GameFAQs Contests
Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1034
Damn, here I was thinking i'd wake up to an interesting match. lolnope. --- Sack Up Or Shut Up™ |
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whelp, so much for an upset. 55 or so perfects will live on. I'd be surprised if more than 5 people go with Samus. if Cloud can't do it, there will be at least 35 perfects. --- add the c and back away iphonesience |
I presume there's no objections to labeling it as the worst contest ever? --- Smurf, the cream of Sonic fanboyism |
I really didn't like Character Battle 2K4. The one where Link vs Ganondorf was second round. It was p bad. ...This might still be worse tho --- ~Zen |
900 votes lead this really is boring at least I keep my perfect battle bracket if Sora/Riku somehow come back and win though it would be easily the match of the contest --- ... |
it's
villain contest tier for sure. I think this one is a little better due
to having characters people care about but the contests are so stale
that it almost doesn't matter. I think it's about time to retire these
contests based on the utter lack of enthusiasm and interest level for
even the regulars here. remember when new people would show up and complain about the contests? Castlevania/KH, SSB/DQ, even Deus Ex/Rock Band? that barely happens anymore. I can go look at the front page and recognize 90% of the topic creators. we're this weird isolated group on the internet at this point, voting for our 90s relics and pretending that only 3 or 4 gaming companies exist. --- add the c and back away iphonesience |
If
the rest of the contest goes cookie (a Link > Mario final) I could
see an argument for it being worse than villains. If it doesn't, it's
probably second or third worst. --- Praise the Black Turtle, Game of the Decade Guru Champ. (Well, I never promised creativity, did I?!) |
so? we are different. We don't have to be like GS or IGN but I agree we should retire the contests for now, with the low interest shown and generally low votals and the LAW...they are not fun anymore. --- ... |
The contests can still be revived. This format was always terrible and the bracket just buried the whole thing even further. It's a broken record but all-fictional would get a big following, I think. |
Squall just buried the KH kids. I don't see a way for them to come back its over. |
I
think it was Yo who said on the podcast that he wished SBA would just
try things our way for once and that he'd probably be very happy with
the results if he did. --- Praise the Black Turtle, Game of the Decade Guru Champ. (Well, I never promised creativity, did I?!) |
Kotetsu534 posted... If the rest of the contest goes cookie (a Link > Mario final) I could see an argument for it being worse than villains. If it doesn't, it's probably second or third worst. Villains had one and a half utterly glorious days (and Revolver Ocelot in the quarter-finals) - CATS having the lead over Ansem and Master Hand > Kuja (IT'S A F***ING HAND!). This has really had none; even Trainers > Fighters was semi-expected by the time the match started. |
sephiroth won, villains contest superior --- http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v712/ExTha/10and14.jpg "I was wrong." - SmartMuffin |
I
don't think the contests can ever buzz like they did 5-6 years ago.
their time is just past. Batman vs. Harry Potter is not going to bring
thousands of people to the site. thinking about it, the L-Block moment was both the best and worst thing. it was hugely exciting and also deflated everything going forward. I feel like reading some of those stats topics now. they would lock in a matter of minutes. now? best match of the contest is going on right now and we can't even talk about it. yeah. --- add the c and back away iphonesience |
What
if sephcloud beat link? The contest will gi from poor to a classic. I
agree villain contest was crap but not as bad as all female all male
contest --- http://gifsoup.com/view2/3219901/nakedlightning-o.gif |
abdou | Posted 12/12/2011 8:58:07 AM | message detail | quote but I agree we should retire the contests for now, with the low interest shown and generally low votals and the LAW...they are not fun anymore. Low votals are mostly because site traffic is way down compared to just 2 years ago. I guess you could even blame the contest idea itself, because this contest has not had any noticeable boost in votals compared to our non-contest polls. Any boost would be very small at best. Once this contest is over with, we'll see how the votals are doing on non-contest polls. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as BlAcK TuRtLe, Guru Champ! |
Cloud
winning doesn't really change anything. this is a contest tailor-made
for them. if they can't win this one, they're never challenging Link
again. --- add the c and back away iphonesience |
Contest
audience has deflated but it doesn't mean it can't still be enjoyed by
its niche audience. The predominant problem with the rivalry contest was
bracket placement and the extra 24h polls just extended the boredom. Cancelling contests would suck since it would essentially eliminate the single reason I'd even consider visiting gamefaqs. The game of the decade contest was pretty enjoyable and that wasn't so long ago, a decent idea with some consideration to bracket placement and the contest still has legs to go for another few years. Would personally like to see another character battle, 12h format. I'm not big on trying to come up with gimmicks to help mask predictability, having people care about the outcome is much more important to a contest than adding artificial factors. --- Smurf, the cream of Sonic fanboyism |
From: The_Djoker | #415 It doesn't change a lot but it would give us some hope for competitiveness going ahead. If Link does win this which all signs indicate that he will and comfortably its difficult to see him displaced in the next few years which would be very unhealthy for a character battle. --- Smurf , The Cream of Knuckles Fanboyism |
I
don't agree that Link has this locked up quite yet. Obviously he goes
in as the favorite, because it's Link, but Cloud/Seph have looked very
good these past two rounds, and the format should favor them. It's
definitely the best shot anyone's ever had at taking Link down. --- I wish I could wear skirts and dresses :( -GMUN |
at
some point, people are going to get sick of Link winning and vote
against him consistently. problem is that the alternative is Cloud. --- add the c and back away iphonesience |
Their
chances of challenging Link died a long long time ago. Their franchise
is dead. When was the last time Cloud was the main character in a new
FF? --- Black: 3310-7431-2094 |
Link's looked even better. honestly, the Cloud hype feels more like hope and believe than anything based on reason. --- add the c and back away iphonesience |
This site is stuck in the past enough that it doesn't matter much. Chrono Trigger would lose to less than 10 games here. --- Praise the Black Turtle, Game of the Decade Guru Champ. (Well, I never promised creativity, did I?!) |
Excellent use of the overnight vote, Squall. --- 2002 Link, 2003 Cloud, 2004 Link, 2005 Link, 2006 Link, 2008 Link, 2010 Link, 2011 Cloud. Link 6, Cloud 2 |
From: __Smurf__ | #419 hope? nah. Link 1v1 against Cloud is still easy to predict. We've seen in THIS FORMAT and rivalry that 1v1 strength means nothing. Look how crap Samus is. I agree this is the one contest Cloud/Seph should do their best against Link. IT will no way be a 53-47 match. --- http://gifsoup.com/view2/3219901/nakedlightning-o.gif |
Yeah,
Cloud/Seph have looked good, and I'd be hyping the upset if Link/Ganon
had been looking off (like Link did against Thrall and Alucard in
CBVIII) but instead they have looked amazing. --- Praise the Black Turtle, Game of the Decade Guru Champ. (Well, I never promised creativity, did I?!) |
XIII_Lockes posted... Kotetsu534 posted... If the rest of the contest goes cookie (a Link > Mario final) I could see an argument for it being worse than villains. If it doesn't, it's probably second or third worst. Villains had one and a half utterly glorious days (and Revolver Ocelot in the quarter-finals) - CATS having the lead over Ansem and Master Hand > Kuja (IT'S A F***ING HAND!). This has really had none; even Trainers > Fighters was semi-expected by the time the match started. I think part of the reason this contest is seen as more boring isn't the lack of upsets (still more upsets here than villains!) but the fact that Battle Brackets make it so that people are more willing to accept a late-contest upset as happening, and are less surprised by it. While before if it was a late round upset, people would be more likely to try and "stick to their guns" in order to maintain faith in their bracket. Thinking about it, a lot of the recent contest malaise can be attributed to the battle challenge suprisingly enough. If their was no battle bracket, people would have been more likely to stick with Ryu/Ken over Trainers, and came up with more excuses to explain the results we've seen. Just my $0.02 --- Game of the Decade? More like Guru of the Decade mirite? |
The format was fine for a one time off thing, but the bracket wasn't. We could have a boring 1v1 bracket too (2k4) --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/Rivalry%20BOP.xls Rivalry Rumble: 77/92 Today: Sora/Riku |
From: transcience | #423 The reason that Seph is with him? Seph is the strongest 2nd Rival in this contest by a mile(if you get every other half of the main characters). IT does count for something. Of course there's hope and belief but if he does pull it off...if Cloud DOES win...then he owes a lot to Seph for the victory. --- http://gifsoup.com/view2/3219901/nakedlightning-o.gif |
The battle bracket has nothing to do with this. --- I wish I could wear skirts and dresses :( -GMUN |
Past
trends are still showing a Sora win, however. Sora gained 2.85% on
Squall from here to the end the last time they met. ASV is weaker now,
so this could be pretty interesting. --- 2002 Link, 2003 Cloud, 2004 Link, 2005 Link, 2006 Link, 2008 Link, 2010 Link, 2011 Cloud. Link 6, Cloud 2 |
From: The Mana Sword | #420 Against two predominant playstation teams. I know people like to pretend that this isn't a factor but there's such a long history of weirdness in all PS matches that its difficult to ignore. That's certainly what I'm chalking the Kratos and Snakes overperformances down to, I expected a 53/47 win to Link at the start of the contest and I'd swell that to 56/44 from what I've seen. Those amaterasu and MegaMan wins were just absolutely brutal. To triple a nobler who he was only doubling in one of his strongest years? Mario v Cloud I think could have been a legitimately interesting match, shame we won't see it. --- Smurf , The Cream of Knuckles Fanboyism |
It's still too early to call it; Sora has a decent chance to make a comeback here. ASV powers activate! --- -Merc |
ASV isn't for about 5 hours, Sora needs to be stalling now. --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/Rivalry%20BOP.xls Rivalry Rumble: 77/92 Today: Sora/Riku |
Sora's not going to stall until the ASV. Then he will cut, and cut pretty hard. --- 2002 Link, 2003 Cloud, 2004 Link, 2005 Link, 2006 Link, 2008 Link, 2010 Link, 2011 Cloud. Link 6, Cloud 2 |
Sora won't make it....Squall win win for SURE... --- ... |
This
is over. 1,000 votes, with a few more hours of Squall time. Even if
Sora can swing it with the ASV (doubtful), the SNV should go to Squall
as well. --- Game of the Decade? More like Guru of the Decade mirite? |
To triple a nobler who he was only doubling in one of his strongest years? Smurf you're doing it wrong, you're supposed to discredit Mega Man at every turn. Have you forgotten your roots? --- I wish I could wear skirts and dresses :( -GMUN |
From: Kotetsu534 | #427 They haven't looked that amazing. Beating Kratos by almost 77% and then handing Snakes a 62% is monstrous Alucard is going to do a lot worse than friggin Megaman. 83% for what is imo almost fodder rivalry and an SFF beatdown isn't that much more impressive than what Clouderoth have done. --- http://gifsoup.com/view2/3219901/nakedlightning-o.gif |
From: __Smurf__ | #433 Link doesn't go anywhere near 56% I'm sorry that's just fanboy talk. --- http://gifsoup.com/view2/3219901/nakedlightning-o.gif |
Hey, my 5 minute prediction might hold true after all. --- "I can set you free, mate." "My freedom was forfeit long ago!" |
In
all honesty...Squall/Seifer just look crap here. I think we can all
understand now why Seifer was never in any Contests. Noone cares about
him. At least he'll do the honorable thing and absolutely bend down to
Clourdeoth next match. It's going to be a very very ugly SFF beating. EDIT Sora just cut. You can't cut anything with a Keyblade you foollish child. Put that thing away. --- http://gifsoup.com/view2/3219901/nakedlightning-o.gif |
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The_Djoker posted... In all honesty...Squall/Seifer just look crap here. I think we can all understand now why Seifer was never in any Contests. Noone cares about him. At least he'll do the honorable thing and absolutely bend down to Clourdeoth next match. It's going to be a very very ugly SFF beating. EDIT Sora just cut. You can't cut anything with a Keyblade you foollish child. Put that thing away. This isn't too far from previous Squall/Sora results, and the difference can be attributed to the strength difference between Seifer and Riku. Not really a surprising result at all. --- Game of the Decade? More like Guru of the Decade mirite? |
yeah
you're right it is expected and i expected this to be close, wasn't
going to listen to those peopel who thought it would be 56%+. But he and
seifer still look crap. Squall on his own has respectable strength. --- http://gifsoup.com/view2/3219901/nakedlightning-o.gif |
Well Squall did it.Who was expecting the match to be that close?Nice though. --- 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~ |
Stall. Just stall please. The ASV won't matter if Squall gains anymore. Stall pleeeease. Well, it was nice being on the leaderboard two days in a row... --- I'm a mess http://i43.tinypic.com/205o5l.gif |
From: The Mana Sword | #439 Of course not. Its cloaked discrediting y'see, I counter someone talking up the prospects of Cloud by embellishing Link's destruction of Mega Man leaving the recipient with the choice of abandoning their Cloud winning argument (never happens on the internet) or attempting to pick holes in my counter which in this case would leave them with no alternative but to belittle the strength of Mega Man. At which point I u-turn and agree with them that Mega Man is crap thus doubling the threads MM trash talk output. I've developed new Mega Man discrediting technology. --- http://mypsn.eu.playstation.com/psn/profile/smurfsdabomb.png |
