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I
think it was clearly done this way to set up a final Noble Nine. That's
why the logo is the Noble Nine. I bet each NNer is given their own
section of the bracket to avoid the possibility of them running into
each other too early. The question is which top 3 seeds get their own
"thirds"? Does he go Clinkeroth? Or does he split Link/Cloud/Mario? Or
some other way? |
3-way all the way. I'm fine with that format for a contest. Four-ways into 1v1 for next contest... --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/Rivalry%20BOP.xls Congrats to SuperNiceDog for winning the guru contest. |
Teasing
out the characters Dojo style is fun, the Noble Nine getting their own
banner is awesome, but UGH @ 3 ways, what an awful format. Ah well! *starts hammering F5 for a week straight* --- thengamer.com/guru thengamer.com/xstats board8.wikia.com For your consideration: Lee Everett - The Walking Dead |
Revealing
things bit by bit could be cool if we get whole divisions at once.
Hopefully it's that instead of "Here are the 12 bottom seeds!" I'm kind of lukewarm on this format though, tbqh. Let's be real here. We might get a handful of matches where all 3 characters are in it, but 90% of the time the 3rd place character is going to be irrelevant. --- "What's the matter with bootblacking? We both like it very much!" This is Yesmar. |
If one of the final matches was Link/Mario/Snake, would there be enough Nintendo SFF for Snake to slip through? --- SuperNiceDog took my lunch money. |
On
the other hand at least a good fight for 1st place will mean something
as opposed to two character fighting just to advance anyway. --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png SuperNiceDog - 1, pjbasis - 0 |
Noble 9 are the 1 seeds --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/Rivalry%20BOP.xls Congrats to SuperNiceDog for winning the guru contest. |
Looks like the 1 seeds are indeed the entire NN. |
Link/???/Mario finals zzzz --- i'll do rydia -Dante |
wow that's gotta be rigged --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png SuperNiceDog - 1, pjbasis - 0 |
Link/Sonic/Seph, Snake/Cloud/Crono, Samus/Mario/Mega Man would be the Final Nine matches. Disappointing. --- "The people who play Final Fantasy 7 actually have lives and dont NEED polls" ~MajinUltima SuperNiceDog: Bracket: Good, Taste: Bad |
looking at it, unless Crono gets knocked out early, Link/Snake/Mario finals is p. much a lock --- i'll do rydia -Dante |
sucks that Link's there oh well, what can you do? --- xyzzy |
pjbasis posted... On the other hand at least a good fight for 1st place will mean something as opposed to two character fighting just to advance anyway. This is the one bad part of 4 way that this format improves. It does nothing to eliminate LFF however, and might even make it worse, plus it takes away the one concrete advantage of 4 ways (every match has something debateble to discuss.) --- "What's the matter with bootblacking? We both like it very much!" This is Yesmar. |
I can see Sonic and Crono getting outed early since Sonic has kind of sucked in multiways |
Ewww why did he use an Advent Children quote for Sephiroth's quote? Gross. --- | The Great GameFAQs Character Battle IX contest - COMING SOON to a GameFAQs near YOU | YES! YES! YES! |
It's
very very possible we get a Link/Mario/Snake final, then. Snake has to
get past Cloud, though. Depends who's in the match with them - not sure
it'll actually be Crono, though that probably favours Snake? The potential Link/Mario/Cloud is very interesting, but ugh, I hope not... my body is ready for a good character to win this thing for the first time in literal history! --- XIII_rocks, the cream of XIII fanboyism. |
swirIdude posted... Link/Sonic/Seph, Snake/Cloud/Crono, Samus/Mario/Mega Man would be the Final Nine matches. Link/Snake/Mario! --- A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well. |
ffmasterjose posted... Ewww why did he use an Advent Children quote for Sephiroth's quote? Gross. In fairness that is the best Sephiroth quote --- XIII_rocks, the cream of XIII fanboyism. |
Oh man it's filling out the bracket, bad ass. Snake could actually win this thing --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png SuperNiceDog - 1, pjbasis - 0 |
by the way the seeding works like this for each "region" 169 258 347 --- Dr voltchball - best in the world. |
Crono
with a 1 seed? Interesting. Normally we don't see the entire Noble
Nine getting a 1 seed, but it will happen this time thanks to the 3-way
format. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
I
don't want to be the one to bet on Link when he finally loses
but...man, after thinking that Cloud/Seph had it so badly last time I'm
very hesitant to bet against Link again. --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png SuperNiceDog - 1, pjbasis - 0 |
pjbasis posted... I don't want to be the one to bet on Link when he finally loses but...man, after thinking that Cloud/Seph had it so badly last time I'm very hesitant to bet against Link again. Don't bet on either, then. Bet on SOLID SNAKE --- XIII_rocks, the cream of XIII fanboyism. |
We'll have to see who the third entrant in their match is. If it's Crono or someone FF related, Snake has it. Otherwise... --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png SuperNiceDog - 1, pjbasis - 0 |
#2
and #3 seeds tomorrow.... with 27 seeds, this will take 2 weeks to
unveil the bracket at that pace. And then another few weeks to do your
picks... we might not start the contest until after July 4th. --- http://i.minus.com/izwksxAebi10o.gif http://i.minus.com/jxJ47G7b6bDlC.jpg http://raptr.com/badge/RyanSaotome/fs_lastplayed.png |
Missed out on an opportunity for Mario/Snake/Cloud That would have been bangin' --- A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. |
I'm
digging the delayed roll-out approach. I don't know if it's part of
his thought process, but doing it this way leaves open the possibility
of rebalancing the bracket based on our feedback before rolling out a
final version of it. |
In
fact, if Allen seeded it so that the final 9 is set up that way (if
seeds hold) we can roughly guess how the 1 seeds were seeded amongst
themselves Link is obviously the overall 1, Sonic and Sephiroth is the 6 and 9 Snake or Cloud is the 2, with the other being the 5, Crono is the 8 Mario and Samus are the 3 and 4, with Mega Man likely being the 7 --- Dr voltchball - best in the world. |
July was my expectation for the start of the contest. --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/Rivalry%20BOP.xls Congrats to SuperNiceDog for winning the guru contest. |
The final is like some warped Portal 2 analogy. Wheatley was attached to Glados to make her an idiot, bringing her down. Producing an endless stream of terrible ideas. Likewise, Mario will be attached to Link to weaken him and bring him down. Allowing Chell, the third character, to CLAIM VICTORY! (Here's hoping Chell is Snake) --- XIII_rocks, the cream of XIII fanboyism. |
Yeah,
assuming Snake makes it through and Mario doesn't stumble upon a strong
2nd tier character and an amazing SFF leach at the same time in the
round before the final 9, that Link/Snake/Mario final looks likely and
with Link being weaker than ever while Mario and Snake being about the
same, Mario leeching Link could be enough to get Snake through to clinch
it... But we'll see... --- Text and stuff and bla |
Link being weaker than ever ? Is Link weaker than ever? Did I miss something big there? --- XIII_rocks, the cream of XIII fanboyism. |
wow,
this is going to be really predictable at the end unless a joke or a
Pokemon screw things up. the only way for it to be unpredictable in the
top 9 is if Crono loses to a Nintendo character and we get a
Cloud/Snake/Bowser match. Sephiroth's path is obvious and Link/Mario is a
finals of course. --- add the c and back away iphonesience |
Unless
Cronos path is a creampuff, I'd be kinda surprised he even makes it to
the final 9. Whoever makes it from Cronos division can make that match
with Cloud and Snake very interesting IMO. Well, unless its Crono
himself. --- http://i.minus.com/izwksxAebi10o.gif http://i.minus.com/jxJ47G7b6bDlC.jpg http://raptr.com/badge/RyanSaotome/fs_lastplayed.png |
Link/Mario being in the finals is actually the best thing that could happen for unpredictability. It's the only way Link could lose. --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png SuperNiceDog - 1, pjbasis - 0 |
we've seen that before and Link still dominated. the only thing that beats Link are anti-Link votes. --- xyzzy |
Interesting. This seems like an entire setup to make sure that Link doesn't win. But I'm not so sure that Mario comes through against Samus and Mega Man. It depends how much Samus drags Mario down. I'd assume nowadays that Mario beats Samus about 56/44. That might be enough for Mega Man to sneak through. I certainly wouldn't call Mario a lock there. |
When have we seen that before? --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png SuperNiceDog - 1, pjbasis - 0 |
Yeah,
Mario was the only guy who could have plausibly dragged Link down to a
loss, and either Cloud or Snake, the two best options to take advantage
of this SFF, will almost certainly be in the finals. Link/Mario/Cloud is
a lot more interesting than Link vs. Cloud. |
Am
I the only one who's not as high on Snake? 2010 was just over a year
past 2008, his best year on record release wise. Snake's had barely
anything since then to help him, and I see no reason for him to still be
at that level three and a half years later. --- "What's the matter with bootblacking? We both like it very much!" This is Yesmar. |
4-ways
is much better than 3-ways, in my opinion. Predicting 2nd place was
more fun than predicting 1st in 2007/2008. Now we have to deal with two
losers, yet nobody gets to predict the order. --- "Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those! It could be fun! So... what is a party?" "Well, you drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think." |
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3304 Link got held down two ways and Crono still couldn't hang. Cloud's obviously more popular than Crono but not to the point of winning this match. --- xyzzy |
He'll
have big Stand-Out Factor against two protagonist Square swordsmen.
Even if he has declined at a rate faster than Cloud's, the format and
Crono could still propel him to victory. Of course, there's always the
chance that Crono gets upset and that Snake will have to do it with no
help. |
GloriousSweater posted... Yeah, Mario was the only guy who could have plausibly dragged Link down to a loss, and either Cloud or Snake, the two best options to take advantage of this SFF, will almost certainly be in the finals. Link/Mario/Cloud is a lot more interesting than Link vs. Cloud. A lot less interesting, you mean. Link has no chance in that match. I mean, it's hard to make a Link match interesting. But giving him a definite loss isn't the way to do it. The most debate will come out of who gets into the final alongside Mario and Link. |
er,
Snake. hard to see Cloud beating Snake unless we get that Nintendo
character, and even then I'm not sure. the most likely guys to beat
Crono would be like Auron/Squall/Vincent/etc, but even then we're
looking at a third guy winning due to the overlap. I could see a dude like Dante or Zero getting there if the match is Crono/Auron/Zero or something like that. though maybe there's not that much overlap there. who knows. woo contest --- xyzzy |
From: XIII_rocks | #183 Is Link weaker than ever? Did I miss something big there? His best regarded games are all more than a decade old at this point and none of his recent titles has come close to the acclaim of those old games. Games like Skyward Sword, Phantom Hourglass, Twilight Princess don't hold a candle to A Link to the Past, Link's Awakening and Ocarina of Time. Also the newer generations of gamers coming in are less likely to hold the Zelda series in as high regard as us old-timers do so that's gonna hurt it too, even though the userbase of GameFAQs is slowly skewing towards older. I'm not saying Link is weak, even a weaker than ever Link is strong enough to beat any character these days without breaking too much of a sweat in a 1-vs-1, but he has almost certainly fallen off a bit since last time. --- Text and stuff and bla |
I'm surprised anyone has the gall to consider any realistic contest match a "guaranteed loss" for Link. |
Yeah
I'm trying to hype up a Link loss, but I really just as expect Link to
destroy Mario & Snake/Cloud just as easily as he would 1v1. --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png SuperNiceDog - 1, pjbasis - 0 |
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