

Ah, here comes regular updates of North America dropping by more than 0.10% per update. First update where North America fell below 80% of the votes was at 1:55 AM, when it got a 79.00% update.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ!

Europe has finally overtaken Asia a few minutes ago. Only about another 15 or 20 minutes before Europe overtakes Oceania. On the update that Europe overtook Asia, it had a 18.43% update. That's Europe's best update so far. I'm expecting 20-25% updates from Europe before the end of this hour. Next hour, Europe will be getting 25-35% updates.

Then in the 5:00-6:00 AM hour (last hour of the Night Vote), Europe will pound out 45% updates and win an update over North America. Success! Okay, so I don't expect that to happen, but seeing Europe win an update over North America would be awesome.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ!