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Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 911
Lieutenant Kettch | Posted 10/5/2010 2:32:44 PM | message detail |
From: BlAcK TuRtLe | #291 It's a night match, so I don't think MGS3 will have much of a problem. Good job everyone getting it that 1-seed. --- Dr Football and Snake have won this round, but Sephiroth will rise again! |
LeonhartFour | Posted 10/5/2010 2:33:05 PM | message detail |
From: LOLContests | #299 Golden Sun goin' down to UYA! --- http://img.imgcake.com/ultigardenpngba.png |
BlAcK TuRtLe | Posted 10/5/2010 2:34:14 PM | message detail |
Yeah, forgot about day/night. I'll have to go through this again to take that into account. --- http://i49.tinypic.com/2ry672r.jpg |
yoshifan823 | Posted 10/5/2010 2:35:16 PM | message detail |
East Division: Hot damn look at those Smash Bros games! They both are gonna roll right through some pretty rote competition (Guitar Hero II, Warcraft III, and Perfect Dark for Super Smash Bros Melee, and poor poor Mario Kart DS, Valkriya Chronicles and, in a really really close match, Pokemon Platinum for Super Smash Bros Brawl). The two winners not mentioned in that big long parenthetical clause, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time and Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, meet their makers pretty quick to PD and Pokemon respectively, but all that pales in comparison to the most awaited match of this division for sure, and potentially the entire contest, Brawl vs. Melee. I think enough time has passed, and enough of the perceived disappointment has set in that Melee will end up triumphing in this match, though I will forever maintain that Brawl is the better game. Finals: Melee > Brawl. The general GFAQS public picks wrong. Again. --- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Guru winnah Explicit Content, that's quis. |
KamikazePotato | Posted 10/5/2010 2:36:03 PM | message detail |
Is ToS/GoW a night match? Wasn't GoW winning against ToS at the 12-hour mark last year? --- DFF |
voltch | Posted 10/5/2010 2:37:21 PM | message detail |
night match favours ToS apparently. --- *Shakes Fist* |
voltch | Posted 10/5/2010 2:37:40 PM | message detail |
and yes it is night. --- Uguu~ |
KamikazePotato | Posted 10/5/2010 2:38:03 PM | message detail |
Why would the night favor ToS? I remember ToS needing and ASV storm to win. --- DFF |
special_sauce | Posted 10/5/2010 2:39:27 PM | message detail |
From: yoshifan823 You seriously think that CoD will lose in round one? --- The return of...Me_Pie_Three |
Team Rocket Elite (Moderator) | Posted 10/5/2010 2:44:07 PM | message detail |
God of War won the first 12 hours by about 150 votes. Tales of Symphonia won the back half to win by 231 votes. --- "Let me believe what you've always believed! That living is wonderful!" "Thank you so much... Thank you for loving me." |
yoshifan823 | Posted 10/5/2010 2:44:23 PM | message detail |
Southeast Division: Congrats, dude who had a C/P paragraph on why Star Wars: Battlefield II is such an awesome game, you gave it enough of a boost to put it right next to Bioshock, an awesome game that will beat it (and rightfully so). Bioshock has the evil task of potentially taking on both KH games right in a row. Right now I'll say it takes down Kingdom Hearts II, but the original Kingdom Hearts is simply better and too strong for Bioshock. Though, in the stream of things, this is gonna end up being the Square Disappointment Division, because not only will KHII fall to Bioshock, but Final Fantasy Dissidia is gonna drop its only match to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and Kingdom Hearts will end up falling to Super Mario Galaxy, which takes matches over Beyond Good and Evil and two series disappointments in Pokemon RSEmerald and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, which will suffer from the same flameout that Brawl ends up losing strength to. Oh yeah, and Dragon Age: Origins wins a match of no importance. Congrats, Bioware, but you'll get yours later on. Finals: Super Mario Galaxy > Kingdom Hearts. In all honesty, I seriously considered Bioshock > Kingdom Hearts. --- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Guru winnah Explicit Content, that's quis. |
yoshifan823 | Posted 10/5/2010 2:49:05 PM | message detail |
South Division: Hey, two games from the same series in the division finals? What is this, the East Division? Regardless, again the biggest match is Final Fantasy X vs. Final Fantasy IX, so I'll just list the winners of the matches that don't really matter: Borderlands Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 Persona 3 Follow that up with GTA and Star Wars winning second matches, and you have all the picks, except the big one, which, unfortunately, is really pretty obvious. X will top IX, even though IX is the only FF that's really good (my worthless opinion). Finals: X > IX. GFaqs posters/voters remind me why I hate most of them. --- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Guru winnah Explicit Content, that's quis. |
Master Moltar | Posted 10/5/2010 2:52:10 PM | message detail |
bracket huh --- Moltar Status: Getting hype Contest Analysis Crew Archives: http://thecrew.speedrunwiki.com/ |
voltch | Posted 10/5/2010 2:52:50 PM | message detail |
this means analysis crew. --- Hau hauu, omochi kaeri! |
UltimaterializerX | Posted 10/5/2010 2:57:05 PM | message detail |
First reactions.... North Beyond stacked. Allen definitely set up Halo vs Ninja Gaiden on purpose after Winter 2010, too. Fallout 3 wins 3 matches easily, and the Halos should all get knocked out early. I actually think Uncharted 2 makes the divisional final along with Fallout 3, and I have no clue who wins that. NE Hardest division. Prime is over-seeded and won't win it. Any one of 6 games from the bottom half could win the entire division, with only the L4D duo having no chance. God of War feels like the strongest game here, and people are hyping HL2 too much. That game barely beat FF12. Oddly enough, this division becomes even more important when you consider the winner probably smokes Fallout 3/U2's winner. East All about setting up Melee vs Brawl. I like Melee more, so I'm picking it to win the entire contest. It's my only reason. If you look at the math, specifically the Ocarina matches, Melee only did slightly worse when it had Ocarina and RBY to deal with. It might be the stronger game. SE TP > Galaxy seems like a lock, as does KH1 > KH2 and TP beating the winner of that match. Looks like an easy division. South FFX just godstomps this one. I feared FF9 would be its "rival", too. FIRE EMBLEM CAN WIN A MATCH!!!!!! SW RE4's victory tour up top, and Portal/FF12 decides the bottom. If Portal loses that, I will cry. West Holy MGS division! 3 and 4 seem like they're on a collision course, no idea who wins it. The games are dangerously close in strength and it will come down to what the fanbase likes more. I have a hard time buying 4 struggling to beat RE4 in this poll, though: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3500 NW Majora's Mask FINALLY gets Wind Waker 1v1 with no other distractions, and it WILL win. I knew the admins read the stats topic, and this proves it. FINAL 8 God of War > Uncharted 2 Melee > TP FFX > RE4 MGS4 > Majora's Mask Melee > God of War FFX > MGS4 Melee > FFX --- ·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.~*ST*~.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.· http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z277/raptorlc/srsly.jpg |
yoshifan823 | Posted 10/5/2010 2:57:19 PM | message detail |
Southwest Division: Dammit, there's still more Final Fantasy/Square games? Oh well, they won't last long. The World Ends With You is too niche for a game that just got an awesome sequel, so Dead Rising gets a win for Team Zombie, and depending on the day, might nail another (unfortunately, it's about a week too late to get the Halloween vote, so Persona 4 will end up beating it, but don't count DR out). Final Fantasy XII cannibalizes it's own series, then goes and loses to Portal, which will ride it's geek cult favorite status right up into a big scary wall named Resident Evil 4, which has the potential to a scary upset pick in a few rounds. RE4 takes down Jet Grind Radio and the aforementioned P4 without breaking a sweat, and will dominate Portal pretty good, making a few people think it's a sexy upset pick over a game whose initials start with MGS. Mass Effect has the unfortunate task of beating it's own when it takes on Baulder's Gate II. Sorry Bioware, just isn't your year. Finals: RE4 > Portal. BTW: the number of American made games in the quarterfinals is gonna be 1. Whether that 1 is Batman, Halo, or Fallout is up to you. --- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Guru winnah Explicit Content, that's quis. |
LeonhartFour | Posted 10/5/2010 3:00:05 PM | message detail |
From: UltimaterializerX | #315 Uhhhh...Fallout 3 has a real chance to win that match, regardless of who it is. Majora's Mask FINALLY gets Wind Waker 1v1 with no other distractions, and it WILL win. I knew the admins read the stats topic, and this proves it. Apparently, he didn't read how much people think of G/S/C though and put it in the way. --- http://img.imgcake.com/leonpngpe.png http://img.imgcake.com/squalloweenpngem.png |
Big Bob | Posted 10/5/2010 3:01:38 PM | message detail |
Predix: Shadow of the Colossus beats MGS2, Ulti foams at the mouth. --- http://card.mygamercard.net/Mach+Tornado.png |
SuperAngelo128 | Posted 10/5/2010 3:02:00 PM | message detail |
From: UltimaterializerX | #315 you dont think GSC is a distraction? --- Ange |
jonthomson | Posted 10/5/2010 3:03:13 PM | message detail |
lol so many really stupid intra-series matchups --- Jon Thomson - HKP: 179, 180's: 2, top kill: 152 gg DrFootball |
yoshifan823 | Posted 10/5/2010 3:04:06 PM | message detail |
West Division: Man, this is just mean. Putting all the MGS games in the same division, and then shoving proven funkillers Diablo II and World of Warcraft in as well? Well, in terms of MGS games, I think the order is 3 > 4 > 2, with 3 being a full level above the others, who could switch on any given day, so it's gonna be Metal Gear Sold 3 that makes it to the quarterfinals in the end, and I think that the three big american games in this division (The Sims, WoW and DII) are all capable of upsets, though only Sims and DII will get them, over Shadow of the Colossus and the pair of Metal Gear Solid 4 and Metal Gear Solid 2 respectively. Oh yeah, and in what might be the most happy, wacky, and just plain silly match of the contest, Paper Mario beats Katamari Damacy. --- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Guru winnah Explicit Content, that's quis. |
UltimaterializerX | Posted 10/5/2010 3:09:10 PM | message detail |
Actually
now that I look at it, yeah, Pokemon GSC probably wins that division
really easily and gives the MGS3/4 winner the scare of its life. It
could actually beat MGS3 or 4, too. If RBY can beat Metal Gear Solid (http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3498), it's hard to imagine GSC being unable to beat 3 or 4 in the lite version of that match. --- Explicit Content made us all nominate Altair, then ended up hating his game. |
yoshifan823 | Posted 10/5/2010 3:09:17 PM | message detail |
Northwest Division: This is it, the last and most Zelda-filled division. I'll say right now that Pokemon GSCrystal has no shot at making the finals, because people will realize how outdated they are because everyone has played HGSS now. It's The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask vs. The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, and I think that MM has simply stood up to time better than WW, which is a real feat considering how great WW still is (or so I hear, couldn't really care less about Zelda myself). As for the distraction matches: Dragon Quest VIII Mario Kart Wii The aforementioned Pokemon game Assassin's Creed II Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion TES:O and Pokemon pick up second wins, but it's all really just hype for the big final match. Finals: MM > WW. Look at all those crisscrossed lines. --- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Guru winnah Explicit Content, that's quis. |
xp1337 | Posted 10/5/2010 3:11:56 PM | message detail |
Yeah,
I'd love to take Majora's Mask to go anywhere in that division, but I
can't see anything happening but it getting destroyed by GSC. And I
wanted to see MM/WW, too... I get the feeling that Bacon went a little
overboard with setting some of these SFF Rivalry matches up. A lot of
them seem like they're happening a lot earlier than they really would
need to. Could have run MM/WW first and have the winner take on GSC,
for example. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? SC2k10 (395/448) 98.5138th Percentile |
KanzarisKelshen | Posted 10/5/2010 3:14:30 PM | message detail |
...Man.
I'm seriously taking Sunshine to the semis on the "IT'S (a) FREAKING
MARIO (game)". KP can be safe in the knowledge that he doesn't have the
most ridiculous upset pick, very safe. And Okami to Round 4 too, only
to be beaten by ToS! --- Placeholder anti-capslock sig. |
HaRRicH | Posted 10/5/2010 3:15:56 PM | message detail |
From: yoshifan823 | #323 RBY beat GS something like 58-42 in BGE2, and RBY's in black-n-white that had a remake too. --- EPONA EPONA Epona Epona Epona EPONA EPONA Epona EPONA EPONA Epona EPONA EPONA Epona |
transients | Posted 10/5/2010 3:16:50 PM | message detail |
some of these picks in here are insane. :) can't wait for this contest. --- xyzzy |
yoshifan823 | Posted 10/5/2010 3:17:47 PM | message detail |
From: HaRRicH | #326 Yeah, but compared to HGSS, FRLG is nothing. HGSS is both more recent and an overall better remake. Also, nostalgia is super effective (lol) when you're talking about the original in a series. That's why I have Halo going so far. There are a lot of people who think that anything over 151 is too much. MM will take GSCrystal down pretty easy. --- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Guru winnah Explicit Content, that's quis. |
jonthomson | Posted 10/5/2010 3:19:57 PM | message detail |
i have street fighter 4 winning its division and world of warcraft going to the final four. is this a problem? --- Jon Thomson - HKP: 179, 180's: 2, top kill: 152 gg DrFootball |
yoshifan823 | Posted 10/5/2010 3:20:31 PM | message detail |
Made my first change: Dead Rising is gonna beat Persona 4. Didn't know how well it did in the last BGE contest. --- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Guru winnah Explicit Content, that's quis. |
xp1337 | Posted 10/5/2010 3:21:42 PM | message detail |
MM will take GSCrystal down pretty easy. I'd vote MM in a heartbeat over GSC, but... http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3462 That is a lot of ground MM needs to make up to win (It already has over 50% in a 4-way). Sure, you can say the other games in the poll hurt MM more than GSC, but even then... And I'd take MM > WW, so if GSC beats MM, then GSC/WW is no contest. I can't imagine GSC gets deboosted by the amount it would take to make this possible. If anything, I'd imagine it gets boosted, which it clearly does not need to win this match. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? SC2k10 (395/448) 98.5138th Percentile |
RPGuy96 | Posted 10/5/2010 3:22:07 PM | message detail |
Just did a first-reaction bracket and I have Sunshine going to the division final. Yikes. --- Mustache...and Green... |
LeonhartFour | Posted 10/5/2010 3:23:34 PM | message detail |
From: RPGuy96 | #332 Welcome aboard! --- Support Morrigan Aensland (Darkstalkers) for Character Battle IX! http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/9302/banner5morrigan2.jpg |
xp1337 | Posted 10/5/2010 3:24:02 PM | message detail |
From: RPGuy96 | #332 Just did a first-reaction bracket and I have Sunshine going to the division final. Yikes. So do I. That's not even the thing that troubles me the most about that division. I have Sonic Adventure 2 in Round 3. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? SC2k10 (395/448) 98.5138th Percentile |
charmander6000 | Posted 10/5/2010 3:24:35 PM | message detail |
Just finished finalizing my bracket... Lots of questionable match-ups. The second division is wide open and considering that the winner will be the favourite against Fallout 3 picking the right one is all that more important. The BOP will be up later today. --- Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru. |
UltimaterializerX | Posted 10/5/2010 3:26:52 PM | message detail |
From: transients | #327 I assume you think my faith in GoW is nuts, but the game was clearly albatross'd by San Andreas's presence and is close enough to Fallout 3 for me to take the upset. --- "Dude, I play WoW. I'm on my PC on a pretty strict schedule." -red13n |
Gaddswell | Posted 10/5/2010 3:27:42 PM | message detail |
Why not just look at this match for MM / GSC? http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3486 GSC only lost by 2.5% against MM here (about 3500 votes) with RBY in the poll. --- http://fc93.deviantart.com/fs40/f/2009/026/9/3/Ike_Climbers1_by_MGSFan4ever.png |
LeonhartFour | Posted 10/5/2010 3:27:51 PM | message detail |
From: UltimaterializerX | #336 You're underestimating Fallout 3 then. --- "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 |
jonthomson | Posted 10/5/2010 3:29:17 PM | message detail |
no guru topic yet? --- Jon Thomson - HKP: 179, 180's: 2, top kill: 152 gg DrFootball |
xp1337 | Posted 10/5/2010 3:30:23 PM | message detail |
From: Gaddswell | #337 Why not just look at this match for MM / GSC? http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3486 GSC only lost by 2.5% against MM here (about 3500 votes) with RBY in the poll. Because I find breaking 50% in a 4-way marginally more impressive than that. But yeah, both polls clearly favor GSC to destroy MM/WW, IMO. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? SC2k10 (395/448) 98.5138th Percentile |
Big Bob | Posted 10/5/2010 3:30:23 PM | message detail |
Would Mega Man 9's box art make it stronger, or weaker? --- http://card.mygamercard.net/Mach+Tornado.png |
FFDragon | Posted 10/5/2010 3:30:25 PM | message detail |
When
I went through my speed bracket I took Sims > SotC without even
batting an eye, but everything I've been reading suggests it's a
longshot upset choice. My question: why? --- If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? [HERO'S PLUNGE] http://img.imgcake.com/wesker.gif |
KanzarisKelshen | Posted 10/5/2010 3:30:39 PM | message detail |
From: LeonhartFour | Posted: 10/5/2010 6:27:51 PM | #338 Everyone's underestimating Sunshine. Goin' to the Final Four son! --- Placeholder anti-capslock sig. |
xp1337 | Posted 10/5/2010 3:31:28 PM | message detail |
From: FFDragon | #342 When I went through my speed bracket I took Sims > SotC without even batting an eye, but everything I've been reading suggests it's a longshot upset choice. My question: why? Same. Well, I thought about it for about 5 seconds, then went, "...SotC can't beat anything that's fairly well known... can it?" --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? SC2k10 (395/448) 98.5138th Percentile |
KanzarisKelshen | Posted 10/5/2010 3:31:37 PM | message detail |
From: FFDragon | Posted: 10/5/2010 6:30:25 PM | #342 SotC is more liked than Wander. No godkiller, but The Sims is purely casual bait and that makes the match debatable. --- Placeholder anti-capslock sig. |
charmander6000 | Posted 10/5/2010 3:32:47 PM | message detail |
I
assume you think my faith in GoW is nuts, but the game was clearly
albatross'd by San Andreas's presence and is close enough to Fallout 3
for me to take the upset. I agree and I think people are pretty ballsy that they are taking ToS in a rematch. I still have HL2 winning though. --- Calintares made a whole lot of geolocation x-stats Congrats to Dr. Football for winning the Guru. |
PartOfYourWorld | Posted 10/5/2010 3:33:14 PM | message detail |
Shadow of the Colossus is stronger than Gears (at least it beat Gears easily in 2009). I wouldn't expect that from The Sims. --- Yoblazer: http://8board.webs.com/ariel.jpg Watch and you'll see... some day I'll be... part of your world! |
LeonhartFour | Posted 10/5/2010 3:33:21 PM | message detail |
From: FFDragon | #342 http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3472 35% on RE4 isn't too bad. http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=4050 Look at the game that won this poll. Look at the game SotC beat in the other poll. --- "Stay with me until the end. Please." "Not until the end. Always." |
PartOfYourWorld | Posted 10/5/2010 3:36:52 PM | message detail |
I
also just switched to GoW > Symphonia. I checked their first match,
and it seems like GoW might indeed do better in a night match. It won
Asia, won Australia, and would have won Europe if not for San Andreas.
Symphonia was the lone Nintendo game and the lone non-violent game.
Couple that with GoW3 and Kratos Aurion humiliating himself and me
earlier this year, and yeah, that's enough. I'll take AREEEEEEEEEES. --- Yoblazer: http://i33.tinypic.com/ml36gl_th.gif Watch and you'll see... some day I'll be... part of your world! |
KanzarisKelshen | Posted 10/5/2010 3:38:45 PM | message detail |
From: PartOfYourWorld | Posted: 10/5/2010 6:36:52 PM | #349 GoW is casual bait though and has every reason to decay quickly over the years. That's why I took it, in fact: the idea that in a battle of who's rotted more, the cult fanbase will hold a little stronger. --- Placeholder anti-capslock sig. |
