GameFAQs Contests
Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1004
oops,
thought all of today's options were universally terrible, then
overlooked the kid vs the guy and voted for marcus fenix instead --- Jon Thomson - HKP: 179, 180's: 2, top kill: 152 gg Black Turtle |
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Before
voting, I thought that Raiden/Vamp should have been leagues ahead of
the rest. Is Banjo that good, or is Raiden weaker than we thought? --- Xbox Live: Mach Tornado PSN: HeyGuysItsGhoul |
How about rivalries matter? |
What? Rival: 1. One who attempts to equal or surpass another, or who pursues the same object as another; a competitor. 2. One that equals or almost equals another in a particular respect. If anything the people who were nominating heroes/villains are the ones who are technically wrong. The "neutral" relationships are much more like rivalries than things like Link/Ganon Cloud/Seph Mario/Bowser which aren't rivalries at all. With neutral, I mean that they don't much care on a personal level. I mean, with Link/Ganon and Mario/Bowser, yeah I need to stop you to save the world but that's it. With Cloud/Seph, yes, Cloud wants to save the world and Sephiroth wants to destroy it, but beating and sticking it to each other is very clearly an important goal to them too. Initially it was Cloud's modus operanti, and even after he got his head in order he was like "yeah we all want to save the world, but i'm also here to settle the score with Sephiroth, and i want everyone that doesn't have selfish personal reason to fight to go home." Sephiroth goes out of his way to include Cloud into his plans to get him back for killing him. Two more examples, Vamp and Raiden care, at least by the time MGS4 rolls around. They seek each other out, go all "this is my fight" Vamp doesn't want anyone other then Raiden to kill him, Raiden sheats his blade so he can fight him on even more even terms. Yuna and Seymour? They're both summoners, they're on opposite sides, Seymour is totally obsessed with Yuna. Do they care how good their summoning skills are in proportion to each other? No. Or at least it's so far down on their priority list it doesn't matter. That's not what they are about. --- When you've got a pretty-boy monkey on your back constantly calling you a puppet, you hardly want to seem like you're happy to be used. - DSakaCharanJ |
^ Wrong topic? What you quoted was not posted earlier in this topic. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as BlAcK TuRtLe, Guru Champ! |
It was in 1003, but by the time I woke up that topic was full and closed --- When you've got a pretty-boy monkey on your back constantly calling you a puppet, you hardly want to seem like you're happy to be used. - DSakaCharanJ |
Ah, okay. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as BlAcK TuRtLe, Guru Champ! |
XxSoulxX posted... It's getting harder and harder to believe Marcus Fenix made it to the third round back in 2007 with each poll he gets into nowadays. Right on the heels of Gears 3, and Marcus/Skorge is going to be lucky not to finish dead last by the time this thing's done. Yeah, it's too bad. That franchise is amazing, but I can see why he would have a lot of haters on this site. To be fair, Marcus caught Halo 3 hype in 2007. Then the site shifted away from Halo and Gears to Call of Duty, then the site shifted away from casual shooters all together (including GTA). And yet GameFAQs still seems to care more for casual shooters than it does for most cult RPGs. As an example, the fall 2010 stats have Modern Warfare 2 > Persona 4. --- Currently Playing - StarCraft: Brood War |
Looks like Banjo/Grunty is gonna weather the entire night vote against Yuna/Seymour. |
gears
was kind of a big deal in 07. plus the nature of the contest made it
much easier for meh characters to sneak through matches --- Jon Thomson - HKP: 179, 180's: 2, top kill: 152 gg Black Turtle |
PartOfYourWorld posted... I wonder if Midna vs. Zant can get in these. I should have nominated that; it wasn't a bad rivalry. lol? --- `·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.~*ST*~.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.· http://img.imgcake.com/anagramjpgsa.jpg |
Raiden/Vamp's
winning? I mean, I liked Raiden and thought Vamp was okay...but
winning so far after we thought MGS had some bad showings in the
GotD-contest? Huh. Go Banjo/Gruntilda! --- http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/3492/eponaharr.jpg Nominate E P O N A. |
I
also gotta agree that Little Mac would be doing better with Tyson than
Sandman, though the issue of "historical figure" comes into play with
that. Maybe Punch-Out fans should have settles for Donkey Kong...! --- http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/3492/eponaharr.jpg Nominate E P O N A. |
Yuna moves into second, at least for a little while... --- From his looks Magus is Macho Man Randy Savage as an anime zombie. The black wind howls, and one of you will snap into a Slim Jim ooh yeeeah! -sonicblastpunch |
ya go my raiden --- I wish I could wear skirts and dresses :( -GMUN |
I
believe it hasn't been said yet, but who makes the cut in the vote-ins
doesn't seem to be directly dependant on the ranking within the poll. I
checked GotDs vote-ins, and the deciding factor were vote-totals, not
vote-percentage or a fix number of entrants from each poll. If I had to guess, I'd say the top 40 noms got in, and we'll get 4 polls to determine the remaining 24 rivalries. --- "I am SO gonna kick your ass!" - "No, no, no, no, no. I'm gonna kick YOUR ass!" Nominate Yuri Lowell / Flynn Scifo |
What a crappy contest. --- GT: TriggerTRE // PSN ID: SolidTRE In your face! Like bukakke! |
I am very exited actually. I feel like this will be much harder to predict than the normal contest. --- .... |
So glad this thing is off and running. And unexpected results already! --- (Maniac64 at work) [Browncoat] ~Board 570901~ All the proteins, vitamins, and carbs of your grandma's best turkey dinner, plus 15% alcohol. |
If I had to guess, I'd say the top 40 noms got in, and we'll get 4 polls to determine the remaining 24 rivalries. 24 is a lot, that would mean anything below a 10 seed wouldn't automatically get in the contest. Based on the last contests the polls will determine the remaining 14 rivalries. --- BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls Congratulations to Black Turtle for winning the guru contest. |
I wager it's 48 auto-in, then 4 polls with the top 4 getting the remaining 16 slots. --- I wish I could wear skirts and dresses :( -GMUN |
Remember
that (I'm pretty sure) these polls never follow a strict Top 4 Gets In
format. Bacon just looks at whats cores the highest %s in all polls, and
goes down the line. One poll can have 5 guys get in if they're close,
while the other can have 3 if the top 3 blow out the rest too much. --- Black Turtle did a pretty good job. |
what ever --- I wish I could wear skirts and dresses :( -GMUN |
lol Banjo. DAT TOP OPTION at work? Also do we know this is a 64-entrant contest? --- "Getting lucky 100% of the time... it's called PRO SKILL." -BlAcK TuRtLe |
I'd
be extremely surprised that we managed to get 128 different rivalries. A
32-entry contest wouldn't need vote-ins with such weak rivalries. --- A Fudgesicle is a frozen, ice cream-like snack. OR IS IT |
With
that choice of rivalries, I'd be shocked it it was anything other than a
64-entrant contest. We'd be running into time-constarints with a
128-bracket any way, so that's another hint that we'll do 64. --- "I am SO gonna kick your ass!" - "No, no, no, no, no. I'm gonna kick YOUR ass!" Nominate Yuri Lowell / Flynn Scifo |
I
guess we're looking at a short contest then. 64 entrants is 63 matches,
if the 32 16 and 8 rounds are half-days that's just over a month for it
to play out. --- "Getting lucky 100% of the time... it's called PRO SKILL." -BlAcK TuRtLe |
4-way rivalries contest time to cram 8 characters into one match pic --- I wish I could wear skirts and dresses :( -GMUN |
IngmarBirdman | Posted 10/4/2011 11:27:45 AM | message detail | quote I guess we're looking at a short contest then. 64 entrants is 63 matches, if the 32 16 and 8 rounds are half-days that's just over a month for it to play out. If we did that, the contest would only be 35 days. I'd rather have 12 hour matches for round 1 only, because that's a 47 day contest and we can easily get it done if the contest starts before the end of this month. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as BlAcK TuRtLe, Guru Champ! |
lol Banjo. DAT TOP OPTION at work? Shouldn't the "My parents" option a few days ago have killed any possible remaining doubt that "Dat top option" doesn't exist? |
Can't they just all be full day matches? Two months isn't that long. |
We
can't do a full 63 day contest because that would interfere with the
Christmas break and Bacon likes to run his "Got Console?" polls right
after Christmas. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as BlAcK TuRtLe, Guru Champ! |
Vote totals really slowed down a lot overnight. We're only looking at about 46000 votes instead of 51000. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as BlAcK TuRtLe, Guru Champ! |
Shouldn't the "My parents" option a few days ago have killed any possible remaining doubt that "Dat top option" doesn't exist? Dat Top Option doesn't apply in a poll where people select which option describes their situation, but rather one where nobody cares about any of the choices. There it always applies because it's the best joke reasoning ever. --- "Getting lucky 100% of the time... it's called PRO SKILL." -BlAcK TuRtLe |
Wouldn't a 63 day contest end well before Christmas? |
Depends on when you start it, obviously. And I doubt Bacon wants to have a 1-2 predicting period. --- http://i52.tinypic.com/2zfiu09.gif http://i54.tinypic.com/10729w2.gif |
Oh right. For some reason I was expecting it to start right after vote-ins. |
The only way to fit in a 63 day contest before Christmas: After the Vote-Ins, we would need to get our bracket so everyone can fill out a bracket. If that happens on October 10th (next Monday), there would be a 10 day entry period. Entries would close on the night of October 20th and the contest could start on October 21st. That would be just enough time to complete the contest before Christmas and still be able to get a bonus match. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as BlAcK TuRtLe, Guru Champ! |
Banjo overtakes Yuna. Probably won't give the lead back with the ASV coming up, too. --- http://i.imgur.com/CbfFb.jpg |
Presumably they still make the contest. I hope, at least. --- :> |
I'd rather have the contest completed before Skyward Sword. --- Yoblazer: http://oi52.tinypic.com/ad21i1.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
Laharl/Mid Boss looks safe for 4th now, so hopefully its top 4 in each poll --- http://media.animevice.com/uploads/0/4479/467785-one_piece_we_go_super.jpg http://myanimelist.net/signature/RyanSaotome.png |
Generally,
it's in terms of percentage across all the polls, which isn't really
the fairest way to do things, but that's how Bacon chooses to do it. --- "Stay with me until the end. Please." "Not until the end. Always." |
Presumably,
this poll is pretty even (I'm going to make a guess this will be the
most even of the polls) so the winning options should be pretty safe. At
least the top 3, and I think the top 4 should be pretty safe as well. Hard to make an accurate guess without knowing the rest of the field I know, but there will almost certainly be some real fodder in the other polls somewhere as well as a straggler powerhouse. --- :> |
I
wonder how many noms were needed to make this poll - can't have been
very many at all. B8 dominated bracket here we come. (Though probably
not so dominated as to let Mario/Sonic in over Mario/Bowser,
unfortunately). --- Praise the Black Turtle, Game of the Decade Guru Champ. (Well, I never promised creativity, did I?!) |
Before
voting, I thought that Raiden/Vamp should have been leagues ahead of
the rest. Is Banjo that good, or is Raiden weaker than we thought? Raiden has never been strong in these contests. --- Calling Pokemon RBY a top 10 game was the most insane contest jibba-jabba ever Woe unto he who sig bets with the near-invincible Lord High creativename |
Vamp will be a high midcarder, obviously. --- :> |
I know it's already been said, but this is a TERRIBLE showing for Lightning... Lightning pre-release against Sonic: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3738 Yuri Lowell against Tifa: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3792 ...despite those polls, Yuri/Flynn are nearly doubling Lightning/Barthandelus, and that's ignoring them being in last place in a twelve-way poll where Raiden/Vamp are winning. Here's a list of every character/game that's been in last place for a vote-in before: Jigglypuff (with Missingno+Mudkip+Toad[+Hibiki+Scorpion+Yoshimitsu if you want fighter-LFF]) Andrew Ryan (with Big Daddy) Doc Louis (with Ridley) Emil Castagnier Jade Curtiss CATS - Killer7 Ikaruga God Hand Company of Heroes - Lightning/Barthandelus (with Yuna/Seymour) When Jigglypuff is your strongest representative of this category and your best excuse is "It's Barthandelus's fault" (despite few people caring about Seymour), you're in bad shape... ...and then there's the game itself. FF13 was once THE reason to buy a PS3, then it stole E3 by going multi-platform...yet it ended up bombing incredibly hard; it barely made the top five multi-platform games last year. It's anecdotal evidence, but I've also never met a person off GameFAQs who enjoyed FF13. For a series this big -- GameFAQs or elsewhere -- FF13 looks to have been a big failure. We last saw Lightning's strength as her fans wanted to feel about her...but -- while this poll can't accurately picture Lightning one-on-one -- now we're seeing her strength as her fans ACTUALLY feel about her. She's dropping the next time we see her one-on-one, and I might even feel that way if FFXIII-2 comes out before then. Getting a release was the worst thing to happen to her. --- http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/3492/eponaharr.jpg Nominate E P O N A. |
Really should not attempt to extrapolate anything from these vote-in polls for use in a 1 on 1 setting. Unless you think Yuna loses to Banjo now. --- I wish I could wear skirts and dresses :( -GMUN |
No, though it does confirm Gruntilda wins the Female Villain-contest we've all been waiting for. =) --- http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/3492/eponaharr.jpg Nominate E P O N A. |
