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Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1022
I like how some are completely convinced this is a rivalry boost and some an anchor factor. --- Smurf, the cream of Sonic fanboyism |
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It's BOTH. I hope RB storm through this contest, we need SOMETHING fun. --- `·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.~*ST*~.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.·´ Make me a perfect lie. |
Nah it's GMFOF. --- "I am riding the Poke-wave, using the metaphorical Surf and hopping on my Blastoise, all the way to Mario vs Bowser." - RPGLord |
Jesus
Christ. Luigi/Waluigi are not weaker than Kerrigan/Raynor so there's
obviously some SFF in this match... but at the same time, this is a
division-winning performance. Cecil/Golbez's admirable performance looks
so bad now. --- add the c and back away iphonesience |
So
do we think the Trainers will convincingly win the day vote? Because if
so this is going to get into "stop the match he's not moving" territory
around lunch time. --- http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/984/rvpi.jpg "I was wrong" - SmartMuffin |
I like how some are completely convinced this is a rivalry boost and some an anchor factor. Man, why do people keep evading the rivalry factor when it's staring them right in the face. It was obvious the moment Red/Blue was revealed as a 1 seed that the pair was going to have a colossal rivalry boost but people keep denying it. --- SubDeity wants to vote for Calvin Coolidge. [Evil Republican] Play Der Langrisser. |
I like how some are completely convinced this is a rivalry boost and some an anchor factor. those are like the same thing. One's the positive side of it and one's the negative side, but both indicate that the quality of the whole pairing is important. --- For your BlAcK TuRtLe. At least Kupo has class and doesn't MESSAGE the people -Dr Pizza |
Go trainers! Win the contest for me! --- Xbox Live: Mach Tornado PSN: HeyGuysItsGhoul |
also: there's less than 70 true perfects left on the leaderboard? 2% of the brackets out there are perfect alts. sheesh. --- xyzzy |
Wait. Luster has 200+ alts with perfect brackets, but is dead in the guru? lol. --- *huggles* |
I
woke up and checked the results.Okay nobody expected that.I think
Charizard really helps in the picture.Next round if they don't have it
they shall lose I believe.So whoenever makes pictures put Charizard
again! --- 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~ |
Holy s***! This is the first interesting thing to happen all contest. So of course it happens at Luigi's expense. A f***ing near-quadrupling is just insane, even if Waluigi really is the world's biggest anchor. You really need to have real-ass strength to pull off a performance like this against a decent character. Even f***ing Link couldn't pull it off against solo Luigi. There's one of a few possibilities, and of course it could be some of all. 1. Waluigi is vote repellent, and thus should be in the next contest so we can get our first 90%+ result in a long time. 2. Rivalry factor is even more significant than we thought. 3. Pokemon has had yet another large boost since the last contest, possibly due to the decrease in traffic. 4. Pokemon has become the new king of SFF. There's probably more, but just damn. This almost makes me want to get excited about the contest. Almost. --- Current Let's Play: Final Fantasy IV (FF2US) http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3445328 |
I'm
not convinced this is a hugely significant result. It's not the first
SFF blowout to 80% we've seen this contest, it was already established
in the last round that the Luigi/Waluigi duo had horrible strength be it
for rivalry reasons or the Waluigi anchor. Was always going to be
inevitable that it'd be bottom of the Nintendo hierarchy for getting
SFF'd. You don't need to be the king of anything to smash an entity
containing Waluigi, lets be fair. --- (\__/) Meet Ziggy,the Evil Bunny who wants to take over the world and eat the flesh of the weak. (='.'=] Put Ziggy in your sig to support his cause. |
From: MoogleKupo141 | #357 Ones focused on the combined strength of the two entities, the other the in-game relationship. They aren't really the same thing, ones interpreting people voting on matches as a tag team, the other on the rivalry. The idea of an anchor doesn't exist in a rivalry since its a single relationship existing only by its combined sides, its totally separate. --- http://mypsn.eu.playstation.com/psn/profile/smurfsdabomb.png |
2. Rivalry factor is even more significant than we thought. I don't think it's necessarily that the entire factor is a lot stronger than thought, but I do think that Red/Blue have a rivalry factor leaps and bounds ahead of any other pair. There are other prominent rivalries out there, but this one has several distinguishing factors: 1. The rivalry is the biggest thread in the game's plot. 2. Both characters are largely defined by the rivalry...Red has essentially no personality and Blue's character amounts to "that dick rival of yours." 3. The characters are genuine, pure rivals, not merely antagonists. The biggest rivalry boosts all have this trait. 4. Blue is straight up referred to as "your Rival" by most people because you can choose how to name him. This combined with the first game's popularity has made the pair the archetypal game rivalry; if you asked people out of nowhere to name a game rivalry Red v. Blue would probably be the most-named one. This gives them a bit of a cultural cache, similar to how Super Mario Bros. gets a significant respect boost due to its influence on the industry. --- SubDeity wants to vote for Calvin Coolidge. [Evil Republican] Play Der Langrisser. |
The
biggest reason is that it has Charizard in the picture.I mean he is one
of the top 3 recognizable Pokemon(Pikachu,Charizard,Mewtwo). --- 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~ |
I don't really think being recognisable has ever been a problem for Pokemon. --- Smurf, the cream of Sonic fanboyism |
Yeah
but there are 649 Pokemon.I am pretty sure that most of them are known
only to fans.But Pikachu and Charizard are known to non fans too.Also
are there any matches on contests where the winner had above 90,01%?I
can't remember... --- 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~ |
I
picked Luigi/Waluigi here (pre-contest, of course), meaning this is by
far my most embarrassing result in terms of picking the wrong side of a
blowout. My previous worst was taking Vercetti over Megaman in 2003, and
that was a GTA fanboy pick... --- PSN & XBL: AM180 ------ Alt PSN: SunlessDoom I think we can put our differences behind us, for science...you monster |
Wow I'm REALLY loving my Red/Blue final four pick right now. I don't know about you guys, but the second I saw them in this contest I knew immediately that only an A-Lister would be able to take them down. I have them overtaking Samus. |
Funny thing is they could bleed all day and this would still be an amazing result. --- "intention doesn't matter? clearly your cashier degree did not require a law course." - ND to Joyrock on the legality of drinking a soda before paying |
By
the way what most people have for the winner of this divison?Trainers
or Ruy?What about the gurus?I am asking because I believe that most had
Ruy right?So if they have him and Trainers win we will lose a lot of
perfects and that would be good for the contest. --- 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~ |
At most 69 perfect brackets and 22 of them are Gurus. That's pretty good. --- http://objection.mrdictionary.net/go.php?n=5364544 |
Safer Sephiroth 777 posted... By the way what most people have for the winner of this divison?Trainers or Ruy?What about the gurus? Gurus went with Ryu/Ken. It's officially goin to be a hot topic for the battle bracket though. --- http://objection.mrdictionary.net/go.php?n=5364544 |
They
didn't need it for this match, but I'm currently of the opinion that
they will need a Zard/Blast pic from here on out to win any more
matches. --- http://objection.mrdictionary.net/go.php?n=5364544 |
Between
the perfect gurus Ryu/Ken are favoured 13-9, either way that match is
going to have a good chunk of perfects falling then you have the
southwest division which is 12-7-2-1 for Frog, Alucard, GlaDOS and
Phoenix. In terms of perfect buster Dante winning would probably eliminate the most (currently 19-3). --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/Rivalry%20BOP.xls Rivalry Rumble: 37/40 Today: Luigi/Waluigi |
Dunno
if it's been brought up (you expect me to READ), but the Trainers are
also outdrawing the Mario/Ike match by almost 2000 votes right now, and
both matches are pure Nintendo. Trainers are just ****ing beasts. After
this, are any of the perfect battlers out there still willing to risk it
on Ryu/Ken? --- Yoblazer: http://i44.tinypic.com/5nw45i.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
Pokemon always brought in the vote totals, Red/Blue outdrew all other night matches by about 2500 votes last round --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/Rivalry%20BOP.xls Rivalry Rumble: 37/40 Today: Luigi/Waluigi |
Ones
focused on the combined strength of the two entities, the other the
in-game relationship. They aren't really the same thing, ones
interpreting people voting on matches as a tag team, the other on the
rivalry. The idea of an anchor doesn't exist in a rivalry since its a
single relationship existing only by its combined sides, its totally
separate. When people talk about anchors, they mean the rivalry created by the addition of the second character is weaker than the stronger of the two characters. I guess you don't use it like that since you don't believe in rivalry factor but that's how others are using it. --- Pokemon VGC2011 US Nationals - 54th place Pokemon VGC2012 NW Regional - 16th place |
Them boys been TRAININ for this --- Yoblazer: http://i43.tinypic.com/25z1non.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
The trainers also outdrew 6/16 day matches --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/Rivalry%20BOP.xls Rivalry Rumble: 37/40 Today: Luigi/Waluigi |
I'm confused....why are Ryu/Ken Favourites? I can't see anything other than a comfortable pokemon win. --- SSBB FC : lolyouactuallythinkiplaythiscrapgameonline |
No
one expected this level of Trainer domination today, and we also have
proof that Charizard/Blastoise pics are on the table. I think if you
poll the topic right now, opinions on the Trainers/Fighters match will
be significantly different than it was 12 hours ago. --- Yoblazer: http://oi53.tinypic.com/2hd0dh1.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
Charizard/Blastoise
probably adds about 5% at most. I kind of expected over 70% because
Luigi/Walugi is an absolute abysmal rivalry. Big SFF but I say Pokemon
wins next round 55-45 at least I'm actually regretting picking samus over them trainers. I mean after Other M people might be turned off by it. --- SSBB FC : lolyouactuallythinkiplaythiscrapgameonline |
When
you account for SFF, and Waluigi being lousy, this puts them around
X/Zero levels. Higher than I was expecting, but still not enough to beat
Ryu/Ken. --- Game of the Decade? More like Guru of the Decade mirite? |
Is X/Zero even below Ryu/Ken to begin with? If so, I don't think they are that far down. --- Pokemon VGC2011 US Nationals - 54th place Pokemon VGC2012 NW Regional - 16th place |
I would've taken X/Zero over Ryu/Ken pre-contest and still would. --- Black Turtle did a pretty good job. |
X/Zero > Ryu/Ken. I didn't realize that match was even that debatable..... --- 2002 Link, 2003 Cloud, 2004 Link, 2005 Link, 2006 Link, 2008 Link, 2010 Link, 2011 Cloud. Link 6, Cloud 2 |
What? Am I the only one that thinks Ryu/Ken are the single biggest recipients of Rivalry Factor in the bracket? --- Game of the Decade? More like Guru of the Decade mirite? |
X/Zero are probably getting a lot of rivalry factor too. And then consider: X > Ryu Zero > Ken, and is far closer to Ryu than he is to Ken. It's possible that Zero could even beat Ryu if we believe he got an MvC3 boost, since he probably wasn't that much below Ryu in the first place and it exposed him to a new audience. --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] |
Zero is probably around that Ryu/Dante level anyway. Auron beat Zero easily, but he'd beat all three of them easily. --- Yoblazer: http://i32.tinypic.com/zlf1w7.gif Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
And
nothing is getting a bigger boost this contest than the Trainers
filling up every picture with bonus characters and ridiculous RBY
nostalgia. If I'm lucky enough to ride my perfect out until R3, I'm
easily risking it all on the trainers. I'm really confident that they'll
beat Ryu/Ken now. --- Yoblazer: http://oi53.tinypic.com/2hd0dh1.jpg Watch and you'll see... someday I'll be... part of your world! |
Ryu/Ken is an awesome rivalry on paper, but I wouldn't put it above Scorpion/Sub Zero. --- SSBB FC : lolyouactuallythinkiplaythiscrapgameonline |
Just imagine the sprite round with the image from RBY when you get your first Pokemon and Blue walks in. --- Black: 3310-7431-2094 |
All this match has made me do is regret picking Bosses > trainers in the quarters >_> |
:votes: Dayum. This is Rivalry, Anchor, SuperSFF, Pic (it convinced me!), you name it. Man Waluigi is toxically ugly. Not even you guys like him! Oh and cheers, a fun, interesting result, finally! :) ...poor Luigi!! X) Oh man. Contest gold. |
I'd say that the trainers are lock for their division unless the SFF here is big enough to give the trainers 20%+ edit: Actually, I take that back. I think the trainers are only doing this good due to SFF. Even if the SFF only gives them 5% the trainers don't beat ryu/ken by much. --- Thanks for reinforcing your stupidity, jerks. Einstein > You |
From: PartOfYourWorld | #377 As long as Ryu/Ken don't go out and completely lay an egg tomorrow, yes. I have a feeling that all the Perfect Battlers will be drinking the Poketrainer Kool-Aid, so I'll take the risk. --- http://i43.tinypic.com/dgwh0.gif http://www.majhost.com/gallery/atukam/OHWD/snownd.gif |
From: whatisurnameplz | #397 I ran some stats, and assuming Luigi and Ratchet didn't tank too badly from last contest, the SFF here would have to be more than 11% in order for Ryu/Ken to still be favored by the x-stats. --- Black! Turtle! Kooloo-LimPAH! The Guru Champion! |
If Ryu/Ken go above a doubling I'd be very wary of throwing all my chips on Pokemon (should I still be perfect). --- Praise the Black Turtle, Game of the Decade Guru Champ. (Well, I never promised creativity, did I?!) |
