GameFAQs Contests
Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 901
charmander6000 | Posted 6/30/2010 6:54:23 AM | message detail |
Don't worry The Other M should catch up by the time this is over. --- Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru. |
Not_Wylvane | Posted 6/30/2010 7:07:59 AM | message detail |
Unless the Koreans cheat for it again. I really wish we could see Geolocation stats for really old polls. Halo vs Starcraft in Asia would be utter hilarity, perhaps a 90%+ blowout. But yeah, Starcraft should do better in Europe, and Metroid should do better later on since it's pretty big in NA. Who knows if Reach can make a comeback against Kingdom freaking Hearts, though. And even if Halo's lost a step, it's still much better here than it was before Halo 3. Need I remind you of all the embarrassing things Master Chief has done before he downed some Game Fuel? Not to mention nobody gave a **** about ODST anyway since the only notable thing about it was it having all DLC included for Halo 3's multiplayer. That's certainly the only reason I bothered getting it. --- Wylvane McBonesII is a horrible user. |
red sox 777 | Posted 6/30/2010 7:13:17 AM | message detail |
Starcraft
is actually really bad in Europe- it's only at 13% in this poll there,
and the falloff from the first 3 hours to the deep night against FFVIII
was incredible. A lot of it was FFVIII, yeah, but you don't go from
50/50 to getting doubled for a couple hours like that without being
really bad in Europe yourself. And it fits well with Starcraft's old
matches too- its best time was always the second night vote, 9 PM to 3
AM, when Europe is asleep. Now, SC looked okay with the first night
vote (3 AM - 6 AM) back then, but it did not dominate it (against WW
and SSBM it was barely staying ahead), and it was up against 4 games
who are just horrible with the deep night: Halo, Kingdom Hearts, Wind
Waker, and SSBM. --- Dr. Football was not stopped by any of us, and won the Guru Contest. |
Not_Wylvane | Posted 6/30/2010 7:17:46 AM | message detail |
Disregard
my stupid assumption, then. Maybe one of these days, I'll actually do
some fact-checking before I say something. Maybe. --- Wylvane captainmurphy72 is a horrible user. |
LinkMarioSamus | Posted 6/30/2010 7:21:26 AM | message detail |
I just checked and Metroid is winning in Europe and South America, while KH is winning in Asia and Oceania. StarCraft (and probably Blizzard as a whole, though WoW may be an exception) doesn't seem to have all that much worldwide appeal. |
charmander6000 | Posted 6/30/2010 7:23:51 AM | message detail |
Yeah
I use to think that Starcraft was loved in Europe before geolocation
came out, but looking at old polls it seems that the game lost the
night vote to Kingdom Hearts. The places that really like it are Asia,
Oceania and Canada. --- Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru. |
charmander6000 | Posted 6/30/2010 7:25:27 AM | message detail |
Wait, you may want to remove Ocenia from that list. --- Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru. |
HaRRicH | Posted 6/30/2010 12:15:39 PM | message detail |
I've
not paid much attention to trends here, but it'll be interesting to see
how Starcraft 2 holds up to Halo, KH, and a Nintendo game (even if it's
Metroid) in the summer-ASV. --- Nominate EPONA for Character Battle 9: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=54225515 |
aerithmetic | Posted 6/30/2010 12:19:25 PM | message detail |
From: HaRRicH | #108 For what its worth, Starcraft 2 has actually gained about 40 votes since 3 PM EST. Doubt we'll see much in the form of trends on a summer day, though. --- http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/kiyone/azunyan-vs-caek.gif Cream of Azu-Nyan Fanboyism! http://myanimelist.net/animelist/RyanSaotome |
charmander6000 | Posted 6/30/2010 12:24:42 PM | message detail |
Starcraft II seems to be more favoured in the Pacific/Mountain time zones. --- Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru. |
-LusterSoldier- | Posted 6/30/2010 5:38:21 PM | message detail |
I've
not paid much attention to trends here, but it'll be interesting to see
how Starcraft 2 holds up to Halo, KH, and a Nintendo game (even if it's
Metroid) in the summer-ASV. I'm not bothering to keep track of trends here. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ! |
Not_Wylvane | Posted 6/30/2010 6:42:18 PM | message detail |
So
you track trends for polls about useless **** like what people call
carbonated beverages, but not for polls concerning actual games that
could give a bit of insight useful for future contests? --- Wylvane Shadow_Ryoko is a horrible user. |
charmander6000 | Posted 6/30/2010 9:04:38 PM | message detail |
See other results for this poll: 7/15/05 3/5/06 9/6/06 7/26/07 12/29/07 6/4/08 11/25/08 12/29/08 6/27/09 12/26/09 What a unique poll. --- Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru. |
-LusterSoldier- | Posted 6/30/2010 9:19:12 PM | message detail |
So
you track trends for polls about useless **** like what people call
carbonated beverages, but not for polls concerning actual games that
could give a bit of insight useful for future contests? I track trends for polls that are expected to have extreme trend changes (as in that soda poll), because I like seeing extreme trend changes. I also track trends for polls related to contests. Only reason I didn't bother with tracking trends for yesterday's poll was for the very high number of options (12 options) in the poll. Anyways, looks like we could be dealing with another series of "Got Console?" polls again this year. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ! |
LeonhartFour | Posted 6/30/2010 10:29:09 PM | message detail |
Ah, my favorite thrice yearly series of polls of the year. Can't wait to see what's changed! --- "I couldn't stand a day without a past or future. I need to live each moment to keep fighting here and now." |
Not_Wylvane | Posted 7/1/2010 6:03:40 AM | message detail |
From: LeonhartFour | #115 who the hell are you --- Wylvane GuessMyUserName is a horrible user. |
red sox 777 | Posted 7/1/2010 11:43:56 AM | message detail |
Now
that we have geolocation, we need a Gamefaqs presidential election poll
in 2012. Bush actually won the popular vote here in 2000......although
Nader probably played spoiler in a big way here, getting over 12% of
the votes (27% for both Bush and Gore, with Bush narrowly ahead). --- Dr. Football was not stopped by any of us, and won the Guru Contest. |
charmander6000 | Posted 7/1/2010 12:01:49 PM | message detail |
Was Nader's platform too similar to Gore's or something? I guess its kind of like the Liberals, NDP, Bloq (in Quebec) and Green splitting the vote for the left while the Conservatives have the right to themselves. Too bad the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservatives merged. --- Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru. |
red sox 777 | Posted 7/1/2010 12:09:23 PM | message detail |
Nader
was closer to Gore than Bush (farther left in a lot of areas, really),
yes, though I think a significant minority of his voters would have
voted for Bush. He only got like 1% or something nationally and in
Florida, but Bush only won by 537 votes in Florida, so Nader may have
swung that election. He was apparently a lot more popular on Gamefaqs,
though! --- Dr. Football was not stopped by any of us, and won the Guru Contest. |
red sox 777 | Posted 7/1/2010 8:05:39 PM | message detail |
I
need a contest. Although, I really don't have time for one, so maybe
it's a good thing we don't have a contest right now, but I wish we'd
have a good old-fashioned summer contest during July and August again.
It's the best time of year to have an event like this. --- Dr. Football was not stopped by any of us, and won the Guru Contest. |
HaRRicH | Posted 7/1/2010 9:11:47 PM | message detail |
Yeah, I've caught myself wondering why I'm not hyped about one right now. I miss matches on my birthday! --- Nominate EPONA for Character Battle 9: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=54225515 |
UItimaterializer | Posted 7/2/2010 12:04:19 AM | message detail |
From: red sox 777 | #120 Totally disagree. Best time would be September/October/November or January/February/March (first months for brackets, of course). It's when the site is busiest. I'm as big a traditionalist as anyone, but doing it in the summer because that's how it used to be makes no sense. It's like saying you should only have sex in the summer. --- `·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.~*ST*~.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.·´ The measure of a man is what he does with power. |
aerithmetic | Posted 7/2/2010 12:09:56 AM | message detail |
I
agree with Ulti for once, but for a different reason. A lot of the best
matches are the ones with the big ASV comebacks, but we don't get them
during the summer matches. The trends are always pretty stable in
weekend/summer matches compared to school days, so those matches are
more entertaining overall for me to watch. Plus, we already had a contest this year. Its really too soon. I hope we have a contest in the fall though. --- http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/kiyone/azunyan-vs-caek.gif http://www.anime-planet.com/images/users/signatures/RyanSaotome.jpg |
-LusterSoldier- | Posted 7/2/2010 2:02:28 AM | message detail |
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3711 On the above link, take note of this: See other results for this poll: 6/30/09 7/3/10 It's listing a link to a poll that isn't even valid. This suggests that all of the "Got Console?" polls have been inputted into the database already, meaning that Bacon has all of the polls set up for now. I took advantage of that to figure out the tentative schedule for the "Got Console?" polls. So we have this: 7/3/2010 - Got PlayStation 3? 7/4/2010 - Got Wii? 7/5/2010 - Got Xbox 360? 7/6/2010 - Got a gaming-quality PC? 7/7/2010 - Got iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad? And I think that's all there will be this time around. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ! |
HaRRicH | Posted 7/2/2010 8:50:54 AM | message detail |
All this, yet you wouldn't track Wednesday's poll...! --- Nominate EPONA for Character Battle 9: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=54225515 |
LOLContests | Posted 7/2/2010 9:15:24 AM | message detail |
September/October/November or January/February/March (first months for brackets, of course). It's when the site is busiest. Summer is definetly the busiest time, or at least it draws in more people to the contests. Both 2004 and 2005 show a drop off in votals once September hit, at least in regards to how well the polls should be doing. Hell, you could make an argument that the last couple of weeks in August do as well. Plus, match trends are way more unpredictable in a non school-day match. --- "Ahem! There is *sand* on my *boot*!"--Kefka Dr. Football beat me, Yesmar in the 2010 Guru Contest! |
Not_Wylvane | Posted 7/2/2010 2:47:29 PM | message detail |
From: HaRRicH | #125 Thank you. --- Not Wylvane |
red sox 777 | Posted 7/2/2010 6:20:40 PM | message detail |
Eh,
trends are probably more interesting on school days- way more
variation, whereas there's not much room for comebacks with weekend or
summer trends. Actually, the most fun time format we've had is probably
a 3 AM start time during the school year. We actually have a second
night vote with that format. The problem is that staying up for the
start of the match becomes almost impossible for those on the East
Coast, so I probably wouldn't want to switch back to that, but as far
as the quality of the matches themselves go, that's probably the best
we've seen yet. --- Dr. Football was not stopped by any of us, and won the Guru Contest. |
HaRRicH | Posted 7/2/2010 6:40:55 PM | message detail |
If
only we could push the poll-time back maybe an hour or something.
Compromise would be fine there, though I'd hate to see it go back to
Pacific Time. --- Nominate EPONA for Character Battle 9: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=54225515 |
LinkMarioSamus | Posted 7/2/2010 10:15:41 PM | message detail |
Wow at this poll. I'm not planning on getting a PS3 this year, but I'm planning on doing so in a few years. |
LOLContests | Posted 7/2/2010 11:16:08 PM | message detail |
I
would say as a general rule though, that matches where the Day Vote
character wins are better to be held on school days, while matches
where the non Day Vote character wins are better to be held on
non-school days. For example, DK Vs. Vercetti probably would have been less entertaining on a school day, as Vercetti probably never loses his lead. On the other hand, Snake Vs. Bowser probably would have been more entertaining on a weekend, as Bowser might have come closer to the lead, and would have threatened Snake for a much longer period of time. --- "Ahem! There is *sand* on my *boot*!"--Kefka Dr. Football beat me, Yesmar in the 2010 Guru Contest! |
red sox 777 | Posted 7/3/2010 10:08:36 AM | message detail |
Nah,
Snake vs. Bowser was made exciting by the ASV. 1500 votes cut off a
2200 lead is much better than a match where Bowser erases a few hundred
votes in the morning to tie it up, they stall in the early afternoon,
and by evening Snake is pulling away again for an easy win. I agree
with your general principle though. I'm also convinced that pushing forward the start time is more than anything else what killed CT's day vote. Push the time back 3 hours, and a huge number of voters in CT's best time no longer vote there, and instead spread their votes throughout the rest of the day. Even moving to 1 AM would probably help substantially (probably wipes out the majority of East Coast early votes and shifts them to the rest of the day). That's why CT's day vote tanked in 2006- the first year we opened polls at midnight Eastern. --- Dr. Football was not stopped by any of us, and won the Guru Contest. |
LeonhartFour | Posted 7/3/2010 4:14:30 PM | message detail |
I'm
not partial to any particular time of the year for a contest. Some of
the best matches we ever had were in the summer and some were during
the school year. I highly doubt we'll have a summer contest this year
anyway though. --- "I couldn't stand a day without a past or future. I need to live each moment to keep fighting here and now." |
Not_Wylvane | Posted 7/3/2010 4:41:29 PM | message detail |
I prefer summer because I have less going on during it (i.e. less TV to watch), but I'm fine participating anytime. Still wondering how Bacon's going to handle the next contest. Starting the year with a character contest kinda throws a wrench in things, after all. --- Not Wylvane |
UItimaterializer | Posted 7/4/2010 1:50:24 AM | message detail |
From: aerithmetic | #123 I think the concept "ASV" is gone for good is Bacon keeps with 12 hour polls starting at midnight. Which he should, by the way. Best format ever. --- `·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.~*ST*~.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.· http://img.imgcake.com/Nevest356/uhwtf.gif |
UItimaterializer | Posted 7/4/2010 1:51:36 AM | message detail |
I
don't want a summer contest this year. I'm contest'd out until at least
the fall. And no changing the poll time from midnight, good god. --- "Not everybody is a perfect person in the world. Everyone kills people, murder people, steals from you, steals from me, whatever." -Ohio State |
Not_Wylvane | Posted 7/4/2010 5:22:57 AM | message detail |
Kinda
late to start a summer contest anyway. It wouldn't start until
September in the earliest, and that's if Bacon announced the next
contest right now. --- Not Wylvane |
LinkMarioSamus | Posted 7/4/2010 5:51:44 AM | message detail |
On a side note, I thought that most people said that they didn't want a Wii. Obviously Twilight Princess + Brawl + Skyward Sword are the reasons. Too bad Other M doesn't seem to have much hype on this site (it's my most anticipated game currently, though that's mostly because I don't own any non-Nintendo console yet and getting extremely new PC games to run is going to be problematic). |
charmander6000 | Posted 7/4/2010 8:35:12 AM | message detail |
Considering
twice as many people want a PS3 than a Wii, that may be true, though we
have to remember that more people already own a Wii. --- Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru. |
LinkMarioSamus | Posted 7/4/2010 8:42:49 AM | message detail |
Those
Wii owners are likely using the console as a Zelda + Smash machine,
completely not caring about the system's true best games. Sad but
unfortunately true. I haven't seen any talking about it, but yes looks like this summer has nothing much for GameFAQs users. The #1 anticipated game is a PC-exclusive RTS, the #3 is a PSP game (yeah it's KH, but still), and the #4 is a Halo game. When those three are close together and taking up three of the top four spots (plus that PC-exclusives, PSP-esclusives, and Halo games haven't exactly been associated with majo strength in the past), you know they are weak. |
LinkMarioSamus | Posted 7/4/2010 5:26:59 PM | message detail |
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/most-disappointing-best-of-e3/701254 Ulti is going to love this. Personally GoldenEye was more disappointing though. |
Team Rocket Elite (Moderator) | Posted 7/5/2010 3:41:16 PM | message detail |
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3960 56.50% have a PS3. http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3962 Currently 55.99% have a 360. Down from 57.71% in December 2009. 0.5% isn't very much but if it holds, the PS3 will finally have passed the 360 here. --- Dr_Football punted my bracket across the field. Congrats to Dr_Football for winning the Character Battle 8 Guru Contest! |
aerithmetic | Posted 7/5/2010 5:12:19 PM | message detail |
Currently 55.99% have a 360. Down from 57.71% in December 2009. 56.1% now. Its rising, but I don't think its rising fast enough to beat PS3. Who woulda thought PS3 may overtake 360 here. --- http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/kiyone/azunyan-vs-caek.gif http://www.anime-planet.com/images/users/signatures/RyanSaotome.jpg |
LeonhartFour | Posted 7/5/2010 5:14:47 PM | message detail |
Aw yeah, another nail in the 360's coffin. --- "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 PW/Jecht |
charmander6000 | Posted 7/5/2010 6:51:25 PM | message detail |
Who woulda thought PS3 may overtake 360 here. After watching the last few Got Console? polls it was pretty obvious that it was coming. --- Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru. |
Team Rocket Elite (Moderator) | Posted 7/5/2010 9:32:11 PM | message detail |
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3962 Final "Yes" percentage is 56.40%. PS3 has now taken the lead by 0.1 percentage points. A large part of the cause was the PS3 percentage boosting since the previous poll but the 360 would have kept the lead if it didn't drop by 1.31 percentage points. I think this is probably the first time a current gen console has gone down in percentage. --- Dr_Football punted my bracket across the field. Congrats to Dr_Football for winning the Character Battle 8 Guru Contest! |
HaRRicH | Posted 7/6/2010 1:45:18 PM | message detail |
With
the 360's biggest-by-far exclusive series no longer mattering much,
that's not too surprising...but it's still weird to see a console lose
ground. I feel like we've seen it happen once before though, but even
then I don't think it was anything big like 1.31%. Back in last place you go, Microsoft. --- Nominate EPONA for Character Battle 9: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=54225515 |
LeonhartFour | Posted 7/6/2010 1:46:38 PM | message detail |
So we can expect an MC drop next contest, ja? --- "But you have been given freedom. Freedom to be...outside." "I am lightning...the rain transformed." |
aerithmetic | Posted 7/6/2010 1:47:16 PM | message detail |
From: HaRRicH | #147 Back? It was 2nd last gen... --- http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/kiyone/azunyan-vs-caek.gif http://www.anime-planet.com/images/users/signatures/RyanSaotome.jpg |
HaRRicH | Posted 7/6/2010 1:53:10 PM | message detail |
Not as far as GameFAQs-ownership goes. It was an easy third. An MC-drop...I mean, I don't know about that, but I'd rely on him even less in a close match than usual! --- Nominate EPONA for Character Battle 9: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=54225515 |
