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Just calculated it:

If you assume that Cecil Vs. Knuckles is extended 12 hours and if you assume that the final votals are 110,000 Cecil would need 54% of the remaining vote just to break even.
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Dr. Football beat me, Yesmar in the 2010 Guru Contest!

More like it was FFVII Euro dominance as usual.
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People think Sonic characters have a great ASV due to having a great morning vote, but that's wrong. It's Europe (UK) that gives Sonic characters such a boost in the morning.

I don't see Cecil winning.
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Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru.

Knuckles's 4-way match trend charts say otherwise.

Time | Knuckles | Rikku | Vaan | Yoshi | Demographic
EBV | 26.81% | 22.43% | 7.54% | 43.22% | (0:00-0:05)
PHV | 27.39% | 26.00% | 7.78% | 38.83% | (0:00-1:00)
FNV | 26.47% | 28.32% | 8.88% | 35.72% | (1:00-6:00)
BSV | 26.84% | 27.74% | 9.95% | 35.47% | (6:00-9:00)
DSV | 28.14% | 25.57% | 9.66% | 36.63% | (9:00-14:30)
ASV | 28.65% | 27.76% | 10.17% | 33.42% | (14:30-22:00)
SNV | 28.57% | 29.50% | 10.25% | 31.68% | (22:00-24:00)

Quite a jump from morning to afternoon there.

Time | Fei | Knuckles | Mario | Zelda | Demographic
EBV | 12.77% | 20.99% | 40.33% | 25.90% | (0:00-0:05)
PHV | 14.04% | 20.08% | 39.73% | 26.16% | (0:00-1:00)
FNV | 16.91% | 20.27% | 37.77% | 25.05% | (1:00-6:00)
BSV | 12.96% | 19.94% | 42.06% | 25.05% | (6:00-9:00)
DSV | 14.65% | 20.21% | 40.15% | 24.99% | (9:00-14:30)
ASV | 12.40% | 22.09% | 41.75% | 23.75% | (14:30-22:00)
SNV | 15.76% | 21.03% | 39.82% | 23.39% | (22:00-24:00)

Heck, the morning vote was Knux's worst timeframe here.
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Missingno loses a 24-hour match worse than he loses a day match or night match (and he loses both of those, probably). The 12-hour format is not kind to FFVII characters, who do better in a longer match no matter when it starts. 24-hour match > night match > day match for FFVII characters.

I think you can make an argument for Missingno in a day match in that 3 AM - noon is a really bad time of day for rallying people in North America, which potentially knocks off a few thousand rallied votes. Not too likely to make up a 5000 difference though.
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Looking at the trends for the Knuckles/Yoshi/Rikku/Vaan match, I'm 95% sure that must have been a weekend or summer match.

2nd one is surprising though, although Mario characters also do very well in the morning compared to the ASV.
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Dr. Football was not stopped by any of us, and won the Guru Contest.

Knux/Yoshi/Rikku/Vaan was Labor Day.

Lawl Bacon having a contest match during the summer.
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Well, you know, many schools in states I've lived don't start until after Labor Day, so it would be summer. I remember in MA/NH we'd start after Labor Day about half the time and before about half the time.
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Dr. Football was not stopped by any of us, and won the Guru Contest.

Well, regardless, it was a holiday when nobody would be in school anyway.
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So what do people expect from Missingno in the next contest? There's no way it's not coming back next contest after the run it had this past year and the excitement it caused from the vote-ins to Sephiroth. Is it legit enough to beat Crono again? I like to think the Yoshi-match was its most honest match, but between the Nintendo-overlap and seeing how it did against Crono and Sephiroth, it's hard to say that with much confidence...or at least much counter-evidence to those examples.
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I don't know if I'd expect Missingno to beat Crono again, but I wouldn't put it past him.
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Please don't let Missingno face Crono again. Let Crono face one of Mario/Samus/Snake/Sephiroth/Megaman and I'll be satisfied.
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Dr. Football was not stopped by any of us, and won the Guru Contest.

He loses either way, but yeah, I'd be happier with Squall losing to one of the Noble Nine than losing to Missingno.
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I want to see MissingNo Vs. Charizard
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LeonhartFour | Posted 7/8/2010 2:30:58 PM | message detail
More like it was FFVII Euro dominance as usual.

Europe's dominance in this trend chart can certainly show why:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/55224637/610640034

Granted, the continent poll happened on a weekend though, so no ASV. Europe cuts almost 900 votes off North America's lead overnight and didn't lose an update to North America for almost 2 1/2 hours. And the last 6 hours of that poll, since I never posted them:

Time | Africa | Asia | Oceania | Europe | North/South America
19:00 | 0.41% | 1.46% | 1.49% | 12.15% | 79.62% | 4.87%
20:00 | 0.14% | 1.76% | 2.33% | 8.73% | 82.15% | 4.89%
21:00 | 0.46% | 2.07% | 2.84% | 6.56% | 83.23% | 4.84%
22:00 | 0.49% | 2.38% | 2.76% | 4.27% | 85.31% | 4.79%
23:00 | 0.40% | 3.17% | 3.20% | 2.19% | 86.33% | 4.71%
24:00 | 0.33% | 3.31% | 3.72% | 2.13% | 86.42% | 4.09%
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In a Missingno/Crono rematch, I'd back Missingno again. He'll probably drop, but I don't think it'll be a significant drop like L-Block, and if he does fall significantly, I'd be quicker to blame a Pokemon drop than it being a joke character. Plus, Crono ain't getting any younger.
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All polls up to 7/19/2010 have been inputted into the database. Most of them are re-runs of earlier polls, although I couldn't figure out what will be run on 7/9/2010 and 7/11/2010. Probably original poll ideas.

But on 7/10/2010, there will be a "Which one of the original eight Street Fighter II characters was your favorite?" poll.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ!

What's the opinion on joke characters? Do you think they should be eliminated? (this may have been asked recently, but I'm behind on things) It's really unfortunate that we cannot petition for anything pertaining to GameFAQs contests anymore.

I think they ought to. It was hilarious seeing MissingNo. take out Crono, but I'm getting supersaturated with joke character fun now. If we knew they'd always lose that would be one thing. But continual repeats of joke characters taking out contest forces just doesn't seem right. I think they should be banned altogether; and, if not all, ban the formidable ones like MissingNo, L-Block, Mudkip, and Sandbag.

I would expect MissingNo to beat Crono again, though I wouldn't be confident. I didn't analyze the matches or x-stats really, but didn't MissingNo gain some pretty good momentum? At least, when comparing Yoshi's performance to Sephiroth's. If so, I would expect MissingNo to have a strength somewhere between what it did on Yoshi and what it did on Sephiroth. (but wouldn't as easily gain momentum). Kinda Like L-Block after its championship.

If you showed one of the GameFreak developers or one of the Nintendo programmers what MissingNo. did in the past contest, I wonder what their reaction would be...=p

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Joke characters seem to naturally lose the favor of the voters after a contest or two. L-Block and Weighted Companion Cube are defintely much weaker than they used to be. Mudkip and Sandbag aren't that strong. Missingno. and new joke characters are the only ones that may have a lot of strength. I don't think Missingno. will ever be as strong as it was in the 2k10 contest. If Missingno. can still beat Crono, it'll only because Crono also fell a lot.
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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.

The 2007 L-Block matches would be amusing to look at Geolocation results for. Being able to apply Geolocation onto polls older than the first match of the 2008 character battle would simply involve having a record of every IP address associated with every vote submitted in the polls prior to the 2008 character battle. If this data is stored on backups, it should be enough to apply this to older polls.

Well, you know, many schools in states I've lived don't start until after Labor Day, so it would be summer. I remember in MA/NH we'd start after Labor Day about half the time and before about half the time.

What we need is for a poll like this to be re-run again:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=613

There would be a bit of variation across each state, and even between different countries too.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ!

So Blizzard changed their minds about the whole real name thing.

So much for this poll!
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More Ryu domination!
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pfft when will people understand that ken > ryu
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Heh, Chun Li takes second from Ken.

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You're pretty good, Dr_Football.

Looks like SFIV deboosted Ken after all!
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Heh, Chun Li takes second from Ken.

Looks like Chun Li is going to reverse the loss she suffered to Ken in this poll:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3395

If there are any real trends in this poll, Ken needs to rely on them to finish in second place. And there probably won't be any trends here (SFF match).
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ!

It's all about Dhalsim and Blanka!

Interesting change with Chun-Li and Ken here. Who would take Chun-Li to beat him directly head-to-head?
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All I know is that I'd take Akuma to beat both!
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From: HaRRicH | #228
Interesting change with Chun-Li and Ken here. Who would take Chun-Li to beat him directly head-to-head?

I sure as hell wouldn't. I'm pretty sure quite a few Ryu votes would go to Ken since they're very similiar characters
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Can we please get some kind of poll with different SF characters after this!
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From: MegatokyoEd | #231
Can we please get some kind of poll with different SF characters after this!

Or other games!
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There will not be a poll tomorrow about the 4 original bosses from SF2, although it would make sense to run it tomorrow. I finally figured out what poll will happen tomorrow and it's not going to be another SF2 related poll.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ!

what we totally need is a best SF Alpha introduced character. I don't think we've had one of them. It would finally give Dan a time to shine! (or a time to embaress, I dunno how he'd do)
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From: aerithmetic | #234
what we totally need is a best SF Alpha introduced character. I don't think we've had one of them. It would finally give Dan a time to shine! (or a time to embaress, I dunno how he'd do)

Dan embarrassed himself in the vote-ins, so yeah.
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I doubt any SF Alpha character would do too well outside of Akuma (he's Alpha, right?)...and that's just in context to the original SF-cast. SB definitely needs to do that poll though, because we need some new SF-polls if we're gonna have so many SF-polls.

Luster, what's the poll going to be tomorrow?
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Nominate EPONA for Character Battle 9:
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Akuma made his debut in SSFII Turbo, so technically he's not Alpha, but he was just a secret character in Super Turbo, so yeah.
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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 PW/Jecht

Luster, what's the poll going to be tomorrow?

I posted a list of future polls here:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/55522631/612438671
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
Popular at school, but not as cool as Dr_Football, Guru Champ!

So, Wikipedia says Gamefaqs was sold for $2.2 million back in 2003. Does anyone know if that is correct and/or whether there were other conditions in the sale (such as only selling 51% of the business, and stuff like that)? $2.2 million seems really really low for a site that had as much traffic as this one did back then (100k votes/day were very common in that year's contest).
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Dr. Football was not stopped by any of us, and won the Guru Contest.

IIRC three different sites were sold for 2.2 million so CJayC got roughly 700k
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Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru.

That's even worse, though I doubt the other sites in that deal were as big as Gamefaqs. I mean, 2003 was not a good time for technology stocks, but CJayC was robbed if that's all he got.
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Dr. Football was not stopped by any of us, and won the Guru Contest.

So who should we rally Blanka or Guile?
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Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats
Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru.

From: charmander6000 | #242
So who should we rally Blanka or Guile?

Guy.
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Here's the article that was listed in Wikipedia

http://ccbn.10kwizard.com/xml/download.php?repo=tenk&ipage=2269604&format=PDF

Go to the bottom of page 7.
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Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats
Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru.

I'm not sure what websites are worth in 2003 or even today, but I think one of the larger reasons why CJayC sold was because he was tired of running the site. He mentioned it multiple times when he was still here.
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Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats
Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru.

Surprisingly Zangief is winning in Russia

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

Blanka is winning India and Japan, but not Brazil.
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700k for a website that barely cracks top 1000 (or maybe even lower back at that point), when you started it off as nothing but a fanmade site, is pretty good no matter how you look at it.
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Pretty sure GameFAQs was in the top 200 under that Alexa ranking system back in 2003.
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Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru.

Well Gamefaqs is currently around 500 on Alexa, though that's been down in the past few years- used to be top 300 (and yeah, could have been top 200 in 2003).

Either way, $2.2 million seems like a great bargain for CNET, especially as the site was still growing in 2003, and anything less than that even moreso.
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Dr. Football was not stopped by any of us, and won the Guru Contest.