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I think the Magikarp "no picture" argument is certainly valid. When I answered the poll I took about 10 seconds going, "who the **** are these characters? Oh hey Magikarp! the only name I recognize. *votes Magikarp* "

At least with the vote-in polls for the last Character Battle, the poll options listed the game or series that they are from, so name recognition wasn't a problem at all. Some of the characters in today's poll have a problem with name recognition due to the expanded field (creating more turbo fodder than usual) and the options don't even list the game or series they are from.
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So it seems that a few of us think that Samus will turn into a washed-up has been suddenly. Somehow I'm not feeling it, at the very least Nintendo isn't treating her the same way Capcom is treating Mega Man.

Honestly, to me it seems that Nintendo still considers Metroid to be a key franchise, though there are arguments against all the evidence I have. At the very least, Nintendo isn't being very obvious at all about any negative actions against the series, unlike Capcom with Mega Man.

If you want to discuss this with me, please don't bring Metroid: Other M into this. I know that most Metroid fans view it as a complete abomination that ruins Samus beyond belief. I haven't played the game in a while so I don't want to discuss it.
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I don't consider Magikarp's performance in this poll to be impressive at all. Look at his competition!

They're all chumps! Even Donkey Kong could beat all of these guys Magikarp is beating.

Maybe the karp will end up getting a decent percentage in his first match, but he's still going to get soundly beat.

LinkMarioSamus posted...

So it seems that a few of us think that Samus will turn into a washed-up has been suddenly. Somehow I'm not feeling it, at the very least Nintendo isn't treating her the same way Capcom is treating Mega Man.

Honestly, to me it seems that Nintendo still considers Metroid to be a key franchise, though there are arguments against all the evidence I have. At the very least, Nintendo isn't being very obvious at all about any negative actions against the series, unlike Capcom with Mega Man.

If you want to discuss this with me, please don't bring Metroid: Other M into this. I know that most Metroid fans view it as a complete abomination that ruins Samus beyond belief. I haven't played the game in a while so I don't want to discuss it.

Metroid is on the backburner right now if anything, Retro is off doing other things and after Other M (yes, I know you said don't bring it up but hear me out) Nintendo understandably wants to re-evaluate just what they want to do with the series and wait until Other M fades from memory before making Metroid Prime 4 or whatever the next entry is (my theory). In other words, it's basically Metroid during the Nintendo 64 era all over again where Nintendo is trying to figure out just what the next evolution of the series is (and let's hope it's not as big a mystery as it was in 1999).

Capcom's treatment of Mega Man since 2010 really doesn't compare with Nintendo's treatment of Samus (which I agree with you on). Nintendo didn't can every Metroid title in development, take Samus out of SSB and purge her from memory Stalin-style out of a personal grudge against her creator (RIP).
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Bold prediction: Magikarp will look more impressive against Mega Man than Charizard will, taking Zero LFF into account of course.
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What's going on with the Guru this year? Haven't seen any signup topics yet
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Game of the decade? More like Guru of the decade mirite?
However, the Guru of the next decade so far is SuperNiceDog

Guru topic is up: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/66670838
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Congratulation to SuperNiceDog. Guru Champ and Rivalry Rumble Master

It is possible for Ness to take out CATS & Locke Cole right?
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Will Magikarp perform better than Kratos?
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If it was Lv. 20, Kratos would probably destroy it anyway. He kills gods.
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Solid_Mike86 posted...

It is possible for Ness to take out CATS & Locke Cole right?

Not only is it possible, but it's very likely.
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Locke is Ness' only real threat in that match. But I'm personally banking on Ness to be able to barely squeak by. If Locke gets the upset though, I wouldn't be too surprised. Ness isn't exactly a powerhouse.
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FFVI characters aren't exactly powerhouses either. I don't think I'd take Kefka or Terra to beat Ness without Dissidia behind them.
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http://th06.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2012/174/3/7/dissidia__locke_cole_by_isaiahjordan-d54isv9.png

I submitted this, even though it's fanart.
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Unless Locke is significantly stronger than 2006 Celes, I'm not sure if I'd even consider him a threat to Ness.
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I would hope Locke would be, but unless he gets a headshot of the back of his head, he's going to be stuck with Amano art for his match pic, so yeah.

http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy/images/6/6f/Locke2.jpg

Well, he could get that, too, I suppose.
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"I couldn't stand a day without a past or future. I need to live each moment to keep fighting here and now."

his mugshot in FF6 is decent, but unlike with Celes, i can't find the corresponding Amano original
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Yeah, as far as Amano art goes, Locke's isn't bad, but I still don't like his chances regardless.
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"I couldn't stand a day without a past or future. I need to live each moment to keep fighting here and now."

you guys should check this out:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/66627410

pretty interesting side contest.
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Refuse to participate is getting a good chunk of early votes. I don't know why.

Interesting options today. Here was the poll for the Rivalry Rumble:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/4509

The last poll option in the Rivalry Rumble poll is the exact equivalent of the last 2 poll options in today's poll.
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OMG, yellow site alert related to the contest:

http://i.imgur.com/OAloDI0.png

Yesterday, that site alert was blue instead of yellow.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
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I don't see that alert
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In today's PotD, the "voting only" option is killing it. This is a good thing for the health of the contests-it means that they are well-liked beyond Board 8, and let's face it, the Board 8 community alone is not large enough to sustain something like this. It also supports the "stir up interest in the site" reasoning that Allan needs to prove in order to get funding for these contests, and it gives him a reason to continue to run them even if his funding is drastically cut (most voters care about supporting their favorite characters in the contest rather than winning a big prize, so it's worthwhile regardless). All-around a good result for those who want more contests after this one.
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superange128 posted...

I don't see that alert

you only see it if you have not filled a bracket or log out completely
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superange128 posted...

I don't see that alert

It won't show up if you have already filled out a bracket.
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Glenn_and_Toad posted...

In today's PotD, the "voting only" option is killing it. This is a good thing for the health of the contests-it means that they are well-liked beyond Board 8, and let's face it, the Board 8 community alone is not large enough to sustain something like this. It also supports the "stir up interest in the site" reasoning that Allan needs to prove in order to get funding for these contests, and it gives him a reason to continue to run them even if his funding is drastically cut (most voters care about supporting their favorite characters in the contest rather than winning a big prize, so it's worthwhile regardless). All-around a good result for those who want more contests after this one.

Not really. I mean, it's a good percentage. But the votals are atrocious. If 2011 votals took us 2 years to get another contest and votals now are even lower...

Last 6 contests and the percentage of voters that didn't fill out a bracket:

Rivalry Rumble - 78.60%
Game of the Decade - 68.18%
Character Battle 2010 - 69.06%
Best Game Ever 2009 - 67.61%
Character Battle 2008 - 67.07%
Character Battle 2007 - 69.62%

As of right now 73.84% of the voters did not fill out a bracket for this Character Battle. While this percentage is lower than the Rivalry Rumble, it's still higher than every other contest we've had besides the Rivalry Rumble.
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TheOneAboveAll posted...

Not really. I mean, it's a good percentage. But the votals are atrocious. If 2011 votals took us 2 years to get another contest and votals now are even lower...

Vote totals have gotten even worse since Rivalry Rumble came to an end.

Average vote totals in the 3 months prior to the start of Rivalry Rumble - 50304
Average vote totals in the 3 months prior to this poll - 40325

Essentially, that's a 10000 vote drop in average vote totals between the start of the Rivalry Rumble and the start of this Character Battle.
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-LusterSoldier- posted...

TheOneAboveAll posted...

Not really. I mean, it's a good percentage. But the votals are atrocious. If 2011 votals took us 2 years to get another contest and votals now are even lower...

Vote totals have gotten even worse since Rivalry Rumble came to an end.

Average vote totals in the 3 months prior to the start of Rivalry Rumble - 50304
Average vote totals in the 3 months prior to this poll - 40325

Are August-October usually higher voted months than April-June though?
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I looked into this based on years of past vote totals and the average vote totals for each month is fairly balanced throughout the entire year.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
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Vote totals have gotten even worse since Rivalry Rumble came to an end.

Average vote totals in the 3 months prior to the start of Rivalry Rumble - 50304
Average vote totals in the 3 months prior to this poll - 40325

Essentially, that's a 10000 vote drop in average vote totals between the start of the Rivalry Rumble and the start of this Character Battle.

Now assuming this 20% drop holds over for the contest the average night poll will have 22684 votes while the average day poll will have 29054 votes based on the first round of the Rivalry Rumble.

I imagine something like Tharja/Starling/Tina struggling to break 15k.
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SonicRaptor posted...

LinkMarioSamus posted...

So it seems that a few of us think that Samus will turn into a washed-up has been suddenly. Somehow I'm not feeling it, at the very least Nintendo isn't treating her the same way Capcom is treating Mega Man.

Honestly, to me it seems that Nintendo still considers Metroid to be a key franchise, though there are arguments against all the evidence I have. At the very least, Nintendo isn't being very obvious at all about any negative actions against the series, unlike Capcom with Mega Man.

If you want to discuss this with me, please don't bring Metroid: Other M into this. I know that most Metroid fans view it as a complete abomination that ruins Samus beyond belief. I haven't played the game in a while so I don't want to discuss it.

Metroid is on the backburner right now if anything, Retro is off doing other things and after Other M (yes, I know you said don't bring it up but hear me out) Nintendo understandably wants to re-evaluate just what they want to do with the series and wait until Other M fades from memory before making Metroid Prime 4 or whatever the next entry is (my theory). In other words, it's basically Metroid during the Nintendo 64 era all over again where Nintendo is trying to figure out just what the next evolution of the series is (and let's hope it's not as big a mystery as it was in 1999).

Capcom's treatment of Mega Man since 2010 really doesn't compare with Nintendo's treatment of Samus (which I agree with you on). Nintendo didn't can every Metroid title in development, take Samus out of SSB and purge her from memory Stalin-style out of a personal grudge against her creator (RIP).

My counter is that while it's true that Nintendo hasn't announced a new Metroid since Other M, it's not like Nintendo has announced anything big since then for another franchise, at least where Mario and Zelda are concerned.
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So 3 out of 4 people don't care?Why the site keeps making these contests?
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Safer_777 posted...

So 3 out of 4 people don't care?Why the site keeps making these contests?

It looks to me like 1 out of 7 people don't care.
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http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll?search=Have+you+entered

It's been a common trend for all of these topics to have over 60% of the site not having any interest in filling out a bracket.


Last 6 contests and the percentage of voters that didn't fill out a bracket:

Rivalry Rumble - 78.60%
Game of the Decade - 68.18%
Character Battle 2010 - 69.06%
Best Game Ever 2009 - 67.61%
Character Battle 2008 - 67.07%
Character Battle 2007 - 69.62%

Right now, 77.67% of this site is not interested in this Character Battle. That's almost as high as the Rivalry Rumble, despite the fact there is more hype for this contest on Board 8 compared to the Rivalry Rumble.
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To be fair, the Quotes Contest would have more hype than the Rivalry Rumble.
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But still I don't get it.If I was an American I would always fill a bracket since you can earn some gifts if you do well.So why?
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You have to do really well to earn prizes, and it takes some time and effort to do that too.
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I have no idea what URL format this contest will use for the match pictures. Here was the URL format for the match pictures in Rivalry Rumble:

http://image.com.com/gamefaqs/images/rivals/rivals-XX.jpg

XX = match number

However, sometime in 2012, GameFAQs started using "img.gamefaqs.net" instead of "image.com.com", so I have no idea what URL format will be used for match pictures. I have a script set up to check several different URL formats to figure out where the first match picture will be located at.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
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8000 less brackets to worry about and counting.
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Hey, its that SuperNiceDog! Congrats to the Guru 2011 winner

So the following contests will be held on Board 8

Guru Contest
Last Man Standing
Oracle Challenge
Prophet Challenge
Spread Betting

No Prediction Percent Challenge, but this year we have the return of the Prophet Challenge, get your picks in.
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BOP Topic: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/66439939

Don't forget "If It Were Up To Board 8" yeah that's just for fun but it counts
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Blue/Fox/Wolf

Is the only one I'm waffling on when I know I shouldn't.

The idea of low votals and there being a high amount of Pokemon fans on the site

man I don't know
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and the most ridiculous sff ever
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JustinCrossing (10:01:24 PM): omg why are muskrats so cute
Luster Reloaded (10:03:31 PM): I don't know why.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/2870

I look at this poll, as it is the only thing I can think of when I think "ridiculous SFF" between Bowser/Toad.

If you remove Ryu...

Does Mewtwo win?
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"i am pretty sure 3-year old children would generate more thoughtful discussion than board 8 on any topic of sexism" - Naye745

so guys

why does everyone assume snake is just going to mandhandle cloud with sora in the poll

when he only beat cloud by 0.25% with sephiroth in the poll? i mean kirby was there too but i doubt kirby's influence was that huge
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JustinCrossing (10:01:24 PM): omg why are muskrats so cute
Luster Reloaded (10:03:31 PM): I don't know why.

MarioSuperstar posted...

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/2870

I look at this poll, as it is the only thing I can think of when I think "ridiculous SFF" between Bowser/Toad.

If you remove Ryu...

Does Mewtwo win?

Maybe, but I feel like Bowser would get more of Ryu's votes since he's the most recognizable character.
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SuperNiceDog: Bracket: Good, Taste: Bad