GameFAQs Contests
Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1004
On
a slightly different topic, Arthas/Falcon are having almost identical
trends to their match a couple years ago. At this rate, Arthas will
finish above them quite easily. Maybe even challenge for 4th. --- http://media.animevice.com/uploads/0/4479/467785-one_piece_we_go_super.jpg http://myanimelist.net/signature/RyanSaotome.png |
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Ehrm...I've
been in and out as far as GameFAQs is concerned, but why is Adolf
Hitler even in this poll? Are terrible joke entries that aren't even
video-game related allowed? --- Xbox Live Gamertag: ffmasterjose Your favorite Trapper's favorite Trapper |
Well Hitler lost the lead, so thats probably it. He'll still finish 2nd though. ffmasterjose posted... Ehrm...I've been in and out as far as GameFAQs is concerned, but why is Adolf Hitler even in this poll? Are terrible joke entries that aren't even video-game related allowed? Rule change this year that allows fictional portrayals of historical characters --- http://media.animevice.com/uploads/0/4479/467785-one_piece_we_go_super.jpg http://myanimelist.net/signature/RyanSaotome.png |
ffmasterjose posted... Ehrm...I've been in and out as far as GameFAQs is concerned, but why is Adolf Hitler even in this poll? Are terrible joke entries that aren't even video-game related allowed? Historical characters were allowed this time. Despite Allen claiming and acting like he was going to keep taint out of this contest, this is a pretty clear failure on his part. Should have just allowed everything. --- :> |
vcharon, how do you feel about the idea of Charles Barkley and Michael Jordan in the bracket? --- Yoblazer: http://i43.tinypic.com/25z1non.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
I support Hitler simply because when he wins a match we can make HitlerFAQS a running joke. Will be good times. --- SubDeity wants to vote for Calvin Coolidge. [Evil Republican] Play Der Langrisser. |
Obviously
I would be against it, but I don't agree with allowing "historical
characters" in principle because of what could happen (namely, this).
I'm sure you are all well aware of my stance on "joke nominations" and
nothing has changed. However, if he was going to allow Hitler of all
things into a contest, then he should have allowed Jordan and Barkley
too. --- :> |
Big Boss and The Boss, victorious over Nazi Communism. *salutes* --- Support Morrigan Aensland (Darkstalkers) for Character Battle IX! http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/9302/banner5morrigan2.jpg |
To
further elaborate for a minute, this is a little beyond my usual stance
against jokes. My idea of a fun contest is a contest ran where the
winners of matches are those who are more popular on the merit of their
character. Hitler is doing this well on the merit of the real life Adolf
Hitler and people finding amusement in it, not on the fact Wolfenstein
is so well loved. Same would go for Jordan and Barkley; their success
would depend on the athletes and their joke status among video game
characters. I'm not saying that game isn't any good because that's not
true, but their success would not be a direct result from the game
itself and I feel that's against the spirit of these contests. I think entries like this belittle the contest and spoil it. Call me or anyone who thinks that "too serious" if you want, but my personal enjoyment of contests comes from seeing who will legitimately win matches year to year, not nominating something I think is funny enough to beat Link or other strong contenders. --- :> |
Taking Hitler ALL THE WAY. --- http://www.nbc.com/parks-and-recreation/exclusives/ron-dancing-animated.gif |
Bleh, should've just kept the rule in place --- Xbox Live Gamertag: ffmasterjose Your favorite Trapper's favorite Trapper |
Arthas/Illidian in 4th place now. --- "Hold on a minute! That testimony stinks!" "Witness! You can't just say 'Hello' and expect us to get anywhere! I want you to testify!" |
Blazkowicz/Hitler
will get about a 14-seed and then anti-voted to hell against a decent
entrant. Nothing to worry about. Decent show from Big Boss/The Boss, I
suppose - could set up an interest R1 match if they get something wildly
overseeded. Katherine/Catherine socking it to the rest. Oh yeah. --- Praise the Black Turtle, Game of the Decade Guru Champ. (Well, I never promised creativity, did I?!) |
Poll updates for Day 1: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AgBWiYjlMLwYdFQyTTRVdUZaeWhfbTJQSDJPRVo2ZGc I plan on using that spreadsheet (by creating new sheets) to track poll updates for the remaining Vote-In polls. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as BlAcK TuRtLe, Guru Champ! |
To
further elaborate for a minute, this is a little beyond my usual stance
against jokes. My idea of a fun contest is a contest ran where the
winners of matches are those who are more popular on the merit of their
character. Hitler is doing this well on the merit of the real life Adolf
Hitler and people finding amusement in it, not on the fact Wolfenstein
is so well loved. Same would go for Jordan and Barkley; their success
would depend on the athletes and their joke status among video game
characters. I'm not saying that game isn't any good because that's not
true, but their success would not be a direct result from the game
itself and I feel that's against the spirit of these contests. I'm not sure this makes that much sense, though. It's not like characters are popular on their own merits in the first place. They're largely just stand-ins for their games or series. Do you honestly think Link deserves to dominate everybody on the strength of his character? No; he's just a symbol for the site's favorite series. Link could be literally anything and as long as Zelda kept the same status he'd be just as dominant. And really, if they're getting picked solely because of the game they're in, how much of a stretch is it to be picked solely because one finds it humorous? Heck, in the case of Barkley and Jordan, said humor is a part of the game. One is supposed to find it funny that two basketball players star in a traditional RPG. --- SubDeity wants to vote for Calvin Coolidge. [Evil Republican] Play Der Langrisser. |
I
think a lot of people are really overreacting to a duo who have
successfully pulled 1600 votes. This is, without any doubt, the worst
gimmick contest yet. These vote-in polls will have more fodder than the
entire Villains Contest and Female Brackets combined, and there's going
to be a ton more fodder since we'll probably see a good portion of the
Villains Contest in matches AGAIN. We just witnessed a vote-in, likely
to determine a decent seed (unless dear lord this isn't just 32 pairs)
where Banjo got second. Would the Villains contest have really
been so much worse with say, Stalin in place of Tenpenny? Missingno and
L-Block, hell, not even Cube, did as well as they did not exclusively
because of being jokes but because their games are actually popular.
Hitler and Friend are not going to take a spot that would have gone to a
team with any potential to do well. They will have the place of the
likes of Tales fodder. Oh no, we don't get to see a character who got
dominated by Sackboy and a character who got trashed by Fox in another
embarrassing, boring contest match, instead we get something possibly
interesting. If Hitler and Friend beats someone, it's going to be fellow
trash that would never belong in a contest, like the Villain from a
game whose star got shredded by Jill Valentine. I'd rather see a Hitler
match pic than some other piece of fodder nobody cares about in an
equally boring match with a bland, awful match pic. --- http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh293/zukiraphaera/war-sig-1.png http://i.imgur.com/FII1z.gif |
Well this is rather disgusting. --- Please don't go. The Drones need you. Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded. |
From: WarThaNemesis2 | #317 It's going to be 64 pairs, I'm almost positive. There's no way some of these rivalries would be on the verge of a top 32 duos bracket. --- http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab48/Leonhart4/Squall.jpg |
128 pairs would be too much, as I could see some of these rivalries making it into a bracket of 128 pairs. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as BlAcK TuRtLe, Guru Champ! |
Based on the last couple of days, let's go ahead and guestimate which rivalries still have a strong shot at making the bracket: Big Boss vs. The Boss – 22.00% William B.J. Blazkowicz vs. Adolf Hitler – 18.37% Raiden vs. Vamp – 13.98% Katherine vs. Catherine – 11.89% Banjo vs. Gruntilda – 11.60% Yuna vs. Seymour Guado – 11.18% Arthas vs. Illidian – 10.25% Lloyd Irving vs. Kratos Aurion – 9.78% Laharl vs. Mid-Boss – 9.03% I'm sort of going with the assumption that anything under 9% is a longshot at this point. The lowest percentage an entry for GOTD got in the vote-in and still made the bracket was Wii Sports with 8.3%, and for the last Character Battle, it was Falco with 9.2%. I figure if an entrant can manage 10%, it's pretty much a lock to get in. --- http://i.imgur.com/CbfFb.jpg |
SubDeity posted... I'm not sure this makes that much sense, though. It's not like characters are popular on their own merits in the first place. They're largely just stand-ins for their games or series. Do you honestly think Link deserves to dominate everybody on the strength of his character? No; he's just a symbol for the site's favorite series. Link could be literally anything and as long as Zelda kept the same status he'd be just as dominant. And really, if they're getting picked solely because of the game they're in, how much of a stretch is it to be picked solely because one finds it humorous? Heck, in the case of Barkley and Jordan, said humor is a part of the game. One is supposed to find it funny that two basketball players star in a traditional RPG. Well, this is GameFAQs and all. It's no big secret Link isn't a deep or interesting character and that the Zelda series is wildly popular here. Link is still voted for because he is the main character of that series. Hitler is not being voted for his appearance in Wolfenstein. Barkley and Jordan wouldn't be voted for their appearances in Gaiden either. --- :> |
It's
not like we don't already have characters who are way stronger than
their games. Just take a look at Ryu Hayabusa: he performs well because
of being a ninja and not really out of like for Ninja Gaiden. For
instance, in the two 2010 contests, we saw Hayabusa get 53% on Master
Chief, and then Hayabusa's strongest game almost got doubled by Chief's
strongest game (on a side note, could all three Halo games be "stronger"
than Master Chief himself?). Hayabusa is probably the extreme example,
but other characters who fit this moniker are Mega Man, Zero, Dante,
Kratos, Mario, and Samus (shut up, Mario performs well mostly off of
spin-off titles and Samus draws most of her strength from SSB and
character design). --- Currently Playing - StarCraft: Brood War |
Somehow relevant to Adolf Hitler, I'm sure. What a popular guy. --- :> |
Hitler
gets his first percentage increase since the 1:05 AM update. I don't
think that was because of 4chan, because the topic died already. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as BlAcK TuRtLe, Guru Champ! |
From: vcharon | Posted: 10/5/2011 3:59:02 AM | #325 Are you implying gamefaqs isn't full of neo nazis? --- GREEN RANGER http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/4548/signaturedi.jpg |
yay wolf3d represent --- Jon Thomson - HKP: 179, 180's: 2, top kill: 152 gg Black Turtle |
Remember Bacon's reasoning for refusing Einstein/Hitler? It was because Gamespot already did it. So apparently bacon thinks the problem with the Einstein/Hitler duo was Einstein, not Hitler. Never would have guessed. --- "I am SO gonna kick your ass!" - "No, no, no, no, no. I'm gonna kick YOUR ass!" Nominate Yuri Lowell / Flynn Scifo |
Looks
like another Hitler rally started up on /v/ again. The topic was
created at 5:56 AM and Hitler jumped from 17.18% to 17.37% in just 3
updates. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as BlAcK TuRtLe, Guru Champ! |
Like 4chan's actually going to affect a contest. This isn't Gamespot, people actually come here. --- Wylvane Guru Contest Winner Black Turtle is a wonderful user. |
Can't believe the board that wants to cry NO BARKLEY NO PEACE has a problem with this. I guess the stats people are a different breed. |
there
is some serious overreaction in here for the wolf3d duo. was BJ/Hitler
at like 30% at the beginning of the poll or something? it's losing
handily to Big Boss/Boss and will lose worse to better pairings. and
that's to say nothing of having 8 options vs. 2. at least today's groups are much better than yesterday's. you can tell that this rivalry contest will have different voting patterns than simply who the strongest character is. --- add the c and back away iphonesience |
Not_Wylvane posted... Like 4chan's actually going to affect a contest. This isn't Gamespot, people actually come here. Yeah, its not like 4chan once rallied the internet to vote for a Tetris block or anything. I do agree that unless it has something that the entire site can rally for, with proven success, it won't do much. Maybe Hitler can win a match but I doubt he goes further than that --- http://media.animevice.com/uploads/0/4479/467785-one_piece_we_go_super.jpg http://myanimelist.net/signature/RyanSaotome.png |
jonthomson posted... yay wolf3d represent I was seriously wondering if I was the only person that voted BJ/Hitler due to liking Wolfenstein itself, and not for other reasons. Thanks for proving that notion wrong. --- "Principally I hate and detest the animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas and so forth" - Jonathan Swift BT with the victory! |
ChichiriMuyo posted... jonthomson posted... yay wolf3d represent I was seriously wondering if I was the only person that voted BJ/Hitler due to liking Wolfenstein itself, and not for other reasons. Thanks for proving that notion wrong. now to hope that in a future play-in we get the option of doomguy vs spider mastermind --- Jon Thomson - HKP: 179, 180's: 2, top kill: 152 gg Black Turtle |
transcience | Posted 10/5/2011 6:25:10 AM | message detail | quote there is some serious overreaction in here for the wolf3d duo. was BJ/Hitler at like 30% at the beginning of the poll or something? it's losing handily to Big Boss/Boss and will lose worse to better pairings. and that's to say nothing of having 8 options vs. 2. Current updates so far: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AgBWiYjlMLwYdFQyTTRVdUZaeWhfbTJQSDJPRVo2ZGc&gid=1 Hitler only got up to 22.86% at the most. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as BlAcK TuRtLe, Guru Champ! |
jonthomson posted... ChichiriMuyo posted... jonthomson posted... yay wolf3d represent I was seriously wondering if I was the only person that voted BJ/Hitler due to liking Wolfenstein itself, and not for other reasons. Thanks for proving that notion wrong. now to hope that in a future play-in we get the option of doomguy vs spider mastermind ^5 FPS when they were really at their peak as a genre! --- "Principally I hate and detest the animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas and so forth" - Jonathan Swift BT with the victory! |
GintokiSaotome posted... Not_Wylvane posted... Like 4chan's actually going to affect a contest. This isn't Gamespot, people actually come here. Yeah, its not like 4chan once rallied the internet to vote for a Tetris block or anything. I do agree that unless it has something that the entire site can rally for, with proven success, it won't do much. Maybe Hitler can win a match but I doubt he goes further than that That wasn't all 4chan by any means whatsoever. Way too many people on this site admitted to supporting L-block for any number of reasons ranging from it being funny to them wanting to see a new champ for the first time since 2k3. Gamespot contests are open to abuse from vocal minorities far more so than GFAQS contests. --- "Principally I hate and detest the animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas and so forth" - Jonathan Swift BT with the victory! |
ChichiriMuyo posted... GintokiSaotome posted... Not_Wylvane posted... Like 4chan's actually going to affect a contest. This isn't Gamespot, people actually come here. Yeah, its not like 4chan once rallied the internet to vote for a Tetris block or anything. I do agree that unless it has something that the entire site can rally for, with proven success, it won't do much. Maybe Hitler can win a match but I doubt he goes further than that That wasn't all 4chan by any means whatsoever. Way too many people on this site admitted to supporting L-block for any number of reasons ranging from it being funny to them wanting to see a new champ for the first time since 2k3. Gamespot contests are open to abuse from vocal minorities far more so than GFAQS contests. It wasn't early on. By the final rounds, 4chan had gotten wind of it were rallying crazy for it.. see the massive spike in votes for the final few matches, along with L-Block having a crazy percentage at the beginning of the matches --- http://media.animevice.com/uploads/0/4479/467785-one_piece_we_go_super.jpg http://myanimelist.net/signature/RyanSaotome.png |
ChichiriMuyo posted... jonthomson posted... ChichiriMuyo posted... jonthomson posted... yay wolf3d represent I was seriously wondering if I was the only person that voted BJ/Hitler due to liking Wolfenstein itself, and not for other reasons. Thanks for proving that notion wrong. now to hope that in a future play-in we get the option of doomguy vs spider mastermind ^5 FPS when they were really at their peak as a genre! fps when the term wasn't even in use. i can't stand that the best doom clone in the last 10 years is still not as good as goldeneye --- Jon Thomson - HKP: 179, 180's: 2, top kill: 152 gg Black Turtle |
that wasn't 4chan, silly. that was the entire Internet linking to it. --- add the c and back away iphonesience |
To quote the Board 8 Wiki, I believe (not verbatim), "l-block was like an inside joke that the entire internet was in on". |
You know, if Katherine/Catherine get in, I believe it'll be the first time Atlus has character reps in the contest. Hope they get in, especially since other than Chell vs. GLaDOS (with the latter being a robot) I don't see any other female-only rivalries getting in. --- Oh brilliant blade of cold as steel, rend the infinite darkness and crush my enemies to nothing... SAVAGE WOLF FURY |
I'd say GameFAQs itself was a bigger factor in rallying the troops than 4chan, you're giving the site too much credit. --- BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls Congratulations to Black Turtle for winning the guru contest. |
I'd say GameFAQs itself was a bigger factor in rallying the troops than 4chan, you're giving the site too much credit. --- BOP Results: http://charmander6000.webs.com/GotD%20BOP.xls Congratulations to Black Turtle for winning the guru contest. |
Yeah, I don't understand why you're giving 4chan credit for L-Block. Unless you're to good for jokes retroactively as well. --- I like how each new topic you make reveals such varied facets of your idiocy. - foolmo Now this is entertainment! |
Yesssssssss go Arthasss --- ~Acting on Impulse~ Black Turtle still didn't MAJORA'S MASK |
Do you think Leon/Krauser gonna be a vote-in or do you think it already made it? |
Chris/Wesker
and Jill/Nemesis probably bypassed the vote-in. Leon/Krauser seems like
a perfect candidate for vote-ins, considering it was also splitting
some noms with Leon/Ada or Leon/Saddler. --- "I am SO gonna kick your ass!" - "No, no, no, no, no. I'm gonna kick YOUR ass!" Nominate Yuri Lowell / Flynn Scifo |
