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Again, people being completely ridiculous. FFX is an underdog to Melee (or Brawl, wherever you stand) but beyond that I'm fairly confident its fine.
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Are people seriously thinking TOV has a reasonable chance to win here? It took 2 seconds for me to pick Borderlands and I never looked back.
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Doesn't look like FFX is going to reach 78% here, because FFX has a lower percentage in Europe than the overall result right now. This is important because the night vote is heavily driven by Europe's influence. FFX will still go up overnight because of Asia and Oceania, but not by a whole lot as they combine for about 16% of the total votes during their best hours. Europe would be hogging up about 49-50% of the votes during its best hour, plus it has like 2 other hours where it takes up over 40% of the votes.
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Weak demonstration of FFX's "it'll destroy everything!" night vote. It's been flirting with 77% for two hours.
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I don't think Viewtiful Joe is getting the credit it probably deserves here, but FFX certainly doesn't look impressive here. Then again, this is the game that let FFTA get 33% on it, so I dunno how much this match even matters in the grand scheme.

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Not convincing at all from FFX, and all these Cloud/Ridley comparisons strike me as very desperate.

gosh, that anti-vote heh.
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FFX now finally has a higher percentage in Europe than the rest of the world.
Still, this is a pathetic showing from FFX, especially after KH1 and 2 both obliterated their much stronger opponents. So it's not even a general case of Square failing, it's just FFX, which makes no sense at all.
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nobody likes Tidus. if it was a Yuna or Rikku pic FFX would be breaking 90 here
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So Melee/Brawl will win GOTD?Man this contest has lost all credibility!
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Match XXXIV: (8) Tales of Vesperia vs. (9) Borderlands

Information

Name: Tales of Vesperia
Year: 2008
Previous Performance: N/A

Name: Borderlands
Year: 2009
Previous Performance: N/A

Analysis

When I made my bracket I thought Borderlands was easily going to win. Maybe it was my unreasonable hatred of the Tales series. GameFAQs has made me try several new games, but at the same time it has also put me off on others. Vesperia is often considered to be the second strongest game of the series, but that isn’t saying much.

One of the main reason people think Vesperia is going to be very weak is the performance of Yuri Lowell from the last character battle. Characters don’t equal games was created for a reason, Tales of Symphonia is much stronger than its characters for example. Taking a quick look at the board and it seems that Vesperia doesn’t suffer from ensemble syndrome as badly as Symphonia. While there is a fan favourite Yuri is generally well liked, usually in the top 3 in favourite characters. It also helps that Lloyd and Kratos are borderline fodder compare to Yuri who is fodder.

The more I think of it the more I feel that Borderland may be one of those games that is popular for the year it came out and then becomes largely forgotten, but then you look and see that Borderland still got a decent seed compare to other 2009 games. Then again the games it finished around in the last GotY, minus Modern Warfare 2 were all able to get 3-5 seeds so maybe it is true, but it hasn’t been totally forgotten yet.

While we have little information on the 2009 games if Borderlands is still just slightly weaker than Dragon Age it should be able to cruise over Vesperia, however like I said it probably isn’t, but that’s okay since it has a large gap to work with. Vesperia does have a chance though it is only a small chance.

charmander6000’s Bracket: Borderlands > Tales of Vesperia

charmander6000’s Prediction: Borderlands wins, 58.15% - 41.85%

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GotD Bracket: 27/32 Today's Matches: FFX & Borderlands

I wouldn't be surprised if FFX had ended up overrated due to the lol4ways factor, actually. Doesn't the game have a fairly zealous fanbase within its wider casual appeal? That'd mean it'd fare better in 4ways (retaining that core portion of voters no matter what), and looks less good in 1v1s.
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Welp, LOL FFX

Why didn't I take G/S/C > FFX? ;_;
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just you wait, FFX will impress like mad in round 2.
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Nyuu~

Actually, this just reminds me of Cloud/Ridley last year, and everybody building up hope that it'll get upset in the semi-finals. It could probably make it to the finals, but beating Brawl/Melee? Hahahaha, you're funny.

Plus, we REALLY don't need to see Smash vs G/S/C
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The difference is that VJ has no reason to overperform beyond its picture. Ridley had Brawl, he had a good pic too, AND he was up against Cloud "drop the pants down for the Power Hour" Strife. Final Fantasy is not universally derided now, the games didn't weaken due to anything but getting older, and it's likely FFX was never THAT good in the first place, which would explain everything much more nicely than a bizarre overperformance.
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From: NoDicePwn | #052
That same turbo fodder beat Viewtiful Joe in a direct match...

12-ways =/= Direct match

We just saw MW2/Dissidia go from 80/20 in GOTY to 57/43 in 1-on-1

So yeah, go go vote-in reliability, especially when the entrants have a combined 15%.
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Ya know what this is? Its Viewtiful Joe just being THAT good, baby.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5PLEPD_tOc
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"if only there were some way I could have sex" - Smartmuffin

despite ffta getting 33% on ffx, it still went and got 49% on Melee. if anything that match shows how blowouts don't matter.
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voted for Viewtiful Joe like a real man
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From: SHINE GET 64 | #169
voted for Viewtiful Joe like a real man

^5
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Yeah, I'm pretty disappointed FFX couldn't do better than this, but when "vote-in stats" project Melee to double FFX, you know there's a problem somewhere. This match doesn't mean too awful much in the grand scheme of things. We've already seen FFX is still capable of getting 45%+ on Melee even with KH1 in the poll, so I'm not sure what the hullabaloo is all about.

Also, Viewtiful Joe > Shenmue, for whoever was asking. FFX tripled that thing back when it was stronger then than it is now.

Great vote totals today, too. We might end up with the highest night match vote total of the contest so far. It's on pace to get there, at least. FFX bringin' in dem votez
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real men show how manly they are by voting for girly men.
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Clearly we're reading that match wrong, Leon! It wasn't KH draining FFX, but draining Smash. Think about it for a second: both appeal to the kiddies, both have massive day votes, both are the 'casual entry' of their company! FFX was looking better than it should have there! It all makes sense now!

...Why do I get the feeling this jokey crap will turn out to be horribly acurrate or something later on? D:
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Kanz, I swear, if you jinx this, I will hunt you down.
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Or its a simple case of people voting against any nintendo game or any rpg... coz thats what gamefaqs is inundated by. its boring.
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...Aw, ****. I had forgotten about that. God, I hope the jinx only functions by making FFX stronger, since I've just called it to flop against Smash hard. :(
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Kanz quit while you're ahead, we don't want the contest to have another L-Block...only this time with a game nobody likes.
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mii~

Kanz jinx in-effect
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"if only there were some way I could have sex" - Smartmuffin

Probably Brawl/Melee VS FFX will end 55%-45%.That is really bad.And I had Melee until the last day but I switched because I am a fanboy.Oh well.
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I was about to make a joke about FFXII winning everything...but better not to take any chances. 4chan could start a gigantic rally to troll or something.
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I dunno why i keep predicting 130k votals for those kinds of matches.
Shoulda gone for 110k~ish.
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Nyoro~n

shhhh kanz, don't tempt fate.
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Nyuu~

So borderlands is gonna win the next match right.On more consoles and sold more.
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It wasn't KH draining FFX, but draining Smash.

Hilarious as this joke is, I actually used this somewhat in making my bracket. >_>
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Tales...if only you'd been on PS3 as well, you coulda had a shot at this.
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Again, just want to be one of the first ones to call the round one underperformance by GSC.

People are going to be so alarmed, but it's all in the Suicune picture, trust me.
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So I'll have 2800 potential points when FFX wins. I decided to bank next round. Tales of Vesperia/Borderlands and Golden Sun/Ratchet & Clank are going to be extremely close, so it's too risky. I'm leaning towards Persona 3 after this....

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From: KanzarisKelshen | #174
Clearly we're reading that match wrong, Leon! It wasn't KH draining FFX, but draining Smash. Think about it for a second: both appeal to the kiddies, both have massive day votes, both are the 'casual entry' of their company! FFX was looking better than it should have there! It all makes sense now!

...Why do I get the feeling this jokey crap will turn out to be horribly acurrate or something later on? D:

Probably because it is.
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http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1630
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I'm not sure why ExTha keeps calling for a GSC underperformance. Fire Emblem 7 is probably stronger than Advance Wars, and GSC would utterly destroy Fire Emblem 7. That match could get uuuuuuuuugly.
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BTW, for those of you arguing over who's the weaker fodder and such, I've tried to start a tournament on the topic...hasn't quite gotten off the ground yet, but I'd love for you guys to come in and vote~

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/57029450

We'll find out who VJ is actually stronger than soon enough!

For the record, before FFX/VJ ends today, we have reached the half-way point of the first round...and FFX has the most bracket-support for the championship at ten people in the current Top Fifty. The SSB-games also combine for ten people, with Melee having seven and Brawl having three. It'll be fun to continue watching this shift until the championship.
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Epona: your #1 bet to cause great/terrible upsets in CB9.

Advance Wars ain't gonna do **** though Exthat, we're looking at 83% minimum here...which is prolly still an underperformance tbh
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Hau hauu, omochi kaeri!

Tales of Vesperia 46.15%

6
Borderlands 53.85%

7
TOTAL VOTES 13
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Uguu~

Vote Accepted
Tales of Vesperia 41.67%

5
Borderlands 58.33%

7
TOTAL VOTES 12
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ugh

bye bye battle points,
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwH1hPMyVZU

perfect song to go along with a perfect match
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Epona > any Western character in CB9!
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Borderlands baracket votes, Vesperia got this.
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Woop?

Great start for Vesperia
how long will it hold?
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Oracle contest - 43rd
Today's pick: Borderlands - 55.08% Status: