GameFAQs Contests
Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 918
transients | Posted 10/19/2010 2:01:06 PM | message detail |
lol aim, who uses that (who uses irc) --- xyzzy |
MarioSuperstar | Posted 10/19/2010 2:02:43 PM | message detail |
.. I do! --- *is Dranze* |
MarioSuperstar | Posted 10/19/2010 2:13:47 PM | message detail |
Anyone know if that contest that involved the first wrong pick being elimination is going? --- *is Dranze* Dr. Football swept me. |
Glenn_and_Toad | Posted 10/19/2010 2:19:54 PM | message detail |
Anyone know if that contest that involved the first wrong pick being elimination is going? Battle challenge is happening, yes. I kid I kid but still, that's as close as we're going to get to a site-sponsored perfect bracket competition. --- on 4ways: right now they have inherent flaws, but could be easily fixed by implementing approval voting! ~ToadYoshi 1. SoAL 2. MKW/64 3. FE7 4. TF2 5. FFCC |
Safer Sephiroth 777 | Posted 10/19/2010 2:28:47 PM | message detail |
Of
course 7 out of 10 people don't care about the contests.Why they
should?Always the same games and the same characters.The 2 games that
have the highest change of winning came out in 2001!Yeah because 9
years after that nothing game out eh?Man nostalgia in this site... --- GameFaqs is NOT the place to go for relationship advice.Nobody here gets any action unless it is their right or left hand.Including me.~Dawn and Dusk~ |
SuperAngelo128 | Posted 10/19/2010 2:30:21 PM | message detail |
It's my dream to be on the leaderboard at least once I hope to achieve this at least in this contest --- ~Ange |
voltch | Posted 10/19/2010 3:00:25 PM | message detail |
I want to frigging stay on the leaderboard this time, being 9th isn't good enough for me. I want to actually stay there when the contest is done. --- mii~ |
ZFS | Posted 10/19/2010 3:02:54 PM | message detail |
I
can understand people not being into this contest. It's better than
characters, but man, there are a ton of these things. At some point
people are gonna be like 'whatever.' I've kinda reached that point
myself! --- The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. |
charmander6000 | Posted 10/19/2010 3:04:42 PM | message detail |
So the contests that we have this time are... Oracle Challenge Spread Betting Precent Prediction There's also Odds to Win, which isn't a contest, but you guys should support. --- BOP Topic: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/56645390 BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls |
transients | Posted 10/19/2010 3:04:53 PM | message detail |
yeah,
my 'whatever' limit is pretty close too, but I'm into this contest.
it's pretty unique and fresh due to getting rid of all the old crap
that dominates our fanbase. if you make another character battle, I'd
fill out a bracket but probably not follow it closely. not unless there
was a real reason to follow it --- xyzzy |
red sox 777 | Posted 10/19/2010 3:05:16 PM | message detail |
There's also Last User Standing, which is a very novel and interesting contest. --- Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast. |
Kotetsu534 | Posted 10/19/2010 3:06:44 PM | message detail |
This is my first 1v1 Games Contest, so I'm pretty hyped! --- Final Fantasy XIII review: http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/ps3/review/R140434.html You're pretty good, Dr_Football. |
TheKoolAidShoto | Posted 10/19/2010 3:07:50 PM | message detail |
The last character battle was my best by far. I was on the leaderboard for SEVERAL weeks! It was great ^_^ --- "if only there were some way I could have sex" - Smartmuffin |
red sox 777 | Posted 10/19/2010 3:09:00 PM | message detail |
I'm
excited about this contest mainly because of the Battle Contest. It's a
new and much more interesting way of scoring. Not too excited about the
games in this one though.....too many games I just don't care about. --- Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast. |
ZFS | Posted 10/19/2010 3:09:12 PM | message detail |
I
think this one ends up the same way as all the others, which is why I
don't care as much. I can't get into FFX vs Melee or Zelda vs Pokemon
at this point, that's just blah. But, hey, to each their own -- not
trying to rain on the parade! --- The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. |
red sox 777 | Posted 10/19/2010 3:10:45 PM | message detail |
All
the matchups this contest feel a bit anticlimactic except for
Melee/Brawl. And Nintendo vs. Nintendo can't really drive a contest,
however strong the rivalry between the Nintendo games. --- Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast. |
TheKoolAidShoto | Posted 10/19/2010 3:14:55 PM | message detail |
^What you really mean is, you want Chrono Trigger in the contest --- "if only there were some way I could have sex" - Smartmuffin |
MadGamer_11 | Posted 10/19/2010 3:15:58 PM | message detail |
So like... RE5/ToS? TF2/Batman? Halo3/Halo/SMS? Pokemon/GTA IV? Dead Rising/WEWY/Persona 4?!? Portal/Mass Effect?! Paper Mario/WoW? MGS3/MGS4? What is the majority leaning towards in all of these matches.... GOGOGO --- "To be forgotten is worse than death"-Freya FFIX HeartGold Friend Code 3180 9183 7660 |
red sox 777 | Posted 10/19/2010 3:16:25 PM | message detail |
^What you really mean is, you want Chrono Trigger in the contest Yes indeed......you've got it. --- Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast. |
xp1337 | Posted 10/19/2010 3:16:53 PM | message detail |
All the matchups this contest feel a bit anticlimactic except for Melee/Brawl. Yeah, which is why I'm a bit disappointed that match happens so early. I understand that a Melee v Brawl final may not have been appreciated by a lot of people (or potentially would not occur if FFX beat one of them first,) but I felt like that Melee/Brawl could easily have been a semifinal, or at worst, a quarterfinal. Instead it's a Division Final that could very well decide the contest. It's kind of like OoT/FFVII in 2004, only given the generational divides, there wasn't really anything else that could be done there, which isn't the case here. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? SC2k10 (395/448) 98.5138th Percentile |
SuperAngelo128 | Posted 10/19/2010 3:18:51 PM | message detail |
I dunno I'm liking/interested in the battle of weaker games against each other I mean of course Brawl/Melee is gonna be the biggest but games dont have to be big to equate to a great/interesting match --- ~Ange |
ZFS | Posted 10/19/2010 3:23:00 PM | message detail |
Yeah,
that a lot of division finals end up with like Smash vs Smash and MGS
vs MGS kinda puts a damper on some things. This first division is
probably one of my favorite on the bracket, though. Lots of good, new
stiff there. --- The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. |
SonicRaptor | Posted 10/19/2010 3:31:15 PM | message detail |
Melee/Brawl has me interested just because I believe we'll finally figure out which is stronger decisively --- Don't tell me what I can't do! - John Locke |
BlAcK TuRtLe | Posted 10/19/2010 4:16:11 PM | message detail |
Finalized my bracket, my last minute trigger pull was Mass Effect beating out FF12. Oh god what have I done --- http://i49.tinypic.com/2ry672r.jpg |
BlAcK TuRtLe | Posted 10/19/2010 4:23:00 PM | message detail |
From: SonicRaptor | #073 I can tell you right now it's Brawl. We don't need that match. --- http://i49.tinypic.com/2ry672r.jpg |
AppreciateTrees | Posted 10/19/2010 4:25:33 PM | message detail |
I can tell you right now it's Brawl. We don't need that match. I can tell you right now it's Melee. We don't need that match. Oops, looks like we do :D --- "Of course I'm going to rig the contest in my favor." - SBAllen |
red sox 777 | Posted 10/19/2010 4:26:50 PM | message detail |
Whoever wins, prepare for Mario/Samus style recriminations afterward. --- Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast. |
charmander6000 | Posted 10/19/2010 4:44:13 PM | message detail |
Mario/Samus was special and if it's going to happen it'll be because Melee won. --- BOP Topic: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/56645390 BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls |
TheCodeisBosco | Posted 10/19/2010 4:53:06 PM | message detail |
Well, I only did two last-minute changes: 1) Decided to go with Civilization IV over Persona 3. 2) Now banking during the Paper Mario: TTYD/Gears of War match. I also thought about pulling the trigger on Mass Effect > Portal and God of War > Half-Life 2, but I decided against both. Let's do this !! --- Watch Fox's RUNNING WILDE, airing Tuesdays at 9:30 EST! Will Arnett and Keri Russell in the same show - how can you top that?!? |
red sox 777 | Posted 10/19/2010 4:57:25 PM | message detail |
Nah,
the main argument for both the Melee/Brawl sides are "It's obvious,
because my intuition says so," only with the "obvious" couched in terms
of doubt. That was the argument the Mario side had, and people
generally didn't add the "obvious" part until after the match. --- Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast. |
charmander6000 | Posted 10/19/2010 4:59:26 PM | message detail |
I
haven't changed any picks since the first day, though that's because I
created a list of possible games that could make the bracket and ranked
them. I had a lot of time before the contest unlike now with tests and a bunch of other stuff going on. --- BOP Topic: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/56645390 BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls |
charmander6000 | Posted 10/19/2010 5:02:50 PM | message detail |
Nah,
the main argument for both the Melee/Brawl sides are "It's obvious,
because my intuition says so," only with the "obvious" couched in terms
of doubt. That was the argument the Mario side had, and people
generally didn't add the "obvious" part until after the match. While true the second half for why some Mario > Samus guys went nuts on the board was because all the Samus people kept bringing up the x-stats and how far ahead Samus was over Mario. This match doesn't have this exactly. --- BOP Topic: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/56645390 BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls |
Greyfeld | Posted 10/19/2010 5:04:18 PM | message detail |
Nah,
the main argument for both the Melee/Brawl sides are "It's obvious,
because my intuition says so," only with the "obvious" couched in terms
of doubt. That was the argument the Mario side had, and people
generally didn't add the "obvious" part until after the match. Based on the polls from last year's BGE contest, I believe Melee has a slight edge over Brawl. However, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if it went the other way either, because they're both have fantastic showings. In the end, it's going to come down to which game is liked the most (and you know damn well there's going to be rallying like hell for both sides). But I think that whichever game wins is going to break 55% at least, due to the most extreme form of SFF you can imagine. |
red sox 777 | Posted 10/19/2010 5:07:02 PM | message detail |
Yeah, I'd put even odds on the winner getting more than 56%. Would not surprise me a bit to see the winner break 60%. --- Crono > Sephiroth. 7 years of waiting, and perhaps many more to go. Remain steadfast. |
ESY16 | Posted 10/19/2010 5:13:52 PM | message detail |
Augh,
after looking at the results from last year's contest again I want to
change my Melee/Brawl choice. The problem is that I'll hate myself if I
change it to the game that loses. I'm not sure what to do either way
but I hadn't looked at the first couple of rounds of last year's
contest until just now and it makes me want to change my mind. --- Operator of the Would You Hit It Topics! They're Back! http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=50421416 |
ESY16 | Posted 10/19/2010 5:19:31 PM | message detail |
From: red sox 777 | #080 If you are trying to use previous results, then shouldn't Brawl vs. Melee eventually boil down to how you feel a MGS4 vs. Pokemon R/B/Y match would turn out? --- Operator of the Would You Hit It Topics! They're Back! http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=50421416 |
draarrowgant | Posted 10/19/2010 5:19:54 PM | message detail |
Augh,
after looking at the results from last year's contest again I want to
change my Melee/Brawl choice. The problem is that I'll hate myself if I
change it to the game that loses. I'm not sure what to do either way
but I hadn't looked at the first couple of rounds of last year's
contest until just now and it makes me want to change my mind. This hate you speak of, I know it well. I always go with my intuition regardless of what people say on these coin-flip matches precisely for me not wanting to hate myself if my intuitive guess was correct and I picked the other way. -------------------------------- psn: aarrowgant |
Team Rocket Elite (Moderator) | Posted 10/19/2010 5:21:52 PM | message detail |
If
you are trying to use previous results, then shouldn't Brawl vs. Melee
eventually boil down to how you feel a MGS4 vs. Pokemon R/B/Y match
would turn out? OoT being in the match with RBY and SSBM screws up the result. --- "Let me believe what you've always believed! That living is wonderful!" "Thank you so much... Thank you for loving me." |
SuperAngelo128 | Posted 10/19/2010 5:22:14 PM | message detail |
It would be amazing if Brawl and Melee were almost perfectly close/even in that match --- ~Ange |
red sox 777 | Posted 10/19/2010 5:23:32 PM | message detail |
If
you are trying to use previous results, then shouldn't Brawl vs. Melee
eventually boil down to how you feel a MGS4 vs. Pokemon R/B/Y match
would turn out? It's hard to tell how much Melee is really worth on RBY and how much Brawl is really worth on MGS4, thanks to LFF/SFF. --- Nominate Crono so he can get a higher seed and avoid being fed to Clinkeroth early in the contest. |
AppreciateTrees | Posted 10/19/2010 5:23:51 PM | message detail |
and you know damn well there's going to be rallying like hell for both sides I'm going to go to hell and back to rally for Melee. Every damn competitive community on the web will know of this match. But honestly, I think it would be easier to rally for Brawl in the end. --- "Of course I'm going to rig the contest in my favor." - SBAllen |
ESY16 | Posted 10/19/2010 5:29:07 PM | message detail |
From: red sox 777 | #090 Yeah, I didn't mean to simplify it as much as I did. There is definitely LFF/SFF involved in those matches. RBY/Melee cross-over is the hard one to deal with. If you feel that there is some MGS4/Brawl cross-over that is significant than that should actually give you plenty of information based on a couple of other matches. --- Operator of the Would You Hit It Topics! They're Back! http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=50421416 |
Greyfeld | Posted 10/19/2010 5:36:15 PM | message detail |
Yeah, I didn't mean to simplify it as much as I did. There is definitely LFF/SFF involved in those matches. RBY/Melee cross-over is the hard one to deal with. If you feel that there is some MGS4/Brawl cross-over that is significant than that should actually give you plenty of information based on a couple of other matches. If you study the numbers, what it boils down to is you have to assume that the difference in SFF between RBY/Melee and MGS/Brawl is less than 3% in favor of Brawl in order to believe that Melee doesn't have the upper hand. This is, of course, assuming that none of the Melee fanbase rallied behind Brawl during the latter round to boost numbers. |
charmander6000 | Posted 10/19/2010 5:40:45 PM | message detail |
There's
also the possibility that OoT could SFF the two games by different
degrees. We've seen it between rounds with the same entrant so it could
happen there. --- BOP Topic: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/56645390 BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls |
ESY16 | Posted 10/19/2010 5:49:52 PM | message detail |
From: charmander6000 | #094 Interesting thought for sure. I think I am going to switch my Brawl/Melee match and come to regret later. In the midst of my last-minute poll research I also managed to worry myself regarding the finals. I'm sticking with my gut but I guess I'm a bit more worried than I was before. I don't really have a good enough background though to determine whether FFX being SFFed by KH or Brawl being SFFed by OoT/MGS4 is worse and to what degree. Oh, and back to a question I asked at the beginning of the topic but I forgot about: How strong would Mass Effect 2 be in a games contest? Will the PS3 port help by a significant degree? --- Operator of the Would You Hit It Topics! They're Back! http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=50421416 |
UltimaterializerX | Posted 10/19/2010 5:55:47 PM | message detail |
Melee/Brawl will not be close. The winner (whoever it is) breaking 60% is more than possible. --- `·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.~*ST*~.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.· http://i1024.photobucket.com/albums/y306/greenseafoam/ultimer.png |
creativename | Posted 10/19/2010 5:56:15 PM | message detail |
Has
there been any discussion on the effect of the format as compared to
the 4-way from the last games contest (not counting LFF of course)? Are
people expecting any sort of systematic difference, like some games
underperforming with respect to their 4-way performance? I personally think that if there will be any differences due to format, they would be hard to predict in terms of direction. --- www.gamefaqscontests.com |
charmander6000 | Posted 10/19/2010 5:56:39 PM | message detail |
Well
based on the performance of MGS2 between rounds 1 and 2 removing KH in
that round 3 match would have made FFX worth 49.50% on SSBM. In summary it's 50/50. --- BOP Topic: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/56645390 BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls |
charmander6000 | Posted 10/19/2010 5:58:17 PM | message detail |
Has
there been any discussion on the effect of the format as compared to
the 4-way from the last games contest (not counting LFF of course)? Are
people expecting any sort of systematic difference, like some games
underperforming with respect to their 4-way performance? I personally think that if there will be any differences due to format, they would be hard to predict in terms of direction. I'm thinking possibly World of Warcraft, though overall I feel that the 4-way 1v1 doesn't make much difference aside from LFF. --- BOP Topic: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/56645390 BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls |
creativename | Posted 10/19/2010 5:58:41 PM | message detail |
From: AppreciateTrees | #451 For rallying, anyone else feel like in terms of the contest community, Melee will be the "good guy" in this match, and Brawl the "heel"? And it's the contest community that pretty much controls the rallying. So I think if someone was getting rallied, it would be Melee. From: UltimaterializerX | #456 I think that while most likely scenario is that the winner wins comfortably by thousands of votes, there's still a pretty decent chance that it will be close. --- www.gamefaqscontests.com |
