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FFX got screwed in this bracket. Melee in its own division, then it has to beat Brawl if it wins? All three all on the same half, ensuring a bad final? WTF is this?



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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. 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.

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Noble Nine - Link, Cloud, Solid Snake, Sephiroth, Mario, Crono, Sonic, Samus and Mega Man.
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FFX just gets to cakewalk it once it gets past all that though because Brawl and G/S/C are in the same division, too!

Seriously, we might get an FFX vs. MGS3 final, from the looks of it. The upper half is stacked.
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Nominate EPONA here: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/55150177

Looks like we could be seeing an LTTP GBA vs. SM64 DS final!
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Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast.

awwwww yeah cakewalk path for d/p/p
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I can't believe Umineko was put in a match it can't lose! I wonder who nominated Cory in the House, anyway.

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When did the bracket come up?

And man it sure sounds like there are some stupid decisions.

I think Umineko might win two matches in a row. I'm not sure.

It's probably going to be Trapped vs Umineko in round 2. Who do you got?

Hi stats topic people
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No Mercy to Round 3 BELIEVE
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Trivia of the day: Did you know that the links to old stats topics in the first post used to contain a link to a topic with a url containing Shindou Hikaru, the main character of Hikaru no Go?

How many people here play Go (also known as Weiqi in Chinese and Baduk in Korean) besides me?
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Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast.

I play a little bit of Go. I happen to suck at it, but I play it!

That was arguably the best 500 post the stats topic has ever had.
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I can't believe Umineko was put in a match it can't lose! I wonder who nominated Cory in the House, anyway.

Cory in the House would destroy Umineko
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Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru.

True or False: Umineko breaks 10% on FFVII.
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Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast.

Falsetto
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Eh... I'd have to say true. I'd imagine FF7 would be able to rack up at least 6-7% anti votes.
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Albion Hero

Yeah, I'd probably with true also. This is probably a case where OOT would do a lot better than FFVII- even something like SMB3 or LTTP might achieve a larger blowout than FFVII.
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Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast.

Umineko vs Trapped

Who do you got?

Trapped, it has a fairly interesting name, although I don't know what it is.
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Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast.

Comet Crash vs. Umineko
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Umineko, and easily. I've never seen anything approach how badly Comet Crash did in those GOTY polls.
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Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast.

wats going on gais?

srsly, i been out of the contest loop for a week.
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From: voltch | #023
wats going on gais?

srsly, i been out of the contest loop for a week.

Not a God damned thing. Still waiting for the bracket, which is coming "soonish" according to Bacon.
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From: red sox 777 | #021
Trapped, it has a fairly interesting name, although I don't know what it is.

Trapped is...hm...an adventure game that....
...I can't describe it. Watch it in order to understand:
http://www.viddler.com/explore/slowbeef/videos/179/
http://www.viddler.com/explore/slowbeef/videos/180
http://www.viddler.com/explore/slowbeef/videos/181

Whoa, is that Slowbeef of Metal Gear 2 fame?
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Umineko vs. Sengoku Rance

who wins
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Albion Hero

We all lose.
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"But you have been given freedom. Freedom to be...outside."
"I am lightning...the rain transformed."

Leon has the right idea.

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From: LeonhartFour | #027
Whoa, is that Slowbeef of Metal Gear 2 fame?

And of Snatcher fame.

And Policenauts and a bunch of other ****. Hell, he's the mod of the Let's Play forum on SA.

Anyway, since there's no point making a Part 4 for the Gamespot Topics (lol Gamespot contest) and we have a couple of days minimum to kill before the bracket comes out, might as well say I don't mind rallying that much. Even if it significantly changes a match, it's usually a one-time thing (Mario/Cloud, L-Block, etc). Plus we're pretty damn resistant to rallying as it is, and the biggest rallies would come from PC companies, whose properties are pretty weak here.

Think about it, Gordon and Kerrigan wouldn't do nearly the damage they would on Gamespot. It'd probably boost them over a few characters they wouldn't normally beat, but that's it. Even if they had a 24-hour nonstop rally, I still wouldn't pick either to beat, say, Squall or Pikachu. Neither would pull an L-Block because neither would have the universal appeal that would get everyone behind them. Let's face it, GameFAQs users care a lot more about their contests than Gamespot visitors.

I don't see rallying as very influential here, and don't really think it can do any harm other than alter a few close matches. Of course, those few close matches could be major, but hey, as long as it brings in more people that bring in more ad views that bring in more revenue to keep this site running, I can live with it.
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Tomorrow's poll will be "Which scheduled October release are you most looking forward to?". I find it strange that it will be run tomorrow, because those types of polls are almost always ran on the last day of a month. Most of the polls listed here were on the last day of a month:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?search=Which+scheduled

The fact it isn't being ran on the last day of this month would potentially suggest a series polls that are related to this contest. I doubt they are vote-ins, so I don't know what it could be.
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From: -LusterSoldier- | #033
Tomorrow's poll will be "Which scheduled October release are you most looking forward to?". I find it strange that it will be run tomorrow, because those types of polls are almost always ran on the last day of a month. Most of the polls listed here were on the last day of a month:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?search=Which+scheduled

The fact it isn't being ran on the last day of this month would potentially suggest a series polls that are related to this contest. I doubt they are vote-ins, so I don't know what it could be.

Very interesting find. This should keep this topic abuzz for awhile.

Time to speculate on what polls Bacon's going to run, and if this will do with the things that Bacon says will keep people coming back.
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Wylvane
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How do you find out what tomorrow's poll will be?
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From: MarioSuperstar | #035
How do you find out what tomorrow's poll will be?

He has a script that will download every poll every day or something, then he searches the polls for tomorrow's date to see if anything pops up in the Other Results part.

For example, after downloading and searching the polls, he finds tomorrow's date here or one of the other October polls:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3622

Luster's definitely dedicated, even though it probably doesn't take too much work.
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Wylvane
Epop_Salesman is a horrible user.

He has a script that will download every poll every day or something, then he searches the polls for tomorrow's date to see if anything pops up in the Other Results part.

I use a download manager to download every poll, not a script. In order to cut down on the number of polls I download to my computer, I ignore all contest matches and other polls that I know for sure will never be re-run in the future.

This trick allows me to figure out what a future poll will be if the poll question is exactly the same as a poll that was ran in the past. It will not work with original polls.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
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So it looks like we're not getting a bracket until tomorrow. Let's have a stats topic poll now that the bracket is imminently approaching: what game are you taking to win the contest?

My vote: Super Smash Bros. Melee
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Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast.

Brawl. Did it last contest, doing it again this contest.
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Wylvane
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Brawl

With an epic TP > FFX upset

Another question, what's the strongest game that wasn't in last contest, but is eligible for this one?

I feel that it's going to be Modern Warfare 2, I can't really think any other games that might beat it; maybe Mario Kart DS
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Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru.

pokemon g/s/c/
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Pokemon GSC at the moment. I might switch to SSBB, though.
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Melee at the moment. G/S/C is a lot more tempting than I thought a while ago I didn't realize until I checked just recently how bad FFX (and by extension the two Smash games which are linked to it) did on OoT in its two matches prior to the final.
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not sure

but It'll probably be a game released between 2000-2004
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Pokemon feels tempting, but if it underperformed I would be so mad at myself for picking it over Brawl/Meele/FFX.

SSBB's my pick for the contest with probably Modern Warfare 2 being the strongest newcomer...unless another handheld LoZ-game wants to shock or Wii Sports wants a good argument to beat Super Mario Galaxy here, neither of which I'm taking. Either way, I doubt MW2 is much/any stronger than MW1 was, much like the Halo games.
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl, unfortunately

G/S/C is classic Pokefear, I think. I really doubt HG/SS is going to boost it to victory here either. I think everyone was just really impressed with how much it resisted LFF against RBY. It got 46.67% on MGS1, and I'm not taking MGS1 to beat FFX, Brawl, or Melee, personally.
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im late to the party, someone link me to the bracket <_<?
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