GameFAQs Contests
Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1009
I don't know if somebody has already pointed this out but Pokefear 1 Pokemon Trainer Red vs. Pokemon Trainer Blue Amazing. It's even better than the Katherine vs. Catherine one. --- Something something something ^Poorly disguised anti-caps sig |
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From: FFDragon | #150 All will change tonight. --- Yoblazer: http://i43.tinypic.com/25z1non.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
Its very weird to see a gap of 177 and then realise its a 60/40 match. >_> --- Smurf, the cream of Sonic fanboyism |
battle contest is great. sotc owned so many people last year. that alone made it worth it. in a contest like this it will be even better because it seems very predictable. one upset will wreck a huge streak and banking will be super risky. --- add the c and back away iphonesience |
From: KamikazePotato | Posted: 11/3/2011 12:05:17 PM | #121 Frankly I had no thought process involved with wanting Poo to win. I just looked at the bracket and went "eh don't really like Ike. I remember Poo being funny. Also it's poo." Never thought about it until now. I guess you could say I half-wanted Poo to win because I just don't give a s***. --- Khali Speak: http://www.rot13.com/ |
ParamoreTwitter 1 Katherine vs. Catherine Pokefear 1 Pokemon Trainer Red vs. Pokemon Trainer Blue CHRIIIIIIIIIIIS 1 Chris Redfield vs. Albert Wesker FunEntry 1 Link vs. Ganondorf Perfect_Bracket 1 Link vs. Ganondorf Joe_Q_Studsman 1 Pokemon Trainer Red vs. Pokemon Trainer Blue --- Black Turtle did a pretty good job. |
From: FFDragon | #150 It does have a feel of a user contest. Its a bit surreal. --- Smurf, the cream of Sonic fanboyism |
From: Lightning Strikes | #151 Not as good as this imo 16 CHRIIIIIIIIIIIS 1 Chris Redfield vs. Albert Wesker --- http://www.funnycorner.net/funny-pictures/4834/big-boss.jpg |
battle contest is great. sotc owned so many people last year. that alone made it worth it. Didn't own me. I still have that screencap of where I was the only one on the leaderboard without 0 at-risk points. Of course, I blew it a few matches later (and would have lost on Kingdom Hearts anyway even if I hadn't been stupid about Paper Mario). |
Hmmm,
If this match's votals are 15% less than Rock Band 2/ Deus Ex that
would put it over 40,000 overall, which is still over 50,000 in a 24
hour match, which while pretty horrible, probably still isn't any worse
than 2002/post-merger 2004. --- "Ahem! There is *sand* on my *boot*!"--Kefka Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest! |
From: FFDragon | #150 Two major issues. One, GameFAQs operates on a now-irrelevant medium (text-based guides). Two, Gamespot has better contest ideas than we do. The execution sucks, but the ideas themselves are good. Sorry, it's true. This site needs all-fictional eligibility and/or a games contest with no gimmicks. No divisions by era, nothing. The only gimmick worth trying is making a tournament of champions and removing FF7, OOT and Majora. Edit: There's also the obvious shrinking site problem. This site goes out of its way to be the most unwelcoming forum on the entire internet, with a Terms of Use to match the manchild userbase. Only a matter of time before that caught up to the higher-ups and became a problem, and that's been an issue well before this contest happened. The site isn't attracting new people anymore. --- "Ulti is so awesome he doesn't need to do drugs. Drugs do Ulti." -RPGLord95 |
GameSpot also pimps out their contests. GameFAQs does not. We just sort of hope people show up. --- Black Turtle did a pretty good job. |
From: LOLContests | #162 2004 had 70-80k for most the low popularity Round 1 matches, 2002 was 50-60k. It does seem at a quick glance its at least as bad as anything we've ever seen before and most probably worse. --- Smurf, the cream of Sonic fanboyism |
All-fictional
character contest is the next step to keeping this thing fresh. I would
expect one soon but then we expected that last year, so =/ --- http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/7315/ocelotpartycd1.gif Everybody loves nanomachines. |
Ike has already fallen 3% from the board vote. How much further does he fall? --- http://www.yourgamercards.net/trophy/a/RyanSaotome.png http://myanimelist.net/signature/RyanSaotome.png |
Hey, I'm in eight place in the battle stats. probably my first time on the leaderboard too. --- 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 |
TheOneAboveAll posted... battle contest is great. sotc owned so many people last year. that alone made it worth it. Didn't own me. I still have that screencap of where I was the only one on the leaderboard without 0 at-risk points. Of course, I blew it a few matches later (and would have lost on Kingdom Hearts anyway even if I hadn't been stupid about Paper Mario). I remember this. you went for the home run twice and it cost you the contest. shame! --- add the c and back away iphonesience |
From: XIII_rocks | #166 This might wake good ol' SB up. The votals are awful, and we're currently losing one of only two joke options. I wonder if he's allowing Charizard/Blastoise pics partly because he realizes this contest needs a kick. --- Yoblazer: http://8board.webs.com/ariel.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
Idea
has nothing to do with it, Gamefaqs simply does not have the traffic
anymore for reasons separate to contest design or execution. As we've
seen from polls year after year about 80% of regular visitors don't care
in the slightest about these contests regardless of what flavour they
are. The people who care about the execution or format are probably
people who'll follow and participate regardless, it's not going to boost
turnout or interest. --- Smurf, the cream of Sonic fanboyism |
2004 had 70-80k for most the low popularity Round 1 matches, 2002 was 50-60k 2004 had no fodder vs. fodder matches past the point when the poll was lowered (everything prior to G/S/C vs. Xenogears [minus the first two matches] and Halo/Starcraft* were run normally.) The fodder vs. fodder matches, of which the current match is one did only get 50,000 or so votes in 2002. *Maybe KH/SC too but I find it hard to believe that it couldn't have broken 100,000 under normal situations. --- "Ahem! There is *sand* on my *boot*!"--Kefka Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest! |
there will be some crazy percentage swings with such a small vote total. PW/Gordon could be especially crazy. I'm not sure that there's a way to tell who will benefit from this or not, but cutting the voting pool in half strikes me as a major factor in variation. we could see some outrageous results because of this. Frog/Magus might not suck! --- add the c and back away iphonesience |
Or
it can have the exact opposite effect and be like, "Wow, I guess people
don't like GameFAQs contests anymore, won't be seeing those again
anytime soon!" The Dino Crisis 3 Effect, as I say: make crappy sequel, developers think the problem is the series and not the crappy sequel itself, stop series all together --- http://www.yourgamercards.net/trophy/a/NathanDrake90.png |
I
agree this contest does really suck..its 64-matches and yet we have
matches like this where our strongest character is fodder (Ike) and two
characters(Poo/BK) no one even recognize I wish this was just a normal 1vs1 24-hours 64-battle character contest instead --- "anyone who's citing Elder Scrolls as a decent game is obviously very casual." MarioFanaticXV |
All
fictional is a boring idea, it's already been done by gamespot and
wasn't especially exciting there. Bear in mind we've had people on board
8 trumpeting the merits of all-female (this was literally a popular
idea prior to it actually happening) and tag team brackets before and
look how horrible those ideas were. I'd be pretty happy with a vanilla
64-bracket again, the whole business of 4-ways and tag team dilute the
significance of a result or the interest in analysis. Even if it does
artificially reduce the predictability theres nothing like the real
50/50 encounters as opposed to battles for 2nd place or tag team
relationships that nobody cares about. --- Smurf, the cream of Sonic fanboyism |
transcience posted... there will be some crazy percentage swings with such a small vote total. PW/Gordon could be especially crazy. I'm not sure that there's a way to tell who will benefit from this or not, but cutting the voting pool in half strikes me as a major factor in variation. we could see some outrageous results because of this. Frog/Magus might not suck! I feel people got lucky with the draw Hitler got. Imagine if he got faced against a weaker #2 seed like Tidus/Jecht with these lower votals. Rallying could have done some serious damage with how low these vote totals are now. --- http://www.yourgamercards.net/trophy/a/RyanSaotome.png http://myanimelist.net/signature/RyanSaotome.png |
I
dunno about getting rid of contests in general, but I can see them
scrapping the idea of prize money soon. They already decreased the pool
for the first time I ever, and I assume that had something to do with
the plummeting site traffic. --- Yoblazer: http://i43.tinypic.com/25z1non.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
All fictional is a boring idea, it's already been done by gamespot and wasn't especially exciting there All fictional means that the contest is only characters that did not originate in video games, which is not what Gamespot did. At least, that's what all-fictional originally meant years ago when it was first proposed, before people started talking about mixing VG and non-VG characters which would never work if only because of seeding. And no one ever wanted tag teams, or a bracket that was split in half by gender. --- "Ahem! There is *sand* on my *boot*!"--Kefka Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest! |
I'm curious because of my Oracle. What do you guys think: do the kiddies like Ike, or do they think that s*** jokes are funny? --- http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy/images/0/0e/Ffx-bahamut.jpg Support Bahamut if we ever get another real contest. |
From: PartOfYourWorld | #178 If they get rid of prize money, then that means Board 8 can help make the bracket! Also, what crappy vote totals. Yikes. From: UltimaterializerX | #163 Sidekicks Contest was not a good idea. We did a Villain Contest 5 years before they did, and we already showed that it was a bad idea. Heroes contest was a good idea, but I wouldn't equate a 33% success rate with "GameSpot has better contest ideas than we do." Especially since they're only going further down the totem pole with each contest, so next contest will probably be something along the lines of "Best Female Character" or something. Not sure why you think that's such a great idea. Also, once we hit 24 hour matches, we'll basically be back at "First half of SC2K2 vote totals." As it stands right now, we're merely at "Max Payne vs. Dirk the Daring" vote totals. --- http://i.minus.com/iH9vIGOBoyTQ2.gif |
From: LOLContests | #179 oh they most certainly did, that all female abomination was the brainchild of board 8 and brought to life by popular demand. As was the "removing Clinkeroth" idea and Tag teams (never implemented in Cjays time). I at least assume they were, they were popular ideas bandied round at the time on the boards and assume Cjay took them on board rather than it just being pure coincidence. --- Smurf, the cream of Sonic fanboyism |
I wasn't here for it, so excuse my ignorance, but what was so bad about all-female contests and villain contests? --- PSN - Aevio BlackMageJawa - "I'm on a Goomba." |
Transience: Like I said, I felt really stupid fora few days because I thought I had blown a contest. Then KHI beat KHII anyway and I realized it wouldn't have mattered. No one saw KHI getting the ASV over KHII like that. |
oh they most certainly did, that all female abomination was the brainchild of board 8 and brought to life by popular demand People proposed a Female Contest as a side event, not as part of the normal contest, and the Female Contest would not have been that bad had there been more popular entrants (Saria, Cammy, some FF gals to name a few that were snubbed)/better bracket making (No Yuna/Rikku or Tifa/Aeris?) --- "Ahem! There is *sand* on my *boot*!"--Kefka Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest! |
From: TheOneAboveAll | #184 Flip that, amigo! --- Yoblazer: http://i32.tinypic.com/zlf1w7.gif Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
From: Greyfeld | #183 The villains contest was today's poll 31 days in a row with only like 2 interesting matches. Female half of that one bracket was the same thing. --- "I consider myself an aspiring intellectual, even though I never went to college." -SmartMuffin |
just look at the matches. it speaks for itself. this website's text-only design is ancient by Internet standards. we're probably only a couple of years away from people looking at GameFAQs like we look at old geocities pages. --- add the c and back away iphonesience |
Here's
how boring the contest is so far: I managed to squeeze in two hours of
arguing for a text-based forum game and wrote a 13 page paper, all this
morning, and I haven't missed jack. --- `·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.~*ST*~.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.·´ http://img.imgcake.com/UltisMoneyMgifyv.gif |
Conker almost got a cut this update. --- Black Turtle won the Guru Contest. |
Man, thank god I pulled back on taking Conker in this match. I think the thing I'm most looking forward to after today is the inevitable "Turd of the round" jokes. --- Game of the Decade? More like Guru of the Decade mirite? |
hmm interesting, Conker. --- Smurf, the cream of Sonic fanboyism |
For the first time since 2005, I think I finally got a second match right. --- *is Dranze* I lost my girl and lost to Black Turtle. Can't get worse. |
I
remember how much I used GameFAQs 5+ years ago. Now, every big game and
series has a dedicated Wikia page that seems to disseminate information
faster than our FAQ writers. Other sites have more aesthetically
pleasing walthroughs with pictures, videos, and diagrams. I think the
last time GameFAQs was my only viable option was like three years ago,
and that was for Ever17, a niche visual novel. http://www.zeldadungeon.net/Zelda01-the-legend-of-zelda-walkthrough-01.php I mean, GameFAQs text or that. There's just no comparison. --- Yoblazer: http://8board.webs.com/ariel.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
Yesterday's chart: Time | Mowser | EButt | Votes 0:05 | 85.63% | 14.37% | 898 1:00 | 86.33% | 13.67% | 6042 2:00 | 86.11% | 13.89% | 3536 3:00 | 84.49% | 15.51% | 2631 4:00 | 84.62% | 15.38% | 1873 5:00 | 84.67% | 15.33% | 1618 6:00 | 82.72% | 17.28% | 1580 7:00 | 85.18% | 14.82% | 1909 8:00 | 85.62% | 14.38% | 2274 9:00 | 84.20% | 15.80% | 2418 10:00 | 84.56% | 15.44% | 2642 11:00 | 87.19% | 12.81% | 2725 12:00 | 85.37% | 14.63% | 2557 Turn away your eyes if you don't want to see these bad hourly vote totals. Mario/Bowser starts strong and finishes strong, while Jim/Queen's best hour was right in the middle during the hour with the worst vote totals. --- "The great GF...Bahamut." "...GF? I...? Using my powers...It is you humans...I fear..." |
Oh hey, I used that site when I played Majora's Mask! --- http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/8516/whatisdesiresig.gif |
Heh, the updater site is down right now, so I'm actually manually tracking updates again. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as BlAcK TuRtLe, Guru Champ! |
Agreed. Gamefaqs is a dying site for exactly this reason. Every thing about it is obsoleted. --- Black Turtle won the Guru Contest. |
I still use GameFAQs any time I need to look something up! --- I wish I could wear skirts and dresses :( -GMUN |
That was at Yo --- Black Turtle won the Guru Contest. |
