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Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1015
From: creativename | #246 I agree. Link still looks a bit more vulnerable based on the other matches we've seen, but we can't say that he looks vulnerable because he himself looked bad. He's certainly not dropping the ball with this beatdown. The 84% is the Spread line, and I bet a ton on Arthas (woooooops). --- Yoblazer: http://8board.webs.com/ariel.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
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That is weird. I literally don't imagine anyone on B8 as a girl unless they say they are. And even then...! --- http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/2369/mythbattlers.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/Sensui22/1248835958206.png |
And
Zen, I'll try, but I doubt I'll be able to cook up better Pokemon pics
than KP. And if my bracket is dead, I'll be on the SF side anyway. --- Yoblazer: http://8board.webs.com/ariel.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
If INDESTRUCTIBLE isn't on Ryu/Ken's match pic somewhere I will hurt someone --- "The great GF...Bahamut." "...GF? I...? Using my powers...It is you humans...I fear..." |
Oh wow, gotta remember that. I have to sneak Indestructible there. I actually wanted to sneak in a micro-sized Barkley/Jordan somewhere during the contest... and that seems as good a time as any to try. --- Yoblazer: http://i33.tinypic.com/ml36gl_th.gif Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
ok I'll put INDESTRUCTIBLE on there. what font? --- ~Zen |
junk_funk posted... Greyfeld posted... LOL I'll sig-bet you that Phoenix/Edgeworth spanks Gordon/Breen all the way home. Bah sue me. Can't sleep. I'm up now and playing FFVI. VERY interested. Never had one of these before. How does it work? When Gordon whomps Phoenix I get to make a sig for you that you have to use for X amount of time right? How about we keep the sig for 60 days after the match? And no posting with alts. Then you got yourself a deal. I don't have any alts, so it doesn't really matter. And only 60 days? I was thinking more like 6 months. --- PSN - Aevio "I'm on a Goomba." - BlackMageJawa |
Aw I wanna sig bet somebody toooooo |
I see a lot of people making very conservative oracle picks for Chell/GLaDOS. After seeing this poll http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=4397
I feel like they should put quite a beating on Ness. There are quite a
few good games on there, and Ness has always been fairly weak. Thoughts? --- Keeping this until Casey Mears wins his 2nd Nascar Cup race. 7/7/07 Yankees Fan. Jaguars Fan. Mark Sanchez Wannabe. |
Chell
/ GlaDOS is the favorite but Nintendo hasn't lost a match yet? Ness
seems about equal with GlaDOS, while their partners are likely fodder.
Portal should have the wider audience but that's still not convincing
enough to predict like 70-30 or somewhere close to the blowouts we've
been having. --- "Getting lucky 100% of the time... it's called PRO SKILL." -BlAcK TuRtLe |
I
agree, I just saw a lot of predictions of about 55%, I was thinking
63-65%. And I feel that GLaDOS is stronger than Ness 1 v 1, especially
after a new Portal game that was very popular. --- Keeping this until Casey Mears wins his 2nd Nascar Cup race. 7/7/07 Yankees Fan. Jaguars Fan. Mark Sanchez Wannabe. |
Other
than Wright Freeman and Ramza Nightmare, I'm not going below ~60% for
the remainder of round one unless matches actually start becoming that
close. The gap I have right now was primarily made by three unpredicted
blowouts. --- "Getting lucky 100% of the time... it's called PRO SKILL." -BlAcK TuRtLe |
Going through the bracket, the only matches I have any real reservations about are (in order of importance): *Link/Ganon vs. Cloud Sephiroth - I might favor Link slightly, but am totally comfortable with my Cloud/Seph pick. *Mario/Bowser vs. finalist - could be some wonkieness in favor of Mario/Bowser here if people are sick of the LAW or FF7 gets anti-votes *Samus vs. SF duo - I've got Samus but wish I had Ken/Ryu. Close call. *Trainers vs. SF - Pretty confident in Ken/Ryu winning this 55/45, although a super-biased Charizard/Blastoise sprite pic might make them overperform, which is a cause for concern *Frog/Magus vs. Alucard/Dracula - I have confidence in Frog/Magus here, think they'll do great in this format, but the vampires are no joke and the format works well for them too. Have a feeling this could be an epic match. *Dante vs. Sora - picked Sora but have no confidence in either Sora or Dante. Probably my most "I have no freakin clue" match of the contest. *Phoenix vs. Gordon - Pretty confident in PW duo. *Soul Calibur vs. FFT - give the edge to SC, more name recognition and also a fighting game rivalry, but Ramza and Delita could surprise. --- www.gamefaqscontests.com www.gamefaqscontests.com/gallery |
I
feel the same way about Nightmare vs Ramza. Siegfried/Nightmare aren't
all that iconic, and I'm not convinced that fighting games get much of a
boost in this format (Ryu/Ken and the MK Ninjas imo draw their strength
from popularity, a great rivalry, and generally being nostalgic icons
from the 90s). In terms of X stats, Nightmare comes up stronger, but I
feel he probably gets a lot of his strength from character design. When I think about it like that, the Square duo look alright, but then their character design just seems so bland, and I could see SC dominating in that regard. Urgh. --- "I am riding the Poke-wave, using the metaphorical Surf and hopping on my Blastoise, all the way to Mario vs Bowser." - RPGLord |
The
thing about Ramza/Delita which makes me uneasy is that Delita has the
potential to be stronger than Ramza (or do we have some sort of data on
him already?). He wouldn't need to be that much stronger than Ramza to
be equal to 2k8 Nightmare. --- Crucifying my Oracle average one match at a time |
My
reasoning for picking Siegfried/Nightmare was "GameFAQs doesn't care
about either of these duos, but DAT TOP OPTION and the fact that the SC
guys have big-ass swords will probably be enough to win" --- Xbox Live: Mach Tornado PSN: HeyGuysItsGhoul |
Well, Link is easily beating what he should be doing on Arthas. It looks like rivalries matter... In Link's favour. GG contest. Oh Link Always Wins, I love you so much. --- Something something something ^Poorly disguised anti-caps sig |
So even the previous match the bosses were the favorites.I didn't expected that. --- GameFaqs is NOT the place to go for relationship advice.Nobody here gets any action unless it is their right or left hand.Including me.~Dawn and Dusk~ |
Are Nook/Redd sure losers next round?! I had to to win --- Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office http://i.imgur.com/xeO1F.jpg |
Oh man I had Yuna/Seymour going deep. Whoops --- Xbox Live Gamertag: ffmasterjose Your favorite Trapper's favorite Trapper |
Myself
the only problem in round 1 is that I have Phoenix lose.Otherwise I
believe I could had the entire first round perfect.Also no close match
so far.Close match for me is if the winner ends up with less than 53%.I
wonder when the first close match will be. --- GameFaqs is NOT the place to go for relationship advice.Nobody here gets any action unless it is their right or left hand.Including me.~Dawn and Dusk~ |
Ness/Giygas
are going to do worse than expected for the same reason CF/Black Shadow
did: Ness's feud comes from his original series instead of the series
people like him for. We've seen Giygas do terrible too, worse than I
would ever take Chell (even after considering Giygas faced Ganondorf).
Meanwhile, GLaDOS has plenty of reason to improve; Portal 2 was likely
GotY until today, it gave her much more face-time than the original,
she'll get significantly better pictures now, and many more copies of
Portal 1 have been given away for free since the last time we saw her.
She's no longer the secret kept until the end of one game -- she's the
star of the series. Chell/GLaDOS is a good rivalry, too, so it shouldn't ever be close. I'll be expecting maybe a doubling. --- http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/3492/eponaharr.jpg Nominate E P O N A. |
bloodhawks return posted... I see Chris/Wesker > Bosses. Of course, I'm biased because I have Chris Wesker > Samus/Ridley in my bracket as well. >_> What. We already saw that Chris, the stronger character in that pairing, is ever so slightly weaker than Ridley, by far the weaker character in that pairing. We saw it just last contest, where they both got knocked out by Cloud and Ridley had a slightly better percentage. --- mnkboy: I think they've put on their "scare new users away" pants. Haguile: Wouldn't it be easier to scare new users if they weren't wearing pants? |
Greyfeld posted... And only 60 days? I was thinking more like 6 months. 6 months is little longer than I wanted. Let's do 4. Deal? --- Pobody's nerfect. |
Match XVIII: (4) Amaterasu/Orochi vs. (5) Tom Nook/Crazy Redd Previous Contest Amaterasu – 2010 52.59% against Shadow the Hedgehog 40.41% against Luigi Orochi – N/A N/A Tom Nook – 2008 8.65% against Mega Man X, Mudkip and Lloyd Irving Crazy Redd – N/A N/A Analysis Amaterasu in my opinion has been the biggest success coming from a niche game. Every season she seems to impress people with strength that to most people seems to be unlikely. Tom Nook makes his fourth appearance in a contest where he keeps looking worse and worse. With all the blowouts we’ve been getting this match should be no different. Crazy Redd probably has an argument at being one of the weakest characters in the history of contests. Animal Crossing fans don’t care about the characters in the games and Crazy Redd is a minor character that doesn’t even stay in the town at all times, he makes an appearance once a week where people can risk buying fake art and other stuff. While he isn’t as forgettable as the neighbours or other visitors that come to your town almost everyone either hates him or doesn’t care about his existence. I’m not sure what the extent of the rivalry between Amaterasu and Orochi are, but I would take Amaterasu to easily win against Tom Nook and Crazy Redd alone so any help will increase the blowout. Given some of Tom Nook’s earlier performances I feel Amaterasu and Orochi should be able to clear 70% without too much trouble. charmander6000’s Bracket: Amaterasu/Orochi > Tom Nook/Crazy Redd charmander6000’s Prediction: Amaterasu/Orochi wins, 74.24% - 25.76% --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/Rivalry%20BOP.xls Rivalry Rumble: 16/16 Today: Link/Ganondorf & Amaterasu/Orochi |
I
feel like Mario/Bowser would be the favorite over Cloud/Sephiroth.
Mario/Bowser is far more iconic and I feel like Mario would beat Cloud
with around 54% at this time. Cloud/Sephy upsetting Link would be
Mario's ticket to winning this tournament, IMO. |
Link couldn't get 54% on Cloud, why would Mario? --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/Rivalry%20BOP.xls Rivalry Rumble: 16/16 Today: Link/Ganondorf & Amaterasu/Orochi |
/wakes up Ahhhhh, good to see the Hylian Hammer is back in town. I was looking forward to this. Looks like Link gives no ****s about a bad pic, a lame rival, or anything else. --- Current Projects: Fool's Overture, CYOA: http://tinyurl.com/4y5ysx8 Sburbopolis, Homestuck RPG: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/60850665 |
KanzarisKelshen posted... /wakes up Ahhhhh, good to see the Hylian Hammer is back in town. I was looking forward to this. Looks like Link gives no ****s about a bad pic, a lame rival, or anything else. Link does not care for your silly gimmicks such as rivals! He only deals in curb stomp battles! --- Crucifying my Oracle average one match at a time |
Ya
know, I've gotta ask again about the Amaterasu/Orochi rivalry. Is it a
solid in-game rivalry? I've asked like three times with no real answers.
Has freakin no one in this topic played Okami --- Yoblazer: http://oi53.tinypic.com/2hd0dh1.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
He's the main villain and you're hyped up to beat him all game long yeah. --- Current Projects: Fool's Overture, CYOA: http://tinyurl.com/4y5ysx8 Sburbopolis, Homestuck RPG: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/60850665 |
From: PartOfYourWorld | #280 Ya know, I've gotta ask again about the Amaterasu/Orochi rivalry. Is it a solid in-game rivalry? I've asked like three times with no real answers. Has freakin no one in this topic played Okami I didn't finish it, but I got a fair way through and he's very much a final boss, looming evil, kinda figure. A final boss rather than a rival. Never bothers you personally except in boss fights. So no. --- Sorry that took you so long. |
Pfft... Link doesn't even have the biggest blowout of the contest. --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/Rivalry%20BOP.xls Rivalry Rumble: 16/16 Today: Link/Ganondorf & Amaterasu/Orochi |
Orochi is really only the villain for the first 1/3 of the game. --- I wish I could wear skirts and dresses :( -GMUN |
It's a better version of the Link/Ganon rivalry, basically. It's pretty good. --- peace comes from within |
Link couldn't get 54% on Cloud, why would Mario? I honestly don't know. I can't quite explain it. I think the dynamics between the very top characters are a bit different than in other matches. Mario getting around 54% is what I feel right now based on how Cloud and Sephy did against Snake and Samus. Then again, whenever Mario meets Sephiroth he gets destroyed. Like I said, I think the dynamics at the top are different than between other characters. |
I
agree, I just saw a lot of predictions of about 55%, I was thinking
63-65%. And I feel that GLaDOS is stronger than Ness 1 v 1, especially
after a new Portal game that was very popular. http://thengamer.com/xstats/?name1=Ness&year1=2010c&name2=GlaDOS&year2=2010c What's it's not unreasonable for GlaDOS to boost significantly from Portal 2, she did need a sizable boost just to get to where Ness is. --- Pokemon VGC2011 NW Regional - Top 8 Pokemon VGC2011 US Nationals - 54th place |
junk_funk posted... Greyfeld posted... And only 60 days? I was thinking more like 6 months. 6 months is little longer than I wanted. Let's do 4. Deal? lol and here I thought you were confident in your pick. Well, if you're that nervous about it, I guess I can let you squirm out of those extra two months ;) --- PSN - Aevio "I'm on a Goomba." - BlackMageJawa |
I expect this to be in the 70s. Joke rivalries are not fairing well. --- *is Dranze* I lost my girl and lost to Black Turtle. Can't get worse. |
Poo broke 40% on Ike --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/Rivalry%20BOP.xls Rivalry Rumble: 16/16 Today: Link/Ganondorf & Amaterasu/Orochi |
Amaterasu vs. Orochi 87.5% 7 Tom Nook vs. Crazy Redd 12.5% 1 TOTAL VOTES 8 --- Moltar Status: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/60859552 Contest Analysis Crew Archives: http://thecrew.speedrunwiki.com/ |
Amaterasu vs. Orochi 80% 8 Tom Nook vs. Crazy Redd 20% 2 TOTAL VOTES 10 --- Yoblazer: http://oi53.tinypic.com/2hd0dh1.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
Amaterasu vs. Orochi 77.78% 14 Tom Nook vs. Crazy Redd 22.22% 4 TOTAL VOTES 18 --- -_-...-_- ...-_-... Bera:12x Ice/Lit Mage |
Vote Accepted Amaterasu vs. Orochi 76.92% 10 Tom Nook vs. Crazy Redd 23.08% 3 TOTAL VOTES 13 --- There ain't no gettin' offa this "Cloud/Sephiroth > Link/Ganondorf" hype-train we're on! Next stop: killing the Tales rivalry |
this is getting ridiculous --- ~ Rivalry Rumble Oracle Challenge ~ Rank - 17th Today's Prediction: Link / Ganon - 82.89% |
These votals seem abysmal. --- Black Turtle did a pretty good job. |
BlowoutFAQs. |
XD what a killing --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/Rivalry%20BOP.xls Rivalry Rumble: 16/16 Today: Link/Ganondorf & Amaterasu/Orochi |
dem blowouts --- thelefty for analysis crew 2008 imo -tranny I have a third degree burn in flame-o-nomics -Sir Chris |
Ammy rocking face early on, holy crap --- *is XIII_rocks* |
