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Pretty crazy that North America currently has SMS performing better

Though Halo is performing better in the US.
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Well Canada doesn't really care about Halo, like Kingdom Hearts it's a US thing.
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GotD Bracket: 4/6 Today's Matches: Halo 3 & Halo

So... when is Halo supposed to drop off for the night?

probably around 1:30.
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Based on its last weekend match seems like 2am.

Not that it matters too much. Halo 3 currently has a larger lead than Deus Ex and SFIV and those were day matches plus once Europe kicks it into gear it probably won't have SMS crushing Halo 3 or anything.
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GotD Bracket: 4/6 Today's Matches: Halo 3 & Halo

So... when is Halo supposed to drop off for the night?

Probably never, its dominating in Europe and Asia.
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I have an idea that I should calculate the percentage of Battle Picks that correctly predicted the winner. In the case of SA2/SFIV, there were 5325 picks for SA2 and 11840 picks for SFIV. So the percentage of Battle Picks that correctly predicted SFIV would work like this:

11840 / (11840 + 5325) = 68.98%

For the sake of my calculations, the number of Banked picks are ignored when doing the calculations.

68.98% of the Battle Picks got SFIV correct, which is not too far off from the 70.70% in the Bracket Challenge. Would be interesting to see how the prediction percentages differ between the Bracket Challenge and the Battle Challenge, at least for round 1. Round 2 and beyond is when you'll have bigger differences in the prediction percentages between the 2 challenges.
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500 vote lead breached
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Halo 3's just broke 500, and the NPH isn't even over yet. Red sox's alternative viewpoint also suggests Halo 3's safe as long as it finished over 53% at the end of this hour...where it currently has 53.4% with an update to go.

I'm calling it. Good effort, SMS. Hopefully SMG blows your performance twice away before LoZ:TP kills it.
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From: NoDicePwn | #456
So... when is Halo supposed to drop off for the night?

Probably never, its dominating in Europe and Asia.

XD

That's awesome. Asia and Europe's good taste continues.
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It'll probably change for Europe, vote totals there are pretty low right now plus percents don't remain static in regions either.
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GotD Bracket: 4/6 Today's Matches: Halo 3 & Halo

Yeah, Europe has very few votes right now. It'll probably change over to Sunshine winning there within another couple of hours.
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Nominate Crono so he can get a higher seed and avoid being fed to Clinkeroth early in the contest.

Halo 3 takes the Power Hour by 563 votes.

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TRIPLE KILL!
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563 at the end of the power hour. Okay, you win, Halo.
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Nominate Crono so he can get a higher seed and avoid being fed to Clinkeroth early in the contest.

Yeah, Europe has very few votes right now. It'll probably change over to Sunshine winning there within another couple of hours.

Indeed. Europe had 160 votes at the end of the first hour in the continent poll and that had 8095 votes at the end of the first hour. This poll has 7895 votes at the end of the first hour. I already linked to the spreadsheet on the previous page that has the trends and poll updates for the continent poll.
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Halo 3 53.57%

4229
Super Mario Sunshine 46.43%

3666
TOTAL VOTES 7895

Coincidence? I think not!
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Well Mario does wear red.
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GotD Bracket: 4/6 Today's Matches: Halo 3 & Halo

As a Mario Sunshine supporter, I'm not too disappointed about it losing: I mean, this is probably going to be a one-point match anyway. If Halo 3 wins, it'll most likely lose to Halo CE due to the series hierarchy; and if Sunshine (somehow) wins, I highly doubt it'll have a chance against CE during the day.

Rather, I'm just disappointed that this match isn't close. It could have been a classic, if you ask me... :\

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SUNLO
...a bit disappointing...

Halo 3 (2009g) has a strength of 23.82 against Base Link.
Super Mario Galaxy (2009g) has a strength of 22.89 against Base Link.


Halo 3 51.95% 58,400
Super Mario Galaxy 48.05% 54,011
TOTAL VOTES 112,411

Halo 3 wins with 51.95% of the vote!
A 4,389 vote margin of victory.

Uhhhhh...
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I have no idea how Metroid: Other M got any scores lower than 60%.

Time | Sonic A2 | SFIV | Votes
0:05 | 48.43% | 51.57% | 702
1:00 | 47.33% | 52.67% | 6600
2:00 | 48.25% | 51.75% | 5919
3:00 | 48.47% | 51.53% | 5356
4:00 | 50.12% | 49.88% | 5664
5:00 | 49.58% | 50.42% | 4980
6:00 | 50.07% | 49.93% | 5013
7:00 | 50.27% | 49.73% | 4414
8:00 | 50.28% | 49.72% | 3888
9:00 | 49.28% | 50.72% | 3385
10:00 | 48.75% | 51.25% | 3091
11:00 | 49.97% | 50.03% | 3058
12:00 | 50.32% | 49.68% | 2786

Despite never making a serious comeback attempt, SA2 still manages to win five hours outright. Like with Deus Ex/RB2, those first three hours made all the difference.
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Well I do feel better about SMG.

Too bad its path is pretty much locked.
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GotD Bracket: 4/6 Today's Matches: Halo 3 & Halo

So my bracket is officially dead. This is the worst 8 pack that I've ever done, and if Ninja Gaiden beats Halo I will lose in every single match. So depressing.
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Yeah Galaxy losing to Twilight Princess is stupid. I won't mind it losing to GTAIV in round 2 (except I have Pokemon beating GTAIV because it had the seeding advantage and lol GTA).

On the other hand, Sunshine beating Twilight Princess would be stupid. TP would rightly fodderize that game.
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I have no idea how Metroid: Other M got any scores lower than 60%.

From: XxSoulxX | #473
So my bracket is officially dead. This is the worst 8 pack that I've ever done, and if Ninja Gaiden beats Halo I will lose in every single match. So depressing.

Then you should be okay. Halo > Ninja Gaiden was the one lock in this 8 pack.
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So my bracket is officially dead. This is the worst 8 pack that I've ever done, and if Ninja Gaiden beats Halo I will lose in every single match. So depressing.

You picked Infamous over Fallout 3, and Psychonauts over Batman ... ?
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From: NoDicePwn | #476
So my bracket is officially dead. This is the worst 8 pack that I've ever done, and if Ninja Gaiden beats Halo I will lose in every single match. So depressing.

You picked Infamous over Fallout 3, and Psychonauts over Batman ... ?

8 pack, Albion.
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except I have Pokemon beating GTAIV because it had the seeding advantage and lol GTA

GTAIV will probably win over RSE for the same reason Halo 3 is winning here.
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GotD Bracket: 4/6 Today's Matches: Halo 3 & Halo

Fallout is lucky it's in such an average division. It was pretty much given a free ticket to lose to one of the Smash games.
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So my bracket is officially dead. This is the worst 8 pack that I've ever done, and if Ninja Gaiden beats Halo I will lose in every single match. So depressing.

Do you have SMS > Halo too?

Last time someone got an 8-pack that wrong was back in 2005 in the Devil Division. A few people only had Squall > Geno correct in that entire division.
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GotD Bracket: 4/6 Today's Matches: Halo 3 & Halo

I have Sunshine > Legend of Dragoon in round 3 (with Dragoon beating Sonic in round 2).
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SMS is doing a lot better in Europe now.

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So I guess the next talked about match is DS/MM9.
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GotD Bracket: 4/6 Today's Matches: Halo 3 & Halo

Amusingly I've missed 4/7 matches so far but have none escaping round 1.

That's what we call damage control !
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Er... round 2, whatever.
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No problem!
This is a cute and pop genocide of love!

Yeah, thankfully, I haven't lost anything worth 3 points or more yet.
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From: Lopen | #484
Amusingly I've missed 4/7 matches so far but have none escaping round 1.

That's what we call damage control !

I've missed 3 matches but none of them are winning in R2 (Deus Ex, TF2, SA2).

I luckily haven't missed this match, which has people afterwards having Sunshine > Halo and etc.
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Yeah most of my first round risks only risk round one. The exception I think is TWEWY, but that four-pack is terrible.
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GotD Bracket: 4/6 Today's Matches: Halo 3 & Halo

I can't believe I lost it this much already.

ugghhh

Gotta hope for the MM9 upset...

I have SMS losing to SA2 in round 3, so this division is pretty much screwed for me. I have Fallout winning the division, but I'm totally biting it in this 4-pack here.

Gotta hope for the MM9 upset...

I know, hoping for a game that I know nothing about to flop is not the best idea.
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GotD Bracket: 4/6 Today's Matches: Halo 3 & Halo

Amusingly I've missed 4/7 matches so far but have none escaping round 1.

That's what we call damage control !

I'm in the same boat. I messed up by having Rock Band 2, Sonic Adventure 2 and Mario Sunshine as the winners of their R1 matchups... but fortunately, I also have all three of them losing in R2. So, I guess my bracket could still be okay, y'know?

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SUNLO
...a bit disappointing...

SMS is now beating Halo 3 in Europe.

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DFF

So does SMS cut Halo 3 overnight and if so by how much?

I think it's going to be mostly one of those eternal stalls that we saw last match.
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GotD Bracket: 4/6 Today's Matches: Halo 3 & Halo

SMS is now beating Halo 3 in Europe.

I noticed that too, but it doesn't seem to be slowing Halo's lead at all.

I noticed that too, but it doesn't seem to be slowing Halo's lead at all.

Of course it wouldn't. Europe is still doing terrible at this time of the day for contributing votes. Hourly trends for the continent poll:

Time | Africa | Asia | Oceania | Europe | North/South America
1:00 | 0.44% | 3.51% | 4.10% | 1.98% | 87.70% | 2.27%
2:00 | 0.34% | 4.80% | 4.16% | 3.24% | 84.95% | 2.51%
3:00 | 0.55% | 5.50% | 6.60% | 8.48% | 76.82% | 2.04%
4:00 | 0.58% | 7.08% | 7.03% | 18.84% | 65.02% | 1.44%
5:00 | 0.57% | 6.90% | 8.08% | 34.65% | 48.56% | 1.24%
6:00 | 0.54% | 8.55% | 6.48% | 47.87% | 35.56% | 1.00%
7:00 | 0.98% | 7.75% | 7.20% | 49.30% | 33.44% | 1.33%
8:00 | 0.72% | 6.96% | 5.71% | 43.70% | 40.41% | 2.50%
9:00 | 0.62% | 5.52% | 3.91% | 32.35% | 54.84% | 2.76%
10:00 | 0.38% | 4.61% | 2.66% | 23.02% | 65.62% | 3.71%
11:00 | 0.39% | 3.64% | 1.38% | 15.13% | 75.39% | 4.08%
12:00 | 0.41% | 2.77% | 1.19% | 12.92% | 78.62% | 4.10%

Only including the first 12 hours here.
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I actually had Fable > TF2 and SFIV > SA2 beforehand, and switched both of them. Almost neither of them paid off (thank you Valve rallies for making sure the former actually did).

Also this probably means that Halo 3 pushes for 55% in a 24-hour match. Hmmm...

Gears of War vs. Super Mario Sunshine, who've you got?
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I have no idea how Metroid: Other M got any scores lower than 60%.

Well done, Halo backers. Enjoy the night. =)
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SUNLO
...a bit disappointing...

BIG BOSS
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